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Granite City Blast Baseball is heading to Cooperstown! · Aired Out

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  Speaker 1: Having us.
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  Speaker 2: All right ready to go this morning, on this brand
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  Speaker 2: new day. It is Tuesday, it's a town meeting day.
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  Speaker 2: I know a lot of you're going to be paying
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  Speaker 2: it very careful attention to what's happening with local towns
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  Speaker 2: and what they're talking about, what they're concerned about, what
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  Speaker 2: they're going to be dealing with and addressing here. And
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of contentious stuff going on. But man,
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  Speaker 2: I hope that you participate. I hope that you can
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  Speaker 2: take a deep breath on it. Today town meeting day
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  Speaker 2: here in Vermont, our ultimate exercise of democracy. It is, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: March fourth already, just like that, nine to eight, and
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  Speaker 2: we've got Granite City Blast Baseball with us this morning
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  Speaker 2: in the studio here on the aired Out podcast seen
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  Speaker 2: and heard everywhere you get your podcasts in on the
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  Speaker 2: web at aired out vt dot com. Let's see hover
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  Speaker 2: and right well, upper teens, lower twenties. We got some sunshine.
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  Speaker 2: And then tomorrow morning around nine o'clock is when the
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  Speaker 2: rain is gonna come in, and it's gonna be steady
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  Speaker 2: throughout the day, and the tempts are gonna be going up.
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  Speaker 2: The FOG's gonna kick in the rain's gonna get heavy
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  Speaker 2: at times, and then tomorrow night it is gonna continue
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  Speaker 2: and they're saying do expect some flooding. So we're keeping
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  Speaker 2: an eye on what's happening with the National Weather Service. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I am so excited to bring Justin Saint Louis on
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  Speaker 2: the air with me. Justin, Good morning, buddy. How the
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  Speaker 2: hell are you, dude, I'm good, I'm so. I was
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  Speaker 2: so thrilled to hear that we've got a motorsports expo
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  Speaker 2: that's coming.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and by last year, for the first year,
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  Speaker 3: I'm at the R.
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  Speaker 2: I missed it. I missed it, man, I totally missed it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, get on more of the here. It's down
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  Speaker 4: the White River. It'll be well technically in a hard
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  Speaker 4: from the tree the address of the White River production.
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  Speaker 5: But it's going to be at the Connecticut Valley.
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  Speaker 4: On a loption building on Roote fourteen. So yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: if you're if you're in very much. But then I'm
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  Speaker 4: Roote fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: And going, you can all right. This is the twenty eighth,
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  Speaker 2: then twenty ninth. This is the tail end of the month.
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  Speaker 3: On Saturday, Foday evening, I think four to nine of
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  Speaker 3: the hours for the show and then Saturday all day
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  Speaker 3: along all kinds of stuff to see on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what what do we expect?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 2: Please tell me there's going to be dirt bikes there.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if there's going to be.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure as a tighters coming there's going to be
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  Speaker 4: something weird brand.
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  Speaker 7: What do you.
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  Speaker 4: People have motorcycles and like Jimmy Hyder's planned, but they
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  Speaker 4: had their bikes well climb all kinds of stuff, cool
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  Speaker 4: looking stuff.
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  Speaker 5: And then there out of Hamshire races you know like
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  Speaker 5: supercross not supercross, don't know, like moto like you know.
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  Speaker 4: Street bikes, rights like undernating among our bikes.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, So that's.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's really cool stuff. But we're gonna boots there
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  Speaker 4: from Speedway in New Hampshire, but also the three tracks
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  Speaker 4: of thunder Road, bear Ridge, Devil's Ball, Airporn Speedway in
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  Speaker 4: New York will be there. Why Mad Motorsports Park see
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  Speaker 4: and the Northeastern Speedway for the kind of our home
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  Speaker 4: we're racing.
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  Speaker 2: So this is your number? What now too? Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Number two yep, And it's sort of it's something I
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  Speaker 6: thought about doing the two before COVID and just couldn't
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  Speaker 6: put the pieces together.
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  Speaker 4: And then yeah, you know, COVID derail and all that.
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  Speaker 4: But we finally we finally got it together last year
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  Speaker 4: and put it the b o R and it was phenomenal.
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  Speaker 8: And there are some political that happened that I don't
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  Speaker 8: understand fully, but we're not we're not back to the
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  Speaker 8: b o R this year. And yeah, but you know,
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  Speaker 8: we had a massive support from the racing community, not.
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  Speaker 4: Just from from fucking there, but everywhere throughout all of
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  Speaker 4: the wings and uh even up.
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  Speaker 2: Into Canada and over.
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  Speaker 9: New York, with all kinds of people that I hadn't seen,
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  Speaker 9: you know, fifteen twenty thirty years.
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  Speaker 4: It was great to have celebrated sport and get ready
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  Speaker 4: for race.
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  Speaker 2: Where where do we Where do we find you on
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  Speaker 2: the web and on on social media?
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  Speaker 6: Well, we've got a base yea from Motive and we've
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  Speaker 6: also got a website from Motorsports that there's there's a.
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  Speaker 3: Little bit of information right now.
