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Speaker 2: Can he let me run the base? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Clintic Brands That.
Speaker 3: Is Snake Episode three eighty four of Buco Banter, the
Speaker 3: first episode recapping previewing, discussing trades after the All Star
Speaker 3: break as always myself, Adam, Scott Moore, Jim Stamboys, how
Speaker 3: are we doing on this smoky, smoky, smoky Thursday evening.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4: People don't have excuses for not being on the live
Speaker 4: right now, because I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: It's not safe to be outside.
Speaker 4: I had to walk from downtown to the Strip to
Speaker 4: my car today after work and I felt like I
Speaker 4: smoked like twelve pats cigarettes.
Speaker 2: So it was it was a rough one.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you that this is your nightmare, then this
Speaker 4: is your absolute I hate cigarettes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, the good parent that I am Ben went
Speaker 5: to baseball practice tonight, So you know.
Speaker 2: You got to respect the grind. That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 3: On Well, guys, the second half of the season is
Speaker 3: upon us. Yeah, it's it's gonna be a grind from
Speaker 3: here on out. Every day matters, and that's what we
Speaker 3: asked for as Pirates fans going into the second half
Speaker 3: of the season, is to play meaningful baseball. And that's
Speaker 3: exactly what you're gonna get. And now the trade rumors
Speaker 3: are starting to circulate a little bit more. You had
Speaker 3: to trade today with the Pirates. We'll discuss that a
Speaker 3: little bit, but people are going to want more and
Speaker 3: this team deserves more in order to compete. Guys, Cleveland
Speaker 3: right away, you get a good team. Tomorrow might be
Speaker 3: in jeopardy because of this smoke. But how do you
Speaker 3: feel going into the second half with the schedule set
Speaker 3: as it is.
Speaker 2: I kind of like it.
Speaker 4: I mean, Cleveland's a team that always plays above expectations
Speaker 4: or kind of like a Brewers of the Al similar
Speaker 4: to the Rays, like they churn out good talent every year.
Speaker 4: But I will say I think the Pirates, when you
Speaker 4: look at the roster just side by side, I do
Speaker 4: think this is the Pirates are a better team and
Speaker 4: they're gonna face some good pitchers and Gavin Williams and
Speaker 4: Joey Cantillo, a guy that they would typically struggle with,
Speaker 4: maybe a Tanner Biby on Sunday against Paul Skiens. I
Speaker 4: do think this is a team that is in a
Speaker 4: similar position as the Pirates. Right, they're tied to the
Speaker 4: top of the Central. We're not tied to the top
Speaker 4: of our division because the AL Central is a lot
Speaker 4: weaker than the NL Central. But I think this is
Speaker 4: a team that's in terms of skill set, is pretty
Speaker 4: similar and good opportunity to show out against an AL
Speaker 4: team and boost yourself in the standings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think like when you look at this series,
Speaker 2: very very similar teams.
Speaker 5: I think the Guardians went into the break having won
Speaker 5: four in a row, Pirates one three.
Speaker 2: They both probably would have preferred to have kept playing.
Speaker 2: But this is a there There aren't many.
Speaker 5: Series that I go into now thinking the Pirates can't
Speaker 5: win or split based on the number of games. So
Speaker 5: you know, these are two teams that we're playing well,
Speaker 5: and Cleveland is certainly benefiting from the AL and and
Speaker 5: and the weakness there but you know, this is a
Speaker 5: game that they've got set up with the pitching staff
Speaker 5: the Pirates do.
Speaker 2: I think they're going to be in a good position.
Speaker 2: I will say this, this is a really young team.
Speaker 4: Travis Bizana, pd alp In Khalil Wattson chased a lot
Speaker 4: or a lot of rookies, a lot of young contributors.
Speaker 4: So I think, you know, the Pirates have the advantage there.
Speaker 4: But a really good pitching staff, elite closer and Kate
Speaker 4: Smith in a really good starting rotation.
