Take me out to the ball game.

0:00 Speaker 1 With us today is Eric Shuffler, and we’d like to get an update on the ferry Hawks. You run the team day to day. What is going on.

0:10 Speaker 2 Run the team and partnership with you and you know our vision. I’m bringing family Fund. The Staten Island Fairyhawks are doing great, New York City’s third professional baseball team. We just finished the first half, record setting first half for the Fairyhawks, most attendants ever. We had six players get signed john to the major leagues and to foreign

0:29 major leagues, so we are hitting it on all strides. We just had hugely successful fourth of July, three thousand people in the stadium for fireworks, Nathan’s tatoorgs and the best view of Lower Manhattan no place in America as a view like we have.

0:44 Speaker 1 How is that major league player the former World Series when we’re doing with.

0:48 Speaker 2 The Pablo Sandoval, the Kung Fu Pan the one three World Series, World Series MVP. He’s been amazing, incredible fielder, incredible hitter. But what’s really great is to watch him with the younger players and the fans. He engages with the fans, signs, autographs, a huge ambassador for the team and is just out there having fun, living a great

1:08 life and joining Staten Island.

1:10 Speaker 1 And I hear a rumor you having to higher another major league player a picture. What do you hear?

1:18 Speaker 2 We are We have several major leaguers in consideration, one of whom used to pitch for the Tigers in Red Sox and is going to be reporting in next weekend. Next week, John, So we have a lot of great things.

1:28 We just started the second half. We have a big weekend coming up to this weekend.

1:33 Speaker 1 Tell us about it.

1:34 Speaker 2 We have Irish Heritage on Saturday night, followed by fireworks, so we’ve got a lot of participating bars. We’ve got Irish culture, step dancing, fireworks following the game, teams wearing special Irish goodbyes jerseys. And then on Sunday, John, a topic near and dear to our hearts, our game with salute to veterans, salute to heroes, done in conjunction with

1:57 Tunnels the Towers, and we’re giving out a figurine of Steven Siller with the American flag on his iconic you know, run to help on nine to eleven. So a very special day to honor those who serve.

2:08 Speaker 1 Us and Tunnels to Towers, people of my favorite day. They work so hard to take care of the veterans and some of our law enforcement people, and they do good work.

2:20 Speaker 2 It’s a great day for us at the stadium, and we have so many of our veterans, you know, in the park. Being able to celebrate and honor them in this partnership with Tunnels to Towers is it’s very rewarding and the figurine that we’re giving out is very col.

2:32 Speaker 1 Well, Eric Shuffler, thank you so much, and God bless you. So you have a Friday night game, a Saturday game, and a Sunday game.

2:40 Speaker 2 Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday day off and then Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

2:44 Speaker 1 Sounds good. Maybe I’ll really catch a couple of those games and we’ll talk again real soon, all right, God bless