*Mind you, while I type this, I am stepping in PaulD's drool puddles...*
This is what I think.
As we all know, from hearing the phrase, and for some from the Charlie Sheen/Chris Tucker movie, money talks. Now, Pat may say that he doesn't want to do Wheel after he's 60, and if he wants to retire, I see no problem there. But I don't think that it's really going to happen for one reason and one reason alone...I doubt that the producers can see anyone else hosting the show at this point. Now, I know some people are going to tell me about Rolf and Goen (looking squarely at Horan when I say that), but that was then. It's 2005. The network version of Wheel is loooooooooong gone. In my opinion, there's no one out there who could do a capable enough job hosting Wheel. Sure, you could get somebody else to do it, and who the hell knows? They may be good, they may be bad. But the change may or may not help. Wheel is still on top, and I'm sure the producers want it to stay that way. As a result, they'll probably give Pat everything they can to convince him to stay. And he probably would, if only for a few years after that.