WEBVTT - Offense struggles as Skenes' skid continues 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:13.120 What's up, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Bucko Territory, 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:15.960 presented to you by the Foul Territory Network. I'm Noah Hyles, 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:19.200 joining me as always are my co hosts Platinum Kaka 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.920 Mark and Josh Harrison. Is Thursday, August sixth we were 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:26.160 recording this before the Pirates concluded their four game set 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:30.080 in Milwaukee, a little afternoon show due to some evening 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:33.559 obligations among the crew. So we don't know how that 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:37.360 series concluded, so we to our latest knowledge, and I 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:39.360 would have to assume this is probably going to be 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:43.040 still the big storyline from this series is Paul Skens 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:46.839 just didn't get it done again. Pirates at Best are 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:51.080 gonna leave Milwaukee with a split, gonna leave Milwaukee under 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.040 five hundred. There's a chance they leave Milwaukee with the 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:57.960 lowest record, the worst winning percentage they've had pretty much 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.400 all season. So and even if they don't, they're still 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:03.080 under five hundred as they leave Milwaukee back to Pittsburgh 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:06.200 for weekend series. We're going to talk about that weekend 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.039 series at the end of the show. First, we're also 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.080 going to have to talk about the offensive woes. But guys, 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:14.959 it all starts with Paul Skins. He pitched Wednesday evening. 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.440 He went five innings, He allowed three earned runs. Walks 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:22.320 for another issue again, efficiency was an issue Again, can't 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:26.640 get deeper into the ballgame. I'll just open up the 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:32.160 floor now, because we've talked about so frequently this guy struggles, 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.600 what we need to see him do, what we haven't 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:37.400 seen him do. I'll just open up the floor with 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.640 this question and that can kind of just serve as 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:42.679 the talking point for the segment. What are the expectations 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.400 for Paul Skiings for the rest of this season? Is 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:49.640 it just what we just saw? Is it five to 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.400 six innings and keeping it under four runs, because that's 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.760 what I feel like is probably the new bar for him, 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:58.600 at least this year, going off his overall body of work. 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:03.120 Yeah, I'll start. I don't think much is going to 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:04.960 change the rest of the year. I don't think there's 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.600 gonna be some magical thing where he just reverts right 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.639 back to where we saw in his Cy Young campaign 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.960 or his Rookie of the Year campaign. Something seems off, 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.080 and it doesn't seem like that something can be addressed 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.240 mid season. It doesn't feel like that's gonna be like 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.800 some quick little mechanical change, Like, no, he's gonna have 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:29.280 to take some time this offseason and really figure out 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:33.720 mechanics whatever is happening. Uh, that's having this impact on 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:38.919 his velocity because I am concerned about the velocity. I'm 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.720 not concerned about the fastball itself. I'm concerned how it 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:45.280 plays with the rest of his repertoire and the off 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:49.119 speed stuff. Just can't stomach it without it's not good 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:53.440 enough without that fastball philosophy. Go ahead, No, well, I. 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:55.480 Was just gonna say he can't spot it. It's not 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.040 even the velocity. You look at this last outing. If 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:02.400 the second time through the order, he was always able 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:06.280 to put that slider, that sweeper, the splinker, even like 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.760 right on the black, right on the edge, and he's 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:13.240 just off. He's just missing the spots by two or 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.519 three inches. And that that makes a big difference, man, 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.280 especially when you're going up against a team like the 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:23.160 Milwaukee Brewers, who they have a great team approach, they 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:27.280 are not going to help you beat them. And I 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.839 think that's what we saw this last outing, And that's 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:33.079 kind of my biggest alarm for schemes is back to 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:38.280 back outings with four walks. That's just that's the major 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.760 concern because that just shows that his command's off and 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.560 it also just shows that hitters are very comfortable at 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.800 the plate right now. They're not chasing exactly. 