- Mad Money Machine sings "Stock Pickin Blues," which pokes a little fun at Jim Cramer and some of his stock pick. "Trying to do it Jimmy Cramer's way..." From the podafe music network at music.podshow.com.
- So by the way, we're 19.4 points away from 12,000 on the DOW. Don't you dare take off the DOW 12,000 party hat until we get there.
- Caffeine abuse among the young? I know the Starbucks are packed with kids, but had no idea they were popping caffeine pills, too.
- Steve Lyons was fired for ethnically inappropriate comments on the air during the Detroit Tigers-Oakland A's championship game Friday. Here is the exchange:
Lyons ran afoul of Fox Sports for comments he made during the game after analyst and former manager Lou Piniella said expecting a player to repeat his performance was like "finding a wallet on a Friday night and looking for one on Sunday and Monday, too."
A little while later, Piniella said Oakland A's infielder Marco Scutaro was "en fuego," to which Lyons responded: "Lou's hablaing some espanol there, and I'm still looking for my wallet. I don't understand him, and I don't want to sit close to him now."