This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sports Net Radio Network.

It'll always be fun talking to Greg Waczynski.

It'll be full of laughs laughs we'll have some things to

think about there'll be more laughs there'll be jokes there'll be insults most

good-natured and there'll be stories.

Hello Greg Wishinsky from E-SPN.

Geez, that's a hell of a teaser.

Can I tell you one story that kind of unnerved me yesterday in Toronto?

I was sitting there with my colleague. I got a lifetime of those. I got a lifetime of the stories. Okay. Go ahead. I'm sure you do. I think I've seen a couple of them. I was sitting there with my colleague Kristen Shelton at the NHL

GM meetings at the Ritz-Carlton no less. I got to keep a pen from the Ritz-Carlton which is

probably the highlight of the trip.

I was sitting there, we were near the men's room, so we saw a steady stream, so to speak, of people coming in and out during the GM meetings and I'm just

sitting there right in a way as I normally do and all of a sudden I feel a

tap tap tap and I look over and I see a brilliant white sweater and I'm

like who is this and all of a sudden Jeff Merrick I hear congratulations on your new deal.

And I'm like, Gary Betman just congratulated via my new contract with ESPN.

What is happening?

You saw... What is happening?

You sold out man, you used to be Yahoo cool, you used to be that guy. What happened in the book that blog?

Now look at you.

I was thrilled it was very exciting but then immediately after that I'm like I don't

like that he knows these things well I mean the things.

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