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Speaker 4: Welcome back to another episode of Bucco Banter, and things
Speaker 4: are not well over here in the burg voice Wah
Speaker 4: wah is that your mixer?
Speaker 2: No? That was me? Believe it or not? Pretty good?
Speaker 4: Right, it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: I've been practicing because baseball hasn't been good, So what.
Speaker 2: Else can I do?
Speaker 4: Slee poop?
Speaker 2: Right, I complete ploop?
Speaker 1: Who knows, man, it's been seventeen days of less than
Speaker 1: ideal baseball. Seventeen days in a row where it was
Speaker 1: the most important stretch of the season. This team, I
Speaker 1: can't emphasize enough how much they haven't had a break
Speaker 1: literally and figuratively right the weather between Canadian wildfires to
Speaker 1: rain delays to extra innings to then just not getting
Speaker 1: a break after the All Star break. Seventeen games in
Speaker 1: a row, and during that stretch you go five and twelve,
Speaker 1: three and seven in the last ten. You haven't won
Speaker 1: a series since Cleveland, if my memory serves me correctly,
Speaker 1: sounds all right, And what an encouraging start that was
Speaker 1: in Cleveland because the one game that you lost you
Speaker 1: should have won, and then you go and fix the bullpen.
Speaker 1: Obvious that's more recently than not, but Scott, it has
Speaker 1: been an absolutely brutal watch even for US guys to
Speaker 1: try and look at the glass half full and how
Speaker 1: anything can happen in baseball and talking about stacking wins
Speaker 1: and not having to start over series after series. This
Speaker 1: is not a good Mets team that came to town.
Speaker 1: But then you have to look at the Pirates and say, like,
Speaker 1: is this what it is right now?
Speaker 2: Because yeah, it's not good.
Speaker 4: It does seem to be what it is right now,
Speaker 4: they're on a skid man, and that was why it
Speaker 4: was nice to see Jack Manghan try to fire up
Speaker 4: the team on Saturday. And he's been a guy that
Speaker 4: If we don't have a guy like him right now,
Speaker 4: I don't know where this team would be, to be
Speaker 4: honest with you, Yeah, it's it's they're going on a
Speaker 4: skid on at the very wrong time. They seem lifeless
Speaker 4: and they're not beating teams they should beat. Right we
Speaker 4: lose the series to the last place Reds. We just
Speaker 4: lost a serious the last place Mets. We can't buy
Speaker 4: a series, like you said, since Cleveland. And it all
Speaker 4: comes back to their struggle offensively after the All Star break,
Speaker 4: which is surprising. I know they're without Connor Griffin and
Speaker 4: the Odell Cruz at this point, but you still got
Speaker 4: some other guys. Ryan o Hearn is also out that
Speaker 4: those are key pieces. I don't want to diminish that,
Speaker 4: but their inability to hit left handed pitching is really concerning, guys,
Speaker 4: really concerning. It's like almost a guarantee that a lefty,
Speaker 4: no matter if it's Sean Mania or Clayton Kershaw, they're
Speaker 4: gonna look like prime Randy Johnson against us like it's
Speaker 4: it's a tough watch, guys, it really is. And we
Speaker 4: talked about this before started recording. They had the traject
Speaker 4: machine and Jay brought up Michael Bush from the Cubs
Speaker 4: increasing his production against same handed pitching this year by
Speaker 4: using the traject machine. I think his WRC plus went
Speaker 4: from the eighties like one to eleven. That's nothing to
Speaker 4: sneeze at. And this is a guy that has been
Speaker 4: known to be bad in terms against left handed pitching,
Speaker 4: especially the beginning of season. He had a really rough
Speaker 4: start the season. But it's not like this roster is
Speaker 4: built to notwithstand left handed pitching. That's the part that
Speaker 4: puzzles me the most.
Speaker 1: The Pirates WRC plus first lefties ranks twenty fifth in Baseball.
Speaker 4: Scott, I'm shocked it's not thirtieth, So.
Speaker 1: Am I because it's become a joke around the ballpark.
Speaker 1: It really has. It's upsetting and we joke about it.
Speaker 1: Oh no, another soft tossing lefty Candelaria could have started today, right.
Speaker 4: I told Jason Mackie in the press box, I was like,
Speaker 4: I think you can grab a kid from West Mini
Speaker 4: throwing high seventies, low eighties throwing left handed that could
Speaker 4: get this team out right now.
