1 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: Well, well, well, Mike Tomlin will be going into sports media. Hey, 2 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 1: everybody needs a job. I heard it was either that 3 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: or open up a daycare center. The Pirates open their 4 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: season tomorrow at the Mets, and the Bucko Roundup returns 5 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: on today's show at three point fifteen PM, and I 6 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 1: will give you my fearless season prediction for how many wins. 7 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: I don't think it's still hating if it actually happens. 8 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: The Penguins got killed last night, six to at home 9 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: against Colorado, who are very good, maybe the best team 10 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: in the league. We finally know what goaltender interferences. It's 11 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 1: whatever the Penguins do when they score. It was Dollar 12 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: Dog night at PPG eighteen thousand, five hundred and ninety. 13 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 2: One hot Dogs got sold. 14 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: That's almost as many great a scoring chances that the 15 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 1: Avalanche had. That said, make a friggin save. The Penguins 16 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 1: got to roll the dice and call up Sergey morrishoff 17 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:29,680 Speaker 1: the phenom and Wilkes ripping it up in the AHL 18 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,119 Speaker 1: and then stick him right in goal. You can't let 19 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: the season go down the drain because both your goaltenders 20 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: are cooked. Mario Lemieux was at the game last night 21 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 1: with his fantasy campers, and I didn't talk to Mario, 22 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 1: but I'm told that when the new ownership group officially 23 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: takes over, Mario will have a prominent role, although I'm 24 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: not sure exactly what. Maybe Mario could play gold Remember 25 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: that TV ad where he made the save, Well, that's 26 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: one more saved than Shilloffs made in the first period 27 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: last night. Of course I'm exaggerating, but not by that much. 28 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,919 Speaker 1: The Penguins have allowed three or more goals in ten 29 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 1: of their last twelve games. That's one hundred percent unacceptable. 30 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 2: And you're not gonna make the playoffs that way. 31 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: Shilloffs allowed four goals on sixteen shots in the first 32 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: period last night. That is a saved percentage of suck. 33 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: He didn't give the Penguins a chance to win. You're 34 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: allowed to steal a game, You're allowed to rob a goal, 35 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: So call it morrishaw. He's dominating in the A. The 36 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: pucks and nets are the same size there. The Penguins 37 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:49,920 Speaker 1: are lucky to have a card like that that they 38 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 1: can still play, so play it, but they won't. 39 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 2: This is the Martin Madden Show. 40 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,920 Speaker 1: Eight three three four one two WXDX is the number 41 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 1: to call new Daddy Tommy Radio is still off on 42 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 1: maternity leave. 43 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:15,239 Speaker 2: Come on, get back to work. Kids. Three days old 44 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 2: should be able to take care of herself. 45 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: So col now we're taking calls in the first hour, 46 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 1: which we don't always, or you can follow me on 47 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 1: Twitter at Mark Madden x. The first hour of the 48 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: program has always brought to us by our good friends 49 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: at Senderovic, Cendroovic and Fishmen. Now my complaints about the 50 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: goaltending dually noted the Penguins were badly on class last 51 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: night and for a second straight game another action Columbus 52 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: won on the Islanders loss. So the Penguins are still 53 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 1: third in the metro, one point ahead of Columbus, and 54 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: that's the extent of their safety vis a V being 55 00:03:56,240 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: in a playoff spot and things are not adding up. 56 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: The Penguins can't catch a break. They lost a goal 57 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: on goalie interference and it was probably the right call, 58 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: but they's been victimized by the wrong call on goalie 59 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: interference so many damn times. Gonna give you some stats 60 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: on that. In the next segment, Watherspoon on defense. He 61 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: screwed the pooch. The Penguins came out strong and it 62 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: was nil nil, but he inexplicably tried to spin around 63 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 1: McKinnon at the point and McKinnon stripped him and went 64 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: down and scored one nil. Dumbass moved by a usually 65 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 1: very smart defenseman, and McKinnon is closing in on fifty goals. 66 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 1: He got one goal closer after that, so that's a 67 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:49,160 Speaker 1: bad start. Chinnikov scored again, blistered one from out near 68 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: the blue line, made it one one, kept the Penguins 69 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: in it for a bit. He should be on PP one. 70 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: You got Raquel out there, Chinakov would be better. You 71 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:03,679 Speaker 1: got Mantha out there with malcnott. China Cuff would be better. 72 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: Get Cheenacuff out there on PP. Want to get him 73 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,719 Speaker 1: out there as much as possible. He's the hot hand, 74 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: so ride him. It's the same idea as calling up morrishoff. 75 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 1: Adjust to what is, to what's happening, not what you've 76 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 1: been doing all year. You're fading. 