Hondo bagged his second straight winner last night when the A’s rallied on his behalf in Baltimore to lower the big red number to 615 keanes.

Today, he’ll try a day-night double dip with the Cards and A’s — 10 units on Carpenter to nail down a victory in Wrigley, and, as always, it’s don’t ask Dontrelle in Detroit for another 10.

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Richard “Lying Dick” Blumenthal, ‘Crats’ Senate candidate, has a 15-point lead over Republican foe Linda McMahon. Obviously, they hold phony war veterans in very high regard up in Connecticut . . . From Siciliano, aka the Bronx Bomber: “Too bad Ted Kennedy isn’t around to help BP with the oil spill. He was familiar with underwater mishaps.”

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