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Vermont Mountaineers President and General Manager Brian Gallagher · Aired Out

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Speaker 1: Gallagher with me this morning from the Vermont Mountaineers. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna chat with him in just a little bit. Hey,
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Speaker 1: birthdays today On this Wednesday morning, the twenty six Chuck Thompson,
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Speaker 1: is National Letter to an elder Day today.
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Speaker 2: I love that. I love that weather.
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Speaker 1: We're looking at mild today thirty six, scattered snow showers tonight,
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Speaker 1: cloudy skies, a little bit of snow later twenty one tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: a messy morning commutes. We're looking at snow mixing in
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Speaker 1: with rain at times during the afternoon thirty nine tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: One to three inches is what they're saying at this point,
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Speaker 1: and a little bit of snow for the twenty fifth
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Speaker 1: Annual Freezing Fun for Families Winter Softball tournament. On Friday
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Speaker 1: is when it gets started. Snowshowers, early sunshine, later lower thirties,
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Speaker 1: not bad softball weather, and then weekends. At this point,
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Speaker 1: it looks like it's still gonna be a kind of
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Speaker 1: mile forty on Saturday, snow showers and colder on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: So we're gonna go from forty on Saturday to about
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Speaker 1: sixteen on Sunday. Is this the January thaw at the
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Speaker 1: end of February.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I think so Gosh, lots to get to. This morning
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Speaker 1: Facebook Question of the Day. A state senator in South
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Speaker 1: Carolina has introduced a bill aimed at protecting children from
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Speaker 1: the harmful effects of secondhand smoke. And this one has
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Speaker 1: started up a little bit. It would prohibit smoking in
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Speaker 1: vehicles when a child's under the age of twelve is present.
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Speaker 1: So obviously I'm asking you what say you about this?
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Speaker 1: It's the Facebook Question of the Day and it's up
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Speaker 1: there right now. Sports College Hoop March Madness starting up
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Speaker 1: with selection Sunday, March sixteenth on CBS. We got sixty
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Speaker 1: eight teams that are going to be playing this year
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Speaker 1: in the men's tournament alone, first four going to be
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Speaker 1: March eighteen. How exciting it's coming fast, Daly Dosafilga. This morning,
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Speaker 1: this nine year old kid in Staten Island, John Michael Pasquell,
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Speaker 1: had a stroke, almost died seventeen months later. He just
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Speaker 1: returned to school. Happened done monday, got a very very
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Speaker 1: big welcome. All of the kids and the teachers lined
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Speaker 1: the hallway and cheered him on. I've got the video
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Speaker 1: if you need a little dosep Fieldga this morning. It's
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Speaker 1: right there on the page Vermont and regional headlines from
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Speaker 1: cix PTZ digger. You know'm watching all of them. Barry
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Speaker 1: City Council voted unanimously last night in favor of a
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Speaker 1: new Department of Public Work scarage. The city manager, Nicholas
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Speaker 1: Starelli Castro, texted me this morning saying, I'm grateful for
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Speaker 1: the consul's unanimous support to purchase a new public workscarage.
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Speaker 1: A new public works garage has been on the to
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Speaker 1: do list for years, and last night we took the
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Speaker 1: first step towards a cost effective solution. I look forward
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Speaker 1: to the next step of the process, which will be
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Speaker 1: a hearing in front of the Very Town Planning Commission
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Speaker 1: on March nineteenth. What I'm looking forward to the most
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Speaker 1: after last night is showing up at the garage this
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Speaker 1: morning to tell the guys the good news. They deserve
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Speaker 1: so much better.
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Speaker 2: Wow. Love it.
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Speaker 1: Three arrested in Burlington after guns AMMO stolen from a
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Speaker 1: Colchester home. We've got these stories up on the page
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Speaker 1: this morning. Mediations are underway at the as the prison
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Speaker 1: protest continues in New York.
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Speaker 2: What a mass.
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the New York Senate shut down an attempt to
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Speaker 1: repeal the Halt Act. We have all of these stories.
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Speaker 1: The story on the Vermont mother who's toddler brought a
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Speaker 1: bag of cocaine to daycare, we have that story as well.
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Speaker 1: It's the first time I think I've heard that one.
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Speaker 1: The fugitive from Florida arrested in South Burlington a long
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Speaker 1: rap sheet of serious crimes. Police got them during a
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Speaker 1: traffic stop. So much for hiding out in the hills
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Speaker 1: of Vermont. Right, And the West Rutland teacher busted for dui.
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Speaker 1: Those stories, among others on the aired out page this morning.
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Speaker 1: One million federal workers in national headlines responded to the
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Speaker 1: email from Musk requesting an accounting of their work last week.
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Speaker 2: One million.
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Speaker 1: The House GOP passed their budget resolution. We have forty
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Speaker 1: percent of contracts canceled by Doze expected to produce no savings.
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Speaker 1: All of these stories are upon aired out this morning
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Speaker 1: if you want to read more details. Speaking of details,
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Speaker 1: there's new details in the suspect accused of fatally stabbing
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Speaker 1: four Idaho college students in Chicago. We have that Southwest
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Speaker 1: plane that aborted a landing to avoid a collision with
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Speaker 1: a private jet that entered the runway without authorization. Somebody
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Speaker 1: may not have a pilot's license anymore. One hundred and
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Speaker 1: twenty four confirmed measles cases in Texas, and of course
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Speaker 1: you probably saw this yesterday on your phone. Denny's and
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Speaker 1: several other restaurant chains are now adding egg surcharges. Surprised,
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Speaker 1: I'm not. Joanne Fabrics struggling in a major way recently.
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Speaker 1: They're now thrown in the towel. All six hundred stores
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Speaker 1: are going to be closing. The company will shut down
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Speaker 1: after eighty two years in business.
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Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: Brian Gallagher, who is the president and general manager and
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Speaker 1: just does everything for the Vermont Mountaineers, he is with
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Speaker 1: us this morning. I am so glad you're in here, buddy.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Hey, thanks JD. Appreciate you having us on board.