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:53.320 Well, obviously there's always you know, you look at what 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.440 scheme has done in the past, and you always hope, 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.160 oh man, it's in there somewhere, But as you look 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.320 the moves, they may at the you know, deadline. You know, 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.440 you have a bullpen that is built to kind of 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.680 help you. So you know, you're hoping that you can 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:12.200 get six from your starters, and that's even including Paul. 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.280 And you know, more than just the velocity is you 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.840 talk to command and to me that that that's a 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.200 you know, there's a disconnect somewhere because you know you're 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:27.280 losing velocity and then you're losing command. With that, does 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:30.599 confidence go granted, he you know, I believe Paul is 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:34.200 a highly confident guy and don't believe that he would 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.719 even waiver from that. But you know, this game tests you, 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.960 this game will humble you, and in the mode or 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:44.880 mists of you know, making adjustments, sometimes you're gonna go 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.720 through struggles that you know, it's just like, Yeah, day 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.200 to day, I'm grinding through this. You know, as you 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.599 mentioned Mark, maybe it's something in the offseason. He's gonna 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:55.760 you know, what, where was my disconnect? Was it you know, 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.640 in conditioning? Probably not? Was it in you know this? 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.440 Or you know, sometimes it's your trying to focus on 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.160 one thing right now may not be the best for him. 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:05.880 He's trying to figure out how he can get through 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.919 six and you know, when when you've lost command, you know, 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.880 four walks, that's I mean, you're you're you're you're putting 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.680 guys on and putting yourself in high stress situations to 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.720 now I have to make this perfect pitch. And when 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:19.360 you don't have your command and you don't have your 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.320 best stuff, your best pitch is not really going to 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.560 be there. You're gonna make mistakes. And you know, when 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.200 you're making mistakes, these are big league hitters, they're going 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:28.080 to take advantage of it. 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.360 Yeah, it just seems like he's in a funk right 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:36.400 now that he can't escape and the opposition knows it. 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:41.239 And I think that that predicament is applicable to another 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.240 area of the team that we're going to talk. 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:48.080 Well, and before we get there, you mentioned that every 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.400 team that he's facing too is like, we're not going 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.560 to be the team that lets him turn it around. 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.440 You know what I mean? And that Yeah, and again 0:05:56.279 --> 0:06:00.320 just to continue being the best transition podcast in game 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.320 right now. 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That was the guy they brought in to 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:02.440 be their right handed power bat. It obviously didn't work 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.160 because they felt more confident with Ronnie Simon on the 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:09.120 roster than him, and I know they're they're gonna get 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.440 O'Neil Cruz back eventually this month. They'll get Connor Griffin 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.800 back next month. But it's like those two guys can't 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:17.680 fix all of this, especially one of them who's a 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:22.000 left handed bat. And Ezmraln Valdez looks like a rookie again, 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.920 and it just goes to show like Ozona didn't work 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:30.280 your rookies. Magic hun unintended has cooled off a little bit, 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.120 and now other guys got to step up, and there's 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:38.520 just there's just no answer there. They look helpless, and 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:42.280 they look like a team who knows when a lefty 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.480 is on the mound that they are in trouble. You 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:46.960 could just you can kind of get that energy, and 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.240 I mean, obviously that weighs on you when you have 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:54.280 that one specific guy or one specific type of pitcher 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.840 or player that does that thing. It's like when you know, hey, 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:01.720 this is our one Achilles heel. It's hard to get 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:04.640 that out of your head, especially when it starts going 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.199 early again in the game. You guys start chasing, guys 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.319 start pressing. Josh, can you just talk a little bit 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:11.800 more about that. I don't know if you've ever been 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.920 on a team that's been this bad specifically at one 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.920 element of hitting collectively, but that stuff weighs on you 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:20.600 mentally and probably makes it worse. 