1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:03,239 Speaker 1: Guaranteed human. 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 2: It is funny though to see or depressing, I guess 3 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:12,119 Speaker 2: to see all those videos of people fighting in the 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:13,240 Speaker 2: stands and games, and they. 5 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 3: Immediately there's just everyone wins at their phone. 6 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 4: It's like gotta get it. 7 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, what's gotta have their own account of what happened. 8 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 2: And it kind of feels like, hey, you want to 9 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,440 Speaker 2: know what's wrong all those things? 10 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 5: Yeah, they're all bad if you're the one being accosted, though, 11 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 5: and then you get out the phone like that's gonna 12 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 5: prevent you from getting like your block knocked on, Like well, 13 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:40,880 Speaker 5: I've got my phone out now, like I'm still gonna 14 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 5: punch you. 15 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 3: Like it's a protective coding. 16 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 4: Yeah. 17 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 2: But and the other aspect of that, though, is that 18 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 2: everyone assumes they're already met. They're automatically being broadcast to 19 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 2: the entire world like they're on World Star immediately, and 20 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 2: so they start to act like I better act as 21 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 2: tough as I can because the whole world might see. 22 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 4: Right. 23 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: Brandy Bellman and the DVE Morning. 24 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 2: Show an absolute blast Friday at the Buckos home opener. 25 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 2: I mean, just a super fun party. The weather turned 26 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 2: out great. Ended up back at Mike spierbar scene of 27 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 2: the crime from the night before. Yes, Joey b and 28 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 2: I went, and Tad was you were supposed to go, 29 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 2: and then at the last minute you could, and then 30 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:26,199 Speaker 2: Tad was supposed to go in the last minute he couldn't, 31 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 2: So me and and Bartneck ended up going and having 32 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 2: a blast and running into tons of listeners and just 33 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 2: having the greatest time amongst a bunch of hopeful Pirate fans. 34 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 2: I can't tell you what that feeling was like. I 35 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 2: posted the video of Connor Griffin's first at bat that 36 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 2: I got because we really looked into some awesome seats, 37 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 2: and I had put the caption like most electric moment 38 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 2: since the Quato ball at Pancy Park, which, of course 39 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 2: then people started arguing about most of those people weren't 40 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 2: at the game, But that was what every person said 41 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 2: that I ran into at the park after his first 42 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 2: at bat. Everybody I ran into said that was the 43 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 2: most electric moment here since Cuato, best moment since Queto. 44 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 2: Every single person referenced that moment. And I also think 45 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:18,239 Speaker 2: that there were a lot of people who clearly weren't 46 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 2: at the Cuato game, and so they felt like they 47 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 2: felt like, oh, I finally got one of these Pirate moments, you. 48 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:29,399 Speaker 3: Know, because they haven't been a lot of them through 49 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 3: the years. 50 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 2: This was truly one of them, Like Garrett Cole's first game, 51 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 2: like the Cuato ball, people will always remember, not just 52 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 2: the at bat in which he you know, stayed alive, 53 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 2: which is the lost part of all that was that 54 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 2: he fouled one off, he stayed alive, he challenged one. 55 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 2: I'm not sure if he was in that at bad. 56 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 2: I think it was the next one. But the fact 57 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:54,919 Speaker 2: that he scored on the next batter, sliding headfirst into 58 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 2: home while most of the people were still on their 59 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 2: feet cheering him for knocking. 60 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 3: In the run. 61 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:10,080 Speaker 2: Made for the most exciting thing I've seen at PNC Park. 62 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 2: I wasn't at the Cuato game, so I was doing 63 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 2: a charity thing down the street and gave build my ticket. 64 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 3: I was so I was so bummed. 65 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 4: I remember watching it on TV at the Smiling Moose. 66 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 3: Oh well, that's a good place to watch it. 67 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 2: That was good, But it was just so fun to 68 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 2: see pirate fans having fun and people smiling, and not 69 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 2: just when you saw somebody you knew they're like, hey, yeah, 70 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:31,359 Speaker 2: how about this garbage team. Anyways, it's a nice day. 71 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 2: Beers are only eighty dollars. Enjoy yourself, right. The other 72 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 2: complaint I have, I mean this is common amongst sport 73 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 2: fans across the board, football, baseball, what have you. The 74 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 2: whole drink responsibly, and then they make you buy forty 75 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 2: eight ounces of beer at a time. It's tough. Those 76 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 2: twenty four ouncers are too big. 77 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 5: They are because the beer is warm by the time 78 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 5: you're like halfway to a quarter, like right of it 79 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 5: left anyway, it's not as fun. 80 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 4: It's like kind of begrudgingly slam it back. 81 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 2: Now you got to pound it while it's still cold. 82 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 2: That's the problem. Look, I'll meet you halfway, or at 83 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 2: least close to halfway. How about pounders. How about we 84 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 2: just stick with pounders. 85 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,600 Speaker 3: Pounders are a good solution, right, yep. Those twenty four 86 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 3: rounds mortar shells. I don't like beer. 87 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 4: I don't even like those, like pens games and stuff. 88 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 3: I know that I don't like them. I hate that 89 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 3: they sell those. I wish there was a law that 90 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 3: they weren't allowed to sell you those. 91 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't like those, man, I'll still drink the 92 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:36,719 Speaker 2: second beer, yeah, exactly. 93 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 3: I just want it to be cold. 94 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 4: I wanted to be cold. 95 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 5: You know what, They could probably make a nice buck 96 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 5: on selling me the beer. 97 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 4: In some kind of cooling device. 