A new cheesy pregame

****Cycle correction****

In case you haven't figured it out from my cryptic but not-too-subtle hints, Christine and I celebrated our anniversary this week with a little getaway to the Azalea Inn, a bed and breakfast in Savannah, Ga.

We should be home any minute, if we haven't arrived already. Hopefully we have, because it was a grueling 13-hour slog on the way down. (But we left before dawn last week and were fueled by five hours of sleep. We are more rested for today's return trip.)

On the way down, we would just hit scan on the car radio until we found a suitable station. On one, we heard a guy who sounded like Pierre Robert. Because of that we stopped and hoped it wasn't another one of the many country or religious stations that come in around the South.

It wasn't. It was Braves pregame. And, as much as it pains me to admit it, the guy who did the pregame interview with Bobby Cox is just as bad as Chris Wheeler. (But I still hate Chris Wheeler.)

In this guy's first question, he asked Bobby about the day before - when the Braves won a blowout after retiring Greg Maddux's number - managing to get in there how it was the perfect day for the team, the fans and the announcers.

Yeah, way to be hard-hitting there. He made Wheels sound like Howard Cosell.

Speaking of announcers' favorite days, Christine was upset when she saw we missed Jimmy Rollins' cycle on Sunday. I wasn't. I bet Wheels - whose life goal is to see a "natural cycle" - will still be blathering on about it when we tune in for tomorrow's game.

J-Roll didn't hit a natural cycle. For those who don't know, it's a term we've only heard used by Wheels to describe a cycle in which all the hits go in progression (single, double, triple and home run, in that order).

Red Sox updates: They're going to retire No. 14 for Hall of Famer Big Jim Ed Rice, and Julio Lugo was shipped to the Cardinals for Chris Duncan.