77 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:23,919 Speaker 2: Fix it. 78 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: Wedgewood played great in goal for Colorado. If the team 79 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:34,719 Speaker 1: switched goaltenders. If Wedgewood had played for Pittsburgh and Shit 80 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 1: lost for Colorado, the Penguins might have won. So that 81 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:44,159 Speaker 1: sets the table for today's action pack show. It's not 82 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 1: looking great for the Penguins. I know what the standings 83 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 1: look like. I also know what the Penguins look like. 84 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 1: And if the Penguins missed the playoffs, it'd make for 85 00:05:53,880 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: a tumultuous offseason and maybe that'd be okay. Get your 86 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 1: calls in a three to three four one two w XDX. 87 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:10,839 Speaker 1: I got the Buco Roundup season premiere at three fifteen. 88 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:15,159 Speaker 1: We've been talking about Connor Griffin being sent to Triple 89 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:22,279 Speaker 1: A in that vein JJ Weatherholt, mars high school kid. 90 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,720 Speaker 1: He made the Saint Louis Cardinals opening day roster infielder 91 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: twenty two years old, first round picking the twenty twenty 92 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: four draft, went seventh overall. And yeah, that's the same 93 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 1: draft that Connor Griffin got picked by the Pirates at 94 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:39,679 Speaker 1: number nine overall. 95 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 2: But weather Holt. 96 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: Made Saint Louis and Griffin is in Triple A, albeit 97 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: him being three years younger. I bet the big reason 98 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: that weather Holt made the Cardinals is because, well, with 99 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: that team, they have a crappy. 100 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 2: Infield and they need hits. 101 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 1: Now called Jage Weatherholt eight seven seven hits Now, I 102 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: can't even hit the high note on the on the 103 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: JJ Weatherhold commercial. That wasn't that funny? I knew it 104 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 1: coming out of my mouth. You know what else isn't funny? 105 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 1: I can't believe Henry Davis gonna be the opening day 106 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 1: catcher for the Pirates. He hit one sixty seven last 107 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 1: year and he was a one to one pick. He 108 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: hit one sixty seven last year and he's in the 109 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 1: opening day lineup. But that's what Paul Skeens wants. Skeens 110 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: wants Davis to be his catcher. I think Bubba Chandler 111 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: wants Davis to be his catcher too. I'm not so 112 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 1: sure the pitcher should pick the catcher. I'm especially not 113 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: sure that Chandler, who's barely been in the bigs, should 114 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: pick the catcher. I'd rather have Joey Bartons bat in 115 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 1: there as Bob Walkho's going to be my guest uh 116 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: later in the program, as Walkee said, I'd rather have 117 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: my casualty a three run home run. They know how 118 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: to frame pitches. Walkee's going to join us at three thirty, 119 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 1: a great color analyst for the Pirates broadcast crew. I 120 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: don't forget the Pittsburgh River Hunts soccer club defending USL 121 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 1: Championship champions. They got their first home game tonight of 122 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: the new season at high Mark Stadium in Station Square. 123 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:32,199 Speaker 1: It's us Open Cup action against steel City FC. It's 124 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Darby kickoffs at seven pm and I will 125 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 1: see you there. 126 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 3: Uh. 127 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: We got all kinds of guests today. Mike de Corsi 128 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: at two thirty from the Sporting News, like I said, 129 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 1: Walkee at three point thirty, Paul's Ice from the PG 130 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 1: at four o'clock, and Jonathan Bombully of the Trip Tonkin' 131 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: Hockey at four thirty. This is the Mark Madden Show. 132 00:08:55,679 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 1: Somebody in Pittsburgh say something about getting fired up. If 133 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 1: you're not fired up for the return of the buckle 134 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: round up at three fifteen, you must not have a 135 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 1: pulse one oh five ninety X. Watch the best cornhole 136 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: Players in the World competes. Did I really hear that 137 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 1: said with that kind of gravitas during the commercial break, 138 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: Watch the best cornhole players in the World compete. I'd 139 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 1: rather go back to the station hosts than cornhole us 140 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 1: a drunk. To quote the great Judd Nelson, It's rare 141 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: that you can legit speculate that the refs are out 142 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: to get a team, or that a league is out 143 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 1: to get a team. But the Penguins this year are 144 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 1: zero for eight on coaches challenges and the opposition is 145 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: four for five on coaches challenges against the Penguins. So 146 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: the Penguins are one for thirteen total this year on 147 00:09:56,760 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: coaches challenges, and that's a bit fishy. As we've been 148 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 1: talking about, the Penguins lost six to two at home 149 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: to Colorado, and to clarify, I'm bitching about the goaltending, 150 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 1: but it's not just a goaltending, but three goals or 151 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:16,480 Speaker 1: more allowed in ten of the last twelve games ain't 152 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: going to win. It ain't good to make the playoffs. 153 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 1: And you've got an option with Morrishoff coming up from Wilkes, 154 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: and you ain't got options elsewhere on defense, for example, 155 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 1: you gotta play Connor Clifton. There's nobody else in goal. 156 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: There's an option. It's a talented option. So take a chance. 