Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - The WPBL Podcast with Ashton Lansdell: Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 1980

Episode Date: September 26, 2026

In this 1980th episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike shares a conversation he had with Ashton Lansdell, captain of the LA Queens, who won the first ever WPBL Championship on Tuesday night.A version of this podcast without programmatic ads is available to all Toronto Mike'd Patrons at patreon.com/torontomike.Toronto Mike'd, an award-winning podcast, is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, Ridley Funeral Home, Nick Ainis, and RecycleMyElectronics.ca.If you would like to support the show, we do have partner opportunities available. Please email Toronto Mike at [e-mail]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This past Tuesday night, Ayami Sato pitched a 2-0 complete game shutout for the Los Angeles Queens as they defeated the San Francisco Firebells in a winner-take-all game five to clinch the first ever WPBL championship. WPBL stands for Women's Professional Baseball League, and they've just concluded their inaugural season. I chatted with WPBL superstar Ashton Lance Dell every week since early April, giving me a unique perspective on this new league. I lived precariously through Ashton as she played for the party animals and banana ball,

got MVP honors when Team USA won a big tournament, and all the while promoted a new league featuring many of the best women baseball players on the planet. And oh yes, she captained the queens to the championship. For season one, there were four teams. The New York Heights, the Boston Hunters, the San Francisco Firebells, and the Los Angeles Queens. There was a home run race between Dene Berenidas of the Heights and Kelsey Whitmore of the Firebells.

There was a heated semi-final between the Queens and Heights. I thought we were going to get a bench-clearing brawl. Then, of course, the thrilling Best of Five championship with a performance for the ages by former Toronto Maple Leaf Ayami Sato, a storybook ending. So every week I chatted with Ashton Lansdell and published these conversations as the WPBL podcast. And yesterday afternoon, we chatted for the first time

since the season ended with Ashton's queens on top of the podium. I thought I'd share that conversation here, because history was made, and I'm proud of my tiny role in it all. So congratulations to Ashton Lansdell, Ayami Sato, Monet Davis, Maggie Fox, fellow Canuck, Michelle Roche, and the rest of the Queen's team.

I can't wait for next season. All right, what's up, everybody? Welcome back to another episode of your WPBL podcast. That was obviously a little bit of a different intro than normal. Spotify wanted to get on us about, you know, the song we were using. So hopefully we can get our OG snowflake song back. But yeah, we're back. Currently I'm in Cleveland.

I'm already back in my party animals uniform right now. But what a crazy last few days. and week. It's been championship series. Your queens came out on top. I'm still riding a high of everything. I don't think I've processed all the emotions and memories and moments yet. But yeah, just living the best life out here. Wouldn't change a single thing. So life's been crazy the last few days to say the very least. But I have missed my boy Toronto. Mike. Mike, how you doing? My guy? Ashton, congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You did it.

We did it. Me and the LA Queens, we all did it. But you're the captain of the first ever WPBL champions. Yeah, yeah, first captain to be a champion. Okay, so I want to get into it with you. Firstly, can you share with us all, like how the Queens celebrated after winning the first ever WPBL championship? Well, I think a lot of us had our first ever full-on champagne. shower. I mean, we had bottles upon bottles of champagne just being popped and thrown everywhere

across the infield. But yeah, we were just all together all night. I don't think we left the stadium until, I mean, close to midnight, people were still there. I mean, it was just so surreal. I mean, my uniform was soaking wet from all the champagne. It was also the coldest game of the whole season, of course. So I was just shivering and freezing cold. in this champagne, but, you know, I would, I would do it all over again. We all went out afterwards, not only the Queens, but the firebells, the heights, the hunters, all the managers, coaches, staff, volunteers that were still in the area. We all ended up going to one bar click in Springfield and just hung out with each other. And it was really cool to just celebrate the entire season

with everybody. It felt more of a celebration for the inaugural season of the league, even even though the queens won the championship, it was really cool to just be there with everybody that was a part of this. Well, it was a thrilling year, and it came down to a deciding game, winner take all. It was the best of five. It came down to the fifth game. So before we dive into those details, though,

and I do have questions from WPBL fans on the subreddit WPBL. And as we work through those, I'll be able to pepper you of more questions I have. But let's listen to a little clip. And then I want to hear from you, Ashton. The moment this happened, I want to know exactly what you were thinking, what you were feeling. Let's listen. Let's see if I remember.

