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Speaker 1: All right, Mike's Beer, Bart's the dB Morning Show Live. That'

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Speaker 1: say we're on the north Shore. We got Sean Casey

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Speaker 1: with us here, the mayor. All right, Steve Blast, the

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Speaker 1: one and only Steve Blast is here with us as

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Speaker 1: well and joining us from Edgar Snyder and Associates. The

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Speaker 1: official personal injury law firm of the Pittsburgh Pirates is

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Speaker 1: Nick cat Coo, and Nick is here bearing gifts. And

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Speaker 1: I want to give a nice, warm round of applause

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Speaker 1: for Nick, Nick, you and all my friends at Edgar

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Speaker 1: Snyder Associates.

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Speaker 2: I love how involved you guys stay.

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Speaker 1: In the community, and you're here tonight to continue that tradition.

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Speaker 3: Hey, I'm really happy to be here, really happy to

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Speaker 3: bring the gift. We're humbled to be a part of

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Speaker 3: Casey's clubhouse. I love what you guys do in the community.

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Speaker 3: That's one of our core beliefs is if you can

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Speaker 3: give back, you should.

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Speaker 2: If you can give back, you should.

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Speaker 3: And I try to live that in my daily life,

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Speaker 3: and I know our law firm does too. So this

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Speaker 3: this event fits squarely with our mission.

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Speaker 1: And how much are you guys giving? I'm just curious.

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Speaker 1: Twenty five hundred bucks oh, a.

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Speaker 2: Hundred bucks for Casey's blubhouse. Thank you. That's awesome. Appreciate

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Speaker 2: that so much.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate that, Edgar and all the all the people over there.

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Speaker 2: Man, you guys always step up.

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Speaker 1: We really appreciate you being a part of this broadcast

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Speaker 1: and helping us celebrate the home opener for your buckos today.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having us, guys. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 2: We're really excited to be a part of it.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's hear it for Nick and everybody association.

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Speaker 5: Very generous twenty five hundred bucks Pittsburgh Staple, Edgar Schneider.

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Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying, dude, growing up, there's no for

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Speaker 5: you unless we get money for you.

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Speaker 2: That's right now. Thank you. The two of you have

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Speaker 2: had your fair share.

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Speaker 1: Steve Blast and Sean Casey of opening days, this is

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Speaker 1: a home opener. I keep calling it the opening day

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Speaker 1: because to me, it always feels like the home opener

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Speaker 1: is the real opening day, you know, but it's the

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Speaker 1: home opener, that feeling that you get from the fans.

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Speaker 1: And how many did you start with the pirates?

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Speaker 2: I started three of them.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 7: There's a difference between the home opener and the opener

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're both special.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, but board when you for instance, the Pirates they

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Speaker 7: opened the season in New York. But you know what,

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Speaker 7: this is the real deal. This is this is when

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Speaker 7: you feel it, you really do.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, when you the home openers are you know, I

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Speaker 5: think it's uh just one of the coolest things going.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think as a player, you can't. You

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Speaker 5: just want to get through spring training healthy so that

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Speaker 5: you can get to the home opener because you'll see,

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Speaker 5: I mean, tomorrow's it's a you know, it's a national holiday.

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Speaker 2: Here in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 5: I played eight years in Cincinnati, where it's probably the

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Speaker 5: one of the biggest opening days, you know.

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Speaker 2: In the in the league. So, oh my god, I

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Speaker 2: saw even this year the party they had out. It's incredible.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, because they were the first team ever, so they're

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Speaker 2: It was a baseball tradition forever.

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Speaker 8: The whole thing.

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Speaker 7: Cincinnati did it that, Cincinnati got it going.

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Speaker 1: So you famously hit the home run, the first home

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Speaker 5: And when I hit that home run, I left seventy tickets.

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Speaker 5: I dreamed about playing for the Parts and to play

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Speaker 5: use that when I go to the game with my kids,

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Speaker 2: I played, kids, but do you know who the first?

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Speaker 1: Don't bun here a PC Park. That's right, your dad

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Speaker 5: I even yelled at him in throwing I need that ball.

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Speaker 5: anyone know where that ball is? Because I still want it?

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Speaker 5: But anyway, that's a whole another story. But I think

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Speaker 5: He was right, he was writing, sold it that was

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Speaker 1: How hasn't that ended up in the Clemente Museum with

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Speaker 1: Dwayne Reader is here right now from the Clemente Museum

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Speaker 1: and Steve Uh. We're so psyched that you're going to

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Speaker 1: the clement Museum. We're giving away ten private tours for

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Speaker 1: listeners and a friend Uh for those who haven't been.

