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Coupeville’s golfing dynasty, from left, Austin, Christine and Mike Fields, AKA “The Man Who Is Going to beat King Felix.”

Get your voting fingers ready — it’s time to mess with someone else.

We beat the best that big, bad ATM could throw at us when it came to the Everett Herald’s “Pick the Cascade Conference Football Champ” poll, with Coupeville sitting on top right now 297 votes to 294 after attacks, counter-attacks, some throwing of mud by sideline participants, and counter-counter-counter-attacks.

Heck, the Wolves have amassed more votes than the third (Lakewood) and fourth (King’s) team did combined. South Whidbey? Well, we’ll just assume the internet is still out down there on the dark end of the Island.

But now your voting finger is bored and needs a new challenge. A bigger challenge. A probably impossible but what the heck challenge.

I send you (and your voting finger) to Evening Magazine’s Best of Western Washington, and the battle for Best Pro Athlete.

It’s a heady field, with Mariners hurler Felix Hernandez, Storm sensation Sue Bird and ageless wonder soccer goalie Kasey Keller as the top three vote choices so far. In this season of the perfect game, it would appear that Felix would be unbeatable.

But that’s where we, the poll busters, come in.

Currently sitting at number five, ahead of departed icon Ichiro, fast left-turner Kasey Kahne and speed skater/”Dancing With the Stars” champ Apolo Ohno, is one of Whidbey Island’s own — golf pro Mike Fields, dad of CHS lone Wolf golfers Austin and Christine Fields and a pretty fair linksman in his own right.

So sure, you could vote for the millionaire you see on TV, or you could vote for a talented guy who you might actually run into the next time you find yourself in a local grocery store or on a golf course.

One vote results in a ho-hum, saw-that-coming-a-mile-away result. The other will blow the rogue off of King 5’s news crew 36 days from now, as they try and figure out how Wolf Nation just messed with the pollsters again.

It’s an easy choice.

http://best.king5.com/mike-fields/biz/630778?c=93c5be300726fe60&r=short