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Speaker 1: But it's become a thing. And as I said earlier,

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Speaker 2: Excuse me.

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Speaker 1: The Chiptam Fries, so we don't know what it's all about. Also,

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you do that.

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Speaker 1: How many weeks would you have to take off to

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Speaker 1: put it mid season? I mean, would there be less

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Speaker 2: That's always my big boone of contention.

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Speaker 1: You know the Olympics for hockey, they were great, but

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Speaker 1: Sid got hurt and the Penguins pay him, not Canada.

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Speaker 2: Same thing with baseball.

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Speaker 2: What every other year? Anyway?

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Speaker 1: What if Skeins was having a great year, the Pirates

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Speaker 3: You you know, with Eric Carlson's performance this year, how

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I think I think that Dan Muse's biggest qualification when

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Speaker 2: Eight three three four to one two WSDX.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And I don't get getting back to that World Baseball

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Speaker 1: You're taking the spotlight of your own product and making

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Speaker 2: That's happened in hockey.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's about the Four Nations and the Olympics, the Stanley

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Speaker 1: Olympics are definitely better hockey for for reasons beyond the talents.

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Speaker 5: M what.

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Speaker 6: I mean, it's not gonna happen, but I think keep

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Speaker 6: But does it winning a World Series with one hundred

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Speaker 1: I think so, But the marks, the citizens don't see

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Speaker 1: But the players want it and they the owners need

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Speaker 1: And in baseball, they still do that to some degree.

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Speaker 6: The other interesting part, Mark, is in the next labor negotiations,

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Speaker 6: we're taking a bigger risk doing it in the middle

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Speaker 6: Maybe it doesn't factor into it and they just say

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Speaker 1: There's no question international hockey is a big part of

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Speaker 1: the upcoming CBA negotiations. The owners made that concession in advance,

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Speaker 1: expecting something back in the next NHL CBA. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for the call. Get more calls in A three, three, four,

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Speaker 7: Show Yes, Mark Madden.

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Speaker 1: Let's face it, you've always been in love with me

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Speaker 1: and this is just your moment of clarity.

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Speaker 7: I don't I know, so the extee.

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Speaker 2: I gotta admit.

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Speaker 1: I turned on a March Madness game number sixteen seed

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 2: It's funny.

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Speaker 1: I was hoping we just talk about the Penguins today.

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Speaker 1: But if you don't want to call and do that,

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Speaker 2: I can do that. You know what I might start doing.

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Speaker 1: I might start being like a DJ and spin the hits,

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Speaker 4: But Effitt.

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Speaker 1: he'll expose you and he'll get you. Listen, ass, your

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Speaker 1: brother sucked. He's a Nepo baby. He was here far

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Speaker 1: Tomlin ain't there no more. You're gonna expose me, You're

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Speaker 1: Ain't one but one playoff game? Ain't good but one

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Speaker 1: Cam Hayward exposed himself. He showed his ass when he

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Speaker 5: Good day, sir? What up?

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Speaker 7: So?

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Speaker 8: Question about like the Penguins, if you know, if they

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Don in Bethel Park, Don, what's up?

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Speaker 4: What on?

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Speaker 5: Ma Hey?

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Speaker 8: Have you ever seen a Penguins team that's more likable

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Speaker 8: and has more potential.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's been. There's been plenty of likable Penguins teams.

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Speaker 2: I'd like to see some.

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Speaker 2: But what you say is mostly true.

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Speaker 1: Well, the bumber if they missed the playoffs wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: SID isn't in the playoffs, and you get a.

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Speaker 2: Crappy draft pick.

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Speaker 8: Yeah exactly.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Greg. Greg, you're on with.

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Speaker 9: Marky Mark that's for taking my call right And the

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Speaker 6: You look at their.

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Speaker 3: Win record, then you if you look at just total losses,

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Speaker 1: I believe they're exactly at real five hundred now because

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Speaker 3: I just don't see him getting past the first round.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that they make the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Anything that happens after that, barring a humiliating sweep as

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Speaker 3: And if you don't forget, no, don't forget.

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Speaker 1: They don't have shootouts in the playoffs. So so there's

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Speaker 3: That's the point I'm trying to get across from your

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Speaker 2: I disagree wholeheartedly.