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Speaker 1: We've sung the praises of what's going on there for

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Speaker 7: Well, first of all, first of all, ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 7: I want you to man, I want you to meet

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Speaker 7: the man who.

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Speaker 8: Makes the Clemente Museum.

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Speaker 7: Work, has worked his tail off to make it work.

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Speaker 7: Get it going, Dwayne Reader, it.

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Speaker 2: Is, it is.

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Speaker 8: It is one of the real it is one of

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Speaker 2: Jewels of our city of Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 8: To honor this man, but we had the honor of

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Speaker 7: Our city doing what he did on a baseball field

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Speaker 7: and for people for twenty years. The Clemente Museum is

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Speaker 1: Gym, no question, absolute gym and dway the story of

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Speaker 1: you know, the story of how you ended up acquiring

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Speaker 1: all of that memorabilia and a lot of it was

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Speaker 1: actually dumpster diving. That always blows me away.

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Speaker 10: And paying more than nine grand for a ball, I

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Speaker 10: can tell you Clemente stuff costs money for all And

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Speaker 10: sure a lot of you people know Clemente stuff is

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Speaker 10: going through the roof, so buying some of it. But yeah,

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Speaker 10: we've done dumpster dives. We've people brought stuff that they

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Speaker 10: to accumulate the things we have, and we got some

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And I think that's putting it mildly.

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Speaker 1: Are there new features at the museum through the year, Like,

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Speaker 2: You've acquired that we're trying to acquire.

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Speaker 10: We're trying to acquire Oh boy, we're buying photos and

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Speaker 10: negatives every day on eBay different auction sites. We got

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Speaker 10: our bid on a San Juan Senadores uniform.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 10: We lost the bid at one hundred and four thousand.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Yep, yeah, and you did it. We didn't get

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Speaker 2: we sell it. Takes a lot of T shirts.

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Speaker 10: You gotta sell a lot of T shirts to get

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you, I bet.

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Speaker 7: They've got They've got everything in that museum, down to

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Speaker 7: they've never asked me for mine because they're soiled.

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Speaker 1: There is a laundry equation. But I've been in there.

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Speaker 1: I see grown men crying in that museum.

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Speaker 2: You went with your.

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Speaker 1: Dad, you know, and I know that was a really

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Speaker 11: And that's the thing, is that the fact that it's

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Speaker 1: But you don't have to go to Puerto Rico to

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Speaker 2: And I got to share that with my dad.

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Speaker 11: But there were things inside the museum I did not

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Speaker 11: a plane propeller. I wouldn't have thought that that would

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Speaker 11: be here in Pittsburgh. What is your most prize item

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Speaker 10: Personally he's taking home in the best piece in the

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Speaker 10: museum is his silver slugger from nineteen sixty one. That's

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Speaker 10: a pair of his cleats because when players today who

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Speaker 10: wear these big high top foam rubber clements, and Steve

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Speaker 10: wore the same cleats. They're like ballet slippers with spikes

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Speaker 8: We got him from rollings rollins.

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Speaker 12: You could get a glove and a pair of spikes

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Speaker 12: when you first started, a glove and a pair of spikes.

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Speaker 12: With those yeah, they were just black shoes of spikes,

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Speaker 12: and the pitchers would have a little piece of leather.

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Speaker 8: With a metal piece holding him on. But you go

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Speaker 8: back to all that stuff he had, He has all

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's amazing.

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Speaker 1: And ten lucky people here tonight will be going with

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Speaker 1: a friend to the Clemente Museum and you'll get a

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Speaker 1: private tour with Steve Blast as your tour guide. And

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Speaker 1: to have someone that knew Roberto as well as you did,

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Speaker 1: telling all those stories and showing off all the memorabilia.

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Speaker 1: As we've said over and over, it's as unique as

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Speaker 7: Just a sampling, y'all. I've played, you played along time

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Speaker 1: It's always great to see. Is there anything you want

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Speaker 1: on today, Abby Christner. Weatherwise, what are we looking at

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Speaker 1: As part of the twenty fifth anniversary of PNC Park,

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Speaker 1: Now someone who's got Opening Day history, but not necessarily

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Speaker 14: All time great Pittsburgh Pirates ladies and gentlemen, Brian Giles

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Speaker 1: So let me start with you coming back to Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 15: I mean talking to Sean Casey, Yeah, we were guys

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Speaker 1: Watching you come back and see Blast and give him

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Speaker 16: He's been a second dad to me ever since I

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Speaker 7: One of my favorite baseball stories. These guys are involved.

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Speaker 8: Did we have fun.

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Speaker 8: I tried to have a lot of fun. I don't

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Speaker 8: This is what a reunion this is.

