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Speaker 3: and associates. All Right, bucko, fans, how are we feeling

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Speaker 3: out there? We're here tonight and raising some money for

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Speaker 3: Casey's Clubhouse, our friend Sean Casey.

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Speaker 4: You'll be joining us in just a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Also, we've got Steve Blass who's gonna be popping up

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Speaker 3: here with us. Too very excited to talk to the

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Speaker 3: legend that is Steve blast But we're gonna start things

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Speaker 3: off today Abby Krisner, Randy Bauman, and Tim Benz and

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Speaker 3: Kevin Gorman is also here from the trip and we

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Speaker 3: got a lot of people to talk to today. But

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Speaker 3: the big news, of course, Kevin Gorman will start with you.

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Speaker 3: Connor Griffin is going to be playing in the home

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Speaker 3: opener for the Pittsburgh Pirates. On a level of one

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Speaker 3: to two, how shocked are you?

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Speaker 5: Well this this KG would like to welcome that KG

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Speaker 5: to Pittsburgh for pretty much the same level of cele.

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Speaker 6: I would.

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Speaker 5: I'm more shocked than he wasn't on the opening day roster.

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Speaker 5: To be honest with you, I mean it was evident

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Speaker 5: from the very first day of spring training that Connor

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Speaker 5: Griffin belonged on the Pirates and that he looked like

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Speaker 5: he could was going to be a standout. He sees

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Speaker 5: that type of talent, He cast that type of a

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Speaker 5: figure just just walking out. Did you see the presence

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Speaker 5: and is a five told talent.

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Speaker 3: Well, everybody talks about like his physique and what he

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Speaker 3: is a Greek god and all the obsteam heads writing

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Speaker 3: about him are like gushing over him like he's a model.

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Speaker 3: And I'm wondering how much of what he did in

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Speaker 3: Indy played into them hurrying this up. Were they just

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Speaker 3: working on the contract and no matter what he had

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Speaker 4: Should they get it done before the opening game at

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Speaker 4: P and C Park. I think there's layers to it.

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Speaker 5: I think the contract is one one issue that you

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Speaker 5: know that if he had maybe accepted a contract prior

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Speaker 5: That's one way to look at it, But that negotiation

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Speaker 5: is part of it. You also have to take into

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Speaker 5: consideration that he did struggle at the end of spring

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Speaker 5: training after you know, he had four home runs, had

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Speaker 5: nine RBIs, but he also had thirteen strikeouts against two

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Indy.

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Speaker 5: Just confirmed everybody that he's more ready than anyone, you know,

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Speaker 5: wanted to believe that. When he did in Indy was

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Speaker 5: the same thing he was doing at Double A Altuona,

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Speaker 5: at Hi A Greensboro, at low A Bradenson. This is

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Speaker 5: a guy who's dominated pitching at the minor league level,

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Speaker 5: and he's proving that he's ready for the major leagues.

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Speaker 3: Benzi, it's too much good fortune for the Pirates to

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Speaker 3: not have taken advantage of. I'm still a little bit

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Speaker 3: surprised he's here, but I'm thrilled. We're gonna see Connor

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Speaker 3: Griffin later today. Yeah, Paul Skeensy's old news seeing that before.

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Speaker 3: That's right, gotta move on. What's the next big thing?

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Speaker 7: Right?

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Speaker 8: I mean, I'm with Kevin in the sense that I

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Speaker 8: thought it was best of the team to bring him

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Speaker 4: But there are reasons for doing what they did.

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Speaker 8: One of them, I do think is a baseball reason

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Speaker 8: to get his head back in a good space. He

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Speaker 8: had a good run in Indy, went seven for sixteen,

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Speaker 8: did some things on the field wise that were important,

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Speaker 4: Did the Denzel Washington thing.

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Speaker 8: Explain this to me, like I'm a six year old,

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Speaker 8: go through what it was that you talked about on

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Speaker 8: the podcast today. Why financially and contractually this made sense

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Speaker 8: for the Pirates to do What the mechanics were, the

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean, first of all, there's a there's a

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Speaker 5: thing in this collective bargain agreement called the Promo Prospect

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Speaker 5: Promotion Incentive where the Pirates that they have Connor Griffin

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Speaker 5: up within I think fifteen days of opening day, which

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Speaker 5: part of it is you can buy out a couple

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Speaker 5: would consider your prime twenty eight to twenty nine years old.