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  Speaker 8: We don't have the full weekend schedule of GET because
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  Speaker 8: that's still getting tweaked together, but it's there as well.
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  Speaker 3: And there's also on that website for the Vermont Bulk
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  Speaker 3: Boards Hall of Fame, which.
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  Speaker 4: Is something new and we're going to be We're going to.
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  Speaker 3: Be announcing our first class of inductees at the FO
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  Speaker 3: on Faturday, twenty ninth, So make sure you get there.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a pretty moments.
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  Speaker 4: Casing for for all forms of racing in the month.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, jeez, that's fantastic, man. And if folks want to
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  Speaker 2: get in touch with you, if they want to be
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  Speaker 2: a vendor, if they want to be there in any capacity,
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  Speaker 2: is it is it already to to what's the best
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  Speaker 2: way to get in touch with you?
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  Speaker 4: Well, we're sold out on the face, which is a
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  Speaker 4: good thing.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 8: But yeah, yeah, Well the building is a solid sort
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  Speaker 8: I want to let everybody know.
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  Speaker 4: Unlike last year, there is heat in this building. That's
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  Speaker 4: a big issue last year. Yeah, so you're not going
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  Speaker 4: to be freezing your butt off.
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  Speaker 5: And and this one and twenty five so.
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  Speaker 4: That's a bigger reason why we went down there.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, like I said, you know, if you want
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  Speaker 5: to get hold of me and ask questions about the
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  Speaker 5: show or or what we did last year.
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  Speaker 9: And previews this year and see Expect Motorsports and our Instagram.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm one of those guys that if you can't
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  Speaker 4: find me on.
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  Speaker 2: So you know enough. Yeah, man, I'm so excited and
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  Speaker 2: so many of our listeners are this morning post and
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  Speaker 2: comments up already, Man, Justin, this is great. This is fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah great.
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  Speaker 6: And the thing that I'm about for this is this
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  Speaker 6: is kind of the big for the model and that's
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  Speaker 6: something that we put about five work and got a
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  Speaker 6: lot of great people on on.
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  Speaker 5: The organized even have really stepped up and helped this
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  Speaker 5: together and do it right.
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  Speaker 4: And we're we're we're recognizing not just car racing, not
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  Speaker 4: just on the road. It's not just be just doubles.
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  Speaker 4: All that's you know, tractor playing and rally raising and.
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  Speaker 6: Going across some bils and you know, it's because a
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  Speaker 6: lot and I think.
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  Speaker 4: For our first less of inductees is gonna be pretty comprehensive.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't know it's going to be either. We're
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  Speaker 4: still doing.
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  Speaker 2: Really closed to be.
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  Speaker 7: A part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you for coming on with us, brother, Justin
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  Speaker 2: Saint Louis. Uh the Vermont Motorsports Expo White River Junction
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighth and twenty ninth of this month, and you're
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  Speaker 2: going to be uh seeing a lot more of us
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  Speaker 2: posting up on on our Facebook page. Here links to
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  Speaker 2: the expo, and uh yeah, this is so exciting. It's
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  Speaker 2: so cool to have something like this. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: shift gears right now. We're talking Granite City Blast baseball.
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  Speaker 2: These kids, not these exact ones, but well with the
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  Speaker 2: exception of you, Keegan in the middle, how are you, man?
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  Speaker 2: It's so great to see you and your dad Jordan
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  Speaker 2: right next to you. I'm so happy to see you
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  Speaker 2: guys back in here. And on the very end, we
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  Speaker 2: have another little guy and his name is what now, Kean?
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  Speaker 2: Also Keegan? Wow? All right, so now Keegan on the end,
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  Speaker 2: were you were you here last time in the studio? No,
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  Speaker 2: you weren't. Well, welcome to the podcast. How old are
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  Speaker 2: you buddy? Ten years old? Dad. We have a lot
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  Speaker 2: to get to here. You have some pretty exciting news
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  Speaker 2: to share, please take it away, all right.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, the last time we were here, we were just
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  Speaker 10: starting to kind of undertake this whole thing. We think
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  Speaker 10: could put our initial deposit in to hold our spot
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  Speaker 10: to hopefully make it to Cooper's Town this summer this August,
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  Speaker 10: and had a pretty lofty goal ahead of us for
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  Speaker 10: fundraising and getting money together to make this thing happen.
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  Speaker 10: We were looking at needing to get basically a grand
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  Speaker 10: total of about twenty four thousand dollars to get the
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  Speaker 10: team to Cooper's Town, get the full week, kids in
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  Speaker 10: the dorms, get their meals, all the games. So basically
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  Speaker 10: everything included for this thing to happen for the kids.
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  Speaker 2: That was what we were looking at.
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  Speaker 10: And that final balance was due March first, and happy
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  Speaker 10: to say we put that check in the mail last
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  Speaker 10: week and it was totally fundraised. Everything came from the community,
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  Speaker 10: from the kids work. Awesome, super happy, grateful, incredible.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I got to tell you, yeah, this is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: When you guys told me what the price tag was
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  Speaker 2: on getting to Cooper's Town when I had you on
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  Speaker 2: the air last I was like, oh my god, man,
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  Speaker 2: it was a lot. That's a lot of money for
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  Speaker 2: how many kids on the team.
