And we are back, folks here on the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050 WTKA, online at the big 1050.com, and joining us one day early.

Our good friend Bonnie Tho, who said, listen, I am going to make sure that I get you guys in because we're going to be in the air tomorrow.

So she was gracious enough to join us a day early.

Bonnie, good morning.

How are you?

Good morning, Stan.

I'm doing well and happy to be back on the line with you.

And, yep, tomorrow we're headed out to make a trip out to our newcomer to the conference in Oregon.

And looking forward to that, an exciting weekend and getting ready to go.

So I thought we would make sure that you get your softball fix for the week.

And, you know, exciting things happening in the past, exciting things happening looking forward.

And so I want to get a chance to talk to you all about it because I know you're excited as well.

Yeah, absolutely.

And want to reflect because we weren't able to catch up with you last week about the opening of conference play.

And just start our first just getting your

opening of conference play down in Oklahoma City

what was what was the kind of the thought process behind that and

do you do you think that's something that the Big Ten is going to do moving

forward like how do what do you think of that?

Well, it, we had good success there, but I'm going to tell you that it's the place where you always want to end your season on that field in that stadium.

And I'm going to say that's one of the few things that were a positive, in my opinion.

And not being able to play in front of our home fans is obviously a bummer,

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