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Speaker 1: And I mean, look, Sean Casey also here with us,

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Speaker 5: But you know, it is funny because you know, all

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Speaker 2: Like like I know, I've kind of felt that way.

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Speaker 1: I mean, not that you were on first, but you're

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Speaker 15: First of all, I grew up with him in Cleveland,

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Speaker 17: Well obviously cut to twenty twenty six, he has been

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00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,639
Speaker 17: the same person. He's one of those people that is

449
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:21,920
Speaker 17: as real as it gets. And kudos to your parents,

450
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:22,440
Speaker 17: number one.

451
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,920
Speaker 5: But you were so serious, bro, you come to first

452
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 5: base and I'll be like, you know, you try and

453
00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:28,400
Speaker 5: get something out of you, like, dude, let me get

454
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 5: my signs, and you know, back off that way being.

455
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:31,760
Speaker 2: So nice to me.

456
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Speaker 16: What one of the best people to play against ever,

457
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,680
Speaker 16: because he's been the same person the first day I

458
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:39,119
Speaker 16: met him.

459
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Speaker 7: Yeah, Steve, how about I'm on the air when he

460
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 7: does that double verse Johnson flipped back over a catcher

461
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Speaker 7: to score a run.

462
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Speaker 8: I've never seen a run scored like that in my life.

463
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Speaker 8: And I've give him up a bunch of them.

464
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Speaker 7: Oh that that was that in San Diego, San die

465
00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 7: he was halfway to the dugout up in the air

466
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Speaker 7: and came back the catcher wind up looking at the shortstop.

467
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Speaker 2: But it was that whole thing was just instincts. There's

468
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 2: no way I could do that. Now, Well that was

469
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,399
Speaker 2: but that was like why Pittsburgh loved you.

470
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Speaker 1: I mean that you had the ethos of this town

471
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Speaker 1: and that's like such an important part of the players

472
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Speaker 1: here that have been revered in every sport. It's just

473
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Speaker 1: like the work ethic, the willing to get your your

474
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: your hands dirty a little bit, and and and and

475
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 1: play gritty and uh, I mean, man, your injury.

476
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Speaker 2: Like I'll never forget.

477
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: The whole town just was just so down for you

478
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,680
Speaker 1: and just felt so terrible and you battled back from that.

479
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 2: And you know, I hope you feel the love when

480
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Speaker 2: you come here because your name.

481
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't know how often you get back

482
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Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh, but people love Jason Kendall's time here.

483
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Speaker 16: I couldn't for you.

484
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Speaker 1: You know, we're all pissed with the ownership back then

485
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Speaker 1: as much as anybody.

486
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Speaker 16: Number one, thank you, But this is I was born

487
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Speaker 16: in California, That's where I grew up, but I really

488
00:24:58,800 --> 00:24:59,640
Speaker 16: grew up here.

489
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Speaker 2: I mean I was twenty one years old. When I

490
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,920
Speaker 2: was here and I grew up a culture shock.

491
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Speaker 17: I got it, well, I it was I grew up

492
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,160
Speaker 17: surpent and I come down here and but again getting

493
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:12,919
Speaker 17: back to the air of my father played and then

494
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 17: Glass played, and that's how they played the game.

495
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 2: And that's all I knew.

496
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Speaker 16: And obviously, when I was old enough to realize that,

497
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Speaker 16: you know, man, Pittsburgh is an unbelievable place.

498
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 2: Yeah it is, just his dad.

499
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Speaker 7: Yeah, but you know what, I wanted to bring that

500
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Speaker 7: up because these guys played the game the way it's

501
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 7: supposed to be played. You know, it sounds simple, but

502
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 7: you can't have enough players like that. I want to

503
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 7: go out all right, let's get it done. Let's let's

504
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,639
Speaker 7: let's forget about all the window dressing.

505
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,600
Speaker 8: And all of the let's let's grind something out tonight.

506
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Speaker 17: As far as a tough city, everybody talks about playing in, Oh,

507
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 17: it's tough in New York, tough in Boston.

508
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 16: If you can play in Pennsylvania, you can play anywhere.

509
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Speaker 16: This is a and and tell me if I'm wrong,

510
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 16: I I but this is as tough as they get.

511
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Speaker 16: And all they want is you'd go out, play hard,

512
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 16: and obviously winning is.

513
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Speaker 2: Hard like the work.

514
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 8: Yeah.

515
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Speaker 1: Well, Brian Jonles, what what would you make of today's

516
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:14,919
Speaker 1: major league pitching?

