How's it going and welcome to episode 256 of On the Wire?

Proud member of the Picture List Podcast Network.

I am Adam Powell.

Joined as always by Kevin Hasting.

Thank you all for listening, watching.

However you're consuming our show, I appreciate it. Kevin,

and I appreciate you being back here, even under duress. Hopefully everything's going fine and

you'll, you know, you'll get back making it sound way worse than it is. You're obviously on your feet, but you're

obviously also, you're day to day. I'm walking with a cane. I'm walking with a cane at 55 years old.

So, yeah, the jokes are a plenty. But it's meant it's meant not a normal day job for a couple of weeks now,

which has meant this time of year, Adam, I, I love the women's and men's college world series and got to watch all four opening games of the women's college

world series yesterday and keeping track of quite a bit of what's going on with the opening

days of regionals for the men's tournament and a couple big upsets. First time in history that

the number one overall seed lost their first game of the tournament.

Now, I do expect them to still come out of that regional UCLA, but that's a, that's a big deal.

So, yeah, it's been, it's been a lot of fun getting to watch some of the extra baseball, as I like to call it, at the college ranks.

Nice. Yes. It is a nice luxury to have. I can't say the same as far as being able to follow

all that, especially at this stage. But there are perks to the, perks to the job, if you will,

when you have nothing else to do.

I do hope that your cane has like,

instead of like a diamond on the top,

it's like a baseball or something,

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