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#015 Max Anderson - Toledo Mud Hens
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Join host, Brad Rieger, and top Tigers prospect, Max Anderson, in a conversation about Max's career in baseball from grade school to draft day and beyond.
Well, hello everyone. Thanks for joining Holy Toledo Sports Edition. Our guest today is Max Anderson, and Max is an infielder for the Mud Hens, and he's having a standout year for the Hens. And during this conversation, he gives us a behind-the-scenes glimpse and what it's to be, what it's like to be a professional baseball player for him, and also uh shares about his upbringing from uh Omaha, Nebraska, and his time at the University of Nebraska, what it was like at the Major League Baseball Draft Day, and just provides a really great perspective on what it's like to be uh a Mud Hend. And it was really an enjoyable conversation. All right, Max, thanks for joining us here. And I know your schedule is really, really hectic, and um just really appreciate giving us an opportunity to get to know you a little bit better.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, for sure. I'm happy to be here and uh excited.
SPEAKER_02And you probably still have a little bit of adrenaline rush as we sit here. It's uh afternoon, and but uh last night um big game, big win for the Hens against uh Omaha Storm Chasers, and you played a big part of that. You had a home run, and obviously 10th inning, bases loaded, and you had a walk-off. And so, my I bet you never really get tired of your teammates mobbing you after a walk-off, right?
SPEAKER_00No, yeah, that cold bath, it it's always uh it's a little shocking at the moment, but it's never a bad feeling when uh you got your teammates, you know, throwing the water cooler at you. Uh, it's a pretty cool experience because you know you grow up watching that your whole life.
SPEAKER_02How many of you had, if you had to guess? Go all the way back to Little Lake.
SPEAKER_00Oh man. The uh there was one in high school that I remember hitting that was a walk-off home run that was probably my favorite um to this date so far. Um, and then in in West Michigan, it felt like I had a walk-off like every other week for a little bit for a while. I don't know. I just kept coming up in the moment and uh got lucky enough to get some hits. So, but it it never gets old. It always puts a smile on your on your face and makes you feel like a kid.
SPEAKER_02Well, you sent about 6,000 fans home happy last night. So thanks for that. Um and my gut is probably because of your success for a long period of time, that those big moments, those game on the line moments, you kind of gravitate to those.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I mean, it's it's always tough. Like you're always getting your adrenaline pumping and your heartbeats pumping, but uh, I feel like the more and more you go through them the more it becomes a normal, which is kind of crazy than a crazy minimum at any stage movement with no fans, with 6,000 fans. I mean, in an inner squad in college, like it's it's all uh it all kind of that's why you play the game.
SPEAKER_02So you grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. Um, how did the game of baseball get introduced to you?
SPEAKER_00So my my family, I have an my dad and my older brother, um, the two biggest sports fans I know. Um my brother, I always, he's four years older than me. So I watched him play every single sport, grew up watching every single game. And uh every sport that he would play, I would bring my glove, or I'd bring my basketball, or I'd bring my football to every single game I went to with him. Uh so I think that's kind of how I started and kind of just worked out that I was the best at baseball. Um, so it it's uh it's continued to take me uh to places I never thought it would. And um yeah, the those two are definitely the guys that started my love for sports.
SPEAKER_02And uh people early on noticed that you were a talent. Uh supposedly when you're seven years old, when all of us were just trying to make contact and literally you had three home runs in like a really short period of time, but people said that Max Anderson kid has game.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I guess I I mean it was I always remember being pretty good at at the game, but uh yeah, my my brother and my dad did a good job of keeping me humble, so I never really knew about it.
