[0:00] like tomorrow when they rain. Yeah. >> They had a lot of tomatoes with the same

[0:04] stuff currently yesterday, but we are coming into our evening time where we

[0:09] start losing school. So >> I guess this is official pledge to

[0:17] » I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the

[0:22] republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and

[0:28] justice for all.

[0:41] talk to us. >> So question is who

[0:46] you need to make it to the town. I'm going have to talk to Sarah about

[0:51] that money.

[0:55] I don't want to give you the sauce.

[1:12] » And now this. Okay. Now tell me what we've got here.

[1:15] » So I did uh $150 per diamond per day which would be

[1:22] » per day >> 600 per day. 200 and the rest was n to

[1:26] try. >> I think I did 32 or 36 bags at $15 a

[1:30] bag. >> Okay.

[1:31] » Does that sound right? >> Yeah, that's right.

[1:34] » That was the middle. >> Yeah. No, that was kind of an

[1:39] unfortunate situation. >> Well, it was

[1:43] we appreciate our team. I was graduation. I couldn't be over here. But

[1:49] my director was signed. He called me

[1:57] He threw him in the wolves. >> But these guys did a great job and the

[2:00] team appreciated it. >> Good.

[2:03] » That's what they want to see. Now being realistic, we know you can't

[2:09] always

[2:12] » twice a year.

[2:17] » You just can't do that. Yeah, >> I didn't

[2:25] want to share this with you.

[2:37] teams that were here and they looked at the location. They backed up the local

[2:41] teams >> and then they

[2:45] obviously here but some people >> actually

[2:57] right now >> and of course we have state parks make

[3:03] sure they know some of them get One more team.

[3:09] » Okay.

[3:12] » Yeah.

[3:16] » Well, for us, I'll just be honest with you. You know, I mean, it's nice.

[3:22] We get that. >> But that's what Josh and I talked about

[3:25] the dirt. I'm like, you know what? They came here and they, you know, want

[3:31] to come back >> and we'll, you know, anything that helps

[3:35] our business is good for our town. We're such a small town.

[3:38] » You guys probably talked to some of the businesses.

[3:41] » Oh, yeah. >> Yeah. Very clean. They were packed all

[3:45] day long. McDonald, you know,

[3:53] restaurants. >> Yeah.

[3:59] didn't expect heard people sourcing from >> Well, I think we should do it right now.

[4:06] I think we should do a better job of um advertising

[4:12] this weekend. So, be prepared. >> Yeah.

[4:15] » Yeah. You want to get out in front of you

[4:20] and things

[4:24] run out of anything, >> right? So, but I think these are think

[4:27] This is probably a very very accurate number

[4:31] » with what kind of >> people come to town and the estimated

[4:36] economic impact. >> Yeah.

[4:51] » Yeah. It's not it's not our locals. >> Yeah. That's right.

[4:54] » Which is better. I was probably

[5:03] she's one of those >> old 1818 building that she bought about

[5:09] 89 years ago >> and um refurbished. It's a it's a

[5:13] beautiful

[5:19] time. But you can peek in the window over

[5:22] there. It's called the Tangle. She work on the upstairs to back building that

[5:27] they kind of offset and she's working on that building upstairs.

[5:42] » Okay. >> And it

[5:48] Yes. So that's going to be big. People be nice. stick my cabin or something

[5:56] down there. >> Of course, that's a whole different cup

[5:59] of tea, but

[6:06] » they'll definitely get up. That's >> probably

[6:13] your team. >> We do. That's all we

[6:16] » do. >> I got to take my camper out every time

[6:19] we go somewhere. >> Well, here they can go to Delaware,

[6:22] right? Yeah, we got Delaware. Two of them are Delaware.

[6:26] » Two Delaware. So that's probably what 15 miles maybe. And then is we still

[6:31] available then for weekend? >> Yeah. And that's seven or eight miles

[6:36] that way. And then they're right there.

[6:43] » This one tends to pack up though. I'll be honest with you. It's hard to get

[6:47] course. I can't say for other teams. I know for us we're always used to driving

[6:50] like even when we went to Indiana like most place 45 minutes

[6:57] » I think most teams are too get a hotel Madison or something you

[7:02] know 25 minutes down the road it's not that it's changed a lot

[7:09] » it's changed a lot from 10 years ago you know a tournament in

[7:13] another

[7:18] here. One tournament last

[7:24] season >> really

[7:28] just break it down. >> Yeah. So, I thought it was awesome that

[7:33] the feedback was great from the teams, the coaches.

[7:37] » Our staff loved it. Everybody was excited.

[7:42] We definitely want to do it again. It's probably going to be hard to pull off

[7:45] this year. already

[7:53] as much.

[8:01] » Also in the future too, we have a um we have this thing called show. I don't

[8:07] know if you ever been to it. >> It's a festival. This whole square is

[8:12] filled up with I mean really is huge. I has concerts going on, everything,

[8:17] carnival rides. I mean, nice stuff. Not like games.