517
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Speaker 15: Well, I mean, obviously it's harder, right, It's crazy the velocity,

518
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 15: the velocity that that they throw with now. I mean

519
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:26,239
Speaker 15: when we played if somebody threw ninety eight to one,

520
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 15: that was like.

521
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Speaker 2: A rob Nan.

522
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Speaker 15: I can't even remember another guy A Wagner threw pretty

523
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:34,120
Speaker 15: hard to Randy Johnson through hard.

524
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was very minimal as far as velocity.

525
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Speaker 15: But who was that Kevin Brown? Oh yeah, yeah, but

526
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Speaker 15: it's velocity. And when I asked, you know, guys that

527
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Speaker 15: are coaches now that I played against, like, what do

528
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Speaker 15: you do? How do you gear up to get one

529
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 15: of those pitches? It's it's all in a resorts. Resorts

530
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Speaker 15: back to timing. You start a little bit earlier, you

531
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Speaker 15: don't rush to try to go get it, and you

532
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Speaker 15: let it to you. So it would take a minute,

533
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 15: I think with it because average velocity would a starter.

534
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 15: Now they're throwing ninety ninety eight.

535
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:07,959
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think.

536
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Speaker 5: I think one of the biggest things that I've seen

537
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 5: it with these guys is obviously velocity's up. But you remember,

538
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 5: you know when we faced guys this guy's thinker slider change.

539
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 2: You know, he's a cutter, cutter, four steamer.

540
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 5: Now it's like he's got a sinker, four seamer, cutter

541
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Speaker 5: and then curveball change up.

542
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Speaker 2: It seems like most guys have five pitches. Now would

543
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 2: you would you say that's right?

544
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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I remember pitching gets Noan Ryan his second

545
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 7: start in the big leagues. He's nineteen years old. Shay stated,

546
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Speaker 7: I'm in the on deck circle in the third day.

547
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:40,879
Speaker 7: I'm waiting for him to I've never seen anything like

548
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 7: that in my life. So Jerry Grody was a catcher.

549
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 7: I'm thirty thousand people say I'm digging us at Jerry.

550
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 7: Here's the deal. Three pitches them out of here. I

551
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 7: don't want any problems, I said. They look at him

552
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 7: out there, there's stuff coming out of his nose. His

553
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 7: eyes are cross, he's calling at the dirt. He's nineteen.

554
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 7: He throws two hundred and done, dude, So if he

555
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:03,360
Speaker 7: hits me and I live, I'm hitting you and went

556
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 7: out and talking. There's three fishes and it was over.

557
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 7: I've never seen anything like that in my life.

558
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Speaker 2: Twenty fifth anniversary at PNC Park.

559
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Speaker 1: What was it like for you guys to go from

560
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:16,120
Speaker 1: Three Rivers Stadium to playing in PNC Park.

561
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Speaker 16: I was probably one of the very few that loved

562
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Speaker 16: Three River Stadium. Guys, Why did you like Three River Stadium?

563
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 7: Like it?

564
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Speaker 16: Actually hit a ball out of the ballpark? Number one,

565
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Speaker 16: but number two they had as return. You know, you

566
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Speaker 16: hit one on the ground, you got a shot.

567
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Speaker 7: Yeah. But you know what, we all thought it was

568
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Speaker 7: gonna be better for the hitters, a fast infield and

569
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Speaker 7: fast track. But you know what, there were also more

570
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Speaker 7: double plays major League base and more guys got held

571
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Speaker 7: up at third base rather than sending them because I've

572
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 7: always getting the out. So it wasn't as unbalanced is

573
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Speaker 7: they're gonna be. But the great thing coming from Forbes

574
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Speaker 7: Field to Three Rivers gonna have carpeting and air conditioning.

575
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 2: Right, that's true. But this most beautiful ballpark in all

576
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 2: of baseball. Yeah, anybody you can't buy this setting either

577
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 2: have it or don't. Got a doubt. I will say this.

578
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Speaker 17: I couldn't tell you how many balls I hit to

579
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 17: four eleven left center that would have been out of

580
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Speaker 17: Three Rivers Stadium.

581
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Speaker 2: Now that's a fact. Build a park and one of

582
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Speaker 2: your best right handed hitters for eleven the gap. Yeah,

583
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 2: be Kendall's gonna love this fourteen at the gap. It's true.

584
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Speaker 7: Let's go back to Forbes Field four fifty seven the center.

585
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 7: William McCovey hit a ball that disrupted a foursome at

586
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Speaker 7: the parks the Gulf Coast, and I have a friend

587
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 7: who says every Monday night, ten o'clock in the Eastern sky,

588
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 7: he can still feed that thing.

589
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true. I think.