Speaker 3: Before we get into that rotation in the second half,
Speaker 3: and some trade talk. There was a trade today. We've
Speaker 3: got to spend a couple of minutes on it. The
Speaker 3: Pirates make a move for a depth piece in Robert Hassel,
Speaker 3: the third former first round pick for the was the
Speaker 3: Padres that picked him.
Speaker 2: And he was he was in the one Soto trade.
Speaker 6: Right so he's overall pick right behind right behind Nickensaal's
Speaker 6: not a great draft class that ended up being The
Speaker 6: Pirates actually had a decent draft class.
Speaker 3: They got Carmen Majenski, Jerror Jones, and Nicknzalez the rest
Speaker 3: of the class. Eh, but they bring in Hassle the
Speaker 3: third as a depth pieces, either cash considerations or a
Speaker 3: player to be named later. People are going to look
Speaker 3: into every single trade. This is pretty much a nothing, guys.
Speaker 3: This is just, hey, let's take a waiver on a
Speaker 3: guy that was a first round draft pick, has some pedigree.
Speaker 3: Maybe he turns out to be something. He's only twenty
Speaker 3: four years old. If not, you really lose nothing here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I don't really have a ton of
Speaker 4: hope in the prospect that is Robert Hassele. But I'll
Speaker 4: take a flyer on a guy for cash considerations. I
Speaker 4: think that's pretty much all that is. And I hope,
Speaker 4: like what I was saying today, I hope this isn't
Speaker 4: a precursor to a trade where we get rid of
Speaker 4: other outfield deaths because I'd much rather have it just
Speaker 4: Sin sant Garcia and some of the other names in
Speaker 4: our system than are Robert Hassele. Yeah, he's just one
Speaker 4: of these guys that haven't panned out that you take
Speaker 4: a flyer on. It's a body for you know, the
Speaker 4: miners and lefty hitter.
Speaker 2: See what comes of it.
Speaker 5: Probably nothing, not a big, not a big hopefully this
Speaker 5: is hopefully this isn't the big move.
Speaker 3: Guys, No, if this is the big move, then we're
Speaker 3: in some deep, deep, deep trouble. But no, they're going
Speaker 3: to go out and make some moves. And we were
Speaker 3: talking a little bit before we went live in scott
Speaker 3: you mentioned them doing something a little bit different or
Speaker 3: or acting out of character, And I think this is
Speaker 3: a good time to get into it because this team
Speaker 3: needs something a little bit different. You've dealt with a
Speaker 3: ton of injury. Spencer Horowitz, O'Neal Cruz KG going down
Speaker 3: is terrible. There might need to be a little bit
Speaker 3: of a change, not to the lineup really, but just
Speaker 3: something that shakes it up a little bit more that
Speaker 3: really puts them over the edge. And I'm curious if
Speaker 3: you think or to hear what you think that is.
Speaker 2: I mean, you hear a ton of speculation. Could they
Speaker 2: trade this guy? Could they trade that guy?
Speaker 3: Like? What it?
Speaker 4: What were your guys thoughts if you saw that O'Neill
Speaker 4: Cruz was in a deal for like a Mason Miller,
Speaker 4: a big, big, probably the biggest name you could possibly
Speaker 4: acquire in terms of bullpen help by far, what would
Speaker 4: your initial thoughts be, Because if I'll give my I'll
Speaker 4: give my thoughts first.
Speaker 3: Even though, I.
Speaker 4: Yeah, O'Neill's not going to probably be extended by the Pirates, right,
Speaker 4: there are some other names that you want to extend
Speaker 4: probably before him. Defense has been a big problem for
Speaker 4: this team, and he's probably at the top of the list,
Speaker 4: the top culprit in terms of defense. Obviously, you can't
Speaker 4: teach that type of swing talent. But what if I
Speaker 4: told you that you could acquire the best closer in
Speaker 4: baseball and maybe not have to deal like with the
Speaker 4: Seth Hernandez, Right, a guy that you see could maybe
Speaker 4: fill in for his schemes once he's gone. Just some
Speaker 4: thoughts to put out there, because I think Jake Mangham's
Speaker 4: done a fine job. It's in center field, especially defensively,
Speaker 4: he's hitting above three hundred, and I do think there's
Speaker 4: reinforcements on the way in terms of, you know, positional depth.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, I mean, here's the thing about this. People lost
Speaker 5: their minds on Twitter when people started.