157 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 1: Maybe at the very least it's an adrenaline boost. But 158 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: the Penguins won't because the plan was to keep Morishoff 159 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: in Wilkes all year, and because it's a fussy dressing 160 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: room that believes in veteran respect and comfort and wouldn't 161 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 1: like Shiloff's and or Skinner being put on the back burner, 162 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 1: even though Sheloffs has been here just this year and 163 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 1: Skinner has been here about fifteen minutes after that trade 164 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: with Edmonton. It's a dressing room that wants to have 165 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:09,679 Speaker 1: its cake and eat it. 166 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 2: Two h. 167 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:17,719 Speaker 1: Case in point about the goaltending where the game went 168 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 1: wonky last night. It's two to one and you're hanging 169 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 1: in there first period and you will lot two goals 170 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: in thirty five seconds, and the Penguins. 171 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 2: Weren't defending well, but Yo already. 172 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: Make a save. You will allot four goals on sixteen 173 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 1: shots in the first period. That's a say, percentage of 174 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 1: seventy five, and that's terrible, soap, I say again, make 175 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 1: a save. You got to shake it up when things 176 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: go sideways, and they are right now going sideways. Call 177 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 1: it morishoff. But chinahkough on pp one and how is 178 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 1: he not with that shot? You're telling me Raquel is 179 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 1: a bigger factor on the power play than China cuf 180 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 1: would be. Raquel certainly ain't the factor five on five 181 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: that morrishaf is. Excuse me, chinakov Is, Come on, because 182 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 1: right now I don't think the Penguins are gonna make it. 183 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: I know what the standings day. They're still in third 184 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 1: in the metro. They're still in a playoff spot. I 185 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 1: also know what I see, and tomorrow night's game in 186 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: Audawa looms large. If you lose that Dallas is you're 187 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 1: on Saturday and you probably lose a four straight. If 188 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:34,320 Speaker 1: you win an Ottawa tomorrow night, they're a team in 189 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,559 Speaker 1: the playoff hunt in the East, competing with you. If 190 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 1: you win that game, you get momentum and maybe you 191 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 1: can beat Dallas at home on Saturday. But if you 192 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 1: lose tomorrow night in Ottawa, it's probably gonna be a 193 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 1: fourth straight loss at Dallas. 194 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 2: Excuse me, at home against Dallas on the Saturday. Not 195 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 2: Hayton just saying don't forget. 196 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:03,720 Speaker 1: Then that makes his triumphant season premiere. That's a three 197 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:05,839 Speaker 1: fifteen and up. Next, we got Mike de Corsi here 198 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:07,679 Speaker 1: on the Mark Madden showt one oh five to nine. 199 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 1: Time out to welcome one of our favorite guests. He 200 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: writes for the Sporting News. He has Pittsburgh's on Mike 201 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 1: de Corsi. Mike, you're a basketball guy, what's the biggest 202 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 1: story right now in March madness? Because no mid majors 203 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: are in the sweet sixteen and there go, there's really 204 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 1: not a Cinderella story, is there? 205 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:29,080 Speaker 3: Well not technically no. I mean you see now in 206 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:31,959 Speaker 3: a way, if you want a Cinderella story, let's look 207 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 3: at this Iowa. The key player Bennett Starts, their point guard, 208 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:41,080 Speaker 3: and the head coach Ben McCollum. Two years ago were 209 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:44,840 Speaker 3: in Division two, winning the national championship. I think it 210 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:48,960 Speaker 3: was Northwest Missouri State. Last year they were at Drake 211 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 3: in a mid major, pulling off an upset against Missouri 212 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 3: in the first round. And now the two of them 213 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 3: are together at Iowa, and now they're a power school 214 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 3: right now, the same guys, different uniforms. So now they're 215 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 3: not Cinderella anymore. I still think that they I think 216 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 3: they still have a little glitter on their slippers myself. 217 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 1: Well, that just leads into my next question quite nicely. 218 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 1: Are the mid majors not just feeder teams for the 219 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 1: power conference schools? 220 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 2: I look at Robert Morris. 221 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 1: They had the Horizon League Player of the Year this 222 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 1: year for second straight season, and for second straight year, 223 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: that guy is going to transfer. I feel like the 224 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 1: nil and transfer portal of just totally taking the fangs 225 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 1: away from those programs in terms of maintaining any kind 226 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 1: of performance. 