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:26.720 No, yeah, it definitely can, especially as a whole. You know, 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.040 just to go off of the previous segment, you mentioned schemes, 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.920 and it's more than schemes. You know, starting staff on 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:33.959 a team as a whole has been struggling, and then 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:35.880 you know, you face with, oh, here we go, we're 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.840 facing the lefty. You know, this is quote unquote what 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.480 they say we struggle with. Now you're trying not to 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:46.400 feed into, you know that that storyline. You know, so 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.559 some of these at bats may be okay, all right, 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:52.360 he got three strikeouts in a row, right, I'm not 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.040 trying to be the fourth right now, I'm not trying 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:55.679 to be the fifth. Now this guy's got eight in 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:57.560 a row. And it's like, hey, before you know it, 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.480 did you go up there with a plan or were 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.760 you just up saying I you know, we don't want 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:03.640 to you know what I mean. That's how fast this 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:08.360 game can happen. And it's just one of those things 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:12.600 where teams are they really having you know, hitters meetings 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:16.280 to where they're talking about a planned or is it 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.800 you know, I've been on teams that have hitters meeting collectively. 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.600 Now you have a lot of information where now they'll 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.440 send it to your iPad and you know, guys, yes, 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:26.720 you can do your own independent, you know, homework. But 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.720 I believe that's guys that you know would have been 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.720 in my case, you know ten plus years that understand 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.760 the grind, understand adjustments. You know you can. You could 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.480 send a guy in my situation a scout and report 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:40.760 in the video and I can, you know, make my own. 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:42.800 But if you got a bunch of young guys, you 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.560 can't just rely on this information because talking is information. 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.680 You need guys that have faced them. You need to also, hey, man, 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.520 as a group, how are we approaching this guy? You know, 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.200 it's fine to say this guy has high spin rate 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.720 and this is what. But but as a whole, what 0:10:57.720 --> 0:10:59.520 are we doing as a team. Are we trying to 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:01.280 make these bats tough? Or are we trying to work 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.280 his pitch calendar? Or are we saying, hey, this guy's 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:05.800 aggressive in the zoone. Let's all say we're trying to 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.320 hit fastballs and get on top of them and drive 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.400 them back through the middle. These are the conversations that 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.320 need to be had, and I'm not really sure if 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:16.880 they're being had. Now over, we're struggling against lefties, all right, 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.960 this guy's hogh spin rate. All right, Hey, let's that's 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.120 not doing anything but making you go up there, press 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:27.080 and trying to just try harder. You know, the game 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:31.040 doesn't need you to try harder. Trying harder, you know 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:34.199 what I mean. And in this moment where offense is struggling, 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:36.720 that's what you see is a lot of guys trying harder. 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.360 So then you start to chase pitches. Then you start 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:40.679 to doing the care Oh now we got to go 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:42.920 on second base, all right, things about the turn and 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:46.400 now you're trying to beat No, let the game be 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.560 the game, and you know, stick to the plan that 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:50.880 y'all talked about. Okay, high heater, let me make sure 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.200 I see this below the belt, you know, No, let 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:57.120 me get it. And that's where these things happen really fast, 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:00.720 and before you know it, it's down respiral and before 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:02.880 you know, you haven't had a real conversation about how 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:04.600 to attack this guy. All you know is what this 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:05.199 guy has. 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.200 Mark, I'll ask you just real quick. I mean, you're 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.880 mister optimist. Do you have any hope that this gets 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.280 resolved with the group that is or is it just 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.360 something where they're gonna have to make a waiver claim 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:19.520 or get some external help. 