Behind the Scenes of the Everplay Sports Experience
The salient point of this podcast episode is the detailed exploration of Everplay Sports and Social, a recreational league that facilitates adult participation in various sports while fostering community engagement.
The discussion with Alex Avinger highlights the league's evolution since its inception a decade ago, emphasizing its diverse offerings, including kickball, softball, and the increasingly popular pickleball. Listener discretion is advised, as the language and content may not be suitable for all audiences. We delve into the operational challenges faced in managing such a league, particularly in maintaining staffing and field conditions, while also celebrating the community's spirit exemplified by the substantial charitable contributions made by the league.
Throughout our dialogue, we reflect on personal experiences that underscore the importance of camaraderie and enjoyment in adult recreational sports.
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Speaker B: that was started here back in: Speaker B:And it really just started out as I want to say it was dodgeball and kickball.
Speaker B:That was primarily it, right?
Speaker A:That's right.
Speaker A:Ten years ago, we started as just a single dodgeball league.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And as the seasons went on, you just added different sports.
Speaker A:You know, the next season, dodgeball and kickball.
Speaker A:The next season, dodgeball, kickball, softball.
Speaker A:Next season, dodgeball, kickball, softball, and indoor volleyball.
Speaker A:Then we cut dodgeball because it ended up being a lot of, as you can imagine, screaming and, you know, not agreeing with calls whether, you know, last time people played dodgeball was in middle school, high school, right?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:There was no.
Speaker A:There was gym teacher on the bleachers.
Speaker A:Beep, you're out.
Speaker A:No questions.
Speaker A:Asked now we have grown ups that are no it didn't hit me.
Speaker A:Yes it did.
Speaker A:No it didn't.
Speaker A:So we're arguing, you know there's a foul ball or arguing about, you know spending most of the time and the game time that these players are paying for arguing about if you're out or not.
Speaker A:So we brought it back last spring as a 10 year anniversary throwback.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And you know we, we've ran it four seasons now offering it again this spring and if it works out great.
Speaker A:If not, hey, we did it for a year essentially and we may offer, offer it just like seasonal in the winter when it's cold to give somebod players like myself, you know, you don't want to be out here for 50 minutes in the cold and whatnot.
Speaker A:You'd rather be inside.
Speaker A:So yeah man.
Speaker B:What people can't see behind the table is that he's long sleeves, long pants, I'm in shorts.
Speaker B:I didn't.
Speaker B:It was warm today.
Speaker B:I didn't think that this was going to be the weather.
Speaker B: So: Speaker B:How did that come about?
Speaker A:Yeah, so I have a history with just working with different recreational and sports leagues going back to high school.
Speaker A:So almost 16 years of just experience with different recreational sports leagues locally here.
Speaker A:Went to Chapin High School.
Speaker A:Worked for ICRC ref and soccer as a teenager.
Speaker A:Ump and softball as a teenager.
Speaker A:Fast forward go to college at USC upstate in Spartanburg.
Speaker A:Get into intramural program.
Speaker A:Started off as just an official.
Speaker A:A week later I was a manager.
Speaker A:You know months later got into an undergraduate assistant position staff director and finishing up up there I was just going, I had two days a week in school.
Speaker A:I was back and forth, not even didn't even have a place.
Speaker A:An hour and a half up the street I would go do my class, come back my boss up there at the time for intramurals.
Speaker A:Hey look into ever play sport and social club that looks like something you would be interested in.
Speaker A:Emailed the email that we still have today.
Speaker A:Hey I'm interested.
Speaker A:And getting out there, not only being around sports but meeting people, you know, right out, right after college, whatever it may be.
Speaker A:Started off as an official with everyplay.
Speaker A:Kind of went through the same sort of process as intramurals.
Speaker A:They, they made me, they made me a staff director.
Speaker A: January: Speaker A: rd first part of ownership in: Speaker B:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker A:And then this April 1st would be three years of me doing this by myself as a solo owner.
Speaker A:And that's just, you know, that's a whole other episode we can kind of get into.
Speaker A:But that's, that's how I got involved just with the background of sports.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:You know, so I think, I think that the.
Speaker B: The COVID: Speaker B:That was the one where we were out at the Blowfish Stadium, Lexington, and having three basically in the outfield.
Speaker B:We had three games.
Speaker B:We were just sort of spread out in 90 degree angles across the outfield.
Speaker B:And, and even at the time, I was.
Speaker B:I was friends with the owner of the Blowfish, Bill Shanahan.
Speaker A:Yep, yep.
Speaker B:And so shout out to Bill.
Speaker B:But it was.
Speaker B:That was such an.
Speaker B:That was, it was.
Speaker B:It was so much fun.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:And the number of people that came out, despite the fact that, you know, I mean, there were plenty of safety measures in place and everything for it.
Speaker B:But, you know, you were talking about some of the.
Speaker B:The events of leading through your time here with Everplay, the people you've gotten to meet.
Speaker B:You met a significant individual during that time.
Speaker B:You met your wife?
Speaker A:I did, yes.
Speaker A:I met her.
Speaker A:Shoot.
Speaker A: I met her summer of: Speaker A:I was just a staff director when I, When I met her.
Speaker A:I had this plan of, you know, buying ownership in January.
Speaker A:She didn't know any of that at the time.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker B:Yeah, I mean, tell her so.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So, you know, I told her my whole plan.
Speaker A:She's very supportive of.
Speaker A:Of decision and buying ownership.
Speaker A:I'm very passionate about, you know, doing this or I wouldn't be doing this.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker A:But the Blowfish, that.
Speaker A:That was.
Speaker A:I almost forget about that because it seems like so long ago, but it was one of the first leagues that we did bring back a late fall kickball league on Wednesdays out of the Blowfish and, you know, a minor league baseball stadium which is very unique compared to what we're playing on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday out here.
Speaker B:Yeah, there was somebody else taking care of the field.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So they, they, you know, and something different.
Speaker A:And it was, it was very fun, unique experience and whatnot.
Speaker A:Bill was awesome.
