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Question of Faith
Is Softball a Good Tool for Evangelization?
Hear about Faith on the Field, How a Young Adult Softball League is Transforming Community in Cleveland. Can a simple game of softball truly transform the way we engage with our faith and community? Join us as Deacon Mike Hayes, Emily Ahlin, and Logan Feldkamp reveal how their young adult softball league is not just a game but a powerful tool for evangelization. Through personal stories and survey results, they share how this unconventional approach has led to increased church involvement and stronger community bonds, making faith more accessible and relatable to young adults who might not typically be active in the church.
Fr. Damian is following Bruce Springsteen on the road throughout Pennsylvannia.
Discover the logistical highs and lows of organizing a church league's baseball playoffs, including the woes of scheduling makeup games with busy people and memorable moments like Logan's stunning home run and Emily's meager single that changed the course of an inning.
We also paint a vibrant picture of the community at St. Christopher's Parish in Rocky River and the readings for this coming Sunday.
Join us for a heartwarming and insightful episode that showcases the unexpected ways softball can bring people closer to each other and their faith.
If you're in the area here are the remaining softball games for playoff week:
8/20: PLAYOFFS @Roman Park, Westlake, OH
6:30 PM #4 Big League Chew vs. #5 Parma Peacocks
8/21:
6:30 PM: Young Vitus vs. ITE Mighty Doves
7:45 PM #3 Chosen Ones vs. Seed #6 (winner)
8/25 @St. John Bosco Parish in Parma Heights, OH
2:00 PM #2 Catching Flamingos vs. Winner of 4/5 Game
3:30 PM #1 Westside Whitecaps vs. Winnner of the 3/6 game
5:00 PM Championship Game
8/25: All Star Game. (St. John Bosco Field)
6:30PM St Lawrence Flames (Coached by Deacon Mike) vs. Mary's Mantles (Coached by Logan Feldkamp)
On today's Question of Faith is softball a good tool for evangelization? Hey everybody, this is Question of Faith and I am Deacon Mike Hayes, father Damian Ferentz, on special Bruce Springsteen assignment. He's following Bruce Springsteen around God knows where. I know Pennsylvania, a couple other places, I think.
Speaker 2:I think it's just Pennsylvania which is near and dear to my heart, so that's fine with me.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, and you are I am Emily Olin diocesan archivist.
Speaker 3:And we are joined by Logan Feldkamp, pastoral associate at St Christopher Parish in Rocky River.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and assistant commissioner of the old softball league here. Yes, sir, and you need to move a little closer to that microphone. Oh Sorry, you leaned back after the thing.
Speaker 3:I'm getting comfortable, I'm trying to get comfortable here. Well then, just move the mic closer. Oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 1:Gotcha, I'm going to leave all that in now.
Speaker 2:It's fine by me.
Speaker 1:And so you know the question for today, an actual question that came in that said you know why are you guys playing softball in the young adult league? Is that really a good tool for evangelization?
Speaker 2:Wait, that was an actual question somebody sent in.
Speaker 1:That was an actual question that somebody gave us, yeah.
Speaker 2:All right. Well, the answer is yes.
Speaker 1:Well, we're done. It's been great joining us.
Speaker 3:Play the outro, Mike Yep.
Speaker 1:Exactly Well, exactly Well, we still have to do church search and the thing, and then we're done. But yeah, no, I think you're right though, emily. So let me just take us back a year when we started the softball league and we thought that might be a good way to get people who generally don't do things in the church to come and be part of something that their friends are part of, and so he had some people who were already active in the adult ministry who play softball, and he said, oh yeah, I think, I think a lot of people would want to play in a league like this. And, um, tom cranes, who's the manager of big league chew, he had said to me, he said, you know, he said for me, he said, um, this kind of takes me back a little bit.
Speaker 1:He goes, because I can remember my parents talking about playing in a league like this when they were my age, and he goes, and when I talked to them about it, they're saying oh yeah, it was a lot like that and we had people from all different walks of life come in and people got involved in the church who weren't involved in the church before, those kinds of things.
Speaker 1:And so last year we did a little survey and we're presently surveying people now. So last year we did a little survey and we're presently surveying people now. But of the people who were not active in the church in our survey, a full 50% of them were starting to do something as a result of being part of the league, so we thought that was a big win and we're starting to see similar results now. Most of the people have been around, Most of the people in our league this year played last year, and so the folks who are in the league now. We have a bunch of newcomers and two new teams, and so we're starting to see those individuals who are new send in their surveys and similar results. From last year I wasn't involved in anything. Now I go to a young adult group. I wasn't involved in anything, and now I pray more. I wasn't involved in anything, and now I'm going to church more, whatever it might be. So I think that's good results. So the answer yes. I think you're right, Emily. The answer is yes.