SPEAKER_02And you had a um travel coach, Brian Southworth that had an impact on you played three or four seasons for him. What did you learn from Coach Southworth?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I think um he did a great job teaching me um not only like mechanics about baseball, um, how to play the game, how to play it the right way. Um, but I think the way that he coached and um our other coaches, they made it like a huge impact on our life, I feel like, um, outside of the game. Just like as the people um that they wanted us to become and like our parents wanted us to become. Um I think he always made sure that we played the game with a smile on our face. Um we learned at a quick age that even like the best hitters are gonna fail um seven times out of ten. Um so in life, I think like they always preach that baseball is the best teacher of life because you fail more than you succeed. Um so I think how to how to respond to failure was a big part of it. Um and he taught us kind of just, you know, we gotta keep on, keep on going um through all the failures and uh have fun while you're doing it. Um I think those are the biggest things when you're growing up playing baseball uh that I could have learned and that anybody should learn. Um I keep that going through today. I always love to play with a smile on my face, and um when I'm not playing with a smile on my face is when I start playing bad. So it's a good reminder to just be happy.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. And uh when growing up as a kid, what uh what team did you cheer for baseball wise? And who did you idolize? Who'd you cheer for?
SPEAKER_00So I was a Royals fan. I was I was actually born in Kansas City and only lived there for like three months, um, and then we moved to Omaha. Um, but I grew up watching uh Alex Gordon and Jabba Chamberlain, uh were my two favorite players. Um Alex Gordon, he was uh, I mean, unbelievable player at Nebraska, and then great player for the Royals, and then Jabba. Uh I actually wore number 62 uh when I was growing up. So I was I was a big fan. That was back when I thought I was gonna be a pitcher still. Um those those dreams died pretty quick, but the hitting hitting worked out.
SPEAKER_02Hitting worked out, and you also played uh basketball and ice hockey. That's that whole family sports thing. Yep. So what what position did you play uh basketball and hockey wise?
SPEAKER_00Uh so I was defenseman in hockey. I was never really the best skater. Um, just kind of pretty slow out there.
SPEAKER_02You could lay a body on someone?
SPEAKER_00Exactly. I I had friends that played. I wanted to play with all my friends. Uh something that my mom could get me to for two or three hours during the day where she was taking care of the other two. Um basketball was pretty similar. I was played positions like one through four. Uh was never like the most like the best scorer, but uh I'd like to say I was a good role player on the playing basketball, but I like kind of like the same thing. Like I played basketball because I had really good buddies that played in college, I mean in high school. Um and I had a lot of fun doing it. Uh so I think being able to play other sports is only makes you a better baseball player or better athlete uh in general. So I had fun doing it, and I don't regret playing it and just focusing all on baseball or anything. So I had a good time.
SPEAKER_02And you went to Millard uh West uh high school and um very good academically there and also the athletic programs, the baseball program really solid. In fact, in your senior year, you helped the team win a state championship. That had to be had to been a thrilling experience.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I mean it was awesome. Uh we had another th another great group of guys um that were there. Um that was a lot of fun to play on. Um but yeah, we as a team just kind of came together and played great. We I think we started off our season like 18 or 19 and oh um and then finally lost the game. But uh no, what that was a lot of fun. And to be able to win us, I think it was our first state tournament uh championship for that team. And they'd had so many good teams and so many good players, and for us to finally break through is really special.
SPEAKER_02Bringing up another coach, your coach uh Coach Fry, also kind of a legendary figure based on the research I did. Oh, yeah. What uh what impact did he have on you?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I think kind of just growing my knowledge of the game. Uh the coaches there, uh, they had a lot, a lot to teach me about. Um, I mean, I was kind of just a naive guy, I mean, baseball player coming from travel baseball, and then as a sophomore, I played on varsity, so I felt like I had a lot to learn. Um, the coaches helped me out. A lot of the older guys helped me out just to be able to, you know, get up to speed and be able to play that level level of baseball. Um, I mean, now it's pretty normal to play with guys that are older than you or younger than you, but when you're a sophomore, um it's like the first time in your life that you're really playing with guys that are two or three years older than you. Um so I think that's a big learning curve to just kind of try and finally realize that you know I am good enough to be here, and um, there's gonna be things that I need to learn, but these guys have my back and they're gonna, you know, cheer you up and pick you up when you're down. So I think it was it was a good learning experience for me, and I learned a lot in high school.
