Standing in

Eric McErlain lived near Bloomington's old Metropolitan Stadium for six months, which you'd think (if you were a New Yorker of a certain political bent, anyway) would be enough to qualify him to be a Senator himself. But Mr. McErlain has no such lofty ambitions. Instead, he's offering to Governor Ventura a list of Minnesotans who might serve as the state's junior Senator while the Mondale/Coleman race is being fought over in the courts. Who's on the list?

• Prince Rogers Nelson
  
• Ex-Replacements front man, Paul Westerberg
  
• A rotating troika consisting of the founding members of Husker Du
  
• Kent Hrbek (Kirby Puckett being compromised at the moment)
  
• Jerry Lundegaard (as played by William H. Macy in Fargo)
  
• John Madden
  
• Winona Ryder
  
• Kevin Sorbo (of Hercules TV fame)
  
• Bob Dylan
  

You know, this could work.