590
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Speaker 15: Well, we were in the air where we were closing

591
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 15: down new ballparks and opening up new parks, so everything

592
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 15: was different. I mean they made it more fan friendly.

593
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 15: See it's closer to the stadium. Yeah, the dimensions in

594
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 15: the old parks were similar. Three point thirty five down

595
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Speaker 15: the line, three seventy five in the gap, four hundred

596
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Speaker 15: center field. Now it's all changed just for the fan experience.

597
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 15: So it's totally different now. Like he said, I wasn't

598
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Speaker 15: opposed to that right field. It was really nice to

599
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 15: hit as a left handed hitter at park.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

601
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Speaker 1: We're with Brian Giles, Jason Kendall, Steve Blast and Sean Casey.

602
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: And Sean A big part of why we're here tonight

603
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: is for Casey's Clubhouse. And I don't know how much

604
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 1: you guys know about the unbelievable work I have, what

605
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: Sean is doing.

606
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you got?

607
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 8: You got a champions with a heart.

608
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know he didn't play for the Pirates,

609
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: but Shawn's of Pittsburgh and the whole town has been

610
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 1: behind what you've got going on with Casey's Clubhouse and

611
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: a lot of the money being raised tonight. I know

612
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: that they're matching all the appetizers. Anything you buy tonight,

613
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: they're gonna match it and send it to Casey's Clubhouse.

614
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 1: And you've done an unbelievable job. And tell us what's

615
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:51,239
Speaker 1: on tap going on up there.

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Speaker 5: No appreciate that, Randy, appreciate DV all, you guys all

617
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Speaker 5: you've done for us.

618
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Speaker 2: Mike Beer Bars tonight, thanks for helping us out.

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Speaker 5: We have a lot of Casey's Club Kid athletes here

620
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 5: tonight and family, So great to see you guys, and

621
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 5: we're just you know, Randy, we.

622
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 2: Got a lot of good stuff going on.

623
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Speaker 5: We just kind of prove to build a second field because.

624
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Speaker 2: We have over five hundred athletes and we're really grown

625
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 2: out of it.

626
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 6: You know.

627
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 2: It's really one of those things. If you build it,

628
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 2: they will come.

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Speaker 5: So we have five hundred athletes with special needs and

630
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 5: disabilities and uh.

631
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Speaker 2: And we love it. Man, we get after We have

632
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 2: two six week seasons where we get after it.

633
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: Uh.

634
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 2: Every kid has a buddy, which is amazing.

635
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 5: And also we have a we have a winter training

636
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 5: program at Teleo Performance where my dear friend John Dennis

637
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:36,719
Speaker 5: and and and a lot of their trainers run our

638
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 5: kids hard boys. You know, we're flipping tires and moving

639
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 5: weight and pushing sleds and we give them no you.

640
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 2: Know, no, uh, not an inch. We make sure they

641
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 2: do it. So it's an incredible thing.

642
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 5: And it's grown, and it's grown because of Pittsburgh people

643
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 5: helping us out. And uh, you know, we need more

644
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 5: than ever we need. We need the help to build

645
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 5: this new field and to raise the money to build it.

646
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 5: And so we appreciate everything that everybody does for us.

647
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 2: Well, you know, Casey's at the bat, no question about it.

648
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 15: For so long.

649
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: You know, I think Pyate fans wanted to raise money

650
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: to pay players, and Connor Griffin got paid.

651
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 2: Today He's gonna play opening days. You think cannot believe

652
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 2: blast is what was your opening your side.

653
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Speaker 8: Bonus four grand.

654
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 2: Rich, I just stopped mowing lawns. Yeah, but I mean

655
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:27,719
Speaker 2: with Paul Skiings Connor Griffin.

656
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 7: Now, I mean defensively, Pus, they're hitting the ball over

657
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 7: the Fence's not for singles to get a run, right now,

658
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Speaker 7: that's the.

659
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Speaker 2: That's the fans.

660
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Speaker 8: What a message of the sand fans.

661
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Speaker 1: And Donnie Kelly doing a great job, Corral and all

662
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: of these guys, and it's a completely different club than.

663
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Speaker 2: It just what was just a year ago. I think

664
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Speaker 2: there's a great feel, you.

665
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Speaker 5: Know, I feel and talk to some of the guys

666
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Speaker 5: down there and they said Donnie Kelly has brought such

667
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 5: a positive atmosphere to that that team.

668
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Speaker 2: But bringing in Brandon Lowe, signing.

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Speaker 5: O'Hearn, bringing in bringing down Una, and then bringing in

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Speaker 5: Connor Griffin calling him up at the end of the day,

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Speaker 5: like Blast said, you know, when you have guys that

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Speaker 5: can hit the ball in the ballpark, you're gonna win

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00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 5: ball games in this specially nowadays in the big leagues.

