Joe Beimel on Throwing at Dunn, and His Beard

This was two weeks ago. (By Manuel Balce Ceneta - AP) Joe Beimel was raised in Kersey, Pennsylvania, a small rural town of 3,000 people where all the menfolk grow hunting beards come November. "So I'm growing mine now instead of waiting," he observed this week. "A lot of people where I live have mustaches and beards, so they're probably proud." That, of course, is not the real reason Beimel has gone caveman in recent weeks. He just got lazy, and stopped shaving, and started pitching well. Meantime, the team began playing as well as it has played this year, and so he figured he'd stick with what was working. Now, though, with fans calling him Jesus and bloggers comparing him to Ogre, he's wound up with the longest beard of his life, just in time for the worst humidity D.C.'s managed to offer up this season. "I feel