Speaker 2: Mentioning O'Neill Cruz.
Speaker 3: I don't think.
Speaker 5: It's outrageous to explore anything with this team, with the
Speaker 5: position they're in and this offense being as good as
Speaker 5: it is, and you know, on top of it, I
Speaker 5: do think that like it might take more bold this
Speaker 5: time around with this trade deadline. If you look around
Speaker 5: the league, guys, there's like six teams that are out
Speaker 5: of it. Like prices are gonna be high, and guys
Speaker 5: are gonna be valuable commodities around the league simply because
Speaker 5: there's twenty four teams that feel that they're still in it.
Speaker 5: And so you're not just going to be able to
Speaker 5: like nibble here and there and hope to get a
Speaker 5: lot because the supply and demand is a factor this time.
Speaker 2: So I just think, like, you know, like broad your horizons.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying do it. I'm just saying, like, explore everything.
Speaker 4: I will say this the initial concern there with me
Speaker 4: For me, like I do think that the pirates you
Speaker 4: don't come. You don't have the number one offense that often, right,
Speaker 4: So like you should go for it when you have
Speaker 4: the number one offense, and no one should be off
Speaker 4: the table necessarily for the right deal. But they need
Speaker 4: more than one reliever. And that's the issue with me,
Speaker 4: and that's what gives me some pause is that I
Speaker 4: think you need to bring in more than just a
Speaker 4: Mason Miller. Like I do think you need to bring
Speaker 4: in another middle reliever that could be more reliable because
Speaker 4: you're also relying on a lot of younger guys, the
Speaker 4: guys that I think are gonna be long term contributors
Speaker 4: this team, like a Antoine Kelly, a wilburd Hotel, a
Speaker 4: Brandon Bidoir even, but you need some some more reliable guys,
Speaker 4: more experienced guys to come in and supplement that bullpen.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, I like ONEO Cruz, and I
Speaker 3: think he could be really, really good. The ceiling's obviously high,
Speaker 3: and we could talk about it for days on what
Speaker 3: ONEO Cruz can do. This offense is finding ways to
Speaker 3: win without ONEO Cruse. Now, would he can con tribute? Absolutely?
Speaker 3: Could he change the game in one swing of a bat?
Speaker 3: One hundred percent is you can create havoc on the
Speaker 3: base path. Sure, this team is losing games because of
Speaker 3: the bullpen. So if that's the move that you're gonna
Speaker 3: make and you're confident that that's going to push you
Speaker 3: over the top, I don't have a problem with it.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to question it. I would even applaud
Speaker 3: them for taking a risk, right and it's not a
Speaker 3: risk bringing in Mason Miller he's going to throw one
Speaker 3: hundred and five miles per hour and take care of business.
Speaker 3: It's a risk more so, it's Hey, you've invested all
Speaker 3: this and O'Neal Cruz. You've seen him go, you know,
Speaker 3: from what he was to what he is now, and
Speaker 3: you've dealt with injuries and some slow times. But you'd
Speaker 3: like to see it out. But again, you're finding ways
Speaker 3: to win without O'Neill right now, and you're doing it
Speaker 3: like your offense is really not struggling in the slightest
Speaker 3: and Connor and Spencer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like I think that that's the thing is Like,
Speaker 5: clearly keeping him in an ideal world is what you'd
Speaker 5: like to do. But if the offense can get along
Speaker 5: without it, and you know, that's yet to be seen,
Speaker 5: and that's probably the risk, right It is like can
Speaker 5: they keep doing like this at this historic franchise pace? Yeah,
Speaker 5: if you believe that to be true, that they will not,
Speaker 5: you know, when they get Horowitz back soon and that
Speaker 5: they're still going to keep chugging along. I do think that,
Speaker 5: you know, Scott, you mentioned about what do you have
Speaker 5: to give up to get them? In depth and all
Speaker 5: that with Mason Miller. It at least allows you to
Speaker 5: not dip into your prospects if it's cruise and then
Speaker 5: use prospects.