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  Speaker 10: So we've got thirteen kids and four coaches total. Yeah,
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  Speaker 10: so it's a good, good group of us going. And
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  Speaker 10: yeah it's not cheap. So that's all all seventeen of
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  Speaker 10: us to get put up in the dorms for a
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  Speaker 10: week and they feed us, they give us the uniforms,
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  Speaker 10: the equipment, everything for the whole team to make it
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  Speaker 10: there and it's all taken care of and covered now
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  Speaker 10: thanks to hard work from these kiddos and awesome support
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  Speaker 10: from this community.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this money had to be raised in how much time?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, so we were looking at what five months, maybe
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  Speaker 10: maybe even less. It wasn't a lot of time, and
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  Speaker 10: it was a lot of money. It was a bit
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  Speaker 10: of an undertaking, for sure. It seemed like it was
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  Speaker 10: almost insurmountable when you looked at it from the beginning.
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  Speaker 10: But man, these parents stepped up big time. I mean,
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  Speaker 10: so many of us for these kids to make this
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  Speaker 10: thing happen. They were devoted and committed, and it took
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  Speaker 10: the whole team effort, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Jake Larvie showed up at my house on an early
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  Speaker 2: Saturday or Sunday morning, I can't remember, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: he looked pretty rough, ja.
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  Speaker 10: Jake took on a lot of the kind of what
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  Speaker 10: we call our chores jobs of the woodstacking, the raft
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  Speaker 10: brieflake laking, leaf raking.
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  Speaker 2: Easy to say, I mean, I think he had a
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  Speaker 2: cup of coffee in his hand, but I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for sure, yeah, but I mean he's just one of
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  Speaker 2: the the parents who have really busted some butt here
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  Speaker 2: and made this happen.
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  Speaker 10: Definitely, there's been there's been a lot of them down
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  Speaker 10: to Christina to share a for really taking on really
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  Speaker 10: a lot of undertaking with running the Facebook, doing a
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  Speaker 10: lot of the coordinating for a lot of these jobs.
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  Speaker 10: Her and Amanda Fortia for the kind of tracking of
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  Speaker 10: the finances. The Layerbees Myers were involved, and so.
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  Speaker 2: Many of them.
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  Speaker 10: The mayor, nos Tyler Bradley, Amanda Gray took on our
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  Speaker 10: Raffle fundraiser that we did, Brooke Berdron for the bingo.
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  Speaker 10: Maybe I could go on and on. I'm sure I'm
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  Speaker 10: leaving people out, but it was you know, all all
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  Speaker 10: thirteen families honestly have contributed and been involved from start
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  Speaker 10: to finish. The Cottons did the cookie dough, and the
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  Speaker 10: Reefs and everybody. I mean, it's been awesome to see
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  Speaker 10: everyone be involved. True team effort for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Let's let's send it all the way down to the
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  Speaker 2: far end of the couch here with little keek in
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  Speaker 2: there on the end. I mean, he's just he's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit little. I mean, he's not that much. But Keken,
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  Speaker 2: you said you're ten years old. Just speaking into that
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  Speaker 2: mic A little bit better, so we closer so we
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  Speaker 2: can hear you. What did you have to do to
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  Speaker 2: raise money? Buddy?
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  Speaker 11: We had to break leaves, stacking wood and it's pretty
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  Speaker 11: much we did like big sales Hot co Coast and yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now this, uh isn't there?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Keegan, isn't there like a silent auction or something that
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  Speaker 2: I was reading about that you guys are gonna do.
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  Speaker 10: We do have some some items for that, some some donations,
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  Speaker 10: donations from different businesses, and we've actually got some signed
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  Speaker 10: memorabilia from the Red Sox, so we're trying to figure
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  Speaker 10: out yeah, player photo that we got mailed from the
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  Speaker 10: Red Sox to gifted from them so that we can
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  Speaker 10: auction off to raise money. So we've got a few
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  Speaker 10: items and we're figuring out details as to how we're
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  Speaker 10: gonna do it, maybe an online you know, silent auction
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  Speaker 10: kind of deal.
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  Speaker 2: Keegan, Uh, what kinds of things were you involved for
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  Speaker 2: some of the fundraising?
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  Speaker 12: Well? I did.
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  Speaker 7: I went to a lot of like the jobs and
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  Speaker 7: stuff and did that.
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  Speaker 2: What did you have to do?
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  Speaker 12: Stack would rake leaves? Bake sales?
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  Speaker 2: Bake sales? Did you do any of the baking for
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  Speaker 2: the bake sales. No, okay, did you did you do
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  Speaker 2: any shoveling, any snow removal?
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  Speaker 12: Did we?
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  Speaker 2: Did you?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 10: We actually surprisingly didn't get a lot of snow shoveling.
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  Speaker 10: But hey, if anyone still has snow to be shoveled,
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  Speaker 10: cleared out, taken away, we're happy to take care of it.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Wow, So you guys had to raise upwards of
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  Speaker 2: well more than twenty thousand dollars. Do you guys have
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  Speaker 2: any idea like that? That's a lot of money.