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Speaker 3: And I know you remember those early days and we
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Speaker 3: started this whole thing.
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Speaker 1: I do, man, and it's like, but I was, I
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Speaker 1: was startled when you just told me that this has
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Speaker 1: been going on. The Mountaineers have been in existence for
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Speaker 1: twenty three years, and I remember the beginning with you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. No, it's been a good run. The community has
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Speaker 3: wrapped its arms around the Mountaineers and the Central Vermont
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Speaker 3: in particular, and you know, the sponsors, the host families,
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Speaker 3: the volunteers you know, have just come out to support
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Speaker 3: us for many years, and the fans. So it's been
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Speaker 3: a good run and we're looking forward to another good
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Speaker 3: season where you know, new roster coming in. We have
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Speaker 3: a new coaching staff this year. Our former coach got
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Speaker 3: as they all do, they're trying to climb the ladder.
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Speaker 3: He got some good success with us, and now he's
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Speaker 3: at a school where he can't coach in the summer
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Speaker 3: anymore because he's full time recruiting for them. So it's
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Speaker 3: all good and we're we're looking forward to another season.
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Speaker 2: Tell us a little bit more about Kevin Smith.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Kevin's our new coach. He's a former pro player.
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Speaker 3: He was he went to Stetson University down in Florida,
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Speaker 3: which is a big baseball school, was drafted. He's he's
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Speaker 3: an assistant coach for our former Mountaineer manager for many years,
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Speaker 3: Joe Brown, who won a championship for US in twenty fifteen.
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Speaker 3: He's he actually after nine to eleven went into the
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Speaker 3: military and became a military intelligence anti terrorism guy, and
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Speaker 3: he retired as a lieutenant colonel there. So he moved
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Speaker 3: his way up. Coaching baseball now in Courtland is his
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Speaker 3: retirement gig, and he just enjoys, you know, coming up,
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Speaker 3: he's going to bring a military background, run a tight
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Speaker 3: ship as well as a good background in baseball. And
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Speaker 3: he was a pitcher, so he'll work well with the
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Speaker 3: pitching staff.
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Speaker 1: So obviously I have many questions for your season passes
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Speaker 1: and tickets and what's new this year and bring it.
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Speaker 1: We're going to get to all of it. But man,
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Speaker 1: you just say to me off the air a little
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Speaker 1: while ago. Yeah, when we started this whole thing twenty
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Speaker 1: three years ago, I had a little bit more hair
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Speaker 1: on my head. You're one of the busiest guys that
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Speaker 1: I know. Busy people are successful people. What do you
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Speaker 1: do outside of the Mountaineers.
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Speaker 3: The other job which I enjoy I go to work
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Speaker 3: every day and enjoy is I teach at Montpuliar High School.
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Speaker 3: So it's been a great run. You know. I've been
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Speaker 3: there for a long time, and a long time I
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Speaker 3: hate to even say I but thirty three years. So
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Speaker 3: I've been well, I've been in the district thirty three years.
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Speaker 3: I've been at the high school since two thousand and six,
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Speaker 3: so it's been a great run. You know. I enjoy
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Speaker 3: going to work every day. Students keep me young and active,
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Speaker 3: and between that and doing the baseball after school and
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Speaker 3: all summer, that certainly is another fun gig. So wow,
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Speaker 3: it's been a good run.
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Speaker 1: So here we are twenty three years later and now
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Speaker 1: the second best league in the country.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the ANYCBL has really grown over the year. Is
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Speaker 3: the Cape League will always probably be number one. They've
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Speaker 3: been around one hundred plus years, but we're right there
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Speaker 3: with them. You know, We've We've had two hundred and
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Speaker 3: thirty five players make it to Major League Baseball through
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Speaker 3: this league since nineteen ninety four, so that's a pretty
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Speaker 3: pretty good number. And that's just to the big leagues.
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Speaker 3: That doesn't say anything about the thousands that have made
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Speaker 3: it to pro baseball. So, you know, it's been a
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Speaker 3: fun thing. And we've in Mott Pelier, we've had twenty
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Speaker 3: four players make it to the major leagues just in time.
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Speaker 1: Because that really it's been a Yeah, you keeping tabs
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Speaker 1: on these guys and how they're doing.
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Speaker 3: We do. We I don't follow them as much as
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Speaker 3: I used to, just because there's getting to be so
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Speaker 3: many of them now and you lose track trying to
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Speaker 3: keep track of everything locally, but you know, we certainly
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Speaker 3: enjoyed the success they have. In fact, our first a
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Speaker 3: guy that played first back in two thousand and four
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Speaker 3: who was a major leaguer now just got hired as
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Speaker 3: a major league coach. So that's our first guy to
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Speaker 3: make it up into the coaching ranks for the Marlins,
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Speaker 3: which is going to be pretty exciting this year.
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Speaker 2: So isn't that amazing? Hey?
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Speaker 1: Six New England states is what any CBL is?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's thirteen teams and we're in every New England.
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Speaker 3: We're in all six New England states. You're right, correct,
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Speaker 3: it's them in every state. You know, We've got two
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Speaker 3: in Vermont, one in New Hampshire, one in Maine, and
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Speaker 3: the rest are in Connecticut, Rhode Island in Massachusetts. So
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Speaker 3: it's it's a pretty spread out league. You know, one's
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Speaker 3: in Martha's Vineyard. We have to take a ferry ride
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Speaker 3: over and back. Makes it today. No, they don't mind
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Speaker 3: the ride. It's for us. We do it as a
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Speaker 3: three day road trip. We'll go play in newport Wood
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Speaker 3: Island and Martha's Vineyard and we'll do other stops along
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Speaker 3: the way and then come back to Vermont. So they
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Speaker 3: take first class charter buses down and that's a league requirement,
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Speaker 3: and then they we put them up at hotels, they
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Speaker 3: play their games, and then they'll come back to Vermont.
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Speaker 3: So we kind of have that home home series as
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Speaker 3: well as the away So I just.