[8:21] » Oh, that'd be fun. >> And that's in the September time frame.

[8:25] » That's where I mean, we could we could look at a try

[8:31] to get I just I always want people to be cautious. We can try and late September,

[8:37] October is better. August

[8:41] » September you start getting in there, but September, October is the

[8:45] We could potentially try one. I just I don't I don't like

[8:50] we never run tournaments that don't go like but I want everybody to like

[8:58] » I think we can show I'm sure there's pictures

[9:08] » and that'd be good to tie in

[9:13] September.

[9:20] entertainment. I think a lot of people are already in town.

[9:28] » Yes.

[9:40] » The kids go to the state park there. here.

[9:44] » Well, if we put if we put 13 you over there, I know we at least got one team.

[9:50] » We got one. >> We got one, too.

[9:52] » Well, two. And then if we put 11U, we'll at least have a couple more teams. So,

[9:57] » I will look at that. September the 26. >> I would definitely say in future to the

[10:03] 12U on those two 10 fields, we crank some home runs. I'll say that

[10:10] » you're you're going to >> Yeah. I mean, kids, look, the problem is

[10:13] I was trying to keep my kids disciplined because they were trying to crank

[10:16] forward and it's like, stop. Just >> calm down.

[10:20] » Make contact here. It'll go. >> That's okay.

[10:24] » Yeah. But you see them all. They were ripping for like that home run derby.

[10:28] They were going for it. Calm down. >> So, what's the what's the I guess the

[10:34] big question is you talked about that in a couple fields.

[10:39] » We did and um

[10:43] It's just difficult to do and we got some quotes to put in 80,000

[10:52] and then we had instead

[11:06] » well well so so what we did instead Brian came along he said they want

[11:12] um some bag cages. So, we're still trying to help make that happen yet this

[11:16] year. Not sure we can, but but we're working on it. Um and so we still have

[11:23] and we're add some parking in just a few weeks. We're going to do that. We've got

[11:28] um we're just going to extend that drive about 30 ft from the driveway. We grab

[11:34] the driveway because we don't back. We've got a we have a water treatment

[11:38] plant back there in that back corner. brilliant people back around there. But

[11:41] this will work out really well, I think. And um within a week or two, we're going

[11:45] to start a pretty big rotating project. So be a lot of millings. I think those

[11:50] millings back there

[11:56] » was Yeah, I think it worked out because team

[12:00] play back to back. Come in, back out, come in, back out. So I didn't see any

[12:05] fluctuation backing up on the roadway there. Um So it's kind of all that I

[12:10] think you kind

[12:15] of perfect six games on every field and then you're going to have like 911 all

[12:19] those teams kind of fall in there. Then you got the three five and seven to

[12:22] where they're in and they're out. >> Yeah, it worked out pretty well. I mean,

[12:28] » yeah. I mean, >> we're going to go ahead and do that

[12:30] piece. And then we've also determined that we still have room to do another

[12:35] piece probably another 100 ft wide. We don't

[12:39] want to get into any further than on either side of that because that's where

[12:44] we laid out the two additional fields. So, make sure and one of them the one we

[12:49] laid out is a high school size field which I'm not sure have that but because

[12:53] we have one high school out there. So, you know, we just did two

[12:58] » I mean the softball or the >> I mean the 225 cuts you into where you

[13:04] get into the

[13:08] » Yeah. I didn't really look to see if there would ever be any opportunity I

[13:12] think by the one we talked about the playground. Is there opportunity to ever

[13:16] move an outfield back on the other 210? >> I think so. United. It's one of those

[13:22] things. I don't know. >> Talking about field three there.

[13:24] » Field one and field four probably. You talking about those back fields to move

[13:28] that outfield fence out? >> One one is the is the big field, right?

[13:33] » No, is the little league field. >> That's a 210.

[13:36] » Yep. And then two is the big field and three is change

[13:39] » and three is across the way. >> Yeah.

[13:43] » 210. >> Yeah, that'd be the one that would be

[13:46] hardest. four is a possibility depend

[13:51] what we got to do to make some adjustments. I guess

[13:58] » I'll be honest as that one board is a 200

[14:08] just cheaper just to build new fields in there

[14:12] probably >> and then I guess it depends on where

[14:14] your is what your What's your main age groups? You know,

[14:19] is it is it best to skip another 300 foot field and we have one? Is that you

[14:25] know or is probably I mean you really can't any

[14:30] you can play anything on the big fields. >> Yeah.

[14:32] » I mean they make 10 fences and things like that. So they just have

[14:36] » I guess it really comes down to like the future they consider turf and stuff like

[14:40] that and what it cost and that way we get into that.

