RAINY SUNDAY

It's miserable outside, the Phils are in a rain delay, a stack of unloved newsprint beckons...

• Cassidy Hartmann's dedication to South Philadelphia = big ups with a side of bravo.
• Brian Hickey makes me angry. Where's Paul Kersey when you need him?
• Which upcrusty Haddonfield miscreant pooped in the antique Steinway? We may never know.
• Parade "Magazine" Question of the Week - "As a fan of "The Closer", I was distracted by Kyra Sedgwick's clownish red lipstick. I wrote to the show to complain - and, sure enough, she changed shades. Did viewers have a hand in that? - Phyllis Ralston, Mount Laurel, NJ"
• Brian McManus's glory moment lasts a whopping 12-syllables - "Cebu looks the way Haddaway's "What is Love" sounds." I've spent the last hour listening to raindrops, marveling at how jealous of those 12-syllables.
• The downside to being a Penn State grad with a kid on the way - being placed in the target pool for this atrocity.

Have the Phils lost yet?