On the ground over to short, Shimano scoops it up. Over to first. The L.A. Queens take their throne as their crown the inaugural women's pro baseball league champions. How did you feel in this moment, Ashton Lansdale? I mean, gosh. We were just honestly so calm throughout the entire game. Even in that last inning, we were just telling each other, you know, take our deep breath, calm everything down a little bit.

But once that last ground ball was hit the shortstop, all I remember was yelling at IU, stay down, stay down. You got it. You got time. And she stayed down. I saw that she made a good throw on the line of first. And before Sarah even caught the ball, I threw my glove up in the air. And I was running towards Sato, gave her the,

biggest hug. I was already screaming before the final out was made. So thankfully, it was a good throw in Sarah caught the ball. But yeah, I mean, it was crazy. And then everyone just stacked on the pile and we were jumping up and down. And it was literally history from there on out. So it was an incredible exhilarating feeling. Well, I'm glad you said the S word there, Sato, because we talked quite a bit about Yami Sato, who I told you a hundred times. I saw her play for the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team at Christy Pitts in Toronto last summer. So I got to meet her and got to see her in action.

And I knew, you know, she was the second overall pick. And I knew this was a key, you know, member of the Queens. But she had some rough patches. And then we talked about the culture clash. And she was on social media. We talked about this last week. Ayami Sato thought she was being disrespected by the Heights. And I think she took it personally.

So Ashton, tell me. what it was like to witness that performance in crunch time the first ever complete game shutout in WPBL history when everything was on the line. Look, those are the moments that Ayami Sato is made for. She has won, I don't even know how many gold medals. I know that she has three MVPs for the World Baseball Classic World Cup.

she is just made for those big game on the line thriller moments and she does it every single time. So when I knew that Sato was fresh and ready to go to start game five, I was like, that is the key thing that we needed and she was feeling good. You could just see the look in her eyes. Like she was locked in. It was even more locked than she was against the heights in that third game. Like she just knows how to handle those heights. pressure, game five, everything on the line moments. And I knew that we had that piece,

but we also needed the defense behind her. And we probably had one of the greatest defensive games of our entire season. And we had pitching, we had defense, and all we had to do was score some runs. So everything just played out exactly how we wanted it to and we hoped for, but could not have done it without Sato and her amazing performance. I mean, it was, it was nice to be on her side for once behind that performance because I've been on the other side and it's not fun. So it was nice to have Sato on the same side as me and come out on top with her. I mean, it's just incredible what she can do. Ash, I watched most games.

Okay, I watched them on YouTube. I was watching every game of the championship. One thing you see in the WPPL is offense. You get some high run counts. I mean, you know, we've seen some batting averages. over 400 in this league. There's a lot of offense. How do you pitch a shutout?

That's incredible. In game five of a best of five, with the championship on the line. That just goes to show how much work Sato puts in. And that's not just the physical work, but that's like doing her homework. She studies the hitters.

She takes notes. She's always just being active, whether that's in the gym, at the field. She gets there hours before anyone else does. she's always just moving around, hitting fungos to us, playing catch. I mean, the girl does not sit down. I swear I did not see her sit still for more than five minutes this last two months. So it's just, you know, it just goes to show how dedicated she is to this sport.

And when you're that dedicated, you get rewarded and things come out in your favor. So, I mean, it's just, it's a testament to Sato and her gameplay. and her mentality and her persona. So she's just an awesome human being. Before I get to these questions, Ash, let's talk about you personally for a minute. Remind me, so we're chatting on a Friday afternoon. What night was game five?

