The way he sees it, the AIDS activist-turned Air America radio host-turned cable news star provides the network and its viewers with a much-needed fresh face.
The Blue Jays have a much larger cable television audience than the Marlins and thus star power on the diamond can translate into much more money from advertisers.
Now that Enron's Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling have been convicted, the parade of well-dressed miscreants--the cable TV pioneers, the telecommunications executives, star brokers and even a housekeeping diva who became the Gordon Gekkos for a whole new generation--is over.