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Speaker 3: Let a Snake Episode four oh one, only thirty five
Speaker 3: minutes late, so we're right on time, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3: As always myself Adam Shore, we're here with Jim Stam
Speaker 3: know Scott Moore today due to some technical difficulties, and
Speaker 3: it's hard to point the finger on this one because
Speaker 3: we have no idea what's going on. We've kind of
Speaker 3: chalked it up to an issue with stream yard and
Speaker 3: the fact that we're thirty five minutes past showtime.
Speaker 4: We're just gonna go for it today.
Speaker 3: And why delay it any longer, Jim, When it's episode
Speaker 3: four oh one and the Pirates just lost three of
Speaker 3: four to the Milwaukee after losing three or four to
Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Reds, the floor is yours.
Speaker 5: Well, maybe our technical difficulties and not figuring out who's
Speaker 5: at fault is very apropos should I say for the Pirates,
Speaker 5: because it seems like anytime anything's going well, something else
Speaker 5: is the problem, and it's very uneven and they can't
Speaker 5: get everything to kind of get going at the same time.
Speaker 2: And you know, listen, Adam, buddy.
Speaker 6: We we're not performing an autopsy just yet, but I
Speaker 6: feel like we're in last rights territory, if you know
Speaker 6: what I mean.
Speaker 2: So doesn't it feel that way to you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know what, the autopsy's gonna show.
Speaker 3: There's not a who done it situation here, it's we're
Speaker 3: very well aware of what's going on. You said it
Speaker 3: perfectly though. It's just the stars have not aligned for
Speaker 3: this team this season. You go into the season and
Speaker 3: it's this should be one of the best staffs in baseball,
Speaker 3: and you'll get Jared Jones back, and then you'll worry
Speaker 3: about just the abundance of arms that you have. This
Speaker 3: is going to be a great problem you bring in bats.
Speaker 3: The offense right away is top five in baseball. They've
Speaker 3: been awesome. The bullpen's bad. At the beginning of the year,
Speaker 3: the bullpen's bad a quarter of the way through the year.
Speaker 3: The bullpen's bat up until the All Star break, You've
Speaker 3: blown seventeen eighteen nineteen saves.
Speaker 4: You can't hold games. So what do you do.
Speaker 3: You go out and you address the bullpen. You bring
Speaker 3: in the best reliever in baseball outside of Mason Miller
Speaker 3: and Luke Weaver. You bring in Camilla Deval, who has
Speaker 3: good stuff control a bit of an issue.
Speaker 4: You bring in a veteran in Kirby Yates.
Speaker 3: You bring in Lake Baker, who has been really good
Speaker 3: outside of a couple of starts this year. And then
Speaker 3: the offense can't get going, and the bullpen's been pretty
Speaker 3: good lately. They've been fine, They've been doing enough to
Speaker 3: keep them in games. And then you start to realize
Speaker 3: the worst case scenario is happening. Where I didn't mention
Speaker 3: the defense, which was also a concern, but you were
Speaker 3: scoring enough runs and you hope the starting pitching can
Speaker 3: keep you in it. But now not only can the
Speaker 3: offense not score enough runs, the defense is also causing
Speaker 3: you more pain in anguish than the starting rotation or
Speaker 3: then the bullpen. So it's just a rotating cast of
Speaker 3: the worst case scenario throughout the year. And it's sad
Speaker 3: to say it, but like or I shouldn't say sad.
Speaker 3: I think it's incredible to say that this team is
Speaker 3: still somehow around the five hundred mark with everything that
Speaker 3: they've gone through. Gym, it's kind of outstanding considering all
Speaker 3: of the losses that they've had and they're still what
Speaker 3: four games four and a half games back, like you'd
Speaker 3: expect them to be twenty at this point.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's that's what's so frustrating about it, right,
Speaker 5: you know, And it's like, you know, we uh, since
Speaker 5: Steeler training camp is upon us.
Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin liked to.
Speaker 5: Talk about popcorn right like it was all these like
Speaker 5: popcorn issues just popping up around that were causing them
Speaker 5: to lose.
Speaker 2: As a team.
Speaker 5: And I definitely feel like that is what is happening
Speaker 5: right now.
Speaker 2: It's like.
Speaker 5: It's full blown popcorn now and they cannot seem to
Speaker 5: steady the ship enough to get through it. And it's
Speaker 5: really happening at the worst possible time. And I don't know, Adam,
Speaker 5: if you look at things, does this did as Merlin
Speaker 5: Valdez cover things up offensively for about a month when
Speaker 5: this team has lost so much offensively, with Cruz and
Speaker 5: KG and O'Hearn going down and Horowitz and whatever did
Speaker 5: was he covering up some warts and then when he
Speaker 5: went cold too, boy, it's it's not a pretty site offensively.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because when he went cold, or I should say
Speaker 3: the inverse, when he was hot, guys like Brandon Low
Speaker 3: and Ryan O'Hearn and Brian Reynolds were starting to slow
Speaker 3: down significantly, but he was providing enough power in the
Speaker 3: middle of that lineup almost unprecedented. You know, there's only
Speaker 3: been a few guys that did what he did right
Speaker 3: out the gates. Okay, he's got what sixteen seventeen home
Speaker 3: runs already he mashed and a lot of those were
Speaker 3: multi run home runs, right, two run, three run home runs,
Speaker 3: And that can change the game. This team has lacked
Speaker 3: in the past month or so, a guy that, or
Speaker 3: at least multiple guys that can swing the bat in
Speaker 3: a moment's notice and change a game like an oneal cruise.
Speaker 3: Brandon Law was that guy starting to get back to
Speaker 3: it a little bit more now he went deep today,
Speaker 3: But yeah, I would say as Maryland was a huge
Speaker 3: component of them just staying afloat.
Speaker 4: A massive one.
Speaker 3: And you mentioned some tomlinisms here, and I think one
Speaker 3: that's really relevant is pressure, Okay, because pressure is forever relevant, Jim.
Speaker 3: You're either feeling it or you're applying it, all right,
Speaker 3: and the Pirates are definitely feeling it right now. They
Speaker 3: have not applied pressure to any team that they've played.
Speaker 4: After the All Star Break.
