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Mick Foley has gotten someone else to write on his Myspace account:

Hey everyone this is Chris Mick as you can see below gave me these several weeks ago and I am just now able to get them up I apologize for this.

Presidential Raw 5-1-08

Once again, I’m sorry I havnt written in a little while. Hopefully I’m not coming across like a lousy MySpace guy with these way to sporadic updates. Also, I’ve just been told that my official Superstar profile on WWE.com claims that I don’t have an official website or MySpace, which obviously is not true. It WAS true once, when I asked WWE to post that notice in the way of evidence of a couple of Mick Foley impersonators on the internet.

Speaking of impersonators, I really enjoyed the Barrack-Hillary showdown on RAW. I know that some didn’t like it, but it made me laugh out loud and it wasn’t long and mean spirited like the Trong-Rosie deal of ‘07.

I actually spent two days in Northeast Pennsylvania – Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Hatleton – campaigning for Senator Obama last month. I told the staff that I wanted to see what grass roots campaigning was all about and they didn’t let me down. Thirteen hours of campaigning one day, eleven the next, before I headed home exhausted, deeply appreciative of how committed all of the candidates must be to put up with such a grueling schedule on a daily basis, and content not to visit a diner or doughnut shop for a long long time.

I knocked on doors for several hours in the poorest parts of Scranton, talked to high school assemblies in Hacleton, worked the phones in Wilkes-Barre and scarfed down diner food and coffee in just about every available eatery in all three cities.

It wasn’t always easy, as I’d been forewarned that I was entering heavy Hilary(??) country, and some residents I encountered were a little less than thrilled to have enemy combatants in their midst. And in what may be the most under-reported story in the wall to wall media coverage these campaigns have been subject to, racism seems to be woven a little more deeply into the areas social fabric than I had previously guessed.

Nonetheless, it was a valuable, rewarding couple of days and I was proud to contribute to our nations great democratic process.

Back from Mexico. June 18, 2008 - Wednesday

I’ve been back from Mexico for just a few days, but the memories the trip afforded me will last much longer, maybe a lifetime.

As some of you may know (and others, I guess are about to find out) I’m active in Christian Children’s Funds child sponsorship program. I currently sponsor seven children, three in Mexico, one in the Philippines, one in Sri-Lanka, one in Ethiopia and one in Sierra Leor. I detailed my visit to the Philippines (or at least my thoughts leading up to the trip) in “The Hardcore Diaries”, so I wont get into it here, except to say that it was a memorable visit, and having the chance to perform in front of one of my sponsored children was an honor and a privilege.

I guess that’s one of the cool things about being a mostly retired sort-of legend. I get to pick and choose occasional WWE trips to go on. I volunteered for this past Mexico trip a couple of months ago, about a month before rescuing Smackdown from the dark days of Coachdom. Sure, the sudden addition of Smackdown announcing to my life, when combined with my previous obligations, made my May a little hectic. And June, with a trip for Christian Children’s Fund to the West African country of Sierra Leone (where I’ll see Alimny, the little boy I sponsor) as well as two West Coast WWE trips will probably end up with me trying to remember what my children look like.

But as I head into the months of July and August, things will have settled down, and I will be looking forward to my weekly Smackdown sojourns. I’m sure I will also be reflecting on these trips to Mexico and Sieira Leore, and how much they meant to me.

Smackdown.

For the rest of my life, I’ll have to live with the fact that I’m the man who replaced the Coach. Let’s pause, for just a moment to reflect on all the joy Coach brought us in his stint behind the Smackdown desk. Ok, moment’s over.

Actually, my only reservation about taking the job was wondering what it might do to poor Coach. But after having a great talk with poor Coach, it turns out he’s going to be all right. He’s got a lot going for him, with his gig on MSG network, and is looking at doing more work in the legit sports world.

So, with my conscience clear, I went out to call my first matches on Backlash- and loved it. Well, maybe not at first, as I felt a little clumsy during the Matt Hardy – MVP match, and quite honestly, um, how do I put this politely, um, didn’t you know, have that much to work with in the Shaw-Khali battle. But I absolutely loved calling Undertaker and Edge, and hope that I added to the drama in a way that might have been missing from Smackdown main events.

I know I still have a lot to learn – especially after seeing how difficult it was to work in and around all the bumpers, promos, commercials, b-rolls, upcoming match graphics and ring announcements. Not to mention the fact that I stumbled over my words often enough for Vince to refer to me as Mick Adamle at one point. Ouch!

I know there will be bumps on this color commentary road, and while I k now I’m not as comically quick as the King, or as dominating a personality as J.B.L, but I think, given time, I can grow intoa welcome presence on Fright nights. And even when I hit one of those bumps in the road, keep reminding yourself “at least he’s not the Coach.”

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