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Speaker 5: It's tough to string to go to three, four, five

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Speaker 5: hits like it was maybe back in the day. You've

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Speaker 5: gotta be able to hit the ball in the ballpark.

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Speaker 5: This club has it, Randy, they have some guys that

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Speaker 5: can put the ball in the seats.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, all scenes, all of a sudden, all of a sudden.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is real.

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Speaker 5: I think this is gonna there's a vibe here in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 5: I think we feel it, but I know the Pirates

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Speaker 5: feel it too.

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Speaker 2: Ryan O'Hearn is the real deal.

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Speaker 16: I was with him in Kansas City before, and obviously

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Speaker 16: at the time you had Osmer and then you have Paspentina.

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Speaker 16: The best thing that happened to him was get out

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Speaker 16: of Kansas City. Obviously had those great years in Baltimore. Yeah,

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Speaker 16: Pittsburgh is going to love him.

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Speaker 1: He's got a couple of dangers already him with Lao

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Speaker 1: and you know, Reynolds, I think is gonna start picking

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Speaker 1: it up a little bit too. Connor Griffin's very I mean,

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Speaker 1: that is just so interesting from so many angles.

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Speaker 2: Defensively, I love it.

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Speaker 1: As I keep saying, if if, if you're building your

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Speaker 1: team on pitching first, you gotta be sound defensively behind them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and you're you're building a team.

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Speaker 8: Now you've built some some pitching. Now give him some runs.

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Speaker 16: So we got that.

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Speaker 2: He gives you both We can do some damage. We

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Speaker 2: can cost some damage.

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Speaker 1: Jason Kennall, let me ask you. We know what Steve

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Speaker 1: Blast thinks about the ABS challenge.

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Speaker 16: What do you think It took me a while to

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Speaker 16: come around to it because there's so many different things

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Speaker 16: that could go on. And I'll give you an example.

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Speaker 16: If you I caught Ceci Sabathia Milwaukee, I could work

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Speaker 16: an umpire. This is later on in my career. Yeah,

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Speaker 16: as good as they could.

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Speaker 2: So I hat I could get this much off the plate.

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Speaker 17: I did in Pittsburgh too, But I could get this

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Speaker 17: much off the plate if he was consistently hitting this spot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 17: But then again, and I talked to a lot of umpires.

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Speaker 17: Umpires want to be right too. And I believe, actually

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Speaker 17: I know this. They want to do this for when

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Speaker 17: you're late in the season, postseason. They don't want to

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Speaker 17: have an umpire decide whether you win or lose, or

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Speaker 17: go to the next round or win a championship. So

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Speaker 17: every umpire that I've spoken with so far actually likes it.

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Speaker 17: I wish you wouldn't think that now I would, because

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Speaker 17: they want to be right. Listen, these guys have a

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Speaker 17: tough gig too. I mean, I mean I'm married or not.

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Speaker 16: May they're they're on the road three days, four days

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Speaker 16: if you're there, and then they're on the next season

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Speaker 16: or the.

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Speaker 17: Next you might get two weeks off a year, so

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Speaker 17: they're gonna have bad days too. It's just the fans

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Speaker 17: always know if there's a bad day, especially the home

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Speaker 17: fans wherever you're at, and they let him have it.

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Speaker 2: So I actually now it took me a while.

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Speaker 16: I love it because it's now to a point to

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Speaker 16: where the players are gonna dictate what happens.

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Speaker 2: You guys are part of the opening day festivities.

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Speaker 1: Brian Giles, How hard is it to go to a

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Speaker 1: game like that and feel the excitement and not be

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Speaker 1: able to be in the lineup.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna be nervous tomorrow throwing out the first pitch.

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Speaker 15: I hope he can catch up. No, it's there's a

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Speaker 15: lot of anxiety that comes with that. I have not

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Speaker 15: so you're to yes, I will, so hopefully it's good.

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Speaker 15: You better throw straight because I just had hip replacements.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, you know you.

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Speaker 7: Think I was actually throw on a first pitch support

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Speaker 7: at the anniversary our rural.

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Speaker 8: Sure, I took a bag of balls it's good Wonder

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Speaker 8: the Catcher.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, you're right, it is. It is exciting.

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Speaker 15: I mean you've been through it right as a player,

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Speaker 15: so you know the excitement, the butterflies, everything that comes

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Speaker 15: with it. So it'll be exciting to be in that

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Speaker 15: moment again because we haven't experienced.