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  Speaker 12: One hundred dollars is a lot of money in a move.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's that's I'm glad you're thinking that way, because
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  Speaker 2: that's that's very true. But that's that's an insane amount
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  Speaker 2: of money. If you guys up to your head around this,
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  Speaker 2: do you do you understand that you're you're going to
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  Speaker 2: Cooper's Town?
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  Speaker 7: Not quite yet, it's still kind of like whoa.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure. What do you What do
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  Speaker 2: you think is is gonna happen when you get there? Keegan?
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  Speaker 12: We're gonna play baseball, yes you are.
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  Speaker 2: And you guys can kick some major pot, but what, like,
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  Speaker 2: what what's gonna happen there? I mean, do you have
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  Speaker 2: like a is there like a practice or is it
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna you're gonna start out? Do you know what
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  Speaker 2: the schedule is at all?
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  Speaker 12: I mean we played baseball for a week okay every day.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, and there's kind of some opening ceremonies so you
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  Speaker 10: guys will get to, you know, meet the other teams there.
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  Speaker 10: They do like a little bit of a parade sort
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  Speaker 10: of thing and and there's a lot of uh socialization
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  Speaker 10: opportunities for the kids, which is cool. So they're coming
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  Speaker 10: from all over the country and they do pin trading,
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  Speaker 10: so each team designs and brings their own pins, and
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  Speaker 10: you're trying to trade with all the other kids and
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  Speaker 10: teams so you can you know, get everybody's pins and
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  Speaker 10: just sets up opportunities for them to meet people and
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  Speaker 10: the Iraq.
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  Speaker 2: It's very cool. Now, Keegan, are you are you? Are
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  Speaker 2: you guys practicing right now?
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  Speaker 12: Not really like.
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  Speaker 2: Are you doing any kind of indoor.
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  Speaker 7: Stuff for our Bury Community Baseball? We're doing uh something,
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  Speaker 7: We're doing a thing at Norwich Uh every Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, beginning at two o'clock. Yes, Lily is doing that too, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: she's over there.
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  Speaker 11: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: It's good to to get your arm moving around and
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  Speaker 2: throw it, throw a baseball or softball around a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's a good thing. Are you guys nervous at all? No,
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  Speaker 2: you are nervous a little bit. What if What if
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  Speaker 2: you don't do very well? What if you know you
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  Speaker 2: you know, you get out there and things aren't going
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  Speaker 2: well for you? What what are you gonna these.
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  Speaker 7: Kids from way bigger states in order a pretty small state.
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  Speaker 2: Are you gonna be Are you gonna be okay with that?
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  Speaker 12: As long as you.
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  Speaker 2: Just try try your best your best? Right? I remember
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  Speaker 2: when Miles was in here, you guys were telling me
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  Speaker 2: that when you get when you step on the field,
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  Speaker 2: you've become kind of different boys. You support each other
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  Speaker 2: a lot, and you you get your head in the
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  Speaker 2: game big time. Is that right? What position do you
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  Speaker 2: do you play? Keegan? Depends on the day. What do
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  Speaker 2: you what do you like to play? What position do
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  Speaker 2: you like to play?
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  Speaker 12: The most?
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  Speaker 2: Shortstop? Okay? Oh your picture? So so what's the age
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  Speaker 2: very here?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 10: So, well, you guys are the same grade. But Keegan's
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  Speaker 10: almost got a year on Keegan right birthday wise, and
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  Speaker 10: they're actually two of our younger on the team. So
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  Speaker 10: the Cooper's Town roster rules are it's basically twelve U,
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  Speaker 10: but you can be I think May first is a cup.
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  Speaker 10: You could actually be thirteen as long as it's before
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  Speaker 10: May first of this year. So we'll see some kids
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  Speaker 10: that are you know, older than these kids. And the
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  Speaker 10: rules are a little different. It's the the cow ripkind rules.
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  Speaker 10: So the base pass are you know, ten to be longer,
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  Speaker 10: pitching distance is a little longer, So it'll be different
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  Speaker 10: from them, different kind of game.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: It'll be a challenge, it will.
• 20:39
  Speaker 10: Be challenging, and we're trying to prep them as to
• 20:41
  Speaker 10: like KB here with saying, you know, they just have fun, guys,
• 20:45
  Speaker 10: enjoy the experience. Obviously we're a competitive team here in
• 20:48
  Speaker 10: our environment, but we'll see how we stack up with
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: with other states and have fun.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: When when does the season start right here?
• 20:57
  Speaker 10: Well, so we are doing the the winter training now
• 21:01
  Speaker 10: for anyone who wants to, and a lot of our
• 21:03
  Speaker 10: kids who are going to Cooperstown have been at Norwich
• 21:05
  Speaker 10: the last couple of weeks, so getting some time in
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: there and then we'll be in mid April. We'll get
• 21:11
  Speaker 10: up here in the b o R on the turf
• 21:14
  Speaker 10: and hopefully by early May, we'll be on the fields
• 21:18
  Speaker 10: if the snow melts and the fields dry out quick enough.