[14:45] Cincinnati

[15:12] batting cage with fields by you know we can utilize as other practice

[15:16] facilities bring more involved in the area but I think we can we're trying to

[15:20] come up with some things with sponsors and stuff like that as well so doing

[15:24] some digging on that to help out in which way we can town as well we come up

[15:29] with obviously I know turf is always a big

[15:32] big discussion that's where it's like you're not you're almost guaranteed to

[15:36] have the tournament you are like this past weekend we played through and you

[15:42] can live We play through it

[15:45] » and it's not always the best, but we had a lot of delays.

[15:51] » We play all the games.

[15:57] It's miserable sometimes.

[16:05] » We lost a few games late Saturday night. It's like, oh, here we are. It's, you

[16:10] know, supposed to be 7 p.m. seven games starting

[16:17] to hit us. It's going to last about an hour wait

[16:29] » but no I mean that would be the goal. I mean that would be awesome if ever we

[16:34] could get our fields every weekend. the fast pitch. That's

[16:41] exactly what I do. I work well with those guys. There's two of them fast

[16:46] directors out of Columbus and Jason

[17:10] I think I probably said so like all right get that roll too but

[17:15] yeah it's like now this one things like obviously this is future talks or

[17:20] whatever but with the turf do you guys have it to where there's contracts or

[17:25] guarantees like hey we invest all this money here is there things that we can

[17:28] say we're not just going to be spending the money to spend the money is there

[17:31] things that said hey you we're going to be doing some tournaments out here too

[17:35] we would contract

[17:39] basically guaranteed

[17:43] 15 years between the three of us. >> So that was just the baseball side, but

[17:49] that's also something as well or is that stuff on your toes?

[17:54] No, it was actually works out because in the fall

[18:09] Okay. But I think it was like so there are

[18:15] some like there are some some guarantees that the town decides you know some we

[18:19] can do this if they know that they can at least start getting their money back

[18:21] in the sense of >> you know at least

[18:24] » I think yeah I just don't >> I mean I think we can look at talk about

[18:33] trying to do one deal next year maybe year

[18:40] another field. I mean, you know, we're just so small. We just don't have the,

[18:44] you know, have funds and, you know, we have we do get money from our fund,

[18:50] but you know, we have that designated for maintenance equipment and that kind

[18:55] of stuff. So, we just can't

[19:04] 95,000

[19:08] » probably. For those four in fields right there,

[19:11] you're probablyach

[19:39] kind pretty good idea like it can get a good ballark for

[19:43] » you what it would cost. >> Yeah, I have a feeling that we'll

[19:49] probably have to do one at a time. >> Yeah, I know.

[19:53] » Not really.

[19:59] » Now with North Vernon, do they get access? I know you pay for any of that

[20:04] stuff. I know there's always deals be made in a sense. Where is it?

[20:08] » They they we're in there all weekend. So we lease it from them and we lease it

[20:13] Friday through Sunday every weekend. They they run it Monday through

[20:17] Thursday. >> So it's shared with the town.

[20:20] » So how was that something like that work out?

[20:26] » So that the program there with those guys was that they actually had the

[20:31] money. back whether you know it was tiff or it was through they loan

[20:38] I think it was it was through and I think it came back to co money but they

[20:42] had the money to pay for it but we we did a 10-year contract with them that

[20:46] our rental rates over 10 years will pay that cost back

[20:50] » that's a great deal >> it's a great deal for the community over

[20:55] there local kids use that and they're guaranteed to

[20:59] have that money back And that's what we're also where

[21:05] » I would say it's the ignorance on the side of knowing what options are out

[21:08] there or what deals can be talked about too. It's like you know we're coming

[21:13] from from one direction there's also this way this way this way this way too

[21:17] and of course what interests you and stuff like that. So it's like what's

[21:21] poss what possibilities are out there and I know had some kind of I don't know

[21:26] details I don't know how deals were made something I'm not sure they went they

[21:33] they bought it out I mean they they paid for

[21:35] » it

[21:43] so I mean there there's opportunities for those out there

[21:49] you're kind is these larger communities that haven't

[21:53] had tournaments and economic impact. They're finding ways to get the money.

[21:57] » Yeah. >> Yeah.

[22:00] » And then they're building these complexities.

[22:17] » I mean, that's a other

[22:23] heard about Madison.

[22:31] » Yeah, that's where it's like I still think we're in a good spot. I think our

[22:35] location get down toward Louisville. We are in a

[22:40] close area for Cincinnati because I knew that

[22:45] I worked there down Cincinnati area. So it's like a lot of those teams are fully

[22:49] southwest Ohio once or twice coming to you.

[22:53] Hey, we're close enough

[23:03] to I can't say every weekend or big weekends

[23:17] and some of the weekends that happens.

[23:24] in the high school. We use those

[23:29] high school

[23:35] high school age 15 to 18 years old.