98 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, you know there is one going on right now. 99 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 2: They have a koozy is it Pittsburgh Clothing Company has 100 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 2: a Pits has a kozy that is a cone. 101 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:03,039 Speaker 3: It's a traffic cone. 102 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 4: Let's get on that. Okay, I'm down with that. I 103 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 4: did like that. 104 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:09,600 Speaker 5: I do like the traffic cone thing, so like, and 105 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 5: then somebody was like just sending me the link because 106 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 5: I said, tell me what the traffic cone thing is 107 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 5: because I feel a little stupid, And I said, did 108 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 5: what did I miss on the traffic cone thing? 109 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 4: And they're like, oh, it's. 110 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 5: Like a signal that things are getting better, there's an improvement, 111 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 5: Like this is like a. 112 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 2: Single Well I thought so it was on a T 113 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:27,359 Speaker 2: shirt and nobody understood what the hell it was. 114 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 3: Ye hoist the cone? 115 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, and the team has taken it upon themselves to 116 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 2: make this. They're I don't know, it's their new like 117 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 2: they've had dug the camel in the past. They did 118 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 2: the Zultaan thing. Yes, is their new means. 119 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:46,920 Speaker 4: Pick things up but like construction and like you it's 120 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 4: like a sign of progress. 121 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 2: But that's not why they did it kind of No. 122 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 2: I thought it was just like on the T shirt 123 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 2: and they just grabbed a cone. 124 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, but I think it's like now you're 125 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 5: saying it's metaphorical. That's what like the kind of like 126 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 5: underlying meaning is is that, like, you know, things are improving, 127 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 5: like in construction, like the way that things improve. 128 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 4: And so now the cone is taken on a new meeting. 129 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:11,600 Speaker 3: All right, I got it, even. 130 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 5: If it's just like you know, a friend of yours 131 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:16,679 Speaker 5: grabbing a construction code and putting it at their crotch 132 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 5: and be like. 133 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 3: Hopefully in the workplace. 134 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 2: But so much fun and to watch them Saturday come 135 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:30,360 Speaker 2: from behind and win and then sweep out the weekend. Meanwhile, 136 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 2: the Penguins getting two wins four points out of the 137 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,280 Speaker 2: Florida Panthers in a back to back on Easter Weekend, 138 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 2: virtually assuring them of the postseason now against the team 139 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 2: that they should be able to beat, the idea of 140 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 2: the Pens might advance to a second round of the play. 141 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 2: I just wanted them to get there. I just wanted 142 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 2: to watch them buying the place, but now they might 143 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:54,719 Speaker 2: be in a good position to actually have some postseason success. 144 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 2: Well depends on what happens a goalie. We're going to 145 00:06:57,640 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 2: talk to Paul Staggerwall and Josh gatz Off a little 146 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,559 Speaker 2: bit later on this morning. Also Kevin Gorman talking Bucks 147 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 2: at some forty five in Connor Griffin's debut weekend. He 148 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 2: didn't do a whole lot at the plate after that, 149 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 2: but he did get on base three times this weekend, 150 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 2: which is the first time somebody's done that in like forever. 151 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 3: I don't know. 152 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 2: There's some stat Gorman I'll tell you about. And as 153 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 2: I said, Rixy back Live and Studio talking about his 154 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 2: new special Lucky to Live in Pittsburgh. 155 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 5: News This hour brought to you by Keystone Basement Systems 156 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 5: Web Basement, Keystone Basementsystems dot Com. 157 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 4: Intervals of clouds and. 158 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 5: Sunshine Today, brief shower or two this afternoon, it's a 159 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:35,240 Speaker 5: high of fifty four. The twenty twenty six NFL Draft 160 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 5: in Pittsburgh's going to feature a major concert series with 161 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 5: performances by Whiz Khalifa, Brett Michaels, and Cain Brown. That 162 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 5: event's going to take place from April twenty third, that's 163 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 5: the first day, okay, And there's going to be several 164 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 5: musical performances before the start. So Pittsburgh raised and jazz 165 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 5: trained artist Kells is scheduled to perform the national Anthem. 166 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 5: Before the anthem, the James Weldon Johnson Foundation's National Hymn 167 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 5: Choir is going to perform Lift Every Voice and Sing. 168 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 5: The choir is going to feature the heritage gospel coral 169 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 5: Coral of Pittsburgh and will be conducted by doctor Jeffrey Redding. 170 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 5: And then the festivities on April twenty fourth will have 171 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 5: Khalifa and then Brett Michaels and that is before the 172 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 5: second and third rounds of the draft. 173 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 3: I mean, it feels weird. It seems very all over 174 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:34,319 Speaker 3: the place to me. 175 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,439 Speaker 4: But something for everyone. 176 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 3: Brett Michaels, I. 177 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 5: Mean Brett Michaels. It's weird because every time they mentioned 178 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 5: Brett Michaels, they're always like, he was born in Pittsburgh, 179 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 5: and I'm like, no, he was not. 180 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 4: Why does that always? 181 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 5: I love that he's a Steelers man, like I don't 182 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 5: begrudge anybody, but like he's from Mechanicsburg, which is closer 183 00:08:53,679 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 5: to Philly. Isn't it like either like central pash Yeah, 184 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 5: isn't it where Shane Gillis is from? 185 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 6: Two? 186 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 2: Okay, well, notwithstanding, it's just from a contemporary standpoint. Whiz 187 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 2: Khalifa is, you know, kind of one of the top 188 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 2: contemporary artists in his field. And for the rock and 189 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 2: roll representation, it's like a little retro, shall we say. Yeah, 190 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 2: if there was gonna be some rock representation, it would 191 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 2: have been cool if it was somebody like I don't know, 192 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 2: Grete van Fleets, you know, they're not my favorite, but yeah, 193 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 2: just somebody like that. 194 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 5: Is there anybody in rock that's a little more contemporary 195 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:37,319 Speaker 5: from Pittsburgh? 