Game five was, what, Tuesday night? Okay, so Tuesday night's the night you're out drinking champagne all night with your teammates. And I guess the whole league celebrating this great first season of WPL. And today I look at you and you're in your party animals uniform and you're in a dressing room. And what city are you in? Currently, I'm in Cleveland, Ohio. And this is the last weekend of regular season gameplay for banana ball.

But okay. So Tuesday night, you're partying, celebrating WPBL championship. In Franklin, Illinois. Yeah. Right. Now you're in, you know, Cleveland. I know Cleveland rocks, okay? But you're there now for a game.

So what's life been like? for Ashton Lansdell, that seems like a blur. Yeah, the past 72 hours have definitely been a blur. I mean, we were going to leave from Springfield to come to Cleveland on Wednesday. But, I mean, it was a late night, and we didn't pack a single thing. And, I mean, it just was not happening. And we also just didn't want to rush. So on Wednesday, I mean, we just packed up the entire hotel room,

set our goodbyes and everything. excuse me, the sprite is like getting me right now. I still got that cough going on too. So I'm trying to like get the... Oh, there's a question about that from the listener. Yeah, we'll get into that. But yeah, the past two days, I mean, I have yet to fully process everything either. Like, I just got to see all my guys on the party animals.

Everyone's congratulating me. So it's just still, everything is still happening and hitting right now. So, I mean, it just seems like another day in my life, I guess, because I'm, I'm always on the road, but, you know, it's just, it's hard to get, you know, you get caught up in all of it so often. So I'm trying to just process everything still. But, yeah, I'm in Cleveland right now. And then in the next few days, I'll be in Pennsylvania to see my grandma again. So still on the road and moving nonstop.

On the road again? Always. And on your way to the championship, and I'm going to get to the questions now, but on your way to the championship, you took out both. Deney Benitez and Kelsey Whitmore. So you are the dragon slayer. Yeah, that's right. The queens are the dragon slayers. Okay, ready for questions?

Let me call up some. These are from again. This is a subreddit called WPBL. And I didn't give them much notice because we were going to have a guest on and things changed quickly and we're trying to find time for you to do this. You don't even have your microphone. You're just like, we're just doing this, right? So Selena Evergreen has a question for you.

Selina asks, looking back, was it more rewarding having it come down to best of five rather than a three-game sweep? Because you guys were up two-nothing. Yeah. It looked like you might be sweeping. And Selena says, as a fan of the league, I was just happy for more baseball. So is it more rewarding to win in a winner-take-all game five, or would you have rather swept? I mean, when it was all happening and we won the first two games, we were like, oh, we're going to sweep like we got this.

It would be so cool to just, you know, just come in and sweep everyone out of here. But I think for the league's sake and the sake of the fans wanting to watch more baseball and even just the feeling of playing in a winner takes all game, you can't beat anything more than that. I mean, that's just like a golden story written in the stars. That's how it all always plays out like in the movies and everything. You get to game five. You get down to the last at bat. And it's just, it's crazy how it all played out. It was literally like a movie.

So I think it was really cool that we made it all the way to the last game of the series. I wouldn't have changed a single thing because, honestly, I think the queens needed to lose those two games to kind of get that fire back in them. We were riding a high there with a three-game win streak in the playoffs. And, you know, sometimes you've got to be humbled a little bit to get that fireback. And that's exactly what happened. So it's always a thriller when it comes down to winner-takes-all-game. Katie ABC writes, first, congratulations on the win.

