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Northwoods League Highlights, MLB Updates, and Father's Day Reflections · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  Yeah.
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  Ninja balloons and baseball TikToks.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Head to the back, and I'm stepping with a purpose.
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  Grip on the back, and you know it get to work.
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  V swing, got the whole field nervous.
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  Pitch coming fast, but I'm turning into circus.
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  Crack of the back, yeah, you heard that sound.
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  Send it to the fist.
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  Now they looking around.
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  Coach like, damn, how you hitting like that?
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  I just point down like Reshack.
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  I mean, I don't chase hits.
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  I create that contact.
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  Barrel it up.
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  Let me show you the man.
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  Launch like a perfect.
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  I'm sending it back.
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  Out of the park, I'm stacking them stands on the cage to the game.
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  I'll never fall off.
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  Every swing dialed in.
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  I don't never feel lost.
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  Hindsight low away.
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  It don't matter at all.
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  If it's coming my direction, then it's leaving the yard.
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  That's Bcheck swing.
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  That's Bcheck power.
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  When
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  Welcome in to the scene project sports network.
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  You are here tonight for seven eight nine, our weekly baseball roundtable.
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  I'm joined as always by my cohost, Big B.
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  What's happening, B?
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  Not much.
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  I get to be home for the week by myself, so that's a good Father's Day gift for me.
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  I know that's right around the corner, but Grab the load, man.
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  Yeah.
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  No.
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  But I get to talk some sports, get to talk some baseball tonight with my boys, so I'm happy
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  about that.
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  Yeah.
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  No.
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  What a Father's Day present.
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  They're like, hey.
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  We're out of here.
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  Yep.
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  That's pretty much what it's like.
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  They've done it for the last two years for me.
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  So
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  Sweet.
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  Sweet.
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  So I'm sure there's gonna be a lots of pro wrestling replays, a lot of baseball.
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  Maybe you can get out and hit the course and get some golfing while they're out too.
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  Yeah.
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  Who knows?
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  That's the plan.
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  If it stays nice, maybe go hit the driving range a little bit, and we'll see.
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  But, you know, work always comes first, so we'll see what time I have.
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  Awesome.
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  Well, I don't know how long we'll be on tonight.
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  We are making a little bit of a transition period here, finding new cohosts and people to
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  slot into these things and really changing our coverage up.
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  We're still gonna talk some MLB and hit a little bit of the story lines there, but I'm
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  really excited to announce a new relationship with the Northwoods League.
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  And if you guys aren't familiar with the Northwoods League, they are a summer showcase
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  league with amateur college kids that are preparing themselves to play in the minor
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  leagues similar to what you would find with the Cape Cod League, which is a little bit more
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  established, although the Northwoods League has been around for a couple of decades now.
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  We have a newly established relationship with them to work on some cover.
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  So we're gonna talk a little bit about that tonight.
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  We're still gonna cover some of the MLB, but we're working through some things here with
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  Father's Day next Sunday.
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  I'll be traveling, so we're gonna take next week off completely.
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  We're kind of in this, you know, baseball's just happening kind of in the background while
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  the rest of the summer is speeding around.
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  We had our big city event this weekend with hot dog night here in Tyndall, bands on Main
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  Street, all kinds of fun things happening.
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  And similar things are happening across their fourth of July holiday coming up.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  We'll be, hopefully, having the ability to get out and cover the Northwoods Northwoods League
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  all star game, which will be at the Field Of Dreams in Iowa.
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  So
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  No kidding.
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  Is it really?
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  We're we're really happy to be working with this league, and they have teams from Michigan
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  all through Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota.
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  North Dakota has a couple of teams.
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  I'm trying to work with them to hopefully get a team in South Dakota before long.
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  They have one team in Iowa established already and now getting ready to, establish another one
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  in next season in Dyersfield where their home stadium will be the field of Dreams.
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  So really exciting to jump in with the league, getting to know them.
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  We'll be featuring a lot of interviews with general managers.
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  Maybe some of the players will have an opportunity to come on with us this season.
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  Chance really this year just to get our feet wet with this show.
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  We'll see if we end up branding another one specific to the Northwoods League in the
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  future.
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  But for right now, we're always gonna spend a little time every Sunday giving a little recap,
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  checking the standings, maybe being able to find a few of their highlights on Instagram to
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  be able to show.
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  We're working with Flow Sports currently to try to get some, access to their video and some,
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  licensing from that.
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  So, a lot of moving pieces right now, but wanted to take a little time today just to
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  introduce that relationship, introduce everyone listening to our program to the league.
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  So if you have not been familiarized with the league at all, you can go to
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  northwoodsleague.com, check out everything there, and get yourself familiar with these
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  teams.
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  So I'm just gonna rattle off some of the cities where they have teams at.
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  Kalamazoo has the growlers.
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  Richmond has the flying mummies.
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  That's Richmond, Indiana.
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  Traverse City, Michigan has the pit spitters.
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  Kenosha, Wisconsin has the kingfish.
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  Royal Oak, Michigan has the leprechauns, which, Phil Lepp, their unofficial mascot, was on the
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  program not too long ago.