Speaker A:The staff there was very awesome.
Speaker A:The one thing that, you know, for us, we rent these fields through Lexington County, City of Columbia.
Speaker A:So we have to abide by their.
Speaker A:Their rules and regulations regarding, you know, we are 21 and up league.
Speaker B:Right, right.
Speaker A:Sponsored by Bud Light and KW KW Beverages here.
Speaker A:Locally, we're not allowed to have beverages out.
Speaker A:Adult beverages.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So, you know, going out there having a Bud Light or Ultra and in the concourse and the stands and bringing up, you know, not legit on the field, but, you know, in your dugouts was cool.
Speaker A:Yeah, I think you can agree with that.
Speaker B:I was more fond of the hot chocolate.
Speaker B:The hot chocolate, because that was a cold winter, you know, and it played out well because, of course, we were adhering to Covid restrictions and things like that.
Speaker B:So a lot of us wearing masks and, you know, if we, at least on our team, if anyone tested COVID positive, then they didn't show up that week.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:And that was one of our.
Speaker A:Don and I back then, had to from scratch come up with a COVID policy.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:And we still have it in play because Covid is still around.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker B:But like, you had somebody checking people's temperatures.
Speaker A:We had people at the gates before you could even come in, checking temperatures, giving masks to participants that didn't have them, you know, hand sanitizer right there at the gate.
Speaker A:So, I mean, we were doing it, doing it all to try to take every precaution we could to make people feel safe and, you know, still allow people to come out and play leagues that we were shut down for, you know, five months.
Speaker A:So people were ready to get back.
Speaker B:And yeah, I remember when everything broke, I was still playing softball at Bray, and.
Speaker B:And it was ultimately, it got to the point where we couldn't even.
Speaker B:We didn't have enough people to field the team because people were concerned about being sick or getting sick or being sick or whatever.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:So ultimately it all, you know, it just whittled out.
Speaker B:And then, you know, thankfully, that late fall winter kickball came back and we all signed up because that was that for us.
Speaker B:For me, having kids at home, it was the one night out a week I get.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:So expand for me on the variety of leagues that ever play sports and social here in Colombia has.
Speaker B:Because I know we're talking about kickball, we talked about dodgeball, but you all have expanded in some new sports recently.
Speaker A:That's right.
Speaker B:Which is one that's taking the planet by storm, which is pickleball.
Speaker A:Pickleball, Yep.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:So we, you know, this spring we're offering 15 different leagues.
Speaker A:That doesn't mean 15 different sports.
Speaker A:We run two days of softball, three days of kickball, two days of soccer, with one of those days having two locations, two days of indoor volleyball, two days of sand volleyball, and then, yes, try and dodgeball again.
Speaker A:And then some self officiated Sports, like you said, pickleball, which is growing.
Speaker A:It's so fun.
Speaker A:My wife and I love it.
Speaker A:We play, if I had time, I would play in the league if I could.
Speaker A:You know, bowling and, and cornhole.
Speaker B:Yeah, Cornhole.
Speaker A:You know, a lot of different leagues that, that don't require a lot of people on a team.
Speaker A:Pickleball, you know, you need two people on a team are bowling, four people bowl per game.
Speaker A:And cornhole, you know, two or three people are playing on a team.
Speaker A:So those are more social leagues.
Speaker A:You're, you know, playing in these leagues and less competitive with it being self officiated.
Speaker A:And then you have some of these other leagues, kickball and softball and indoor volleyball that take a little bit more, you know, actual physical athleticism.
Speaker A:Like so it's just a lot more going on, you know, and there's, I've had a couple different venues that I've been checking out to maybe add an indoor pickleball at some point, you know, so some different ideas that I'm bouncing around and you know, we're going to continue to hopefully every single season is the best season we've had, which has been the case, knock on wood, ever since taking this thing over by myself.
Speaker A:We've only gotten better by each season and each year.
Speaker A:So is it things that I'm trying that are different?
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker B:So, so that, that would be my next question.
Speaker B:How do you, how do you keep the league from, become the leagues from becoming stale or you know, to keep the, it energized and fresh.
Speaker A:Having good staff, committed staff, offering different services.
Speaker A:Whether I, you know, I brought back the old Everplay Columbia for last year, being the 10, 10 year anniversary.
Speaker A:I mean you've probably seen all the designs.
Speaker A:You probably have hundreds of shirts that have the same logo.
Speaker A:So that's something that I made very.
Speaker B:There is a Goodwill that has a considerable number of Everplay shirts in varying sizes from triple X down to extra large.
Speaker B: started playing, which was in: Speaker A:That one's not on Goodwill.
Speaker A:That one, you wash your car with it.
Speaker B:I, I don't even, I, I, that one, I think I do, I think I do yard work and now.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Hey, that's impressive.
Speaker A:Ten years for sure.
Speaker A:But no, just, you know, changing things up.
Speaker A:You know, people love change, right?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Not necessarily changing, you know, leagues, but, you know, if there's rules that, that are needed.
Speaker A:Needed me to look at different sports, different leagues, different venues.
Speaker A:As you know, you're.
Speaker A:You've probably like you said one, you've known about M.
Speaker A: B AV where we play for since: Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:So looking for different venues, different gym space, adding sponsors with different restaurants and bars that they can wear their every place shirt, go in, grab a discount on food and drinks and you know, don't settle just to be, you know.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:The same player.
Speaker A:So, you know, and Columbia's growing man.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:In Columbia, KC West Columbia is.
Speaker A:Is booming.
Speaker A:So things that I'm doing differently.
Speaker A:But also people are staying here in Columbia post grad.
Speaker A:They're not, you know, hauling button at Charleston, Charlotte, Atlanta, Greenville.
Speaker A:They're staying here because there's a lot to do, you know, as far as interesting things that are popping up, I think at least.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Come a long way.
Speaker B:What about skill levels as far as like, because I mean, we know.
Speaker B:But so for, but like as far as skill levels for people that want to play, if they want to sign up and play, you know, like you said, like with kickball, what are the skill levels that you would suggest as far as kickball?
