Brian Haney

Hey, Todd, great to be on with you, my friend.

We're doing great, enjoying this historic season.

Now two wins shy of a school record and had a chance to see some Jayhawk baseball history and strikeouts and home runs today as well.

So pretty great time to be a KU baseball fan.

You know, with everything they've done in the last month to expand capacity by 1,500 fans with an area they're calling the backyard beyond the left field fence, they tore down the fencing, put up a transparent wall in left, and then made kind of a party deck area out there for 1,000 fans with...

Some benches that you can sit on, but it's more meant to be, you know, bring your own lawn chair, stand, you know, drink a beer, catch a home run ball, have a good time type thing.

That was packed to the gills from the moment they opened up the gates this morning.

And then you saw the additional seating area they've opened up.

Again, more of a party on your feet type spacing thing down the left field line.

that used to be the opponent bullpen, those two additions took a ballpark's capacity of 2,500 and raised it to 4,000.

And we were absolutely at max capacity today.

Even with all the rain all morning and the earlier start time, Jayhawk fans showed up in droves.

They were a loud, rowdy group.

Of course, the student section sits right on top of the visiting dugout, and those poor Huskies were hearing about it from the word go today.

But, yeah, great energy, great atmosphere today.

Our stadium might not be as big as some of the SEC venues you see around the country, but, man, we certainly bring the quality above the quantity.

And thanks to our athletic department, we now have even more quantity than ever before.

So today, officially a record-setting crowd in the history of Oakland Ballpark.

Yeah, you know, when Bill Self walked in right at the start of the game was unfolding and took his seat behind home plate, Lance Leipold there too, you kind of pinch yourself and think, man,

As the voice of the Jayhawks, my proudest moments have obviously come with a couple of Final Four runs and a national championship call in 2022, and then the back-to-back bowl seasons that Lance delivered.