You'd expect most professional athletes to be excited about seeing themselves on a cereal box. But how about eating what's inside?

"Oh, yes," said the wife of one such athlete. "For a while, he ate them every day."

The player we're talking about is World Series MVP David Eckstein.

His wife: actress Ashley Drane.

And the cereal? EcksO's.

"They're really just like Honeynut Cheerios," Drane whispered.

Life for the celebrity couple continues to be as sweet as the cereal. Eckstein, the Sanford native and Seminole High School grad, has endorsement deals, a new book and a doting wife. And Drane (Blue Collar TV and That's So Raven) is now getting into movies as well.

The two came back to Central Florida last week so that Eckstein, 31, could talk to a standing-room-only crowd organized by the Seminole County Regional Chamber of Commerce. But before he did, we sat down for a while to talk about his life.

Among his confessions: He loves wrestling. So much, in fact, that he has stepped inside the ring.

During a recent TNA pay-per-view match, catcher A.J. Pierzynski of the 2005 world champion Chicago White Sox picked a "fight" with the St. Louis shortstop, tearing a copy of Eckstein's inspirational children's book, Have Heart.

Fortunately for Eckstein (and his agent), he vowed not to get into any altercations, staged or otherwise. "So I sent my brother in there," he said of Rick, who took the punch.

But Eckstein's not getting all the fun. Drane, 25, whom he married in 2005, stays busy with the wildly-popular-with-kids Raven show on Disney. And she just finished shooting Alice, a family-friendly flick with Luke Perry and Penny Marshall that's due out later this year.