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  With me, we have the Battle Creek, Michigan battlejacks and the Rockford Rivets.
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  Those eight teams seven teams, sorry, make up the Great Lakes East.
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  Rockford is in Illinois.
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  Had a talk with the GM of the Rockford Rivets, Hannah, who's an incredible young lady as well,
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  20 years old, general managing this team.
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  Pretty awesome.
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  Moving into the Great Lakes West, we have the Wausau Woodchucks, the Madison Mallards, the
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  Pre Bay Rockers, the Lakeshore Chinooks, the Wisconsin Rapid Raptors, and the Fond du Lac
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  dock spiders.
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  That is your Great Lakes West division of the Northwoods League.
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  The Great Plains East division is the lower lacrosse loggers, the Rochester honkers, the
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  Eau Claire Express, the Waterloo Bucks, obviously, down there in Iowa, Thunder Bay
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  Bordercats.
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  That is the one Canadian team that is in the league.
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  The Duluth puppies, so we got a team up there in Duluth, and the Minnesota mud puppies, which
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  I do believe are in Mankato.
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  It looks like they're just starting to get their season up and rolling, with, only five
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  games played so far.
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  The Great Plains West Division are the Saint Cloud Rocks, the Badlands Big Sticks, which are
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  up in North Dakota, the Minot Hot Tots, which b, I'm gonna be trying to check those guys out
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  when we're in Minot, not this weekend coming up, but next weekend when we're up for the
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  Skunk Classic, the Wilmar Stingers, the Bismarck larks, and the Mankato moondogs.
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  Okay.
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  So the Minnesota Muppies, I'm not sure exactly where they're at.
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  Let me click through and see.
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  Oh, let me see here.
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  I'm looking right now.
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  They're in Savage, Minnesota.
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  Okay.
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  So they're actually not I I wanna say they're not too far from me.
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  I could be wrong on that.
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  Awesome.
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  Well so, yeah, the reason that we're focusing on them, obviously, ourselves being Midwest
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  based, I'm in South Dakota.
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  Bee and Cody are in Minnesota.
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  We were looking for teams and leagues that were a little bit closer for us to be able to build
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  relationships with for the long haul.
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  Do we love talking about some of these MLB teams?
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  Of course.
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  Do we appreciate giving getting some of the access that we have to some of these teams and
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  their minor league affiliates?
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  Of course.
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  But this team in this league presents something really unique for us because these are players
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  that have not yet made it to the show.
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  Right?
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  And for me, I think there's some really amazing opportunities to tell some stories, to get to
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  know these players before they make it up the ladder and into the league, into the show,
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  playing minor league ball.
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  This is a great opportunity for us to get in there and to absolutely have a great time doing
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  this.
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  So watermelon and cheese, thanks for tuning in.
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  And and and also too, you know, not you know, this might be the highlight of their career,
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  you know, playing in this league and, you know, and it helps us to help them get noticed and
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  get into those a ball leagues or I mean, you know, you you just never know what's gonna
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  happen.
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  And Minnesota, the saints came from the Northwoods league until they signed or before
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  they signed with the Twins as their triple a affiliate.
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  So they were a part of this Northwoods League too back in the day.
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  Incredible.
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  See now, I didn't know that and and just blown away by that.
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  I'm actually going on right now and and following all team.
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  I'm pretty sure they're the Northwoods League.
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  Are they are they calling them a different maybe they got the Northwoods, but I'm pretty
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  sure when the saints came into into affiliated, they were part of the Northwoods League.
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  I could be wrong.
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  I'm kinda looking into that.
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  But
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  Well and you know what?
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  I'm pretty sure that there's nothing against us sharing their their Instagram page.
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  So we're gonna check out a couple of highlights just because, I absolutely, loved talking to
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  Dom, who's their, video coordinator.
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  He says he watches about 17 games a day covering this league and or 14 a day, I think,
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  with how they have 27 teams.
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  So, yeah, thirteen, fourteen games almost every night during the season that he is consuming,
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  watching, making sure, that the videos get out there and edited into their Instagram, feed and
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  their social media.
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  So really incredible, stuff here.
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  So I'm gonna go ahead and share some highlights, from this team.
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  We're gonna go ahead and enlarge it.
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  This is all courtesy of Flow Sports and the Northwoods League.
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  So you're seeing some of these.
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  Hunter Gunther dealing struck out 11 in a dominant performance against the Express.
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  Pretty incredible watching these young men, go out there and do work.
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  Some of these stadiums have a higher attendance than the Tampa Bay devil rays.
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  Or the Minnesota tunes probably.
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  Or the Miami Marlins for that matter if we're throwing people under the bus.
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  And some of them are hitting the ball way far.
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  So this is wood bat.
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  For some of these, you know, college players, they are not playing with wood bats in their
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  obviously, in their college season.
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  It's not happening.
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  And then moving into the
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  I'm sorry.
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  They weren't it wasn't the Northwood League.
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  It was the Northern League, I'm sorry, for the Saints.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  Well and and you never know where this is going to lead, like you said, for a lot of these
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  young men getting a chance to play.
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  And what's great about the Northwoods League is that it's not just the men.