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Speaker 1: Heard you say the m Ward Maine, Yes, swamp Bats,
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Speaker 1: biggest riflery for the Mountaineers.
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Speaker 3: You know, the Keen Keen swamp Bats in Hampshire. They
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Speaker 3: used to be our biggest rival because they're about two
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Speaker 3: and a half hours away, but now we like to
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Speaker 3: think it's the Upper Valley Nighthawks down in you know,
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Speaker 3: they're right in state they're an hour down eighty nine,
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Speaker 3: and we certainly enjoy beating them. We have this Governor's Cup,
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Speaker 3: this Milk Jug, which we started when they came in
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Speaker 3: the league, and we've won it the last three years
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Speaker 3: knock on wood. We hope to continue to win that
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Speaker 3: and so that's probably our biggest in state rival. And
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Speaker 3: then we get into Keene and Sanford, Maine is definitely
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Speaker 3: a big one. They're a big rival as well. In fact,
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Speaker 3: they had a great team last year. They made it
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Speaker 3: to the championship round in lost in heartbreaking fashion to Newport,
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Speaker 3: which is also a team we like to beat. You know,
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Speaker 3: we've had them in the league for many years.
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Speaker 1: Is there a team that Brian Gallagher is maybe I
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Speaker 1: don't want to say nerfous, but maybe nerfous about this
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Speaker 1: coming season.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's every team does such a good job
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Speaker 3: recruiting now, so I I never take anybody lightly. I
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Speaker 3: think that they all do a good job. But you
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Speaker 3: always look at those teams that always seem to have
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Speaker 3: a good reputation like Newport. Keen Upper Valley always plays
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Speaker 3: us very hard. In fact, I think I always joke
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Speaker 3: that they'll they'll give up five game losses in a
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Speaker 3: row to put their best guy up against us when
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Speaker 3: we play us, trying to beat us that one game. Wow,
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Speaker 3: And you know what, we don't. We keep our rotation
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Speaker 3: the same and we play them and if we win,
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Speaker 3: we win. If we don't, we still hopefully win four
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Speaker 3: on five games that week. So gosh, but we we
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Speaker 3: definitely like to beat Upper Valley. We like to beat
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Speaker 3: Newport keen Uh. Newport Rhode Island always been a big rivalry.
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Speaker 3: We face them in the finals three times and uh
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Speaker 3: or four times actually, and we beat them twice. They
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Speaker 3: beat us twice, so that's always a good rivalry there.
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Speaker 1: So man, it's like when it starts warming up just
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Speaker 1: a tiny little bit.
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Speaker 3: Mm hm uh you.
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Speaker 1: Guys get I'm getting I'm guessing your you got the uh,
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Speaker 1: you got the the buzz.
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Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, spring training started and you know at this
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Speaker 3: point we look outside the window here and Barry and
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Speaker 3: the sun's out and there's some water on the sidewalk.
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Speaker 3: I don't see any snowbanks. So yes, water except when
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Speaker 3: it comes into rain delay. We don't like that too much. Right.
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Speaker 1: So when is the so the roster is complete? Yes,
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Speaker 1: when is the season officially going to start out.
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Speaker 3: June third is our first game down at Martha's Vineyard,
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Speaker 3: and we go down in Martha's Vineyard in Newport the
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Speaker 3: first two days, have a day off, and then we're
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Speaker 3: home on a June six for our home opener.
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Speaker 1: June six home opener. Yes, obviously, if you get on
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Speaker 1: the Mountaineers dot com.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Vermont Mountaineers dot com, we'll have everything from
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Speaker 3: baseball camps, to sponsorship packages, to the roster and all
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Speaker 3: the information on the team.
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Speaker 1: All right, I want to ask you about sponsorship opportunities.
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Speaker 1: There are many businesses that once they get their banner
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Speaker 1: on that fence, they don't want to take it off.
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Speaker 3: No, we've we've had a great run of sponsorship, and again,
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Speaker 3: the sponsorship is a big part of what we do.
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Speaker 3: If we don't have that, we can't pay the bus
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Speaker 3: bills and the umpire bills and everything else that comes out.
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Speaker 3: But sure, so we've had a lot of sponsors been
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Speaker 3: on boards in twenty three full years and many that
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Speaker 3: came on recently that don't want to give up that spot.
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Speaker 3: Once you get that billboard, a six x twelve billboard
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Speaker 3: on your outfield fence, right, not many places in front.
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Speaker 3: You can have a big advertisement like that. Sure, sure,
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Speaker 3: people don't like to give it up. We rarely have
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Speaker 3: turnover there. We do have a couple of spots this year.
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Speaker 3: I think it's been a tough year for some businesses.
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Speaker 3: But we do have a couple banners left if anybody
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Speaker 3: wants to call me, and the informations on the website
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Speaker 3: on how to get a hold of me. And we
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Speaker 3: do have a couple of game nights as well. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: throw out the first pitch, set up a table display,
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Speaker 3: you know, PA announcements, advertisement, all that stuff goes along
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Speaker 3: with it. And again, without the sponsorship packages, you know,
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Speaker 3: the Mountaineers wouldn't be in operation. And it's a nonprofit
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Speaker 3: five oh one C three, we're really dependent on that.
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Speaker 1: So we have the Vermont Coyotes, the VT Coyotes that
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Speaker 1: are tuned in this morning watching and listening to you.
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Speaker 1: This isn't a really exciting time for some big time
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Speaker 1: sports right here in our backyard.
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Speaker 2: Yeah it is.
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Speaker 3: Fun and you know, I certainly like to watch when
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Speaker 3: the frost Teas were here, you know, many years ago,
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Speaker 3: and you know have the Mountaineers and the frost Seeds
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Speaker 3: now the Coyotes back in the same neighborhood. It's kind
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Speaker 3: of exciting to see and you know, being in person
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Speaker 3: that likes basketball, I look forward to helping welcoming them
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Speaker 3: to the community as well.