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.720 Still, yeah, I mean as far as left handed pitching goes, 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.360 it seems like they're going to just continue to struggle, 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:29.480 especially with teams now just pitching around Esmelan Valdez not 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.200 even giving him a chance. So, I mean, maybe there's 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.600 a waiverclaim out there where you find a right handed bat, 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:39.040 but that's gonna be a really tough find. Maybe you 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:42.400 have a guy like like the like just Hinton Garcia 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:46.240 that could step up. Look, internally, maybe there's those guys 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.760 that you know, could catch that hot streak that we 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.680 saw Smelan Valdez go on. I don't think anyone that 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:53.680 was expecting him to go on that, you know, twelve 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:57.600 hundred ops stretch or whatever. So maybe you'll find that internally, 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.160 maybe like a guy like Ronnie and Simon could get 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.920 for a little bit ride that and fades out. But yeah, 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.120 it's uh, I don't think there's going to be much 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:10.439 improvement against lefties. The one thing I do want to say, though, 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:14.320 is this offense has just continued to press and press 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:18.160 and press. We mentioned it just last week. You know, 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:22.199 they had a ton of strikeouts compared to walks. Again 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:26.600 now in the last seven days, twenty four strikeouts, sorry, 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:30.640 seventy two strikeouts to twenty four walks. There's one guy 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.800 on this team who has more than three walks in 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.360 the last seven days, and that's Zmaal and Valdes, that's it. 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.320 And he has eight walks. But you know he's batting 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:46.040 like zero point fifty striking out. Yeah, so he's basically 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:49.680 they're walking or striking out and that's it. So yeah, 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:53.240 the offensive struggles are tough. I think if they get 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.119 a little bit of confidence, you know, hitting is contagious, 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.960 they can We haven't really seen this offense go on 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.280 like a crazy tear. This team go on a crazy tear. 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.400 You gotta feel like that they have one of those 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:08.200 in their tank this year. Will it be enough? Who knows? 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:09.840 Will it be against left handed pitching? 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:10.360 Who knows? 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:12.200 But round us out here. 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.080 Yeah, just to look at it, I mean, it's really 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.439 easy to understand why they can't hit left handed pitching. 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:25.280 Here are their right handed hitters, Roe Flores, Justinstan Garcia, Valdez. 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.880 Those are three rookies right there, and then their non 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.880 rookies just as far as strict right handed bats are 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.920 Henry Davis, Jared Triolo, and Nick Gonzalez. Of that group, 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.000 only one of those guys has ever really had an 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:42.360 above average OPS and that's Nick Gonzalez this year. Yeah, 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.560 and you don't have to throw him anything to hit Valdez. 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:47.320 You don't have to throw him anything to hit I mean, 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:49.520 Ozuna was a part of that, but he wasn't doing anything. 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.400 So just you look at this lineup. This is like 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:56.280 a Pirate's twenty nineteen lineup, or not twenty nineteen, excuse me, 0:14:56.440 --> 0:15:00.640 is a Pirates twenty twenty five lineup. That's what that's. 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.680 And when they were a bad offense because when you 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.880 don't have Lao and O'Hearn, I mean, and even Griffin 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:10.640 around right now, like you don't have the help here 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.120 and you have a lesser version of Mangum Anddi and Reynolds, 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:17.480 you're just not getting they don't have the horses. So 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:21.040 I don't know, I think the only situation that I 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.320 or the only solution that I could offer is maybe 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.560 you just fully commit to small ball against lefties. You 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:31.360 just make the fastest lineup possible and focus on contact 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.920 and stealing bases and being super aggressive on the bases 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.200 and just try to put as much pressure try to steal, 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.240 like you try to take extra bases, and that might 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.160 be your only hope because I look at these right 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.000 handed bats and there are no answers there. 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.800 That's baseball. Put the ball in play. But at the 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:52.600 same time, as I mentioned, it's a different era of baseball, 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:56.680 and you know, you just have that couple with guys 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:01.120 that haven't had very much success against lefties, so you're 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.400 going up there without a plan and you don't have 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:09.760 much success. It's it's gonna be tough, but it's it's 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.160 one of those things where as I said, when the 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.920 team is not playing well, offense is gonna press even 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.280 more because that's the one area that guys feel they 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:20.960 can control. You know, Defense is like, okay, I need 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.640 them to hit me the ball. Pitching is like sometimes 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.000 pitchers are gonna struggle, but offense it's like, okay, this 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.240 is my bat. These are team at bats. We can score. 