Speaker 1: What's up, everybody.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of Bucco Territory, presented to
Speaker 2: you by the Foul Territory Network. I'm no Ohile's joining
Speaker 2: me as always are my co hosts platinum Key aka
Speaker 2: Mark and Josh Harrison. You know, there was one good
Speaker 2: thing that happened this weekend, and it involved the guy
Speaker 2: in the middle of the screen.
Speaker 1: Everything else went bad.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about the collapse that is the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six Pittsburgh Pirates, who have lost all but one
Speaker 2: of their series post All Star break.
Speaker 1: I think what five straight series?
Speaker 2: Now Yankees, Diamondbacks, Cubs, Reds, yep, who else.
Speaker 1: Brewers and now Mets. So six straight series losses. Jay
Speaker 1: Hay retired as a Pirate.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about that, and then we will wrap
Speaker 2: up the show with platinum Key's Key of the Week.
Speaker 1: But guys, I mean, there's no way to sugarcoat this
Speaker 1: is a collapse.
Speaker 2: They This was a team that just a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks ago was tied for a playoff spot. They had
Speaker 2: a big series, they had a big home stand. They
Speaker 2: didn't do anything with that. They had eight division games
Speaker 2: in a row, lost six of those come back home
Speaker 2: against one of the worst teams in baseball, and quite frankly,
Speaker 2: they got embarrassed.
Speaker 1: They were humiliated in their own ballpark.
Speaker 2: They had a nice win on Saturday, they tried to
Speaker 2: build some momentum off of that, and they came out
Speaker 2: on Sunday and they lost by ten runs in a
Speaker 2: game that they were really never in. Mark, I'll start
Speaker 2: with you because I have a question for Josh after
Speaker 2: I ask you, Mark, But just I mean, you were there, man,
Speaker 2: like you're mister positive, mister pirate fanly saw you hoisten
Speaker 2: the hell out of that cone Saturday.
Speaker 1: How you feeling now? Man? Is the season over?
Speaker 3: It's very close? I mean it's over. But at the
Speaker 3: same time, I just pulled up that graph from fangrass
Speaker 3: playoff odds July twenty seventh. This team had above a
Speaker 3: forty five percent chance coming into the Sunday. Prior to
Speaker 3: the loss of the Mets, it was eight point seven percent.
Speaker 3: So it's this team's just fallen off a cliff. Seasons
Speaker 3: not over yet, but it's the closest it's been over
Speaker 3: all year long, and frankly, there hasn't been a lot
Speaker 3: encouraging to say, oh, they're about to turn this around.
Speaker 3: It's not like these have been like close losses recently.
Speaker 3: They've just been getting their teeth kicked in Basically. You
Speaker 3: look at Sunday's game against the Mets. They struck out
Speaker 3: thirteen times, had zero walks, and only had four hits.
Speaker 3: They had one chance with a runner and scoring position
Speaker 3: the entire game. Pitching was awful today or on Sunday
Speaker 3: as well, but I mean the offense has just been
Speaker 3: anemic lately. And it was another left handed pitch so
Speaker 3: or another left handed picture. So yeah, it's I want
Speaker 3: to be optimistic, but there's just not too much to
Speaker 3: be optimistic for that we've seen lately, which makes things
Speaker 3: pretty tough to be a fan right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Josh, I want to get to you in
Speaker 2: a second, but I'll just get some quick analysis here.
Speaker 2: Like Mark said, I mean, just nothing's working, man. I mean,
Speaker 2: the starting rotation is just a total flop. These guys,
Speaker 2: no one. Bubba's the only guy who can go into
Speaker 2: the sixteen thing now, and he's a rookie. Props to
Speaker 2: him for showing up. At least someone stepped up. I
Speaker 2: mean everyone else just looks completely out of gas. Yeah,
Speaker 2: from Jared to Braxton to Skemes and Carmen you know,
Speaker 2: whatever you want to call that, but like it's just
Speaker 2: it's just bad.
Speaker 1: And then the offense they have nothing.
Speaker 2: I have more to say on this, but Josh, I
Speaker 2: want to get your perspective because you've unfortunately been a
Speaker 2: part of seasons like this eleven, twelve, sixteen, seventeen eighteen,
Speaker 2: they all had some points in July where you guys
Speaker 2: were in the mix and August was unkind to you
Speaker 2: in some of those seasons. Take us into the locker
Speaker 2: or the clubhouse, Take us into the life day to
Speaker 2: day of a ballplayer who's on a team like that,
Speaker 2: where you know your season slipping away.