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Speaker 7: In it all.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the home opener, to be clear. But you're with

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Speaker 2: the crowd.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, the n Pittsburgh and everybody's so excited about what's

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Speaker 15: going on with this team.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a lot of fun to move you guys.

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Speaker 1: Everybody is so psyched that you're in town. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: making time for us here on the DV Morning Show

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Speaker 1: We got Tim Benz and Kevin Gorman from Triplock Sports

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Speaker 1: here as well.

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Speaker 2: And so far, so pretty good for the Buckos to

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Speaker 2: this point.

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Speaker 1: Case what's your takeaway from this small sample size of

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six Buckos.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think the biggest things they're hitting the

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Speaker 5: ball of the ballpark. You know, we know they're gonna

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Speaker 5: pitch over one sixty two. Listen to ce O'Neil Cruz

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Speaker 5: hit three home runs in the last couple of games.

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Speaker 5: That's a huge boost. Brandon Lywles hit him out of

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Speaker 5: the park already. Oh, Herndus.

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Speaker 2: Just the early turns of what they've.

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Speaker 5: Done, you know, in this offseason, what Ben Sherrington did.

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Speaker 5: The early returns I think are happening and I like

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Speaker 5: what I see. Man, this is the first time in

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Speaker 5: a long time that they have an offense like this.

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Speaker 1: And Kevin, I mean, you know, a lot of expectations

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Speaker 1: for more bats this year being met by Lao O'Hearn,

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Speaker 1: O'Neil Cruz, especially Ozuna hasn't yet to show up.

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Speaker 2: But that's not gonna last forever. Please say no, no.

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Speaker 16: In fact, I talked with Marcel on Wednesday about this

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Speaker 16: and he said, you know, I hope the fans realize

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Speaker 16: I'm used to having fast starts.

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Speaker 2: This is a slow one.

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Speaker 16: But I hope they stick with me because he's really

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Speaker 16: excited to play a PNC park. He's played thirty six

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Speaker 16: games there, he's hit I think he's hit one home

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Speaker 16: run in that time. It is not a field a

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Speaker 16: dimension wise that is kind to right handed hitters, right,

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Speaker 16: But I think this is a guy that if his

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Speaker 16: impact right now so far is only that he's made

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Speaker 16: life better for O'Neil Cruz, then that's been a good

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Speaker 16: impact on the Pirates. Because O'Neill crew seems to be

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Speaker 16: enjoying baseball more than he ever has with the Pirates.

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Speaker 1: Well and Benzie, I think that's a point that a

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Speaker 1: lot of Pirate fans might not be taking into consideration

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Speaker 1: when they talk about.

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Speaker 18: Marc Zuna, Marcelo Zuna no Zona. The dimensions of the

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Speaker 18: park is something that was brought up. We talked about that,

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Speaker 18: I know, and that's signing occurred, that acquisition occurred. But

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Speaker 18: the guy that I'm most interested in seeing that once

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Speaker 18: he gets an extended stretch here at home, is low

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Speaker 18: because how does he generate his power the way he does.

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Speaker 18: He's got natural loft to his swing or what is

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Speaker 18: it that you see that allows him to hit the

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Speaker 18: way he does, and he can maybe take advantage of this.

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Speaker 2: A great job at catching the ball out front.

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Speaker 5: I think at the end of the day, people talk

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Speaker 5: about launching all that Lao does a great job at

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Speaker 5: catching the ball out front, gets good.

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Speaker 2: Lift to the right side, especially to that poll side.

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Speaker 5: Right center, and I think, you know, this park probably

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Speaker 5: plays well for him because he does get the ball

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Speaker 5: in the air.

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Speaker 1: Pirates and the Orioles today four twelve, which is the

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Speaker 1: dumb time to start to get.

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Speaker 8: Are you guys picking up his MLB network picking it up?

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Speaker 9: Now?

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Speaker 2: I don't know Griffin. I saw I saw a report

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Speaker 2: that I probably think we would with Connor Griffin coming up.

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Speaker 5: I think I think everyone's I think I think the

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Speaker 5: one thing about Connor Griffin, you know, in the baseball

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Speaker 5: obviously I'm an MLB network, but we're always.

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Speaker 2: Looking at the prospects. The guy's coming up. He's the

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Speaker 2: number one prospect in baseball. That's a real thing. So

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Speaker 2: like baseball is excited Connor Griffin's coming up to the Pirate.

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Speaker 1: It's it's it's strange to have this happen again so

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Speaker 1: soon after Paul Skeen's debut a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 2: It's it's like.

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Speaker 1: How much fortune can be bestowed upon one organization.

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Speaker 2: Case, they've got to start winning with this lineup.

