Courtesy USA Today

(May 15, 2009) TBS' David Wells says he was nervous for a couple innings when he worked his first TV game on May 3. And with the TV rookie's second on-air start coming with Minnesota at the New York Yankees Sunday, he hasn't exactly been polishing his telestrator skills.

Instead, he went bear hunting in Alaska, shooting a brown and a black bear — only the black, he says, "is good eating" — and tent-camping. His postcard: "If you aren't prepared for Alaska, it can eat you up in a heartbeat — pretty gnarly."

Sunday's game will be the 11th anniversary of Wells' throwing a perfect game for the Yankees — coincidentally, against the Twins. He's still close to the team, saying Thursday he put in orders for two seats and a locker from its vaunted old stadium. Wells, when asked how much he's paying: "I don't know. No idea. I don't care — I'm a Yankee."

But one more careful with words, at least on TV. Admitting to a having "a potty mouth" when he was in "the heat of battle" as a player, he knows he can't curse on TV. But he wouldn't mind having pay-per-view games where it was anything goes: "Now that would be more entertaining."

But even without expletives, Wells can be pointed. On baseball's ongoing steroid scandals, he says players using them "don't care about the game, just themselves, and they're cheating the game. … I'm sure lots of organizations knew about it and turned away. Blame (Commissioner Bud) Selig and owners. It's bad, bad for the game."