And we are back here on the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050 WTCA, online at the

big 1050.com.

By now, if you listen to this show for any stretch of time, you know that the Michigan

Softball Academy is near and dear to our hearts.

We have participated since going back to what, 2011.

We've been participants in the softball academy where, you know, we go through all the drills, we go to the social mixer.

It's been a lot of fun, very fulfilling, get a chance to spend time with the student athletes from a different perspective, and then raise money for an unbelievable cause, which is making strides against breast cancer, right? So it's a lot of fun,

really strengthening the connection with Michigan softball and raising awareness and dollars for research to fight cancer.

But, you know, there's also this competitive side to it, right?

There's two competitions, Sam, right?

You want to raise a lot of money.

That's the most important competition.

But there is another competition, yes.

Yeah.

And so it turns out as we welcome our esteemed guests who I'll introduce here now, turns out that I was drafted into the home run der.

Well, you are a previous participant and we want to see you knock one out finally.

So here's the deal.

I was like, okay, yeah, I'll do it.

You know, I'm feeling a little bit better.

You know, I was like, okay, yeah, I get out there and take a couple hacks.

I might even get my man Lance, my cameraman, who was a college baseball player,

get him come out and help me, you know, she showed me how to elevate the ball.

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