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Speaker 1: How can I want to ask you about season passes,
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Speaker 1: but how can folks who are for whatever reason unfortunately
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Speaker 1: not able to get out to the ballpark. They want
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Speaker 1: to see a show. They're following the Mountaineers, maybe maybe
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Speaker 1: they're away, maybe for whatever reason. Yes, it's ESPN Plus.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've been fortunate. Is the number two league in
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Speaker 3: the whole country now, just behind the Cape and the
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Speaker 3: number one highest rank baseball team and summer baseball in Vermont.
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Speaker 3: We get a lot of attention, and the league is
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Speaker 3: going to have probably two hundred games broadcasts this year.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna have about fifty percent of our home games
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Speaker 3: broadcast and many of our away games. So ESPN Plus
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Speaker 3: is picking up that we've got four cameras of theirs
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Speaker 3: down at the ballpark, and every game, even if it's
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Speaker 3: not on ESPN, has four camera angles and we broadcast
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Speaker 3: that on the website. So good chance for people to
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Speaker 3: follow us home and away. And every game in the
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Speaker 3: league is on the air. And what about huddle. That
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Speaker 3: is actually the ones that pick up the broadcast at
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Speaker 3: ESPN doesn't so anytime they don't compete too much. But
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Speaker 3: whenever ESPN wants the game, they get it and the
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Speaker 3: rest go onto the league website. So that's through the
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Speaker 3: huddle system.
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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about volunteering. I also want
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Speaker 1: to ask you if you need camera operators.
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Speaker 3: Definitely do camera operators we like to have. We have
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Speaker 3: four cameras all the time, and we'd like to train
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Speaker 3: about ten to twelve people to do that so that
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Speaker 3: when some but he wants to take a night off,
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Speaker 3: it's a pretty smooth transition and we have somebody that
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Speaker 3: is there every night running the operation war As you know,
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Speaker 3: that's a tricky thing with four cameras, you've got to
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Speaker 3: kind of make sure that's going the way that ESPN
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Speaker 3: wants it and the graphics. We have that covered. We
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Speaker 3: have our broadcaster coming from Penn State, and we certainly
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Speaker 3: have always the need for volunteers. Volunteers are the backbone
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Speaker 3: of the organization for game nights, parking, folks, tickets, concessions.
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Speaker 3: We always need volunteers and there's a place to reach
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Speaker 3: out for us on the website host families. Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 3: we always need host families.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 3: Right now we've got about thirty seven of the forty
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Speaker 3: players placed, which is amazing this time of year. So
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Speaker 3: we're down to the last few host families. And they
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Speaker 3: get a lot of perks. They get season tickets and
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Speaker 3: kids go to baseball camp for free and just fun
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Speaker 3: to be part of the organization and follow these guys
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Speaker 3: as they go on to bigger and better things. A
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Speaker 3: lot of these host families, you know, will follow these
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Speaker 3: guys and go check out their major league debut when
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Speaker 3: they make it.
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Speaker 1: All right, So it's host families at the Vermont Mountaineers
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Speaker 1: dot com.
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Speaker 2: We need three more three more beds.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we certainly. We always take extra names and stuff
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Speaker 3: just in case something opens up during the year, you know.
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Speaker 1: And we should say these guys are really serious about
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Speaker 1: what they do. They are held to very high standards.
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Speaker 1: So if you host one of these guys, it's not
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Speaker 1: like they're going to be stumbling in at two o'clock
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Speaker 1: in the morning. No, you know, they're just not these
21:33
Speaker 1: these type of guyes.
21:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, most of these guys are on scholarship at their
21:37
Speaker 3: college and their whole thing is like to get out
21:39
Speaker 3: there and prove themselves and get scouted and go to
21:42
Speaker 3: the next level. So they take it seriously. If they
21:45
Speaker 3: do get home at two o'clock in the morning, it's
21:47
Speaker 3: usually because we're playing down in Rhode Island. Then we
21:50
Speaker 3: got to drive back and they get off the bus
21:52
Speaker 3: at two in the morning. But they can. They got
21:54
Speaker 3: their own cars, they don't have to transport them. They
21:56
Speaker 3: got their own cell phones. They're pretty independent, and we
21:59
Speaker 3: feed them a lot of the time. I'm for home
22:00
Speaker 3: and away, so it's a fun gig for families.
22:04
Speaker 1: So ten to eleven weeks or so from June through
22:08
Speaker 1: August is.
22:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, our end of typically if we finish about the
22:12
Speaker 3: twelfth of August, if we make it all the way
22:14
Speaker 3: to the finals, which is our goal every year, and
22:16
Speaker 3: we could get done at the very early week first
22:19
Speaker 3: week of August if we don't, but hopefully that's the
22:22
Speaker 3: cases we play on through.
22:23
Speaker 1: You do so much for these guys you just mentioned.
22:28
Speaker 1: You know, you got to feed a whole team too.
22:32
Speaker 1: I can only imagine what I want to obviously transition
22:36
Speaker 1: into more into volunteering, how essential it is, because I
22:40
Speaker 1: can only imagine what the budget is.
22:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, we We have to deal with about three hundred
22:45
Speaker 3: thousand dollars in budget every year, and you know, some
22:47
Speaker 3: of that is ticket money and souvenir sales and concessions,
22:52
Speaker 3: but there's a lot of it through sponsorship and fundraising
22:56
Speaker 3: as well. And we have a good team too. We
22:58
Speaker 3: have a board of twelve people that work here. Around
23:00
Speaker 3: twelve months of the year, we're meeting, we're doing committee meetings.
23:04
Speaker 3: You know, I go down to the league meetings every
23:06
Speaker 3: other month in person. It's a year round operation and
23:10
Speaker 3: it has to be. We've got a lot of people
23:11
Speaker 3: that really do the the big part of the work
23:15
Speaker 3: in the off season as well as game nights.
23:17
Speaker 1: So all right, any more opportunities for volunteering that you
23:23
Speaker 1: can think of, I mean there's I'm guessing there's quite
23:27
Speaker 1: a few.
