Miscellaneous Thoughts

How much would Mr. Burns have to pay you to be his prank monkey?... Excellent Gordon Edes piece on Rick "Rooster" Burleson... If Eric Chavez is out of Oakland's lineup for any extended period of time - then the A's won't be able to make the playoffs this year. The A's offense is already in probably the bottom third of the AL and without Chavez who do you have? Do you think Hatteberg, Durazo, and Byrnes keep opposing pitchers up at night?... The new Harry Potter movie The Prisoner of Azkaban has broken single day records in Britain where it took in the equivalent of $9.53 million. Look for the movie to take in six times that amount when it opens in the US on Friday... If I ran Oscar-Meyers - I would have a fleet of 50 Weinermobiles not just six. I would have one for every state in the Union and every year I would hold a drag racing compitition among the different Weinermobiles and the competition would be broadcast on ESPN. That is my dream... Great Britain has a GDP of around $1.528 trillion. The US has a GDP of around $10.45 trillion - so comparatively the US would have to bring in about $64.8 million on the first day release of The Prisoner of Azkaban to equal the comparative enthusiasm of British audiences...