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Speaker 5: They gotta start winning. And they really were fortunate with

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Speaker 5: Connor Griffin. He felt at number nine in that draft.

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Speaker 5: I mean he just kept falling, like, oh, we'll take Griffin.

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Speaker 5: He was hands down the number one high school player

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Speaker 5: in that draft. So, but you're right, Randy, at the

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Speaker 5: end of the day, you got to strike.

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Speaker 2: While the iron's hot. I mean, you got schemes in

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Speaker 2: his prime.

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Speaker 5: You know, the staff is really good right now, Bubba Chandler,

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Speaker 5: Jared Jones coming back, Mitch Keller, the bullpen's been pretty good.

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Speaker 5: But they got the pieces right now, but Connor Griffin.

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Speaker 5: This generation right now, with Griffin and skeens Man, hopefully

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Speaker 5: they can get to the postseason.

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Speaker 2: And make some noise.

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Speaker 18: And the middle is soft. In the National League, I

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Speaker 18: think the middle is soft. It was eighty three wins

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Speaker 18: to get a playoff spot last year. I don't think

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Speaker 18: it's gonna be quite that low, but it's attainable. Like

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Speaker 18: I thought, they're gonna be an eighty one win team.

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Speaker 18: You have one extra good weekend, maybe you're in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Is there one player Kevin that has not started to

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Speaker 1: shine yet that you think fans are going to be

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Speaker 1: surprised by this year.

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Speaker 2: That is not that has not started to shine yet.

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Speaker 16: I think the guy who started to shine this week

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Speaker 16: was Brian Reynolds, and I think he's a very much

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Speaker 16: a key to this lineup. A lot of fans are

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Speaker 16: giving up on him for some reason. Brian, when he

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Speaker 16: gets hot, gets very hot. He's a streaky guy as

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Speaker 16: much as people talk about his consistency. When he has

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Speaker 16: a hot month, he's usually a Player of the Month candidate.

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Speaker 16: He's He's one guy that I think could be a

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Speaker 16: huge difference maker if you can get back Briant Breynolds

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Speaker 16: back to All star type of play.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Mangum's gonna hit more too.

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Speaker 18: Like Mangum is showing a lot of what he's got,

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Speaker 18: but I think Mangham's just gonna flat out hit more

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Speaker 18: as well.

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Speaker 5: Mangham's a nice little piece they got. Look, he can hit,

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Speaker 5: he can play some defense. It's a nice it's a nice.

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Speaker 18: The clubhouse guy to football player dad, you know, like

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Speaker 18: he's got that mentality and I think he's gonna be

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Speaker 18: really popular.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of the clubhouse, Casey's Clubhouse is why we're here

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Speaker 1: tonight raising money for Casey's Clubhouse.

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Speaker 2: And thanks so much to everybody here at Mike's Beer Bar.

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Speaker 1: Mike suck At to the owner here making a twenty

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Speaker 1: five donation to Casey's House.

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Speaker 2: In addition to that they're matching all the app sales. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much.

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Speaker 5: I just want to say really quick Randy to Mike

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Speaker 5: here at Mike's Beierbar. You know can't thank you enough.

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Speaker 5: I really believe years ago when we started Casey's Clubhouse

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Speaker 5: in the two thousd eleven, the thought was, we need

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Speaker 5: Pittsburgh organizations, we need companies, we need bars with schools

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Speaker 5: or whatever to help us make this a reality. We

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Speaker 5: have over five hundred athletes with special needs that we

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Speaker 5: work with now and climbing almost ten percent a year

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Speaker 5: as we build this next field. So for Mike to

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Speaker 5: do this for us tonight, Edgar Schneider for doing what

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Speaker 5: they did, you know, real Pittsburgh companies, DV, Mandy, Randy,

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Speaker 5: you guys, Thanks Gott for all that you do for us.

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Speaker 1: And it just makes me feel so great to be

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Speaker 1: a Pittsburgher. The fact that we all kind of rally

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Speaker 1: around each other, well, no doubt about it. Man, Casey's

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Speaker 1: Clubhouse is appoint of pride for all Pittsburgh's.

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Speaker 2: Let's here for Sean Casey, the Mayor. Thank you all right, your.

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Speaker 14: Buckos and the Orioles A four to twelve start today.

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Speaker 14: Welcome to Pittsburgh. Connor Griffin. Ya, It's the DV Morning Show.

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Speaker 9: When you get a song stuck in your head, let

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Speaker 9: Michelle Michaels know that you want to hear it on

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Speaker 9: the all request Preak lunch at Nude.

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Speaker 2: You got jam on DV like records. You're good