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  They also have a softball league for these amateur women who are playing as well.
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  So really incredible what they've been able to build here.
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  The league has been around for twenty plus years.
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  I'm really thrilled to be building this relationship with them.
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  This is a, example of two young men for the second straight game going back to back.
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  That one came off the scoreboard at Mayo Field.
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  This is, some really great ball looking, and it's not just that.
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  It's these young broadcasters as well on the field, in the booth.
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  Chris Vosters, who has done a lot of coverage for most recently, the the Chicago Blackhawks.
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  He was their play by play guy.
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  He is also going to do the Olympics.
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  So Nice.
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  Not only is it stories about these players that are on the field and both in the baseball and
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  softball teams, but it's the people behind the scenes, the administration, the, you know, the
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  broadcasters.
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  Everyone is using this league as a stepping stone to achieve their dreams, and I think
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  that's why I was so interested in starting to build this relationship with them, finding our
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  way, and becoming something for them that ESPN is for the big dogs every single week.
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  So really great
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  And that's the thing is the only time these guys get noticed is if they make a spectacular
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  play and somebody videotapes it and sends it into ESPN.
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  This you know, we can use our podcast and our social media pages to get those out there
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  throughout the whole, you know, Internet universe.
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  Exactly.
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  Well and and and to that point, they just had a number one top play with SVP talking about them
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  on their show a few weeks ago, but that's just one play.
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  We're hoping to dig in and tell stories of the league on a consistent basis, and it may not
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  happen, guys, until next season when we're really able to dig in.
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  I just met a lot of these people two days before their season started, and now they're
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  headlong into it.
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  These these teams play 72 games in ninety days.
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  I mean, it's an absolute blitzkrieg of a season.
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  They're playing daily.
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  I don't know how much coverage we'll have for you other than what we do here, with a a a
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  quick recap of the standings, which we're going to get into right now.
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  So dipping into the standings here early on.
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  Now a lot of these teams are just getting going, so they're a little skewed, as far as
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  that.
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  Like I mentioned, one of the teams has only played five games total, but the let's get this
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  up on the screen.
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  We'll make ourselves small.
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  We wanna do the side view.
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  Sure.
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  We'll go on the side there.
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  Mean, they got a good decent amount of games in.
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  I mean, okay.
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  The Mudpup game is done.
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  Well, b, as you know, the college world series is still going.
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  So some of the top players in this league are still finishing up their college season, and
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  you have a lot of these guys that are on the teams currently that are maybe JUCO or division
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  three, division two players Yep.
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  Whose seasons are finished, who are getting to be the man in this where maybe later in the
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  season, they're taking more of a role player, you know, role and filling in maybe as a
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  substitute later in the game.
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  So in the Great Lakes East Division, the Kalamazoo Growlers and the Richmond Flying
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  Mummies along with the Traverse City Pit Spitters all sitting in a tie for first place
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  right now at eleven and nine.
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  Each one, riding some streaks.
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  The Kalamazoo Growlers got off to a hot start, but now losing three in a row have allowed
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  Traverse City and Richmond to catch up a little bit, but no one's out of it here.
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  Look at Rockford at the bottom of that division is eight and twelve.
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  Kinda looks like the NL Central there right now.
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  Right.
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  A a pretty pretty tight.
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  Right?
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  Yeah.
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  Moving into the Great Lakes West division, you have the Wausau Woodchucks up at the top of the
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  division by way of win percentage at twelve and five, but also with 12 wins, the Madison
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  Mallards as well who have two extra games played and are sitting at twelve and seven.
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  Green Bay rockers not far behind at third place in that division as well.
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  And getting hot.
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  Look at that.
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  Green Bay with four wins in a row, seven and three in their last 10.
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  Had a little bit of a slow start to the season, but coming on as of late, only a game and a
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  half back of first place in the Great Lakes West.
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  In the Great Plains East division, the lacrosse loggers sit atop at eleven and seven.
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  Rochester, who another Minnesota team at nine and eight.
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  I do believe that the Rochester is the birthplace of this Northwoods league, if I'm
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  not mistaken in talking to Dom and, who's, the head video guy over there.
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  But look at all three of these teams riding some winning streaks right now, trying to get
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  things working.
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  As you have these guys whose seasons have finished now, you know, if their team was, you
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  know, beat out of the, college world series in the last, you know, seven to ten days, now
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  they're able to join the team.
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  It has a serious, effect on the makeup of some of these teams.
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  And I pointed out earlier, the Minnesota Mud Puppies with only five games played, got some
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  making up to do, and I'm not sure of what the story is here on this one yet, but, we'll we'll
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  get some more clarity on that as we go.
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  And then at the top of the Great Plains West Division, the Saint Cloud Rocks at twelve and
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  seven, pulling out to an early lead, but they've been sliding as of late, leaving the
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  door open for some of these North Dakota teams to make a little bit of a run.
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  The Badlands, Big Sticks at nine and eight charging lately as well.
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  So there's a little bit of a look at the baseball teams.
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  Let's go over and take a look at the softball and see if they've gotten going yet.
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  And they're Yeah.
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  They've gone about five games then.
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  Yeah.
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  Incredible.