196 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 2: Oh? 197 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 3: Oh from Pittsburgh? 198 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I didn't think about the from Pittsburgh part 199 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 2: of that. Both of those, by the way, which uh okay, 200 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 2: So I don't know. I would have put jokersheky yup 201 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 2: before that, but that's just me. 202 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, Okay, I wonder. 203 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 3: I need to think of Kane Brown's not from Pittsburgh. 204 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 4: Gane Brown is not from Pittsburgh. 205 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 5: All of these concerts are going to take place by 206 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 5: the waste if you're like kind of thinking ahead. 207 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 2: Charles Wesley Godwin's from a Wheeling, West Virginia that we 208 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 2: could have got him. 209 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 3: Okay, one, he's big, huge, just saying, but. 210 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 5: If you're thinking about your draft experience as you get 211 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 5: to this later on in the month. The concerts take 212 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 5: place at the Draft Theater. The league is also going 213 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 5: to host the NFL Draft Experience, which is going to 214 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 5: be right at Akroshuer Stadium, and it's going to allow 215 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 5: for an opportunity for fans to run a forty yard dash, 216 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 5: participate in football drills, and meet NFL legends. You can 217 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 5: view the Lombardi Trophy and all fifty eight Super Bowl rings. 218 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 1: Very cool. 219 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 5: So, like, I mean, that's the thing we always kind 220 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 5: of joke about how the NFL was able to basically 221 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 5: turn an office meeting into this huge event. But you know, 222 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:56,560 Speaker 5: getting to see Lombardi trophies and rings and just I 223 00:10:56,559 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 5: don't know, be a part of this is kind of 224 00:10:59,120 --> 00:10:59,559 Speaker 5: a mecca. 225 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 2: Things very fun. I agree, one hundred percent. I've never 226 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 2: said I was above it. It's just funny. Oh, it's fine. 227 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:08,080 Speaker 2: Like having been to them, the one in Vegas was amazing. 228 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 2: It's just crazy to me that at some point somebody said, 229 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:13,719 Speaker 2: why don't we monetize this like, I don't know how 230 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 2: they're ever going to be able to do it with 231 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 2: the kombake because I just think it is too. 232 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:19,199 Speaker 3: Segmented. 233 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 2: I think that it is not inclusive enough to make 234 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 2: that a spectator event really that people could get excited about. 235 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:29,560 Speaker 3: Also, because there's no ownership, so you know, who are 236 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:30,559 Speaker 3: you rooting for? Right? 237 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 2: If you're a Packers fan, you go there like, I 238 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 2: hope we get that guy. But with the draft, you're like, we. 239 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 3: Got that guy. He's our guy. I wanted that guy, 240 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 3: but I got this guy. But I'm okay with it. 241 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 2: Right, there's and it's just a celebration of team fandom 242 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,320 Speaker 2: at the at the draft. In talking to lots of 243 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 2: more people this week, and as we continue to get closer, 244 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 2: the business owners around the stadium who've got to deal 245 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 2: with this, I keep asking them like, as we get closer, 246 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 2: do you feel like a little less? And I think 247 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 2: the general consensus on it all is that the initial 248 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 2: oh my god, seven hundred thousand people, how are we 249 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:13,840 Speaker 2: going to do this? Has sort of ebbed into a 250 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 2: more realistic expectation of all right, let's say maybe even 251 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 2: five hundred thousand people, and then spread that out over 252 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:29,679 Speaker 2: Tuesday to Saturday. That is going to be very doable. 253 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 2: Considering Taylor Swift was four hundred thousand people. The Penguins 254 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 2: prayed with six hundred thousand people, and those were packed 255 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 2: into Taylor Swift was two days. The Penguins Prayed was 256 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 2: one day. I mean, yeah, it was kind of a 257 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 2: mess downtown because this was a big parad but we 258 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 2: handled it. I think this is going to be something 259 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 2: that is much more manageable for the city than most 260 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 2: of us are currently thinking. 261 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 3: It's going to be. 262 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 2: Myself included, because my initial you know, reaction to it 263 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 2: was most Pittsburghers, Oh my god, I don't want to 264 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 2: be anywhere near this. 265 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 3: I get that. 266 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 5: I think that the downtown stuff is gonna be okay. 267 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 5: It's gonna be mostly out of town jags and don't 268 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 5: know how to do the four pit tunnels, and it's 269 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 5: gonna be that kind of stuff people that don't know 270 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 5: how to merge like we do because we barely you know, 271 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 5: our buttholes. 272 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:26,200 Speaker 4: Are going, Yeah, we have to do it. 273 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 5: So like listen, there's gonna be some out of town 274 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,080 Speaker 5: people that are gonna have hard time. 275 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 2: I had when I was driving up to Erie yesterday 276 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 2: morning for for Easter to go take my Ma to 277 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 2: Easter stuff. I had the Ways app on while I 278 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 2: was still in the city, Like I just turned it 279 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 2: on when I left my house. It freaks out. When 280 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 2: you come out of the fort Pit tunnel. 281 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 3: It's like, hold on, I've never seen anything quite like this. 282 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 3: Hold on a second. You could go right, you can left, 283 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 3: you gogle left, two different ways. Why do we all 284 00:13:59,480 --> 00:13:59,839 Speaker 3: hold down? 285 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 2: There's like a paper bag thing comes out, you know, 286 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 2: graphic on my Ways app. Okay, there's two lights, there's 287 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:11,679 Speaker 2: two straights, and there's two less. 288 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 3: It's just the app just shuts down. 289 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 4: Well. 290 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 5: Fans must download the NFL one Pass app at nfl 291 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 5: dot com slash Draft Access to attend the free twenty 292 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 5: twenty six NFL Draft experience. So if you are planning 293 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 5: on going to anything, make sure that you download the 294 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 5: app so that you have all of the things you 295 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 5: need in real time, so that you don't get shut 296 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 5: out of anything. 