23:28
Speaker 3: There's a lot everything that you can think of at
23:30
Speaker 3: the ballpark from you know, we have a music person
23:32
Speaker 3: that's up there, but occasionally they need a night off,
23:35
Speaker 3: so training somebody to do the PA, somebody to do
23:37
Speaker 3: the music and the sound effects in between batters, parking, concessions, tickets,
23:44
Speaker 3: the whole nine yards, working in the souvenir booth. So
23:47
Speaker 3: there's a lot of chances for people to come down.
23:49
Speaker 3: And again, without the volunteers and the host families, we
23:53
Speaker 3: wouldn't have an operation. So we really need people to
23:55
Speaker 3: come out.
23:55
Speaker 1: And check in with There is absolutely nothing better than
24:01
Speaker 1: getting over to the ballpark recreation field in Monthfilier right
24:05
Speaker 1: there on Route twelve on a summer night. Grab a
24:09
Speaker 1: cold drink, sit down, maybe a hot dog, some ice cream,
24:13
Speaker 1: get with the family and just sit back and relax
24:17
Speaker 1: and watch a local game. What I love about going
24:21
Speaker 1: is that there's constant engagement. There's constant movement. There, there's
24:27
Speaker 1: no lag time. You are always being entertained either with
24:31
Speaker 1: your eyes or your ears.
24:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's fun. You know the on field games. Kevin
24:36
Speaker 3: does a great job with the on field games, and
24:38
Speaker 3: the mascot does an incredible job. He's rollerblading behind the
24:42
Speaker 3: Cody Chevrolet car. He's got the we got the Skipmobile,
24:45
Speaker 3: which is an old nineteen sixty nine Volkswagen then made
24:48
Speaker 3: into an old dune buggy and we have it road registered.
24:52
Speaker 3: And you know, it's just it's always fun and there's
24:54
Speaker 3: always activity. And like you said, the kids are there,
24:56
Speaker 3: they're getting autographs from the players, they're you know, they're
25:00
Speaker 3: chasing down foul balls to keep and it's just a
25:03
Speaker 3: fun family environment for multi generational of people.
25:06
Speaker 1: So who I want to talk about some of your
25:09
Speaker 1: theme nights, because you guys bring in sure, frankly everyone
25:14
Speaker 1: that's anyone in our community, from the Scouts to the
25:18
Speaker 1: area businesses volunteer, just nonprofits and they always throw out
25:23
Speaker 1: the first pitch and you guys really do such a
25:28
Speaker 1: great job shining the spotlight on them.
25:31
Speaker 3: Well, thanks, appreciate it, Jadi. No, we try to. We
25:33
Speaker 3: have every night the fifty to fifty goes to a
25:36
Speaker 3: different nonprofit.
25:37
Speaker 2: Wow.
25:37
Speaker 3: So that money, you know, it goes right back into
25:39
Speaker 3: the community. The Mountaineers don't keep any of that. It
25:41
Speaker 3: goes right back into the Little Leagues, the you know,
25:45
Speaker 3: the food bank, whatever happens to be the charity of
25:48
Speaker 3: the night, you know, and that's a big thing. Each
25:50
Speaker 3: night we've got a sponsor thrown out a first pitch.
25:52
Speaker 3: Most nights we have themes going on, like we'll have
25:55
Speaker 3: the Little League night, We'll have the free buzz cut night,
25:58
Speaker 3: which you can see gets a little along on the side.
26:00
Speaker 3: It might need to get it shaved off again, but
26:03
Speaker 3: it's always fun stuff and it's you know, kind of
26:05
Speaker 3: like typical minor league baseball where you've got something fun
26:09
Speaker 3: going on for everybody every night. That's the intent.
26:12
Speaker 1: So now when you say buzz cut, does it like,
26:15
Speaker 1: does it have to does it have to be.
26:17
Speaker 3: A buzz you know, it's one of those deals where
26:20
Speaker 3: I'm not sure people are down there looking for a
26:21
Speaker 3: little bit off the side. They get they get the
26:24
Speaker 3: barber down there, you know, and they take care of
26:26
Speaker 3: business real quickly, so as you can see from my
26:29
Speaker 3: haircut that they've been there a few times, right, don't
26:31
Speaker 3: need to have a lot of work done on the side, So.
26:33
Speaker 1: I want to make sure you're getting everything that you
26:36
Speaker 1: got sure out on the airways because we there's so
26:40
Speaker 1: many of us that just love the Vermont Mountaineers.
26:43
Speaker 3: Man, No, we appreciate that. And again it's the support
26:46
Speaker 3: we've had over the years from the community makes this
26:49
Speaker 3: all possible, and it makes it fun to really get
26:51
Speaker 3: excited about doing it every year, you know, just to
26:53
Speaker 3: kind of see what it looks like. Is February is
26:56
Speaker 3: not the most fun. You we're out fundraising, but that's
26:58
Speaker 3: why you're in here, man. But once we get to
27:01
Speaker 3: the summer and it's June and July to go down
27:03
Speaker 3: to the ballpark and kind of look around and see
27:04
Speaker 3: fireworks and all kinds of fun stuff happening at the
27:08
Speaker 3: park and giving these players and coaches a chance to
27:10
Speaker 3: work their way up, and then following them as they
27:13
Speaker 3: move on to bigger and better things down the road
27:15
Speaker 3: and watch them on TV. It's just a pretty cool thing.
27:18
Speaker 1: So if you're just joining us president and general manager
27:22
Speaker 1: of the Vermont Mountaineers right here in central Vermont, when
27:25
Speaker 1: we hear the name Brian Gallagher, that's what we think of.
27:28
Speaker 1: We think of the Vermont Mountaineers. And when I hear
27:32
Speaker 1: the words Vermont Mountaineers, I'm thinking of Warmer weather Man
27:35
Speaker 1: because it's I just love it.
27:38
Speaker 2: Man. You know, I got to tell you I went.
27:40
Speaker 1: I think it was two summers ago when my little
27:43
Speaker 1: girl was.
27:45
Speaker 2: Starting to play softball and baseball.
27:48
Speaker 3: And.