Thank you, Katie. I'm a completely useless baby when I get sick. What kind of cold flu medicine did you take while playing? sick. I need some of that. It would be a good sponsor too, just saying. So how did you fix yourself up enough to win a WPBL championship? Hey, I mean, it was a battle the last two and a half three weeks of the season. I just had this cough that I could not get rid of. And I was doing the typical day quill, NyQuil, allergy meds, um, Tylenol, all that stuff. And I mean, for two weeks, it was not working. So I finally decided to go see a doctor, get some legit.

legitimate antibiotics, get the whole checkup, the stuff that actually works, and started taking that. And I also got my first ever IV. So, like, hydrated my body, put some vitamins in there and everything. And that was in between game four and game five, where we had that one off day. We didn't have any practice, anything. We just had a meeting. And I was like, good. I'm going to take care of myself, get all this stuff. And the meds helped. But a lot of it was just having to dog through my body feeling like crap, me being tired, and all of that stuff. Like, it was a struggle at moments, especially in that last week of gameplay and in the playoffs, because things get really intense and it takes a lot to get through those moments.

So me and a few of my other teammates who were also battling the same sickness, we literally just had to dog it out many, many times. Well, whatever you did between games four and five, it worked out. It sure did. All right. So this is a long one, but I'll break it into chunks. Okay. So you can respond as we go.

But this is from Individual March 629. All right. Huge congratulations to the L.A. Queens. You're the queen of the queens and must be in heaven in the days after your team's championship win. I was crushed a little when I got on Spotify this morning. And there was no podcast after the most exciting end to the season. Thank goodness it's happening. So that's the first chunk.

I'll pause. Sorry, I had your episode in between then. I would have recorded with you, you know, while you were drinking that champagne. I know, I know. You know, but I tried to. Just popped in our post-game interview conference room and just started asking me questions there. I would have done that. I would have done that.

Next season, next season. Yeah. There's a thread on the WPBL Facebook fan page asking who the fastest player in the league is. And your name, Ashton, comes up the most. I want to know who you think are the top three fastest players in the league from this inaugural season. You're so speedy, but I think it's Lexi Hastings. No disrespect. What's say you, Ashton?

You know, I do like to be a humbled athlete, but I'm going to say I'm going to have to take the cake on being the fastest in the league because that's been my game since I was about nine years old. So, but I will give it to Lexi. Lexi is super fast. She's so explosive. So I would say me, Lexi. And, oh, you know what? Who surprised me and has some speed is Brittany Apgar. She would bench run for us every once in a while.

I was like, that girl, that girl's got some speed on her. So that's my top three. Okay. And good question here from individual March 629. and I don't know, they say, why did we never hear We Are the Champions by Queen? And I'm going to chime in to say,

I was thinking about this, what a great song for your championship because the artist is Queen and you're the Queen. Right, right. I don't know, I would have, I think I honestly assumed that they played it because that's the most popular song to play when you win a championship.

So maybe I made it up in my head or maybe I blacked out when there was like, there was like an hour and a half of music playing after the game ended and stuff. So I don't know. Maybe I made up that we heard it. I could have sworn I did, but, you know, in our heart. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And in my head and in my heart. Do you have any top highlights from the championship series? It could be a play on the field or a memorable moment connection with a player, coach, or fan. Pick one moment for us, Ashton. One moment. I think it's hard to pick one moment. moment. If there, maybe a feeling, can I pick a feeling? Of course. I think just the feeling of how the

entire team was that day. Everyone just felt so confident, so calm, just happy to be there, being present in the moment. And it's easy to not do any of that, especially in the environment, like playoffs. So it was just so refreshing and nice to have a team that was just ready to go that believed in one another. And you could just see the trust and the belief in everyone's eyes that we were going to do this. And we had no doubt, no fear, no hesitation about anything. And if there's anything that I will remember from that day, it is the feeling and the look that I got in all of my teammates and coach's eyes from the second I got to the field at two o'clock that day. And throughout the entire day, it was just the look and the feeling and the energy of confidence

and winners, honestly. Sunnyvale wants to know when are you going to get your gold glove? You're not the only person to ask me this, Sunnyvale. I don't know. I heard that there were some awards maybe happening, but I, I really have no idea. Sunnyvale adds, I don't have any actual questions.