227 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, and very much germane to that. The player who 228 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 3: hit the game winning shot or Iowa on Saturday, excuse 229 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 3: me on Sunday was Avarro Vulgaris, who was last year's 230 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 3: Robert Morris Horizon League Player of the Year, and he 231 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 3: went to Iowa for the same reasons. It is a challenge, 232 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 3: And what's interesting is that, honestly, this is not a 233 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 3: new challenge for rob Morris at all. Andy. Andy has 234 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 3: been dealing with this for more than a decade. When 235 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 3: he put together some great teams. In the early teams, 236 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 3: he had guys leaving. They just had to sit out 237 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 3: when they got wherever they got. But he had multiple 238 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 3: players leave for major conference teams and it affected him 239 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 3: and having to go out and get more players. It's 240 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 3: just easier for those guys to go now. It certainly 241 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 3: makes a difference in that standpoint, and it's very difficult. 242 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 3: But remember, I mean, Robert Morris has never won one. 243 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 2: Of those games. 244 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 3: Even as they've they've gotten in a bunch of times 245 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 3: and Andy's done an amazing job. It pushed Alabama really 246 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 3: hard last year. But the key to the absence of 247 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 3: mid majors, in addition to the factor that you're talking about, 248 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 3: is the strengthening of the high majors, in part because 249 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 3: you have more players staying in college because there is 250 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 3: compensation now. Before, guys who were not really great NBA 251 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 3: pross effects would just leave and then they try to 252 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 3: get money somewhere, whether it would be the G League 253 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 3: or Europe or Asia or wherever. They just wanted to 254 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 3: make some money playing the game. And now they now 255 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 3: they fight to stay in college. They sue to get 256 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 3: more years of eligibility because the money is good and 257 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 3: the competition is great, and then maybe they can continue 258 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 3: to develop and eventually get to the NBA. 259 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 2: You know what game I liked. 260 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: It's a little stale now, but Sienna versus Duke, when 261 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 1: Sienna played five guys the whole game and hung in 262 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 1: there till till those five guys pretty much dropped over 263 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 1: with five minutes left, that was that was pretty intriguing. 264 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 1: And I don't blame the coach. I mean, if he 265 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 1: had subbed out those guys wouldn't have worn out, but 266 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: he had he had he was in the game for 267 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 1: so long. 268 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, And the key was, in addition to the fact 269 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 3: that those guys played well enough to warrant staying in 270 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 3: the game, they also had a bunch of injuries, and 271 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 3: so they really didn't have anybody in there that was 272 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 3: worthy of being on the floor, Right. 273 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 2: That was my point. 274 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 1: Then, with the injuries, you can't just sub anybody. You 275 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: can't sub for the sake of subbing. Maybe he should 276 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: have a bit, but I get what he did, is 277 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:11,359 Speaker 1: my point. 278 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh no, you're one hundred percent right, Mark. I 279 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:18,439 Speaker 3: mean Jerry McNamara, who basketball fans may remember as a 280 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:22,879 Speaker 3: hero of Syracuse's twenty two thousand and three championship and 281 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 3: the brilliant run they made to get to the NCAA's 282 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 3: in two thousand and six by winning the Big East Championship. 283 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 2: He did a. 284 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:36,360 Speaker 3: Phenomenal job and it helped him, honestly get the Syracuse job. 285 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 3: It was felt like it was like his closing argument 286 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 3: in a court case. While others were sort of dancing 287 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 3: around not really embracing the opportunity. He really wanted it, 288 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 3: and then he went out and did that. I think 289 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 3: he was extra motivated knowing that the Syracuse job was 290 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:54,680 Speaker 3: open and no one had grabbed it yet. 291 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 1: Mike, I want to talk a bit of bucko baseball. 292 00:17:57,960 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 1: I know the Pirates are better, but how much better? 293 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 3: Well? I think that I think it's hard to say. 294 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 3: I think one of the things that I'm worried about 295 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 3: is that when I when I when we came out 296 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 3: of last year, I didn't realize that Jones, Jared Jones, 297 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:17,639 Speaker 3: would take Not that he's taking any longer, but I 298 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:19,960 Speaker 3: mean I sort of hadn't paid much attention to what 299 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 3: the timeline was. 300 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we both thought he'd be back sooner 301 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 2: than this. Yeah. 302 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:30,400 Speaker 3: And so will they be better? I mean, Schemes probably 303 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 3: can continue to escalate his ability and and perhaps as 304 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 3: his arm matures, he can pitch maybe a little bit 305 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 3: even more, and they can win some of the games 306 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:43,439 Speaker 3: that that that they're leaving on the table when he 307 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:46,159 Speaker 3: leaves after six and a half seven innings. Uh, and 308 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:48,400 Speaker 3: if he doesn't have a huge lead, somebody goes out 309 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:51,719 Speaker 3: and blows it, maybe they're maybe he can pitch a 310 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:56,680 Speaker 3: little longer and expose them to less bullpen activity. Maybe 311 00:18:56,760 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 3: the rotation deepens. They did make some decent moves in 312 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:04,120 Speaker 3: terms of strengthening their lineup. It's not like they all 313 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 3: of a sudden went out and signed Derek Jeter or something. 