Speaker 2: For another guy. You know, like you can't trade.
Speaker 5: For three relievers and trade eight prospects to do it, right,
Speaker 5: So that's like that's the to.
Speaker 2: Me, that's like the how do you strike that balance?
Speaker 4: I also there's a lot of relievers out there that
Speaker 4: are interesting to me, And I want to bring up
Speaker 4: another trade scen arc because I know I brought Brasban
Speaker 4: and I didn't give the proper credit. So my guy
Speaker 4: Ian had a really good offer. Another one that he
Speaker 4: brought up the other day on Twitter, Jonathan Lewiseca, who
Speaker 4: used to be a high leverage guy for the Yankees,
Speaker 4: is now at the Diamondbacks ground Ball Machine.
Speaker 2: Ground ball Machine. He also throws pretty hard.
Speaker 4: What if you offered a your Donnie Dela Santa, straight up,
Speaker 4: a guy that is Rule five eligible who probably you're
Speaker 4: not gonna put on the forty man next year, right,
Speaker 4: because they've got a lot of those guys, and I
Speaker 4: think that's where they could really get creative with getting
Speaker 4: multiple arms. What if you traded your Donnie Dela Santo's
Speaker 4: to Arizona and got back a guy that has high
Speaker 4: leverage potential, like a Jonathan Lewise a bat.
Speaker 3: I think we're gonna see that. Scott, I think you're
Speaker 3: gonna see the rule five eligible guys come into play.
Speaker 3: Because you can only protect so many. They're not going
Speaker 3: to protect as many as they did in years past.
Speaker 3: You got to protect too. Tamar Johnson, Bonnie White, de
Speaker 3: los Santo's I'm not opposed to it. And I think
Speaker 3: just going back to the Mason Miller point, just adding
Speaker 3: him alone makes the rest of the bullpen better, right,
Speaker 3: And I know we're kind of dreaming on a lot here.
Speaker 3: Is this likely going to happen? No, but a guy
Speaker 3: like that allows the ninth inning to be taken care of.
Speaker 3: That's it, point blank. No one else is touching the
Speaker 3: ninth inning. Everybody else slots down a little bit into
Speaker 3: a little bit better of a position where guys throw
Speaker 3: not as many high leverage innings. Okay, greg Orrisoto slots down.
Speaker 3: If you're gonna keep Dennis Santana around, he's not throwing
Speaker 3: high leverage innings. Mason Montgomery might not be throwing as
Speaker 3: many high leverage innings, although he's looked pretty good and
Speaker 3: high leverage the past couple of games. I think you
Speaker 3: have to toy around with the If you're toying around
Speaker 3: with prospects for arms, those are the guys that you
Speaker 3: start with and then you go from there. I've seen
Speaker 3: a lot of trades where people are throwing multiple, multiple
Speaker 3: prospects at relievers. That's just not gonna happen. Like, you
Speaker 3: can't do that. And I understand the urgency, but you're
Speaker 3: not throwing three prospects for Luke Weaver. You're just not
Speaker 3: doing that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I like Luke Weaver, by the way, but
Speaker 4: I would not throw it. And I'd be willing to
Speaker 4: part with Edward Florentino for the right price because I
Speaker 4: have my concerns there. Even though he's young and I'm
Speaker 4: a big ban of Edward Larentino, I do have a
Speaker 4: little bit of concern.
Speaker 2: About the swang I would be.
Speaker 4: I'd be willing to part with him in a Mason
Speaker 4: Miller trade. Luke Weaver, I have some pause like it.
Speaker 4: There's very few guys i'd part with him in the
Speaker 4: thing about Luke Weaver is I think he's twelve million
Speaker 4: next year too, Like that's a factor that's a problem.
Speaker 4: Same with Antonio Sencitela in Colorado. I think he's own thirteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you'd hope to be able to find another
Speaker 2: way to do all this.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: The other thing about this is guys that even worse
Speaker 5: affected this trade deadline coming up is the Reds.