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  Bee, do you got this pulled up on your phone?
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  You can read through some of these?
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  Yeah.
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  I do.
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  You got the Madison nightmares o or four and all.
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  You got the lacrosse steam at four and one.
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  You got the grand forks spitfires two and two, Mankato Habanero.
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  Rebar One and three.
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  Wasa ignites, one and three.
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  And then mayanite honeybees at one and four.
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  So
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  The ladies are just getting their season Yeah.
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  Underway.
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  The Mankato habaneros be?
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  Habaneros.
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  Your
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  your only Mexican in name.
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  Yeah.
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  I guess.
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  They don't call them habaneros anyway.
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  No.
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  Awesome.
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  Well, yeah, quick rundown.
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  You I encourage you all, check out the northwoodsleague.com.
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  Find out if there's a team close to you.
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  If there's a team within an hour, go check this action out.
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  Tickets into these stadiums are cheap.
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  You're gonna see some really competitive, really great action.
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  You're gonna be watching players that one day you may see in the show, and you're getting a
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  chance to see them right now when they are in the thick of their journey.
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  And the access to these players and to these teams right now is absolutely incredible.
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  Go find your new favorite young player.
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  Follow their career from here, and who knows what happens?
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  They have had some really incredible players that have come through this league that are
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  right now knocking on the door or playing in the show.
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  So I highly encourage everyone.
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  Just looking at some of the stats here, just pulling them up here.
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  For the baseball league, Ryan Cahoon from Minnesota, What the Minnesota Mud Puppies.
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  Four games, batting 500, 12 at bat, six hits.
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  He's from Northfield, Minnesota, just a few minutes away from, myself here.
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  So
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  Yeah.
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  Really incredible stuff, man.
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  I'm so grateful to have an opportunity, to cover this team, you know, these leagues and
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  and to be around such competitive baseball.
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  Like I said, really trying to work out something to be able to go, out to Dyersville,
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  Iowa to visit the field of dreams with them.
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  I just had July.
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  That's on the bucket list of mine.
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  I had some, play well, and it'd be it's right in line with your work schedule, sir.
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  I would be looking at that.
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  Wednesday, July seventh and eighth.
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  So we may be able to make that happen this year.
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  Keep keep your ears peeled.
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  I will let you know should we get access to that team.
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  Everyone, please go check out the Northwoods League.
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  I'm gonna drop a link here
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  in the I just wanna see how far of a drive that is.
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  Might be closer to you than it is to me.
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  No.
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  I I wanna say it's like a four hour drive.
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  Because I've looked it up before because, you know, like I said, that's that's somewhere I
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  want to visit.
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  Come on.
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  Why are you pulling up?
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  Let's see here.
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  Directions.
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  Uh-huh.
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  Kinda like phones some days.
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  See if it pulls up here quick.
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  Well and what I'd like to do is a lot more writing about these teams as well.
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  Get them some blog posts out there and filling up our feed on SPSN onthesceneprojects.com/spsn
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  or maybe even starting another website.
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  I mean, now that that's what half of my job is website design and, all of that, maybe it's
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  time to buy that extra domain and, to really make something of this, you know, thing that we
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  have built and to provide a platform out there for these young people.
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  I want to do more of this stuff.
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  We've been in contact, you know, not just with the baseball teams, right, but also reaching
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  out into the other sports that we don't yet cover with basketball and hockey.
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  And, obviously, at Minnesota, the state of hockey, that we have a, you know, some great
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  opportunities there, whether it be, you know, working at Amsoil Arena again where the
• 22:42
  University of Minnesota Duluth play or, any unearned number of thousands of teams that are
• 22:49
  in, Minnesota playing.
• 22:50
  So really, really grateful, to the Northwoods League for, officially, you know, bringing us
• 22:58
  in at this point and building that relationship out there with them, continuing to have more
• 23:04
  and more of the players, coaches, and administrators on the show.
• 23:08
  I think it's gonna be a lot of fun.
• 23:10
  And and the thing is is, you know, your goal, my goal, you know, the whole network's goal is
• 23:18
  just to be there for everybody.
• 23:19
  We're not taking you know, if we take if we get a no, yeah, we'll move on, but we don't wanna
• 23:24
  take noes.
• 23:25
  We wanna be able to, you know, cover and give us exposure to everybody, not just, you know,
• 23:32
  you know, leagues by you, but everywhere.
• 23:35
  You know?
• 23:35
  And, you know, that's the one goal of this network is just to branch out and, you know, be
• 23:43
  ESPN without being ESPN and being able to cover it and not have all the politics behind what we
• 23:49
  cover and, you know, and be able to bad mouth, you know, somebody because they made a bad play
• 23:55
  or, you know, and not be afraid of that.
• 23:57
  So.
• 23:59
  Well and something that, you know, especially with my wife going to college right now and
• 24:05
  having a relationship with their school and listening to a lot of, what is going on with
• 24:10
  them.
• 24:10
  There's so many apprenticeship programs and internship opportunities
• 24:14
  Mhmm.
• 24:14
  Inside of what we're growing as well where these kids can be getting college credits for
• 24:19
  going out and helping us to cover these teams in their areas.