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Speaker 1: I think once you eliminate the weakest part of their game,

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Speaker 1: their their defense has betrayed them. Their slopping has betrayed

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Steve. Steve, what's up?

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Speaker 11: It was the injured doog?

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Speaker 1: obvious conversation out the way. Are the Pirates and Connor

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Speaker 1: Griffin's agents even talking about a long term extension as

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Speaker 1: some media is mooting? Or is that a fabrication?

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Speaker 4: As far as you know, it's not totally a fabrication.

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Speaker 4: But as far as numbers or years or anything like that,

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Speaker 4: exploratory thing to say, hey, would your client want to

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Speaker 4: all the further it's gone, Well, why would.

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Speaker 2: He want to?

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Speaker 1: I can understand a guy like Reynolds or Hayes or

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Speaker 1: because they don't have the same level of ability and

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Speaker 2: Of faith in their ability.

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Speaker 1: But a guy like Schemes are Griffin, I mean, aren't

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Speaker 4: They really are. I mean, I think the only way

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Speaker 4: You know, Skeens is a little order, he's a little

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Speaker 4: I don't think anything's going to happen here in the

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean, on the whole, if you want

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Speaker 1: Is Griffin going to start the here in Pittsburgh trip away?

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Speaker 1: What are the pros and cons?

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Speaker 4: The longer this goes, I got the feeling that he's

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Speaker 4: I don't think of the service time issue this time.

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Speaker 4: wouldn't hurt to get like one hundred of bats at

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just a couple of years ago for Skiens rookie

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Speaker 2: We'll see about that.

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Speaker 4: You may.

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Speaker 2: Isn't Nick Gonzalez just a bad short stop? You see?

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Speaker 2: The reason I'd keep Griffin.

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Speaker 1: Is because if they think they can make significant progress,

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Speaker 4: And I know people will float this and say, well,

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Speaker 4: what if he gets offt and he hits one fifty

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Speaker 4: if he does get off to a bad start in

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Speaker 4: I think he might need to go to trip Away

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Speaker 2: How much better are the Pirates really?

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Speaker 1: JP can can you put a number on in a

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Speaker 4: I think they can get over five hundred, but they're

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Speaker 4: gonna need a few things to break right, and you know,

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Speaker 4: like any team does. I mean, I like their offense

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Speaker 4: a lot better, but I'm with you. I would like

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Speaker 4: their offense a lot better if they have one more

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Speaker 4: big bat in the lineup. I liked their pitching a lot.

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Speaker 4: I like their starters, I like the relievers. You know,

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Speaker 4: I think that they're going to be one of the

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Speaker 4: better pitching staffs in the league. They were seventh in

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Speaker 4: the majors in RA last year, and even if they

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Speaker 4: can get to the middle of a pack offensively after

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Speaker 4: finishing last and run scored last year, they have a

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Speaker 4: chance to be really good. But I'm not one hundred

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Speaker 4: percent convinced that they can get to the middle of

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Speaker 4: the pack.

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Speaker 1: I like the pitching, I'm not sure about the depth

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Speaker 1: of the pitching. Who's the rotation, skeens Chandler, who else?

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Speaker 1: And if there is a left d. I mean it

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Speaker 1: got to be Barco, right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well it would be Skeens, Chandler, Ashcraft, Keller and

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Speaker 4: either kid or or it could be bark Barker has

461
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Speaker 4: looked really good down here, and I know he's really

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Speaker 4: made a good impression on Don.

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Speaker 2: You've gotta have a left DJP.

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Speaker 4: I think, especially playing your home games PNC Park, where lefties,

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Speaker 4: you know, really succeed there because of the big you know,

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Speaker 4: left field and left center field gap and all the

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Speaker 4: right handed hitters you face. So I you know, in

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Speaker 4: my perfect world, if I were putting the roster together,

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Speaker 4: I would definitely want to have a lefty in rotation

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Speaker 4: and really probably too, but the way it shakes out,

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Speaker 4: one would be enough.

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Speaker 2: What is Sken's a ceiling?

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Speaker 1: He's one rookie of the year, one a Cy Young

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Speaker 1: Or is his elbow gonna explode like Smolt's pretty much

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Speaker 1: predicted during the World Baseball Classic.