• 21:22
  Speaker 10: And of course we have our regular season with with
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: Barry Baseball at that point. But hopefully we can get
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: our Cooperstown group together maybe on some Sundays and get
• 21:30
  Speaker 10: some additional practice time so they can kind of see
• 21:33
  Speaker 10: some of the nuances of the different you know, rules
• 21:36
  Speaker 10: and things that will be like at Cooperstown and give
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: them a chance to play together that way.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: What teams are you playing in and around Central Vermont?
• 21:45
  Speaker 12: We play Central Vermont.
• 21:47
  Speaker 10: Which is a Montpellier Berlin area, Okay, Northfield, Williams, No,
• 21:58
  Speaker 10: not really mad River mm hmm. And when we go,
• 22:05
  Speaker 10: you know, all Stars in the summer. Last couple of
• 22:07
  Speaker 10: years we've sent teams to states and so then we
• 22:10
  Speaker 10: see some of the Chenna County area teams Essex, Bradleborough,
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: Champlaine Valley.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Wow. So keek, and how old are you? You're eleven?
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: All right, So what's the oldest player? You said, thirteen?
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: Yeah, we won't have any thirteen year olds. We'll have
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: a lot of twelve year olds.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Okay, So who's uh, who's footing the bill for the
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: for the bus and and everything. How's that all work out?
• 22:43
  Speaker 10: Yeah, so it's personal transportation right now. So each family's
• 22:46
  Speaker 10: kind of packing up the vehicle and bringing their squad out,
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: which is why, even though we've paid you know what
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: we owe to Cooper's town, we still have a lot
• 22:55
  Speaker 10: of expenses expected for families to make it out there,
• 22:58
  Speaker 10: for gas and lodging. Every family obviously has to stay
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: somewhere on their own.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: So wait a second, this, this twenty four k doesn't
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: include a four star hotel.
• 23:10
  Speaker 10: No, unfortunately, not just the kids. The kids and the
• 23:13
  Speaker 10: coaches are taking care of, but the parents there are
• 23:16
  Speaker 10: still on their own. So I think some people might
• 23:18
  Speaker 10: be camping, some are looking for hotels, airbnbs, So that's
• 23:22
  Speaker 10: you know, a week of expenses for families can be
• 23:25
  Speaker 10: a lot.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Sure, when is this all happening? In August? Right? That's right? Yeah,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: the middle of August, we'll be headed out.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: For a week.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Seems like a so far away, but it's it's yeah,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: it's really not. It's going to be here really soon, yep,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: for sure. So how can and I think I may
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: have asked this this this question last time, but how
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: can Central Vermont see here? How you guys are doing
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: in this this huge tournament.
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: So the awesome part of this is part of the package,
• 24:04
  Speaker 10: you get a game stream, so they actually will video
• 24:07
  Speaker 10: and stream all of the games. So follow us on
• 24:11
  Speaker 10: Facebook and we'll make sure to keep that update as
• 24:13
  Speaker 10: to where the stream is located, how you access that,
• 24:16
  Speaker 10: and hopefully anybody who wants to can can actually watch
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: our games.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Live or hop in the car.
• 24:22
  Speaker 10: Absolutely come on out and support us.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: We love it. That's incredible. What is this, uh, what's
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: this facility like where you're going to be playing? What
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: is this like in Cooperstown?
• 24:34
  Speaker 10: Have you guys seen it? It's pretty awesome. It's I
• 24:36
  Speaker 10: saw like the dorms, like college dorms sort of thing.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: But the fields are incredible.
• 24:44
  Speaker 10: I mean, these facilities are are massive with I think
• 24:49
  Speaker 10: I'll say forty fields out there. I mean, they have
• 24:51
  Speaker 10: so many baseball fields in their state of the art,
• 24:55
  Speaker 10: top of the line, you know, immaculate baseball fields, probably
• 24:59
  Speaker 10: the best you guys will have played on today. It's
• 25:02
  Speaker 10: it's pretty impressive stuff.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: So I think what you were you were just kind
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: of alluding to a minute ago you said it wouldn't
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: hurt if some more money was raised.
• 25:15
  Speaker 10: Yeah, absolutely, that's why if you've been following us on Facebook,
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: we've got our initial goal we set was thirty thousand,
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: so we actually haven't hit our stated goal even though
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: we've you know, met what we need to pay Cooperstown.
• 25:31
  Speaker 10: We're hoping to raise thirty thousand dollars total, and that's
• 25:34
  Speaker 10: just again to help reimburse families for out of pocket costs.
• 25:40
  Speaker 10: You know, the team is hoping maybe we can even
• 25:42
  Speaker 10: get a couple of team bats to bring out there.
• 25:44
  Speaker 10: You know, of course, everyone who goes out has has
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: the best of the best, right and actually some of
• 25:49
  Speaker 10: the so when we played Little League, you can only
• 25:51
  Speaker 10: use USA approved bats.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: You go to.
• 25:54
  Speaker 10: Cooperstown you can use the U Triple SA bats, which
• 25:57
  Speaker 10: I've really got a lot more pop, right, I mean
• 26:00
  Speaker 10: they yeah, the ball comes singing, singing off those bats.
