Above: The former Enron Field is anxious to be called anything else, even Butt-Munch Field.

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Houston, TEXAS (BusinessTwaddle)--Baseball's Houston Astros said Tuesday they've bought back the naming rights to the stadium where they play their home games from the failed Enron Corp. Astros Chairman Drayton McLane, Jr. said the $2.6 million the team paid to reclaim the naming rights was "money well spent and should put an end to the biggest scandal in baseball since Bud Selig was named commissioner."

A team spokesman said the Astros were shopping around the naming rights to the field. The spokesman said several groups and companies have already approached the Astros about purchasing the field's naming rights, including the Proctologists Association of America, who want the field renamed, "Up Yours." "Frankly, I think that's in poor taste and won't happen," the spokesman said. "But then again, who ever thought a hotdog could cost 8 bucks at a ballgame, so who knows."

Until the naming rights are resold, the stadium will be called, "Greedy Bastard Field," in honor of former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay. Houston Chronicle sportswriter Peter Lubie said on a radio talkshow that the interim name was causing some confusion among fans, "who thought it referred to team management." "My reply to them is, 'if it were named after team management it would be called 'Fucking Losers Field' or 'Crappy Pennypinchers Field,'" Lubie said. Separately, the University of Nebraska said it had narrowed its search for the next Kenneth Lay endowed economics professorship down to a wino named Jeb who picks up investment signals through his fillings and a 43-year-old man who has successfully evaded paying child support for the past 13 years.

"We think both of them display the creativity and financial acumen that only Ken could appreciate," a Nebraska spokesman said. And Rice University, said its Ken Lay Center for the Study of Markets in Transition will now be called the Ken Lay Center for the Study of Offshore Partnerships and other Slimy Accounting Tricks.

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