Speaker 1: And people believe it. It's shocking. And you mentioned the
Speaker 1: technology that we have. You literally have technology that can
Speaker 1: mimic everything about any pitcher on the planet, and these
Speaker 1: guys just can't get it together. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's just a mental block at this point, but Brian
Speaker 1: Reynolds at one point thirty two is the only qualified
Speaker 1: pirate with the mark above eighty two for WRC plus
Speaker 1: first lefties, and you mentioned it's something like they're totally
Speaker 1: built in the opposite direction. You got switch hitters, right,
Speaker 1: nickensalz has good splits or well, i'd say no, Nickensaws
Speaker 1: is bad splits. You know that's the problem, right, is
Speaker 1: the right e's that you have on the team aren't
Speaker 1: necessarily taking advantage of the lefties that you're facing. And
Speaker 1: as good as Nickingzalez has been this year, it doesn't
Speaker 1: benefit you in those types of situations, right, And the same.
Speaker 2: Goes for a lot of the other guys in the team.
Speaker 1: So you talk about how important this trade deadline was,
Speaker 1: and I love what they did with the bullpen, but
Speaker 1: you needed someone else And I don't even know if
Speaker 1: won bat at this point really fixes it.
Speaker 2: Like we could talk about.
Speaker 1: Bringing in a Taylor Ward or someone of that caliber,
Speaker 1: but does that really make a difference right now?
Speaker 4: No? Probably not. And I finally understand Ben Sharington's infatuation
Speaker 4: with stoft tossing lefties, because boy, could we use the
Speaker 4: one right now, not even just for our rotation, for
Speaker 4: a different look. I think we've got like the same
Speaker 4: type of look coming out of from the right side
Speaker 4: in our rotation all every every day. But that being said,
Speaker 4: having opposing them has been really tough for us. There's
Speaker 4: there's a name that was floated out today. Austin Hayes
Speaker 4: was DFAD I believe by the White Sox. Was just
Speaker 4: signed by the Padres. And I love how aggressive the
Speaker 4: Padres have been given that they don't have the best roster.
Speaker 4: They're starting to move up the standings. And you know
Speaker 4: that's just aj Preller to a t. But Austin Hayes
Speaker 4: against left handed pitching two eighty two career, three point
Speaker 4: thirty nine four seventy seven WRC plus, we could use that.
Speaker 4: We could use that. And that being said too, like
Speaker 4: I know, we've got a lot of outfielders that are
Speaker 4: you know, buying for time right now, that would probably
Speaker 4: not just did some back down the triple A probably necessary.
Speaker 4: But as Merlin going on a cold streak right now,
Speaker 4: that doesn't help matters either, because that's the guy we're
Speaker 4: relying on against left handed pitching. He's just on a
Speaker 4: cold streak right now. And am I concerned. No, But
Speaker 4: it hasn't helped matters. It's it's been magnified in this time,
Speaker 4: in this losing it streak or the skid that this
Speaker 4: team has been has been on.
Speaker 1: In August, just in August, he's hitting fifty nine, he's
Speaker 1: got one hits, got twelve walks, twelve k's. It's we
Speaker 1: knew it was going to happen at some point, right
Speaker 1: like guys are going to be able to figure you out.
Speaker 1: It's the major leagues. They're not letting him get his
Speaker 1: hands extended anymore. There's more data out there in order
Speaker 1: to execute pitches on his Maryland. But how reliant were
Speaker 1: they on him providing a long ball right after the
Speaker 1: All Star break.
Speaker 2: Right right now? Too reliant?
Speaker 1: And then going back to the point I was trying
Speaker 1: to make before, guys like Marcello's Una weren't helping you
Speaker 1: out right, like you weren't getting that slug from anywhere
Speaker 1: else in the lineup. And it just doesn't help that
Speaker 1: Orwitz is coming back off of injury, O'Neil Cruz is
Speaker 1: still on a rehab assignment. He hasn't looked good on
Speaker 1: his rehab assignment again very early. But at this point
Speaker 1: you have to start questioning is it more likely over
Speaker 1: than not? And I hate to be that guy, I
Speaker 1: really do, because I think anything can happen in baseball.
Speaker 2: Again, I really do believe that.
Speaker 1: I truly believe that as a former player witnessing it
Speaker 1: myself in other situations. Now, you know, you look at
Speaker 1: the Red Sox and teams like that. Obviously there's different
Speaker 1: talent levels in different situations, but anything can happen in baseball.