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Speaker 5: That Connor Griffin, the Pirates are going to get his

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Speaker 5: For a guy that people think is going to be

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Speaker 5: because if you wait, like Paul Skeens, and he hits

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Speaker 5: can't afford to let Connor Griffin get to that point

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Speaker 5: all right.

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Speaker 4: For everybody going to the game today, Abby Prisoner.

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Speaker 3: First of all, weatherwise, what's it gonna look like for

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Speaker 9: So it'll be breezy and warm, cloudy today seventy six.

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Speaker 4: There is a chance of thunder swords.

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Speaker 9: You've been really good about dodging these in the afternoons,

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Speaker 9: so I think let's think positive on this one.

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Speaker 4: But gates are going to open at two o'clock for

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Speaker 4: one to two starts.

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Speaker 3: Okay, two o'clock you can get into panc Park. Yes,

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Speaker 3: I bet there's gonna be a whole lot of people

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Speaker 3: going in early to see these guys. VP now joining

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Speaker 3: us from well the DV Morning Show really also from

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Speaker 3: sports and at Pittsburgh and of course Pittsburgh Steeler Radio Network.

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Speaker 4: That notwithstanding, this guy knows.

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Speaker 3: More about baseball than just about anybody I know, the

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Speaker 3: one and only Rob King.

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Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, your King are nice.

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Speaker 3: Enough to stop by and say HI, was great to

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Speaker 3: be here. This is as exciting a start to a

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Speaker 3: Not just skiings, of course, Connor Griffin a huge part

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Speaker 4: Out center field.

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Speaker 3: From an offensive standpoint, early returns are it looks a

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: So when you look at where the Pirates finished last

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Speaker 10: ninety games. What held the Pirates back they had the

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Speaker 10: that's going to be a positive for the offense. But

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Speaker 10: not only do you add guys that are better than

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Speaker 10: And I think that's what they're banking on, and this

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Speaker 10: Pitching has been phenomenal and the offense looks really good.

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Speaker 4: Donny Kelly getting the job done early. What's your confidence

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Speaker 10: I mean, I just it's off the charts, and not

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Speaker 10: think is it's just a different feel. You know, Derek

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Speaker 10: Clint Hurdle. I think Don Kelly right now is the

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Speaker 3: What do you do with O'Neil Cruz Wait this out

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Speaker 3: and expect he gets better defensively.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I think that's what you have to do.

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Speaker 10: You know he's he hasn't really had a lot of

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Speaker 4: But I mean, this is a guy who could just

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Speaker 10: But the other thing is too is that, Yes, I

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Speaker 10: Well, because they're surrounded by better players. They're seeing better

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Speaker 4: He should be able to come.

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Speaker 10: In with a little bit less weight on his shoulders

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Speaker 4: Group that they've added to the team.

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Speaker 3: What do you think this does now for the infield defensively?

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Speaker 3: Obviously a huge upgrade right now by being able to

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Speaker 10: Well, I mean, there's so much to like about Connor Griffin,

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Speaker 10: he answered those questions. Then you put him at shortstop.

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Speaker 8: Pirate thing about O'Neill, Cruz and the defense versus his

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Speaker 4: Was it for Madden?

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Speaker 4: Last year was barely worth his glove.

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Speaker 8: He was a slightly above war player, right, but his ops.

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Speaker 6: Was six seventy six.

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Speaker 8: With that frame, he should be able to He shouldn't

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Speaker 4: You know, he can't be a two hundred hitter, but

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Speaker 8: If you put those numbers together, then he's definitely worth

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Speaker 10: Absolutely, and I think we have to give we have

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Speaker 4: What was his first step? He moved forward?

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Speaker 6: Why?

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Speaker 10: Because he just hasn't played there a much. We got

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Speaker 3: Now, Kinger, I know you were just having an off

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Speaker 10: And and by the way, they also had the best

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why I had to go check it out.

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Speaker 10: Sure, absolutely, Yeah, there's Pompei gotten away at pomp at

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Speaker 4: Yeah right, Pompey.

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Speaker 3: It ain't easy, Rub, Rob Klemen the Kinger.

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Speaker 4: Friend Jimmy Trudan At. Jimmy T is with us now.

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Speaker 4: It's the twenty fifth anniversary a P and C Park. Yes,

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Speaker 4: it is correct.

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Speaker 3: So Abby, I know there's all kinds of new stuff

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Speaker 6: I know.

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Speaker 9: I was looking this up because GBT I like to

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Speaker 9: It every Everyboddy gets to get their food a little bit.

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Speaker 9: But I also see an expite expanded Pirates Clubhouse store.

