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One thing I always wondered Donnie was how heavy is the wheel because you'd see buff guys really give it a rip and frail women barely make it budge.

 

I was worried about that myself. I was so nervous when I first saw it that I actually forgot for a second from which side you spin it.

It's actually not all that heavy. It has huge metal handles welded onto the side, so I reached high and grabbed two and put my body into bringing it down. I think it went around twice, but I was just watching for it to slow down and, on the second spin, reaching over to Bob's mic to say hi to my family at home. And the two chicks behind me were both tiny things and they got the wheel going without a problem.

Lemme tell you, though: standing under your total and watching the next two people spin was as nerve-wracked as I've been in a long time (and I guess considering some of the awful stuff I've read about folks around SportsJournalists.com going through, that's a good thing.)

Remembering that I would be able to spin the wheel was what made me feel better about losing the car.

 

You should share this story with Xylena Sanders.

 

That's awesome you got to spin the wheel ... you want to talk about a piece of Americana. I think it's more famous than the Wheel of Fortune Wheel. When it's all said and done it'll be in the Smithsonian.

By the way, did I hear that Bob's retiring soon, or did I make that up? If so, that's another cool thing to hang your hat on ... that you got on with him and not Tom Kennedy or some-such douche.

 

When I was a kid my dad had a Playboy with Dian Parkinson in it. That was phenomenal.

 

I have both of Dian's Playboy appearances and her Playboy video. All phenomenal.

 

It was the first time I had seen someone naked who I normally saw with her clothes on. That certainly added to it.

 

We have a spill on this thread.

 

Congratulations, donnie. You have achieved one of my life's dreams.

 

Clean up aisle 4....

 

Totally one of mine as well, IJAG. And it lived up to whatever expectations I could have attached to it.

And Satchmo, my trip was prompted by the fact that Bob is retiring in June. In consideration to replace him are George Hamilton (strangely, that could work) and Mario Lopez (HELL NO, SLATER WILL NOT BRING BAYSIDE TO THE PRICE IS RIGHT), among others.

As for the rest of this model talk, it is clearly a threadjackoff.