Their heads are in right place

Posted: June 26, 2012

SOME PARTIES are more memorable than others.

Such was the case Saturday night at a celebration for Tess Fanning, who recently graduated from Archbishop Wood.

Among those attending were Bob and Monica Rotzal, whose 21-year-old son Alex is scheduled to undergo chemo on Monday to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Alex, a former manager of La Salle High's crew team, now attends Temple. As is often the case, he was told that with chemo comes hair loss. That gave someone a hair-brained idea, and before you could say James Carville or Telly Savalas, 18 guys — young and old, some jocks, some not — were lined up to have their heads shaved as a show of support.

The baldies in the photo look pretty silly (which I can say because I'm one of them), but I'm sure Alex — and anyone else who has has had to deal with cancer — would say the photo, and the sentiment behind it, are picture perfect.

Bye, bye birdie

The Mets are farming out "Little Jerry Seinfeld."

The chicken, which "joined" the team Friday, is headed for Farm Sanctuary in New York, according to ESPN.com.

The bird was named after a cockfighting chicken on a "Seinfeld" episode. Mets lefthander Tim Byrdak arranged to have it brought into the clubhouse after teammate and fellow reliever Frank Francisco, called the Yankees "chickens" before their weekend series.

"We really didn't think the whole process through of actually having a live chicken," Byrdak said. n

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