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Speaker 1: How could you define Paul Skin's value right now? I

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Speaker 1: He's kind of like the Mona Lisa right now.

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Speaker 2: All right, here we go, Let's bring back Noah. Noah

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Speaker 2: first off, right off the jump, because I think it

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Speaker 2: writer for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. It's been all over

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Speaker 2: the story here with the disaster season for the Pirates,

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Speaker 2: and we went over it last time we had you on.

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Speaker 2: Let's focus on Derek Shelton out and what that means

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Speaker 2: for the future of this organization. Do we think that

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Speaker 2: you can't replace the owner.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, from what I've been told, if the season were

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Speaker 1: of this ball club. I think his dismissal largely depends

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Speaker 3: They're gonna get.

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Speaker 1: A better roster for him to play with or for

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Speaker 1: I think that Charrington has a little bit longer of

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Speaker 3: They in the last eighteen months or.

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Speaker 1: So, they've replaced all three heads of the scouting department,

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Speaker 1: Pro International and Amateur. They found a new head of

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Speaker 4: If that is true, if his the result of the

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Speaker 4: from now, does that mean there's going to be more

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Speaker 3: That's another really good question.

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Speaker 1: I know that they're probably going to make other staff changes.

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Speaker 1: They just released their game planning coordinator this morning, so

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Speaker 1: But if he performs well, and I think he'll have

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Speaker 4: How is Don Kelly going to be able to plan

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Speaker 1: That's one I haven't had a lot of time to

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Speaker 3: There's a lot.

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Speaker 1: And it's hard to make sense of any of it

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Speaker 5: Let me ask you this. So we're talking about management

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Speaker 5: the brass a little bit, we haven't talked about are

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Speaker 1: I haven't talked to him since the change because yesterday

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Speaker 3: Of a few guys you could say that about.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll get going, and the team's going to

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Speaker 4: But when you have superstars, you need people around them.

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Speaker 4: I went to a game. I went to the Paul

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I totally agree.

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Speaker 1: I last off season on October second, Ben Chrrington spoke

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Speaker 1: When guys aren't performing on a winning baseball team, you

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Speaker 2: So no, I'm going to go back to where I started.

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Speaker 2: How does this not fall on Ben Charrington. We're in

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's cute it's a twelve and eight start and

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Speaker 2: It's not there. So I feel like they need a

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Speaker 2: They're twelve and twenty six this season. Shot.

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Speaker 1: You're not the only person who feels that way. It's

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Speaker 1: tough to justify a fresh start when you have Paul

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Speaker 1: I'd think that when you look at what this organization

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is probably at this point the most maddening

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Speaker 2: So let's finish with this. Let's spind it forward. They're

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Speaker 2: Who should we start to look at and scout? Right

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Speaker 2: from a national show perspective, we love the trade deadline

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Speaker 1: Oh, I think the first answer is Andrew Heeney. Everyone's

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Speaker 3: They gave away.

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Speaker 1: I believe the player they traded for him was Jackson Wolf,

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Speaker 1: What does he provide to a team I don't know

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Speaker 4: Catchers rarely get moved a you know, if you want

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Speaker 4: it is Noah outside the box. Trade Paul Skins. Trade

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Speaker 3: Here's why he can't do it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what how could you define Paul Skins's

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Speaker 1: I don't think any team, especially a team in contention,

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Speaker 4: Largest trade of all time, I'm taught, Like, right now

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Speaker 4: he is a chandelier in a haunted house. Yeah it

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Speaker 4: doesn't you know the value of the chandelier, and other

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Speaker 4: which is why you fire your scouting department. Different heads,

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Speaker 4: Nothing in Spencer Horwitz. But that ain't the move that

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Speaker 4: might win fifteen games a season for a sixty five

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Speaker 4: all stars, like they did Tyler Glass, Now, like they

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Speaker 4: did Garrett Cole, like they did all those things. Get something,

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Speaker 3: I think it could happen.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna happen this year, though, I

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Speaker 1: I don't think anyone, like I said, would have the

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Speaker 2: It is fascinating. At first you're looking like shut up,

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Speaker 2: and then you're like, they eat a lot. Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: well we'll bring you back and we'll talk it out

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Speaker 2: again at some point. But no, thanks for the time, man, appreciate.

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Speaker 3: It absolutely guys. Thanks for having me on