3.24 The Broken Egg, Awesome Baby!

My favorite Sarasota-area breakfast place is The Broken Egg. It's location at a Bradenton intersection with I-75 locates it right on my path to several of the northern ball parks. One other notable feature of The Broken Egg is that Dick Vitale eats breakfast there every morning.

I'll confess that I'm not a huge Vitale fan, but I appreciate his effort and passion for college basketball. The Broken Egg sells Dickie V products, such as his new book, and if he happens to be there at the time, he'll sign it. You can also pick up one of these creepy bobble head dolls.


Yesterday, Vitale was there, with his friend Howie Schwab, star of the former ESPN sports trivia show, "Stump the Schwab." I loved watching that show.


As fate would have it, I was paying my breakfast bill at the same time that Vitale and Schwab were leaving. Dickie V gets all the attention, so as he got dragged away for a book signing and picture-taking, I found myself standing next to Howie Schwab. So I decided to introduce myself, which I did.

As we were talking (he seems to be a very nice guy) I mentioned that I had recently googled him and that his Wikipedia site claims his record was 64-16 on the show, which I didn't believe, because I thought he rarely lost. He seemed impressed that I knew his record and said "yeah, I guess I'm human." Vitale came back into the restaurant, and summoned his sidekick. But as Howie Schwab started to walk away he turned back, held out his hand and said "It was nice to meet you."


As for my breakfast, it was Awesome Baby, a real trifecta! The giant chocolate chip pancake was a real Skywalker! The Bacon was my Diaper Dandy! And the fresh fruit cup, was ready for Prime Time, a real PTP'er!