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Speaker 12: That is true, and it is also going to be

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Speaker 12: A good friend Scott Bonnette Bones will be running that

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Speaker 4: Very cool. It is really cool. You can get his

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Speaker 6: You could do that.

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Speaker 12: So if you you bring your if you bring your

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Speaker 4: That's awesome.

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Speaker 12: It's down left field line by Pop's Plaza. Bones is

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Speaker 12: What else you gotta have? Anything else new tomorrow?

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean I know that the buckle bricks. Parking

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Speaker 12: It's just get here early, is what I'm gonna say.

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Speaker 3: It was very cool that you brought Brian Giles and

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Speaker 3: Oh it was, and those guys rose above it. They

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Speaker 12: We're doing an autograph session on Federal Street on opening

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Speaker 4: God love our seventies guys and guys played.

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Speaker 13: I think it's incredible to have those guys back, you know,

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Speaker 13: I'm except Randy Ken Ken, what are you kidding? The hardest.

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Speaker 13: Like he was he was tough like that, but he was.

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Speaker 13: He's a good dude, and he's a gamer man. He

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Speaker 4: Every they both did.

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Speaker 4: But he was a hard nosed player. Throw and through.

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Speaker 3: What should people know about the twenty fifth anniversary that

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Speaker 3: We're going to celebrate.

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Speaker 4: I'm just kidding.

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Speaker 12: We'll probably bring some four guys back.

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Speaker 4: We brought a j.

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Speaker 4: Manager of Team Italia.

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Speaker 12: See how do you say it?

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Speaker 4: Yes in Italian?

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Speaker 3: Or is this Spanish? I don't even know anymore? Jimmy

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Speaker 12: One is a hurricane coming, but it's a chance of

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Speaker 12: gonna be seventy five.

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Speaker 4: We'll hit the first home running Pansy Park. I have

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Speaker 4: some scrub, do you know, Sean, I know some scrub.

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Speaker 4: I can't remember you know.

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Speaker 12: Who throughout the first pitch, don't you, mister Rogers, Todd,

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Speaker 12: Todd Ritchie.

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Speaker 4: I'm talking about the real.

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Speaker 10: First time first pitch to me, Todd Richie, two Hall.

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Speaker 12: Of famer Barry Larkin remember that two Hall of famers

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Speaker 12: on that team.

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Speaker 3: Ye, and I mean that PNT Park. Of course, that

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Speaker 3: was a moment. You're not going to forget direct Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 3: Sewan Casey launching the first dinger. But is there any

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Speaker 3: other home openers memories in your many many how many

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Speaker 3: years with the Pirates?

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Speaker 12: Now this is going to be thirty eight, my lord.

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Speaker 12: I mean those three Rivers days, they were still fun.

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Speaker 12: I can't remember any particular game over there. I do

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Speaker 12: remember we got rained out against the Astros and had

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Speaker 12: Toy had fifty five thousand there. On the next day

462
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Speaker 12: we had like ten because we had to come back.

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Speaker 12: But Neil Walker's walk off here in twenty fourteen. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 12: the one nothing game in ten innings. Yeah, so there's

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Speaker 12: there's been a lot. I mean the first game obviously

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Speaker 12: you got Sean got the first hit, but just being here.

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Speaker 12: Unfortunately Pop starg Will died that morning, which is kind

468
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Speaker 12: of a letdown. But just the opening of this ballpark

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Speaker 12: twenty five years ago is incredible.

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Speaker 3: Well, the home opener today headline is Connor Griffin.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, so oh it's it's gonna be great. It's it's

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Speaker 12: with Connor in the lineup and just the way we've

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Speaker 12: been playing the last three or four games, it's gonna

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Speaker 12: be a fun time, no.

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Speaker 4: Doubt about it. Jimmy T.

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Speaker 3: Jim teredanis from the Pittsburg Pirates. Let's hear it for

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Speaker 3: Jimmy T. Thanks so much.

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Speaker 3: Krasner for those heading down to the game. What's the

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Speaker 3: weather going to.

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Speaker 4: Be looking like?

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Speaker 9: Breezy and warm today? Some clouds, a high of seventy six,

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Speaker 9: chance of thunderstorms, but we're going to ignore it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, ignore those chances to thunderstorms.

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Speaker 3: You know, the only storms are gonna be brought by

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Speaker 3: Connor Griffin today. Yay, you can guarantee that two o'clock.

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Speaker 4: It opens up gates.

