PLAYING HOOKEY

I wonder if my old friend Bobby Lloyd will notice I didn't make it to Long Island Citizens For Community Values (LICCV)'s annual banquet this evening. Although I have never been to it before, I had bought tickets for tonight's event because I wanted to hear the keynote speaker.

Jeanine Pirro is causing quite a splash in the papers, with word of her trying to get her philandering husband's boat bugged and the press leaking tapes of conversations with former New York City top cop Bernard Kerik peppered with expletives.

Probably not the kind of press you're looking for in the lead up to an election nor what the organizer of a Christian event relishes.

But I wanted to hear her. I'd still take her over Cuomo for State Attorney General any day.

Yet the truth is, the Mets won my attention. Rescheduling Wednesday night's rained out game to tonight meant a change in my schedule too.

Hope Bobby's having a blast and Jeanine is knocking them dead!

Let's Go Mets!