As we stumble into Day Four of L’Affaire Lo Duca, exhausted, yet entertained, the media veers back to the All-Star’s supposed gambling habit. Our worthless opinion is that we should be focusing on his incredibly sexy soon-to-be ex-wife (pictured left).

The New York Daily News, initially thought to be a safe harbor for Lo Duca after the New York Post came out swinging Monday morning, spoke to a former teammate who said Lo Duca was a heavy gambler with a penchant for high-stakes games on team flights, and high roller tables in Atlantic City.

He won’t be confused with Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, or John Daly anytime in the near future, though.

The Post, meanwhile, once again goes for the jugular, finding friends of Lo Duca’s 19-year-old fling who trot out a poorly-crafted email written earlier this summer. Pretty damning stuff - its contents, not her literary skills:

“[M]y fabulous boyfriend Paul and I just got back from an ammazing vacation in the caribean which was just gore gous,” Krista Guterman said in the misspelled missive.

“We were pampered and just ate soooo much!!!” she added. “It was soo worth it though!!!”

And then comes the real bitch-slap – her former “friends” turn on her in the paper, painting her as a boy-crazy slut who needs “to be stopped:”

“She went and tried to be with my boyfriend,” said Tara Feuerstein, 20, who was the president of a sorority where Guterman had sought membership. “I don’t know if she was interested in him seriously, or just wanted everything I had. She was also with three other guys at the time.”

Feuerstein said she even witnessed Guterman’s wild exhibitionism at a party earlier this year. “She was having sex with this guy and the door was open,” Feuerstein said.

She and others greeted Guterman’s involvement in the Lo Duca divorce scandal with undisguised glee as they told of her past alleged dalliances.

“We’re doing this because she needs to be stopped in her tracks,” said Emily Williams, 19, a former friend who claims she witnessed Guterman dating the beau of one of her friends. “She can’t just keep trying to take other people’s boyfriends.”

We attempted to explain Lesson No. 1 in cheating to Paul Lo Duca yesterday (no photos with the mistress), and here’s Lesson No. 1 to our ladies in the house who attain “the other woman” status: Never, ever, speak to a newspaper when it approaches you. Refer them to your lawyer.

Calling His Bluff (NY Daily News)
Mets Wife Gets the ‘Lo’ Down (New York Post)