[23:53] Jerry Ekipach

[24:09] was the baseball coach down at Southwestern when they put that big

[24:12] field down.

[24:28] I'm curious to see

[24:38] » it.

[24:46] redevelopment commission.

[24:51] » Yeah. Yeah. So, we're looking for different ideas and stuff you guys have

[24:55] or options and stuff to come forward. We love our community of course. We want

[25:02] to see some growth and stuff.

[25:10] » Okay.

[25:14] reach out there's a lot of things

[25:38] it's going to be a lot of leg have been used to this It's kind of like

[25:43] something new. They're like, "Wait, what do you want?" You know, and you know,

[25:47] it's one of those things we're such a small community. But one thing about our

[25:52] community compared to say the bigger communities is you're going to have a

[25:54] lot more people caring around here because it's so close. You're have a lot

[26:00] more people want to make sure something gets done. There's a possibility that we

[26:03] have it. Um I say you'll see a difference from us compared to say more

[26:07] something like that. You know, like we make sure fields are edges. Yeah. Well,

[26:12] I like I said, man, you guys did a great job. Brian asked me to come in. I was

[26:17] like, "Hey, what do we got to do?" I met these guys up there. I said, "Man, if

[26:20] you can, you know, let's do this, this, this." And then I got the pictures. I'm

[26:23] like, "It looks awesome. Looks good." You know, it's looks good. There's

[26:27] product on there. And, you know, the park's awesome. And a lot of compliments

[26:31] on paper.

[26:36] So, you guys did a great job. a couple in there.

[26:43] » Okay. Absolutely.

[26:50] » Yeah. I think we all want to see it as just

[26:54] » we're tied up with small

[27:04] and everybody knows like once a month we're not going to

[27:09] kill oursves. what it takes and there will be time

[27:15] » and that rain for another hour

[27:20] » after you get them all ready to go and team start playing and then it just

[27:23] drops another

[27:28] but if you give it the effort that that's what matters to us and the teams

[27:33] that was >> beyond it was

[27:38] because there's been times

[27:51] I was surprised because I've been there with Facebook

[28:03] around

[28:06] some money for years. >> But that's

[28:22] pretty well. I know that

[28:28] we can't get these ready. I'm out of town. They cancelled it and the next

[28:32] thing I know this is at what 7 in the morning

[28:37] pictures like why are we not playing here today

[28:51] if you cancel a field because it's wet somebody's driving up there

[28:56] » and they are going to look and So I'm in Washington, Indiana.

[29:11] » No at all. >> That changed their way. They did a

[29:14] really good job.

[29:20] And we learned something too from these of like okay what how we can go about

[29:24] how can we approach it better quicker what we may need to get or so we've

[29:30] already talked about ideas of that too so I think it'll be smoother future

[29:35] takes I mean I thought we did pretty well I do

[29:39] and I think we get more efficiently learning it wasn't

[29:46] just

[29:52] experience what it looks like when we get that much rain.

[29:56] How long was it going to take us to really get

[29:59] » I think we got caught back up schedule and I think we first game was late 45

[30:03] minutes like all right take this go that was worse than this one so we'll go this

[30:07] first we walking around trying to kill that

[30:10] » yeah I got a text

[30:26] Last name is >> okay.

[30:35] » Hey Jerry, I just wanted to say those are sales facilities are awesome. I

[30:40] highly recommend that place.

[30:46] He sent me a picture of the field with the water

[30:49] » and he said, "Oh yeah, I I said an hour

[30:56] delay. I was like no way. They made it happen. They did that.

[31:02] And there was others. It was it was it was good.

[31:09] » Well, we're willing to make that commitment. You know, I think we've got

[31:14] we've got a a directly board of directors there and volunteers and

[31:21] they'll help and you know guys like this one.

[31:25] » I didn't deal the next day.

[31:30] » When I got there, Josh was in there. That was about 9, I think. And

[31:38] then I really came back. >> The weather was Did

[31:44] » you bring your mug boots with you? >> I learned a lesson there. When I run

[31:48] dirt, I usually throw foods in the truck. Definitely extra socks and shoes.

[31:54] » But they did, you know, they all they all

[32:00] kind of touched on it too a little bit like these small towns. There's a lot of

[32:04] cool stuff here and to make the experience better, we can

[32:10] start working the weekend. We're going to pass out.