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Speaker 2: That was great, TV wonded.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, you never know. I mean, I'll say this,

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Speaker 4: he takes great care of himself. He's big, he's strong,

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Speaker 4: he's got everything you want to and an ace and

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Speaker 4: the type of guy pitched two hundred plus innings a year,

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Speaker 4: but you just never know when that elbow blows out.

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Speaker 4: Hopefully for him it's a long time before it does,

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Speaker 4: but it does catch everybody.

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Speaker 1: If he's done, see John, how much better can he get?

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Speaker 1: I mean, if this is his ceiling and he just

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Speaker 1: puts a bunch of years like that together, that's pretty good.

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Speaker 4: It is it is. And I mean, you know, i'd

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Speaker 4: say I have ben Cherrington that over the winner. I said,

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Speaker 4: you know, he had like a season for the Ages

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Speaker 4: as a rookie, then he came back and had even

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Speaker 4: a better season last year. Where does he go from here?

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Speaker 4: And even even ben Cherrington said, well, that's really I

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Speaker 4: don't know if he can go anywhere else from here.

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's how good he is. But he's a

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Speaker 4: I mean what he has done in his first few

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Speaker 4: seasons in the big leagues. And I know, you know,

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Speaker 4: we maybe start to take it for granted a little

498
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Speaker 4: because he pitches in Pittsburgh, But I mean, what he

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Speaker 4: has done, Mark, He's just unbelievable. And you know, I

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Speaker 4: mean he could maybe never have another year like he

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Speaker 4: had the last two years and still be a Hall

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Speaker 4: of Fame pitcher. That's that's how high. That bar has

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Speaker 4: been raised.

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Speaker 1: You bet up the bullpen before. I actually really like

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Speaker 1: the bullpen. I like the lefty righty stuff there, and

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Speaker 1: I like the way it fits together.

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Speaker 4: Don't you. Yeah, I do. I like the fact they

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Speaker 4: have two hard throwing life these now and Soto and Montgomery.

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Speaker 4: And you know, I think Santano handle the closers rolled

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Speaker 4: pretty well. And you know they have some other set

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Speaker 4: up guys. You know, I think I think the bullpen

512
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Speaker 4: is going to be good. They've got a lot of

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Speaker 4: guys that come out of their throwing gas and a

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Speaker 4: lot of guys who have everything it needs to be

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Speaker 4: successful at the big league level.

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Speaker 1: Who's the guy who might come out of nowhere offensively

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Speaker 1: and contribute.

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Speaker 4: That's a good question. I'm gonna say. It may take

519
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Speaker 4: some time, it might not happen the first couple months

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Speaker 4: of the season, But I really like as Marilyn Valdez

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Speaker 4: as a kid, It's like they're a number eleven prospect

522
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Speaker 4: in baseball. Marrick, he's a power hitting outfielder. It'll start

523
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Speaker 4: the year in Altuna, but I know some of the

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Speaker 4: scouts I talked to think he could come quickly and

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Speaker 4: come to the big leagues and may be helped by

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Speaker 4: the All Star break and you have some poppy be

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Speaker 4: it twenty two Hummers and the minors last year, and

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Speaker 4: you know the Pirates could desperately use some pops. So

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Speaker 4: that would be the kind to me, the guy to

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Speaker 4: keep an eye on.

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Speaker 1: You know who kind of strikes me as a guy

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Speaker 1: that they could make good use of his Mangam. Although

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Speaker 1: to do that, you got to concede to play a

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Speaker 1: little bit of small ball in his corner of the lineup.

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Speaker 4: Don't you. Yeah. But boy, he can fly, he can

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Speaker 4: really run, and he gets on bass. I mean, he

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Speaker 4: has a good on base percentage, so it's not one

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Speaker 4: of those cases where he can steal bases, but it

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Speaker 4: doesn't really matter because he never gets on bass. I

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Speaker 4: like him as an outfielder in all three spots of

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Speaker 4: what I've seen him, you know, between down here and

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Speaker 4: on television. I mean, he's a very good defensive outfielder

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Speaker 4: and he you know, he's gonna give them a really

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Speaker 4: good weapon either as a part time player off the bench.