I just want to pass along that whenever she was on the screen, on offense or defense, I thought to myself, quote, man, that's a hell of a ball player. Thank you, Sunnyvale. Thank you. That's probably one of the best, one of my favorite compliments.

Head chimes in to ask you, how does it feel to be the queen of swagger? Oh, thank you. That's a big one right there. Feels pretty good. Honestly, I mean, just being myself out here, though. I just, yeah, that's just me being me, I guess, but thank you. Shock odd, asks Ashton, any plans for your own merch line? I would love to support you. Maybe some hot pink swag. Yeah, definitely. There are plans. I actually had some things cooking up amidst the season between banana balls. USA and WPBL, but there's a lot going on, so I never got to a round to fully launching it, but stay tuned because there are more than just one thing that will be coming out soon under my name. Upbeat Penn 633 asks, between the players, there seem to be some familiarity with each other's

abilities going into the season, but what is the one thing that surprised you about the competition you faced this season? That surprised me. Honestly, to be completely honest, I was a little bit worried about just the level of play for multiple reasons. We were playing at a stadium in a field that none of us have ever played for,

and it also had a hill behind the infield. So that's just not easy to play on to begin with. then a lot of players have not experienced playing in front of hundreds to thousands of people. And then there's not every single women baseball player that I know who belongs in this league that is out here on that field this year. So I was just surprised at how well everybody performed. There was not a bad day across any day. Like the level play in the games were always good and always entertaining.

Here's an interesting question. Zombie Zamboni driver wants to know. How do you decide what design you're going to use on your eye black? Great question, actually. Sometimes I plan it out. Sometimes I ask my girlfriend. Sometimes I have an idea that pops up in my head. And sometimes I have absolutely no idea and I'm staring in the mirror 10 minutes before the game,

what the heck I'm going to do. So it's just something that allows me to be creative because, I've always liked to be creative in many ways, whether that's drawing or painting or creating something. I'm a big DIY girl, I guess you could say. So I just like to do different things on my face. And yeah, I mean, just whatever sparks me that day is what I would choose to put on my eye black. When inspiration taps you on the shoulder. Yes, you go towards it. Ferdinand Cesarano I hope I'm saying that right

Ferdinand I am wondering why Manet Davis didn't pitch for the Queens all season my assumption is that she did not want to pitch considering that any pitching help would presumably have been welcome yeah good question honestly because she does pitch for the Indianapolis clowns but she wanted to focus on just being an outfielder

and a hitter and on our team we had plenty of arms that were going to be used. So Monet offered to pitch and said that, you know, if you need me to come in, I'll do it. But we got some other girls on the team that were up for it and that were full-time POs. So, yeah, I think she really just wanted to focus on being an outfielder

and a hitter for the season. So stay tuned in the future. You never know what's going to happen. Frankman wants to know, when is the 2027 season going to start? Oh, good question. I don't have the answer for that, honestly. If the MLB lockout happens, we could be playing sooner.

Who knows? It could be during the same time. It was this year in 2026. So stay tuned on announcements for that. There have been some chirps about it, but I do not have an answer right now for anybody. Well, Frank Mann anticipated. that so he follows that up with since she probably doesn't actually know the answer to that question

I'd love to know what changes she thinks would be most beneficial to league growth next season and then frank chimes in to say I think a focus on pitching larger rosters and dedicated coaches would be huge but finding home stadiums for the four teams or playing a longer season would also be great Ashton, what are your thoughts on the 2027 season? Yeah, I think he hit the nail on the head with that answer right there. First of all, with the rosters, I think expanding rosters and definitely adding more pitchers to each team would be beneficial. Even like, honestly, I think the fences need to go back just a little bit because it was almost impossible to hit a triple on our field. it was so small.

