Naturally, while there I spent much of my time talking to people such as Jim Nantz and Ian Eagle about . . . New York sports talk radio! What else?

Click below for Eagle's response when I asked him about my brilliant idea to have Kim Jones and him split the year as Mike Francesa's sidekick - Eagle in the spring and summer when he is less busy, Jones in the fall and winter when she is less busy.

The plan also would enable Eagle to fill in for Francesa during the big guy's summer vacation weeks.

Eagle: "Is it possible if you look at the calendar? Absolutely. Is it possible if you look at my marriage? No. Impossible."

OK. What about the original question from back in September? Why not take up Francesa on his idea to make Eagle a regular on the show?

"For me it really was the simple fact of time management and still maintaining everything I've done until this point, with CBS, with the YES Network," he said. "It's such a very different job title and it's a shift in your career and I just didn't feel like it was the right time to do it.

"In terms of working with Mike, that absolutely would have worked. The job itself intrigued me, working with Mike intrigued me, not being on the road as often intrigued me. But I just felt ultimately I've worked too hard to build myself up within this arena to then just . . . poof, let it slip away."

How far did the process get with Francesa in September? "Mike and I had a conversation on the telephone and I explained to him my viewpoint and about two weeks later he called me back and we met for dinner out on Long Island and my feeling was if I wanted the job it was mine."

Eagle said if he ever did work a talk radio shift, it would have to be mid-day or afternoons, as he is not a fan of waking up early. He also confirmed other interesting aspects of his off-mike preferences: "I still have never had a salad. That still has not happened. I've never had coffee, never had a grape, never had a cherry, never had melon."

What fruits and vegetables has he had? "This is not going to make the blog, is it? I don't like dressing. It's really the dressing. There is no way this is making the blog. And now that your blog is going to be a pay blog you're not going to mention this."