I never understood why WWE worked so hard to not hire wrestling announcers and now I do. WWE announcers are storytellers and professional announcers need to be taught storytelling. The plus to hiring a professional wrestling announcer is we already have a passion for wrestling and we will learn the storytelling because there is nothing else in the world wed rather do. I feel like I need to be de-programmed. When I sit at ringside its hard to not call every move. I feel like an addict getting the shakes with an uncontrollable urge to call the moves.

The other thing I want to do because of my relocation back to Connecticut, which will be complete the week after WrestleMania, is Id actually like to  if they would let me  be the lead announcer on HEAT. I would actually like to come in and do lead announcing on HEAT every week with Coach and Grisham, who are currently the announcers, as color men for me, so I can continually practice the storyline premise of each match  even if we have to make up a story for each one of those matches because theres not always a story for the HEAT match, and practice the give-and-take. Thats the problem with something like this; its not like learning how to shoot free throws in basketball. You can go in your driveway and practice all day. Theres no way to do this but to continually actually do it and practice it. And I cant very well set up wrestling matches in my house and clone King and Coach to sit there and do it with me  not to mention who would do that to the world? Who would want to unleash two more of those men on the world?

So, as I said, the big picture of all of this is, I have what should be hopefully now with J.R. guiding me, not a difficult transition or lengthy transition to complete. Certainly, 12 months from now when its time for WrestleMania 23, I fully expect that I will by then have made the transition to quarterback the RAW announce team for WrestleMania 23. But, you know, as I said, initially like anybody else, I was very disappointed because calling WrestleMania has always been my lifelong dream. After that, my ego took over, so I was angry. But theyre sticking with me until I get this  and Im going to get this  that Ill call many, many WrestleManias in the future.