[32:13] We're going to go to this small, you know, the ice cream shop up here

[32:19] or whoever passing out coupons and you know, let's

[32:24] market the markets. Yeah,

[32:30] » we can do that for sure. There's a lot of things that can be

[32:34] done. It's just very small, you know. I'm just throwing random just

[32:41] like really nice diamonds really that means that it does when they roll it

[32:46] really nice signs that show the yardage of left

[32:50] center right on every field you know things

[32:56] » well I am too >> I am too

[33:00] » we have discussions all the time discussion about how deep was that in

[33:06] left field versus right field >> oh I look at Jackson's field and I'm

[33:09] like right sw but like us too lines and stuff like the

[33:16] edging I'm very like as a coach when I go to these different facilities I'm

[33:19] like that's kind of trashy looking or that's kind it's not very clean looking

[33:23] or it's like >> it just

[33:25] holds a nice windreen signage and edgy >> I talk about the wind screen like well I

[33:32] like a professional look I don't like audio very street you know I don't like

[33:36] audio people have things plastered everywhere

[33:39] » speaking of signage I'm asking Josh there's not much signage to get people

[33:43] to that. >> So that's on the list and we'll take

[33:46] care of that. We get something on 421. >> We could put something there

[33:54] too. We'll work to get sponsor. >> Okay.

[34:01] » I will take care. I will make sure since that grant go through we apply for grant

[34:05] but sports organizations for our nonprofit on for sales side.

[34:12] We're not able to. So like >> I'll take care.

[34:17] It's been a year or so. I'll go back to her.

[34:21] » We can come up. But I think team soup they see nice

[34:26] patting. >> I judge

[34:30] one looks like it's been around since 1985. I'm like that's kind of janky

[34:34] here. I'm like, you know, so I'm like so presentation means a lot.

[34:39] That's brought up a lot. We'll send out surveys at the end of

[34:43] » the cages too. That's a common >> thing that people dislike a park for why

[34:49] they like it so much. >> And the warm up areas too. I noticed

[34:53] where kids are trying to warm up the interior. I was like, well, we put the

[34:56] rope up for the soccer fields, but I let the bulls know. Obviously, you can't

[34:59] park there, but like, hey, there's plenty warm up area where you kids can

[35:03] run around. I was like, I know it's technically still town's property. And

[35:06] the Bulls coach said, I didn't know that. So that way they because in

[35:10] between games people want a place to set up for the kids to eat their lunch and

[35:13] stuff like that. So I think that's something we can also show of

[35:17] » something I saw when I went out there. I didn't realize they were bad as they

[35:22] were. So I got on the phone last night and

[35:27] » I like the shelter house that we haven't seen

[35:33] or

[35:36] banners on the fences even in the parks when they see them coming in.

[35:41] » We look at the flags hanging up coming in. So I was taking Ich

[35:54] bought this march for 700 bucks and we had it set up at casting park.

[35:59] Awesome. And there's a trailer park behind it.

[36:03] They come through and rode by a bicycle. I could tell if they I think they just

[36:08] pulled the plug. They stab pulled the plug and next thing you know you see him

[36:11] dragging it across the park. So the next morning he goes direct for me. He goes,

[36:16] "Hey,

[36:22] we literally set it up at 1 a.m." And this is at 6:30 in the morning. Like

[36:27] I didn't take the watch. And so I was over there. The police were over there.

[36:32] Everybody was going through this this little trailer park. Like surely they

[36:35] left a little bit of hanging out We tore that trailer park apart. We

[36:40] could probably flo

[36:45] it. Those are things I does. Does it feel safe to hang out here?

[36:50] You know, it's just one of those things that you look at and it's like we have a

[36:54] great >> set up

[37:02] a nice walk around. >> Okay. Let me ask you all of you, maybe

[37:08] not you so much or me because these guys don't know, but

[37:14] » what are some things that and let's put it in priority things that we think we

[37:19] need to invest some money in >> besides turf. Okay,

[37:24] » we know that's I'll put it right here at the very top in capital letters. Okay,

[37:28] » we know that >> and and we're working on the batting

[37:31] cage. >> So, you're working on batting cages?

[37:33] Yeah, I'll I'll find some sponsorship. >> I think we needed Didn't use that dirt

[37:38] around the >> field.

[37:43] » I almost wonder if it would be best just to do a warning track.

[37:48] » That'd be cool.

[37:55] » It's going to be a little

[38:00] elbow. I think morning track looks good. It

[38:04] takes care of the issue with morning. >> It takes care of

[38:07] » not Lincoln Park. So, and the nice thing is too is Danny goes and sprays weed

[38:13] killer. >> I know. We either stream tears up in

[38:18] this fence, but you see brown and I'm like I want crisp green out there. I

[38:22] want it looking I'm an OCD kind of person. But a warning

[38:27] track gets spend money on the inside.

[38:35] » What do you use there? It's like a >> brick dust. You could do brick dust on

[38:43] top of it. >> Yeah.

[38:44] » Do you like foot? >> Do you like 5 foot enough to where it's

[38:47] actually considered a warning track? >> Well, when you get it down, you know

[38:50] you're back here. It depends. I mean, you want

[38:53] » little things like coaches. I said, "Why show up?"

[38:58] » You know, I didn't see the restrooms. I see. I couldn't be there. Are they good

[39:02] shape? >> Clean

[39:07] up as just a single, isn't it?