Speaker 4: As you said, I've been a part of it far
Speaker 4: too many times, but you know it's one of those
Speaker 4: things where you're still still a professional and you know
Speaker 4: anything can happen. Your job is to show up every day,
Speaker 4: get what you got and help when you help your
Speaker 4: team win a ball game. And just as quickly as
Speaker 4: things have kind of spiraled out of control, if you
Speaker 4: pay attention to the day to day details, things can
Speaker 4: trend upward. Obviously, it's an uphill battle, and you know
Speaker 4: chances are very slim. But that's where you really have
Speaker 4: to lock in and say, don't look too far ahead
Speaker 4: of the season, don't look too far ahead of the schedule.
Speaker 4: We got a job to do. Show up today. We
Speaker 4: got to keep plugging away. You know, it could be
Speaker 4: one pitch, one at bat, one series, one play that
Speaker 4: can make it turn around. But at the same time,
Speaker 4: you know you haven't done yourself any favors, especially you know,
Speaker 4: post All Star break, and you know, I can remember
Speaker 4: one of my first years, whether it's two thousand eleven
Speaker 4: to twenty twelve, you know, it's feeling really good around
Speaker 4: that July time. Then we get to mid August and
Speaker 4: next thing you know, we're hearing let's go still the chance,
Speaker 4: and you know that's never fun to hear when you
Speaker 4: still know you have a full month or you know,
Speaker 4: a month and a half left of baseball and that's
Speaker 4: where they want to stay away from. And just one
Speaker 4: of those things where you know where you're at and
Speaker 4: it's not a comfortable feeling, but you know at the
Speaker 4: same time you should never be comfortable in this game.
Speaker 4: But in this moment, this is where it's like all
Speaker 4: the work you've done in the off season, all the
Speaker 4: work you've done during spring training and leading up to this,
Speaker 4: it's like, hey, we got to put up a shut
Speaker 4: up and you know what, there's no excuses at this point.
Speaker 5: We just got to go and do whatever we can.
Speaker 4: And see where the chips fall after that, because, as
Speaker 4: I said, they haven't done themselves any favors, but as
Speaker 4: not anything that they need to sit around and be
Speaker 4: feeling sorry for themselves because just as bad as this
Speaker 4: spiral for them, you know you need some help ahead
Speaker 4: of you. But teams can also spiral as well. But
Speaker 4: that's not your job to wear about. They got to
Speaker 4: wear about the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna give a harsh truth here before we
Speaker 1: wrap this up, this segment up. The Corgious isn't good enough.
Speaker 1: You look, I mean the.
Speaker 2: New pieces, when they've been around, they're the difference makers.
Speaker 2: It's Connor Griffin whenever he's healthy. It's Ryan O'Hearn, it's
Speaker 2: Brandon Laue, it's Jake Mangam. The reality is all the
Speaker 2: guys who were here last year have not done their part.
Speaker 2: Brian Reynolds has been a ghost since the end of June, essentially,
Speaker 2: especially since the all Star Break, Paul Skin So we
Speaker 2: don't even need to go down that road. It's beyond
Speaker 2: explanation at this point. Jared Jones, Mitch Keller, all those guys,
Speaker 2: those were those were the three most tenured starters in
Speaker 2: this rotation. None of them showed up this year, none
Speaker 2: of them. Just you go down the list. I mean,
Speaker 2: nickn Zalez, to his credit, became a much better hitter.
Speaker 2: He couldn't figure out how to play third base. Jared
Speaker 2: Triolo couldn't just can't figure out how to be a
Speaker 2: consistent hitter. None of these guys, I mean, Spencer has
Speaker 2: been considered. I mean, Spencer hasn't been great since he
Speaker 2: came back off the IL. But then again, look at
Speaker 2: it from his point of view. Dude just got off
Speaker 2: the i L and they're like, hey, by the way,
Speaker 2: we need you to carry the offense. Yeah, that's not
Speaker 2: how this should work.
Speaker 1: And they're going to do the same thing.
Speaker 3: With the pizza.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, especially that was going well too. You know,
Speaker 4: for it to go cold, it's hard to expect one
Speaker 4: guy to come and say lift us up. Yes, you
Speaker 4: can expect a little jolt from somebody because oh we
Speaker 4: were missing them. But like if the rest of the
Speaker 4: lineup wasn't doing anything to begin with that one little
Speaker 4: person or jolt is not going to be enough. And
Speaker 4: you know you mentioned when the pitch is not doing
Speaker 4: what it was supposed to. All year, defense hasn't been
Speaker 4: doing it. And that was one of the fears of
Speaker 4: this year is if the offense goes through a cold
Speaker 4: spell or a law what is it going to look like?