Speaker A:Kickball.
Speaker A:We have a lot of people that haven't played kickball since middle school and high school.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So, you know, when they're signing up, they, you know, there are a little bit of different rules as far as where you can kick, where you can pitch, where you can stand.
Speaker A:We don't for any of our leagues require any sort of skill level or experience or anything.
Speaker A:You know, history wise.
Speaker A:Like for instance, if they want to just come, like for kickball or soccer or volleyball, they may have never played that sport.
Speaker A:It's something that they want to try.
Speaker A:So they go out and try and see if they can pick up on it, ask questions, you know, so there's all sorts of skill levels.
Speaker A:Even pickleball.
Speaker A:People might not even know what the kitchen is when they sign up, but they go out there and they'll figure it out pretty quickly.
Speaker B:The kitchen.
Speaker B:The kitchen is right in front of the net, Right?
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:That's right.
Speaker A:There's like a little line in a box where you cannot go in the kitchen unless the ball hits in the kitchen.
Speaker B:Interesting.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:So, you know, and some people go in there not knowing and the other team will call it out or maybe the other team doesn't know.
Speaker A:So, you know, we don't require any sort of.
Speaker A:You know, obviously, if you have a background in soccer, kicking this ball out here is probably a little bit easier.
Speaker A:If you were a volleyball player that uses your hands majority of the time.
Speaker B:Sure.
Speaker A:You know, that's like me, you know, playing soccer and going and playing, you know, softball.
Speaker A:I'm probably gonna swing and miss the first or second time.
Speaker A:You know, it's going to take some time, ask questions.
Speaker A:A lot of newer teams and newer players.
Speaker A:This.
Speaker A:This blue team is actually kickball.
Speaker A:Their.
Speaker A:Their name is kickballers.
Speaker A:I made it as a free agent team.
Speaker A:So you can sign up as a free agent.
Speaker A:A group or a team.
Speaker A:So they had a couple groups, they had free agents.
Speaker A:I made them a team, called them kickballers.
Speaker A:Unfortunately, they're 0 and 5 right now, but you can tell from week one that they've come a long way with the score being one to two right now.
Speaker A:Yeah, week one probably wasn't going to be that close in the third inning or fourth inning, whatever we're in right now.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And for the record, we may look like we're distracted from looking this direction or looking at each other, but there's a kickball game going on behind you, all that that you can't see.
Speaker B:And someone actually just did a.
Speaker B:A bun.
Speaker B:A girl did a bunt and got a double out of it.
Speaker B:So that's.
Speaker B:That's the kind of.
Speaker B:That's the kind of stuff that you get to see with kickball.
Speaker B:Age ranges do you have.
Speaker B:I know everybody's got to be over 21.
Speaker A:That's right.
Speaker B:I have played softball with a varying range of ages, including Paul, who was a taxi driver.
Speaker B:Rest in peace.
Speaker B:He.
Speaker B:I don't know how old he was, but whenever I saw him listed on my team, I always.
Speaker B:I always kind of shook my head and was like, oh, well, he's.
Speaker B:He's a good guy.
Speaker A:He is.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:There's a lot of good, good people.
Speaker A:You know, we've had a lot of players that.
Speaker A:That are out here for the right reasons.
Speaker A:Yeah, to learn to meet people, which is, you know, whatever play is.
Speaker A:We want people to enjoy sports, whether it's.
Speaker A:You have a background in sports or learning the sport like we were just talking about, but to meet new people and connect with people, you know, for different seasons, different years, different sports.
Speaker A:We have groups that.
Speaker A:That go on beach trips, mountain trips, friends givings.
Speaker A:People literally get engaged on our fields.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:Like, yeah, nobody has ever been married on our field, but I've seen, I've seen people get engaged and do their engagement pictures, you know, from, from just joining as a free agent.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And meeting their significant other through our leagues.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:There's a, there, there are, there are many people that I met literally just playing kickball that I, you know, I've, I've maintained a friendship even though all of us have pretty much moved on from playing kickball.
Speaker B:We, you know, we, we have stayed connected and that was, that was something that I attribute to playing on ever play.
Speaker A:You still bowl with those few of those people.
Speaker B:Some of those people are new.
Speaker B:You know, they, you know, we bowl on Tuesday nights over Bolero and we have the 10 week season coming up for the spring and we do tend to re sign the same people.
Speaker B:But like Brandon, my buddy Brandon, he and I went to go see a Falcons game.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, I saw that.
Speaker A:My wife and I went to go see Falcons and Cowboys in November.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And she thought it was a great idea.
Speaker A:She wanted to wear her awesome cowboy boots.
Speaker A:And I had just the youth Cowboys jersey.
Speaker A:You know, I collected jerseys as a kid and probably have over 50 of them and still have a lot as an adult too.
Speaker A:But she, you know, wanted to do the part and dress for me as a Panther fan.
Speaker A:I was like, do I have to support the Cowboys?
Speaker A:Do I have to support the Falcons?
Speaker A:Can I just wear my Cam Newton jersey?
Speaker A:I ended up getting a Matt Ryan jersey.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker A:And she, you know, wore Roy Williams Cowboys jersey and I kid you not, like booing her out the stadium.
Speaker A:It was, it was pretty cool.
Speaker A:How old was that jersey?
Speaker A:The Roy Williams jersey?
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:Roy Williams was.
Speaker A:I mean, oh, I got to be 20 or 25 years old.
Speaker B:90S, right.
Speaker A:Probably still in great condition.
Speaker A:It was a youth extra large fitter.
Speaker A:Perfect.
Speaker A:But the Falcons fans were not having it.
Speaker B:Yeah, well, I'm always when it comes to, when it comes to people wearing jerseys of other teams at Falcons games, as long as the Falcons pull off a victory then, which they did see.
Speaker B:And I went to the Panthers game and didn't.
Speaker B:So that was, that was a great game.
Speaker B:That was a really.
Speaker A:As a Panther fan, I was like, man, I wish we would have went to that one.