27:51
Speaker 1: I've never really, I've never really filowed baseball, enjoyed going
27:58
Speaker 1: out for the experience it, but to finally sit and
28:04
Speaker 1: I've said the sun on the air before it finally
28:06
Speaker 1: sit down and pay attention to what's going on and anticipating, well,
28:13
Speaker 1: if this happens, then what's that guy going to do
28:15
Speaker 1: what's this? You know, how is how could this scenario
28:20
Speaker 1: play out?
28:20
Speaker 3: Right?
28:21
Speaker 2: And if you're.
28:21
Speaker 1: Really able to focus on that, what a fascinating game?
28:28
Speaker 2: You could chew all your fingernails.
28:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's exciting baseball. And the coaches like to
28:33
Speaker 3: play a little small ball. You know, they'll steal bases,
28:35
Speaker 3: they'll do a hit and run, so there's always something happening.
28:38
Speaker 3: And uh yeah, it really is, you know, close to
28:41
Speaker 3: the year, close to the action down there. It's not
28:43
Speaker 3: like I mean, I love going to Fenway. Obviously you're
28:46
Speaker 3: going to a major league game, but it costs so
28:47
Speaker 3: much money to do that. You know, down here it's local.
28:50
Speaker 3: It's inexpensive. The whole family can come out for a
28:53
Speaker 3: really cheap price. And you can watch these guys before
28:56
Speaker 3: they make it to Fenway, close up close, and you
28:58
Speaker 3: talk to them, you get to know them. You see
29:00
Speaker 3: them for the summer. Yeah, the kids follow them, they
29:03
Speaker 3: collect their baseball cards, they get autographs. It's just you know,
29:06
Speaker 3: you don't even have to be a baseball fan. It's
29:07
Speaker 3: all about the community. So again, it's a community activity.
29:12
Speaker 3: It's hard to remember back in the day when the
29:14
Speaker 3: Mountaineers weren't here. You know, thunder Road is great, and
29:17
Speaker 3: that's one night a week, but you know mountaineers will
29:20
Speaker 3: be home three or four nights a week, so you've
29:22
Speaker 3: got more opportunities in the summer to kind of do that,
29:24
Speaker 3: you know, and go out and have fun with the family.
29:26
Speaker 1: Your your promotion is massive. When you guys are going
29:33
Speaker 1: to have a game, your signs, your your lawn signs
29:38
Speaker 1: are everywhere. Game this Tuesday night, game, Saturday night. I
29:43
Speaker 1: mean it's like anyone who's driving down the road anywhere
29:46
Speaker 1: in Central from honest, is going to see those signs.
29:48
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think that's one of our better things. And
29:51
Speaker 3: when we need host families, those little signs go up
29:53
Speaker 3: post families needed, volunteers needed, and I think that does
29:55
Speaker 3: help us. And people see the number over and over again.
29:58
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna hopefully come down and see what's
30:00
Speaker 3: going on, see what the excitement's about.
30:02
Speaker 1: So you mentioned the kids get to these players are approachable,
30:08
Speaker 1: They get to sign autographs for the kids. Sometimes it's
30:12
Speaker 1: a it's a baseball or or a hat or whatever,
30:15
Speaker 1: but also baseball cards. And you gave me a few here.
30:19
Speaker 1: This is really cool. Look at this shrink wrapped and
30:22
Speaker 1: everything right here. That's so cool.
30:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's nice the kid we print, We print those
30:27
Speaker 3: and we give them out at the ballpark. And again
30:30
Speaker 3: it's fun because the players like them, the kids like them.
30:33
Speaker 3: They collect them, they get them signed, and you know,
30:36
Speaker 3: many of these guys move on to big leagues. You know,
30:38
Speaker 3: we've had two first round draft picks. We've had guys
30:40
Speaker 3: that have won World Series, like Aj Pollock, he's been
30:43
Speaker 3: an All Star. You know, he's uh, he's now retired,
30:46
Speaker 3: but he's coaching now. And again it's like pretty cool
30:49
Speaker 3: that these guys kind of remember their roots too, Like
30:52
Speaker 3: we'll keep in touch with them. They'll you know, they'll
30:54
Speaker 3: get in the program. We'll send them copies of the
30:56
Speaker 3: programs every year. You know, we send them a text
30:59
Speaker 3: message when they have a great game. And again it's
31:01
Speaker 3: a good thing to they they remember where they kind of.
31:04
Speaker 2: Their roots were. So can they do they come back
31:07
Speaker 2: ever and catch a game?
31:08
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, we've had some guys like Rob Delaney
31:11
Speaker 3: came back a couple of years ago, retired from baseball,
31:13
Speaker 3: came back, he signed photos and met the fans and
31:16
Speaker 3: you know, came out through a first pitch out. You know,
31:19
Speaker 3: we've had some great promotions over the years, and as
31:21
Speaker 3: more of these guys do retire, we'll bring them back,
31:23
Speaker 3: and I think they just enjoy it, you know, they
31:25
Speaker 3: come back many years later and kind of like, hey,
31:29
Speaker 3: this was a fun summer, you know.
31:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, tell me about some of the championships that the
31:35
Speaker 1: Mountaineers have won.
31:37
Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, Yeah, we've got some memorable ones. We've won
31:40
Speaker 3: in two thousand and six, two thousand and seven, back
31:43
Speaker 3: to back years. We won in twenty fifteen, and we've
31:47
Speaker 3: been runners up three different occasions two thousand and five, nine,
31:51
Speaker 3: and boy, there's one more, I believe, but I think
31:55
Speaker 3: it was just about a few years ago, twenty twenty three,
31:58
Speaker 3: I believe. So, you know, it's like you work so
32:00
Speaker 3: hard with thirteen teams to try to get there. It's
32:02
Speaker 3: tough to win it, and it's tough to get there,
32:05
Speaker 3: but that's our goal every year, you know, we want
32:07
Speaker 3: to try to do as as well as we can.
32:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about SKIP and of course Kevin Clark,
32:15
Speaker 1: who is I don't know what Kevin's title is, but
32:17
Speaker 1: MC whatever, he is outstanding.
32:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, he does a good job running those on field
32:22
Speaker 3: games with the mic and geting some different different games
32:25
Speaker 3: in there and keeping the kids excited. And yeah, it's
32:28
Speaker 3: good to have him on board. And he's been there
32:30
Speaker 3: for a number of years. And we have so many
32:32
Speaker 3: other volunteers. I hate to even mention but one by name,
32:35
Speaker 3: because it's like, as soon as you mentioned one, there's
32:37
Speaker 3: fifteen to twenty more that I should be so but yeah,
32:40
Speaker 3: every part of that organization, you know, to get people
32:43
Speaker 3: in there, and if they're there every night, that's great.
32:46
Speaker 3: If they're there six games, it's great. You know, we
32:48
Speaker 3: try to rotate people in and out so people don't
32:50
Speaker 3: get burned out on it. But no, it's a it's
32:53
Speaker 3: a fun thing to be a part of, and we
32:54
Speaker 3: always look for more people that want to kind of
32:56
Speaker 3: join them. Mountain your Family.
32:57
Speaker 1: I love the fact that, like you said, the on
33:01
Speaker 1: field games, there's constant in baseball. Let's be honest. There's
33:06
Speaker 1: a good good number of pauses, sure, but you've got
33:09
Speaker 1: constant entertainment going on. I mean, the second that you
33:12
Speaker 1: need it, there's an on field game going on with
33:15
Speaker 1: kids that are pulled out of the stands there.
33:17
Speaker 2: It's so much fun.
33:18
Speaker 3: It is fun. It's a good thing to be a
33:20
Speaker 3: part of another team. In Central Vermont. I have to
33:22
Speaker 3: give a plug too, is the Montpelier boys basketball team
33:26
Speaker 3: that's won four straight championships and I know they're going
33:28
Speaker 3: for the fifth here yes next week and we hope
33:31
Speaker 3: they get the very odd. But that's been a fun
33:33
Speaker 3: team to watch over the last six years. They lost
33:36
Speaker 3: one by a point at the buzzer at the odd
33:38
Speaker 3: and then they've won four straight nineteen and one this year,
33:41
Speaker 3: and I'm looking forward to going to their games later
33:44
Speaker 3: this week to see how they do. But it's having
33:47
Speaker 3: those kids in school and it's fun to watch them.
33:49
Speaker 3: And I know the Montpelier and Nordic team just won
33:52
Speaker 3: their first ever state championship yesterday, which again, congrats to them.
33:57
Speaker 1: So wow, the level of tensity in our local high
34:01
Speaker 1: school sports is really impressive. I mean, remember the pitcher
34:10
Speaker 1: I can't think of which it might have been You
34:12
Speaker 1: thirty two who was so so good and did go
34:15
Speaker 1: down to Pennsylvania.
34:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, Owen Kellington, he pitched at You thirty two and yeah,
34:20
Speaker 3: he's with the Pirates organization now and again he kind
34:23
Speaker 3: of grew up at the field. He was in baseball
34:25
Speaker 3: camps with us back in the day, and he's he
34:27
Speaker 3: goes down there even now in the off season and throws,
34:31
Speaker 3: you know, when his team is done, he is down
34:33
Speaker 3: there with his dad throwing baseballs and pitching, and so yeah,
34:36
Speaker 3: we hope, hope he does well. And again it's a
34:38
Speaker 3: long process to get from high school ball up to
34:42
Speaker 3: the major leagues, but you have to go through about
34:44
Speaker 3: six levels and you just keep climbing the ladder until you,
34:46
Speaker 3: hopefully you make it.
34:47
Speaker 1: So coming out of high school, if you want to
34:50
Speaker 1: be part of ANYCBO, you've got to go to college
34:52
Speaker 1: and you're held to a high standard of having some
34:56
Speaker 1: pretty decent grades.
34:57
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, The thing with the NEC is a college
35:01
Speaker 3: level league, and some leagues I know do allow high
35:04
Speaker 3: school players to play in him. I know the Lake
35:06
Speaker 3: Monsters with the Futures League does that. The Major League
35:10
Speaker 3: Baseball has asked us in the Cape to not do that,
35:13
Speaker 3: and we're really focused on getting those top tier college
35:15
Speaker 3: players that are going to be draft prospects, and we
35:18
Speaker 3: always try to get a Vermont or in there too,
35:20
Speaker 3: because we we want a kid that's if he's capable
35:23
Speaker 3: of playing, and the kids from Vermont, we want to
35:25
Speaker 3: give them the first shot like you would have given
35:27
Speaker 3: owen a shot to play here, but again he had
35:29
Speaker 3: to have gone to Yukon, which was his other option,
35:32
Speaker 3: either Yukon or go to the draft. He went and
35:33
Speaker 3: got drafted at a high level and then went on
35:36
Speaker 3: to the to pro ball, which was a smart move,
35:38
Speaker 3: I think, because when you get drafted in the sixth round,
35:41
Speaker 3: I think it was you know, you get a little
35:42
Speaker 3: signing bonus and make your way up a little bit
35:45
Speaker 3: quicker than some of those guys that are getting drafted
35:47
Speaker 3: in the twenty fifth round for sure.
35:49
Speaker 2: So yeah, that was big news right here.
35:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a good player.
35:52
Speaker 1: God, So we go an ECBL. Next stop would be
35:58
Speaker 1: the minor leagues.
35:59
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, the Cape in the NECBL. Typically when you
36:02
Speaker 3: get drafted any any league, you'll get drafted, you'll go
36:05
Speaker 3: into minor league baseball and then you know, short season,
36:07
Speaker 3: a long season A eventually double A triple A, and
36:10
Speaker 3: then the big league. So you do have to climb
36:12
Speaker 3: that ladder. And some players, you know, the first round
36:15
Speaker 3: guys that we had, got a quick trip up to
36:17
Speaker 3: the big leagues. You know, they're in the minor leagues
36:19
Speaker 3: for maybe two years, three years and then side tuck it. Yeah,
36:22
Speaker 3: so triple a. Was it used to be the past Socks.
