You may or may not agree with, or have a strong opinion about, colleague Rick Maese's column this morning about ESPN. But whatever you think, you must take this into consideration: at this very moment, on the network, Michael Wilbon is a guest on his own show. Yes, it was announced in the very beginning of "Pardon the Interruption'' that he had the day off and was being filled-in for by the Miami Herald's Dan Lebatard. Yet in "Five Good Minutes,'' here he is, talking about the Ben Wallace signing. I really don't know if "surreal'' is the word for it. "Unprecedented'' isn't bad. Is it a good comparison if Paul Shafer filled in for Letterman one night, and his first guest, after the Top Ten list, was Letterman? I don't know. It's just bizarre.

In case there's a chance I was hallucinating, "PTI'' is replayed in an hour on one channel and a half-hour after that on yet another. See for yourself.