Speaker 3: You thought coming out to Cleveland, it looked better, right,
Speaker 3: It looked good. Jacob Gonzalez gets his first starts back
Speaker 3: after being traded as Maryland Valdez. Again, looks good. They
Speaker 3: take care of business, and then it kind of just
Speaker 3: all goes downhill. And I think it's just a product
Speaker 3: of maybe guys trying to do too much, not being
Speaker 3: familiar with the situations that they're in, and then also
Speaker 3: just a lot of moving pieces and a lot of
Speaker 3: just not being lucky with all the doubleheaders and all
Speaker 3: the extra innings and the weather delays and you got wildfires.
Speaker 4: They just haven't been able to catch a break.
Speaker 3: And that's not an excuse, but it's just a recipe
Speaker 3: for disaster for a team that really needs everything to
Speaker 3: click at one time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a bit of a bit of a hodgepodge
Speaker 5: of factors coming together and nothing you do bring up
Speaker 5: a good point. You know, besides Brandon Lawe, who won
Speaker 5: this team, has been in this situation, you know, where
Speaker 5: you know games matter and you don't have a lot
Speaker 5: of room for error. We've either got young guys that
Speaker 5: clearly would never have experienced it because they're young. Or
Speaker 5: take for instance, Brian Reynolds. He has never played in
Speaker 5: games in August that have, you know, and certainly his
Speaker 5: whether it's due to this or not, but he's not
Speaker 5: swinging the bat well. As a matter of fact, he
Speaker 5: had a really bad series here against Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: So I do think you have guys that aren't used
Speaker 2: to being in this situation.
Speaker 5: And boy, baseball is not the sport you want to
Speaker 5: pick the press. It's you know, it rarely goes well.
Speaker 5: And I think you've seen signs of that. Young guys
Speaker 5: trying to do too much and veterans maybe just not
Speaker 5: coming up with the hits that you had hoped.
Speaker 2: That they would.
Speaker 3: There's two other guys that have pitched in meaningful situations.
Speaker 3: One has been here for what three games in Camillo
Speaker 3: de all and one Luke Weaver, who.
Speaker 4: Has just not pitched at all.
Speaker 3: Yet Yeah, those are on the other two guys that
Speaker 3: have pitched in big moments or have played in big moments,
Speaker 3: I should say, Right, they showed a clip of Brandon
Speaker 3: Low hitting a home run in the World Series off
Speaker 3: to us in May today that you know, we haven't
Speaker 3: had a moment like that in.
Speaker 4: Thirteen years or whatever it is, Right, So.
Speaker 3: There's a lot going on, and I think it boils
Speaker 3: down to this gym is we talked about them having
Speaker 3: enough talent.
Speaker 4: Well, I guess here, I'll circle back.
Speaker 3: Marcelo Zuna was probably the last guy I played in
Speaker 3: a meaningful moment, and ironically, yeah, so I think it
Speaker 3: comes down to this. And we talked to guys on
Speaker 3: the show earlier on in the year when they started
Speaker 3: to first go through their little bit of skid with
Speaker 3: the comeback, when they Philadelphia came to town and Dennis
Speaker 3: Intana blew up and they thought they had those series
Speaker 3: and these things were just getting away from them, and
Speaker 3: we really could tell that they were just not getting
Speaker 3: beat but losing games, and they were so close to
Speaker 3: just taking a lot of series that they weren't taking.
Speaker 3: And you could still feel confident that this was a
Speaker 3: good baseball team. You talked to guys like Jake Mangum
Speaker 3: and Brandon Lau and they told us on the show, Yeah,
Speaker 3: we know we're not happy with where we're at, but
Speaker 3: like we got to keep pushing and it's going to
Speaker 3: be there eventually. We've talked to coaches on the team
Speaker 3: that are just waiting for that streak that seemingly every
Speaker 3: baseball team somewhat goes through. Every confidence in baseball team
Speaker 3: goes have gone bad. Teams will win ad in a row.
Speaker 3: This team just hasn't been able to do it. And
Speaker 3: I think that's going to be the biggest killer looking
Speaker 3: back on it is, Hey, this team had a lot
Speaker 3: of good talent.
Speaker 4: They had enough to win. They just couldn't string them together.
Speaker 3: And we could talk about bouncing back and going out
Speaker 3: there and beating the Mets. It's got to start somewhere, right, Like,
Speaker 3: I'm not ready to give up. Baseball is a crazy sport.
Speaker 3: I've seen crazier things happen. I've seen teams going runs.
Speaker 3: But it's going to come down to this team just
Speaker 3: going on that Red Sox like run or that Colorado
Speaker 3: like run when they were in the World Series with
Speaker 3: Clint Hurtle where you just don't lose ball games and
Speaker 3: you're playing good baseball, and there hasn't been enough shown
Speaker 3: as of late to make a fan feel confident in that.
Speaker 4: I still feel confident because I mean a.
Speaker 3: Part of me is a little bit sick in the head,
Speaker 3: and I like watching baseball, and I know how difficult
Speaker 3: this game is, and I know how anything can happen
Speaker 3: on any given day. You talk about any given Sunday,
Speaker 3: BS baseball is really any given day, anything can happen.
Speaker 3: Anyone can win, doesn't matter who's out there. You could
Speaker 3: have nine show heyo, tanis something different can happen every
Speaker 3: single day.
Speaker 4: And the concerning part.
Speaker 3: Is not the bullpen, the offense, slowing, the starting rotation.
Speaker 3: It's just the inability for one, even all of it
Speaker 3: to click at maybe around fifty sixty percent, but just
Speaker 3: to win three games in a row, right, or to
Speaker 3: carry over wins two wins from a series into another series.
Speaker 3: It feels like every single series we're starting over. We're
Speaker 3: in that mentality where, Okay, we lose to the Reds,
Speaker 3: the Brewers got to take care of the Brewers statement series,
Speaker 3: Oh that doesn't happen.
Speaker 4: We go to the Mets.
Speaker 3: Oh can't beat the Mets. All right, it's gonna start now, right.
Speaker 3: We shouldn't be living series to series. It should be
Speaker 3: more of a cohesive like, let's get this thing rolling here.
