 Back to BPTV driven by Audi. Hurricane Ida left destruction in her path when she roared through our area on September 1st. New Jersey was hit pretty hard. Bridgewater in particular where the Yankees AA affiliate, the Somerset Patriots play, and we welcome in their president and general manager, Patrick McVerry, for a feel of transpire there over the past two weeks. Can you just give us, Patrick, an extent of the damage that you guys suffered? Sure, yeah, it was this whole area got hit really hard and we walked in on that Thursday and first of all, actually the water wasn't that bad in the morning and it just kept rising and rising. I think we ended up about eight or nine feet of water on our field, in our facility, damaging quite a bit of stuff. We were in a bit of shock, to be honest with you, and at that point we were just waiting for that water to recede and see what's left. Patrick, what was the community reaction? I know there was a lot of outpouring on Twitter to help you guys out, but how did the community react to your situation? Listen, this community was hit hard. It was, we know we've been through floods before as a community, but this one was probably, it was the worst since I've been in this area for the last 25 years, so. But the community, they looked at the Patriots, that's kind of the beacon of hope for the community and they were very supportive. I had so many people reach out and ask if they could help and that is very special to us and something I'm internally grateful for. And we were able to pull it together and I think with the support of not just our staff and ground keeper, but just the overall help from the county and our township or township that made sure we got what we needed to have. This is just 13 days ago, so walk us through how the damage was repaired and how you guys have bounced back from this. Yeah, you know, so again, that Thursday, we really couldn't do all that much because the water was still on the field in the facility. Friday morning, we came into a lot of just muck and mud and you really looked at all of the areas, the ballpark that were damaged and it was extensive. So at that point, we kind of assess what we're looking at. What are we going to do moving forward as a staff? And those decisions were made collectively with our ground keeper, our vice president of operations, Brian and Wiki and a few others to say, okay, we have about, you know, at that point, we're looking to play here on that Tuesday. We have about three or four days here. Is it possible? And we quickly determined there's no way we'd be able to play on that Tuesday. Unfortunately for us, Hartford, the Colorado Rocky double affiliate took us in for a few days and that gave us the Labor Day weekend to work and making sure our ballpark was put back together. And we really focused on, you know, the fan experience, making sure the levels of play, the fans, as far as them coming to a game, they really would not be able to tell any difference if there was a flood or not. So we worked for the weekend. We're really waiting for, make sure we had materials to put back the billboards, materials from the warning track that got taken away by the water. And those things all came together. So on that Tuesday, I had to make a decision for Hartford's sake and basically baseball had requested that I make a decision by Tuesday for that Friday game to see who'd be able to play that weekend. So, you know, it was a, I was sweating it a little bit, but I was assured by our groundskeeper, Dan Turner, who's unbelievable that he could make it work for Friday. Our billboard companies up in New Hampshire team down and he started putting the pieces back together and he came down on that Tuesday and he said he would be ready by Friday. And a few other people, including the warning track, Bayer construction team in and Bayshore of the warning track was all put back together and some of the foundation around the outfield wall in the field. I gave it a go-ahead for being able to play on Friday, got the approval from MLB and the Yankees and the Rockies and we were good to go for Friday. I was sweating a little bit on Wednesday and Thursday, but by the time I left Thursday night, I was feeling pretty good that we'd have a great weekend. And this past weekend, give us a feel, what was the atmosphere like when you were back in your park? Yeah, that Friday night was, first of all, it was absolutely gorgeous, gorgeous fall evening. We had a great crowd and I tell you the people were just like in awe that we were able to pull this off. And it felt really good for our staff, all the congratulations, the thank yous and all that was just special, something I'll never forget. And again, you drive around this community and you feel for these people who are fans and their whole lives are in their front yards and we're here for them to kind of get away from kind of what they're dealing with. So I felt like that was an important part to show that we're resilient and we can come back and we're going to make sure that our community bounces back too. Yeah, just a tremendous job by you and your staff, Patrick. And I saw one of the pictures we showed, someone was wearing the shirt Jersey strong. Those came about after Hurricane Sandy and they come true once again through Hurricane Ida. We thank you for the time. Thanks for having me, thank you. All right, that's Patrick McVerry, the president and GM of the Somerset Patriots Law.