Waseca

But, you know, a lot of it's the same.

We're still playing the Rochester teams, Austin, Mankato West, the Waseca team, and Winona, things like that.

So a lot of that's the same because that's who we compete with.

We're still doing both tournaments over Thanksgiving and Christmas, so a lot of those same teams as well, and hoping we can get a few more wins out of it this year, staying more competitive.

And y'all know, like, when we was in prison or whatever, and all the Dublin inmates came there, and all that shit was going on in the Dublin prison, where the males was having sex with the inmates, and all these lawsuits and everything going on.

And just literally right before I left Waseca, all that shit was going on down there.

There was an African man that came working at Waseca or whatever, the only black man that worked there.

that bitch is shaking their ass.

They doing the most in front of this man.

absolutely state was a lot of fun last year and i'm ready to go out there and give it my all

over in doubles you had defending champions therese bauer riley theron both from lake city in the semi-finals against amanda and karen hasakawa from cotter bauer and theron cruised to a 6060 win in their semi-final match Then the two dispatched of Waseca's Ava Miller and Hannah Rugger, 6-2, 6-3 to repeat as champs.

They made it look fairly routine for them.

They were third place at state last year, so this is not all that surprising, but still very much worthy of celebrating.

Like, last week there was a wedding, and They were from out of town.

They were from Waseca, and they came to New Ulm for their wedding.

They got married at the state park, went down to the community center.

I mean, they were here for two days, running around New Ulm.

I started to read a few books.

And the day Kevin drove me to Waseca, Minnesota, he cried basically the whole way.

I didn't cry at all.

I mean, I was sad, but I'm like, what's crying going to do? It's going to make me a mess and I'm going to be physically ill by the time I get there because that's usually what happens with me with crying.

You could go elsewhere on compound where you needed to go and You had to be there within eight minutes.

And if not, you got a shot and you did not want a shot.

But I don't know if I told you this, G-Rex, in our original little talk, but the place where I went was Waseca, Minnesota.

The prison in Waseca used to be the University of Minnesota, Waseca.

You know, just being far away from our family.

Cause we was way in Minnesota, you know, Waseca.

So it was just like going out there.

And

Yeah.

And, and if I'm like looking in the camera and being honest with myself, this is your idea to begin with that you allowed me to kind of tag along with, you know, So in Waseca, there was Thanksgiving dinner, and it was provided by a local, I don't remember who, but somebody, some organization put it on.

And you looked at me and said, is anybody doing Christmas dinner? Why don't we do Christmas dinner? People need to have like a nice meal for Christmas too.

In fact, we'd say even more so than Thanksgiving with our faith, right?

Um, it's taken on a life of its own.

The old days were, were different.

Um, we've always matched $3,000 and it used to be you and I, and now it comes out of the I wealth foundation, which is part of the Waseca area foundation.

Um, uh, which is really cool.

I think we go back to the TCU and Bell playing games.

Game one against Waseca, open game, kind of opened our eyes to the physicality we need to have, and I think we've gotten better.

But again, the TCU one, we kind of let it slip through our fingers.

Bell playing, I'd say the same thing.

Tigers, they got the bye as the number one seed, and then they were more than ready.

Beat Waseca 5-2 in the semifinals, and then they advanced to the section final, which was a rematch against Cannon Falls.

The Bombers had previously beat them 4-3.

This time in the section final, it was the Tigers winning 4-3.

They're gonna team up again, and certainly look like they're on a path to repeat.

They're in the semifinals against Amanda and Karen Hasegawa from Cotter.

If Bauer and Thieren win, uh, they'll either face another Cotter duo or Waseca in the finals.

All of the individual singles, doubles, semifinals matches, those are all back at the Rochester Athletic Club on October 19th.

Go do it.

Rochester, Owatonna, Waseca, Janesville, La Crescent, Winona, Wabasha, Red Wing.

I mean, it's coming along, brother.

That's sweet.