From Palm Beach Post gossip columnist Jose Lambiet, yesterday: In the middle of this historic drought, some Marlins made it rain. Dollar bills. In a strip bar. The buzz at the brand-spanking new Solid Gold Palm Beach is that the ladies there are going to miss their Florida Marlins, now that spring training in Jupiter is over and the regular season started. And not just because they behaved like true gentlemen. For at least two nights a week in March, star pitcher Dontrelle Willis, described as the ringleader, second baseman Dan Uggla and others were known to swing by the Riviera Beach joint and shower the gals with dollar bills until 3 a.m. "There'd be, like, $3,000 in singles on the table," said waitress Nicole Spelling. "When they liked someone, a bunch of them would just go up and throw dollar bills in the air by the handful. There'd be so much money on the stage that the girls had to get champagne buckets to pick it up. And (pitcher) Randy Messenger is, like, so hot." Spelling, 24, of WPB, was on the receiving end of the boys-of- summer's generosity at the new temple of tease, opened recently by former Miami Dolphins first-round draft choice John Bosa. One night last week, the single mom kept hearing from her 2-year-old son's baby sitter that the tyke was running a 102-degree fever and vomiting. "I was going crazy because I couldn't leave. There weren't enough waitresses and, frankly, I needed the money just to pay my bills," she said. "Next thing I know, Dontrelle hands me $1,000 from them all and tells me to go home to my kid. They got permission from management for me. I started bawling like a baby." Willis is now enjoying his wild nights with a bottle of Perrier after a December DUI arrest in Miami Beach. Said Willis' agent, Matt Sosnick: "It's not newsworthy that baseball players are going to a strip bar during spring training." My thoughts: 1. Dontrelle Willis, American Hero, benefactor to the downtrodden and the nude. 2. If you erased from active duty every pro athlete who has been in a strip club, all games would be canceled due to lack of participants. 3. Who knew Randy Messenger was, like, so hot? 4. Good to see John Bosa finally living up to his potential! And what were the odds that a draft bust would end up in the bust business?