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Speaker 9: At two o'clock and there's pretty much a party Federal

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Speaker 9: Street in the Rotchel Clemente Bridge even stretches of Sixth Street,

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Speaker 9: so you can basically take that entire walk and make

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Speaker 9: it a party.

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Speaker 4: All the way to the park.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well, if you want a party, we've got

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Speaker 3: one for you right now at Mike'speer Bar, Ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 3: please welcome Pittsburgh Pirate legend Steve Blass.

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Speaker 4: I mean I should have said it, like, how good

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Speaker 4: is this on the mound?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: This is more people than we had one of the

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Speaker 7: openers back when I was pitching.

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Speaker 4: I mean that has to feel great for you every.

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Speaker 3: Time you come back to Pittsburgh and you get to

555
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Speaker 3: be around this Pittsburgh Pirate family. I mean, you're such

556
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Speaker 3: an icon to so many of these people, and I

557
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Speaker 3: know how much you love being around the field.

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Speaker 7: You know, when we came here, Karen and I went

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Speaker 7: from two small towns in Connecticut.

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Speaker 6: We were never made to feel more welcome than we

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Speaker 6: could have hoped for.

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Speaker 7: In the restaurants, the gas stations, in the shopping balls.

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Speaker 7: We were made to feel so welcome. I have never

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Speaker 7: lost track of that. And you know, the people have

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Speaker 7: been so great. They say this is a city of

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Speaker 7: great people. Yeah, because it started back in nineteen sixty four.

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Speaker 7: I'm still trying to catch up and give back as

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Speaker 7: much as they gave to us.

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Speaker 6: From that very moment. You people are freaking blue. Almost

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Speaker 6: lost us right there.

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Speaker 4: We could bleep it.

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Speaker 3: You know, everybody's excited for Connor Griffin's debut and the Buckoes.

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Speaker 3: All of a sudden, now you got Paul Skiings unexpectedly.

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Speaker 3: I think for a lot of Pirate fans getting to

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Speaker 3: see Connor Griffin this early tomorrow, and now a lineup

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Speaker 3: that's got a whole lot more offense around in established

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Speaker 3: pitching rotation. This seems like a different Pirate team where

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Speaker 3: we go, well, if this, that and the other thing happens,

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Speaker 3: it could go pretty well for us. It looks like

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Speaker 3: they're lined up for success.

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Speaker 6: Scheve.

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Speaker 7: I love chocolate Marshamallow ice cream, and I love this

583
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Speaker 7: ball team.

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Speaker 6: Ye I do.

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Speaker 7: I mean finally we've been saying we got good pitching,

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Speaker 7: we need some runs.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 7: You know what the great thing is the message to

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Speaker 7: the fans right now is the fact that it's not

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Speaker 7: four singles to get a run. They're knocking the ball

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Speaker 7: over the fence. We've got some bats. They're going to

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Speaker 7: back up this pitching. Not just single by single byes,

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Speaker 7: they're hitting it over the fence.

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Speaker 6: We've been wanting that for years, you know.

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Speaker 7: I go back to nineteen seventy two Bill Verd and

596
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Speaker 7: our manager said it was great to get in the

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Speaker 7: car every afternoon drive to the ballpark, knowing I was going.

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Speaker 6: To get five or six runs to work with. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: but we have got some offense to back up this pitching.

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Speaker 7: Connor Griffin. I can't wait to see him. I saw

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Speaker 7: him in spring training, and you know, it's interesting. I

602
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Speaker 7: signed for four grand. I don't think oh, I don't

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Speaker 7: know how much he got. I don't think he got

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Speaker 7: that much.

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Speaker 4: Kevin Gorman's with us. What was the final tally there?

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Speaker 4: The signing bonus was six point five to three million.

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Speaker 6: We had conditional contracts.

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Speaker 7: I signed in nineteen sixty out of high school for

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Speaker 7: four grand and then if you made it eventually you

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Speaker 7: get another four grand.

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Speaker 6: I thought I had stolen the bank.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I said, yeah, I'm buying a toaster, throwing a bank.

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Speaker 6: But yeah, I can't wait to see him.

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Speaker 7: You know, I was saying this in spring training, and

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Speaker 7: I don't run a ball club. I don't make decisions,

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Speaker 7: but I said, why not get him up here, let

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Speaker 7: him see what it's like for two or three weeks.

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Speaker 7: If he's over mashed, let him go back down and

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Speaker 7: get some my best. But what he might not be

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Speaker 7: and he might just take off. Yeah, So I think

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Speaker 7: that's kind of the theory now and uh, you know.