314 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:10,800 Speaker 3: I mean, it's it. I think they'll be better, but 315 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 3: I don't think they'll contend unless the race comes back 316 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 3: to them. And we have seen that, yeah, in yeah, 317 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 3: could league baseball from time to time. 318 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:22,959 Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, I want to share the enthusiasm, 319 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,160 Speaker 1: but I'm a realist, and I see guys like Matt 320 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 1: Clement and Neil Walker predicting eighty seven wins a couple 321 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: of X big leaguers. Now, I don't believe they think 322 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:35,159 Speaker 1: that for a second, for real. But so much the 323 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:38,920 Speaker 1: optimism is born from Schemes being the best pitcher in baseball, 324 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 1: but he can't pitch every game. 325 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 2: And I cited in my trip Callum Mike. 326 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:46,200 Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy two, Steve Carlton won twenty seven games 327 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: of the Phillies and led the league in every single 328 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:56,880 Speaker 1: pitching category, won the Cy Young and they still finish last. Absolutely. 329 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 3: That's why I said he can make an incremental difference 330 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 3: if that's the direction they go, And we don't know 331 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 3: whether that's the direction they go or not, or whether indeed, 332 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 3: in his third year he is ready to pitch more innings. 333 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,359 Speaker 3: And I'm not saying he should have pitched more before, 334 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:13,640 Speaker 3: Don't get me wrong, That's not what I'm saying. I'm 335 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 3: just saying they handled him in the first two years. 336 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 3: That's one thing you could say mark about the Pirates. 337 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:22,399 Speaker 3: They handled his first two years as well as you 338 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:26,359 Speaker 3: could possibly handle him. They didn't do anything to expose 339 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 3: him to injury. They didn't do anything that said they 340 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 3: didn't care about his future. They did everything to say, 341 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:36,480 Speaker 3: how can we maximize him when he's in the lineup 342 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:39,159 Speaker 3: so that we can win the most games that he plays, 343 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:42,200 Speaker 3: But that still doesn't change the outlook of your team 344 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 3: in terms of what you do the other three to 345 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 3: four days. He's going to be twenty two percent of 346 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 3: the starting rotation at most in today's baseball, and you 347 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:56,400 Speaker 3: can't you can't do it with just that. And that's 348 00:20:56,440 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 3: why Jones's recovery taking this long I think diminishes somewhat 349 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,920 Speaker 3: the optimism for this season. If they had him coming 350 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:09,640 Speaker 3: back and schemes and you could expect that Jones would 351 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 3: be some semblance of what he was before, which is 352 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 3: pretty common for guys who have that particular surgery, then 353 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:19,639 Speaker 3: I would think, Okay, maybe now we've got something. But 354 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 3: his injury has really set back the entire franchise. 355 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, because you got Chandler n Ashcraft, who certainly have potential, 356 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:28,719 Speaker 1: but they barely pitched in the major leagues. And like 357 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: you said, Mike, they signed some pretty good bats, but 358 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:33,920 Speaker 1: they still have a rotten bottom third of the lineup. Now, 359 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 1: did they do the right thing by demoting Griffin? What 360 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:38,120 Speaker 1: are the pros and cons there? 361 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 3: Well? I think that one of the things that you 362 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:44,200 Speaker 3: want to make sure. First of all, he's very young. 363 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 3: I mean even for a baseball process. I mean, he 364 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,879 Speaker 3: still hasn't hit twenty yet. So him going back and 365 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 3: doing his thing at Triple A I think is fine 366 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 3: because remember he hasn't he hasn't played in Triple A 367 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 3: even yet, and he only played what a half season 368 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 3: in Altoona at Double A, so this isn't a race. 369 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,440 Speaker 3: And he dominated early spring training and then all of 370 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 3: a sudden, guys got a little film on him and 371 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:13,679 Speaker 3: didn't want to get embarrassed because he was knocking balls 372 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 3: out of the park, and they started to pitch him 373 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,199 Speaker 3: a little more carefully, and I'm not surprised by the 374 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,400 Speaker 3: fact that he did not dominate all the way through 375 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,399 Speaker 3: the spring. And I don't look at what they're doing 376 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 3: as a mistake or they're trying to set his clock 377 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:31,640 Speaker 3: back or any of that stuff. You don't you've got 378 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 3: something here. 379 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,719 Speaker 1: No, no, no, it's not a bad decision for his development, 380 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,000 Speaker 1: and in fact, it's probably the right one, Mike. 381 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 2: But I just would have taken the gamble. 382 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 1: If they tell us they're going to compete, if they 383 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 1: tell us that they can, well, if they're getting predicted 384 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,400 Speaker 1: for eighty seven wins, they can't win eighty seven games 385 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 1: with Treolo and Henry Davis and Gonzalez at the bottom 386 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 1: of that lineup, they simply. 