• 24:23
  So that's definitely gonna be a big part of my job over the next, you know, ten months of
• 24:28
  building up into next season's coverage is reaching out where these teams are to the
• 24:33
  colleges that are there, seeing if they have
• 24:36
  work not a bad time for me.
• 24:37
  It's about three and a half hours.
• 24:39
  Perfect.
• 24:40
  Alright.
• 24:40
  How far is it from Tyndall, T Y N D A L L?
• 24:46
  Hold on a T Y N Tyndall, T A Y D A L L?
• 24:54
  Yep.
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  Five hours, almost six hours.
• 25:00
  I'll be fine.
• 25:02
  Yeah.
• 25:02
  It's five hours to get across the state of South Dakota.
• 25:05
  I'm used to it.
• 25:06
  Alright.
• 25:06
  So with that, highly encourage everybody.
• 25:08
  I dropped the link in the comments.
• 25:10
  Go check out the Northwoods League at northwoodsleague.com.
• 25:14
  Get familiar with the team near you.
• 25:16
  Become a fan.
• 25:17
  Tune in back here to the Scene Project Sports Network for more coverage.
• 25:22
  Make sure you check them out on Instagram.
• 25:24
  They got tons of highlights rolling all the time.
• 25:26
  And just to throw it out there too, if you find a team that's close to you and you wanna be a
• 25:31
  part of coverage and help it out, you know, reach out and let's see if we can make magic
• 25:36
  happens.
• 25:37
  You
• 25:37
  know?
• 25:37
  Get ahold of us.
• 25:38
  These teams would love to have more coverage.
• 25:41
  It's just a matter of making it make sense.
• 25:43
  Bee and I can't be everywhere all at once.
• 25:46
  Right?
• 25:47
  There's there's 17 games happening almost every night during the summer.
• 25:51
  We need local correspondents for every city that these teams are playing in.
• 25:56
  So reach out.
• 25:57
  If you are a fan of the teams already and you have an interest in broadcasting or podcasting
• 26:02
  around this team, maybe it's writing, maybe it's photography, Whatever that happens to be,
• 26:08
  this is the evolution of the Scene Project Sports Network.
• 26:11
  And where we go from here is to really elevate young people who have an interest in doing this
• 26:18
  and old people like me and you, Bee, that also wanna do it.
• 26:20
  I'm just saying, we know.
• 26:21
  We're not we're not just targeting young people.
• 26:23
  I mean, it's everybody.
• 26:25
  I mean, you know, so and and come all life.
• 26:31
  I mean, you know, we got Cody who's a car salesman.
• 26:34
  Me, I I answer phones, you know, and we got other people that do other jobs.
• 26:39
  So it's, you know, we don't have background degrees in podcasting, but, you know, we're
• 26:45
  learning.
• 26:46
  I mean, we're, you know, getting out there.
• 26:49
  So don't be afraid.
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  If you wanted this to be a dream, then let's make it happen.
• 26:54
  Yeah.
• 26:54
  Hit us up on our Instagram.
• 26:56
  Shoot me a DM.
• 26:57
  I'm always answering them.
• 26:59
  We would love to have you as part of our team.
• 27:01
  We would love to have on more guests and to get more coverage going with the sports network as
• 27:06
  this really gets rolling and absolutely blessed to be able to do what we do.
• 27:12
  And don't forget that you can check us out on Booms TV two point o on your Roku device or
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  That's Booms, b o O m z two point o.
• 27:24
  I'd added one extra o in this.
• 27:26
  I just realized.
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  I forgot too.
• 27:27
  I just saw it come across, you know, because I was tabbing towards the Phillies, the
• 27:33
  Philadelphia, Phillies play, at the Field Of Dreams this year.
• 27:39
  Awesome.
• 27:39
  They're one of the games.
• 27:40
  That's so cool.
• 27:43
  Very cool.
• 27:44
  So I'll bring up the, MLB standings and run through them as we do every week here.
• 27:51
  New York Yankees have overtaken the Rays at this point for first in the AL East.
• 27:57
  It's pretty much them in the Rays running around.
• 28:00
  But look at this.
• 28:00
  They are still seven and a half games o up in the wild card.
• 28:05
  So those two teams starting to really open things up as we move through the season.
• 28:10
  In the AL Central, who would have thunk it?
• 28:13
  The Chicago White Sox are thirty eight and thirty two atop the division with the Guardians
• 28:20
  in second place who are three and a half games up on that second wild card spot there.
• 28:27
  And the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics?
• 28:32
  No.
• 28:33
  They're not open.
• 28:34
  Are they the Vegas Athletics?
• 28:35
  I think they're I think they're just called the Athletics right now, but, I mean, in a couple
• 28:39
  years, they'll be called the Vegas Athletics.
• 28:41
  So
• 28:42
  Interesting.
• 28:43
  Interesting.
• 28:45
  You know?
• 28:45
  And and the thing is Seattle, you know, I was watching a gay couple games with, some friends.
• 28:51
  You know, they got some nice young talent there.
• 28:53
  You know?
• 28:53
  Once, Kyle gets back up there and starts hitting back to his weight, I mean, that that's
• 28:59
  the attitude could pull away, you know, from the athletics or whoever's gonna be in second.