[39:12] » Yeah. Singles over in the building, >> which is just beyond three. And then

[39:18] double >> stalls. Well, stalls.

[39:24] is okay. Okay. >> Yeah.

[39:32] » Could the floors be concrete?

[39:36] » I think there's

[39:47] all documented and we keep track. That's a lot of the feedback.

[39:53] are horrible. >> Oh, I like

[39:59] it's just dark.

[40:03] » They're dark. That's what I meant by the judges.

[40:06] » Some of that that concrete coating that's the lighter color. You walk in

[40:13] the bathroom.

[40:16] » Yeah. Nobody wants to walk into a >> I would say

[40:20] entertainment besides Facebook is one that where I take other kids, younger

[40:25] siblings. >> I knew it's called

[40:30] » epoxy.

[40:36] » Okay. >> Um

[40:39] might not be a bad idea to look at a netting system.

[40:44] » That's why I just talk for the >> first the playground. Yeah, I thought

[40:50] about what if I think there's six foot poles on that

[40:55] outfield fence. What if we did like 12 foot poles on that center portion and

[40:58] just it goes that way? It looks like part of the fence,

[41:02] » but it still protects the playground without adding another net where kids

[41:05] are going to try to climb on or cut holes in and stuff like that.

[41:09] » It is. So, I thought about like say the first, you know, the center 20 poles you

[41:13] put 12footers in there or something or 16 footers takes it looks like the green

[41:17] mile kind of concept of But it's it's safety reason. It's just

[41:21] an idea. It's some kind of danger. >> What about overhead net between the

[41:26] fields? I have somebody a friend lives up in Fisher.

[41:30] » I don't you guys pretty far. >> Yeah.

[41:35] You got You're spread out pretty far, which is good. You're you're wide.

[41:40] » Some of these you have to >> cram in there.

[41:45] I was talking with Isaac. >> Yeah. is like just add the 45s at the

[41:50] top of the back stop. It helps out said also they push their home plates

[41:56] back closer to the back stop but I know like technically distances you got to

[42:00] have 25 ft >> but it does gain you some yardage to you

[42:04] know gauge the feet instead of 210 you could be 215

[42:07] » you could just don't want it to be too close

[42:09] » you don't want to be too close that padding on the back

[42:17] can We was about

[42:21] stuff and have some sponsors put on there

[42:24] » like we have for sales travel baseball. Anyways, we thought about we got

[42:27] sponsorship and pay for that padding. They can then start looking at companies

[42:30] outside the padding if need be. It wouldn't be the can though. I definitely

[42:34] wouldn't do the canes. It would just be >> like Joey said too though it kind of

[42:37] takes you put that padding you do away with that bleach back there. Put on the

[42:41] side. >> Yes, you do.

[42:42] » And it just keeps the rest from being sitting directly behind. So like you

[42:49] know you got your that's your that's your your feel if the padding runs from

[42:54] here to here. >> Yeah.

[42:55] » They can't set lawn chairs right there's

[43:02] chair

[43:11] » and the patty's not too too much. I looked at that actually a few weeks ago

[43:14] and actually last time we're like three foot tall. You can get them in different

[43:18] lengths. So whatever we could go probably straight back stop you go the

[43:21] side angles if you want a little bit on the back stop. So

[43:27] it take me forever to pull a picture. So I'll find it. But you can do extensions

[43:32] on those that that are it's not more chain. It's

[43:37] a bedding extension. So basically they're running across the top and that

[43:44] There's a field at Brown City that does that,

[43:47] too. So, I'm not sure.

[43:53] » I think >> Oh,

[43:58] straight up. They still straighten it up.

[44:00] » It's like south in aense. He's still saying put you pull it up across the

[44:05] top. Now you send that up instead of make it heavy or anything.

[44:10] You can go like another 10 or 12t.

[44:24] So we could go from the center >> and on field four that's where that is

[44:30] too. We can't just keep moving to the right and get away from the power lines

[44:33] right there.

[44:44] » Do you have lights? >> No.

[44:49] » Yeah. They call us

[44:53] » the poles.

[44:57] » That's it.

[45:01] 3004,000

[45:05] » for all four of those.

[45:08] » Well, I can tell you

[45:12] LED, the good stuff. It was 240,000 bucks for high school. So when you look

[45:19] at a quad like that, the way If I would have a few less,000

[45:25] » and I may be short there. That's nuts. >> Yeah.

[45:29] » Crazy.

[45:34] » Yes.

[45:41] » Bring this out. You guys are

[45:52] » in office

[45:58] pretty much everybody. We all know everybody and know somebody know

[46:01] somebody. >> I mean that it's probably a way local

[46:07] business to get you know some

[46:14] » that was our biggest thing with the the rain and how much delay we do because we

[46:18] can only play so long because we run out of daylight by time.

[46:27] Yeah.