Speaker 2: They're nine and one in their last ten games.
Speaker 5: I think everybody thought Chapman and I think it was Whitlock.
Speaker 5: I think everybody assumed those guys were gonna be dealt.
Speaker 5: Guess what they're not. They're a half game out of
Speaker 5: the wild card. That even further.
Speaker 2: Shrinks the pool of like available teams and impact arms.
Speaker 3: Yep, the price of the brick is going up. That
Speaker 3: that's what you're saying. Yeah, there's less guys and the
Speaker 3: price is going up. Relievers are always a hot commodity
Speaker 3: at the trade deadline. It's gonna be interesting. They have
Speaker 3: to be a top player this year, by the way.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like like there are two games under five
Speaker 5: hundred and a half game.
Speaker 4: Out look at their roster, I mean the injuries they
Speaker 4: have and that it's crazy that they've won nine straight.
Speaker 3: But go ahead, Greig Breslow, so you never know what
Speaker 3: he's gonna do. You know it's it could be up
Speaker 3: in the air that they could still make some moves
Speaker 3: and sell a little bit. But yeah, there needs to
Speaker 3: be a couple of moves. I think two bullpen arms
Speaker 3: and then maybe somebody who sits in triple A for
Speaker 3: a little bit. Is the likely happening at the trade deadline,
Speaker 3: and maybe they make a move for another bat here
Speaker 3: and there. But you have to be a top player.
Speaker 3: You have to show that this offense can get you
Speaker 3: a long ways and all. The only thing holding you
Speaker 3: back right now is not the O'Neill Cruz injury, not
Speaker 3: the Spencer Horwitz injury, but the bullpen. Yep, that's it.
Speaker 3: The starting rotation. Paul Skeens has gotten better. He wasn't bad.
Speaker 3: He's gotten better though. Brax and Ashcraft All Star Bubba
Speaker 3: Chandler starting to.
Speaker 2: Look better.
Speaker 3: Your only concerned there is Mitch Keller. So maybe they
Speaker 3: make a move or another starter, maybe a lefty starter
Speaker 3: that historically does well at PNC Park. But this is
Speaker 3: the time to do it. I know we've said that
Speaker 3: in years past, and then you get the the bdlcs
Speaker 3: and the ikf so of the world. I don't want
Speaker 3: any more initial guys no more guys were referring by initials,
Speaker 3: bring me in somebody that it is a name that's
Speaker 3: going to contribute, that's not a like a middle of
Speaker 3: the road piece, that's actually going to make a difference immediately.
Speaker 3: And I think they know that it's just going to
Speaker 3: be a matter of whether or not they're willing to
Speaker 3: part with the packages that are necessary in order to
Speaker 3: bring in those names.
Speaker 4: Guys all seriousness, Like I love the Mets as a
Speaker 4: trade partner. Huascar Brasabon and Luke Weaver obviously names that
Speaker 4: you should watch, even though Luke Weaver's money is higher.
Speaker 4: But I think you look at the NL West because
Speaker 4: I think the NL West is everyone below the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Are going to be like all right on to next year,
Speaker 2: and if the Padres don't do it, they should. They should.
Speaker 4: But the Padres are interesting to me because they've got
Speaker 4: Mason Miller at the top, but they got Adrian Moorehane
Speaker 4: as a power lefty, and they got Jason Adam is
Speaker 4: going to be coming back from injury, and Jason Adam
Speaker 4: has been very effective as a reliever, just overperforming every
Speaker 4: single year. This is a guy who's a vet. And
Speaker 4: then you look at the Giants. The giants have some
Speaker 4: interesting names. Ever heard of JT. Brubaker.
Speaker 2: Hey, I thought I thought we weren't doing initials.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Robbie Ray, alliteration thrown at you real quick. Robbie
Speaker 4: Ray a lefty starter. If you're if you're willing to
Speaker 4: maybe move a Mitch Keller like I, like I said
Speaker 4: with O'Neill Cruz, like I I have a feeling they're
Speaker 4: going to be creative, Like they're going to move a
Speaker 4: big league piece too.