Speaker 3: And it's just too much choppiness right now, Jim, it
Speaker 3: really is. And that's the most frustrating part to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think when you look at this thing like.
Speaker 5: This is why all those games that the bullpen struggled early,
Speaker 5: Like really, this is where you really feel like the
Speaker 5: brunt of it, right, because teams do go through stretches
Speaker 5: where you just don't play good baseball and you don't
Speaker 5: hit the ball even you know, I mean, look at
Speaker 5: the Dodgers right now.
Speaker 2: With what they're doing.
Speaker 5: They're not hitting the ball all that well, they're struggling,
Speaker 5: But you build up a cushion, right, so then when
Speaker 5: these things kind of occur, you're not you know, hanging
Speaker 5: on for dear life and by a threat.
Speaker 2: So this is where those games in May.
Speaker 5: And June really come back, and you really feel it
Speaker 5: because if you go to and six like they just did,
Speaker 5: but you have built up you.
Speaker 2: Know, you're nine ten games over five hundred.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it stings, but you're still in a decent spot
Speaker 5: to still accomplish the goals you want to.
Speaker 2: And that's where I.
Speaker 5: Think it really comes down to, Like, this season's probably
Speaker 5: not been lost now. It was lost early, and it
Speaker 5: was lost in April, May and June with the struggles.
Speaker 4: That they've had.
Speaker 5: That's just my take on I don't know if you
Speaker 5: agree with it, but because the offense was never going
Speaker 5: to just rake from Game one to one sixty two,
Speaker 5: they just weren't.
Speaker 3: That's how baseball works, especially offense. It's impossible. You just
Speaker 3: mentioned the Dodgers are going through it and the Dodgers
Speaker 3: can do no wrong. Yeah, if you look back on
Speaker 3: it and the season doesn't go the way we wanted
Speaker 3: to go at the end of August, going into September,
Speaker 3: whatever it is, you're gonna look back a little bit
Speaker 3: deeper into those games where Dennis Santana was blowing game
Speaker 3: after game after game where they couldn't find the strike zone,
Speaker 3: where you're going through different bullpen arms, and you add
Speaker 3: it up and it's like, oh my god, Like, where
Speaker 3: could this team go if everything worked out?
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, that's just not the situation right now, and that's
Speaker 4: just not where we're at.
Speaker 5: No and that's what's so confusing about this team, because
Speaker 5: you still look at things like war and f R
Speaker 5: and run differential.
Speaker 2: It doesn't add up, you know. And then part of.
Speaker 5: That, I think is just like we knew this roster
Speaker 5: wasn't perfectly constructed, and little things chip.
Speaker 2: Away at that.
Speaker 5: And it's been enough to where we're sitting here in
Speaker 5: August and we're not listen. A week ago they were
Speaker 5: in a playoff spot. So a lot can change in
Speaker 5: a week obviously, I mean we're five games out now,
Speaker 5: you know, but what we've got seven weeks left. A
Speaker 5: lot can change in those seven weeks too. But man,
Speaker 5: they gotta start stringing together. They don't even have to
Speaker 5: win seven in a row, but hey, eight of eleven
Speaker 5: something like that.
Speaker 2: To get you back on the positive side of things.
Speaker 3: There needs to be an energy shift their hats. The
Speaker 3: guys are doing too much, you know what. I think
Speaker 3: I've done this on the show before, But by the
Speaker 3: third fourth inning, we're hearing a lot of this gym.
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh is out.
Speaker 3: Of challenge just because we're getting a lot of emotional
Speaker 3: at bats. Yeah right, We're getting a lot of guys
Speaker 3: trying to do too much where you're seeing challenges on
Speaker 3: one two counts or two to one counts, when guys
Speaker 3: are up in the count early on in a game
Speaker 3: where they just they're trying to do too much in
Speaker 3: even low leverage situations, and then you're putting yourself at
Speaker 3: risk deeper into the games where the challenges just keep
Speaker 3: getting worse and worse.
Speaker 4: I mean, like, the guys at the end of the
Speaker 4: day have to perform.
Speaker 3: And this is a really tough time of the year
Speaker 3: for the Pirates Universe, Pirates Twitter Universe, because everybody wants
Speaker 3: to point a finger, right.
Speaker 2: Sure, it's it's blame. It's blame time.
Speaker 3: Right, I'll say this. You're still watching baseball games right now. Okay,
Speaker 3: by this time last year, you're fully locked in on
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers on.
Speaker 4: The Pat McAfee show.
Speaker 3: All right, Like there is still some conversation about this
Speaker 3: team doing right by you.
Speaker 4: They have to execute.
Speaker 3: There are glaring issues right now that are preventing this
Speaker 3: team from stacking. Okay, and what I think it really
Speaker 3: boils down to Jim And there's a decent amount of
Speaker 3: people here listening.
Speaker 4: Now. This team desperately needs Connor. Griffin desperately needs Connor Griffin.
Speaker 4: We talked about when the first and when he was
Speaker 4: out and Cruise was out and Horwitz was out, that
Speaker 4: he needs to be back.
Speaker 3: Like all these other guys, they're key in the lineup,
Speaker 3: but he is the guy. When they went into this offseason,
Speaker 3: they understood he was going to be a part of
Speaker 3: this team and he was going to be the biggest,
Speaker 3: call it free agency acquisition, if you will, your biggest
Speaker 3: addition to this team that wasn't here last year Without him,
Speaker 3: there's too many question marks.
Speaker 4: There's not enough guys that can create havoc.
Speaker 3: There's not enough gloves of that type of caliber out
Speaker 3: on the field. You have more guys playing out of
Speaker 3: position because of that. You could put him anywhere in
Speaker 3: the lineup. He's gonna take bases without him, it's rough.
Speaker 3: Like getting Horowitz back, fantastic. I think you're starting to
Speaker 3: put together some decent at bats now. He's making some
Speaker 3: good contact. Getting Cruise back. We'll see how that goes.
Speaker 3: With the hand injury. We really haven't gotten any updates,
Speaker 3: but Connor Griffin is the biggest glaring hole on this
Speaker 3: team right now. I don't know if people disagree with
Speaker 3: that or agree with that, but the kid's twenty years
Speaker 3: old and he is the glue to actually making what
Speaker 3: they wanted to put out in the field work.