• 29:05
  So they You
• 29:06
  tell the AL West AL West wasn't playing in division this week.
• 29:14
  Everybody's got a loss in the cup for their last game.
• 29:18
  Yeah.
• 29:18
  And moving into the NL East, the Braves continue to just pound everyone that comes in
• 29:25
  front of them.
• 29:26
  Forty six and twenty five, a near six fifty win percentage.
• 29:30
  Now
• 29:31
  They came down June.
• 29:34
  I mean and and that's the thing is, you know, I mean, you don't wanna take the foot off the
• 29:39
  pedal.
• 29:40
  I mean, it's still early.
• 29:41
  Like you said, we're only a few weeks into June, you know, two and a half months into the
• 29:46
  baseball season.
• 29:48
  But, you know, you got a comfortable lead there.
• 29:50
  You you know, can, you know, maybe rest a player here or there more or, you know, and and
• 29:58
  stuff like that.
• 29:58
  But you don't wanna take the pedal off the metal because baseball, we all know, is is is a
• 30:03
  streak of games.
• 30:04
  So
• 30:05
  Right.
• 30:06
  And the Philadelphia Phillies, after a disastrous start to the beginning of their
• 30:11
  season, have now played themselves into a wildcard position in the NL while the rest of
• 30:21
  that division is, starting to turn things around.
• 30:24
  Mets are winning some games, six and four in their last 10.
• 30:27
  Miami, eight and two in their last 10.
• 30:31
  They must be playing the no.
• 30:32
  They're not, but it it sure looks like it.
• 30:34
  My cubs have not been well sitting at 500 over their last 10.
• 30:39
  I guess not terrible, but they need to figure it out.
• 30:42
  We've had some the Matthew Boyd injury is really starting to take its toll on our
• 30:46
  starting pitching.
• 30:48
  So it's And not having your ace, Justin Steele, out there still Mhmm.
• 30:54
  Is just a a major, major setback.
• 30:57
  The starting pitching you thought you were going to have, you don't, and you've been
• 31:01
  trying to kinda piecemeal together this rotation and just kind of hanging around with
• 31:07
  the bats just kind of going cold.
• 31:10
  And you hope that as the weather continues to heat up here through the summer, that some of
• 31:14
  these bats for my Chicago Cubs can really get hot and carry them through the dog days of
• 31:20
  summer and maybe hit a streak towards the end of the season instead of what they did last
• 31:24
  year, which was kind of got hot July and August, and then September hit and absolutely
• 31:30
  tanked, you squeaked into the playoffs and were able to win a series.
• 31:35
  But playing that Milwaukee Brewers team with their lights out starting pitching right now
• 31:39
  behind Miz who's just phenomenal.
• 31:41
  Setting through a pitch a 104.9 miles an hour.
• 31:45
  What the hell?
• 31:46
  Yeah.
• 31:47
  Speaking of Don Manley, since he's taken over hey, Danielle.
• 31:52
  Since he's taken over the Phillies, he is twenty nine and thirteen with a six or a point
• 32:00
  six nine zero win percentage.
• 32:03
  The guy still got it.
• 32:05
  Well, and the thing is is just like that, I mean, you got Atlanta who's at six, you know,
• 32:12
  pretty much point six fifty.
• 32:14
  You know, they gotta be watching the, you know, Philly because they're they're sneaking up
• 32:19
  there.
• 32:19
  So every loss that the Braves had, they better hope, you know, Philly's also loser or else
• 32:25
  that eight game streak is gonna go bye bye really quick.
• 32:29
  Yep.
• 32:30
  And the rest of that NL Central getting back over to that side of the bracket, still very
• 32:36
  close.
• 32:36
  I mean, the Cincinnati reds are in last place in the division.
• 32:40
  They're only four games back.
• 32:42
  So that really is still up for grabs.
• 32:44
  Milwaukee, injuries happen during the season.
• 32:47
  If it's in their starting rotation, I don't know what they're sitting on to be able to do
• 32:52
  that.
• 32:52
  Arms get tired when you're relying on them to go deep into the game.
• 32:56
  You know, your especially your young pitchers like Miz who have never thrown, you know, the
• 33:01
  180, 200 innings in a season that you're kind of demanded of in the MLB, especially as one of
• 33:08
  those guys.
• 33:09
  But you gotta love the competitive nature of this kid.
• 33:11
  I watched some of the highlights from his start last week where he's shaking off the book the
• 33:16
  the, coaches on the bench telling him, no.
• 33:20
  I'm staying in, man.
• 33:21
  I'm saying don't.
• 33:22
  Yeah.
• 33:22
  Miz is his last start, nine innings, one hit, which I think was a home run that broke up his
• 33:32
  no hitter.
• 33:33
  15 k's, no walks, 95 pitches total, and he's sitting at a 1.34 ERA.
• 33:41
  Yeah.
• 33:42
  That's disgusting.
• 33:43
  Right?
• 33:43
  I mean, that's just absolutely disgusting starting pitching.
• 33:48
  As a Cubs fan, I'm sure the Brewers fans are more than happy with his performance.
