The number one rule of interviewing ESPN's Mike and Mike is not to ask them poorly worded questions.
I know this.
But I slipped up when Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic sat down with me at Kieran's Irish Pub, the temporary Minneapolis locale for their national morning ESPN Radio show — airing locally from 5-9 a.m. on AM 1500 ESPN, and also on an ESPN cable channel — when they were here for the All-Star Game.
While that was an embarrassing instant, my stellar moment came when I asked a question so funny that Golic kind of giggled while repeating it. Listen for the question that mentions the word "cow" and hear Golic's delightful response in my startribune.com/video.
Q: A guest living or dead you would love to have on the show?
Greeny: First of all, I think I'd rather have one living.
Golic: I would as well. Because we have to carry the dead.
Greeny: Generally speaking, I think dead would be tough. We've had some bad interviews, but I think very few would be as difficult as that.