SPEAKER_02And you had uh some team success, of course, but you individually had all kinds of uh individual awards, including winning a statewide um award. It's a national award, but it's the was the 2019, 2018 and 2019 you won the Gatorade uh Player of the Year um for baseball for the state of Nebraska.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And the unique aspect about that award, and you know this, is that you have to have the b baseball chops to get there, but there's whole other components. There's the leadership, there's a character, and then there's the school performance. And so for you to win that, to win it once isn't in the crowd, but to win it twice, it had to be really meaningful for you and your parents.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, for sure. Uh what I didn't know about that award is your coach has to write up like a letter, uh almost like a letter of wreck for you. Um so I feel like the fact that I won that and the fact that um the letter that my coach wrote for me was pretty awesome to see just kind of how they think about you. Um, you know, you kind of always get a feeling about how they might feel about you, but when they're actually uh nominating you for an award, it's pretty cool to see uh how highly they think of you. So that was pretty a pretty good feeling to feel that. Um and then just uh to win that award is pretty special to see the names that had come before me and then now that are winning it now. Um it's uh it's a pretty pretty uh cool award.
SPEAKER_02Um win back to back is really something.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it was it was an awesome experience. Um, you know, my my teammates were super supportive of me, so that was awesome.
SPEAKER_02Now you um committed to Texas AM your junior year, so you had it a lot going for you early on. So you committed, um, and everything was pretty well teed up to get to Texas AM until something went sideways. So can you say what happened and how you got to Nebraska?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so I was committed for a while to Texas AM. Um and then 2020 happened with COVID and everything. Uh and from my understanding, it was more just that they had, you know, the draft was cut down to five rounds that year. Um, they had a lot of guys that they thought were gonna leave uh um, you know, when you're recruiting that that class, and uh they didn't leave because the draft was shortened down, and uh in the grand scheme of things, there just wasn't enough room. Um and it just so happened the year before the Nebraska coaching staff um that got hired to Nebraska was the hitting coach, uh graduate assistant, and uh I think one more guy came over to Nebraska, uh Will Bolt and Jeff Christie. So I hadn't had known them before. Um and so right when I right when I kind of got let go of Tech CNM or it didn't really work out, um, I knew right away that I was gonna go to Nebraska, just kind of depending on um what they had to say about it. But I that that's what I wanted to go, that's where I wanted to go. Um and it worked out perfect. I would am glad that I went there and I have no regrets. It was uh kind of the perfect thing. Um my mom always likes to say like somebody was watching over you there. Uh so it was pretty special that that all worked out.
SPEAKER_02And what did you you were three years there at Nebraska, if you think back uh to the academics, uh to the campus life in baseball, what what were the formative pieces for during that time?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Um I think college is it's definitely it's it's a lot of fun on the baseball field and you're playing very meaningful baseball. But I think college, um, the biggest you know, growing point is living on your own and living like you're living they this first year you we had COVID and we didn't have much to to do outside of that. So it was eight baseball players living in two four four bedroom rooms. Um, and we kind of just were thrown out there, like, okay, guys, go live. And I think that's that's a pretty cool experience um to go like. I mean, a lot of those guys, like there's probably gonna be like four or five of them that are in my wedding, and all of them will be at my wedding. So uh that's a really exciting thing that you know we got to grow grow through, and uh be freshmen on a baseball team is definitely something uh you go you grow through together because you're going through um you know the new freshman things, trying to learn how to live, trying to learn how to play that level of baseball. Um so I think college is a lot more than um just the baseball on the field. Uh and then I think it's a lot about those relationships you build with those guys that you come into college with.
SPEAKER_02And you were majoring in supply chain management. So you had some business viewpoint that you were career-wise as possible?
SPEAKER_00That was that was the goal. Um I haven't finished yet, but my my mom's definitely on me. I'll finish eventually. You'll get it done. I will. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Now, yeah, 2023, that season, you exploded right onto the scene. You were you were doing well, but you you had a 414 batting average for the season. You had 21 home runs, 20 doubles, 70 RBIs, 51 runs. Your fielding percentage was 0.992. You were uh selected as an all-American by six different organizations, you're all Big Ten, first team, you're all uh all academic, Big Ten. You got some uh distinguished scholar uh award from the Big Ten. What clicked in 2023 for you?