• 26:04
  Speaker 10: They I think they kind of make it a little
• 26:06
  Speaker 10: hitter friend. They want they want the kids to hit
• 26:08
  Speaker 10: the ball around, maybe hit some some balls over the
• 26:11
  Speaker 10: fence and have fun. So we're hoping we can give
• 26:13
  Speaker 10: them that opportunity by maybe getting a couple a couple
• 26:16
  Speaker 10: of nice new bats for him.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: What did you say, but you don't know? I mean
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: I know, I will, I will in your outfields needs
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: to be they need to know this. They need to
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: be prepared for some pretty good pop flies here. Right.
• 26:34
  Speaker 10: Actually, Keith Myers hit a home run in All Stars
• 26:38
  Speaker 10: this year, right, Yeah, you hit a home.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Run over the fence. Come on, are you serious? That's incredible.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Crowd go wild, a couple of drinks getting spilled.
• 26:53
  Speaker 12: Maybe that team went wild.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure sure, that's that's really cool. Was that
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: kind of the the highlight of your career?
• 27:04
  Speaker 12: Yeah?
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Thus far? Yeah? That oh?
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Is it?
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 27:09
  Speaker 12: Put the case?
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: So what's your shirt? Say? What's this district championship all over?
• 27:14
  Speaker 12: Oh? This was in twenty twenty three? Your own districts?
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Were you? Were you part of that?
• 27:21
  Speaker 12: Yeah?
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: How old were you? Then? You're the eight?
• 27:24
  Speaker 12: Eight or nine?
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: That's pretty cool. Where did that happen? Kegan Bonfield at
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: the Bondfield. Yeah, that's a historic field up there. That's serious.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: I love that field, A nice field. Yeah, you guys
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: must be really excited and look at this community rallying
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: behind you, supporting you. You guys to raise this kind
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: of money, I mean twenty four thousand dollars, that's huge.
• 28:00
  Speaker 10: It's really impressive. Yeah, we are blown away, incredibly grateful.
• 28:06
  Speaker 10: And like we said when we we came in here, initially,
• 28:08
  Speaker 10: you know, we wanted these kids to kind of kind
• 28:11
  Speaker 10: of work for and earn it, right. We didn't want
• 28:12
  Speaker 10: to just you know, Yeah, we had the gofund me,
• 28:15
  Speaker 10: we had some things like that, and some people made
• 28:17
  Speaker 10: some some generous donations.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: But for the most part.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: It was work.
• 28:21
  Speaker 10: I mean these kids were were out there, uh, stacking
• 28:24
  Speaker 10: wood for hours in the cold, raking leaves. You know
• 28:28
  Speaker 10: that that sweat equity.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: They really earned this thing. The baked sales.
• 28:34
  Speaker 10: Out there at the hot cocoa stand, I remember that
• 28:37
  Speaker 10: thing was Yeah, them them working for it. I mean
• 28:39
  Speaker 10: we we wanted them to to kind of earn it
• 28:42
  Speaker 10: and you know, makes it makes it a little feel
• 28:45
  Speaker 10: a little better, right when you do.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: It that way. And and some great area businesses like
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Tractors Supply supported you guys too. What did you do
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: over there?
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: We did a bake sale and Tractors Supply and uh
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: we saw some cute puppies, which.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Is a good thing. That doesn't hurt. That's great. And
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: community comes. They see your faces, they know who you
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: guys are and what you're doing. And you've really made
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: a name for yourself here. You guys are are we're
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: already fair to say, very proud and to be honest
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: with you, speaking on behalf of our community. You guys
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: have have you know, we're so proud you've already won.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, no matter what happens in Cooperstown, we are
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: just so proud that Barry from Aunt is getting represented
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: there and that's really a big deal. Yeah, I'm so
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: I'm surprised that we're not doing you know.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Like.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: A big motor coach, like a huge fancy bus. You know, well,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: you know, I I is it possible? I don't know.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: I mean maybe maybe it is. Maybe there's there's somebody
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: out there that can uh write a check and say,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: let's let's get instead of individual transportation, let's get all
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: these kids on a big motor coach and get them
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: off to Cooper's time pulled up in suits. We got
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: the prey coming up this this summer. You guys, could
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: you know, maybe be in that that would be cool.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: You know, Barry wants to see you, man, We want
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: to see you guys. Or like I said, we're already
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: really really proud of you. What what other do we
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: have any other projects here on the horizon that you
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: guys are going to be doing. We do.
• 30:50
  Speaker 10: Yeah, we have a date for a coin drop in
• 30:55
  Speaker 10: Barry right now. It's tentatively scheduled for April fifth, where
• 31:00
  Speaker 10: we'll be down here in front of the Dominoes on
• 31:04
  Speaker 10: on Main Street from nine to two, so hoping people
• 31:09
  Speaker 10: can can stop by and make some donations.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Then is that a Saturday? It is, yes, Saturday, April fifth.