Speaker 5: And this is what we're seeing.
Speaker 1: Yep, that's it.
Speaker 2: It just the core was not good enough. I mean
Speaker 2: it credit to the pirates, I guess are trying to
Speaker 2: add on, but it just goes to show when when
Speaker 2: you lose those additions, you revert back to what you
Speaker 2: had before, and what you had before didn't get better.
Speaker 2: It did not get better as a collective whole. I
Speaker 2: mean some guys took like, yeah, O'Neal Cruiz got better,
Speaker 2: but O'Neal Cruz can't stay healthy.
Speaker 1: Uha.
Speaker 5: Unfortunate situations.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, the depth, really, the depth we
Speaker 4: were worried about, got tested more than they would have liked.
Speaker 4: And the in the areas that they did it be tested.
Speaker 4: I should say, you know what I mean because you're
Speaker 4: talk in the middle of the field, shortstops, center fields
Speaker 4: like okay, and then now that that just domino effects
Speaker 4: when everything's not going well and as you said, is
Speaker 4: trying to play a lot of catchup, but they has
Speaker 4: no excuses. You got to show up and see whatever
Speaker 4: you can make the most of these this last you know,
Speaker 4: six weeks or whatever.
Speaker 2: A guy who showed up to panc Park this weekend,
Speaker 2: whose named Josh Harrison.
Speaker 1: He retired to Pittsburgh Pirate.
Speaker 2: It was the only good thing that happened this weekend
Speaker 2: aside from a nine to nothing win that now means nothing. Essentially,
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about Josh's retirement, him being honored
Speaker 2: here on Bucko Territory next.
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Speaker 2: So, Josh, I, I just got to know, like, have
Speaker 2: have they called you and asked if I can contribute
Speaker 2: to the rotation yet? Because you didn't bounce the first
Speaker 2: pitch we said we were gonna do you.
Speaker 1: That was good. I liked. I feel like you put
Speaker 1: it right on the black. On the inner half, I.
Speaker 2: Noticed you were you were a little anxious because you
Speaker 2: were ready to throw and they're like Josh Harrison everybody,
Speaker 2: and you had to like whoa and give another wave
Speaker 2: and then you threw.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just take us through, take us through the whole experience.
Speaker 4: So I'll finish with the first pitch. But like, the
Speaker 4: whole weekend was, I mean, words really can't describe.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: You can hear my voice right now, still trying to
Speaker 4: recover just the amount of love, just from the minute
Speaker 4: that I walked into the hotel, the day that I
Speaker 4: got there, to the leak checking out this morning as
Speaker 4: we're recording this Sunday, you know, countless pictures, autographs, people
Speaker 4: thanking me, thanking my parents, you know, my wife, my kids,
Speaker 4: just you know.
Speaker 5: Celebrating, you know, my tenure there.
Speaker 4: And I think I said before, you know, the weekend,
Speaker 4: that I didn't you know, I really hadn't had a
Speaker 4: chance to process at all. And I'm still processing it
Speaker 4: as I'm sitting here, you know, fresh off of the weekend.
Speaker 4: But man, it was nothing short of amazing, you know,
Speaker 4: from the first night, you know, just being there in
Speaker 4: the second signing on Federal Street and going to the
Speaker 4: team store, taking pictures, hearing various people come up and
Speaker 4: you know, just share their countless memories of you know,
Speaker 4: when they watched me, whether it was you know, in
Speaker 4: middle school, high school, or if you know they were
Speaker 4: at one of the games or playoff game, just you know,
Speaker 4: reliving those memories and you know, being able to reconnect
Speaker 4: with a lot of you know, things that I probably
Speaker 4: hadn't thought about, you know, since I've been done, because
Speaker 4: you know, baseball continues to go on, whether you play
Speaker 4: in one city forever or you know, you continue to
Speaker 4: play otherwise, you know, elsewhere. But it was definitely a
Speaker 4: cool experience, you know, text threads with my family and friends,
Speaker 4: you know, everybody you know coming down off of this high,
Speaker 4: you know, just from you know, not really knowing what
Speaker 4: to expect and leaving their own cloud nine. So it
Speaker 4: was definitely amazing. And the Pirates one or you know,
Speaker 4: in the midst of all the struggles, you know, at
Speaker 4: least you know, that day wasn't spoiled by you know,
Speaker 4: a non competitive game.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: That first pitch they're like, you know, all right, take
Speaker 4: your time out there. So I'm like, all right, They're like,
Speaker 4: take a slow walk. So I'm like slow walking, and
Speaker 4: I'm not really listening to what they're saying, you know,
Speaker 4: because I'm like I'm walking as slow as I can.