SPEAKER_00Oh man, I think uh I think it was just, you know, when you sometimes you get into flow state as a baseball player, um, and that's just kind of what happened, I feel like. Um a lot of a lot of it, I feel like I was in such a good spot outside of baseball with my school, my friends, you know, living with everybody, like my my buddies, and life was just going good, and I just wasn't really thinking about you know anything really. So I was just going out there and playing. Um we had a great team, great team chemistry that year too. Um so the guys you knew had had your back, and um there just wasn't very many worries in the world. Um, I mean, as a junior in college, there isn't much worries, so so it was a it was a fun time. Um the baseball definitely worked out for me uh that year, and uh yeah, it was it was a great year for me.
SPEAKER_02And you were on the radar of uh the professional teams before then, but 2023 obviously elevated your profile. Um take us to the uh 2023 draft ray. Where were you and who was with you and when you got the call from the Tigers?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so I was at my aunt and uncle's lake house actually in Ashland, Nebraska. Um we kind of had a whole day affair, like go out there for lunch and hang out. All my buddies came out. Um, a lot of my extended family was there. So there's probably like 30, 30 people there. Um, it was a very cool moment to be able to spend that with everybody. Um kind of the guys that you grew up with and family members that you know you see at every holiday. So that was really cool. Uh and then I was the second round. Um, so it was it it was like nighttime, like I think like 8:30 or something. And um yeah, I remember getting a FaceTime call from my agent, and he's like, Yeah, I think you're gonna get picked uh right here at 45. And I was like, Whoa, that was that was kind of because I thought I was gonna go like later like 60 to 70 range, and he's like, No, we're this is gonna happen. And then like two picks before, uh I think Garko called me um and told me about it, and then I was like, Yeah, this is this is actually happening, like going to the Tigers. So it was uh it's a really surreal moment to see your name on that TV.
SPEAKER_01With the 45th pick of the 2023 MOB draft, the Detroit Tigers select Max Anderson, a second baseman from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. The Colorado Rockies have the next pick. Uh Jim, you got tent of it. Max Anderson.
SPEAKER_02And so we're three years out from that moment, and your uh career has been a steady trajectory towards the goal, right? Uh right now, though, you've had you're having a standout year for the Hens. You I mean, you're on fire the last six or seven weeks. Yeah. Um what if you look back at the season, you're about we're about 110 games in. What do you um what do you enjoy the most about being here playing for the Hens?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I I mean ever since I got to Toledo last year, I've loved it here. Love the stadium, love the you know, surrounding areas. I'm over in Perrysburg right now, um, and I love the apartment set up uh right next to the Levi Commons, and that's a great place to go. Um so I've I've had a great time. Um I think being comfortable outside of baseball is also a big thing. Um, so I've been I've been very comfortable here. And then the guys here, I mean, are unbelievable. A lot of them I've played with before. So I think that helps. Uh and just good people uh having in your locker room helps as well. Uh the hitting coaches, they've helped me out a bunch. They know me, I feel like, so that helps. They can they can sometimes tell me what I'm doing wrong before I even realize it. Uh, so that that helps me out a bunch. And just kind of playing baseball um and not really worrying about the effects, uh, what could and could not happen, uh, I think is big and it's tough to be able to do. But once you kind of get to that moment and are just playing baseball again, like you're in college or like you're just with your with your buddies um playing the game, I think that's when things start to click for you.
SPEAKER_02Max, for uh let's say a seven o'clock game like you have tonight, um take us through uh the your pregame uh routine from waking up all the way to the first pitch. And please don't leave out any any asynces or superstitions or um kind of interesting routines you might have.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so I I definitely sleep in in the mornings. Uh we get home, we get home pretty late, so it takes a little bit to you know kind of cool down. So I probably go to bed around one, uh, try and sleep in till always just always get eight hours at least.
SPEAKER_02And let me just back up for people that don't know it, you're basically playing six days a week with Monday off. Yes, right?
SPEAKER_00Okay, so it's it's a lot of baseball. Yes. But uh yeah, try and get eight hours of sleep, um, no matter what, and it's definitely longer a lot of the times. But uh wake up, um, usually watch some TV, make some breakfast. Um, I don't have any shows right now, so I need to work on that.
SPEAKER_02But uh wait, let's go back to that new show. What have been some shows that you really got into?
SPEAKER_00So I just got done with uh quarterback, the new season of quarterback, and then I've re-watched, I think, Ted Lasso a bunch of times. That's one of my favorite shows.
