Meet the bus mates

They did a thing today where each of us came forward while the bus was rolling and said a bit about ourselves.

I said where I worked and what I did and told of the Super Bowls and minor league baseball teams I covered. And I told everyone my family members are in a kennel -- Taz, Bugs and Stitch.

Learned that a high percentage of these people are teachers, retired and otherwise. There are a few accountants, a couple of lawyers and a stockbroker.

There's also a NASA engineer involved in a project to send something or other to the moon.

There are I think eight kids on the trip ranging from about 8 years old to 19.

Once it became known where I was from and what I did, one of the Cubs fans buttonholed me on one of our stops to talk about whether I thought Mark Cuban would be a good owner for them. Of course I told him of my extensive encounters with Cuban as Mixed Martial Arts editor.