Speaker 3:Logan, what's been your experience this year with the league? It's been very balanced and a ton of fun. We've seen a lot of close games. We've seen a lot of camaraderie. One of the things that I'm responsible for is making sure the field gets set up every week. I don't always tear it down, but it's always been great having somebody come and volunteer to help set up the field. There's always people willing to help out. One thing that I've also appreciated getting to witness is the individual teams grow closer together. You and I attend most of the games, and so getting to see teams kind of really rally around each other in form like a separate little sub community is really inspiring yeah, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, it's been great. Like I was surprised a little bit, like when, um we needed help tearing down one week and I said are people gonna hang around late and really tear this thing down? We had more volunteers and we knew what to do.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was done in like five minutes oh, okay, great.
Speaker 1:Yeah. They're like, yeah, where do we put all this stuff? And I'm like, yeah, this car over here. And they're like, oh, okay, you sure, like you know we could drag it down to the garage. I'm like, no, guys, don't hurt your back, just throw it in the car, it's fine, do you need? But? So yeah, and I think that goes to you know, I think what we've been seeing all year long too is that, you know, people said they grow closer with their teammates. That's a big result, I think.
Speaker 2:Honestly, I think that's why our team was so successful this year. You know, last year we never really found our footing. I think we finished sixth out of eight, and it was because, like, we really weren't friends until the end of the season and then now this year we came back. Most of us knew each other already and so we had a baseline camaraderie and I think that's really what made us so successful this year.
Speaker 3:And it allowed us to pull in the handful of new people that joined us and it also helped that they were really open to being pulled into the baseline community that we established last year. It really allowed us to bring people into the fold quickly and really feel like a team week one.
Speaker 2:For everybody at home. We're the west side, Logan and I are both on the west side white caps and we finished in first. That's what we're talking about when we say our team was much better this year.
Speaker 3:I was telling Mike last Sunday before our last game. It's actually difficult to go to Mass Sunday morning because I'm always excited for the game to be played and I'll be sitting in the pew shaking with excitement for what's going to be going on that afternoon. So it's something that really everybody on the team looks forward to each week.
Speaker 2:A lot of my prayer on Sunday at Mass has been Jesus. Please let me play well.
Speaker 1:When I was young and didn't know how to play in the first year, my prayer was usually Jesus, don't let them hit the ball to me.
Speaker 2:I actually had this. Really I haven't told anybody about this but a couple weeks ago, when the reading was the loaves and the fishes, that was our game against the chew and we were down and it was two outs and I was up to bat and I hit this crappy little hit that I swung too early and it just landed in front of the plate and rolled and so the entire way to first base I'm running as fast as I can because I know I've got to run it out and I was like gosh, darn it. Like we had two outs, like I really screwed this up, like they're gonna get me, and not only did I make it to first base, but the guy on third managed to run home and then we scored like four runs that inning and I'm like standing on first base in utter disbelief.
Speaker 2:I have a tendency to swear when I play softball because I just get so energized and I was thinking about what stuck out to me the most in the gospel reading at mass from that week was when Andrew came to Jesus and he was like okay, we've got five loaves and two fish. Andrew came to Jesus and he was like okay, we've got five loaves and two fish. What good are these? And I'm like running to first base going. I just hit the crappiest hit ever. What good is?
Speaker 2:this and Jesus is like give me your little and I will give you a lot. So that was really cool.
Speaker 1:That's nice Good job.
Speaker 2:And meanwhile I'm screaming from the third base dugout. That's nice Em Good job. And meanwhile I'm screaming from the third the grace of soul, jesus.
Speaker 3:And meanwhile I'm screaming from the third base dugout run, woman run.
Speaker 1:And I'm running up the line saying okay, oh wait, there's a play at third.
Speaker 2:I was running as fast as I can. I never look to see where the ball is hit. Because I just focus so hard on running?
Speaker 1:because I know most of the time I have to run really fast to like make it, and I don't run that fast yeah, exactly, and then the um, I mean, and for those who don't know, you know, like the level of softball expertise, shall we say, you know, is varied, you know there's some people who've never played a game, you know, who came out and said I've never played softball before. I thought this would be fun. And there are, you know, have played every week since they were seven, you know.