297 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 2: NFL Draft it's gonna be a lot of fun, don't 298 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 2: worry about it, and everyone's gonna make a lot of money. 299 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 3: It's gonna go great. 300 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty million dollars injected into our economy way, it's 301 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 2: more than that. 302 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 3: Was it two hundred million? That sounds like too. 303 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 4: Much, so much money, one so much million. 304 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 2: Great weekend for Pittsburgh Sports, The Bucks, the Bucks, Oh, 305 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 2: how glorious at all? 306 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 3: Was Welcome to Pittsburgh. Connor Griffin. 307 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 2: We'll talk with Kevin Gorman seven forty five about the 308 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 2: sweep of the Orioles, Connor Griffin's debut and why he's 309 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 2: going to be sticking around for a bit. 310 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 6: Chad Dyson turns your car into a sonic playground at 311 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 6: every weekday afternoon. 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It is seven 322 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 8: thirty which means it's time for Mike pursued as three 323 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 8: takes that. 324 00:15:57,760 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 3: Yes, three takes okay three text here we go, Yeah, 325 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 3: take number one. There's a team in the building. 326 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 8: That Penguin slogan from nineteen eighty eight eighty nine may 327 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 8: be long forgotten, but don't look now it applies again. 328 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 8: This season is the playoffs, beckon and yes, depends advance 329 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 8: to the precipice of the postseason on what was another 330 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 8: historic weekend of achievement for Sidney Crosby and of getting Malkin. 331 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 8: But the story of this team, the story of this 332 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 8: season is at least as much about what's been built 333 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 8: and what is building as what has endured. It's at 334 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 8: least as much about both the goalies and Parker Wartherspoon 335 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 8: and Anthony Mantha and Ben Kindall and Eric Carlson and 336 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 8: Ricard Raquel, among others, as it is the Old Guard. 337 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 8: Depends on a great story, because they're one of the 338 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 8: best stories, the kind no one sees coming until it ends. 339 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 3: Take number two, don't forget the coneheads. 340 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 8: The opening of a new baseball season is always as 341 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 8: enjoyable as it is emotional, just because but around these parts, 342 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 8: reality usually rears its ugly head sooner rather than later. 343 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 8: It might not this time for openers, the new batcher 344 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 8: delivering his advertised For the most part, the franchise's next 345 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:13,679 Speaker 8: generational position player has arrived. And oh thank god Cornick 346 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:15,880 Speaker 8: Griffin spent ten minutes in Indianapolis, but. 347 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 3: Glad they didn't screw that up. 348 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:23,040 Speaker 8: And the team and its town are rallying around traffic cones. 349 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 3: How long before the mayor has. 350 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,679 Speaker 8: To issue an edict pleading for people to stop stealing 351 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:29,879 Speaker 8: those and bringing them to PNC Park. 352 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:32,680 Speaker 3: The only downside to. 353 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 8: The pirates apparent rebirth is I might not know which 354 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 8: lanes slash roads are closed moving forward. I'll just assume 355 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:45,760 Speaker 8: it's most of them as usual. Playball take number three, 356 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,920 Speaker 8: Meet the new Boss. College basketball used to be about programs. 357 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:51,639 Speaker 8: Now it's about the best team that can be assembled 358 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 8: from one season to the next. Michigan, after a shopping 359 00:17:55,359 --> 00:18:01,400 Speaker 8: spree through UAB, North Carolina, Illinois, UCLA, and Alabama, appears 360 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:05,119 Speaker 8: to be that team. That's, to Michigan's credit, no rules 361 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 8: have been broken this time, unlike the fraud five's reign 362 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,440 Speaker 8: of error, because there are no rules to break this time. 363 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 8: Yukon isn't transfer portal averse either. The Husky's best player 364 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:20,359 Speaker 8: is they transfer from Michigan, but Yukon is still mostly 365 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:25,119 Speaker 8: about long established program standards such as defense, effort and accountability. 366 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 8: The Huskies are at least recognizable. Michigan won't care while 367 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 8: it's cutting down the nets. 368 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:33,640 Speaker 3: Yeah you think, I guess mackham tonight. 369 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: I do. 370 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 2: Sorry about that. I know that that hurt. That pains 371 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:40,640 Speaker 2: you to say that. It really pay me. I can't 372 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 2: believe how the South Arizona they're very good. Yeah, they're 373 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 2: very good. 374 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 8: And I don't know if you saw the comments from 375 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:49,840 Speaker 8: the coach, Dustin Maybe's comparing it to pro basketball and 376 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 8: talking about, well, you watch a pro team play and 377 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 8: you say that's great basketball. You don't say, oh, well 378 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 8: they signed this guy as a free agent. But to me, 379 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:00,359 Speaker 8: that was always supposed to be the difference. If I 380 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 8: wanted to watch the Oklahoma City Thunder, I'd watch they 381 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,280 Speaker 8: Oklahoma City Thunder. I don't want to watch the Oklahoma 382 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:06,640 Speaker 8: City Thunder playing a big ten. 383 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 2: Jay Bellis had a really good conversation on ESPN with 384 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 2: cal Perry was on the table and a couple of 385 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 2: the other talking heads just about the state of college 386 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 2: basketball relative to what most people perceived it to be 387 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,919 Speaker 2: prior to nil. And there's this misconception that it was 388 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 2: amateur all the way and it never I mean, it 389 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:27,439 Speaker 2: always had elements of professional basketball to it, mostly in 390 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 2: that coaches. 