Speaker 3: By the way, Jason Adam forty four glove guy has
Speaker 3: a really nice.
Speaker 2: One and he's he's kind of.
Speaker 3: A dog, kind of a dog, really sick glove too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean these are all huge factors, right, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
Speaker 3: You can't have a guy come in here with a
Speaker 3: lame glove. Everybody who has the same gloves nowadays you
Speaker 3: get a forty four custom glove. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you who can't be lame at this trade
Speaker 5: deadline is Ben Sherrington. Like I think a lot of
Speaker 5: people have given him a lot of credit for what
Speaker 5: he's done offensively and out of these guys, but let's
Speaker 5: be honest. Ben Sherrington's tenure right now is going to
Speaker 5: be judged on what he does from July sixteenth today
Speaker 5: through August third, the trade deadline. Like, Okay, you got
Speaker 5: this far, and it's taken you a long time to
Speaker 5: do it, Like you have about two to three weeks
Speaker 5: two and a half weeks for me to give you
Speaker 5: any full credit, Like getting this far isn't really enough
Speaker 5: for me to give you many flowers.
Speaker 3: Here's the problem. You say two to three weeks, which
Speaker 3: you're right getting up until August third, But what happens
Speaker 3: when things don't go your way in New York or
Speaker 3: you come back home birth the Cubs and don't have
Speaker 3: a good series, and then all of a sudden people
Speaker 3: are panicking in the other direction. That's why we've been
Speaker 3: advocating to make moves sooner rather than later. So at
Speaker 3: least you're giving yourself opportunity going down the stretch to
Speaker 3: win those games that maybe you wouldn't win with the
Speaker 3: bullpen that you have right now.
Speaker 5: But again, price goes up when you do that because
Speaker 5: you're asking teams to to You have to make it
Speaker 5: attractive enough out the gate, so to speak, to where
Speaker 5: teams will say we're not.
Speaker 2: We don't have to move it right now. We might
Speaker 2: wait a couple of monks.
Speaker 5: Can you can you find enough attractive packages to get
Speaker 5: a team to do it closer to now?
Speaker 3: Attractive packages? That's the name of this episode.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, guys, I mean, I think gmbc's
Speaker 4: job is on the line. I mean, I think this
Speaker 4: is a very important deadline. We've talked about it in
Speaker 4: years past, Like.
Speaker 2: Last year.
Speaker 4: You know, there's some some trades that we were underwhelmed
Speaker 4: by at the very beginning. I mean, the Bailey Falter
Speaker 4: trade ended up working in our favor, but at the forefront,
Speaker 4: we're like, what the hell is going on here? I
Speaker 4: do I do foresee them being more aggressive this year.
Speaker 4: I just given the offense and how it looks, and
Speaker 4: given the state of baseball in general, like I'd be
Speaker 4: very surprised if.
Speaker 2: This team is.
Speaker 4: Is it more aggressive than years past, especially the most
Speaker 4: aggressive in the Charrington era?
Speaker 5: Aggressive and perhaps creative yea, and how they do that.
Speaker 3: You've also just lucked out this year. Again. We could
Speaker 3: sit here and cry about the injuries all day, but
Speaker 3: you never have a guy like as Merlin Valdez come
Speaker 3: in at twenty two years old and be the staple
Speaker 3: that he is in the middle of this lineup right now.
Speaker 3: How long that's gonna last? I don't know. Are people
Speaker 3: eventually going to figure him out a bit? Sure, like
Speaker 3: everybody does in Major League Baseball? But the kids hitting
Speaker 3: three oh nine, three seventy one OBP with over one
Speaker 3: thousand ops and ten bombs right now and is at
Speaker 3: bats are maturing day by day. He looks really good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you like, there's some there's some things that there's
Speaker 5: some specialness to the offense about these things, right, like
Speaker 5: you know that I think you have to recognize and
Speaker 5: capitalize on. You mentioned like you never see this, well,
Speaker 5: we never see this like other teams. Other teams have
Speaker 5: seen this, but like us as pirate fans, you never
Speaker 5: see that on this type of an impact back come
Speaker 5: through seemingly not out of nowhere, because he's always been
Speaker 5: you know, not always, but he's he is a good prospect.