Speaker 1: This is a really fun game, really hard game.
Speaker 2: For a reason.
Speaker 1: I think that you could still take advantage of the
Speaker 1: ebbs and flows of baseball. But it's hard not to
Speaker 1: look at it just objectively and say this doesn't look
Speaker 1: good right now.
Speaker 2: For the Buckos.
Speaker 4: As I mentioned earlier in our live show, A Brave Bean,
Speaker 4: this team is you'd think overdue for a run, right
Speaker 4: they haven't strung together more than four to five wins
Speaker 4: at a time this season, So you'd think maybe not
Speaker 4: a twenty nine to five record like the Red Sox
Speaker 4: had over the past month and a half, but something
Speaker 4: like a ten game winning streaker or winning twelve to
Speaker 4: fifteen would be something plausible for this team, Like anything
Speaker 4: can happen. They're not ten games below five hundred yet,
Speaker 4: but they're getting there very quickly. Boys, And this is
Speaker 4: why we talked about in May and beginning of June, like,
Speaker 4: don't wait to improve this team, and we're starting to
Speaker 4: see the effects of being too conservative middle of the summer.
Speaker 4: Now they're like, it's it's do or die now, and
Speaker 4: it didn't have to get to this situation.
Speaker 5: In regards to it being over, Guys, I think I'm
Speaker 5: gonna give them till the end of the Marlins series
Speaker 5: because the only reason I still have optimism in that
Speaker 5: sense is that they're objectively a better team than Miami.
Speaker 5: Miami sold of the deadline and got worse, and they're
Speaker 5: also going to face three Right's in that series, and
Speaker 5: I think we're gonna talk about that in a second.
Speaker 5: The Piers are still one of the best offenses in
Speaker 5: baseball against right handed pitching, even with these struggles. So
Speaker 5: if they go into Miami and they just can't hit
Speaker 5: these rights and just can't do anything against this weak
Speaker 5: Marlins team, then I think it might be a little
Speaker 5: bit safer to say that it's over boys, because at
Speaker 5: that point, I mean, we're five and a half back
Speaker 5: right now. If you can't make up some ground against
Speaker 5: a team that you should be beating that's throwing you
Speaker 5: your bread and butter with right handed pitching, then you're
Speaker 5: you're almost You're so far back at that point that
Speaker 5: even if you get hot and going a streak, there's
Speaker 5: just no there's not enough time to play catch up
Speaker 5: at that point.
Speaker 4: If it makes sense, yeah, I mean every game becomes
Speaker 4: must win at that point, right Jay, and I totally agree.
Speaker 4: I think it starts in game one because we got
Speaker 4: big on big with schemes versus Yuri Perez and Euripez
Speaker 4: is a guy that has dominated us in the past.
Speaker 4: But again, like you said, these are arms that we've
Speaker 4: typically done well against against the righty arms, especially this
Speaker 4: season this team, but Miami, even though they're one game
Speaker 4: above five hundred, I would agree this we are a
Speaker 4: better team than the Miami Marlins is just hopefully this
Speaker 4: day off does us some good because survives just seem
Speaker 4: at an all time low right now.
Speaker 2: They just strike out too much. They do. It's been
Speaker 2: a problem all year.
Speaker 1: If you look at the box scores, if you look
Speaker 1: at the stats, if you look at the league ratings
Speaker 1: or rankings, I should say this team just strikes out
Speaker 1: a lot, even when they're winning ball games. They have
Speaker 1: a high k rate, third highest strike out rate in
Speaker 1: baseball first lefties alone, twenty five point four percent. Jake,
Speaker 1: pull up for me when you can where they're at
Speaker 1: just overall, because I believe they're top five. If not,
Speaker 1: I think they've struck out the most times in all
Speaker 1: of baseball. It's hard to win ball games or stay
Speaker 1: competitive when you're not having competitive at bats. Right there's
Speaker 1: a difference between working counts and having meaningful at bats
Speaker 1: to just an absolute zero. And they're the fifth in
Speaker 1: baseball right now in strikeouts. Good job, Jay, fifth in baseball.
Speaker 1: So striking out's bat. We talked to Ryan O'Hearn at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year. It's it's the worst thing
Speaker 1: you can do.
Speaker 2: People. Hey, guys hate it. It's not a fun part
Speaker 2: of the game.
Speaker 1: I understand it is a part of the game, but
Speaker 1: when it becomes such a big part of the game,
Speaker 1: it's pretty bad.