Speaker A:But looking at the schedule.
Speaker B:Yeah, I got your text message after that.
Speaker B:That was, that was great.
Speaker A:But going back to your original question, we have all, like you said, 21 and up, but I mean, we have kids from USC that come because intramurals doesn't offer kickball.
Speaker A:For instance, intramurals Is seasonal.
Speaker A:A lot of the programs around here are seasonal for us.
Speaker A:We run all four seasons.
Speaker A:All the sports that I had mentioned earlier, we run all four seasons.
Speaker A:So they come over or, you know, if Pine Grove is not running their softball, that those people come over and play with us on our softball leagues.
Speaker A:So the cool thing, that's the cool thing about us is we run all four seasons.
Speaker A:We're not seasonal, but we do have a variety of different ages.
Speaker A:They vary from 21 to, you know, 65, 70, you know, so.
Speaker B:And kudos to those Medicare patients that come out here and play because that it's not.
Speaker B:It's not going to be me.
Speaker A:I think they come out and they think it's really fun and they meet some cool people and then the next morning they're like, what did I do?
Speaker B:No, they have a general practitioner that they can go visit that sets them straight.
Speaker A:They'll probably come back out and support the team and maybe not.
Speaker A:Or ask me.
Speaker A:I get an email, hey, that was a bad idea.
Speaker A:Can I get a refund?
Speaker B:Oh, well, they should have read the terms of service.
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker B:One of the other things I want to talk about was the community engagement as far as Everplay.
Speaker B:So far, more than $30,000 has been donated to various charities.
Speaker B:How is that money?
Speaker B:How has it decided which charities get at the end of the season?
Speaker A:So, yeah, and that's something that we're very proud of that I inherited with Everplay with the former co founders and partners to make Everplay a giving back business.
Speaker A:You know, we are a small business.
Speaker A:We're very fortunate to be in a position to give back.
Speaker A:And you know, after this year, I think I did the numbers, we'll be pushing 35,000.
Speaker B:That's amazing.
Speaker A:So we give an annually.
Speaker A: ,: Speaker A:That is just through our kickball leagues running three days of kickball for four seasons.
Speaker A:Each champion gets a hundred dollar donation to their charity of choice.
Speaker A:So they get to pick who we're giving back to.
Speaker A:The players do.
Speaker A:So I think that's really cool to give them that option to pick whether it's locally, wherever they decide as a group.
Speaker A: So that's just: Speaker A:Through our kickball, we do other cool donations.
Speaker A:You know, you played in our masters of putt putt.
Speaker A:I think you got a selfie with that trophy.
Speaker B:I did.
Speaker A:Or last spring?
Speaker A:Yeah, last spring.
Speaker B:We didn't win.
Speaker B:We just, nobody was looking, so we took the trophy.
Speaker A:So I'm on the course.
Speaker A:You Know, I play in that event, which is awesome.
Speaker A:It's coming up March 29th.
Speaker A:It's a one day event.
Speaker A:We go to Frankie's, you sign up, you play 27 holes and then we take the top teams and then you play an additional 12 holes and you get cool prizes, you get a donation.
Speaker A:I've actually made trophies the past two times, so I'll have trophies again.
Speaker A:You can display it on your desk at work or home or show it off.
Speaker A:Your friends brag about it.
Speaker A:That's the only league that I actually have trophies made for.
Speaker A:Yeah, but that's just, you know, kickball.
Speaker A:We do that donations to.
Speaker A:When we bring teams out to train as a group for kickball because it is our biggest Sport.
Speaker A:We'll bring two random teams out March 5th with all my kickball staff, ref 3 games.
Speaker A:I always tell the two teams, hey, we're playing for koozies.
Speaker A:We're playing for a charity donation to really kind of give it that game like atmosphere and competitiveness.
Speaker A:And then at the end I gather them all.
Speaker A:Hey, both teams are getting a donation, both teams are getting koozies.
Speaker A:And everybody's just kind of happy to be out there.
Speaker A:It's an appreciative thing for me.
Speaker A:Hey, thanks for committing your time coming out here and making us better.
Speaker A:We look forward to a good season.
Speaker A:That's the least I can do is give, you know, $100 for this team's charity.
Speaker A:$100 for this team's charity.
Speaker A:Here's some koozies.
Speaker B:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker B:Absolutely.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Let me see.
Speaker B:Has.
Speaker B:It has, has, has doing that like even like with your officiants and your, your refs and things like that, has that built a sense of community just with, with your staff as well?
Speaker A:Yeah, I mean to get.
Speaker A:They're out here not only for.
Speaker A:Majority of the reason they're out here is because they enjoy these sports.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And they want to meet new people.
Speaker A:They get paid as a, you know, they get paid by the game, by the hour.
Speaker A:But that's just an add on, you know, they're making a little bit extra gas money, a little bit extra money to put towards groceries.
Speaker A:It's not going to pay your car payment, your mortgage.
Speaker A:So they're out here just helping, helping me and I usually for them, you know, they help me out.
Speaker A:A lot of them play in the league.
Speaker A:So for instance, rc, that's reffing behind the plate right here, plays in our Thursday kickball league.
Speaker A:So most of the staff, you know, I've managed a staff of 34 part time folks.
Speaker B:That's a big staff.
Speaker A:It is.
Speaker A: I mean, whenever I came on in: Speaker A:I was working four nights because, you know, we just didn't have enough staff.
Speaker A:And you know, it was fun, it was a lot, but.
Speaker A:But for them, you know, I cover the registration fee on whatever sport they want to play.
Speaker A:You help me out.
Speaker B:Sure.
Speaker A:One night you're getting paid to be out here, you're meeting new people and then if you want to play, I think it makes you better as an official being a player, seeing the other side of things.
Speaker A:Plus you really respect in the official side of things.
Speaker A:He's out here reffing so he knows, you know, tomorrow when he's with his fellow employees that, you know, it's, it's tough being in that position at some point, you know.
Speaker A:So yeah, a lot of people don't agree with their calls.
Speaker A:You know, I wish everybody was on their best behavior out here, but I get it.