36:24
Speaker 3: Now it's in Worcester, the Worcester Worcester Socks or Worcester
36:27
Speaker 3: So yeah, they're but again that's something that, yeah, that's
36:32
Speaker 3: their goal. Many of these kids will make it. Some
36:35
Speaker 3: of them won't, but you know, they're at that level
36:36
Speaker 3: where they're really giving it their best shot.
36:38
Speaker 2: So and has a Mountaineer made it to the majors.
36:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've had twenty six or seven guys make it
36:45
Speaker 3: to the.
36:45
Speaker 2: Major league, So the ones you were talking about earlier.
36:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, and several more, you know, obviously hundreds more that
36:50
Speaker 3: have made it to pro ball that just didn't get there.
36:52
Speaker 3: They may have gotten a double or triple a and
36:54
Speaker 3: had the end of their line at that point. But uh,
36:56
Speaker 3: you know what's pretty cool though, is we've had one
36:59
Speaker 3: broadcaster make it to the major leagues. Our first guy
37:01
Speaker 3: in two thousand and three, Tim Haggerty made it up
37:03
Speaker 3: with the Royals, and we have, you know, three other
37:08
Speaker 3: players that were former players make it to the front office,
37:11
Speaker 3: you know, at a major league club, you know, in
37:14
Speaker 3: one level of the other, you know. So it is
37:16
Speaker 3: pretty exciting to see not only the players make it,
37:19
Speaker 3: but some of these guys make it when they're playing
37:20
Speaker 3: careers over they go into the front office or they
37:23
Speaker 3: go into coaching world and make it there. And we
37:26
Speaker 3: have many many former Mountain your players that are coaching
37:28
Speaker 3: college baseball now, which for me it's nice because I
37:31
Speaker 3: can call them up and they know who we are
37:33
Speaker 3: and they're like, yeah, we'll send you a couple of
37:34
Speaker 3: our best players and they know what they what they're
37:37
Speaker 3: getting into. So that's that's helps.
37:39
Speaker 1: It's incredible. The Vermont Mountaineers dot com is the page
37:46
Speaker 1: to learn about sponsorship opportunities. All the packages are right there,
37:50
Speaker 1: season passes.
37:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, everything should be there. All our social media site
37:54
Speaker 3: links should be there as well, and just a little
37:57
Speaker 3: history on the team as well as what the local
37:58
Speaker 3: news is about what we're doing.
38:00
Speaker 1: So all right, so anything else that you've got right
38:03
Speaker 1: there that you want to make sure that the message
38:05
Speaker 1: is put out.
38:06
Speaker 3: No, I just want to encourage people to go to
38:08
Speaker 3: the website and if you're a potential sponsor and you
38:10
Speaker 3: want to hop on board, all the contact information the
38:13
Speaker 3: materials are there. You can give us a call at
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Speaker 3: two two seven two eight seven two eight, and uh
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Speaker 3: we'll reach out by email and I'd be happy to
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Speaker 3: set up a time to meet with you, and we'll
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Speaker 3: look forward to starting the season on June sixth and monpuliar.
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Speaker 3: I hope everybody comes out for the big celebration, so.
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Speaker 1: We will be hammering that here on the air. We
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Speaker 1: are so excited. I got to tell you, man, I
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Speaker 1: know how busy you are. The fact that you are
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Speaker 1: taking some time out to come in here and chat
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Speaker 1: up mountaineers is really uh special to me and I
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Speaker 1: appreciate your time so much.
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Speaker 3: Well, thanks for asking me, JD You I appreciate it. Yeah. Thanks.
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Speaker 1: and puck this week at the br from twelve thirty
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Speaker 1: to three. Every day it's been going on. Helmets and
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Speaker 1: gloves required. I looked from a hockey helmet, couldn't find it.
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Speaker 1: Tuesdays we've got the Tuesday night dinner at the Barry
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Speaker 1: American Legion. It is coming up Tuesday, and of course
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Speaker 1: they also have their American Legion Post ten All Veterans
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Speaker 1: Dinner on Thursday at five thirty. All veterans welcome. All
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Speaker 1: veterans eat free. Just call the post ahead four seven
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Speaker 1: nine nine zero five eight let them know that you're coming.
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Speaker 1: They do such a great job over there at the
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Speaker 1: very American Legion Post ten Saturday, freezing fun for families.
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Speaker 1: We were talking about it earlier this morning. The Winter
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Speaker 1: co Ed Softball Tournament twenty fifth year. Incredible Friday. It starts,
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Speaker 1: wraps up Sunday. A little bit of snow in the forecast,
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Speaker 1: as we said, but Barrytown Recreation Fields the very least
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Speaker 1: come on out and be a spectator there on Websterville
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Speaker 1: Road at the Barrytown reck Fields. But the teams are
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Speaker 1: registered for the most part and ready to go, raising
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Speaker 1: a lot of money for Vermont families battling pediatric cancer
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Speaker 1: and having fun in the snow at the same time.
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Speaker 1: We're almost at a million bucks. Unbelievable. The recipients this year,
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Speaker 1: little kids, Little Levi, Alistair, Carla, Eleanor, Elisha and Nico.
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Speaker 1: And until there's a cure. There is freezing fun for families.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be amazing. I hope to see you there.
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Speaker 1: I just can't wait. Twentieth Wilkins Harley Davidson Chili Cookoff
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Speaker 1: is also coming up Saturday and at the Legion Post
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Speaker 1: ten Saturday. March First Wow Downtown Dan is going to
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Speaker 1: be played March thirtieth. Don't forget the Britney Burt Memorial
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Speaker 1: bingo fundraiser. So much going on in our community. We
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Speaker 1: love talking about it, we love promoting it. Thanks again
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Speaker 1: to Brian Gallagher of the Vermont Mountaineers President, General Manager.
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Speaker 1: Appreciate him so much for coming in here this morning.
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Speaker 2: Doc off. Have a great day, everybody. I do