Programming Alert.

There's this gal who hosts a slew of programs on the Travel Channel called Samantha Brown. Brown, a New Hampshire-ite, is bubbly, humorous, and bordering on adorable. She also has a seemingly fabulous job. She gets to go to all sorts of exotic places, stay in fabulous hotels, and eat in expensive restaurants. Last September, she hosted a program called Samantha Brown's Great Weekends: Atlanta. As part of the show she got a pitching lesson from John Smoltz.

Says Brown of the John Smoltz experience:

"Its a little nerve racking when we do things like this -- meeting big time sports celebrities while having to learn to pitch which is considered one of the most difficult actions in all of sports -- or is that hitting a baseball? Yeah, I think I have that wrong. Hitting a baseball is more difficult than pitching ... tell that to my right arm.

John Smoltz turns out to be a gentle giant and because of the camps he runs himself for kids he's able to teach me pretty quickly."

The program re-airs this morning at 9:00 am.