Speaker A:Everybody has their off days and think that this is the next kickball Olympics.
Speaker A:But it's, you know, everybody gets one of those koozies up there and a ring pop and a charity donation for kickball.
Speaker A:But at the end of the day, it's just the game.
Speaker A:It's for fun.
Speaker A:But for my staff, they help me out, so I help them out.
Speaker A:That registration also, I like to do something cool with them every single.
Speaker A:Before every single season.
Speaker A:Yeah, you know, we go and have some fun.
Speaker A:We went bowling this past winter season, March 4, I'm going to rent out a gym.
Speaker A:We're going to play some volleyball, some dodgeball.
Speaker A:I hook them up with merch.
Speaker A:You know, if they want a hoodie, a beanie, I'm going to do water bottles in the spring.
Speaker A:Don't tell anybody, you know, so I like to help them out, hook them up with some merch and you know, show my appreciation.
Speaker A:Because without them, just like without the ever players, we wouldn't be able to do what we do.
Speaker B:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker A:So I'm appreciative of them.
Speaker A:They've made going back to your question the community stronger.
Speaker A:Without them, I mean, we wouldn't be able to donate or do anything.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker B:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker B:What are, what are some of the challenges of running a league like this?
Speaker A:If, you know, like I said, not everybody players can, can be challenged.
Speaker A:Staffing could be a challenge.
Speaker A:That's why I do a lot of the things that I do to try to maintain them.
Speaker A:I'm in a group with a lot of other different programs around.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:It's called ssia Sport and Social Industry Association.
Speaker A:So it's a bunch of different locations that do the same thing that we do.
Speaker A:And a lot of the trouble is maintaining staff.
Speaker A:I mean that is not only just with, with us, it's you go anywhere, you go up the street, you're seeing signs, neat hiring call indeed.
Speaker A:All these different things need and help.
Speaker A:And so you know, those are just basic stuff fields like you had mentioned with the, with the Blowfish.
Speaker A:You know, they did a lot of the maintain of the fields.
Speaker A:We rent this space.
Speaker A:If for instance, tonight, if we get that rain that's supposed to come through, Lexington county is not going to get out here and pump the puddles of water.
Speaker A:That's me and the staff coming out and prepping the fields.
Speaker A:We literally just rent the space and hope the lights work.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And you know, fill dog holes, whatever it is.
Speaker A:Other challenges, I mean there's a lot of back end admin stuff.
Speaker A:For instance, our pay system for spring has been down for almost two days.
Speaker A:So like for instance, if you were going to go register for any of the leagues that we had mentioned right now, don't wait until I've got our IT on it right now trying to get it situated.
Speaker A:So yeah, I mean that's stuff that's outside of my control, that's challenging because there's nothing that I can actually do on my part besides letting the ever players know, hey, hold off.
Speaker A:We'll let you know when the, you know, payment processing for our admins back up and running.
Speaker A:You know, we have insurance making sure that they're happy, making sure players are signing their waivers and everyone's registered.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's.
Speaker A:There's a lot of different things that you can really think.
Speaker A:Think about that you don't want to think about that just kind of happen and put you in that.
Speaker A:You know, a lot of the, A lot of players and a lot of, I mean a lot of the staff, you know, other than me trying to enlighten them and tell them, you know, hey, if a light's out, I'm getting on the phone with, with the person that I rent the fields.
Speaker A:Then they're going through somebody and then we're hoping that it gets done by this time.
Speaker A:So it's not like I'm out there changing the bulb myself.
Speaker A:I'm not electrician.
Speaker B:Or a lumberjack.
Speaker B:Yeah, or a lumberjack.
Speaker B:These are, these are not very low to the ground.
Speaker A:That's right.
Speaker A:So it just, you know, there's different things that pop up.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:That are random, you know, so.
Speaker A:But yeah, that, I mean, the main thing is managing players, reminding them, hey, this is just the game.
Speaker A:This is why you're paying to play.
Speaker A:You're not getting paid to play.
Speaker B:Yeah, I had to remind my players many times.
Speaker B:This is, these are kids games.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:And we're playing them as adults, so.
Speaker A:And you're paying.
Speaker B:Yeah, there's, there's, there's, there's nothing to take ultra seriously.
Speaker B:I mean, at the end of the season, win or lose, you're getting a koozie.
Speaker B:So, you know, that's, it's, it's, it isn't the prestige.
Speaker B:It's just about having fun.
Speaker B:And that's how we, that's, that's how I always tried to maintain our teams.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And does that mean that, you know, you early in your days didn't agree with calls and may have gotten on us a couple times?
Speaker B:No, I didn't, I didn't like the, I didn't like the sliding into third thing.
Speaker B:That was.
Speaker B:But I also understood, so there's, the rule was, is you couldn't slide into any, in any of the bases.
Speaker B:And that was because there was an event where a girl did break her leg and it was pretty severe.
Speaker B:So totally understood the rule.
Speaker B:Just didn't like it.
Speaker B:And, and I had, and I had very emphatic players on my team that didn't like it enough that they would try and convince me that I needed to continue to argue about it.
Speaker B:So that's where it came from.
Speaker A:As a captain, that's your duty, is to step up for your team and, and let us hear your voice.
Speaker A:And there's definitely a way to do it.
Speaker A:I mean, I had to come up with a whole sportsmanship policy on my own that every league gets the last week of the regular season just reminding them what we stand for, what we're about.
Speaker A:You know, you're not able to just come out here and act a fool and say and do whatever you want.
Speaker A:If that was the case, we wouldn't be a league.
Speaker A:It would just be pickup.
Speaker A:So it's just a friendly reminder, just like it says in the subject, just to remind the players.
Speaker A:Like you said, it's a kids game.
Speaker A:There's a way to be competitive and good and athletic and own it and be, and show good sportsmanship and act the right ways.
Speaker A:Because we've had, I mean, we've had some really good teams that are good sports and we've had some that aren't very good sportsmen, you know, run up the Score or gestures towards other teams or even their own players or us.