SPEAKER_02Uh new season, I think, just got dropped today. Yeah, I think I just saw that. So I so I guess I got it. Now you got so now you got the show.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so doing that kind of just kind of have an easier morning, uh, make my breakfast, and then uh usually have a coffee that I bring to the field at about 12 30 is usually about when I'm leaving. Uh get here, um, you know, get changed, get everything in order, and then some of the days we'll lift. Um, most of the times it's just moving around to get your body ready. Um and then we'll start start by hitting, like we hit first. In the batting cages. Then usually do some defense, BP on the field, uh go hit, and then game time. Um, but I'm definitely uh superstition-wise, I need an energy drink before every single game.
SPEAKER_02What do you go for?
SPEAKER_00I'm usually C4. Yeah. C4 or pre-workout if I forget an energy drink. Um gosh, I don't know if I have anything too crazy for superstition-wise. Don't make anything up. I wear shorts under my pants every day. Okay. Every game. I do that. Uh and then kind of just go play. Uh, nothing really, nothing too crazy about my routine, just try and keep it normal, kind of like a normal life until you got your seven hours before that you gotta what do you do post-game to come down from a game? I play a lot of video games, NCAA 20, college football. Okay. I'm a big into college football.
SPEAKER_02You're an incredible hitter, Max. Uh, if you when you're on um you're in the on deck circle and you start walking towards the plate, what's going through your mind?
SPEAKER_00Um, I'm honestly trying to keep everything away from from baseball at that moment. Like I'm trying to get every get my mind off of it and just kind of calm my calm my mind down a little bit. Um kind of when I'm walking up to the plate and getting into the box is when I get back to like what my plan is and go from there. But I usually have that all just kind of figured out while I'm standing there and then while I'm on deck, it's just trying to think about how awesome this is and how much be in the moment. Exactly. How much how much fun uh this is what I'm doing today, um, and what what you know has come from my life and I'm a have been able to do. Uh, you know, it's just a very cool, cool thing to just kind of all take in.
SPEAKER_02When you're in the box and you are in that flow state, you're locked in. What is what is that feel? What are you seeing?
SPEAKER_00It I mean, it a lot of the feel and you're seeing, you're not really seeing anything. You're see, you're just kind of not thinking. It's like any pitch this pitcher throws is gonna get hit now. And you're taking pitches that are right off the edge, and nobody know nobody really knows why that why that happens or why you get into that, but when it does, it's the best feeling ever. When you can feel like you're at the top of anything that you're doing, it's is unbelievable. And uh to be able to to feel that is pretty special. And you know, you just hope that it lasts as long and as far as it can.
SPEAKER_02To your point, the flow state. That's that's everyone's goal, right? For sure. For sure. In the field, uh, Max, you you did you spent time second base, third base. In high school, you did shortstop, right? Have you played first base at all?
SPEAKER_00Uh I played a little first base in summer ball um in the Cape, and then a little bit my sophomore year college. Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_02When you're in the infield, um, when the batters come into the to the plate, what are you thinking about mentally?
SPEAKER_00Um a lot of a lot of like the the game plan of like what's gonna happen, all the situations that could happen uh in the field. I would say in the field, I'm definitely more uh kind of zoned into everything. Um just trying to figure out like where I need to be, um what I need to do. I feel like in the field as an infielder, my responsibility is to help out that pitcher as much as I as much as you can. Uh so when you're pretty close with those guys like that are that are pitching, like you want to do everything you can for them um to help them out and save them, maybe an earned run. Uh so I'm trying to do everything I can to you know figure out what's gonna happen if a guy hits a ball, you know, to the right field or left field and where I need to be. Um and if I need to come in a little bit to maybe be quicker for a double play, but yeah, it's there's a lot, definitely a lot more going through my mind in the field.