Speaker 4: So I get to the mound, the camera's there, and
Speaker 4: I'm like, cool, point at the camera. I see them
Speaker 4: show my videos. So I'm like, okay, maybe when the
Speaker 4: video's done, I'll throw the pitch. So right when it
Speaker 4: gets done, I'm like, all right, here goes nothing. And
Speaker 4: then they announced my name again and that's when you
Speaker 4: see me toss the ball up, like oh, I'm not
Speaker 4: gonna throw it yet. But I was like, oh, I'm like,
Speaker 4: you know, they didn't. They just told me to walk
Speaker 4: out slow, take my time, and you know I heard
Speaker 4: them saying alcohlades. But I thought when the video was over, like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: I've thrown the first pitch at my college. You know,
Speaker 4: it wasn't quite as loud as you see. You know,
Speaker 4: there was kind of loud, and I felt like, man,
Speaker 4: after a while, I've waved enough, and you know, the crowd,
Speaker 4: I'm like, all right, here we go. Oh josh, let
Speaker 4: me throw it up in here. So it's funny you're
Speaker 4: the first person that says something to me about that too, Like,
Speaker 4: I know you're not the only person that caught it,
Speaker 4: but you're the first person that asked me about it.
Speaker 2: You reminded me of like when a kicker gets iced
Speaker 2: in the NFL and they like go through and they
Speaker 2: just like kick the field goal anywhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just like that was.
Speaker 2: But hey man, it looked like you had a great time.
Speaker 1: Obviously we were able to run into you just briefly.
Speaker 2: Uh, I mean, got a question in the press conference
Speaker 2: that was pretty great. You didn't even answer it, Bob
Speaker 2: just stole the answer there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there we are.
Speaker 4: Well, I feel like you have a two part question,
Speaker 4: but you did kind of ask Bob though you did
Speaker 4: kind of the question to him.
Speaker 1: And honestly, I didn't need any quotes from you.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've got I get Josh Harrison quotes three
Speaker 2: days a week.
Speaker 1: So but it was cool in you one more time.
Speaker 1: It was cool to meet your family. Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, I will say this, I don't know if
Speaker 2: it was cool to see the little j Hey puppet,
Speaker 2: but it was certainly something.
Speaker 4: So it scared me when I saw it. I'm not
Speaker 4: gonna lie. It was funny because I forgot all about
Speaker 4: it and they're like, hey, sign this bat and go
Speaker 4: take a picture on that backdrop.
Speaker 5: And they weren't trying to scare me nothing.
Speaker 4: It was just, you know, I'm taking a picture and
Speaker 4: behind the photographer, I looked across the way and I
Speaker 4: saw little j and I was like, oh, I forgot
Speaker 4: about him. But but it was funny because they were like,
Speaker 4: we asked if you wanted to take him when you left,
Speaker 4: and I was like, nah, he's right where it belongs.
Speaker 4: My kids would be a little scared.
Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking I saw yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I was just gonna say I saw. I saw
Speaker 2: that everything. Josh just explained. I saw him like sign
Speaker 2: the bat, and I saw his eyes pop up. Because
Speaker 2: the media when we came into interview, we all walked
Speaker 2: past it and like I totally forgot about that too,
Speaker 2: and like we're all.
Speaker 1: Like, what the hell is that? And I'm like Jimmy
Speaker 1: had to remind me.
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, I do remember this holy cow that's
Speaker 2: sitting in a storage closet somewhere.
Speaker 5: Shout out to shout out to Wally the cameraman.
Speaker 4: He uh, you know, he was the one that that
Speaker 4: that made it and uh even saw in the segment.
Speaker 4: You know, they had the road when Cervelli used to
Speaker 4: do his like relationships, so like that was all Wally,
Speaker 4: and you know he did a good job of keeping
Speaker 4: with that.
Speaker 3: So Josh, I want to know what was it like
Speaker 3: for your daughters to see that, because obviously they were
Speaker 3: pretty young when you were playing in Pittsburgh. What was
Speaker 3: it like for them to see their dad get all
Speaker 3: these like accolades and celebrated and that whole crowd pop
Speaker 3: when you walked out for the first pitch, PNC got
Speaker 3: pretty loud. So what was your family's reaction to all
Speaker 3: of yesterday's excitement?