Speaker B:Yeah, but you're going to find that in, I mean, you see, we see that in baseball.
Speaker B:We see that in basketball and football.
Speaker B:Like, you know, we have.
Speaker A:And they get a fine, right?
Speaker A:They get a fine, they get a suspension.
Speaker A:We don't, you know, if you get ejected for whatever reason, you know, we have a quick warning policy.
Speaker A:If I have a warning, that's.
Speaker A:And we don't want to hear any more.
Speaker A:And if we hear it again, you're out.
Speaker A:And you're not only out that game, but the next week.
Speaker A:And then if it's something severe, I look at it and make a judgment on, hey, this person may need to go to another program because we just, we're not about that.
Speaker B:So in, in my history, I have had players that have been suspended for two games, not the whole season, but I have had, I've had at least one individual suspended for multiple games.
Speaker B:I was not there those nights.
Speaker B:So see.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:What, what is so, so as we get closer to the end of this, what, what is, what sort of future do we see as far as ever play?
Speaker B:Are we looking at the potential of any new or different leagues that we haven't done before?
Speaker B:I know I mentioned to you the idea of a fantasy football league.
Speaker B:I thought that, you know, that may.
Speaker A:Be something to look into and you know, March Madness would be something cool.
Speaker A:You know, there's a lot of different programs that do.
Speaker A:We've had some people ask about Ultimate Frisbee.
Speaker A:We tried it.
Speaker A:We got like one, two teams wouldn't work out.
Speaker A:Team trivia nights.
Speaker B:Oh yeah.
Speaker A:Kind of cool.
Speaker A:You know, I tried to do a one day kickball tournament last spring.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Bring bouncy house, bring food trucks.
Speaker A:We got like two, two or three teams.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Which is decent enough.
Speaker A:But I ended up just making it a field day, giving everybody their money back or credit.
Speaker A:And they still were able to come and play two hours of kickball.
Speaker A:We officiated it.
Speaker A:We still had the bouncy house, we still had the food truck.
Speaker A:So that was kind of cool.
Speaker A:That's something that I'm really going to try to focus on.
Speaker A:And it was during the seasons and a lot of the players already signed up for one of the kickball leagues.
Speaker B:Sure.
Speaker A:And it was at Be Ave, where You've played for 10 years.
Speaker A:Like it's the same venues, nothing new.
Speaker A:So locking down something different, a different venue and doing it in between seasons is something that I'm thinking about doing and seeing if that is something that people are interested in signing up.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And there's not a whole lot of time in between seasons because you mentioned for we go.
Speaker B:You go year round, it's four seasons.
Speaker B:But it's not just four seasons.
Speaker B:You'll have.
Speaker B:You'll have an early winter and then a late winter or a late fall.
Speaker B:And so, you know, there's constantly sports leagues that are available, and even if there isn't one going on two weeks later, it's going to be starting.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:So it's not, you know, that's.
Speaker B:It is.
Speaker B:Everplay, I think, has, at least in my life, has become a staple and I'm thankful for it.
Speaker B:You know, at 45, I've been able.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:Am I 45?
Speaker B:Yeah, I'm 45.
Speaker B:God bless America.
Speaker B:I have managed to find my way into bowling and we've stuck with bowling for a little while.
Speaker B:I have stopped playing softball for a little while.
Speaker A:When is the last time you've played softball?
Speaker B:Ever played softball?
Speaker A:You played kickball and then you gave up kickball and then went to softball.
Speaker B:And then I came back to kickball.
Speaker A:And you went back to kickball and now you drop both of those and.
Speaker B:Play just bowling ball.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:But like, did you try any other program?
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:I had thought about trying to do dodgeball because I seemed to catch and throw decently.
Speaker B:So I thought maybe dodgeball would be something I'd be interested in doing.
Speaker B:But dodgeball wasn't being played.
Speaker B:Now it is back, but nine years later.
Speaker B:Yeah, dodgeball, Dodgeball.
Speaker B:Being inside is kind of like volleyball being in the side, you know, I used to play volleyball pretty much twice a week.
Speaker B:And the reason I left volleyball was because I came down on one of my.
Speaker B:On my left shoulder for a.
Speaker B:For a dig one time and have not recovered.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:I got two bone spurs and arthritic cysts.
Speaker B:So it's, you know, hey, age, you know, I can't.
Speaker B:Trust me.
Speaker B:Throughout baseball, I.
Speaker B:I have broken my hand so many times.
Speaker B:This is gonna be a swollen like.
Speaker A:Is that your bowling hand, too?
Speaker B:Yeah, that is my bowling hand.
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker B:So you know that.
Speaker B:I guess basically what I'm saying is if you haven't signed up for Everplay Social, you live in the Columbia area, check out the website because you're bound to find something that you could probably enjoy and you get to meet a bunch of new people that you may not have known before or you can come with your own team because that's, you know, that's one of the biggest Things is getting to meet people that you don't know and, you know, really just getting to interact outside of your circle sometimes is the biggest thing.
Speaker B:Even with bowling every week, we play against teams that we've never played against before.
Speaker B:You get to know them, and somehow, you know, everybody just sort of becomes friends and whatnot.
Speaker A:We've had teams that have bowled with us for a very long time that are.
Speaker A:They look forward to that Tuesday night, running into those teams.
Speaker A:We've had teams sign up and say, hey, you know, please assign us bowl of duty.
Speaker A:Please assign us.
Speaker B:Wait, we can do that?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:We have a team every single season, they want to bowl against the same three teams because of.
Speaker A:Not all.
Speaker A:And they might.
Speaker A:They might lose all three games.
Speaker B:Sure.
Speaker A:They just want to be around those people.
Speaker B:I didn't see.
Speaker B:I didn't know we.
Speaker B:I didn't know that requesting that was possible.
Speaker B:That's why we've never done it.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:I mean, ultimately.
Speaker B:Ultimately, because I'm such a curmudgeon, I would have.
Speaker A:Just don't make a whole lot more work for me because the generator does randomly schedule games.