391 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:29,400 Speaker 3: Were getting paid. 392 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,399 Speaker 2: At the end, it was a multimillion dollar, hundreds of 393 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 2: million dollar industry. And it keeps getting bigger, no matter 394 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:40,399 Speaker 2: how bad everybody claims it is. Each year, it just 395 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 2: gets bigger and bigger. And you know, Calsey one, Now 396 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 2: you got seventeen year old guys playing against twenty seven. 397 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 3: Year old guys. You know one is in lives. 398 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, guys who you know, developing adults and full grow 399 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 2: own men. But they are all men to a certain extent. 400 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,920 Speaker 2: You know, you get arrested for a crime when you're 401 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:11,960 Speaker 2: in college. They say an eighteen year old man in 402 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:16,480 Speaker 2: Durham was arrested. They don't say, boy, there is a 403 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 2: there's a difference there. I recognize it, but I think 404 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 2: that they're playing around too much with semantics. Like all 405 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:24,919 Speaker 2: of those things, to me are just semantics. You have 406 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 2: to come in and fix it. The idea that you're 407 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 2: going to go back to the era where players don't 408 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 2: get paid and the education is is your pay for 409 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:33,119 Speaker 2: playing that's gone. 410 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 3: You know, unless they. 411 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 2: Somehow figure out a way to have the NBA not 412 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:45,679 Speaker 2: allow players into the NBA until they've completed three years 413 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:49,480 Speaker 2: of college basketball or something like that, I think it's 414 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 2: always going to kind of be a mess. 415 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, And I you know. 416 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:56,640 Speaker 8: Jake Bellis, He's always amazed me as a guy who 417 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 8: went to Duke as a scholarship player and it made 418 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:04,439 Speaker 8: his living talking about college basketball, raging against the inequities 419 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 8: of college basketball, like he's always he's bitched for so 420 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 8: long I can coming. 421 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 3: From Duke, I don't remember when he didn't. 422 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 8: All he got was a free education at Duke and 423 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 8: then a career. Okay, but I think what we've seen 424 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 8: in the tournament, they're still not prom that's. 425 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 3: That's not him. I don't mind that because he's not 426 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 3: pulling up the ladder, But go ahead. 427 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 8: They're not pros. They're paid as pros, but they're not pros. 428 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:32,360 Speaker 8: They're not polished. They're still relatively inexperienced players, so they 429 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:35,199 Speaker 8: make amateur like mistakes. And I think the reason the 430 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 8: coaches get paid so much, Hey, it's the product is attractive, 431 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 8: but they bring in so much money to the universities 432 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 8: for which they work because the teams are good. Now, 433 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 8: I think what college basketball is risking is they're freezing 434 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 8: out the mid majors and the lower schools the glory 435 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 8: of the NCAA ternment. He's say, sixty eight teams, anybody 436 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:57,440 Speaker 8: can win it. North Carolina State and George Mason making 437 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 8: the final form that stuff's not going to happen anymore. 438 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,160 Speaker 8: And the longer this goes, the majority of the people 439 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:07,680 Speaker 8: are gonna get There's still more people supporting the have 440 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:12,000 Speaker 8: nots than the haves, and the have notts are gonna 441 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 8: get turned off by this and they're gonna find something 442 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 8: else to care about. 443 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 3: The have nots still have a role as spoiler. 444 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 8: Yeah, but it's tough to do when the other team's 445 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 8: got a fifteen million dollar pay roll and you have a. 446 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 2: Five dollars pay It's tough to run the gauntlet of 447 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 2: those teams. And I think they're talking past one early 448 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 2: on in you know, creating an upset in the first 449 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 2: or second round is one thing. Being able to beat 450 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 2: four teams who are better than you know, who are 451 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 2: much more well funded than you A way harder task. 452 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 8: And they're talking about expanding the tournament again, and I 453 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,640 Speaker 8: think they're going to which is gonna that's gonna detract 454 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,119 Speaker 8: from it the product, and the reason I believe they 455 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,640 Speaker 8: want to do that is not so you can get 456 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 8: a thirty and one Miami team in without argument, It's 457 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 8: so you can get a crappy Auburn team in just 458 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:02,119 Speaker 8: because it plays in the SEC. And it's gonna be 459 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 8: monster against monster against monster, Yeah, and the non monsters 460 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,360 Speaker 8: are gonna get bored with that eventually. It's not gonna 461 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:09,160 Speaker 8: happen overnight, but it's gonna happen. 462 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,120 Speaker 2: I've still enjoyed watching the tournament. Yeah, I think it's 463 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 2: been great. It has been fun, But it is fun 464 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:17,440 Speaker 2: when there's a Cinderella team in there. But you never 465 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 2: really believe they can do it anyways. 466 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 8: Except before they every once in a while, did I 467 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:25,280 Speaker 8: don't think you're gonna see that again? 468 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 2: How many sweet sixteens I think Gonzaga make wasn't like 469 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,719 Speaker 2: a bunch was a crazy stat Yeah, yeah, every once 470 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 2: in a while, like Cleveland State would slip in there 471 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 2: and stuff like that. 472 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 1: Those days are. 473 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:37,919 Speaker 8: Gone, and you know, there was a certain romantic keell them. 474 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,399 Speaker 8: But I know these guys most of the more deansless students 475 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 8: in that. But when guys were there two three, four 476 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,679 Speaker 8: years at a specific place, they were part of the 477 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,919 Speaker 8: school's community, you know, And now they're just hired guns. 478 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:49,160 Speaker 3: Now. 479 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:51,639 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the that's the part I don't like. You 480 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:53,119 Speaker 2: still like why I did win the. 481 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 8: Whole thing, nobody cares, But most people are not gonna 482 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,119 Speaker 8: win the whole thing. And how long are people going 483 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,440 Speaker 8: to tire of trying to do it the new way 484 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,440 Speaker 8: and still not having at work and realizing, like, these 485 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 8: guys just come in there here for eight months and 486 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:06,720 Speaker 8: then they're gone. 487 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:10,159 Speaker 2: As much as I liked rooting for players for four years, 488 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 2: I liked rooting against players for four years, you know. Yeah, 489 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 2: And it stinks that that element of it is gone. 490 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,640 Speaker 2: But oh well, you can always root against Duke all right. 