387 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,920 Speaker 3: I don't disagree with that at all, But you don't 388 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 3: want to mess this up this guy. This guy's got 389 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 3: real potential. 390 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,159 Speaker 1: Yeah, but if he started in the Major's MIC and 391 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: he and he, you know it, had a bad couple 392 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,480 Speaker 1: of weeks, and to set him down, I don't think 393 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 1: that would. 394 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 3: Break him to you, But you never know what's going 395 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 3: to do that. You know, being a jet almost ruined 396 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 3: Sam Darnold's career as a quarterback. So you want to 397 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 3: be careful. I mean I still remember I think his 398 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:23,920 Speaker 3: name was Conroy and he was from Gateway. 399 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Tim. 400 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 1: Conroy had the A's brought him right to the major 401 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 1: leagues right out of high school. 402 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,199 Speaker 3: And he never was the pitcher that he should have 403 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 3: been after they did that, and then. 404 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 1: That justly yeah, and he weren't no good really, like 405 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 1: like his talent, dictated Mike. Before we wrap up, I 406 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,160 Speaker 1: want to talk about the draft a little bit because 407 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: I think the Draft. 408 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 2: In Pittsburgh is gonna suck. Am I right? We're all 409 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 2: gonna hate it. I mean, where am I gonna park? 410 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 3: Well, it's to me it's a when I hear the 411 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 3: numbers and I hear eight hundred thousand people coming to 412 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,879 Speaker 3: town and stuff like that, I have no idea how 413 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:01,920 Speaker 3: they're going to manage all that. 414 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 2: I think there will be. 415 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 3: I have no doubt there will be. You seem like 416 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 3: at Oakmont when when the Open comes here, where there's 417 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 3: no where to park in Oakmond either, So what do 418 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 3: they do you park? Like in I live out in 419 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,440 Speaker 3: the North Hills and I would go up seventy nine 420 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:19,440 Speaker 3: and I would see parking signs for last Summer's US 421 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,360 Speaker 3: Open all the way out there and you're a half 422 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 3: hour away, but they you'd park there and they'd put 423 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 3: you on a bus and they'd take you out to 424 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 3: Oakmond to drop you off, and at the end of 425 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:31,720 Speaker 3: your day, you'd go get on a bus and go 426 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:33,680 Speaker 3: back to your lot. And I think we're going to 427 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 3: see a ton of that in the plans for the 428 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:42,359 Speaker 3: downtown draft. I think the idea of being able to 429 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 3: go down and say, hey, where am I going to 430 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 3: park which of the lots? No, no, no, that's not 431 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 3: going to work. You're going to have to be doing 432 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 3: what they do for the golf tournaments and things like that, 433 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:56,440 Speaker 3: and it should be fun. I just wonder where they're 434 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:57,200 Speaker 3: going to put. 435 00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:58,679 Speaker 1: All the people that want to see the. 436 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 3: Stage, because there just doesn't When I hear the numbers 437 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,920 Speaker 3: that were there for the packers, I wonder if the 438 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 3: lots and the space that they have adjacent to Akrocher 439 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,400 Speaker 3: can handle that many people and with an actual view 440 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:13,920 Speaker 3: of the state. 441 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 1: I got to get from from where I live on 442 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 1: an island in the middle of the Allegheny to Station 443 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: Square to do my show and then an event afterwards, 444 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,480 Speaker 1: and Mike I investigated taking a boat because I could, 445 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 1: I could literally take a boat, and of course they're 446 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:31,639 Speaker 1: closing the river, so so I'm just I'm just yea, 447 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 1: the NFL doesn't want any boat traffic within because they 448 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 1: can't charge it to be on the boat and watch 449 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:40,440 Speaker 1: the draft. So I'm just screwed a million percent. Now, 450 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,120 Speaker 1: what is the steelers number one and most immediate need 451 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:46,639 Speaker 1: right now above all else? If they want a draft 452 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 1: in the first round to help them right now, plug 453 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,640 Speaker 1: a hole right now, what should they do? Well? 454 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,680 Speaker 3: In the fantasy world, it would be like, get Fernando Mendoza. 455 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 2: But since that's no, no, no, I'm talking. I'm talking 456 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,160 Speaker 2: about position. I'm talking about something. 457 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 3: That's number twenty that would be the position because I 458 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:08,200 Speaker 3: don't think that. But in terms of realistic position, who could. 