Speaker 4: Without him, it all falls apart.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say that Connor Griffin.
Speaker 2: Is like.
Speaker 5: He's the y and the juice, right, Like they look
Speaker 5: they look like a different team and a different offense,
Speaker 5: I would say him, and then o'hearne was like the heart,
Speaker 5: the heart.
Speaker 2: Part of it that. Like, really.
Speaker 5: Since o hearne went down, they've looked really pedestrous, like
Speaker 5: to another level.
Speaker 2: So like to me, those are the two guys.
Speaker 5: They seem like, look, they're all important, and when you
Speaker 5: start stacking them on top of one another, as this
Speaker 5: team has had to do, certainly it's a cumulative effect
Speaker 5: and it's gonna matter.
Speaker 2: But those those two guys, to me, it's just a
Speaker 2: shame because the Griffin stuff has been really kind of like,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you want to say freakish, but.
Speaker 5: Kind of freakish, like he's he's These are not typical injuries, right,
Speaker 5: and so you know there's been some bad luck here too.
Speaker 5: And I don't I don't want to make excuses for
Speaker 5: Bob nutting and Ben sharing and whatever, but you know,
Speaker 5: it's been on the offensive side, it's been a lot
Speaker 5: to overcome. And Griffin, certainly, you know, the way he
Speaker 5: affects the game in every possible way.
Speaker 2: Is hard to overcome.
Speaker 5: And at the most critical defensive position in my opinion.
Speaker 4: There it is the short thought.
Speaker 3: Man, Yeah, that's the position that they've lacked for years
Speaker 3: and years and years, and you get a guy of
Speaker 3: that caliber, and there was talks about maybe putting him
Speaker 3: in center field when he was coming up through the system,
Speaker 3: and he just kept getting better in the middle of
Speaker 3: the infield, and yeah, losing KG and Rhino, I tell
Speaker 3: you what, Jim, when we were in the clubhouse in Cincinnati,
Speaker 3: we go into the locker room after that heartbreaking loss
Speaker 3: where there's the Brandon Law air that nicknsals mental freeze
Speaker 3: throwing to second base, which we really didn't get into
Speaker 3: too much on the last show because your eyes can
Speaker 3: see what's going on here.
Speaker 4: We don't need to state the obvious for you.
Speaker 3: But people say when you like, you could hear a
Speaker 3: pin draw right, and it's kind of it's just like, oh, yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: Like it was the quietest I've ever seen a major
Speaker 3: league clubhouse in our time doing this, and it was
Speaker 3: so sad because you could see, like for the first
Speaker 3: time this year, like there's been other times where we've
Speaker 3: gone in there after a heartbreaking loss and you know,
Speaker 3: some guys are still talking or drinking beers and understanding, like, hey, shower,
Speaker 3: well today, you think about it maybe till midnight and
Speaker 3: then tomorrow's a new day. It was the first time
Speaker 3: where it seemed different, right, like now that maybe it's
Speaker 3: meaningful baseball, like that was really a stake that maybe's
Speaker 3: not driven all the way into the skull, but it's
Speaker 3: it's almost there, right, and somebody's got their foot down
Speaker 3: on it. And between you know, Nikki g and then
Speaker 3: seeing Rhino in the crutches, it was it was truly
Speaker 3: it was heartbreaking, Like I felt, was.
Speaker 2: That the game that o'harn got hurt it right?
Speaker 4: Yes, okay.
Speaker 3: And it was also the first time where we've gone
Speaker 3: to a Don Kelly postgame press conference and Donnie, as
Speaker 3: you know now, you get a lot of coach speak
Speaker 3: with it. He's going to back his guys, he's going
Speaker 3: to try and keep it positive and you know, tomorrow's
Speaker 3: a new day. And he did for the most part,
Speaker 3: but you could tell like it was the first time
Speaker 3: where I really saw him.
Speaker 4: A bit dejected as well.
Speaker 3: And then you start to realize, like, how can these
Speaker 3: guys back up from it?
Speaker 4: Like how like how can you get back on the horse?
Speaker 3: And man, it's starting to become more difficult between losing
Speaker 3: those guys Jim and then dealing with the pressure of
Speaker 3: trying to make a postseason and forever.
Speaker 4: It's it's a tough hill to climb.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think too, like, hey, by the way, Matt,
Speaker 5: glad to have you, buddy. I don't think Austin Hayes
Speaker 5: is in the picture. I think they're going to look
Speaker 5: inward for anything with this clubhouse right now, try to
Speaker 5: get it. I think additions are are are done and
Speaker 5: over with if they get it done. Matt asks, what's
Speaker 5: your opinion of bringing in Austin Hayes. I don't, Adam,
Speaker 5: do you foresee anything at this point?
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 4: No, it's a flyer.
Speaker 3: I think the Ronnie Simon move tells you all that
Speaker 3: you need to know and for what it's worth. I
Speaker 3: love the bats that he put together today. I mean,
Speaker 3: the guy's making hard contact defensively. He scares me a
Speaker 3: little bit out there I think that's been the case
Speaker 3: his whole career. He's been able to barrel balls pretty well,
Speaker 3: but put together some things at bats. So whatever you're
Speaker 3: getting now is going to be internally and unless, yeah,
Speaker 3: someone really falls into their lap.
Speaker 5: I think so I got sidetracked there. I'm not even
Speaker 5: sure what we were talking about before.
Speaker 4: I just.
Speaker 2: I do think it's going to be looking internally.
Speaker 5: And you know, I think what I think watching this
Speaker 5: Brewers series, it's hard not to be super impressed with them.
Speaker 5: You know, they they man, they just play a solid
Speaker 5: brand of baseball. They put the ball in play, They
Speaker 5: make great decisions on the bass pads, they throw to
Speaker 5: the right bases, their pitchings very solid. Their bullpen is
Speaker 5: really good. It's hard to have to be impressed with them.
Speaker 5: I think, you know, the Pirates have tried to win
Speaker 5: a lot of games just by kind of you know,
Speaker 5: out hitting teams. But you see what a really good
Speaker 5: sound baseball team Milwaukee is, and they impressed me in
Speaker 5: this series because on paper, I don't think you would
Speaker 5: look at this and think they're that much better than
Speaker 5: the Pirates, or at least offensively, but yet they keep rolling.