491 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 2: Rick Seaback will join us at eight o'clock. Kevin Gorman 492 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 2: coming up talking bucks when we come back. I think 493 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 2: a lot of people this is one of those like, man, 494 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,920 Speaker 2: this is a Yankees Red Sox or Yankees Dodger situation. 495 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 3: You know, it's like, oh, tonight, can they both lose? Yeah? 496 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 3: I know, a lot of people who feel that way. 497 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I just don't want Danny Hurley to win. 498 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,879 Speaker 2: He beat Duke. That was great, and I'd like it 499 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:45,320 Speaker 2: to stop. 500 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 8: I just don't want the other team to win a 501 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 8: whole lot more. 502 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 3: See that's what I'm saying. Staggy and Josh gets off. 503 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 2: Both join us talking pucks with your Pittsburgh Penguins having 504 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 2: an outstanding weekend, sinding Gino hitting some milestones, and Abbey. 505 00:24:58,400 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 1: Has your news. 506 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 4: Why are some men out here double cheeked up like that? 507 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,920 Speaker 5: And let's talk SNL this past weekend with Jack Black 508 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 5: and Jack White through the. 509 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,879 Speaker 7: Doc back button on the iHeart Radio apps, socials or phone. 510 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:15,160 Speaker 7: Let us know your requests for out of the ordinary 511 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:18,639 Speaker 7: Ross and Roll. Michelle plays him back at noon on 512 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 7: the Electric Lunch Only on one oh two point five 513 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 7: dv E. 514 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,880 Speaker 5: Hey, it's Abby and real talk from one busy Pittsburgh 515 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 5: mom to another. 516 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,719 Speaker 3: It's the DD Morning Show. 517 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 2: Welcoming from the Trip Pirates beat writer Kevin Gorman this morning, 518 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:45,560 Speaker 2: buckos with an outstanding homestand to open up the twenty 519 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 2: twenty six campaign at PNC Park, Kevin, good morning, how 520 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 2: are you? 521 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 1: I'm doing great? 522 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 9: It's kind of weird to be covering a Pirates team 523 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,439 Speaker 9: that's the talk of baseball for positive reasons and riding 524 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 9: a five game win streak and a sweep of the 525 00:25:58,520 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 9: Baltimore Eros. 526 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,800 Speaker 2: Well, the car Griffin's story, you know, Friday, we talked 527 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:06,879 Speaker 2: a lot about it Thursday night in our pregame party 528 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 2: for the home opener that was broadcast Friday morning here 529 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 2: on dv UH. 530 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,359 Speaker 3: The anticipation for that was through the roof. 531 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 2: And for him to have met the moment in that 532 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,880 Speaker 2: first at bat, whiz, that was something I will always 533 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,439 Speaker 2: remember as a Pirate fan being there for that, the 534 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 2: crowd's reaction, but him scoring and sliding head first on 535 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 2: the next batter was. 536 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,440 Speaker 3: Just as exciting. The place was still on their feet. 537 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,199 Speaker 2: Kevin, I don't know what to compare it to you 538 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 2: other than you know, just keep saying that that was 539 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 2: the most exciting thing since Quato there and I know that, 540 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:44,399 Speaker 2: you know that's a long time between. You know, Oasis 541 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 2: is in a desert, but at least there was some water. 542 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. 543 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 9: The thing that really struck me was about how the 544 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,760 Speaker 9: crowd got quiet, almost as though, Okay, let the kid hit, 545 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,200 Speaker 9: Let the kid hit. You know, he goes up there first, 546 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:58,879 Speaker 9: first at bat and everybody's going crazy and all of 547 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 9: a sudden, a hush falls over the crowd, and that 548 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 9: just struck me, and he said, that's exactly how I 549 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 9: want it. That he wants to be able to lock 550 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:09,719 Speaker 9: in and kind of you know, have be a silent 551 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 9: moment where he's just concentrating on the pitch and it 552 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 9: was almost like the crowd was in tune with him. 553 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 9: But that's what he does when he gets on the basis. 554 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,479 Speaker 9: That's what I saw when I saw him play in 555 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:24,159 Speaker 9: his double A debut at Altona. As soon as he 556 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 9: got on with the broken bat single, and then as 557 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 9: soon as he got on the basis, it was like, okay, 558 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 9: he's still on second. Okay, he's headed a third. And 559 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 9: then he got thrown out at him in that game. 560 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 9: But I had a feeling like as soon as he 561 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 9: got on the bases, it was going to be the 562 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 9: electric atmosphere was going to be supercharged. And that's what 563 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 9: he's capable of doing. And I think, you know, I 564 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 9: said all along, he's going to have a learning curve, 565 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,639 Speaker 9: but this is a kid. Even the play up the 566 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 9: middle where he robbed Jeremiah Jackson of a hit yesterday. 567 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:55,440 Speaker 9: Those are plays he makes look routine, but they're spectacular plays, 568 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 9: and he's capable of. 569 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 1: Doing that on a regular basis. 570 00:27:58,280 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 2: I just can't believe they pitched on him one and 571 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,679 Speaker 2: two on Friday at that point, I wouldn't give him 572 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 2: anything to him because he was swinging at everything and 573 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 2: uh well, he left one out there for Connor to 574 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 2: make history. Uh well, at least, you know, start off 575 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:12,879 Speaker 2: at historic run. We help here with the pirates. But 576 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 2: that's not the takeaway for the weekend for me. The 577 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 2: takeaway for the weekend is the offense surrounding him in 578 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,240 Speaker 2: that lineup. We're preceding him in that lineup, I should say, 579 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 2: Ryan O'Hearn and O'Neil Cruz have just been on fire. 580 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,880 Speaker 9: They have and and you know O'Hearn has been the catalyst. 