I got Stevie Wonder to say, "I can't be at the Major League All-Star game because I have a high ankle sprain." Being there for Dale Earnhardt's only Daytona 500 win. He walked into our studio, looked at me and asked, "Are you still dating Jeff Gordon?"

Someone on radio called me a journalist the other day and I had to correct the man. As it turns out, I am in ESPN's Pretend Divison. For the 8th season I will again be making up tackle football stories this fall. And now we are back with a make believe show for ESPN.COM. Some of us are pretending it is on television. That said, I'm excited to be on ESPN.COM because if we were on television they'd probably put us on the air on Tuesdays at 9.30 and not tell anyone if 9:30 was AM or PM. We'd get an asterisk for a rating and they'd cancel the show and I'd have to be a journalist again. Nothing against journalism. I read a lot of it. But this pretend stuff is far easier. I guess I'm taking the path of least resistance, just as I did when I moved from news to sports coverage back when I worked in television in Seattle. One week I covered a Seattle City Council meeting on garbage collection rate hikes on a Thursday then I covered a Seahawks game that Sunday. That was enough for me, even with my extensive background in the garbage collection industry (I was a garbageman in college and later assembled garbage cans in the Seattle rain).

What I'm trying trying to say is that I'm very happy to be involved in Mayne Street again. Last season we got to work with some of the fellas from the Sopranos. This season we got to work with Brian Kenny. There's no telling when this run will stop. Some people think it might come in 2012 given what the Mayans had to say about things. But the Mayans aren't even our target audience. You are. Thanks for the efforts you made to acquire two bars.