This is the Statt Mann Baby!!  Time to Scatt a little bit.

If you only know Peter Gammons as one of the greatest baseball writers who ever lived you don’t know half the man.

He’s written several books and was voted the National Sportswriter of the year three times.  Last June he nearly died when a brain aneurysm exploded in his head.  He was hospitalized, recovered, rehabilitated and was back to work for ESPN about 80 days later.

During his recovery he released an album, Never Slow Down, Never Grow Old, in which he sang originals as well as played the guitar to some stuff from The Clash and Warren Zevon.

Friday he told the Mike and Mike radio show that his great-great-great-great-grandfather was Ethan Allen, one of the founders of his native Vermont.

He followed that on Cold Pizza telling co-host Dana Jacobson that she’d do well to add to her iPod a Buddy Guy hit – While You Were Slipping Out, Someone Else Was Slipping In.  He said it was a good song to use for working out.

A New England aristocrat who’s one of the toughest and best sports journalists in the world who sings Zevon and works out to some Buddy Guy blues can’t be all bad.

What’s this got to do with motorsports?  Nothing except don’t you wish someone of that depth could tell you why the next race is important?  Or not!

Peace.