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Speaker 4: And you know, I know, obviously everyone focused on Brandon

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Speaker 4: Law when they made that trade with Tampa Bay, but

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Speaker 4: Mangum's a pretty good player too, and I think he's

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Speaker 4: going to have his uses for the Pirates this year.

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Speaker 1: How much trouble will their batting order have when they

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Speaker 1: face a lefty? They got a lot of lefty lefty

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Speaker 1: and Lao o'hearne, Horowitz and Cruise. Their numbers against lefties

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Speaker 1: are not good. I kind of wonder if they're to

553
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Speaker 1: be Knights when even a mediocre left he can paralyze

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Speaker 1: the Pirates.

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Speaker 4: They very well could. And I understand they wanted to

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Speaker 4: get more left handed coming into the off season, but

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Speaker 4: it's almost like they got too left handed now yea,

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Speaker 4: And they really could use a right handed hitting outfielder.

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Speaker 4: And I think the kid who might help them if

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Speaker 4: he makes the team is just Steenson Garcia. The passwords

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Speaker 4: right right right, He's he's a right handed hitter, He's

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Speaker 4: a big guy, has pop, and he's really opened eyes

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Speaker 4: down here. Everyone I've talked to in camp here the

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Speaker 4: late two or three days since I got back down

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Speaker 4: here and just raved about how talented he is and

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Speaker 4: how mature he is for a twenty twenty two, twenty

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Speaker 4: three year old guy.

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Speaker 1: One thing about we getting back to schemes, the potential

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Speaker 1: arm trouble. Kurt Shilling, who knows a lot about pitching,

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Speaker 1: talked about the concept of max effort JP that guys

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Speaker 1: like Chander you mentioned Chandler, that he throws hard as

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Speaker 1: he can all the time, never ramps up to anything,

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Speaker 1: and that guys like that tend to have problems.

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Speaker 2: Do you agree with that?

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Speaker 1: And is Skeen's a guy who does max effort as well?

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Speaker 4: I think Skeens is a little smoother and its mechanics

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Speaker 4: than Chandler. But but Chilling makes a good point, and

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Speaker 4: that is why you see pretty much seventy five percent

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Speaker 4: of the big league pitchers end up with Tommy John surgery.

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Speaker 4: At some point, it's all become about velocity, velocity, velocity.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't matter if you can mix your pitches, if

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Speaker 4: you can hit the corners, if you can set hitters up,

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Speaker 4: work them north and south into the zone. It's just

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Speaker 4: rare back and blow guys away. And that comes a

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Speaker 4: lot from youth baseball, because when these kids are trying

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Speaker 4: to get drafted or recruited by college, the scouts looking

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Speaker 4: to radar guns first. So you mean that they're doing

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Speaker 4: what they can to get drafted and everything, and they

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Speaker 4: don't learn how to pitch. They just throw hard.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that there's going to be a cap

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Speaker 1: in the next CBA, What are the chances of that?

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Speaker 1: And if there is, how does that affect their chances

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Speaker 1: to keep a Schemes or a Clifton.

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Speaker 4: I think, you know, yeah, I think it. I think

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Speaker 4: it would help. I don't know if it would assure

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Speaker 4: that it would happen. Uh, you know, it depends on

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Speaker 4: what the cap is going to be, what the floor

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Speaker 4: is going to be, and uh, you know, I I

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Speaker 4: don't know what the union would agree to, if they

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Speaker 4: would agree to it, I mean they they will know.

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Speaker 2: I'm kind of playing what if I think, yeah, I.

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Speaker 4: Would think so. I think Griffin, I think the scheme

603
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Speaker 4: ship has sailed. I think he's going to be out

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Speaker 4: of here in a couple of years. But uh, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I think it would. I think definitely it would help them.

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Speaker 4: And again, you know, you got to see what the

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Speaker 4: numbers end up being, and you know, if it's if

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Speaker 4: it's a if it's uh, just if the numbers fit.

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Speaker 4: But if if I think that the way it would

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Speaker 4: turn out of a cap of the floor and the

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Speaker 4: and the ceiling, I do think that somebody like a Griffin,

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Speaker 4: or if one of these there are kids in the

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Speaker 4: minor leagues really turns into be a you know, like

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Speaker 4: a generational type, game changing talent that they'd be able

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Speaker 4: to keep them past six years.