SPEAKER_02Uh a lot of ups and downs in baseball. We kind of touched on that. How do you manage those periodic slumps, uh, mental mistakes, uh uh fielding errors? How do you manage that? For sure.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I I think that comes back to uh you know what I learned when I was growing when I was really young is that you're gonna fail and you just gotta continue to have fun during this game. And kind of you kind of have to put your failures on to your teammates um and make and like talk to them, not about the failures, but kind of get your brain off of it. Um yeah, when I say put it on them, like not saying like it's their fault or anything, it's more like just getting your brain away from what happened. Like, yes, there's a time to learn and learn from what you did and um make sure it doesn't happen again. But I think the biggest biggest thing to make sure it doesn't happen again in the near future is to, you know, get back into playing baseball again with your friends and playing for the guy behind the mound and realizing that you can't really change what happened already. Um, it's already done. So you gotta try and make sure, you know, you're gonna try and save another run for him.
SPEAKER_02Uh the grind of the sport is really tough during the season. You kind of gave us a glimpse of your sleep regimen, but um how do you take care of yourself as far as like uh exercise, diet, and anything else you want to say about your sleep regimen?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Uh so we we they the tigers do a great job with uh with food and everything for pregame and post-game. Uh all the meals that they do is um is great. I think um taking a lot of supplements, uh not a lot, but the right ones for kind of how you feel, um, I think is big. And then just being able to get in the weight room, um, not trying to gain weight necessarily, but just trying to keep your body so it's moving and working uh correctly. I think baseball and playing six, six days a week um does enough you know, harm on your body. So I think just doing a lot more maintenance than um power lifting and in uh in season is big.
SPEAKER_02Away from baseball. What do you do? What do you enjoy doing um away from baseball? Now would be Mondays, I guess. For sure. And then the off-season. What do you enjoy doing away from baseball?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I'm I'm big with hanging out with my friends. Um I love to golf. I'm a big golfer. So a lot of the Mondays here we're trying to golf if we're not traveling.
SPEAKER_02What courses do you enjoy here in the Toledo area?
SPEAKER_00Uh we play we've played at Stone Ridge. Ummy Bay, we just played this past week. Uh that's a tough one. The wind's always blowing there. Um I think that's only the only two we've played. Uh, we just kind of keep it normal.
SPEAKER_02Who's the best golfer on the team?
SPEAKER_00Oh man. Uh it's definitely not me. Uh, I've I kind of like baseball. I go have a good time there. Yeah. Yeah. Um Andrew Navigado's pretty good. Um the best golfer on our team is uh Mike Hesman, though. Yeah, or hitting him. Don't mess with him. Yeah, he's unbelievable. He's yeah, he's not even close to any of us. So uh he's yeah, he'd kick all of our butts. Um, but it's always a good time. Um, just something to get away from baseball and uh you know have four hours away from kind of anything and everything. Put your phone down and just have a good time.
SPEAKER_02Two more questions here, Max. When that call comes uh from the Tigers for you to join at Co America, what is that moment gonna mean to you and to the people that helped get you there?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I think that call is um, you know, everything you've been working for your whole entire life at a sport. Um you know, anybody that's really done, I guess I was gonna say anybody that's played a sport, but it's really every everybody's done something that kind of you've put your whole life's work into. Um it just feels good when you get to that the top level of something that you've been working for and um know that all that all the work that you really that sometimes you didn't want to do um is paying off. Uh so it's gonna be pretty special. And I know for my dad, my brother, it it'll be pretty awesome to um to see that. I mean, they've followed baseball for ever since they were, they could read, they were reading magazines and everything, and so it'll be pretty special to see their reactions and celebrate that moment with them as well.
SPEAKER_02It seems like we should end this conversation about your wedding. You brought up a wedding. What well do you feel? Well, can you share it? This is optional too. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I I don't have a wedding yet, but just saying in the future. In the future. Yeah, I I do have a girlfriend, though. Okay, we don't have to. No, nothing yet. Nothing yet. But no, just all those guys thinking about the close friends. Yeah, for sure. That's great.
SPEAKER_02Well, Max, this has really been enjoyable, and uh thanks for giving us the behind-the-scenes glimpse into kind of a life of a professional baseball player, and more importantly, just someone that grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and did things the right way and is doing the gr things the right way here for the Mud Hens. And so we wish you all the best here with the rest of the season with the Mud Hens, and then obviously beyond the Hens.
SPEAKER_00Thank you very much. Yeah, I appreciate it.