Inqlings: Karaoke a hit for Ex-Phillie

Retired Phillies Mike Lieberthal and Kevin Stocker, visiting for the Phillies alumni weekend, went bowling Sunday night at Lucky Strike, the alley on Chestnut Street near Broad.

Stocker and his wife, Brooke, who live in Spokane, Wash., got the urge to sing karaoke, and they moved the party to the nearby McGillin's Olde Ale House.

The Stockers performed a fine version of "Wild Thing" - perhaps in tribute to pitcher Mitch Williams, who played with Stocker on the 1993 World Series team. Lieberthal, who captured the duet with his cell phone, started with the team in 1994, the year after Williams was packed off to Houston.

Even after her ouster last week from the CBS reality series Big Brother, Bucks County's Kristen Bitting won't be back to Philly for a while. Bitting, 24, who previously managed Head Start shoes near Rittenhouse Square, was the fourth "houseguest" eliminated. Her departure was handled with all the deftness and grace you'd expect from reality TV: Her "showmance" with cast member Hayden Moss was exposed, and producers felt compelled to call Bitting's short-term boyfriend in Philadelphia to add drama. Bitting said she and the boyfriend, whom she identified only as Steve, had discussed her status before she started on the show. "We were never officially boyfriend and girlfriend. I never thought I would meet somebody on a reality TV show - there's no way I'd let anything come between me and $500,000," she said Monday. "This was totally unexpected."

She says the show "hopefully will open a lot of doors for me and now I have to think about the future. But I'm not coming right back. I need to take a breather for a little bit and do a little soul-searching."

Starting this week, ESPN's Sal Paolantonio is back for a second season of The SalPal Football Hour, his 6 p.m. Thursday show on 97.5 The Fanatic. It's a remote from the Phily Sports Bar in Runnemede.

Anya Garnis and Pasha Kovalev of TV's So You Think You Can Dance have joined the tour of the dance show Burn the Floor. They're on the bill when the tour reaches the Academy of Music, Nov. 12-14.

Pat Croce's Pirate Soul museum closed in Key West over the weekend, pending its move to St. Augustine, Fla., where it's expected to open this fall. Besides a lovely vacation home near the Ernest Hemingway House, Croce's Key West holdings include the Rum Barrel, a restaurant next door, and Island Dogs Bar across the street from the Rum Barrel.

Author Thom Nickels will read his set-in-Philly novel, Spore, at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Lippincott House Mansion (2023 Locust St.). The novel is about a struggling architect who, after his wife leaves him during his honeymoon, begins a quest to find out who he is, why he does what he does, and how to understand it all.