Speaker 2:I usually describe our team as like washed up people who played in high school.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that would be me too. Yeah, no, it's been fun. Yeah, and for me, you know, like I usually either keep score or umpire, it would be the official score for the day, or I'll umpire a game. If you guys are playing, I'll umpire. Logan's a real umpire, first of all, you know, logan umpires high school games.
Speaker 2:I have had other people in the league like tell me, they're like Logan is a really good umpire and I'm like, yeah, you know, he's like a professional.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like I've done that for a decade now, right, exactly, and yeah, but for me it's kind of nice to get out there and kind of run a little bit and, you know, get in the middle of everything. The other day I was talking with Victoria O'Hazy, you know, who just started work here, and she had said that one thing that she really admired about the league was that I'm there every week and so that people know who's in charge of the league and then they realize I'm in charge of all the young adult ministry. And they said, oh, that's who that is, you know kind of thing. And she said, not that like you're not present in other things, she said, but like you're really interacting with us on Sunday. And I was like, hmm, okay, you know, like hmm, okay, I didn't think that.
Speaker 2:And I'm not patting myself.
Speaker 1:That was a full day of work for you, yeah, and I'm not patting myself on the back by any means, but it was something that I hadn't realized. When they talk about ministry of presence, that counts. There's something to that some days, even if it's just hanging out in the softball fields, so you can't discount that. But yeah, so we're heading to the playoffs, right? So there won't be a softball update this week because the rain came on.
Speaker 1:Sunday, mother Nature won Diocese of Cleveland zero yeah pretty much, yeah, and so we were washed out of the game. So yesterday Logan and I mostly Logan spent the day trying to find a field and trying to get everybody's schedules together to say, well, when can you make a game? Because now we're dealing with everybody's schedule and people work and people have lives and everything else. So, trying to make up all these games that we have to make up to to get to the playoffs, all these games that we have to make up to to get to the playoffs and, as you heard last week, if you listen to this podcast regularly, it was quite a journey to the playoffs for certain teams. You know we had five teams that were three and four. We had to go to different tiebreakers and so we have a one-game playoff and then, you know, a first round of playoffs and then a semifinal and a final.
Speaker 1:So we have to get all those games in before Sunday, because now we have college students in the league. They're going back to school, they're not going to be around, so all those kinds of things are happening. So we're going to play one game tonight. We're recording this on Tuesday, so we're going to play one game tonight. And Logan was great in finding us a field, and the field has lights, and so we're going to be out under the lights Wednesday night. So we have two games on Wednesday and then a big, long slate of games. On Sunday we're going to play what is it?
Speaker 3:five games, yeah well four, two semis, a final, and then we're going to cap it off with the League All-Star game.
Speaker 1:The League All-Star game. Yeah, so that will be fun. So we're going to be at Veranova. We'll be out again on Sunday and they'll have some hot dogs and hamburgers and such.
Speaker 3:Same thing with Archangel Outfitters, our jersey sponsor. They'll be out there showcasing.
Speaker 1:So it'll be fun. So come on out. And it's at John Bosco Field, so change in field location for Sunday and Roman Field is that correct?
Speaker 3:Yeah, Roman Field in Westlake is where the makeup games will be played on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.
Speaker 1:That'll be fun. What's been the highlight of the year for both of you?
Speaker 3:It's got to be the home run. I hit last game.
Speaker 2:Oh, that was spectacular.
Speaker 3:I am not a power hitter by any means and frankly I've been a really poor hitter, like the first season in three quarters that I've played.
Speaker 2:You definitely struggled the first season. You've been better this season.
Speaker 3:And I just saw a gap and I knew I could hit the gap and I did not hit the ball crazy hard, but I hit it hard enough to get it past two people in the gap and luckily I'm at least average speed or above average speed, um. So that was uh, that was a year and three quarters of frustration coming out in that hit um. So that that felt really good, yeah.
Speaker 1:I remember seeing you hit home plate and you just turned around, looked at your team and was like, let's go.
Speaker 2:I think my favorite Logan quote was from last Sunday's game or the last time we played. I should say no heroes, base hitters.
Speaker 1:No heroes base hits. That's all you need right? You've played that way all year. You do a good job of sizing up the other team too. I think you know who the hitters are. You have to avoid.
Speaker 3:It helps that I attend 80% of the games. I get good scouting reports.