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Speaker 4: It's uh, it's what's kind of a what he had

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Speaker 4: got to lose?

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Speaker 3: I mean, he was tearing the ball, the cover off

625
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Speaker 3: the ball in Indy and you know, if they're worried

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Speaker 3: about him being able to face major league pitching where

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Speaker 3: they you know, you guys said we weren't down to

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Speaker 3: Bradington this year.

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Speaker 4: He looked over match at times.

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Speaker 3: Well a lot of guys do, and seeing that pitching

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Speaker 3: I think is only going to be good for him

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Speaker 3: if that's truly the issue.

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Speaker 4: But I think he's gonna be so juice up.

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Speaker 7: Well, you know, he's a guy that comes across a

635
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 7: little bit like Paul Schemes in that there's that unbelievable talent.

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Speaker 7: But it seems like he's got his feet on the ground.

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, And so I'm thinking he's gonna get here

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Speaker 7: and say, Okay, let's see if I.

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Speaker 6: Can handle it.

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Speaker 7: If I need more time and they do that, I'll

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Speaker 7: deal with it, but I might just take off.

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Speaker 6: So exactly what do you got to lose?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 3: But as a as a pitcher, you'd have to be

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Speaker 3: pretty excited about now having Connor Griffin behind you at

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Speaker 3: short Yeah, yeah, well, you.

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Speaker 7: Know, I used to get excited about Gene Allen and

648
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Speaker 7: Bill Mazowski.

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Speaker 4: You had it pretty good.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, so that was okay too. Yeah, but yeah, let's

651
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Speaker 7: let's see what he can do. You're gonna invest big,

652
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Speaker 7: big money, big headlines about this young man.

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Speaker 6: Let's find out. Let's find out. And you know.

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Speaker 7: That that's the old obsession thing. I don't want to

655
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Speaker 7: get poetic, Rahn, but my biggest thing was about obsession.

656
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Speaker 7: That was I was going to be greater. But I

657
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Speaker 7: want to find out at that level and then the

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Speaker 7: next level, I want to find out.

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Speaker 6: Obsession with wanting to find out, Steve, how many pitches

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Speaker 6: did you have?

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Speaker 8: How many pitches did you feel like you really had

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Speaker 8: in your bag on a time?

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Speaker 6: How much time do you have?

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Speaker 13: Now?

665
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 7: I couldn't throw the ball by people, so I tried

666
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 7: to get a lot.

667
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 6: I could throw a force eamer.

668
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 7: I could get enough speed to be legitimate low nineties,

669
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 7: maybe mid if the wind was behind me, mid nineties,

670
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 7: if I had the wind.

671
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 6: The back of me. But I forcing. But I also

672
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 6: turned the ball over.

673
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 7: To get more movement, because if you can't blow the ball,

674
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 7: you want movement. And uh, then I had a slow curve,

675
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 7: nanny saying. Nanny saying, game called the old Flip Wilson

676
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 7: slop drop. But I had a hard curve, but I

677
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 7: made my living with a slider that I could throw

678
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 7: behind in the count for strikes. And so I had

679
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 7: a couple of fastballs, a couple of curveball, and a

680
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 7: straight change. So I had like six pitches. That's the

681
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 7: thing about Skins. Most most power guys grew up throwing

682
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,479
Speaker 7: the ball by everybody. They never had to learn how

683
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 7: to pitch. Paul Skins has that power, but he's also

684
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 7: got a bag of four hunderd pitches, quality pitches that

685
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 7: he can throw for strikes. The only person he reminds

686
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 7: me of when I was playing would be Nolan Ryan

687
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 7: if you go way down and no one was.

688
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 6: Just straight power.

689
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 7: But Paul has got a package of pitches, so he

690
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 7: knows how to pitch as well as throw.

691
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 6: That's a combination.

692
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 7: That that's why people call him generational.

693
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 3: Well, how did you think about how he handled himself

694
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 3: after the first game when that he kind of got

695
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 3: let down defensively behind him.

696
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 7: With great maturity, Even the best they are going to

697
00:30:58,320 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 7: get beat up one time. They're going to have an

698
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 7: off and it's certainly magnified when it's opening day. But

699
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 7: he gets it. He's a bright guy. He's got us

700
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 7: feed on the ground. He knows how tough this ball

701
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 7: game is. It's tough. It's not automatic, it's not guaranteed.

702
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 7: He's gonna go out and dominate every time. Not gonna happen.

703
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 3: Well, and the last thing you want to see is

704
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 3: somebody getting on their teammates in game one of the year.