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:32.680 And when it's not going. Sometimes the plate feels like 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.240 the the loneliest place because it's like, man, now we 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:40.040 don't it's been a week and you know, one game. 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:42.280 We didn't realize one game is just one game. But 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:46.440 now you look up it's a week later and it's like, yeah, okay, yep. 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:49.400 All right, we're gonna take another quick break when we 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.000 come back. We wrap up this week's show with Jay 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.720 hay now Here on Bucco Territory. 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.680 This is that time of year, aj. It is Baseball's 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.880 time to shine, and it is se geeks time to 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:05.520 shine with MLB tickets and finding the best pricing, seating 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:09.879 and games that are even sold out available on Sea Geek. 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:12.840 Absolutely if you want to go to the biggest matchups 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:15.560 coming up. We have Yankees clubs coming up. Where's Yankees 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.040 red Sox? 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Just 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.159 I guess now that we're here, I haven't really had 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.400 time to process it, but it's gonna be a highlighting 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.560 this weekend, being able to come back there with my 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:34.840 family and you know, experience the love that you know, 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.480 the family the city has showed me and my family 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:41.639 throughout my playing career and even post so I just 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:45.159 want to highlight the city of Pittsburgh, the organization for 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:48.240 you know, making this a special moment. As I said, 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:51.119 I don't think I really have processed it yet. Probably 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.199 will hit me a little bit more as the weekend 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:56.119 goes on, but that's kind of what I got, you know, 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:58.560 excited to come back and you know, enjoy this moment 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:02.560 with my family, uh, some close friends and you know, 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:06.280 go back to my stomping grounds and you know, close 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:08.359 the final chapter. I know a lot of guys don't 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:13.600 get this opportunity and just excited for you know, not 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.320 anything that I thought about or I guess anybody really 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:19.159 thinks about. So as we get closer, it's kind of 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:21.280 cool to sit here and say, Okay, man, you know 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:22.680 it's gonna be pretty cool weekend. 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:26.080 It is gonna be a cool weekend. It's gonna be 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:29.119 cool obviously to see you get your flowers. I've already 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:31.080 went on that spiel. Don't need to go down that 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:33.399 road again. It's just gonna be cool to see a 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:35.640 lot of number five jerseys around the ballpark. I've really 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:37.840 enjoyed how the Pirates have been promoting this. You've seen 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:42.440 the commercials on the TV broadcast during commercial breaks, the 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:47.639 highlights they've been posting of yours Josh, and the countdown 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:51.920 days until Josh Harrison gets recognized. The shirt looks cool. 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:56.080 One Pirate shirt I will allow myself to wear because 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.479 you know, I'm just supporting a coworker. That's all I'm doing. Ye, 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:02.480 But yeah, I'm pretty pumped and Mark, Mark and I 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:04.040 are going to be there to support you. Mark, you 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:05.280 got anything you want to add on this? 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:09.280 Oh, I'm just so excited. If you're listening to this show, up, 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:11.960 come say hi. Josh is going to be like signing 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.960 some autographs I think around the park on Saturday. It's 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:18.199 going to be a great time. The T shirt is 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:21.760 just so sick. I cannot wait to rock that. And 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.520 I'm just looking forward to seeing my guy Jay hey here, 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:30.560 so very well deserved love all the fan recognition. Just 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:33.800 people are excited for this, Josh. I probably see a 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:36.439 lot more of that just being on Twitter constantly, and 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:40.439 people are pumped so love that the Pirates are doing this, 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:43.560 doing it the right way, doing it well. It's going 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:46.000 to be a fantastic weekend and I can't wait to 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:49.440 recap it with you guys on Sunday for our episode 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:52.960 Monday here. So and to make sure that you catch 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:56.439 our Monday episode here, make sure you hit that subscribe button. 0:20:57.040 --> 0:20:59.800 We're trying to get to three thousand subscribers, can't do 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:02.399 that without you hit the like, hit a comment, let 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:04.600 us know that you're going to be there and uh, 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:06.880 you know, maybe show up in some buck of territory 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:09.960 merch to the ballpark. 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