Blake Wehunt

And Blake, we're looking over a baseball field right now, a little bit of rain coming down, but by now a lot of people already know that you did grow up on a chicken farm, called the chicken farmer.

But what was your upbringing like having that aspect that a lot of people aren't aware of with farming side of life?

Yeah, so growing up it was a lot of help.

It was all hands on deck.

So, you know, if my dad needed something done, me and my brother or brothers really would go down there and help him and my mom, my grandpa.

So it was different than I feel like most guys grew up.

Yeah, it was always all hands on deck and summer break turned into a lot of chicken house stuff.

It was good that I learned the value of hard work and I saw how much work my dad did because it's kind of seven days a week.

You don't get an off day.

But other than that, that's pretty much how it was growing up.

How big was the operation or is the operation? Obviously your dad is still doing it.

So how many chickens are they for eggs or what does that all look like?

So he collects the eggs every day that the chickens lay.

And, you know, when they're, we have two chicken houses and when they're doing pretty well, each chicken house does about 9,500 to 10,000 eggs a day.

A day.

A

day.

And so he is picking up eggs for hours on end down there.

But luckily, he's got like a little TV, watches SportsCenter while he does it.

But we probably have, give or take, 20,000-ish chickens.

20,000, wow.

Yeah, so he's just constantly picking up eggs every day.

And then obviously at the end of the flock, the chickens get sold for meat and such.

So you've pitched actually in a good amount of day games this season.

Are the Seadogs games on his TV as well?