Speaker 3: Jim, They're only going to get better, Like I don't
Speaker 3: know if you've looked at their minor league system, Like,
Speaker 3: this team is going to get better. They have his
Speaker 3: Zeus made number one prospect in baseball. Who's gonna be up?
Speaker 3: Luis Pena is going to be up. At some point,
Speaker 3: they were in the talks for Trek Scouble. Could you imagine?
Speaker 3: Could you imagine having to go through Schooble and miz Like.
Speaker 2: I thought Justin Dustin May was a super stright pickup.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he looked great today too. He's got experience in
Speaker 3: the postseason as well. So, man, we're really gonna have
Speaker 3: to dig deep. Talking you forget the team right now, Like,
Speaker 3: let's focus on the people watching the show and the
Speaker 3: people that tune in every single day.
Speaker 4: You're gonna have to dig deep.
Speaker 3: It gets tough as a fan watching one hundred and
Speaker 3: sixty two games.
Speaker 4: And I know a lot of you out there do that.
Speaker 2: I do that.
Speaker 4: I go to eighty of them a year, right, Jim
Speaker 4: goes too close to that.
Speaker 3: I mean, like we're at the ballpark all the time,
Speaker 3: and when you're not, you're watching the games or you're
Speaker 3: digesting some type of baseball information.
Speaker 4: We're again we're not well. We're not well people.
Speaker 3: That's why we're doing this right now, why we're talking
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 2: We're very sick. We're very sick, man.
Speaker 3: And and I don't know if this is a cope
Speaker 3: for myself, but to keep that positive mentality and understanding
Speaker 3: that baseball is an extremely difficult game and anything can happen.
Speaker 3: That's going to be like the main factor that's pushing
Speaker 3: us forward as fans. Now, we're going to still show
Speaker 3: up to the ballpark. We're going to grind it out
Speaker 3: every single day and and make what we do fun
Speaker 3: because baseball is fun. But in terms of the viewer experience,
Speaker 3: it's hard to hang on to every single pitch knowing
Speaker 3: that you're falling deeper and deeper into the hole.
Speaker 4: And that's what's going to be difficult.
Speaker 3: And I really hope I don't see an empty P
Speaker 3: and C park that gets worse and worse as the
Speaker 3: season progresses, Like I really want to capture this moment
Speaker 3: that you said it beautifully earlier on in the show.
Speaker 3: A week ago, they had sole possession of that wildcard
Speaker 3: spot and then it goes.
Speaker 4: Away in a week.
Speaker 3: So in a week's time, something can change and your
Speaker 3: opinion can change right now.
Speaker 4: It's okay to be a little bit sad and upset
Speaker 4: about it. That's fine.
Speaker 3: I think riding that emotional roller coaster throughout the baseball
Speaker 3: season is necessary.
Speaker 4: But just remember things can change, guy.
Speaker 3: Teams could go on crazy losing streaks like things have
Speaker 3: happened now, have they put themselves in a situation where
Speaker 3: a lot of other external factors need to happen in
Speaker 3: order for them to succeed this year?
Speaker 4: Of course, one hundred percent. Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Other teams need to lose, Other teams need to fall
Speaker 3: apart to some degree, and the Pirates have to take
Speaker 3: advantage of that. But we gotta find that one game
Speaker 3: this year. We gotta find that one game. And I've
Speaker 3: been trying to circle every game. I'm like, okay, after
Speaker 3: Game one of the Brewers series, if they win Game two,
Speaker 3: I'm making a video, a hype video, getting everybody on board,
Speaker 3: saying like, this is when we go on our run,
Speaker 3: this is when we get hot.
Speaker 4: The team needs to get hot. I'm gonna be I'm
Speaker 4: gonna beat it.
Speaker 3: Told that the team needs to get hot, gen they
Speaker 3: need to go on a streak in order for us
Speaker 3: to keep believing it just has to happen.
Speaker 5: WHOA, Hey, look, I'll go back to what you just said.
Speaker 5: There's one thing in particular is like I would prefer
Speaker 5: not to go to these games and people take out
Speaker 5: forty years of frustration on this club, Like I don't
Speaker 5: think and you know, people will hear this and say,
Speaker 5: well forty years. I'm tired and I'm sick of it,
Speaker 5: and I'm a fan, and I pay for tickets and
Speaker 5: I'll go and say what I want and do what
Speaker 5: I want. I don't think the effort on the field
Speaker 5: has been the issue.
Speaker 2: With this team. I think things could have.
Speaker 5: Turned out different, and I'll hope that they will. And
Speaker 5: if they don't, Man, I don't see it with this
Speaker 5: team that they deserve that type of vitriol. I think
Speaker 5: there's been enough things happen with them that probably I
Speaker 5: don't think they deserve that. And I think that's maybe
Speaker 5: what you're touching on too, is that this team, Yeah,
Speaker 5: is that this team? I mean Ryan O'Hearn exploded his
Speaker 5: squad in the bottom of the ninth on a ground
Speaker 5: out because trying to give you ninety feet and try
Speaker 5: to get on base. You know, have things worked out?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 5: Has Skeme's been good down the stretch, Absolutely not, and
Speaker 5: they deserve criticism for that. But just you know, to
Speaker 5: the extent that when I go to a game, yeah,
Speaker 5: I would still prefer to see most of these guys
Speaker 5: are giving their best effort.
Speaker 2: It just hasn't worked out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think both can be true, right, Like you
Speaker 3: shouldn't be booing the product on the field, and like,
Speaker 3: I think at the same time, like you can be
Speaker 3: an encouraging fan and you could be upset with some
Speaker 3: decisions that are made, Like that's your right as a
Speaker 3: baseball fan. And you mentioned forty years of losing, Like,
Speaker 3: I think you're entitled to some of that, absolutely, and
Speaker 3: it shouldn't it shouldn't run your life to the point
Speaker 3: where you're just a miserable human being walking around. Again,
Speaker 3: I am most of the time, because yeah.
Speaker 4: Look what we're doing right now.