• 31:19
  Speaker 10: Okay, we are planning to do a March Madness bracket,
• 31:24
  Speaker 10: so get some some entries for that and chance to
• 31:28
  Speaker 10: win some money and support us in the meantime.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: All right, this is all going to be I'm assuming
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: on your your social media. Absolutely.
• 31:38
  Speaker 10: Yeah, we'll let everyone know when those are happening and where.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: All right, So how does that? How does that work?
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: You do a bracket and if you if you do well.
• 31:48
  Speaker 10: Yeah, similar to our Super Bowl squares that we did,
• 31:51
  Speaker 10: we had everybody enter and and then yeah, based on
• 31:55
  Speaker 10: how well you do, we'll have payouts for you know,
• 31:58
  Speaker 10: the top so many people.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then maybe a silent auction.
• 32:06
  Speaker 10: Yes, we do have some items that we're looking to
• 32:10
  Speaker 10: do an auction with. We've gotten some some generous donations
• 32:14
  Speaker 10: from local businesses, some gift.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Cards, some memorabilia.
• 32:18
  Speaker 10: Actually, the Boston Red Sox did mail us a autographed
• 32:22
  Speaker 10: player photo, so we've got that to include as an item,
• 32:26
  Speaker 10: So we'll definitely put something together to get those off too.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Do you have any any any idea when that might be.
• 32:34
  Speaker 10: Not yet, stay tuned for the exact details on that.
• 32:38
  Speaker 10: We're kind of putting everything together now, sort of figuring
• 32:40
  Speaker 10: out the timeline from from here on out.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, like I said, we've.
• 32:45
  Speaker 10: Hit that initial goal. I think we're all kind of
• 32:47
  Speaker 10: taking a deep breath right now that we've made that
• 32:49
  Speaker 10: final balance payment and now we've got until August to
• 32:53
  Speaker 10: kind of plan out the rest of it. So we'll
• 32:57
  Speaker 10: figure out details on timing and all that, and like said,
• 33:00
  Speaker 10: follow us on Facebook.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely follow Granted City Blast Faseball on facebooking. You
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: said two days worth of playing once you get to Cooperstown. Oh,
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: it's more than that.
• 33:15
  Speaker 12: A week.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: It'll be all week.
• 33:18
  Speaker 12: So seven games.
• 33:20
  Speaker 10: I believe it's a minimum of seven games. Yeah, oh, possibly,
• 33:25
  Speaker 10: it depends. I think they do, you know, like an
• 33:27
  Speaker 10: initial pool play and then a bracket, single elimination kind
• 33:30
  Speaker 10: of thing. So depending on how well you do, you
• 33:32
  Speaker 10: could keep playing. It's no more than a week, but yeah,
• 33:36
  Speaker 10: you play a lot of games. So hopefully the kid's
• 33:40
  Speaker 10: arms are loose because we're gonna need them all.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm assuming you're gonna stick around and be
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: watching everything. Yeah, for sure.
• 33:48
  Speaker 10: It's a it's an experience. I mean they do festivities
• 33:51
  Speaker 10: at the end too, to kind of wrap it up
• 33:53
  Speaker 10: and celebrate all the teams and all the players. So
• 33:56
  Speaker 10: it's a it's a full week start to finish of
• 33:58
  Speaker 10: baseball and activities and fun.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Uh. Brian Gallagher was just in here the other day.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Do you know who that is. He's he's the president
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: and uh CEO of of the Vermont Mountaineers. Oh, yeah,
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: that's Brian Gallagher. Yeah, he was just in here. And
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: you know, these guys are just so excited. I mean,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: they've got their their youth baseball camp schedule that's been posted.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: They've got volunteers that are lined up and ready to
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: go for the season. Uh, you've been over to the
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: recreation field in Montpellier to see the Mountaineers. You throughout
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: the first last season, you did really well. Listen. He
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: gave me, uh some tickets to to go to the game.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: I want to give them to you, So I've got
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: them right here and I'm gonna hand them to you
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: guys so that you guys can go. Okay, thanks, Yeah,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: You're welcome and just have a blast and enjoy. And
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: I'm hoping that that Brian's gonna I think it's the
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: first game, the first local game June sixth, when he
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: gets area baseball teams together to come to the field,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: obviously in uniform, and I think they give you some
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: kind of recognition and get you out in the field.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: You guys gonna be there for that?
• 35:34
  Speaker 12: Yeah? Probably probably all right.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: I hope I plan to be and I hope to
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: see you guys there. But I'm gonna give you the
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: tickets that he gave to me, and I know you
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: guys will go anyways and enjoy, palm back, a few
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: hot dogs or whatever and watch some great baseball. Have
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: you been to the Lake Monsters at all? Have you
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: been out that way?
• 35:58
  Speaker 12: I haven't. Yeah, we went last season.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: What about what about Fenway Park?
• 36:03
  Speaker 12: Yep? Last season and they're twice?
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: How was it? Who did they play the.
• 36:09
  Speaker 11: Angels and they also played the White Sox?
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, did well the Red Sox.
• 36:15
  Speaker 12: Yeah, no, they lost both games.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Okay, they did the.