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Speaker 1: Finally, JP, do you think they're going to move to

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Speaker 1: wb WBC to mid season at some point? It certainly

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Speaker 1: seems to be pointed in that direction, given the popularity

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Speaker 1: of what just happened.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think so, and I think it would be

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Speaker 4: cool to happen at mid season. But I don't think

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Speaker 4: you can have a twenty team field. I mean you

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Speaker 4: would have.

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Speaker 2: To drastically shorten the tournament.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's got to be eight teams. I

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Speaker 4: really think it's got to be an eighteen single, single

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Speaker 4: elimination tournament or at the most sixteen teams, but it

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Speaker 4: would have to almost be single.

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Speaker 1: Look, you know what you could do. You could do

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Speaker 1: two divisions of four. Each team plays three games, and

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Speaker 1: then the winners of the division's play.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. That would be fun. That would that would work.

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Speaker 4: I like that idea, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, and that would make the meaningless games because you'd

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Speaker 1: have teams who would you know, be zero and two

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Speaker 1: or whatever. But I don't know you're but my fear

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Speaker 1: is they drag it out to too many games because money.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I just don't think it's good to stop

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Speaker 4: the season. I know hockey does it pretty Olympics, and

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Speaker 4: I certainly understand why. But baseball is, you know, to

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Speaker 4: such a rhythm sport. If you have gods take two weeks.

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Speaker 4: I mean, the guys that aren't playing in WBC, right,

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Speaker 4: what are they going to do for two weeks? To

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Speaker 4: say sharp?

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Speaker 1: So I would assume that I would assume they'd go

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Speaker 1: to like the Caribbean and drink.

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Speaker 4: That's probably what I would do. Uh yeah, that sounds

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Speaker 4: like a pretty good idea.

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Speaker 1: JP is always great insight. I appreciate you taking the time.

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Speaker 4: Uh, my pleasure. Mark, take care, buddy. We'll see.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 1: That's John Proud of America's most Dangerous Baseball right. They're

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Speaker 1: currently writing for Roundtable Sports, so check out his work.

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Speaker 1: He has the best insight and the best insiders of

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Speaker 1: anybody covering baseball in Pittsburgh, no question about that.

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Speaker 2: Now it's time to ask Mark anything.

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Speaker 1: three four one two wxdx Duke is now ahead of No.

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Speaker 1: It's tied sixty one sixty one Duke in Sienna with

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Speaker 1: five minutes left, and is this right? I'm gonna check

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Speaker 1: this out during the commercial break. I think Sienna's used

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Speaker 1: five players the whole game.

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Speaker 2: The whole game. One oh five nine.

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Speaker 1: Duke now ahead of Sienna by four with about two

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Speaker 1: minutes left. Sienna was way up for a while, but

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Speaker 1: Duke gradually came back. And they're clearly the better team,

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Speaker 1: clearly well, they're the number one seed and in their bracket.

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Speaker 1: I think overall, I think they're ranked number one, correct,

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Speaker 1: But Sienna hung in there and still is. I think

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Speaker 1: the weirdest thing is Sienna hasn't made one substitution. They've

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Speaker 1: had the same five guys play all now thirty eight minutes,

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Speaker 1: whereas Duke has run guys in and out.

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Speaker 2: Now, obviously Duke has more depth.

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Speaker 1: But a game like that, even though Sienna's going to lose,

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Speaker 1: it really does show the romance of the NCAA tournament,

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Speaker 1: even the sixteen seed all most beating the number one

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Speaker 1: seed is a story. Got me watching it, turned it

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Speaker 1: on when I heard Santa was winning, and then Duke

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Speaker 1: just kept coming back.

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Speaker 2: Hey, one thing we got to change about, as Mark.

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Speaker 1: Anything is since we started doing this this talk back

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Speaker 1: at the app because we want people to use the app.

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Speaker 1: Although I don't care we get all these talkbacks and

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Speaker 1: not many calls. I'd prefer calls. Use the app on

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Speaker 1: your own time, but I would definitely prefer calls. So

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Speaker 1: get some calls in now eight three three four one

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Speaker 1: two wxdx. In the meantime, I will take a talkback.