Speaker 3: I think a certain point. And this is funny because
Speaker 3: this happened in the last game before the break, where
Speaker 3: I was watching from the press box and I noticed
Speaker 3: something in his at bats. When he first came into
Speaker 3: the league. We were saying, maybe he's a little bit
Speaker 3: over match. He's trying to do damage on too many
Speaker 3: pitches right now, and it's not getting the result. He
Speaker 3: hadn't at bat where obviously hits the grand Slam the
Speaker 3: game the day before going into Sunday, bases are loaded.
Speaker 3: They had that crazy inning two, he had one or
Speaker 3: three to one count, right he takes a massive hack, okay,
Speaker 3: massive hack, swinging for over the scoreboard, missus. But in
Speaker 3: that circumstance, no ounts three to one count, bases loaded.
Speaker 3: He understands, Okay, this is my window to do damage.
Speaker 3: Very next pitch takes a walk. That's him maturing right
Speaker 3: before our eyes, understanding where he's at, what pitches he
Speaker 3: can do damage with, where he can let off his
Speaker 3: a swing, and then when he needs a little bit,
Speaker 3: when he needs to be a little bit more selective
Speaker 3: in order to help out his team. That is a
Speaker 3: lot to ask for of a twenty two year old,
Speaker 3: and he's doing it right now. He's gonna hit four
Speaker 3: or five in this lineup every single day, and I
Speaker 3: don't think it's really ideal for him to play defense
Speaker 3: every single day. And that's going to be another discussion.
Speaker 3: Although he hasn't done terribly out there, but you got
Speaker 3: to take advantage of a guy like this coming up
Speaker 3: and having the type of season that he is contributing,
Speaker 3: knowing what you've gone through already with the injuries.
Speaker 5: Some some real control of the zone is what you're
Speaker 5: seeing from Valdez polar berry White, which that's a hell
Speaker 5: of a that's a hell of a handle. By the way,
Speaker 5: Valdez is letting two inchlow changeups go by good luck adjusting,
Speaker 5: like he is laying off stuff that typically guys don't
Speaker 5: lay off of. And I think that that's a big,
Speaker 5: like big sign that I think he's okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean I think you could also hide
Speaker 4: him in PNC parks right field in the early part
Speaker 4: of his career. Uh, you know, he hasn't been horrible,
Speaker 4: but like you know, that's that's a favorable right field
Speaker 4: for him. But the bat you just got to keep
Speaker 4: in and and as I've said time and time again,
Speaker 4: you have he is forcing the conversation around Marcela Zuna,
Speaker 4: and that's something I'm gonna be interested in watching over
Speaker 4: the next couple of weeks, Like how much longer is
Speaker 4: Barcelo Zuna gonna be in the black and goal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just something I don't want to talk about,
Speaker 3: Like we've talked about it so much, and he hasn't
Speaker 3: the bats that he's put together recently, like he had
Speaker 3: a decent series against the Brewers when he's playing. That's
Speaker 3: the issue though, is when he's playing. And also there's
Speaker 3: with the good, there's also a lot of bad. There's
Speaker 3: also a lot of strikeouts. There's also the bats. We're like, well,
Speaker 3: this is what we're getting all season. It can't be
Speaker 3: once every two months he hits a home run and
Speaker 3: then we're tricked into thinking like, oh, this is where
Speaker 3: the run starts. You just don't have the runway. You
Speaker 3: don't have a long enough leash right now to find
Speaker 3: out where that is. And I think that's what you're saying, Scott,
Speaker 3: right is you just can't have him sit on the
Speaker 3: bench and be a mentor.
Speaker 4: He's a DH only guys, And you know, I think
Speaker 4: there's other conversations that are going to be had, like
Speaker 4: Jacob Gonzalez be on this team.
