And I gotta ask, "Why would I want any 'AP figure' knowing me?" "APs" exist at the behest of the casinos. I do not. Sports gamblers, in general, do not. Nobody cares who a couple dozen Dudley Do Wrongs know or don't know.
I have no idea who writes your material, but it's silly. I could say, "Well, Billy Walters or Marc Lawrence or Jimmy Vaccaro has no fucking idea who Axelwolf is," and that's true enough. But why would I say that? It has nothing to do with what you do.
And this is beside the point, but I'm pretty sure Mr. Flowers knew who I was 25 years ago. Living in Las Vegas, he probably also had a pretty good idea who my superior half was. But maybe not; LVA was way late to the sports betting milieu.