581 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 9: Everybody on the team is saying as much is that 582 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 9: this is a guy who kind of you know, typifies 583 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:40,360 Speaker 9: or exemplifies that hardhead mentality that they're they're walking around with, 584 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 9: you know, a construction helmet, like a still you know, 585 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 9: steel construction helmet. In the clubhouse, they've got the welders mask, 586 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 9: for the home run celebration and the hoist. The cone 587 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,080 Speaker 9: has become their quirky, you know, celebration for big hits 588 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 9: and scoring runs. But this is a guy who you know, 589 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 9: he's no nonsense. He's there to work, he's there to 590 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 9: play hard. And I don't know if I could have 591 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 9: found a more perfect fit. I was skeptical a little 592 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 9: bit when they signed him, just given that, you know, 593 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 9: the money they gave to a guy who had I think, 594 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 9: you know, seventeen homers and sixty three RBIs and was 595 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 9: the first time All Star last year. 596 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 1: But he is he has. 597 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 9: Been an absolute perfect fit for the Pirates. And I 598 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 9: think having Brandon Lowe and Ryan O'Hearn, you know, behind 599 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 9: O'Neil Cruz and Brian Reynolds has really helped those two, 600 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,480 Speaker 9: you know, Cruse Cruise is kind of you know, it's 601 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 9: made the complete reversal where he's now hitting lefties after 602 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,880 Speaker 9: last year he batted one oh two against lefties all season. 603 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 9: And the crazy thing is Cruise right now is seven 604 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,959 Speaker 9: for eleven with three home runs and eight RBIs against 605 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 9: left handed pitchers. Last season, he had eleven hits total 606 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 9: against lefties, one home run and eight rb I believe 607 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 9: was eight RBIs or you know, I think maybe ten RBIs. 608 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,959 Speaker 9: But you know, he's already like coming close to surpassing 609 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 9: his season totals against lefties last year in the first 610 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:10,640 Speaker 9: you know week. 611 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 3: Plus of the season. 612 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,720 Speaker 9: You know, they haven't even finished their first home stand, 613 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 9: and he made you know, beat that beat, beat the 614 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:18,479 Speaker 9: numbers that he had last year. It's been a bit 615 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 9: of an overcorrection because he's not now he's now not 616 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 9: hitting righties real well. He's four for twenty four against 617 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,600 Speaker 9: right handers. But I don't think that's the concern with 618 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,360 Speaker 9: O'Neil Cruz. I think he's going to do his damage 619 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 9: against both sides, you know, both guys on the mound. 620 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 9: So that's been a big revelation for the Pirates, is 621 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 9: that O'Neil Cruz is playing this way. The question is 622 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 9: whether he can keep it up. You know, he has 623 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:42,360 Speaker 9: to show that he's doing consistency. We're still seeing you know, 624 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 9: the mishaps in the outfield and we're still seeing him, 625 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 9: you know, kind of lawleygagging to first basic times. I 626 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 9: don't think anybody wants to, you know, overlook the flaws 627 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,120 Speaker 9: in his game, but it certainly helps when you have 628 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,800 Speaker 9: O'Neil Cruz hitting bombs the way that he did, and 629 00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:58,800 Speaker 9: he hit one off the pitcher yesterday at the back 630 00:30:58,800 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 9: of his leg. 631 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 3: That was a h You're eleven miles an hour. 632 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 9: So I mean it's like he can do damage without 633 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:04,760 Speaker 9: even putting the ball over the fence, just put in 634 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 9: and play. 635 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 3: It's funny. 636 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 8: Kevin Randy spot on with the offense being you know, 637 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 8: the take of the season. But what I'm starting to 638 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 8: notice again because I think I got numbed to having 639 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,880 Speaker 8: really good pitching and your offense stinks and it just 640 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 8: doesn't matter and you lose two to one or three 641 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:21,720 Speaker 8: to two. 642 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:23,960 Speaker 3: But now I see them scoring some runs. 643 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 8: And I look at the next three guys up in 644 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 8: the Padre series, Chandler, Skeen's Keller, I'm like, what is 645 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 8: wrong with that? 646 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:35,640 Speaker 9: Like, yeah, that's well, that's why everybody's high on the Pirates. 647 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, pitch is so good yesterday. 648 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 8: And he's not a guy that everybody he's not front 649 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 8: and center and the guy that everybody's excited about. 650 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 9: No, but he's he's a really you know, talented guy. 651 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:49,640 Speaker 9: I mean, this is the guy who's got a deep 652 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:53,040 Speaker 9: pitch repertoire, and he battled injuries throughout the miners, and 653 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 9: now that he's healthy, we're seeing a guy who has 654 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 9: kind of rounded into form. I mean, he's he's six 655 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,240 Speaker 9: foot four and you know, two hundred and fifteen pound 656 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 9: and was a big time, you know, high school football 657 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 9: player as a wide receiver. I think he had like 658 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,720 Speaker 9: a two thousand yard receiving season or something, you know, 659 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,920 Speaker 9: some kind of ridiculous numbers playing football in Texas. 660 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 1: But he had eight. 