I was glad to see that one of those World Com jerks, Bernard Ebbers got 25 years in the hole for his role in scamming folks. I know there's going to be all the appeals that his rich-ass attorneys can come up with, but I hope in the end he ends up in a nice medium facility. It doesn't have to be OZ, but something where cigarrettes are a currency. Hopefully his a-hole buddies will join him and all their dance cards can get filled. Too bad the Enron folks are still walking around. Shoot, Kenny Lay still gets run.

Speaking of which...then there's this. Sweeeet. The folks who were put on the Enron Board of Directors by a bankruptcy court just voted themselves disgustingly high pay raises. Rich getting richer, my friend.

OK, no anti-capitalist rant today.

But here's something that made me go hmmmmmmm...I was listening to the Yankee game on the radio tonight and their outfielder from Japan comes to bat, Hideki Matsui. As he does, the broadaster starts to do an ad for Benihana's Restaurant. The ad actually said that Benihana's supports the Yankees and Hideki Matsui. I wasn't really offended by this, but it did make me wonder...

What's next...

• this call to the bullpen is brought to you by Brother Al's Soul Food Emporium. Brother Al's supports the Yankees and Tom Gordon. Get your big, black lips around Brother Al's chicken.


• Randy Johnson's pitching performance is sponsored tonight by Ming-Wah's Chicken Head Soup. For all you geeks who like to bite the heads off chickens, there's Ming-Wah's.


• Derek Jeter is coming to the plate and this at-bat is sponsored by Manhole, Manhattan's hottest gay bar.

You get my drift...