How close did that game come to how you would have ideally drawn it up? Yeah, pretty good. Pretty good. I mean, Sevvy set the tone and really came out on a mission. And I thought he threw the ball so well. Credit to the A's though, they made it tough on them. And they battled them. And he was able to make some big pitches when he really needed to. But it really made them work hard to that point. And then we wanted Dellen for that part of the order. And so I was willing to go to him obviously as early as we were and for him to go through and get a six big outs at that point. And then we were able to add on, which was nice. And yeah, it rolled out pretty well. Stay there, Ron. How much going in was your game plan to have Sevvy throwing fastballs in the first inning and switch to off-speed stuff after that? That's him and Larry in the pitching plan and how we're going to attack. And Sevvy always does a good job, I think, of mixing his pitches. He's going to work hard to establish his fastball. He's worked hard all year on making the change up a factor. He didn't throw the change up as much tonight as he has in a lot of outings this year.  You know going up against that lineup because they're patient and they're dangerous. You've got to be able to mix those pitches. And you've got to be able to throw strikes with all those pitches. And he was able to do that. We'll give you that. Let's get through it tonight. Billion's second row. When Dylan hasn't pitched too often where he's come in in the middle of an inning, so was that just he was going to face those guys no matter what, whether it was two outs and nobody on? Not no matter what. I mean, Sevvy had an opportunity to get through those guys. And had he done that, had he gotten those first two guys out, we would have stuck with Sevvy there. But we were prepared if a couple guys got on there. And just because they were making them work so hard, we were prepared to go to Dylan if we felt like it was necessary. And after the first two guys got on, I believe it felt like time. I guess the other part of that then is just, I mean, a guy that hasn't been in that situation, he hasn't pitched that early in the game and that coming in in the middle of an inning like that, why do you feel like that was? Because Dylan's a stud and I wanted him facing. I told him before the game, I said, you may be who I go to in the fourth or the fifth inning potentially if it's a part of the lineup that I want you facing in that spot. I just felt like he was the guy. And so we got him ready for it. And he came in and he was lights out. Tyler?  How do you think this game kind of showed off all the different ways that you can win and the good things about your team right now? Yeah, no question. With Kutch leading things off with the work in the walk, getting on base, I talked to you guys a lot about controlling the strike zone. Kutch does that so well. And then, Judgie with a big swing and bam, all of a sudden it's 2-0. And Seve seemed to just kind of build some steam from there. And again, even though he wasn't able to get too deep into the game, he was really good for while he was in there. And I credit the A's, they grinded him. They made it hard on him. And so Seve pitching that way. And then you see, obviously, the bullpen coming in and being as effective as they were. I think that's kind of a really good look at kind of when we're at our best right there. We did a lot of things well and then got some guys in there defensively that helped things etch with a great play down there at third. Walked to finish it off. It was nice. And also, you've seen the Red Sox postseason as a player. And you've seen it now as a manager during the regular season. What do you think about those guys in there? I mean, how are they going to respond to that setting? And what do you think of the matchup? Our guys? Yeah. I think they can't wait. And I think they're ready and relish the opportunity to go up against the game's best this year. And obviously, we're very familiar with them. We know how good they are. I mean, we know we have to play our best if we're going to have a chance to beat them. Obviously, they're very tough at Fenway. But I think you say the same for them, probably. But I know our guys can't wait to get there. And try and get it done. Dave, second round of your lunch. Obviously, you spent a lot of time focusing on the A's for this game. But now that you've passed them, was there part of you that thought maybe this was kind of destined to happen, that you were going to wind up playing the Red Sox based on the way you guys have kind of paralleled each other? I don't know. I don't really go there and get caught up in word destined. I mean, we know who the next opponent was. And we know this is the one game thing. So you're confident you can get it done.  One game, anything can kind of happen. So you just prepare as best you can and pour everything into this one. And now we'll obviously soul focus on the Red Sox. We've got a bunch against the right wall here. Aaron, Gary had a huge night behind the play. Can you speak a little bit of him managing the pitching staff, calling the game, blocking balls, everything that goes into it? He was great. He was a huge part of it. I thought him and Seve were on a great page together. I thought he received really well. Obviously, the blocks you talked about behind there. I just thought his focus and just seeing him today when he came in, I just loved the look in his eye and his intent and his purpose. And everything was just proud of the way he was able to caught. And he was, again, a big factor in us being able to hold down a really good offense. Take the last one from Andy. And then Luis Severino is coming in. So obviously, this was unique as a wildcard game, how you handled your pitching. But going forward in the postseason, could you see yourself generally with a shorter leash on starters, more creative use of the bullpen in ways, if not an elimination game situation, still different from what we saw from you, the regular season? Yeah, I think it's different. But also maybe a little different from a winter go home kind of situation as well. I mean, and how much the guy threw the day before and how much do you really have out of individuals. I mean, that's just a fluid situation every single day. But yeah, I think it's certainly different than the regular season with the aggression. And you're willing to push guys and push certain relievers on a given night. Yeah, but it changes a little bit every day. Aaron, thanks a lot. OK.