705
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 3: And you know he understands long season and that's leadership.

706
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 7: Oh absolutely, you know I want to go back to

707
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 7: one quick story. I love opening days. I love it's

708
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 7: the beginning of summer. You know, we're going to get

709
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 7: our life back. I pitched against Tom sever in the

710
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 7: Mets nineteen seventy at forbes Field. They just won the

711
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 7: World Series in sixty nine.

712
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 4: Tom sever those amazing.

713
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 7: I was obsessed with finding out I didn't know anything. Well,

714
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 7: it was forty three degrees at forbes Field. I went

715
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 7: ten innings first start of the season, and he went nine.

716
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 6: Neither one of us got a decision extra and.

717
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 7: In game pisched our ass off and not even a

718
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 7: decision going ten. Who who goes weather nowadays, you go ten,

719
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 7: there's some guy you never heard about standing on second base?

720
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 6: The hell's that all about?

721
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 4: You're not a fan of that? Now? Would you have benefit?

722
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 6: Think?

723
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 4: Would you be a fan of the ABS challenges.

724
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,719
Speaker 6: When you were pitching? How much time we got plenty?

725
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 7: You know what, they're trying to sanitize the game a game.

726
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 7: It's an imperfect game played by imperfect people.

727
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,959
Speaker 6: And that's that. That's what creates the characters and the stories.

728
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 7: I mean, don't don't over I know it's we're in

729
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 7: the world of numbers and technology and analytics, but this

730
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 7: is a game of stories, and you're gonna eliminate all

731
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 7: the characters. You know, Remember Lloyd mcclennon when he got

732
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 7: thrown out of the game at first man, he took

733
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 7: first basement first into the I was broadcasting, I said,

734
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 7: ladies and gentlemen, By the way, just to let you know,

735
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 7: that's Lloyd McClendon's fourth career stolen base.

736
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 6: Steve one.

737
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 8: One thing you would have loved about the ABS, I

738
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 8: think nothing many seeing would have been great at challenging

739
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 8: though he would have challenged everything.

740
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 7: It would have taken a half an hour, Sangy came

741
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 7: out to me one time with the bases loaded and

742
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 7: a Hall of Famer earning banks of the bank his

743
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 7: first Major League conference, took off his mask, looked up a.

744
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 6: Big smile on his face, and said, oh, you know,

745
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 6: and then.

746
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 4: Went back, that was it, mister cubb is up.

747
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 7: Yeah, the next pitch was in Lake Michigan, and I

748
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 7: didn't know, but yeah, I just you know, you don't

749
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 7: want to sanitize it.

750
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 6: So it's absolutely perfect where.

751
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 7: The discussion is going to be, the arguments, the conversations,

752
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 7: the characters.

753
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 6: I mean, it's just I understand where in.

754
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 7: The era and age of all that stuff, but it

755
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 7: doesn't have to consume you. And our game is a

756
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 7: game of stories, I mean, just real good. A lot

757
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 7: of people remember Casey Stingle, a great manager of the

758
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 7: New York Yankees. Casey Stengle he retired and the Mets

759
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:01,959
Speaker 7: hired him for their first manager. They promptly went forty

760
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 7: two wins one hundred and twenty losses, worst team record

761
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 7: in the history of the game. Casey was a heck

762
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 7: of a manager for the Yankees, but all managers are

763
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 7: product of their talent, so they weren't very good. And

764
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 7: they also had not only the worst team, but maybe

765
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 7: one of the worst players. Marv Thronberry marvelous Marv. We

766
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 7: called him so one night, the true story. We looked

767
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 7: up July, middle of July. There was Marvin first base.

768
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,319
Speaker 7: Nobody knows how he got there, hadn't been there all year.

769
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 7: Marv's there. The next Matt hits a gap shot, Marv

770
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 7: comes all the way around the score. The other team

771
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 7: gets the ball, they tagg third base. They called Marv

772
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:41,720
Speaker 7: out for missing third base. Casey Staningle, It's famous manager

773
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 7: storms out of the dug out to argue on Pire says,

774
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 7: stay right there, Casey, he also missed second.

775
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 6: That's how bad they were.

776
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 3: Well, speaking of managers, what do you think of Pittsburgh's

777
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 3: Donny Kelly.

778
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 6: I love it.

779
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 7: I love it because again he is he is going

780
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 7: to be a product of his talent. But I like

781
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 7: the fact he's played all around the infield. He knows

782
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 7: the basic formation, all the positions and all that.

783
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 6: I love him. I love his personality. I love him

784
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 6: as a person.

