Caught on the Fly.(News Briefs)(Brief Article)

Hey, didn't you used to be Bill Romanowski's pharmacist?

* Ayyyyy, Fonz says he's feeling thumbs-up, but Fly hears the Mess ain't so sure. As Fly well knows, knees are tricky things (Fly's got six of 'em), so this here mismanagement team is wonderin' whether it's worth it to keep Edgardo goin' through the 15-day D.L. cycle. Yo, Mess-men ... let Fonz take the year off. Everybody else on yer club has.

* Fly was buzzin' around the set of recent GQ photo shoot starring Mike Modano and Jereme-my-mine Roenick, and couldn't help but overhear Roe-n-Mo talkin' about '01-'02. All it'll take is a shift to wing and $8 mil, and Roenick'll have Stars in his eyes. JR in Dallas? This should have happened long ago.

* Fly hears all this crammin' is getting to up-and-coming Kevin Harvick, who's pullin' double-duty on the Busch and Winston Cup circuits and is already over 10,000 miles this year. "Just gotta stay awake," he jokes. Yo, Kev, Fly's got tips from his college days: coffee, No-Doz an' if that doesn't work, the ol' toothpick-in-the-eyelid.

* Speakin' of gearheads, the Spies are sayin' Andy Houston's got a problem. All's not well in Cal Wells' No. 96 Ford, and the switch to John Andretti, who has struggled in the sacred Petty No. 43, may be goin' into high gear, pit ...