Speaker 3: But all of it can be true, and you could
Speaker 3: still show up there and be a Pirates fan.
Speaker 4: Like, let's boil it down to what that is right now.
Speaker 3: And I'm not trying to give you some type of
Speaker 3: propaganda speech, but like, if we're going to play some
Speaker 3: meaningful baseball, I think this is a big part of it,
Speaker 3: and I think it's showing up and trying to live
Speaker 3: and like right again, ride the highs and the lows,
Speaker 3: and hope that the highs start to pick up a
Speaker 3: little bit more throughout this year because we don't know
Speaker 3: what's going to happen next year.
Speaker 4: We don't know what that's going to look like. And
Speaker 4: you know, for.
Speaker 3: The first time in a long time, you got some
Speaker 3: guys on this team that are very likable, that are
Speaker 3: very talented, that can do it.
Speaker 4: We're just unfortunately not seeing it right now.
Speaker 3: And that sucks, Like, don't get me wrong, that sucks
Speaker 3: watching those games and just feeling so out of it,
Speaker 3: and every loss really just adding you know, maybe a
Speaker 3: loss earlier in the year adds like a feather to
Speaker 3: the scales, but now it's five at a time, and
Speaker 3: it's starting you're starting to feel it a lot more.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, like it really comes down to, is
Speaker 5: you know, seven weeks left.
Speaker 2: You need a good week or two.
Speaker 5: If you don't get that good week or two, it's
Speaker 5: you know, the odds aren't are not in your favor.
Speaker 2: They need that. Will they get it?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Am I gonna try to go and enjoy baseball, simply
Speaker 5: because I don't know what's going on beyond this year.
Speaker 2: You know, we've talked about it many times off you know,
Speaker 2: off camera, which is we don't know. And so.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they've certainly given themselves zero room for error. We'll
Speaker 5: we'll see what this weekend looks like and go from there.
Speaker 2: That's all we can do.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna ask you, Jim, Yeah, what's going on with Paul?
Speaker 3: Because the your ear a's over five in the last month.
Speaker 3: It's not being good in people want to talk about
Speaker 3: the villa. Even the villa looked a little bit up
Speaker 3: against the Brewers, but it just the command isn't there,
Speaker 3: and maybe the fastball velocity is when that's down the
Speaker 3: a speeder, the secondary stuff isn't as significant anymore, and
Speaker 3: the splinker isn't working, and everything that made Paul Skins
Speaker 3: what Paul Skins is right now is out the window.
Speaker 4: And it just seems like it's still odd.
Speaker 3: And I posted the day before like Tomorrow's Skeens Day,
Speaker 3: because I still truly believe that, like anytime Paul Skins
Speaker 3: takes them ount, he can go out there and be
Speaker 3: Paul Skins.
Speaker 4: But it just feels.
Speaker 3: Different, like watching him out there, the presence doesn't feel
Speaker 3: like for the first time in his short career, which
Speaker 3: feels long because of the Rookie of the Year and
Speaker 3: the dominance and Cy Young and everything that he's been
Speaker 3: to major League Baseball, it feels noticeable when you're looking
Speaker 3: at him, like for the first time, it feels like
Speaker 3: he knows something is off and the aura that we've
Speaker 3: is that grown to love is baiting a little bit now,
Speaker 3: not to say that he can't get that back, but
Speaker 3: in terms of twenty twenty six, that window seems to
Speaker 3: be closing a little bit.
Speaker 4: As we get deeper into the season.
Speaker 3: By now you'd think, Okay, he makes the necessary adjustment
Speaker 3: or tweak in the mechanics or whatever it may be
Speaker 3: to get back there.
Speaker 4: But it's not looking so good right now.
Speaker 2: No, I think, like you go back to.
Speaker 5: Look, the VLO was up, So that tells me it
Speaker 5: is a bit of a decision on his part, right like, like,
Speaker 5: we don't here's the.
Speaker 2: Thing about Paul. Paul does what Paul does.
Speaker 5: And you know he has his own thing, and that's fine,
Speaker 5: He's earned that. But I do think that that answered
Speaker 5: some of those questions of is is it a choice
Speaker 5: philosophy wise, Yeah, I think he was trying to do
Speaker 5: that to maybe extend in himself into games and whatnot.
Speaker 5: Velocity was up, that was a good sign. But what
Speaker 5: it really comes down to him baseball is unless you're
Speaker 5: Jacob Izarowski and you're gonna be throwing one oh three,
Speaker 5: one oh four, location still matters. Like location is everything
Speaker 5: in baseball, and he just hasn't had that. And now
Speaker 5: does location beat Paul's schemes like it does most pitchers.
Speaker 5: Maybe not, but it puts guys on base and it racks.
Speaker 2: Up his pitch count, So.
Speaker 5: Like maybe it doesn't hurt him with like the homers
Speaker 5: and whatnot, But then you add in location walks, and
Speaker 5: then off speed stuff is more hittable because guys like
Speaker 5: Adam You know this as a hitter, when a guy's
Speaker 5: throwing gas, you have to kind of sell out.
Speaker 2: To catch up to it.
Speaker 5: You take two, three, four miles an hour off of
Speaker 5: that gas. All of a sudden you have a little
Speaker 5: bit extra time to deal with the slider, the sinker,
Speaker 5: the curve, the change up. And I think that's what's
Speaker 5: made him vulnerable. But really, at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: pictures that don't locate oftentimes get themselves in trouble. These
Speaker 5: these these major league hitters are too good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're too good.
Speaker 3: Man well said, you saw it against the Brewers when
Speaker 3: they miked up Brian Reynolds, which.
Speaker 4: By the way, getting.
Speaker 3: Good forever who had to go through that, because that
Speaker 3: could not have been easy and it might have only
Speaker 3: been a couple of seconds. But good for Brian for
Speaker 3: taking us into the encircle, in into the on deck
Speaker 3: circle and bringing us through his thought process.
Speaker 4: And while his words were.
Speaker 3: Small and little and condensed into a very specific, concise
Speaker 3: if vice is.
Speaker 4: The word I was looking for, Thank you, Jimmothy.