I mean, there were two technically, but they also could have been deemed as errors, I guess you could say. So in my eyes, there were no true triples in the league this year. And me personally, triples are exciting. I mean, I know they don't happen often, but they do happen. And everyone loves a home run race too. So I would say maybe push the fences back like 10 feet, but that's not a big thing.

That's just something that came to mind. But I agree with traveling and going to our locations, finding home fields. I definitely would love to see more outreach to other locations. I don't foresee us staying in Springfield for an entire season again. I hope we are always back there at some point. But I would love to reach out to all of our respective cities and even more cities across the country and across the world. Now, have you heard anything? We did ask the commissioner.

I was reviewing. I believe this is episode 27 of the WPBL podcast. And we had the commissioner on an early episode and we asked about this. But is there any word on expansion? I haven't heard anything just yet. My answer, I would honestly like to see a stave with four teams for maybe another year just to play out all the little kinks and everything. We have four dedicated and exciting.

fan bases from these cities. So just continuing to grow that. You don't want to expand too early and put too much on your plate and then not be able to corral everything and be super detail-oriented. So I think it would be smart to stay with the four teams

for at least another year. Well, individual March 629 we heard from earlier says A, that she can't wait to watch you play again next season. I think that speaks for a lot of us. Like, what a great inaugural season. Let's it again next summer okay but absolutely individual march 629 if that is their real name right so if they

did a barnstorming tour next year what cities would they like to plan this barnstorming idea is kind of cool yeah yeah that's um we touched on that a little bit um before this inaugural season went to a few states a few cities um but i mean there are so many places i feel like we could go to in so many towns and cities that would love to come see us. But of course, I'm always going to say Atlanta, maybe somewhere in Florida. The Midwest really loves us. So anywhere out there, I would even love to see maybe somewhere in like Portland or somewhere out there. Even Canada can be cool. Who knows? I mean, there's so many- If it's Canada, it's got to be Toronto. Yeah, yeah, I completely agree. But who knows? I mean, barnstorming is a great way to get into

smaller cities as well. So there's a lot of options out there, I think, for that. Now, String Cheese Kong asks, I think we had a question of previous episode from String Cheese Kong. What rookies or undrafted players should we keep an eye on for next season? This is my, again, I'm going to change this question to, is there any women's baseball player who did not partake in the WPBL that you would love to see in the league next year because They're that good. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I mean, especially a few who are on Team USA, girls like Naomi Ryan, Remy Schaber, Jamie Baum,

those are Sophia Broderick. They are phenomenal baseball athletes, but they are still in the middle of high school and college ball. So how that looks, I'm not too sure with NCAA. I know Amira Hondras is playing D3 Collegiate Softball, but she was still able to come out and play with the WPBL. So those are sometimes some sticky situations to figure out there. But there are definitely some girls out there who I think are great players and can contribute to this league.

And they probably definitely will be in this league one day. That's exciting to hear. Birds, birds, birds, birds, 420 wants to know. Are there any WPBL rules for future seasons that you, Ashton Lansdell, would change, and why would you change them? Off the top of my head, nothing comes off the top of my head. I know, like, in the moment, there are things we stay on the field, like, oh, that has to change, or, oh, that can't happen.

It would be little things. like there was, oh, there's a rule of like a batter if a catcher caught the pitch and tried to throw to a base and the batter was like in the way, but they were in the batter's box. They were still called out for some reason because they tried to quote unquote get in the way. But I believe the original rule or the correct rule is that if they're in the box, they're fine because they're nothing that they can do as long as they're in their respective area in the box. So that was kind of something that popped up. But rules for gameplay off the top of my head,

I don't have too many things to say or want to change. Am I misremembering that if in the WPBL, if the manager's ejected, they're automatically unable to dress for the next game? Yeah, I believe it's an additional one-game suspension. I'm going to just put my hand up and say, let's get rid of that automatic one-game suspension. Yeah, especially with the short season.

we have two. Yeah. Okay. So we agree on that one. Okay. Yeah. We're winding down here, Ash. A lot of people are very excited.