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: One that we went to last season. Oh, we were
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: sitting right by the pest pool and I went to
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: the tenth inning. Bonald the tenth Raffie hit a double
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: off defence to win the game.
• 36:29
  Speaker 12: It's pretty cool.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you get to see all that. Yeah, it's crazy,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: isn't it. It's totally different when you're when you're sitting
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: there watching it versus watching it on TV.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 36:43
  Speaker 12: Yeah, the ball bounced right off my dad's hand. What
• 36:47
  Speaker 12: foul ball? And it bounced off his hand.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 36:52
  Speaker 12: Some lady that was on her phone got it.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: And she.
• 36:57
  Speaker 12: That's right in her lap?
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Really yeah, and really, I mean shame on her for
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: being on her phone. She should have been paying attention
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: to the game. Why do you spend that money going
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: to the Red Sox to sit down on your phone
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: watch the game?
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And and and she would get it. Of course
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: she should have given it to your dad, don't you
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: think for you? I would have. So anyone that's that's
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: watching or listening right now that wants to support you
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: guys in any way, what's the way that they can
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: do that if you know if they have.
• 37:48
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, first off, like I said before, we
• 37:52
  Speaker 10: you know, we're willing to work for it. So certainly,
• 37:54
  Speaker 10: if you have anything that that can be done around
• 37:57
  Speaker 10: the house, let us know, and the kids.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Would would love to help you out.
• 38:02
  Speaker 10: Secondly, if you're feeling generous enough and just want to
• 38:05
  Speaker 10: support us, we still have our you know, our Venmo,
• 38:09
  Speaker 10: our PayPal, our GoFundMe, everything is still active. Feel free
• 38:13
  Speaker 10: to look it up on Facebook or send us a
• 38:16
  Speaker 10: message if you can't find it, and we can send
• 38:18
  Speaker 10: you the links for those. And I should also mention
• 38:22
  Speaker 10: we've gotten actually a lot of sponsorships from from businesses
• 38:27
  Speaker 10: that have just been willing to send some money to
• 38:30
  Speaker 10: Granite City Blast, And we're putting together a little banner
• 38:34
  Speaker 10: that's going to list all of our donors and businesses
• 38:37
  Speaker 10: on there so we can bring it with us to
• 38:38
  Speaker 10: Cooperstown and kind of have that representation to show that
• 38:41
  Speaker 10: support of everybody who got us there.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Wow, yes, you can wait. What did you just say, like?
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: Wave it around? Yeah, Well, don't listen to me. If
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: I say yes to something that doesn't apply, doesn't listen. Man.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: You guys are two of how many thirteen players on
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: the on the team. Where's Miles today? So he's sleeping
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: in school. Oh, he's got school. Go back to school. Yeah,
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: and you guys go back tomorrow, right all right? Yeah,
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: not looking forward to a kicking listen.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Once again, our community is just bravo to you guys. Man.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Everyone is tipping our hat to you. We're excited. You
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: guys have worked very hard, stacking wood, raking lawns, doing
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: whatever you gotta do, bake sales. I'm looking forward to
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: this silent auction. I'm going to be paying attention to
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: your social media and watching what you're doing. April fifth,
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: I'll be I'll be waiting for confirmation on that. I'm
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: assuming as soon as you guys get it, you'll be
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: putting that up on on social media and we'll be
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: promoting the crap out of it. And you guys, you
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: guys are going to do great. And we're really excited
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: for you. And thank you very much for coming in
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  Speaker 2: here and sharing a microphone with us. All right, appreciate it.
• 40:19
  Speaker 10: Thanks for having us again, you got it, You got.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: It anytime, and again I'm gonna be watching carefully and
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: once you guys get to Cooperstown. Jordan, you're saying the
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: the link to be able to watch it, We'll be
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: posted on your social.
• 40:36
  Speaker 10: Media as soon as we have that information. I'm assuming
• 40:39
  Speaker 10: we won't get that soil closer to a game time
• 40:42
  Speaker 10: when we're out that way they do. They do a
• 40:44
  Speaker 10: lot of tournaments. Of our week is not until August.
• 40:48
  Speaker 10: They've got baseball going on pretty much every week untill
• 40:50
  Speaker 10: then once it's springtime. But we kind of have an
• 40:54
  Speaker 10: online portal where we get all that information, and so
• 40:57
  Speaker 10: as soon as we have that, we'll be happy to
• 41:00
  Speaker 10: share it.
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  Speaker 2: For anybody wants to follow along. Big kudos in respect
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: to you and Jake and Amanda and Christina, and I'm
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: sure I'm forgetting someone here. But without and I'm telling
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: you this, boys, without some great parents and adults backing
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: you up and supporting you and believing in you, none
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: of this would be happening. You can stack wood all day,
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: but it's not going to get you to Cooper's Town
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: without some great parents loving up on you and making
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: sure that you guys are taking care of and driving you.
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it wouldn't be stacking with we didn't have the
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: parents setting up the thing to stack the wood.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: That's that's very true. Yeah, so always big respect to
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: the to the parents that are making this possible. Very
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: proud of you guys already. Thank you again so much
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: for coming in. Thank you. Yes, all right, no more
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: yawn and keep it