Speaker 5: The family was, you know, a static.
Speaker 4: My daughters, they were still taking it in because, as
Speaker 4: you mentioned, they were young and towards the end of
Speaker 4: my career. It wasn't you know that you know, it
Speaker 4: wasn't like I was playing Pittsburgh. You know, I was
Speaker 4: playing different teams, so it's like, you know, if they
Speaker 4: knew me, it was from the fan base know me
Speaker 4: playing against them, So you know, they didn't really get
Speaker 4: a chance to really.
Speaker 5: Embrace, you know, what home felt like.
Speaker 4: And that's why it was pretty cool for them to,
Speaker 4: you know, kind of experience that. Because after the game yesterday,
Speaker 4: even leaving the game, you know, signing autographs and taking
Speaker 4: pictures in My youngest daughter, Kensley, who's eight, you know,
Speaker 4: dead serious, she goes, Daddy, are you a celebrity or something?
Speaker 4: You know, and just because you know, to her, I'm daddy,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. And you know they've been
Speaker 4: with me other places and people advanced for autographs, but
Speaker 4: to this degree of where everybody wanted pictures and autographs,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 5: You know. I think for them they were like, dang,
Speaker 5: that daddy was cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a bad man.
Speaker 4: What do you mean he just coaches volleyball and he's
Speaker 4: a dance dad. Like, what are y'all talking about?
Speaker 2: No, they'll listen. Whenever they're on social media, they'll see
Speaker 2: the rundown video. They'll get it, you know. Yeah, whenever
Speaker 2: the Rundown video comes across their algorithm organically, like that's
Speaker 2: when it'll be like.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, I know. So well.
Speaker 2: I couldn't have been happier for you, Josh. It was
Speaker 2: great to watch from Afar, great to watch it up close.
Speaker 2: I know Mark had a great time too. It was
Speaker 2: great that we got to see you. And I'm really
Speaker 2: glad the Pirates could put that together. It's super deserving
Speaker 2: and I think it was something that everyone enjoyed from
Speaker 2: people who covered you, from you, yourself, your family, and
Speaker 2: the fans. That stuff should happen more often for every team.
Speaker 2: Give people the man, people who made a difference.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I heard from so many people like Josh,
Speaker 3: so many people came up to me and they're like,
Speaker 3: you have to tell Jay Hey how much he meant
Speaker 3: to me, Like I would not be like such a
Speaker 3: Pirates fan without him. You have to tell us, like,
Speaker 3: I have so many stories to share off air with
Speaker 3: you from people that came up to me. You meant
Speaker 3: a lot to the city of Pittsburgh. And it was
Speaker 3: just it was really cool to see that reflected throughout
Speaker 3: the whole crowd.
Speaker 5: No, I definitely felt it.
Speaker 4: And as I said, the love never left because there
Speaker 4: were some people that shared those stories with me.
Speaker 5: And I mean as I said, I said it.
Speaker 4: On the broadcast when I was up there with Neil
Speaker 4: and Joe Block, you know, just appreciative Bob, the Pirates,
Speaker 4: you know, Jimmy, Jimmy T and Joey b behind.
Speaker 5: The scenes helping my family and stuff like it was.
Speaker 4: It was a well loaded machine and they they really
Speaker 4: went above and beyond and you know, retired to pirate
Speaker 4: Pirate for life. Man, I'm excited, and you know, we'll
Speaker 4: see where that goes with you know, the energy they
Speaker 4: played with Saturday, bring that the last six weeks guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah right.
Speaker 2: Pirate for Life, Josh Harrison is the best way to
Speaker 2: wrap up this segment.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take another quick break. When we come back.
Speaker 2: Mark will wrap up today's show with is Platinum Key
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Speaker 3: All right, and now my key of the week segment here,
Speaker 3: which I'm just going to keep this quick quick. Things
Speaker 3: feel bad right now, but it's not over yet. We
Speaker 3: might not have baseball next year. And frankly, this is
Speaker 3: the best Pirates team they've had in a long time
Speaker 3: since Jay Hayes days, probably, and that's not saying a
Speaker 3: lot right now it feels like, but this team actually
Speaker 3: still has the slimmest of chances. We're not completely dead.