Speaker 2: This seems to striking out twenty four point one percent of.
Speaker 4: The time as a team. That's crazy the time this
Speaker 4: seems striking out. Who's above them? Jay, I'm just wondering
Speaker 4: in terms of like krate to win percentage correlation.
Speaker 1: Here, I can't imagine it being anyone significant.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is the Angels, Reds, Yankees, and Orioles that.
Speaker 4: Are The Yankees are an outlier, right, Yeah.
Speaker 5: The only team that also has a twenty four percent
Speaker 5: that's under them is the White Sox. And then, by
Speaker 5: the way, it drops off out like a full percentage
Speaker 5: point after that, it goes from twenty four percent to
Speaker 5: twenty three percent then at seven. So like, there's literally
Speaker 5: only twenty six teams in baseball or that. Sorry, there's
Speaker 5: twenty six teams in baseball that strike out less than
Speaker 5: twenty four percent of time, and the Pirates unfortunately find
Speaker 5: themselves on the other side of that.
Speaker 1: So good, Let's stay positive real quick. Since the Ulstar break,
Speaker 1: Bubba Chandler has been really good. Scott twenty two innings,
Speaker 1: eighteen K's two O five era only seven walks four
Speaker 1: starts stretch after the All Star break is the only
Speaker 1: the second time in his career where he's walked seven
Speaker 1: or less while allowing five or less runs in the
Speaker 1: four start period.
Speaker 2: Kind of similar to what Bubba was doing at the
Speaker 2: end of last year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean this was my Like I said, I
Speaker 4: picked a click for the second half. I think, you know,
Speaker 4: him stepping up would be he for this rotation. And
Speaker 4: guess what, boys, the two wins we got this week
Speaker 4: were when Bubba was on the mound. So you know,
Speaker 4: it's unfortunate the last few outings that Paul has had
Speaker 4: because I really do believe ultimately this team goes as
Speaker 4: Paul goes. Even though this is a very talented young rotation,
Speaker 4: they need Paul to be a better version of himself.
Speaker 4: But Bubba stepping up is definitely a plus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no one else has, No one else has. I
Speaker 1: think Braxton's been fine. There's the innings limit concern, but.
Speaker 4: We all expected to see like some fatigue with Braxton.
Speaker 4: He's never pitched this much before, right, I think it's
Speaker 4: it's not surprising at all that he's maybe had some
Speaker 4: outings where he's not been himself. If anything, I'm sure
Speaker 4: they want to expread some starts out in the second half.
Speaker 4: But right now you're getting to a point where, like,
Speaker 4: do you if you get if it gets as bad
Speaker 4: as it can get, do you start maybe ending some seasons?
Speaker 4: Now I know that's early to say.
Speaker 2: That, but yeah, who do you spread those starts out with?
Speaker 4: Barco You September? Call up Connor Whitgriff maybe. And it's
Speaker 4: also that's like you're lefty, that's your other look. That's
Speaker 4: a different look from what you have. I know Hunter
Speaker 4: bark is left you too, but Connor Whitcriiff is more
Speaker 4: of your like pitchability guy. Right, So I think you
Speaker 4: have options that Thomas Harrington hasn't been good this year
Speaker 4: in Triple A. You you maybe can piggyback Antoine Kelly
Speaker 4: with somebody Wilburt Hotel. Like I know they've pitched out
Speaker 4: of the bullpen when they've been in the big leagues,
Speaker 4: but like you have options.
Speaker 1: For sure, Wickgriff two point six and forty eight and
Speaker 1: the third innings pitched in Triple A. So he's been
Speaker 1: really good in indian Indianapolis, Scott, I know it's really
Speaker 1: easy to get pessimistic right now. And when you get pessimistic,
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Speaker 2: You might commit a crime.
Speaker 1: You saw her going with that, You know how, my
Speaker 1: bro is it's really easy to see where I'm going
Speaker 1: a lot of the times, Okay, I'm not here to
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Speaker 1: And I think I might start have to give the
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Speaker 4: Dare I say it? Dare I say it?
Speaker 2: Say it?
Speaker 4: You could not have just one, but two Italian flags
Speaker 4: on the club too.
Speaker 1: Again, talk about Colin Farrell, Weaver and Oakan. That should
Speaker 1: be illegal. You shouldn't be able to do that.
Speaker 4: Shit.
