Jerry Lewis: Bad ham of an actor

Jeff Kent: Bad ham(my) of a baseball player.  And since athletes need them some healthy hamstrings, Kent is expected to miss about a week of action to shore up the ailment gone bad during yesterday's warm up.    Kent's absence led to Delwyn Young taking over the second bag during Grapefruit action against the Mets.  Young's absence didn't directly lead to the 3-2 loss, of course, but that doesn't mean the Blue isn't nonetheless hoping for their vet back in uni and contributing to box scores ASAP.  In part because it would be cool to see Kent make Dodger history while proving the popular T-shirt slogan proclaiming that life indeed does begin at 40.  But mostly, having the crusty vet back in the fold betters the odds of making Frank McCourt's strong 2008 objective become a reality.   And the longer he's out of commission, the easier it could become for him to pack on a few pounds like his new bud Andruw Jones.

Plus, they need his speed and pesky base running to enhance Joe Torre's new game plan.   

Kidding.