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Speaker 13: Hey, Mark, say that the Pens don't keep Gino for

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Speaker 13: another year. Do you think Chinakov's production slips at all

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Speaker 13: or what do you think?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 1: I think China Koff is responsible for the Geno resurgence

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Speaker 1: more than Vice versa. I think China Cuff just a player.

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Speaker 1: You know what put him with the Gina on't play

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Speaker 1: next year? I put him with sid That's what put

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Speaker 1: him with Let's go to Buffalo Bill. Buffalo Bill, You're

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Speaker 1: wrong with double M Mark.

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Speaker 5: What was your honest opinion back in the nineties when

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Speaker 5: gold Dusk the character came out.

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Speaker 2: I thought it was great.

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Speaker 1: I thought it you know, it was a It was

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Speaker 1: an off beat character that people assumed a lot about.

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Speaker 1: They judged the book by the cover was a deeper

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Speaker 1: character than that. As it played out, I thought it

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Speaker 1: was terrific. Why what did you think?

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Speaker 5: I mean, I was pretty young at the time, but

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Speaker 5: looking back on like some of the premos, they were

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Speaker 5: pretty different, shall we say, and for the target audience,

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Well that was so you know, it was more adult,

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Speaker 2: that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was terrific, and I think Dustin Rose

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Speaker 1: is just a great performer.

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Speaker 5: You don't think Dusky was mad about.

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Speaker 4: It, No.

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Speaker 1: I think anything that made money is something the Rhodes

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Speaker 1: families always understood. And I say that in the best

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Speaker 1: way possible because I'm a I'm a big fan of

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Speaker 1: all the Roads is Let's go to a talkback.

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Speaker 7: Hey, what's a Mark?

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Speaker 4: Two?

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Speaker 13: Part question? Does it make me a bad fan that

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Speaker 13: when the caroline was bearing down on his thirty seconds

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Speaker 13: ago in overtime? I just thought, just effing's score, because

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Speaker 13: I don't want to sit through another shootout? And part

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Speaker 13: two is do you think any of the Penguins feel

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Speaker 13: the same way.

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Speaker 1: I don't think the Penguins have any confidence when the

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Speaker 1: shootout does come around. I don't think they're gonna, you know,

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Speaker 1: gamble too much in three on three to try to

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Speaker 1: make sure it doesn't get to a shootout. Maybe they should,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, I think the Penguins confidence is shot three

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Speaker 1: on three. Although you know you lose in ot you're

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Speaker 1: losing the shootout, it's still only one point.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to a talkback.

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Speaker 8: Hey, Mark, do you think the Penguins are gonna break

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Speaker 8: the single season overtime loss record?

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Speaker 1: I think it might be around eighteen or games something

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Speaker 1: like that.

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Speaker 11: Do you think they're gonna hit it?

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Speaker 1: Well, there's one team right behind them, I think at fourteen,

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Speaker 1: so I will the record's eighteen. Will look that up,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, they probably will. I mean, they have specialized

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Speaker 1: in losing an overtime no question.

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Speaker 4: Let's go to a talkback, Erry Mark big goal here.

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Speaker 8: I was curious to see if you ever met Jimmy

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Speaker 8: super fassnook up.

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Speaker 1: One time, very briefly, I met Jimmy Snooke.

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Speaker 2: His son lived in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 1: He had a child by a woman in Pittsburgh, and

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Speaker 1: his son played running back for Keystone Oaks High School.

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Speaker 1: And I did a story about him for the Post Gazette.

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Speaker 1: But I did not interview Jimmy for that story. I

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Speaker 1: think I just met him passing at some local wrestling event.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, that is correct. The record for

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Speaker 1: the most overtime losses in a single season is eighteen.

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Speaker 1: Penguins now have sixteen. Let's go to Steve. Steve, you're

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Speaker 1: on with double m Hey.

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Speaker 6: Mark, has been a few days since I listened to

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Speaker 6: your show.

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Speaker 2: What do you think about Michael Pittman coming to Pittsburgh, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it has been a while.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a very solid number two level receiver.

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Speaker 1: I think they lack a true number one. I don't

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Speaker 1: think DK is that. I still think they need another

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Speaker 1: good receiver in the first three rounds in the draft

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Speaker 1: to let them do wide out by committee. But with

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Speaker 1: Pittman and DK Metcalf. Their receiving course obviously already better

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Speaker 1: than it was last year. I'm not sure that he's

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Speaker 1: like I said, he's not a number one. He's a

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Speaker 1: good number two. They gave up almost nothing to get him.