Speaker A:But I do go in and try to help request if.
Speaker B:Well, I was gonna say was I had teams that I don't want to bowl against.
Speaker B:Oh, okay.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:No, but that's not even an issue anymore.
Speaker B:So it's.
Speaker B:You know, I'm not saying that those people disappeared.
Speaker B:I'm just saying they're not here anymore.
Speaker B:But, yeah.
Speaker B:So I really appreciate you coming on the show.
Speaker B:I'm gonna do your seven questions here in a second.
Speaker B:But before we do that, just want to remind everybody ever play sports and social is signing up now for the spring season, including dodgeball, bowling, softball, kickball, pickleball, soccer, volleyball, cornhole, and masters of putt putt on March 29, you can sign up for all of those through.
Speaker B:Well, all of the leagues you can sign up through February 19th.
Speaker B:It's going to be available@everplaysocial.com so go do that.
Speaker B:The Masters of putt Putt.
Speaker B:You can sign up up until the day before.
Speaker B:So that'll be on March 29th.
Speaker B:So you can sign up up until March 28th.
Speaker B:So sign up for all of these leagues because they sell out.
Speaker B:I mean, ultimately, they.
Speaker B:They.
Speaker B:Almost every league sells out.
Speaker A:The spring is a massive sellout.
Speaker A: Participants, you know,: Speaker A:If we can say that we ran all 15 of those would be the best in terms of numbers.
Speaker A:Sales and participants and leagues.
Speaker B:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker A:You know, like I said, two weeks from today, February 19, 15 leagues.
Speaker A:Sign up as a free agent, a group or team, and we'll find the right team in the right spot for you.
Speaker A:We do take an account, you know, age.
Speaker A:When you do sign up, we promise we will try to stick you with the best group possible.
Speaker B:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker A:And plenty of stuff to offer.
Speaker A:So I appreciate you having me on.
Speaker B:No, I appreciate you being on.
Speaker B:So we're gonna do seven questions.
Speaker B:Have you seen seven questions before?
Speaker A:I want to say yes.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:No, you don't have to.
Speaker B:Because.
Speaker B:Because then it makes it more interesting if.
Speaker B:Look, people don't make it all the way through this end of the part of the show.
Speaker B:It's fine.
Speaker B:That way, they don't know what questions are being asked because then I have to create new ones more often, so.
Speaker B:All right, first question for Alex Avinger.
Speaker B:What was the last thing you googled?
Speaker A:The last thing I googled was the new Jurassic World that's coming out this year.
Speaker A:I just heard it on the radio and was like, I want to see that trailer.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Seen all the Jurassic Parks.
Speaker A:My wife went to see that.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker A:The newest Jurassic World.
Speaker A:She hasn't seen the second or third.
Speaker A:Whatever.
Speaker A:They're on right now.
Speaker A:Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker A:I just think those are interesting.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Kid movies, obviously, for me growing up, those were awesome.
Speaker A:Totally different.
Speaker A:Now with the different dinosaurs, you don't just have the T.
Speaker A:Rex.
Speaker A:You have, you know, the T.
Speaker A:Rex on steroids or.
Speaker B:Yeah, they've completely manipulated the dinosaurs, and now we have dinosaurs that are, like, super mutant dinosaurs that they've introduced.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker B:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker C:All right, second question.
Speaker B:If you could have one superpower, what would that be?
Speaker A:Probably to fight a.
Speaker A:Probably to jump super high.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:So I could change these bulbs so not.
Speaker B:So not.
Speaker B:Not the power of flight, but to jump, fly.
Speaker A:I don't think flying.
Speaker A:I mean, that would be cool, but I think just, like, jumping would be super sweet.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:And I would be probably the.
Speaker A:The MVP of this kickball league.
Speaker B:That's.
Speaker B:That would be.
Speaker B:Yeah, okay.
Speaker B:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker A:I just could.
Speaker A:I just, like, picture, like, GTA put in the code as a kid with the super jump.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And, like, literally, you just have, like, five stars, and you're just hitting that jump button.
Speaker A:You're just, like, jumping up.
Speaker B:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker B:I can see that.
Speaker B:All right, if your life were a movie, what would the title be?
Speaker A:Well, I can't say the Avengers, can I?
Speaker B:You can.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:That's fair.
Speaker A:If my life.
Speaker A:If My life was a movie, what would it be?
Speaker A:He dragged his body, man.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:Ever play sport in social club movie?
Speaker A:Okay, that would be kind of cool to feature, like, Hard Knocks, but, like, behind the scene type stuff.
Speaker B:If you decide to do a movie based on Ever play sports and social, you have to let me in as one of the screenwriters.
Speaker B:I need.
Speaker B:I need.
Speaker A:I would want you to be the Morgan Freeman commentary.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:That would be cool, right?
Speaker B:That's fair.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:All right, number four.
Speaker B:If you could eat one food.
Speaker B:If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Speaker A:Japanese hibachi.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:My wife, she probably.
Speaker A:If she watches it and makes it through to that, she would.
Speaker A:She knows that's.
Speaker B:That's what she would say.
Speaker A:I love Japanese hibachi.
Speaker A:They cook in front of you.
Speaker A:We went there two weeks ago for my birthday.
Speaker A:Crushed it.
Speaker B:Did you catch the shrimp?
Speaker A:They don't do that anymore after the.
Speaker A:So the one that we went was a little bit higher scale.
Speaker A:Like, the Miyabi's here, but.
Speaker A:So there's like, two next to our house, and one of them is a little bit more laid back.
Speaker A:Like, you could literally just get, you know, back from the pool or on, you know, and go in there in your tank top and your.
Speaker A:Your bathing suit.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And they'll throw.
Speaker A:The cooks will like, they're laid back.
Speaker A:They'll throw it in your mouth.
Speaker A:They'll shoot sake into your.
Speaker A:Into your mouth from cooking.
Speaker A:Like, it's totally different.
Speaker A:But I can't remember the last time I've tried to catch the shrimp.
Speaker A:Last time I tried, I did not succeed.