785
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: Uh.

786
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 6: I think he knows when he.

787
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 7: Has to be easy on the guy, past somebody in

788
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 7: the back, or kick him in the in the butt.

789
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,719
Speaker 7: He knows how that works, because you have to do

790
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 7: that to be a manager. I think he's got some

791
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 7: bats now. I think this is a team and a

792
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 7: manager that can work together. He knows the game. And

793
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 7: if you've got talent and you know the game like

794
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 7: Donnie does, and he knows the game. He's been at

795
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,799
Speaker 7: every level, every level, I think it's a hell of

796
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 7: a combination. So I'm rooting for him. I like him

797
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 7: as a person. I love those persons, those people that

798
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 7: are not only professional players managers, but have happened to

799
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 7: be decent people. You know, Bill Mazeroski who just passed away,

800
00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,840
Speaker 7: great baseball player, a better man. Donny Kelly is a

801
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 7: great baseball person. He might be a better man, and

802
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 7: I root for him. I find it very easy to

803
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 7: root for Donna Kelly.

804
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:06,879
Speaker 4: Yeah.

805
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 3: Well, you were talking about maz with us, you know

806
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 3: when he passed, and how much he meant to you

807
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 3: and what a mentor he was off the field. And

808
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 3: are there guys on this team that you see that

809
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,240
Speaker 3: have those kind of characteristics that are the pied piper

810
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 3: of how to behave.

811
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 7: Well, I'm not in the clubhouse, so I really I

812
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 7: really don't. I hope you have some of those kind

813
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 7: of people, and it just helps.

814
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 4: Seems like Paul Skeins would be that guy.

815
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 3: Kevin Gorman, like Skemes would be the one that everyone

816
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 3: falls in line behind. But with a picture not an

817
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 3: everyday player can be a little more different. They're a

818
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:40,720
Speaker 3: little more removed.

819
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, but he's also six foot six, two hundred and

820
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 5: sixty pounds, and I think if Paul Skein speaks up,

821
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 5: people are going to listen. Yeah, there's a bit of

822
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 5: a intimidation factor that comes with him, but there's also

823
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 5: the setting the example. Nobody's going to outwork Paul Skeens,

824
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 5: and so when your best player is your hardest worker,

825
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 5: everyone else falls in line in that regard.

826
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 7: You watch those people, you watch about how they go

827
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 7: about their craft, and you learn they don't have to

828
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,800
Speaker 7: say Mas never said much. Maz gave me three things

829
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:10,959
Speaker 7: he said to me as a rookie. He said, First

830
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,320
Speaker 7: of all, no more excuses. You're in the big leagues.

831
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 7: People don't care why you fail. They want to know

832
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 7: why you succeed. The other one is, don't forget that

833
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 7: the name on the front of the uniform is more

834
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 7: important than the name of the back and then a

835
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 7: little subtle thing he taught me too. These guys that

836
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 7: were left over from the sixty team helped me go

837
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,840
Speaker 7: from being a ballplayer to a major leaguer by watching, listening,

838
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 7: see where they did.

839
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 6: The responsibilities you have in the community. Where you go,

840
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 6: well you don't go. How you handled yourself on the road.

841
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 7: Maz always said, Also, if somebody's going to flatter you

842
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 7: by asking for your autograph, sign it so they can

843
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 7: read it. Maz cound have just signed Maz. You read

844
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 7: his signature. It's perfect. Just little subtle stuff. But he

845
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 7: also has a sense of humor because there's a great

846
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 7: Maz story. Maz respected everybody on the ball field, teammates

847
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 7: their job. He never told an outfitter how to play,

848
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 7: pitcher how to pitch a catch. The only thing he

849
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 7: hated was when a pirate pitcher was getting beat up

850
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 7: and Danny Murtal would tell him to go talk to

851
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 7: the picture when we warmed somebody up, buying time to

852
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 7: get a reliever. So I'm out there one night getting

853
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:20,919
Speaker 7: my face ripped off. My era was going up higher

854
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 7: than the price of gas in nineteen seventy four or now,

855
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,399
Speaker 7: and so I'm getting ripped, and so Murtal goes over and.

856
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 6: Mask comes over. He comes over like an.

857
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:34,240
Speaker 7: Old farm like. He said, you know, not my idea.

858
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 7: I don't want to be here. They made me do this.