• 33:54
  That's some sick stuff, though, man.
• 33:56
  Absolutely incredible.
• 33:57
  And congratulations to the young man.
• 33:59
  The complete game, not shut out, but a one hitter.
• 34:03
  Just unreal.
• 34:04
  Minimum number of batters faced, I think they even said in that.
• 34:09
  So Yeah.
• 34:10
  Yeah.
• 34:11
  Because he had one hit, so he woulda had to face 27 or 20 batters.
• 34:15
  So it wasn't a home run.
• 34:16
  It was a single, and they probably got doubled up.
• 34:19
  It's what
• 34:19
  happened.
• 34:20
  Because, yeah, what I saw with the stat line was minimum number of hitters faced.
• 34:24
  So wasn't a no hitter, but a complete game shutout with only 27 batters face under a 100
• 34:31
  pitchers.
• 34:31
  That is pounding the strike zone.
• 34:34
  Absolutely disgusting.
• 34:36
  I mean, that's honestly, in today's game, just insane to read a stat line like that.
• 34:42
  Yes.
• 34:43
  That's what I love.
• 34:44
  It's the fastball.
• 34:45
  Right?
• 34:45
  He's not going out there and trying to throw a bunch of junk.
• 34:48
  He is going up there and saying, hit it.
• 34:51
  Try to hit it.
• 34:51
  Here comes a 105 miles an hour.
• 34:54
  That's insanity.
• 34:57
  Moving on from the NL Central because it's making me vomit, think about how good the
• 35:01
  viewers are again.
• 35:03
  The NL West, Dodgers, still out there in front.
• 35:07
  San Diego are gonna have a tough time as that gap continues to grow up to seven games back
• 35:13
  now, but have themselves in that wild card spot out there.
• 35:17
  That's honestly the best they can hope for, and they're really competing with the rest of the
• 35:22
  NL Central for those wild card spots.
• 35:25
  So So I believe the same day that Miz had his complete game or it might have been a day
• 35:32
  earlier or a day later.
• 35:34
  Within the within the day of Miz, Yotomoto for the Dodgers had a perfect game going through
• 35:42
  into the ninth, got one out, and then gave up a home run to break the no hitter and the shot
• 35:51
  out for us to perfect game.
• 35:53
  And then they took them out at a 109 pitches.
• 35:55
  So
• 35:57
  Just crazy.
• 35:59
  So those two are gonna be battling.
• 36:01
  I hope they face off against each other if they haven't yet, because I think that'll definitely
• 36:06
  be a game that a certain network is probably gonna put on TV.
• 36:09
  So
• 36:12
  Yeah.
• 36:13
  Well and I absolutely love getting to cover baseball.
• 36:17
  Obviously, we love the pro game.
• 36:19
  I haven't been able to tune in much with our youngsters playing ball, the softball season
• 36:25
  for my daughter just finished up last weekend.
• 36:28
  My boy has, I think, two weeks or one week left of games, and then they're into the tournament.
• 36:33
  The following week, it's pretty pretty nuts the how fast the little league season goes for us
• 36:41
  here, and then they're into travel ball, which, you know, neither one of our kids play yet, as
• 36:46
  they're still, pretty young in that.
• 36:49
  But they are a very, very astute team here.
• 36:54
  Our I think our 14 u junior teener team is, playing in a championship game right now down
• 37:01
  the road about thirty minutes and, for a chance to go to the American Legion, championships.
• 37:07
  So
• 37:08
  Good.
• 37:08
  Good to have Welcome, man.
• 37:09
  Proud of the boys there, some kids that we know very well out there.
• 37:14
  Just really grateful to be doing what we do be, for all of these teams, all of these young men
• 37:19
  and women that we get a chance to meet and to work with, and now growing the platform, in the
• 37:26
  sponsorship side so that we can afford to go to more of these things and to really get in there
• 37:31
  and cover them and bring some attention to these young people for the purpose of advancing
• 37:37
  their careers, hopefully, well well into the future.
• 37:41
  So I don't, I don't know where this is all going.
• 37:45
  I'm I'm excited about it.
• 37:47
  The the not knowing right now, I think, is the most exciting part as well as not just that,
• 37:53
  but we have our all the football coverage that we're doing with the Minnesota Vikings getting
• 37:58
  ready for tailgates and pregame shows, on September 12.
• 38:04
  We just welcomed Rap from the vocal Vik onto our Roku channel.
• 38:08
  So he's officially a part of the Scene Project Sports Network programming on Roku at Booms TV
• 38:15
  two point o.
• 38:16
  So we continue to grow.
• 38:18
  Other creators are taking notice of what we're building here and wanting to be a part of it.
• 38:23
  And now it's really just putting the hammer down and keeping that foot on the gas pedal.
• 38:28
  No rest for us.
• 38:29
  Cody got his vacation.
• 38:31
  We're gonna grind him out for the next decade, and it looks like he's getting back in the
• 38:36
  swing of his salesman job selling a whole boatload of cars in
• 38:40
  his first
• 38:40
  week on the job.
• 38:41
  And and the thing is is, you know, I've always been told that selling a car is the hardest
• 38:47
  thing to do, you know, because everybody wants something different, the prices.