Speaker 2:Logan is the strategy guy. For sure, For sure.
Speaker 1:Our team was successful because of his strategizing yeah exactly, and you know it's been great playing out at St John Bosco. You know we played at a field last year. It was run by the city of Seven Hills, not that there was anything wrong with the field or anything like that, they were fine, but being, I think, on the church grounds has been important. So they have an adoration chapel at St John Bosco and so we've noticed players have been taking advantage of that. We've encouraged people to say, hey, when your game's over or before your game, why don't you go spend a half hour in the Adoration Chapel? And there's been a bunch of people who've done that now, so that's been great.
Speaker 2:I usually do that. Yeah, I've seen you do that Morning Mass praying that I play well, and then I spend after the game thinking, jesus, that I played well.
Speaker 3:Or asking Jesus why you didn't play well.
Speaker 2:This was mostly prayers of Thanksgiving this year. Not to toot my own horn, I mean, the one week I played really bad was when I didn't have power for five days, so that was excusable, that was excusable and I knew why I wasn't playing well yeah.
Speaker 1:And usually at the end of the long day, depending on the week, but most weeks I usually go and do evening prayer in the Adoration Chapel and finish my day out there and then you know that takes 15, 20 minutes for me and I might spend a little more time in there and close out the half hour praying for y'all you know, all the people in the league and all the people who are close to me.
Speaker 3:Some would say my own play ring needs it. Yeah same, yeah, my own play ring needs it yeah same.
Speaker 2:You can edit this out if you want to, Mike, but I do want to highlight the one game this season where Mike made a call and Logan on our bench disagreed with it and the other bench disagreed with it, so we just kept playing. That's right.
Speaker 1:I was like I guess I lose that one.
Speaker 3:You have been voted off the island.
Speaker 1:I think I looked at you and you explained why whatever it was was wrong, and I was like oh yeah.
Speaker 3:And I looked at the other coach and we both just went and everybody said, okay, I think I even said just keep flying.
Speaker 1:And they said just keep flying.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no egos there, it's not what it's about. Exactly, exactly no egos.
Speaker 1:That was said in one of the surveys. I said what I really liked about this league is no egos. I said, well, at least on the field no egos. But yeah, it's been fun. The folks in the league I think it's been a surprise to me how much people kind of not just enjoyed coming and playing, but enjoyed coming and meeting other young adults, you know, and then saying, okay, we're all here because at least most of us are Catholics or practicing Catholics and the ones that aren't are at least not shied away from it enough to not come. You know that they're kind of looking and seeking and trying to figure out where they belong in this big old church of ours, and I think this helps them find their place a little bit. They see us as kind of normal folks who play softball and can relate to them in some ways. For me, as the one who's organizing it, it's given me some new insights into young people that maybe I didn't have before.
Speaker 3:It's like a church on a Sunday morning in summer, throwing wide open its front doors for mass and capturing the attention of the people who walk by. It's just another open door into the church.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, yeah, that's been fun, All right, so let's do a little church search. It's been fun, All right, so let's do a little church search. We're all in some way at least you know Emily plays on the St Chris's sponsored softball team, the Westside Whitecaps. Logan's on the staff. I'm the deacon in that parish, so why don't we just do St Chris this week? Logan, why don't you tell us a little bit about the place that you work Sure.
Speaker 3:St Christopher just finished celebrating its 100-year centennial, so we're getting ready to do our parish festival this weekend, which will be a lot of fun. Father John Klebo is our pastor. We also have Father Tim Daw and Father Joselito Clement on our staff there.
Speaker 1:Better known as Father Leto.
Speaker 3:Yes, father Leto, yes, who loves to support the softball team and Cleveland Cavaliers basketball? Yes, so it's a fairly large community in Rocky River, very young, very vibrant. Always things going on, always young babies crying at mass, which I say is the lifeblood of the parish. That's right. If you're not crying you're dying. Exactly Amen. So yeah, very lively parish, always a friendly face, even though it's very big, very welcoming.
Speaker 1:Lots of young families, yeah, hence the babies crying.
Speaker 3:Yeah, a lot of people in their 30s. Not a lot of younger singles, but a lot of young families in that parish. A lot of young families.
