Blago survives, Strawberry fired from Celebrity Apprentice

Like all baseball players, Darryl Strawberry wants to go home. The former New York Mets great told Donald Trump he wanted to do just that--and Trump obliged him.

But it can be argued that Strawberry's cut-and-run saved Rod Blagojevich from getting fired.

Last week on "Celebrity Apprentice" we saw Blago fawn over a bunch of yellow balloons that he insisted were goldenrod-colored. Golden as in "It's (bleepin') golden." Rod as in that egomaniacal disgraced former governor of Illinois.

In this week's episode, the two teams, one all-male, the other all-female, competed to create an ad for a Lifelock-Norton computer protection system. We learned that our hair-brained former governor not only can't operate a computer, but he types with one finger. Does that make him a "hunt" or a "peck?"

Based upon the massive state deficit left behind by the Chicago Democrat, apparently Blago doesn't know how to use a calculator either.

The women won.

Olympic gold-medalist Michael Johnson, one of the few non-has-beens on "Apprentice," laid it on the line, "Rod is the reason we lost this battle."

But Blago survives another week.

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