Hello and welcome to your introduction to the module project you're going to do this week. I'm going to show you some good ideas that you can use either by yourself with a partner or on a team. This is called a PowerPoint show and I think by now most of you should know how to make a very basic PowerPoint. So I'm just going to go through some of these ideas and my country that I chose is Bangladesh. So you're going to put the title on and your name. Now this is going to be a very different type of project because your instructor will not be telling you too much of what you have to do. You have to make that decision. So we are going to show you and give you some resources and some examples and then on your own or again with a partner or on a team you can choose however you want to work on this project and you only have a week to do it. So you make that decision as soon as you can and then the where you choose a country that's not your own. How? You choose your method of presentation so it does not have to be a PowerPoint. It could be or you can do research and give your report like you would a book report. You can do a poster board and get pictures and do a talk from pictures. You can use the overhead projector or the document camera and have an article or some pictures and share what you found out about a different country on the cultural etiquette, the taboos or things that you shouldn't do when you're in another country or you can even design a game to give us the information that you found on a different country such as Jeopardy. When you choose when and where you're going to meet with your partner or your team and you also are going to choose how you want to be graded. You choose your own rubric so your instructor will have directions on how to work with you in the class and come up with maybe a three or four point evaluation sheet of what you want to be graded on when you give your presentation. Now this is one example and this came from one of the websites that I'll show you at the end of this show. This is actually a bit too much information because you as the student and us as the teacher know that students tend to read and so we don't want you to read. The whole idea is to learn the information, have just maybe a few words on the slides or on your poster board or index cards and do most of the talking from memory. That means that you have really learned the information. So you can see some ideas here about the greetings, how people in Bangladesh have different cultural customs than we do here in the states and how they communicate. Now another way you can do it you can put some links in your PowerPoint show if you're going to do PowerPoint and you can go to that website so I will click on this active link and this is one of the excellent websites, the cultural crossing and so we don't want you to read it but you can just show people you can look at the board and see what you're going to be talking about this one is on personal space and touching but we are hoping that you will have read it and remember it and you can look at the audience while you're talking and sharing that information. And then on this here you can actually give us a report on your personal experience you can do that in person or if you see this little speaker here I'm going to click on it now I'm recording this video so I don't think you're going to hear it. So the personal experience is we do not look at anyone for long periods of time this is a sign of respect and these are the websites that you can get so you can use a little from each of them I don't recommend that because that's going to be a lot of work so pick one that you're comfortable with and just take the just a few words from each of the areas on the diversity in different countries the cultural etiquette. Okay you will have a handout direction sheet so you'll know more of what you're doing for your project but you will present at the end of the week and it only has to be about a one minute one to two minute presentation so we can learn about the diversity throughout the world. Thank you so much.


Well, we're just one day away from the 28th annual Brainer J.C.'s ice fishing extravaganza and this year's event could be the biggest one yet. The Brainer J.C.'s and many volunteers were out at hole in the day bay today preparing the competition area by drilling holes, setting up tents and stocking the coolers just in time for the 8 a.m. competition tomorrow morning. So today we're finishing setting up our tents, walls and things like that, putting up some snow fence just to direct lines in the right direction. And we're drilling 20,000 holes. So there's that. How long does it take to drill 20,000 holes? Last year, just under four hours. So it's really not that bad. You wouldn't believe how fast it actually goes. The event annually draws over 10,000 people to the Gull Lake, but ticket sales this year already indicate that it could be a record-breaking year in terms of participants and attendees. I think they're looking really good, like better than years past. We're really looking at the perfect storm of weather coming here with really good ticket sales coming into the extravaganza week. I'm really hoping that we can maybe try to break a record and donate more money than ever before. So all the proceeds collected from the ice fishing extravaganza go back to local Brainerd area charities, most notably the Confidence Learning Center. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.