Speaker 3: What he said meant a lot, because this guy's throwing
Speaker 3: really hard and they ask what his approach is and
Speaker 3: he's like, pretty much gotta sit, heater and react anything else,
Speaker 3: Like that's what you gotta do against a guy that's
Speaker 3: pumping ninety six plus because.
Speaker 4: If not, you are screwed. You're screwed.
Speaker 3: Unless you're that uber talented and your hands could work
Speaker 3: as fast as anyone else in the game, and you
Speaker 3: can get barrel to ball quicker than anybody, you got
Speaker 3: to sell out a little bit, and it's just so difficult,
Speaker 3: It really is. And when Paul's not hitting his spots
Speaker 3: and the VLO isn't to that point where guys have
Speaker 3: to sell out a little bit.
Speaker 4: It's not a good recipe, man, it's not.
Speaker 5: That's the difference, right, And especially like a lot of
Speaker 5: pictures work up in that zone, right, and if you can't,
Speaker 5: like ninety eight ninety nine up in the zone, maybe
Speaker 5: strikes that is you have to sell out for that
Speaker 5: to even get a piece of it most of the time.
Speaker 5: So I think that's the difference, right, And he's missing
Speaker 5: a lot more than he did.
Speaker 2: He's never been by the way.
Speaker 5: This shouldn't be a news flash to people with Paul Skins.
Speaker 5: He's never been this this uh pinpoint control guy.
Speaker 2: His stuff would play.
Speaker 5: In the zone and out of it, but the velocity
Speaker 5: was there with it too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to say this before we move on
Speaker 3: to anything else, because we do have to preview the Mets.
Speaker 3: We do have more baseball to play, Like at some
Speaker 3: point we should cut this show right now and talk
Speaker 3: about what's ahead.
Speaker 4: But I just got word, you know, like.
Speaker 3: When you get those alerts on your phone, when your
Speaker 3: phone starts buzzing in something is happening in your area
Speaker 3: that you need to be COGNI is an over lookout. Well,
Speaker 3: apparently Scott's on the run right now. And he was
Speaker 3: so upset that he could not log into the stream
Speaker 3: yard tonight and that his connection was bad or he
Speaker 3: was getting an echo, and he said, boys, just go
Speaker 3: ahead without me.
Speaker 4: He committed some crimes.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say what those crimes are because that's
Speaker 3: for the court to decide. But I think at the
Speaker 3: end of the day, the fine folks over at Farrell
Speaker 3: Weaver and Oakin are going to get him in a
Speaker 3: place where eventually you see Scott back on the show.
Speaker 4: All right, because the fine folks at Farah.
Speaker 3: Weaver and Oakin, they're gonna fight for your rights, providing
Speaker 3: aggressive and criminal defense, the pellet representation when the stakes
Speaker 3: are the highest, when accounts most experience matters, call Farah
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Speaker 4: I really really hope.
Speaker 3: Scott is okay, because this show does not run without
Speaker 3: Scott more.
Speaker 4: But the kid keeps finding trouble. It follows him. I
Speaker 4: don't know what it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's wrong place, wrong time, all the time. I
Speaker 2: don't know how about as possible.
Speaker 5: He didn't seem he didn't seem that nuts when he
Speaker 5: when when when he couldn't get on tonight. But you know,
Speaker 5: Scott's Scott's a Scott's an interesting cat.
Speaker 2: Let's just leave it at that.
Speaker 4: It boils up at some point.
Speaker 3: And for the amount of crimes that Scott has committed
Speaker 3: on this show, I'm not even certain he's going to
Speaker 3: be able to vote in the next election. Like it's
Speaker 3: getting to that point where I think Scott might be really, really, really.
Speaker 4: Getting rid of his rights.
Speaker 2: It's close. I'm sure. I'm sure. Uh Ron Maranacio didn't
Speaker 2: help this whole.
Speaker 3: Losing Ron Maranaccio, Yeah, did not help Scott Moore, the
Speaker 3: most Italian man I know, not Ron Maranaccio, Italian AF.
Speaker 4: Guys. Let's talk about the mess, all right.
Speaker 2: The Luke Weaper Bowl is like bowl.
Speaker 4: This is going to be an interesting series, all right.
Speaker 3: The Mets enter fifty and sixty six, their last in
Speaker 3: the NL East. If you remember the last time we
Speaker 3: played the Mets, it was that the disasters opening weekend where.
Speaker 4: Nothing sep went right?
Speaker 2: Is that the last time?
Speaker 4: Wow? Yeah? Right? Crazy?
Speaker 3: So that seems like a decade ago. A lot's happened
Speaker 3: since then. Thursday, tomorrow, or I should say Friday, You're
Speaker 3: gonna get Carmen Macginski Versach Thornton. Thornton this year is
Speaker 3: two and two with a two eight eight ERA in
Speaker 3: six games, thirty four and a third innings pitch twenty
Speaker 3: four k's one oh five whip. The arsenal for Thornton
Speaker 3: is a cutter, four seam, sweeper, slider, sinker, change curve.
Speaker 4: Again. This is a lefty and a strike thrower.
Speaker 2: All right, he's goodness, yeah, goodness.
Speaker 4: Very good news.
Speaker 3: He's going to succeed with command, sequencing, changing speeds, taxa zone,
Speaker 3: works quickly and keeps his defense in gage show. You're
Speaker 3: gonna put the ball in play, hopefully against the lefty.
Speaker 3: The slide is his best swinging miss offering. He's gonna
Speaker 3: throw it to both lefties and righty's, especially when a
Speaker 3: head in the count got to be aggressive early on fastballs.
Speaker 3: Then you got Bubba Chandler versus right handed pitcher Robert Stock.
Speaker 3: This year, Stock is zero to one with a one
Speaker 3: eight ERA one game, five innings, five k's with a
Speaker 3: point six whip, so not much of a sample size there.
Speaker 3: The Arsenal is a cutter for seams, sinker, sweeper change.
Speaker 3: Thirty six year old right hander has reinvented himself Jim
Speaker 3: multiple times, from being drafted as a catcher to pitching
Speaker 3: a major league baseball starring in the Korean Baseball League,
Speaker 3: and working his way.
Speaker 4: Back to the majors.