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Speaker 5: Do you think they should have went after Mike Evans.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Mike Evans would ever come here. I

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Speaker 1: don't think they would pay what it takes to get

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Speaker 1: Mike Evans. We debated this week whether the Steelers were

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Speaker 1: better off with Pittman or the Broncos were.

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Speaker 2: Better off getting Jaylen Waddle.

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Speaker 1: And they gave up a first round pick in that deal,

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Speaker 1: but it's only the thirtieth pick in the first round.

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Speaker 1: It's it's almost a second round pick. So I'd rather

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Speaker 1: have Waddles.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Dylan.

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Speaker 5: What what up?

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Speaker 4: Mine? Hey?

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Speaker 11: I'm trying to figure out what we can do to

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Speaker 11: manage Chrysla Tang. How come in the NHL coaches won't

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Speaker 11: just like stash an old superstar, you know, in the

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Speaker 11: press box for a night like they do with like

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Speaker 11: Lebron James. He sits out like ten games a year.

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Speaker 11: I feel like Letang would be good just to get

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Speaker 11: him like a game to watch and rest up in theory.

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Speaker 1: I think you're right. And if the peng Ones we're

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Speaker 1: safe in a playoff spot, I could see that. Then again,

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Speaker 1: Latang would not take kindly to being scratched. They would

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Speaker 1: have to kind of disguise it as an injury.

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Speaker 2: And who do you play? Because you need every point?

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Speaker 2: Who do you play?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know. That's a good question, you know,

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Speaker 5: Like like, I.

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Speaker 1: Think there's more potential. I think there's well, Graves is

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Speaker 1: left handed. I think there's more potential for Tang or

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Speaker 1: to snap out of it and play good, as he

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Speaker 1: so often has. And I bet will again that it

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Speaker 1: would be to play say, I don't know, Ryan Shay

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Speaker 1: on the right side and screw up your left side,

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Speaker 1: or or play uh Jack Say and Ivany when he's

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Speaker 1: back from injury. I think you just got to stay

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Speaker 1: the course with Latang. I'm not dismissing your idea. I

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Speaker 1: just don't think they have the the assets, uh to

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Speaker 1: sit Latang or even play them less. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: Dan Daniel with double M.

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Speaker 14: Hey, Mark, thanks for taking my call. Right, there's a

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Speaker 14: growing trend in the sports world. It's private equity getting

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Speaker 14: involved in buying teams and taking stakes. Do you think

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Speaker 14: Art Rooney is holding out for private equity buyout?

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Speaker 1: No, he will never sell the Steelers. That team will

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Speaker 1: be owned by the Rooneyes long after I'm dead and

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Speaker 1: long after You're dead.

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Speaker 14: I just think there's a couple of signs that he's

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Speaker 14: that he's holding out. He's on investing the team, doesn't

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Speaker 14: want to get involved in the facilities upgrades.

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Speaker 1: No, he does that because he's cheap. Make no mistake,

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Speaker 1: make no no. The Rooneys will never.

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Speaker 2: Sell the Steelers. Never sell the Steelers. Let's go to

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Speaker 2: a talkback.

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Speaker 5: Mark.

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Speaker 6: Do you feel Chris Latang is pressured by Eric Carlson's

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Speaker 6: play of late thanks.

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Speaker 7: No.

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Speaker 1: I think when you've played as long as Tanger has

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Speaker 1: and been part of winning three Cups, I don't think

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Speaker 1: you're trying to keep up with the Joneses.

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Speaker 2: I know he respects Carlson. He knows he's a great player.

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Speaker 1: He's had a better career than Latang, which is no

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Speaker 1: easy thing for anybody to have done, but Carlson has so.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: I think Latang just will not his game to what

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Speaker 1: he's lost through aging. I think it's as simple as that.

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Speaker 1: And I love the guys. A great player, good man,

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Speaker 1: good leader, good penguin. But that's what I see. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to a talkback. Oh we lost that talkback. Okay,

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Speaker 1: The Exit The mark Man Show one oh five nine,