Speaker 1:Indeed, it's been great being there, I have to say, you know, and it's sort of culture shock in reverse for me, you know I was at Sagrada Familia last year, which is a poor, mostly Hispanic parish. You know, three masses in Spanish, one in English, and to go across to Rocky River, which is a more affluent community, and, you know, less culturally diverse, you know, it's not that we don't have any diversity, but less culturally diverse certainly than a place like Sagrada Familia. So I wasn't sure how I was going to adjust to that. But it's been as you said, logan the parish has been really welcoming and embracing of me in the early days, so I'm kind of happy about that. So it's a good place to be. And why don't we take a look at our readings for this coming week? Look, why don't you start us out? You were looking at a couple of different things.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean the line that stands out to me most in the gospel, which is near the end of the bread of life discourse, is, you know, simon Peter answering Jesus near the end, master, to whom shall we go? Just, that's a line that you can just put on a wood plaque and stick in my office or in my home. Idolatry is still alive and well, just in different forms today than it was back in biblical times. We can try to find the answers to our restless hearts in many places. Some people do it with sports, others with TV or media, but our hearts are restless until they rest in our Master. Thank you, st Augustine.
Speaker 1:Yes, and it's funny that we've got something going on here, because that's a line I was going to pick out too, but it's only because my friend, now of happy memory, fr Larry Boat, who's a big scripture scholar and a Paulist father, he used to read that line as sarcasm, because a little bit earlier it says people say oh, this saying is hard, and many of them went back to their former ways of life. And then Jesus comes to his disciples and says well, do you want to leave too? And Peter goes well, who are we going to go to? Everybody left. Well, you have the words of eternal life, apparently. And they stay. He looked at that as sort of a joke at Jesus' expense, sort of like Nathaniel saying well, could anything good come from Nazareth? But it was one of Father Boat's favorite lines of scripture Emily, what about you? That is the master. To whom shall we?
Speaker 2:go. That's definitely one of Father Boat's favorite lines of scripture. So, emily, what about you? That is the master. To whom shall we go? That's definitely one of my favorites. But I did notice this week that the second reading is Ephesians 5, which some may know. You know the wives be subordinate to your husbands, but I think like it was actually you that kind of unlocked it for me. When I first moved here, I was going to a young adult group and we were discussing this particular passage of scripture and you talked about the context, like in how context is so important when we're reading scripture. And so ever since then I've just kind of been like oh yeah, this is actually like what a marriage is supposed to be, like a husband and a wife together on a team. Yeah, like working with each other, like not like one dominating the other, but everybody working together.
Speaker 1:Yeah, notice what he says after be subordinate to your husbands and husbands love your wives. Yup, it was explained to me is that you know? You have to think about what the men did all day, the men? They were enslaved by the Romans. Essentially, they're building the city in the Romans. The Romans are beating them up all day, and then they come home and the wives will look at their husbands and say, can you see what I married? Really, this canker sore of a man. Why don't you ever stand up for yourself? Why are we in this situation? Wives, be subordinate to your husbands. They've had a rough day and husbands love your wives. Don't come home and take it out on your wives because you've had a rough day, and so I need to hear that in my own life from time to time. If I come home and have a bad day, you know I can bark at Marion and she'll be like I'm not the one who gave you a bad day.
Speaker 3:So let's start over in this new context that we're in now and look at the lines that follow it, for no one hates his own flesh. Yeah, the two shall become one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's right, yeah, yep.
Speaker 1:You know we have to. You know Mike and Maren longest running Broadway show. You know it's a 22-year marriage for us and you know we have to remind ourselves of that every day. You know it's, you know and you know we love each other. Marriage is great but, you know, every once in a while, you know, we meet with something that's going to cause some friction between us. We're human beings and so we always have to remind ourselves, be subordinate to one another and love one another.
Speaker 2:We're on the same team.
Speaker 1:We're on the same team right For clarity I'm not on the team.
Speaker 3:But you are on the West Side, whitecaps.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:My favorite softball team.
Speaker 1:You should not marry to the West Side Whitecaps. Now Don't tempt me.
Speaker 2:I started doing this thing on Instagram and I'm sorry if we're going over time. No, you're fine when I would call softball day the best day of the week. And one day I think it was the week after I missed a week. I came up and I was like Logan, it's the best day of the week. He's like you mean the Lord's Day and I was like I mean like softball day, but sure same day for us.
Speaker 3:So it just you know it works, works out in that way exactly.
Speaker 2:So then I was like so then it occurred to me I was, like you know, softball's been really good for me because I, you know, like I have a second job, like I spend a lot of time working and doing and volunteering, I don't spend a lot of time like resting.