[46:32] out in the city. >> Yeah, that's true. We don't

[46:36] like Clark.

[46:39] » They shut them off at 10:15 and they're done. A whole bunch of

[46:44] houses and it just lights it up like they have

[46:49] to. >> And they will go out. There's no turning

[46:51] back on.

[46:56] » There's only one neighbor, right? wouldn't be affected.

[46:59] » All right. I think that's just one develop.

[47:04] » Yeah, there are some things that you guys can come up with or find out like

[47:07] to help out like the possibilities of like, you know, obviously we want to go

[47:11] forward with this. We just find money for us.

[47:18] I know you guys are serious about I get that

[47:26] » wasn't like that was No, no, no. So, there's things we can do to help with

[47:30] some projects. you know, we have no problem, you know,

[47:36] or something that's, you know, fencing or whatever it needs

[47:42] to

[47:45] we do, we all want we know what kind it has for our community. So, it's like

[47:51] » you won't find anybody more motivated around the

[47:57] » You guys got the real test. >> There's no question.

[48:01] like >> make sure that we're motivating people

[48:06] because we care

[48:11] » to take some steps here. >> Yeah.

[48:13] » Yeah. >> And I'll send you some pictures of the u

[48:18] our pumpkin festival thing here. It's like I think you would have a lot of I

[48:22] went to something like that and I was in the area kind of like say I did a road

[48:26] trip kind of thing in this area and the festival like this is like Hometown

[48:30] small town kind of nostalgia.

[48:39] » Oh yeah. Some probably come in for

[48:44] » Yeah. We have like a Lions Club that does and they have

[48:47] » Yeah, we got churches and >> it's very typical small hometown stuff

[48:53] you'd see on a movie. I mean that's the way it is around here. All the pumpkin

[48:56] set up out there. I think you have a lot of We'll just talk about that with the

[49:00] entertainment value after the games are done.

[49:10] » There will be

[49:18] » just

[49:23] September 26 times.

[49:29] really

[49:35] get close to pushing it.

[49:39] » I think for your guys

[49:44] and we can advertise it over there too for the entertainment value. I know I

[49:50] would because of the entertainment value especially when you're coming out think

[49:53] it's like because most people expect these festivals cars for 4 right be

[49:58] fairs and that they're never expected all time

[50:02] everything in there

[50:08] » they pay for their rides but that's new companies they do a pretty good job

[50:16] » we can set deals up for baseball teams coming

[50:21] Jackson County. It's not like

[50:27] five or six little kids rides and then there's about

[50:30] » you can see the new updated type of carnival rides and stuff

[50:35] and stuff going back and forth.

[50:41] » We could also set a deal.

[50:48] bullets. >> The bullet gravitron.

[50:53] » It's a very clean updated looking

[51:07] » that somehow cost to where every team

[51:12] that participates the player each player did they do like madness or They do a

[51:18] couple different things. They >> be a possibility.

[51:23] » It might be something where we we pay we we pay

[51:28] so many bands in each player is like you know I don't know what they do. They do

[51:33] like rides from

[51:39] Wednesday one ticket.

[51:41] » But you know what Saturday be a great day.

[51:44] » I don't think they do that. Saturday it's usually free.

[51:48] » It's kind of kind of quiet. They don't do their Saturday.

[51:55] » No, they don't go on Sunday anymore. >> Not on Sunday. They're not doing Sunday

[51:58] when they tear down. >> When do they come in though? Is it the

[52:01] weekend prior? >> They come in, Sunday, and Monday.

[52:05] They're set up by >> start.

[52:14] Saturday's the closing night. So, But either way, it's like Saturday

[52:20] probably Saturday.

[52:30] » Somebody's peeking through. Look like a maybe a teenager trying to

[52:34] get in. >> I thought for sure we still here on

[52:36] Saturday nights or Friday. >> Friday night's the big night.

[52:39] » Friday night's the big night. Saturday night.

[52:43] Yes. So if they're coming in play Saturday, maybe we give them if it's a

[52:48] band free or so many tickets

[53:01] and Saturday during the day they're still running up

[53:06] here or

[53:11] you figure like you

[53:20] Yeah, that's right.

[53:27] » I just randomly

[53:30] grew up there.

[53:38] Man, I didn't realize there was a festival going on. This was awesome.

[53:40] » Yeah. and stuff like that.

[53:43] » Yeah. >> I got other kids like my middle son, you

[53:47] know, usually baseball games, but we know that, hey,

[53:51] » hey, there's a special going on. Want you go with us and hang, you know, and

[53:54] okay, you know, so then it helps involve other siblings that may

[53:59] baseball or softball or whatever. >> No, it's a great idea. So guys, I'll

[54:03] take your time. I appreciate you having me. It's nice to meet you.