Speaker 3: So my key of the week is just you guys,
Speaker 3: keep your head up. Things feel bad right now, but
Speaker 3: this team can go on and run, getting O'Neil Cruz back,
Speaker 3: getting counter Griffin back if they can just keep their
Speaker 3: head above water, sweep the Marlins make a big step
Speaker 3: up finish the final six weeks of the season strong.
Speaker 3: There's there's still a chance. It's slim, but that's my
Speaker 3: key of the week. Is you just you have to
Speaker 3: still believe that you have a chance to get there.
Speaker 3: They're not dead yet. I still haven't heard Nobell. So
Speaker 3: keep your head up, keep fighting, and let's go on
Speaker 3: a run.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we might have lost a series to the last
Speaker 3: place Mets and missed a great opportunity to start that,
Speaker 3: but we finally have a day off after seventeen days.
Speaker 3: Use Monday to get right down in Miami and show
Speaker 3: up against the Marlins. So yeah, that's my my key
Speaker 3: of the week. It's hard right now to be a
Speaker 3: Pirates fan. I get that, especially after how just anemic
Speaker 3: things were on Friday, but or on Sunday and Friday
Speaker 3: as well. Yeah, but they're not dead and you guys
Speaker 3: shot in the arm with O'Neil Cruz coming back probably
Speaker 3: for I'm guessing the Boston series and I don't know,
Speaker 3: maybe you can just find that hot streak, find the
Speaker 3: offensive production that has just gone missing, and hope that
Speaker 3: hitting is contagious and they can make up for where
Speaker 3: the starting pitching is at, because I don't know if
Speaker 3: that's gonna improve much. So yeah, that's my key of
Speaker 3: the week. You know what, and you thought, I mean.
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say, yeah, I was gonna say
Speaker 4: to go off of what you said. Well, we've already covered,
Speaker 4: han't been there being in a situation you know what,
Speaker 4: lizahead are you? You're talking about sweeping the Marlins. Before
Speaker 4: you can sweep the Marlins, you gotta take care of
Speaker 4: game one of the series right at this point, you know,
Speaker 4: take care of game one of the series. But more
Speaker 4: than anything, you gotta win every series from now on
Speaker 4: out if you don't sweep, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: So the make the go to win a series every time,
Speaker 4: which you should always be doing that, but lately it's
Speaker 4: just been a just.
Speaker 5: Win a game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what, you want a game Saturday? You want,
Speaker 4: you want a game Saturday. Go out there, win a series.
Speaker 4: But sweeps can happen. But to a sweep, you gotta
Speaker 4: win a series. And that starts with game one. Reset
Speaker 4: as you said, Reset after seventeen days and go win
Speaker 4: game one of the series and put yourself in a
Speaker 4: good position to make it interesting.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the goal for this team was to make the
Speaker 3: postseason period full stop. If you want to accomplish that goal,
Speaker 3: it's now or never and it's We've been saying that
Speaker 3: for a few weeks and it's like the most critical
Speaker 3: series of the year and they keep losing it.
Speaker 5: Every series from now is going to be the most critical.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean, you've got the Marlins, the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: Marlins are ahead of them in the wildcard race.
Speaker 2: Red Sox are a playoff team, maybe one of the
Speaker 2: best teams, maybe the best team in the American League.
Speaker 4: Right right now, it really well yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: You get a little break against the Tigers, then you
Speaker 2: have the Dodgers and the Padres and the Cardinals, so you're.
Speaker 3: All on the road.
Speaker 5: Yeah so, but what better way to do it than.
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Speaker 1: The parts gave out there. We go guys, any final thoughts.
Speaker 3: Just love the Jay Hey day, Uh, that was fun.
Speaker 3: Appreciate the shout out on the broadcast, Josh, that was
Speaker 3: pretty cool. I'm sure that guys a few subscribers so
Speaker 3: appreciate that. My guy's still plugging even on the TV.
Speaker 5: So I love that. Hey.
Speaker 4: You know, you guys are part of you know, my
Speaker 4: my post playing career. You know, they asked me what
Speaker 4: I was doing. You know, family is always a part
Speaker 4: of that. But at the same time, but coll territory,
Speaker 4: you know, we rocking. Yes, And just as I said
Speaker 4: to wrap things up, this weekend was nothing short of amazing.
Speaker 4: As I said, appreciative of all the love and support,
Speaker 4: and that's all I got.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll wrap it up by saying, it was awesome
Speaker 2: meeting your family, Josh. Shout out to all the Harrisons
Speaker 2: that are listening to this.
Speaker 1: It was great meeting you all. And shout out to
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Speaker 1: No matter what. He's Platina key, He's Josh Harrison.
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