• 38:51
  And, yeah, I think I I think he posted and props to him and congrats, like, three sales in
• 38:57
  two days or something like that.
• 38:59
  So, yo, we got a sales guy there that can talk here.
• 39:02
  That's incredible.
• 39:04
  Yeah.
• 39:05
  So he's just saving up for that next vacation.
• 39:10
  Yeah.
• 39:10
  No.
• 39:10
  They're they're not happening.
• 39:12
  Well and he you know he won't be taking one in the fall.
• 39:14
  He just announced that he is the officially taking the position as the head coach of the
• 39:20
  junior varsity Yep.
• 39:22
  In Cannon Falls.
• 39:23
  What's the name of the team there, B?
• 39:24
  It's the Catapult Bombers.
• 39:26
  So he is the baby coach.
• 39:29
  Well, they got
• 39:30
  a heck of a coach.
• 39:31
  I'll tell you that.
• 39:32
  Yeah.
• 39:33
  They definitely do.
• 39:36
  You know, the school prides themselves on their sports, basketball, football for sure.
• 39:42
  Baseball has been coming around.
• 39:45
  They got a nice little town baseball team here for us older guys that could still sling it a
• 39:53
  little bit, but no.
• 39:54
  Good for him, you know, getting back to his roots, getting back to his school, and being
• 40:00
  able to give his knowledge to the younger generation that's coming up.
• 40:04
  So
• 40:05
  Yeah.
• 40:05
  He should stop chasing that real estate license and go back to school to become a teacher.
• 40:12
  Yeah.
• 40:13
  Yeah.
• 40:14
  I mean, that's the thing too.
• 40:15
  You're right.
• 40:15
  I mean, you know, but, hey, everybody's got dreams and maybe someday maybe that's not his
• 40:21
  calling.
• 40:21
  Maybe that's why he hasn't got it, Cody, if you're listening.
• 40:24
  You know, think about it.
• 40:26
  You know, look at where you're at.
• 40:29
  So
• 40:30
  Incredible stuff.
• 40:32
  Well, b, I don't wanna keep you too far from your empty house now.
• 40:36
  I hope you had cooked yourself a big t bone steak for supper.
• 40:41
  Now that there's no one to battle around for it, I am very grateful for a busy weekend spent
• 40:47
  with the family.
• 40:49
  This weekend, we had hot dog night.
• 40:51
  Like I said, yesterday, we spent all day out at the lake with the grandparents and the nieces
• 40:56
  and nephews, and everybody just got to really soak in the sun and be together because it gets
• 41:02
  so busy during that time.
• 41:05
  And with all of us working, we got a lot of weekends that we're gonna be spending out of
• 41:09
  town and not able to do this, that it was really nice to just take a day off.
• 41:14
  I didn't even I don't think I even woke up and came in the studio.
• 41:17
  We had a fishing derby right away in the morning.
• 41:20
  So I came out, got the kids fishing stuff ready, and we were just out of the house all
• 41:24
  day.
• 41:25
  So really grateful to have one of those.
• 41:27
  Of course, I made up for it today by being out here for about ten hours before we did the show
• 41:31
  tonight, working on, you know, all manner of things, the Midwest Talent Awards, and getting
• 41:36
  ourselves ahead of the schedule with everything that we got coming up, working on some Vikings
• 41:42
  relationships, and always looking for that next opportunity ahead of us as it is like me to do.
• 41:48
  So, Bea, anything you wanna get to before I let you go?
• 41:53
  No.
• 41:54
  Just, you know, check us out Tuesday for Vikings United.
• 42:01
  And then if I don't see anybody from now until Sunday or next Sunday or whenever, happy
• 42:08
  Father's Day to everybody.
• 42:10
  Happy Father's Day to all the single moms out there because they deserve it too.
• 42:14
  But enjoy the week.
• 42:16
  Enjoy the warm nice weather, and be safe.
• 42:20
  Awesome.
• 42:22
  Yep.
• 42:23
  And we will, see you all back here probably in a couple of weeks.
• 42:27
  We're gonna take a little bit of a break with Father's Day, and then I will be out of town
• 42:31
  for, the skunk classic taking place on June 27.
• 42:36
  I should be home in time for the show on the twenty eighth.
• 42:40
  So we're gonna take one week off next week, give it a little bit of a rest.
• 42:45
  There's plenty of baseball going on.
• 42:46
  It gives us a little bit of time to get in touch with the Northwoods League and cover get
• 42:52
  an idea of what our coverage is going to look like moving forward for the rest of the summer.
• 42:56
  But always very grateful.
• 42:57
  Hopefully, we can get Cody in here some Sundays and get, pods back in here to dishonest Dodgers
• 43:04
  again real soon as well.
• 43:06
  So for everyone here at the network, we appreciate you.
• 43:11
  Big love to everyone.
• 43:12
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• 43:16
  here doing, please reach out.
• 43:18
  We would love to feature your business on the show and have you a supporter of everything
• 43:23
  that we're doing at Scene Project Sports Network.
• 43:26
  And with that, I will bid you good night.
• 43:28
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