[54:07] » Stay in touch >> and I will I I'll go to work on this and

[54:11] see if we can't do something. >> Yeah, I'll send you a picture of the

[54:13] netting so we can see what we can do with that. If we can

[54:16] » this Yeah, if you don't prefer this >> and also on that outfield with the

[54:21] playground, if you prefer to leave that at normal height and we do something

[54:24] else, just let us know. do anything that's going to

[54:28] » I have something behind it to where as long as they still

[54:33] go but they have to go over like 30 ft. So

[54:38] we can we can look at that. Yeah.

[54:46] » Is that something you move that equipment?

[54:50] » I don't know. I didn't

[54:54] » No, but

[54:57] I think just comparison. >> I didn't know if they had like

[55:03] when we put that in, you know, there was talk about, you know, is this a safe

[55:07] place to do it? There's still a little bit of distance

[55:12] there. >> Yeah,

[55:14] » it might be something that you go all the way to the edge of the playground

[55:17] like here's the field and then where the playground maybe again. I can't remember

[55:21] how it lays, but is it like is it like boxed in? like mulch or whatever. So

[55:26] maybe this side that oxy maybe that's where you just go

[55:32] black chain link something you can build like on the inside like

[55:37] rock climbing walls with some little on the outside where then on the inside

[55:40] it's like little do like little play activities on the inside

[55:49] » I will I will >> okay

[55:51] » send you guys pictures of that and I will stay in touch

[55:54] » yeah stay in and let us know, you know, and let us know your thoughts about next

[55:58] year. >> I will.

[56:00] » The only other thing is um in the summer, every third Saturday, we do have

[56:05] live music up here on our stage. >> Yeah. Weekend, too.

[56:11] » Catch those Saturday. >> Every Saturday.

[56:14] » Not every Saturday.

[56:18] » When does it start? >> June. It starts in June and through

[56:24] August I think there's one in September about the middle of September.

[56:28] » There's plenty of parking on these little side streets come square and

[56:31] everything. So I mean it's out there

[56:37] that we built three years ago now wasn't it?

[56:41] » Yes.

[56:46] I think everybody was except for about 2500

[56:52] 25

[57:00] years ago too. I was trying to get in here but

[57:05] that's why I was dealing with bait still for a week or so already.

[57:08] » It's perfect time here. >> It's been a good addition.

[57:12] » I mean it's one right next

[57:18] to

[57:22] the grocery store when I

[57:28] » really

[57:31] two pieces of property

[57:39] and >> he was a newspaper guy.

[57:58] I changed

[58:02] But she still

[58:05] keep

[58:20] her hips out a little bit more that rear hip engagement because if they get up

[58:25] too tallest they get Then they roll over. But if

[58:30] they get hit

[58:41] » lean back,

[58:55] » we teach our kids.

[59:00] typically

[59:05] no matter

[59:10] if you go out.

[59:14] » Yeah. Go down that street >> and at that first street take a right.

[59:20] It's going to head you out, but you'll see the church.

[59:24] If you look straight ahead and on the left you see the library

[59:33] in 1937 in memory of his mother. And the most

[59:36] interesting fact about that church is the ceiling has stars made of gold and

[59:42] silver leaf and they are in the constellation the way it appeared in the

[59:46] night skat. >> That's amazing.

[59:50] » That is wild. He he was he he just has an amazing story.

[59:55] » Tyson Church. Tyson Church.

[1:00:03] » Yeah. >> Yeah.

[1:00:07] » I know you're a good lady for our line. >> I actually was on the phone to him this

[1:00:11] afternoon. He's got grandbabies. Got two new babies, you know, two little boys.

[1:00:16] No, he called Bob and Bob. I heard his voice. I said, "That's Carl. got him.

[1:00:22] » Yes. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, anyway, he stayed pretty

[1:00:27] buying his business here a couple years ago.

[1:00:29] » He told me about it. You doing okay with it?

[1:00:31] » We we are. I The funny thing is I don't work there.

[1:00:36] » Well, we when we got into that, it was the right fit for the tournaments. BJ,

[1:00:40] okay, we we he went there and I stayed and I stayed here. But

[1:00:44] » yeah, Carl, they seem a lot more because he he still stops in there a couple

[1:00:48] days. Yeah.

[1:00:50] » Yeah. It was KG Sports for 30 years. >> Yes. Long time.

[1:00:54] » Bob was a basketball coach here at the time that started buying stuff from

[1:00:58] » years ago.

[1:01:02] » Yeah. >> Yeah.

[1:01:05] » So, yeah, it's premier sports car.

[1:01:10] » Oh gosh. >> He's a wheeler dealer.

[1:01:12] » Oh, what did he tell me that? He said something tagged something on the end of

[1:01:16] his name. I forget what it was now. There's a tangle wood right there. You

[1:01:20] see? >> Yeah. See that? We're building with the

[1:01:23] black window that >> just Yeah. Just take take a look.

[1:01:30] ever came this far.

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