859
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 7: But you know what you are getting your aspect. So

860
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 7: these guys, these guys had a sense of humor. Clemeny

861
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 7: had a sense of humor. When I was a rookie,

862
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 7: you know, I was young and stupid. I'm different now

863
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 7: I'm old and stupid. But I won a couple of

864
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 7: games in a row at a big leag So I

865
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 7: got this. I'm all puffed up. I got this figured

866
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 7: out right. So I go to Forbes Field one afternoon.

867
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,800
Speaker 7: Clementy is sitting over there by him if it's early,

868
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 7: and I said, well, I got this figured out. I'll

869
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 7: go straighten out Roberto Clemente. So I go over and

870
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 7: I said, Roberto, here's the deal. If I ever get traded,

871
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 7: I'm gonna pitch you inside. Everybody pitches you away. You

872
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,839
Speaker 7: at three point fifty every year. He said, blast, I'm

873
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 7: going to tell you one thing. You pitch me inside,

874
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 7: I will hit the balt Harrisburg.

875
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:19,919
Speaker 6: Good talk.

876
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 7: And I slunk back to my locker where I belonged

877
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:23,399
Speaker 7: and shut up.

878
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 3: One of the real perks of being here tonight is

879
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 3: not just seeing the great Steve Blast live and in person,

880
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 3: but also for everybody who showed up here tonight, Steve,

881
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,800
Speaker 3: they get registered to take a private tour, to be

882
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Speaker 3: a part of a tour of the Clemente Museum. And

883
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Speaker 3: you've been kind enough to do this with us for

884
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Speaker 3: a couple of years. And I got to go with

885
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 3: your son Chris many years ago, and I thought this

886
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 3: was the greatest sports experience a fan could ever have.

887
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 4: There's nothing quite like it.

888
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 3: And so I'm so honored and proud that you've continued

889
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Speaker 3: that with the Dve audience.

890
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Speaker 4: Here to the last couple of years.

891
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Speaker 3: And for those who don't know what that's all about, like,

892
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Speaker 3: how does it make you feel when you're giving that

893
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,400
Speaker 3: tour of the Clemente Museum, Because first of all, you

894
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 3: are on like you know, you're as entertaining as anybody

895
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Speaker 3: could possibly be. You are a pig in slop having

896
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 3: the best time ever. But it's also as a spectator

897
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Speaker 3: watching somebody go through their past and the memories and

898
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 3: the pathos of all of that. It's got to be

899
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Speaker 3: an experience for you. That is the whole scale of emotions.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's going to the Clemente Museum is unbelievable. If

901
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 7: you're a Pittsburgh person. You don't even have to be

902
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 7: a baseball fan. This is about amusing about a baseball

903
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Speaker 7: player and a human being who transcends a lot of baseball.

904
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Speaker 7: But I love going there every time I go. I've

905
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 7: been there a thousand times. I get goosebeps every time

906
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Speaker 7: I go. You know, the a lot of great Major

907
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:59,720
Speaker 7: leaguers with a great legacy. I don't think anybody has

908
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 7: a longer lasting or bigger legacy than Roberto Clementy. And

909
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 7: we're lucky enough to have had him for twenty years,

910
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Speaker 7: lucky enough to have a museum that supports that. It's

911
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 7: it's incredible. It tells the story of Roberto in so

912
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Speaker 7: many ways.

913
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Speaker 6: I love it.

914
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Speaker 4: There's somebody that wants to say hi to you, Steve Glass.

915
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Speaker 4: What did I do? Ladies and gentlemen. Jason Kendall, my.

916
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Speaker 6: Man, I'm doing good. Hey, listen.

917
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Speaker 7: I when he was honored at the Dapper Dan I had,

918
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Speaker 7: I had the great honor of flying up to from

919
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Speaker 7: Florida introducing you, man.

920
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Speaker 6: I love you. This guy played the game like it's

921
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Speaker 6: supposed to be played.

922
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Speaker 4: Three time.

923
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Speaker 6: All start, Jason Kendall.

924
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Speaker 3: Jason Kendall, Ladies and gentlemen, I didn't care for you.

925
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Speaker 16: I had to come up the.

926
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Speaker 6: Lad excuse me for one minute.

927
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Speaker 3: Embrace that man, Steve Glass, let's hear it for d

928
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:01,800
Speaker 3: Blast and Jason Kendall.

929
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Speaker 4: Hold on.

930
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Speaker 6: I would have never shaken him off. Never not time.

931
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Speaker 4: All right, we're gonna take a break.

932
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Speaker 3: We're gonna come back more as we get ready for

933
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Speaker 3: opening day. Connor Griffin is a Pittsburgh pirate more with

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