459 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 2: Really help them? 460 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,760 Speaker 3: I think at this point, with the work they've done 461 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,119 Speaker 3: at cornerback, like if you could get somebody like Caleb Downs, 462 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 3: I'd want him, because they keep signing guys that are 463 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,680 Speaker 3: basically just the twenty twenty six version of the safeties 464 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:25,440 Speaker 3: they signed a year ago. I think right now that 465 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 3: would be the ideal position. Do you spend it on 466 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:32,200 Speaker 3: a left guard to replace Ayamalu? I mean, if there's 467 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 3: somebody out there that you look at and say, that 468 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 3: guy's Alan Fanica, I'm on board because I remember when 469 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 3: Fanica was drafted and a lot of the people on 470 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 3: the internet we didn't have the mock drafts and all that, 471 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 3: but a lot of people reacted. And I saw his tape. 472 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 3: I don't know, it looks pretty good to me. I mean, 473 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 3: he's running guys over like a like a mack truck. 474 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 3: And so it turned out to be a Hall of Famer. 475 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 3: So if there were a guy like that, I would say, yeah, 476 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,520 Speaker 3: go ahead and take it and run with it. 477 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 2: Because my belief is is that. 478 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 3: If you can, if you can, if you can sign 479 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 3: a future All Pro or pro bowler at a position 480 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 3: that you have available, it doesn't matter if he like, oh, 481 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,200 Speaker 3: we don't traditionally take guards in the first round, or 482 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 3: any of that nonsense. 483 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 2: I don't buy that at all. 484 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,959 Speaker 3: I think God, every every all of the twenty two 485 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 3: positions matter, and the idea that some matter more than others, 486 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 3: and you don't take someone I don't. 487 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 2: I don't. 488 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 3: I don't go for that at all. You get a 489 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:27,920 Speaker 3: great player where you can get a great player. 490 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 2: No, In fact, I say too, that guard is the 491 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:32,160 Speaker 2: biggest position of need. 492 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,159 Speaker 1: I would probably go there or whyde out, just to 493 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: get the depth of whydeout because they still don't have 494 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: a real number one. 495 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 2: They kind of have to do it by committee. 496 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 1: But but my point is too, the Steelers are presumably 497 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,120 Speaker 1: and inexplicably to my mind, Mike Gouldna have a forty 498 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:47,360 Speaker 1: two year olded quarterback. 499 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 2: So I think you gotta draft one hundred percent for 500 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 2: right now. 501 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 1: I mean, not not that the guy you're bringing in 502 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 1: won't stay and help beyond that, but you need a 503 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: left guard very badly right now. 504 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:02,680 Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, And I'm sure that that's part. You know, 505 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,560 Speaker 3: they're saying that they're that they can cover with Spencer Anderson, 506 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 3: and I guess you can that you can't do that. 507 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 3: But the other reason why a great left guard would 508 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 3: be important is because you're still not one hundred percent 509 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,240 Speaker 3: certain of where you stand at tackle at the left 510 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,440 Speaker 3: tackle position, so every so especially on that side of 511 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,080 Speaker 3: the center, you want to have as much excellent as 512 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:23,640 Speaker 3: you want. 513 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 1: You can't have Dylan Cook and Spencer Anderson's in the 514 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,080 Speaker 1: left side of your line with with Broderick Jones and 515 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 1: his neck injury, putting him up in the air. 516 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:35,479 Speaker 3: Yes, exactly, my I totally agree with that. That one 517 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 3: of the reasons Cook worked, and I think he did 518 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 3: a really nice job. 519 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 1: He was. 520 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 3: One of the reasons. One of the reasons he worked 521 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 3: was because he was standing next to a guy who's 522 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 3: been in the league for eight years, nine years and 523 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:50,080 Speaker 3: had been terrific for most of that. Obviously, you'd be 524 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,600 Speaker 3: playing whoever at a left tackle next to a rookie. 525 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 3: But again, if if that player and I haven't I 526 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 3: have not read It's March, so I haven't read one 527 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,960 Speaker 3: word about who's good at But if there is somebody like, 528 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,719 Speaker 3: you know, someone approximating a Fanica, then then I'm all 529 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:06,000 Speaker 3: for that. 530 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 1: Mike great Stuff is always It just came to mind. 531 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 1: You know, who could get me through the boat blockade? 532 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 1: I should get the Samaldi Pirates. They could get me. 533 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,760 Speaker 2: Through for sure. I'm the cat. 534 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 3: I think you're gonna say, like the guy who from 535 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 3: striking distance in the old movie that was filmed on 536 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 3: the river. 537 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 2: Bruce Willis movie. 538 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 1: No, No, I'm thinking more Captain Phillips. I'm the captain now, 539 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 1: Mike great Stuff, we'll talk next week. 540 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 2: That's Mike. The course of the I'm Mark Madden. 541 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 1: Don't forget we have Bob Walche talking Bucco Baseball at 542 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:40,080 Speaker 1: three thirty. But right before that the twenty twenty sixth debut, 543 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:42,920 Speaker 1: the season premiere of the Buco Roundup, in which I 544 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,960 Speaker 1: will give my official Pirate season prediction for how many 545 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:46,800 Speaker 1: wins one. 546 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 2: Oh five nine. 547 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,800 Speaker 1: We got no Tommy Radio, but we still got the trifecta. 