But six, and I know you've got to get to it, but this will be tie into that. So six syllables. Six syllables. No, that's only four. Okay. I'd like to know what Ashton will be doing now that the season is over. Good question. I got a few weeks of banana ball left.

This is the last weekend of regular season play. And then we got playoffs. But after that, I plan on doing nothing. I'm ready to kick my feet up and just relax, wait for the holidays to come around, be with my family, my girlfriend, my dogs, the home. I haven't been at my home in Savannah in so long. I feel like I even forget what it looks like. But yeah, I'm ready to relax. And honestly, just get back in the gym. I have lost so much weight since. playing and traveling and beating my body down and everything. So I'm ready to relax and gain some weight and some muscle back. Okay. Well, because, you know, seeing you in your party animal's uniform there, it's kind of amazing you so quickly joined another team.

Like that's, to me, like, you're not on a beach, I don't know, Dominican Republic or something. Like, you're playing ball. Is your game tonight? It is tonight. It's actually in about less than an hour and a half. Okay. So let me ask my final question and we'll get you out of here.

We'll get a lot going on over there. I was listening to one of the broadcasts and the play-by-play person, or maybe it was the analyst. I can't remember. But the commentators said that members of the queens got queens tattoos. Oh. Who on the queens got queens tattoos? There was like 10 of us.

It was me. So this is mine for people. Oh, wait, that's the wrong way. It's in kind of an awkward spot. So I got a sword. Yeah, I see it. Yep. The crown on that.

Number one and the crown. And then our four diamonds from our logo. Right. Right there. So yeah, it's just all my forearms like when I'm batting and stuff. You'll see it. Ten of you got that? It was about ten of us.

It was me, jam, Monet, Amira, Bella. Amira got her first ever tattoo and it was a crown's tattoo. Amazing. Samaria, Diana, Sarah. who else was there Britt and I think that might be most of everyone

so nine I counted nine yeah amazing okay that's the kind of information you need on this podcast he was going to get one so he should be on the list and should be getting one soon

honestly I love it and I got to say congratulations again because I kind of lived you know obviously you're doing the heavy lifting but I'm living precariously through you since we started recording in April. Yeah, it's been a crazy ride, hasn't it? And I do hope this is not the final episode of the season.

I hope we can... I have an idea for like a post-mortem with the commissioner, right? Where we talk about what went right, what went wrong, what might be changed. Like, I feel like we need that, but... Yeah, we'll figure out and we'll stay in the loop and everything. We don't know exactly what the future looks like,

but that is exactly how I live my life. And I'm living a pretty good life. So we're just going to keep doing that. And we'll figure it out along the way together. But I'm sure this won't be the last episode, what the future holds. We don't know. But I know you will be in it, Toronto, Mike. Well, I loved, I will say, I just, I loved doing this with you.

I loved your energy. And I was rooting for you all along. And it was so exciting to see Sato pitch that gem and for you to come through. Congratulations to the LA Queens. Thank you. Thank you so much. It has been awesome to just do this with you, Mike, and get to know you a whole lot. I literally could not have done this podcast without you.

And I just gained a good friend throughout it all. So thank you as well, Mike. And thank you to everyone who has watched and listened to this podcast throughout the entire season and the entire year. Like I said, I'm sure this won't be the last episode, maybe for a little bit, because I'm going to rest up just a little bit. little bit, but I will see you guys and talk to y'all soon. I hope y'all enjoyed. Thank you for all the well wishes and the congratulations. I sincerely thank you to everyone. But until next time, you can keep up with me across all platforms at Ashton Lansdell. And to keep up with the WPBL,

you can follow us at WPBL underscore official or go to women's pro baseball league.com. And as always, until next time, much love to all of you. Keep continuing to believe in yourself. Dream big, shoot for the stars, anything as possible. I will see y'all next time. Go be great. Love y'all.