661 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,280 Speaker 9: Strikeouts, no walks, and then the relievers came in and 662 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,120 Speaker 9: had six strikeouts and no walks, and so, you know, 663 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,360 Speaker 9: I think that was only the fourth time since nineteen 664 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,240 Speaker 9: oh one that the Pirates have had a pitching performance 665 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,240 Speaker 9: where they had fourteen strikeouts without a walk in a game. 666 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,880 Speaker 9: So that sets quite the tone when you're talking about 667 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 9: the back end of the rotation. You know, like, now 668 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,920 Speaker 9: you know Chandler who he could be in the middle 669 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,120 Speaker 9: of the rotation very easily to go. Chandler schemes Keller 670 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:43,160 Speaker 9: is a you know, that's a daunting starting pitching rotation 671 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 9: for any team to face. Certainly the Padres have the 672 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,200 Speaker 9: talent to match up with that. But but I think 673 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:53,000 Speaker 9: we saw in you know, in Paul Schemes, a guy 674 00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:57,080 Speaker 9: who you know, showed that the first start of his 675 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,160 Speaker 9: season was an anomaly. I mean, he's going to to 676 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,200 Speaker 9: be dominant this year. So I think that's that's one 677 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:04,920 Speaker 9: to look forward to, certainly on Tuesday. 678 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,120 Speaker 2: Is there any voodoo we can do to get Ozuna 679 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 2: hitting the ball? I mean, he was at least smart 680 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,720 Speaker 2: enough to say I deserve to be booed. It was 681 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,960 Speaker 2: weird to have the juxtaposition in the home opener of 682 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:22,680 Speaker 2: Connor Griffin getting standing ovations while both Triolo and Ozuna 683 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:23,320 Speaker 2: got booed. 684 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 9: Yeah, that's that's interesting, you know the I was just 685 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,000 Speaker 9: looking this up before I came on, and Connor Griffin's 686 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 9: batting one eleven, He's one for nine. That first hit 687 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,360 Speaker 9: was his own, his only hit. He's still head of Ozuna, 688 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 9: who's batting seventy four, two for twenty seven. You know, 689 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 9: you look at Marcelo Ozuna and he's been like a 690 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,360 Speaker 9: joy in that clubhouse. He's taken O'Neil Cruz under his wing, 691 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,160 Speaker 9: and he's gotten along with all the Dominican players, and 692 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 9: they're all against one, you know, one row of the locker. 693 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:59,120 Speaker 9: Room and the players gravitate toward him. So for him 694 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:00,960 Speaker 9: to be struggling the way that he is has been 695 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:03,360 Speaker 9: has been a bit of a downer because this is 696 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,479 Speaker 9: a guy who has brought a lot of positive energy. 697 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:07,440 Speaker 9: But the same time, you look at it and you say, 698 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,399 Speaker 9: you have one job. You're the designated hitter. Your job 699 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,200 Speaker 9: is to hit, and you're not doing that. I think 700 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,479 Speaker 9: he'll come around, you know. I wrote a story about 701 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,680 Speaker 9: him yesterday, and he got off to a really rocky 702 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:22,280 Speaker 9: start in twenty twenty three and uh and then finally 703 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,000 Speaker 9: broke out with like a grounder against Sandil Contrary. He 704 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:28,120 Speaker 9: was talking about it, you know, the former cy Young 705 00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,280 Speaker 9: Award winner, And then he ends up with a forty 706 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,480 Speaker 9: homer one hundred RBI season and follows that the next 707 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,399 Speaker 9: year with a thirty nine homer one hundred and four 708 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,440 Speaker 9: RBI season. So we're two years removed from that, you know. 709 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,960 Speaker 9: I know he's coming off a down year last year, 710 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,720 Speaker 9: but even in his down year, I think he had 711 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,680 Speaker 9: you know, twenty one homers and sixty eight RBIs. So 712 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,400 Speaker 9: that this is a guy who's going to produce, but 713 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:51,640 Speaker 9: that he's not in lockstep with the rest of the 714 00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,480 Speaker 9: lineup and being in the middle of the order has 715 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 9: been a problem. And he's got to get you know, 716 00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:58,879 Speaker 9: he's got to He says, he's in between a little bit. 717 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,399 Speaker 9: He just needs to see more pitches. But that that's 718 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,359 Speaker 9: where the Pirates, you know, brought him in and paid 719 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,640 Speaker 9: him twelve million dollars for his power production, and they 720 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:07,640 Speaker 9: need to see some of that. 721 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,759 Speaker 8: That was interesting what you just referenced. He was front 722 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,160 Speaker 8: and center in the handshake line the other day. His 723 00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:14,919 Speaker 8: spirits do seem to be pretty good. 724 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:20,000 Speaker 9: Yeah, even in dealing with you know, this this struggles 725 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,520 Speaker 9: that he had and that and that hit that he 726 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:25,040 Speaker 9: had the other day led to the game tying run. 727 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:28,400 Speaker 9: It was a two foot dribbler, you know, basically, you know, 728 00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,960 Speaker 9: the catcher couldn't get there fast enough and he got 729 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,360 Speaker 9: down the line. But you know, he took some pride 730 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,120 Speaker 9: in like, hey, at least I went out there and 731 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,320 Speaker 9: did my job and got on base, and they pincher 732 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,520 Speaker 9: in for him. New York scored the tying run and 733 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,799 Speaker 9: then the guy batting for him, Neck York, hit the 734 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:48,120 Speaker 9: game winning walk off there. So I think Azuna has 735 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,719 Speaker 9: been a positive force for the Pirates and and I 736 00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:52,720 Speaker 9: think I said this on you know, Thursday night. 737 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:54,000 Speaker 3: For the pre show. 738 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,920 Speaker 9: If he's just he just if he deserves credits for 739 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,560 Speaker 9: getting O'Neil Cruz right, then then he's worth the investment 740 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,359 Speaker 9: and that alone, because you know, Cruise is such a 741 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,960 Speaker 9: difference maker. But yeah, the Pirates definitely need more out 742 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:07,280 Speaker 9: of Marcelo Zone. 743 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:07,680 Speaker 3: Twenty twenty three. 744 00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,799 Speaker 2: He went five for fifty five to start two home 745 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,560 Speaker 2: runs two rbi in April and then ended the season 746 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,080 Speaker 2: two seventy four to forty horme run forty home runs, 747 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:19,560 Speaker 2: one HUNDREDBI. So we would take that certainly, Kevin, Thanks 748 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:21,960 Speaker 2: so much, Kevin Gorman from the Trip Talking Bucks this morning. 749 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,880 Speaker 1: On DV streaming on all your. 750 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,280 Speaker 6: Devices no matter where I go, I always listened to DV. 751 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:32,040 Speaker 7: Comedy, sports, and the rock you grew up with. 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