548 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 1: Today it's three great Egyptians. Number three is Bob, the 549 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 1: Egyptian magician who calls the show even though I think 550 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:05,560 Speaker 1: he's really Iranian. Number two is King Tut born in Babylonia, 551 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 1: moved to Arizona, King Tut, And of course number one 552 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:18,000 Speaker 1: is Mo Sala Mo Sala, Mo Salah running down the wing. 553 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 1: Sala the Egyptian King Mowannasi Enginese in his final season 554 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: playing for Liverpool FC. Maybe our greatest for whatever, and 555 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,000 Speaker 1: I gotta get over there to see him play in 556 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,600 Speaker 1: red one more time. The trifecta brought to us by 557 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:40,520 Speaker 1: Danny's piz and Hogies family owned and operated since nineteen 558 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 1: sixty that's on Route eighty eight in Bethel Park, and 559 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: of course the first hour of the show brought to 560 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 1: us every day by Shandorovitch, Sandroovits, and Fishermen. At the 561 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 1: top of the I'm going to talk at length about 562 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin retaining an agent with an eye toward getting 563 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 1: into sports media, which is obviously gonna. 564 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:02,080 Speaker 2: Be football analysis. He never gonna coach again. 565 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,800 Speaker 1: I don't know how good he's gonna be at what 566 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,720 Speaker 1: he does in the media, but he's never gonna coach again, 567 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:10,840 Speaker 1: because you don't have to be good, you just have 568 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 1: to be in his case, Mike Tomlin. So but I'm 569 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,120 Speaker 1: gonna go into link at the top of the hour 570 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 1: just moments away. But how good or how bad he's 571 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,719 Speaker 1: going to be in sports media and why? So if 572 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:24,920 Speaker 1: you'd like to chime in on that dial eight three three, 573 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:29,280 Speaker 1: four one two WXDX. I mean, he's a blowhard. How 574 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 1: can he fail? Seriously, look who does this? They're all blowhards? 575 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,360 Speaker 2: How can they fail? Hey, me too, So your thoughts. 576 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 1: But I'll tell you the hows and whys that what's 577 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 1: gonna make Tomlin good or bad in just a little bit. 578 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,240 Speaker 1: And we're also talking a lot about the Penguins. I 579 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:51,600 Speaker 1: had like semi breaking news, although until it happens, maybe not. 580 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 1: But uh, Mary Lemieux is going to have a prominent 581 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,560 Speaker 1: role when the new ownership group officially takes over. Now 582 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 1: what that is, I don't know, but I don't think 583 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 1: it's gonna be token. I don't think he's going to 584 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 1: be Joe Lewis at the casino door. He could have 585 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,760 Speaker 1: done that for Fenway Sports Group, but once Fenway hands 586 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,880 Speaker 1: it off to the Hoffman Group, I think we're gonna 587 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 1: find out, and I think we're all gonna like it. 588 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,840 Speaker 1: And that's not knowing what the role will be. But 589 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,920 Speaker 1: Mary Lemue should be involved with the Penguins period. I 590 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:28,440 Speaker 1: never should have been allowed to not be. So that's 591 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,080 Speaker 1: great news and I'm quite looking forward to it, although 592 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 1: I don't think it'll affect the winning or losing unless 593 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,960 Speaker 1: he makes a well would it be a how many 594 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,760 Speaker 1: comebacks did he make? Come back from the bad back, 595 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,840 Speaker 1: come back from cancer, took that year off because he 596 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 1: was worn out from beating cancer, came back from that, 597 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,960 Speaker 1: then came back in two thousand. That's like what five 598 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,120 Speaker 1: comebacks and they were all great. So I don't think 599 00:32:58,120 --> 00:32:59,960 Speaker 1: he's gonna play again. No, heck, he's not even playing 600 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:02,600 Speaker 1: at his fantasy camp. Hasn't done that in a couple 601 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:07,200 Speaker 1: of years he still should, he'd still be great. H 602 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,080 Speaker 1: eight three three four one two wxdx is the number 603 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,680 Speaker 1: to call. And we're talking about the Penguins goaltending at 604 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:17,000 Speaker 1: length too, and I keep saying Skinner hasn't played well 605 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,360 Speaker 1: in quite some time. Sill Loves didn't play well last night. 606 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:25,280 Speaker 1: They're both mediocre to begin with at best. Bring up Morrishoff, 607 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,920 Speaker 1: he's killing the AHL. Give your team a shot of adrenaline, 608 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,600 Speaker 1: show that you're in it to make it, to win it, 609 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:34,960 Speaker 1: roll the dice. It'd be worth it. And they're just 610 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,720 Speaker 1: not gonna do it. And we'll talk about that and 611 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,040 Speaker 1: the reasons why in a little bit as well. But 612 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,480 Speaker 1: up next Mike Tomlin talk and don't forget After that, 613 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,720 Speaker 1: the season premiere of the Bucko Roundup, the daily feature 614 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 1: that everybody loves, Real Pirate Talk. 615 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 2: You don't get that many places, and then a three 616 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:52,000 Speaker 2: point thirty 617 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:56,280 Speaker 1: More real Pirate Talk with Pirate color analyst Bob walk 618 00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 1: It's the mark Man showing one oh five niney X