Speaker 3: He's going to attack hitters aggressively with high octane fastballs,
Speaker 3: look for strikeouts if hitters catch up to the heater.
Speaker 4: Hard contact fallows.
Speaker 3: Because he doesn't consistently locate his secondary pitches. By the way,
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Speaker 3: and you'll get all these and more Before every single series,
Speaker 3: Jared Jones will close it out on Sunday versus left
Speaker 3: handed pitcher Sean Manaiah So two lefties, guys, Yeah, he
Speaker 3: lefties woo this year Manaiah three and five with the
Speaker 3: four to three three era in twenty four games, ninety
Speaker 3: seven two thirds innings, pitch ninety five k's with a
Speaker 3: one three to eight whip. He pitched against the Pirates
Speaker 3: on March twenty ninth. He went one to one third,
Speaker 3: one hit, no earn, two walks, two k's in the
Speaker 3: four to three Pittsburgh win. Was that the one win
Speaker 3: they had that series had.
Speaker 2: To be yeah, because that, yes, it was.
Speaker 3: I think it was arsenal four seam thirty seven percent
Speaker 3: of the time, low nineties, and then everything else. Sweeper, sinker, cutter,
Speaker 3: change he's gonna mix in delivery creates a difficult angle
Speaker 3: for both lefty and righty hitters, making his fastball play
Speaker 3: up harder than the radar gun is going to suggest.
Speaker 3: Change of eye levels is done very well well. Isn't
Speaker 3: afraid to pitch inside. Sweeper is a primary put away,
Speaker 3: while the sinkers used to generate ground balls against righties
Speaker 3: don't expand with two strike, sweepers designed for chase, so
Speaker 3: do not chase, can't chase? All right, that's gonna be
Speaker 3: it for the Mets. You're getting two lefties and a
Speaker 3: hard throwing righty. Do I give my pump up speech.
Speaker 3: Go get them out of boys right now? Like, I
Speaker 3: feel like we've done enough of that already. You get
Speaker 3: fireworks tomorrow. If you're gonna find any excuse to get
Speaker 3: out there, get out there for the fireworks.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, we got fireworks. We got jay Hay. I
Speaker 2: think is that Saturday? Oh?
Speaker 5: And listen, I don't even know. I don't even know
Speaker 5: what day this is? Are you keeping that part secret too?
Speaker 2: With the glove?
Speaker 4: I'll tell you this.
Speaker 3: It's either going to be tomorrow or Saturday. Okay, it's
Speaker 3: going to be during batting practice. At some point we're
Speaker 3: going to try and give this bad boy away. This
Speaker 3: is like I I keep this in my office and
Speaker 3: it's taken everything in my power not to start breaking
Speaker 3: this bad boy in.
Speaker 5: How many times have you sniffed that glove since you've
Speaker 5: had it in your possession?
Speaker 4: Brother? I can't sniff it enough.
Speaker 3: There's not enough seconds in the day.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 5: I'm pulling that quote right there, yeah, with with no
Speaker 5: with no context.
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 4: It's?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: I tell you what.
Speaker 3: My dad came over yesterday and I was telling him
Speaker 3: about forty four and I go check this bad boy out.
Speaker 4: And I tossed it to him. This is the first
Speaker 4: thing he does.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, because this thing is genuine leather man
Speaker 3: this and like I've been putting, I'm not gonna lie
Speaker 3: like I've put it on my hand and I've given
Speaker 3: it a couple of like you know, out of boys,
Speaker 3: here we go. Somebody's got to be able to close it.
Speaker 3: I'll give you another hint. Got to be able to
Speaker 3: close the glove a little bit in order to win
Speaker 3: this for the giveaway, So I wanted to make it
Speaker 3: a little bit on the hinges so you can close it.
Speaker 3: But I'm more of a two finger guy in the
Speaker 3: in the pinky and then leave the pocket open, so
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to do that to mess up. However,
Speaker 3: the future person wants to hold this glove, but it
Speaker 3: is a right handed glove, so I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: For all the lefties.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll get one out here eventually, but we're gonna
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Speaker 4: How cool is that.
Speaker 2: It's fantastic.
Speaker 5: There's gonna be somebody, a right handed person that is
Speaker 5: gonna be very happy with this glove.
Speaker 2: That's all I can say.
Speaker 4: It's yeah, and I might just start buying baseball gloves.
Speaker 4: To start buying baseball gloves now.
Speaker 2: I'm actually proud of you.
Speaker 5: You haven't like, you haven't like smashed the middle of
Speaker 5: the glove in to bend it a little bit. You
Speaker 5: haven't flared a thumb, you haven't done anything like you
Speaker 5: just you. You're trying to keep it fresh for whoever
Speaker 5: gets it.
Speaker 4: I am in this. It's killing me. Yeah, it's killing me.
Speaker 4: Like we got to get to this weekend.
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Speaker 3: it's time to get out of here, and I'm looking forward.
Speaker 3: You're gonna be at the ballpark this weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're.
Speaker 5: Ben's tournament schedule has ceased, and thank god, by the way,
Speaker 5: he hit two home runs in his last tournament, so
Speaker 5: I just thought throw that in there.
Speaker 2: You know, shameless plug.
Speaker 5: But yeah, we're gonna get there for at least two games,
Speaker 5: and I'm super excited to see who wins this club
Speaker 5: because they are going to love it.
Speaker 3: They're going to freak out, and last plug I'll do
Speaker 3: and then I'll let ians get out of here. Brave
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Speaker 4: Sundays.
Speaker 3: We're at Brave Bean Coffee Park in the garage. Go
Speaker 3: down there, get caffeinated, go over to the ballpark see
Speaker 3: the Buckets hopefully close out a winning series. So we'll
Speaker 3: have a live show there starting at eleven to eleven thirty.
Speaker 4: Then we'll go over.
Speaker 3: And hopefully enjoy a Buckos win. Until next time, Raise it,
Speaker 3: Raise it best.
Speaker 5: Seats at the Pirates.
Speaker 2: Can't he let me run the base? Yeah?
Speaker 1: My time is like my money because I can't afford
Speaker 1: to waste. Uh why seears a lawyer? Take my date
Speaker 1: to my dates or the stick by the plates?
Speaker 3: Nick