If you've ever wondered what baseball writers talk to the manager about the morning after a night game, the answer is, pretty much nothing, because nothing much has changed in the eight or nine hours since you've both left the ballpark.

So this morning Joe Girardi decided to discuss his breakfast. At length.

At first, he disclosed that he had left a half-eaten bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios behind to hold his pregame interview session, a choice he made after agonizing over choosing them or Fruit Loops.

Over time, he revealed that he normally eats his cereal dry because of his lactose intolerance, that he also likes Lucky Charms, and that he only allows his kids to eat cereal on weekends.

But the most shocking revelation was that the Girardi family feasted on free Cap'n Crunch "for like a year" after a train carrying the cereal derailed somewhere on the property of the farm his mother grew up on in Peoria, Illinois, spilling its precious cargo, when Girardi was about seven or eight years old.

"We had so much Captain Crunch over the next year, it was amazing," Girardi said. "To this day, I still like Captain Crunch."

This conversation actually happened, and if Quaker Oats has been wondering what happened to all that Cap'n Crunch back in 1971 or 1972, consider the mystery solved.

This conversation actually happened.