At $90,000 a second, it’ll have to sell a lot of bustiers

Published 10:39 pm Thursday, January 31, 2008

Nobody’s looking forward to the Super Bowl more than advertisers, which are spending $90,000 per second for spots during the game.

Victoria’s Secret will pay $2.7 million for a 30-second ad — enough money to buy 676,691 mesh thongs from its Web site. That’s nearly enough material to fully cover one grown woman.

Day 5 of the Mariners’ Erik Bedard Trade Watch passed with no action from Baltimore. Everyone’s waiting for the Orioles to make up their minds.

It’s this kind of decisiveness that got the O’s within 27 games of first place last year.

Major League Baseball has been checking into whether its umpires have ties to the KKK.

The umps are justifiably outraged. Baseball needs to keep its investigators to the basics: eyesight and tolerance for Lou Piniella’s spittle.

Confused about his girlfriend, a man writes to Dear Abby with two options: listen to his heart or listen to his brain. Abby’s advice: “Listen to the organ that thinks.”

So it appears there is a third option.