Speaker B:I wasn't prepared.
Speaker B:The last time we went for my son's birthday, I was not prepared.
Speaker A:Which one did y'all go to?
Speaker B:So the one in Lexington.
Speaker B:It's down next to the Hollywood fee.
Speaker B:Hollywood Feed the animal plant or food store.
Speaker B:I was not paying attention, and I caught one in the side of the head.
Speaker B:So, you know, lesson learned at hibachi.
Speaker B:Always be prepared.
Speaker B:Always watch the cook.
Speaker B:What's.
Speaker B:What's your least favorite candy and why?
Speaker A:Ah, man.
Speaker A:So I'm not a big chocolate person.
Speaker B:Oh, okay.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I like Starburst, Skittles, Twizzlers, the more fruity type stuff.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:I think I have to go with a Butterfinger, man.
Speaker A:I can't just.
Speaker A:It's stuck to your teeth, and that's fair.
Speaker A:It takes you.
Speaker A:You know, if you don't have floss or even a drink, like, you can't really.
Speaker A:You're just sitting there messing with it.
Speaker A:It's just.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:I just can't do Butterfingers.
Speaker B:See, and, and challenge for my dental hygienist.
Speaker B:I'm actually, I have a new dental hygienist.
Speaker B:I will be eating a butterfinger before all of my cleanings.
Speaker B:Just so you know.
Speaker B:What is, what's one strange or unusual talent you have that most people don't know?
Speaker A:Unusual talent that I don't know.
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:That's a good question.
Speaker A:Let's come back to that one.
Speaker B:Well, that's the second to last one, but.
Speaker B:So if you don't know one, I'll tell you one that I have.
Speaker A:All right, tell me.
Speaker B:And this is one that I didn't find out until just a few years ago, but if I hold my nostrils closed, I can blow air out of my eye.
Speaker A:And how did you figure that out?
Speaker A:You just.
Speaker B:I sneezed.
Speaker B:I sneezed and it hurt.
Speaker A:Oh, man.
Speaker B:Because I think.
Speaker B:I think something popped.
Speaker B:And that was, that was it.
Speaker B:Now I, now I can blow air out of my.
Speaker B:Out of my eyeball.
Speaker A:That is impressive.
Speaker A:Yeah, I guess you don't really know unless something like that happens and you're like, oh, that's cool.
Speaker B:100%.
Speaker A:Yeah, I should use that, like, as my superpower too.
Speaker B:Ultimately, when my kids do check me into some assisted living facility, that'll be how I work my way up through the tiers of the tears of the cool people at the old folks home.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:All right, I'll have to think about that one.
Speaker B:Well, you can get back to us.
Speaker B:We'll, we'll, we'll update.
Speaker B:We'll update everybody on that.
Speaker B:All right, last question.
Speaker B:If you could have dinner with any three people, dead or alive, who would they be?
Speaker A:My wife's gonna hate me right now.
Speaker A:Jennifer Aniston, Definitely.
Speaker A:Sorry.
Speaker A:She knows that.
Speaker A:So she's not, she's not mad.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Jennifer Aniston.
Speaker A:Let's see.
Speaker A:Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:I'm a, I'm an Aaron Rodgers fan.
Speaker A:If you haven't seen, seen the Netflix documentary and you don't like Aaron Rodgers, go watch it.
Speaker A:You still might not like him, but it does give a lot of emphasis on him as a person.
Speaker A:I'm not a spokesperson for Aaron Rogers.
Speaker A:Jennifer Aniston.
Speaker A:Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker A:And let's see, man, maybe Mark Wahlberg would be cool.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:Aaron Rodgers and Mark Wahlberg are very similar, and they are.
Speaker A:Yeah, I think I would have to go with them.
Speaker A:I think that would be an interesting dinner.
Speaker B:So you're you're.
Speaker B:You're eating tofu.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:And I, I'm guessing that there's some.
Speaker B:Some.
Speaker B:Some.
Speaker B:What's the.
Speaker B:What's the.
Speaker B:What's the thing they do in South America that Aaron Rodgers went and trapped himself in a cave for, oh my gosh, 30 days or something.
Speaker A:What's it called?
Speaker B:Ayahuasca.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker B:So tofu and ayahuasca.
Speaker A:And my wife, she can come too.
Speaker B:That's the least appealing dinner I've ever heard of.
Speaker B:But.
Speaker B:Well, Aaron, I see now you got me messed up.
Speaker B:Alex, I appreciate you being on the show with me.
Speaker B:So again, make sure to check out everplaysocial.com for registration and details on the spring league.
Speaker B:And I'm guessing here in the next.
Speaker B:I'm gonna guess in the next month or so, you're probably gonna have the details about the late spring season.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:So, yeah, we.
Speaker A:We're already in the works with.
Speaker A:With the late spring and the summer, so we.
Speaker A:We'll have that up and running and.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And roll this thing back and.
Speaker A:And, you know, I appreciate you taking the time and coming out here.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:Been a good friend and a good.
Speaker A:A good player.
Speaker A:You know, you're one of the first players that I've met through the leagues with ball of duty.
Speaker A:You know, you throw Yalls logo on our sleeves with the shirts.
Speaker A:That was awesome.
Speaker B: team that I played on back in: Speaker B:We were just kick it or something like that.
Speaker B:So that was, you know, I go to look at my list of all the teams, the team or the leagues that I signed up for the.
Speaker B:And I have to scroll the mouse twice.
Speaker A:Number are you at?
Speaker A:Can you take a guess?
Speaker B:Oh, if I were to take a guess, I'm gonna say 39.
Speaker B:39.
Speaker B:Maybe 40.
Speaker B:We might be.
Speaker B:We might be approaching 40.
Speaker A:I'm about to find out.
Speaker B:He's gonna look.
Speaker B:He's gonna look at direct.
Speaker B:While he's looking up that I'm gonna run the credits.
Speaker B:It's gonna do it for episode number 241.
Speaker B:Thank you very much, Alex, for being on the show with me.
Speaker A:241.
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