Speaker 1: They allowed Scott to do it, and this is America,
Speaker 1: so why not throw eight hundred Italian flags on your
Speaker 1: baseball glove that's totally fine where we live, Scott. I
Speaker 1: think this is a good transition to talk about the Marlins.
Speaker 2: What do you got for us, Buddy.
Speaker 4: Well, the Marlins entered the Series sixty and fifty nine,
Speaker 4: third in the NL East, just above the Nationals and Mets. Tuesday,
Speaker 4: luckily we get a day off, but Tuesday we've got
Speaker 4: Paul Skins versus Yiy Perez. As I mentioned before, Big
Speaker 4: on Big this year year he has a five and
Speaker 4: nine record, three sixty one ERA twenty games started, a
Speaker 4: one hundred and nine point two innings pitch, one hundred
Speaker 4: and twenty one ks and one thirteen whip comes at
Speaker 4: you with a four same sink or slider sweeper change curve.
Speaker 4: The fastball sits in the upper nineties, creates creates tremendous
Speaker 4: extension at his six foot eight frame, making the pitch
Speaker 4: up here to jump on hitters. The slider generates substantial
Speaker 4: swing and miss when he can bury it below the zone.
Speaker 4: Avoid chasing that pitch when behind in the count, because
Speaker 4: that's what he's gonna go to. The change gives him
Speaker 4: a legitimate weapon against left handed hitters. The command can
Speaker 4: waiver when extending at bats. This is a power arm. Boys,
Speaker 4: this is a guy that we struggled with in the past.
Speaker 1: Wednesday TBD for the buckos, you're gonna face right hinded
Speaker 1: pitcher Jansen Junk this year five and seven of the
Speaker 1: four to six three era in sixteen games, eighty one
Speaker 1: and two thirds innings, pitch sixty two k's with a
Speaker 1: one to three six whip. The arsenal is a for seing, sweeper, sinker, cutter, change.
Speaker 1: You're getting a little bit of everything here. Doesn't overwhelm
Speaker 1: hitters with velocity, but he gives hitters a lot of
Speaker 1: different looks and relies on pitch mix, sequencing and deception.
Speaker 2: The slider sweeper combo.
Speaker 1: Is the primary put away option here, goes to the
Speaker 1: pitch early and often. The changeup is used against left
Speaker 1: handed hitters to generate week contact below the zone does
Speaker 1: not walk a lot of guys here all right, runs extremely.
Speaker 2: Low walk rate.
Speaker 1: So couple that with hopefully not striking out a ton
Speaker 1: and could be interesting for Jans and Junk.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what. Jansen Junk is an eighty grade
Speaker 4: picture name. Junk. I mean, that's that's incredible. Let's go.
Speaker 2: It would be your by the way.
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Speaker 5: I can't think of anything better than that. Honestly, that's
Speaker 5: pretty perfect.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a Royals picture name Scott blew It.
Speaker 5: That's pretty good. Ball four is a good one too,
Speaker 5: just ball four.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good one. Terrible one.
Speaker 2: It's a bad one for a picture.
Speaker 4: That's that's the point.
Speaker 2: I know. It's we're talking about good picture names.
Speaker 4: Junk is by far the best.
Speaker 2: I can't think ee, I'll go with that. What's here?
Speaker 4: Yours on? Adam?
Speaker 1: I said it strikeout McGee, my son, strikeout McGee.
Speaker 4: Spencer Streider sounds like a guy Ben would love as
Speaker 4: a big extension.
Speaker 2: Guy, big extension guy.
Speaker 4: So let's go to Thursday, Game three. Guys. I see
Speaker 4: a little bit of a pattern here, because game one
Speaker 4: you got the power arm in Uri pros. That's why
Speaker 4: I say it's so important to get out in front
Speaker 4: in game one, because then you've got two pitchability guys. Guys,
Speaker 4: that are going to pitch the contact not overpower you.
Speaker 4: And Thursday we get Tyler Phillips versus Braxmann Ashcraft Tyler
Speaker 4: Phillips three and five with a three forty seven ERA.
Speaker 4: This year twenty nine games started ninety three and the
Speaker 4: third innings pitch seventy k's in a one three six wip.
Speaker 4: We'll come at you with a four seam sweeper, sinker,
Speaker 4: cutter and change. The fastball doesn't have elite velocity, a
Speaker 4: ride heavily dependent on location. He lakes to establish it
Speaker 4: early in counts and used it to set up his
Speaker 4: secondary offerings. The sweeper slider is his best secondary pitch,
Speaker 4: used as a strike stealer or a put away pitch.