Speaker 2:And so that's what softball has really done for me. Is is given me a place to rest. So I was like, well, I should keep doing this, like I should just make Sunday the best day of the week and do something that I enjoy doing, just for the sake of doing it. And so yeah, exactly, it's like we're commanded to do that or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah right, exactly, it's funny, you should say this. So one of my classmates, my dean's classmates, his wife Leslie, was saying to me one day well, you know, why are they playing sports on Sunday? You know, they should just not allow them to play sports on Sunday. And I said well, you know, the rule is that there's no game before one o'clock. And I said you know masses generally, you know the rule is that there's no game before one o'clock. And I said you know masses generally, you know there might be a late night mass somewhere, you know. And I said and you know there are masses, you can get to that you know, that aren't around those times.
Speaker 1:You know, we're okay, you know. And she was like no, but it's supposed to be a day of rest. And I said, okay, here's how I rest. I rest by watching a ball game. And I said, and if I had children, I'd love to go and watch them play softball or play basketball or whatever on a Sunday. That would be relaxing to me. And she looked at me and she's like huh.
Speaker 1:You know, I was like and people relax, sometimes playing sports too, you know, as you just said, you know, so there's those kinds of things.
Speaker 2:So that's, but that's something I'm going to keep going Like. So this Sunday our games got canceled and I was like, well, I've been wanting to go to Squire's Castle for a while. So I went on a five mile hike because I just wanted to do it.
Speaker 1:We forgot to talk a little bit about our little Crystal Beach Loganberry here. So my friend Cecilia came down for lunch yesterday from Buffalo and she said do you want anything from Buffalo? And I really didn't, but I remembered that you were coming in on Tuesday and so I said, oh, Loganberry. So this is a non-carbonated fruit beverage, it's sort of a Buffalo thing. It does have vitamin A, E, B6, and B12, you will notice.
Speaker 2:What Mike is leaving out is the 81% of your daily value of sugar.
Speaker 1:Notice I haven't opened it. I haven't opened mine either it is delicious, but yeah, I'm on a diet so I'm probably not going to eat it. So I brought it in to sort of share with the staff. So I thought it would be at least a good gag, if nothing else.
Speaker 3:Mike had to find a middle school way to make fun of me when I came for this podcast. Pretty much.
Speaker 2:Well, this is also an advertisement for the All-Star Game, because the Loganberries is one of the teams right.
Speaker 1:No, no, we scrapped that idea. I made that up.
Speaker 2:I thought you put it on the website.
Speaker 1:I did and I enjoyed it, and so it's St Lawrence. Actually, we should talk about this so on Sunday. So actually here's the schedule for this coming week. Logan, correct me when I get this wrong. Tonight, big League Chew will be taking on the Parma Peacocks at Roman Field at 6.30. Tomorrow night at 6.30, we will have the.
Speaker 3:ETA Mighty Doves versus the St.
Speaker 1:Vitus Lions. So that's sort of the 6-7 game, so that's sort of the play-in game, and then the winner of that game will take on Chosen Ones to finish the three seed. And then that takes us up to Sunday, and then Sunday, a long day of softball beginning at 2 o'clock.
Speaker 3:The first game is 2 seed Catching Flamingos will play the winner of the 3-6 game, the Chosen Ones game, versus the play-in winner 3-30,. We'll see my team take on the winner of Big League Chew versus Parma Peacocks, which is played on Tuesday night, and the winners play after that.
Speaker 1:For the.
Speaker 3:Cathedral Cup, yep, and then we'll have the All-Star game at 6-30. So that'll be the St Lawrence Flames, coached by Deacon Mike himself, versus Mary's Mantles. A little baseball play, Marian theme, coached by yours truly. Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2:Oh, you know, st Lawrence is the patron saint of archivists.
Speaker 1:I think I did know that, but I didn't remember it until just now.
Speaker 2:Too bad, you're on my team. Well, I won't complain.
Speaker 3:But if they win.
Speaker 2:that's why because I'm not on the team, exactly.
Speaker 1:So coming out and joining us. Veranova Health will be providing food on Sunday, out at St John Bosco in Parma Parma Heights, I should say and then Archangel Outfitters will be out there as well. So we hope to see you there. Hey, great year of softball. Still a little bit more to go, but great year. And, Logan, thanks especially for all your help in organizing the league. I couldn't do it without you, literally. And Emily, you always bring such joy to the league as well. So thanks for all of the enthusiasm you bring to this.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:We'll have this and a whole lot more next time here on Question of Faith.