Speaker 4: The tax hitters limits free passes and keeps a ball
Speaker 4: on the ground. This is the guy that's gonna sit
Speaker 4: at ninety one ninety two maybe, but he's also got
Speaker 4: a lot of energy on the mount. He served in
Speaker 4: a back a high light patrol last year. You're going
Speaker 4: to see him punch his face and do all kinds
Speaker 4: of crazy stuff on the mound. A lot of energy,
Speaker 4: but a guy that should not overpower us from the
Speaker 4: right side.
Speaker 2: Cool Who are the hitter and pitcher of the Week.
Speaker 4: Scott, I'm gonna start off and give you the hitter
Speaker 4: of the week. It's going to be mister Jake Mangham
Speaker 4: the mayor ever heard of him. Eight for twenty seven
Speaker 4: this week, played in all seven games, had a three
Speaker 4: point fifty five OBP, three doubles, a home run which
Speaker 4: was honestly a shot today to one of the deepest
Speaker 4: parts of the field. Four RBIs in a stolen base.
Speaker 4: He continues to be the catalyst at the top of
Speaker 4: the lineup pitcher.
Speaker 1: We mentioned him earlier in the episode, Roy Rubin Chandler,
Speaker 1: or as you know him, Bubba eleven and two third,
Speaker 1: seven hits, two earned, five walk ten k's twenty four
Speaker 1: whiffs and two starts. Really good to see Bubba mature
Speaker 1: as the season goes along, kind of rein in that
Speaker 1: walk percentage a little bit that walk rate, stay.
Speaker 2: Around the zone a little bit more, and really.
Speaker 1: Show his true stuff. So good for Bubba Chandler. Bucko
Speaker 1: banter picture of the week.
Speaker 4: Boys, it was not the week that we wanted, but
Speaker 4: the internal optimist of me says, let's take the day
Speaker 4: off tomorrow. Cool our heads and let's go down to
Speaker 4: Miami with some some anger. Right Let's let's let's punch
Speaker 4: him in the mouth right away. We have an opportunity
Speaker 4: here to go on a run. This team is due
Speaker 4: for one. You can't tell me throughout the whole twenty
Speaker 4: twenty sixth season. This Pirates team is not going to
Speaker 4: go on a run. They're due. So let's let's keep
Speaker 4: that positive mindset until we can't anymore, and hopefully we
Speaker 4: have something more positive to talk about next recording.
Speaker 2: I think we will.
Speaker 1: I think we will, mainly because the third tailgate is
Speaker 1: on Saturday. The Renegade one of the greatest collouds of
Speaker 1: all time, Bucco Banter, the Renegades of the Rotunda Federal
Speaker 1: Street lot, the same one that we've had the past
Speaker 1: two tailgates that have been awesome. I See Light There's
Speaker 1: a reason I'm drinking I See Light Mango during this podcast.
Speaker 1: Not because I'm sad. I'm a happy guy, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be even happier this weekend when I got a
Speaker 1: cold icye mango in my hand courtesy of Iron City
Speaker 1: that will be at the tailgate and maybe some other
Speaker 1: sponsors as well. But more importantly, it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: great time, great people. You can RSVP if you go
Speaker 1: to our page or you go to the Renegades of
Speaker 1: the Rotunda page. But Captain Chris and the crew will
Speaker 1: be there as well as all the Bucco Banter boys.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to see everybody out there at three o'clock
Speaker 1: this Saturday, and then maybe some news coming up. Hey,
Speaker 1: we're constantly working over here. It's still up to something.
Speaker 1: Season at Bucco Banter. We're up to something, so stay tuned.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I'm excited. Some big stuff ahead of us.
Speaker 2: So excited.
Speaker 4: Yeah, as you can tell. Look at me. I could
Speaker 4: fall asleep in a minute. But now some big stuff ahead.
Speaker 4: Boys excited for the Renegade, come out, come, come talk
Speaker 4: some bucks and we'll see at the ballpark next weekend.
Speaker 2: Until next time, Raise it oyted.
Speaker 3: Best seats at the Pirates and they let me run
Speaker 3: the base. Yeah, my time is like my money because
Speaker 3: I can't afford to waste. Oh, why see is a lawyer?
Speaker 3: Take my date to my dates or the stick by
Speaker 3: the plates?
Speaker 1: Nick