Speaker 3: You's a good point, by the way, this is a
Speaker 3: really good point. With the struggling defense.
Speaker 4: This is very important move. Good point. Never mind, I
Speaker 4: take back my mark while you're listening to.
Speaker 3: Around the four one two guys Zack Smith zero airs
Speaker 3: in the field for Azuna. I've been looking on Fangrafts
Speaker 3: and Baseball Savant for all this and I haven't been
Speaker 3: able to find it. But he was able to pull
Speaker 3: this stat out of thin air, and that's.
Speaker 2: That is very accurate with his stats as we as
Speaker 2: we've played. This guy knows some ball and it's not
Speaker 2: just football anyways.
Speaker 4: Guys, in all seriousness, like, you're going to force a
Speaker 4: conversation around Tyler Callahan too, who I like like, I
Speaker 4: think Tayler Callahan has been a valuable, valuable contributor here
Speaker 4: to this team. But you brought in a left handed
Speaker 4: super utility guy or a left handed guy who could
Speaker 4: play all over the field and Jacob Gonzalez. So what
Speaker 4: does that do for Tyler Callahan when everyone is healthy. Obviously,
Speaker 4: that's good to have that kind of depth that you
Speaker 4: can rely on in the upper levels. Like if you
Speaker 4: have to send him down a triple A, that's great.
Speaker 4: But you know, I think that's a good problem to have,
Speaker 4: and I think that's going to be a conversation over
Speaker 4: the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's like all hands on deck, and
Speaker 5: like if you're not producing, you just flat out can't play,
Speaker 5: Like like there's sixty five games left, guys like and
Speaker 5: they're not in a position to let Ozuna roll out
Speaker 5: a one for fourteen stretch in like critical like at
Speaker 5: bats or like you know, runners on type deal.
Speaker 2: So we're we're just.
Speaker 5: At the point where, you know, I'm sure some of
Speaker 5: this is gonna sort itself out.
Speaker 2: Because there's still a couple of weeks. Maybe with I
Speaker 2: don't know, With Horowitz, I think he's close, Cruise is close.
Speaker 2: Who knows what happens in the meantime.
Speaker 4: I do want to quickly shout out a couple guys
Speaker 4: that have moved up recently in the minor league season.
Speaker 4: I think kicked back off tonight, but we got Murph
Speaker 4: Gray to double A and Murph Gray talk about a
Speaker 4: guy that's been a success story for the Pirates. I mean,
Speaker 4: this is one of the most successful bats in the
Speaker 4: minor leagues, not just with the Pirates, but all across
Speaker 4: the minor leagues. He's got the double A and and
Speaker 4: you don't see too many college bats that the Pirates
Speaker 4: straft up that high move this quickly because they haven't
Speaker 4: drafted many college bats at high so that's really good
Speaker 4: to see. And then also du Scorson, I know his
Speaker 4: his season in Altuna has been kind of underwhelming, but
Speaker 4: he's got it off the Triple A and I think
Speaker 4: this guy has a future as a super utility piece
Speaker 4: in the big leagues.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it would be criminal to get rid of
Speaker 3: Murf Gray. I think people have talked about including him
Speaker 3: in packages. It would have to be something after.
Speaker 2: I would favor Murph Gray over Edward Florentino at this junk.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, Scott, if the Pirates traded
Speaker 3: Murf Gray, would you partake in any criminal activity? Oh?
Speaker 2: What, I brother?
Speaker 4: Oh oh, let's get yourself in some trouble huh oh Yeah.
Speaker 3: And you know who you're gonna call, Not Ghostbusters, no
Speaker 3: Barrel Weaver and Oakin, because at Farrell Weaver in Oakin
Speaker 3: they fight for your rights, providing aggressive criminal defense and
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Speaker 3: most experience matters. Call Farrell Weaver in Oakin today for
Speaker 3: any of your legal needs, Scott. They've gone you out
Speaker 3: of troubled time and time again. And if the pirates
Speaker 3: don't do anything at the trade deadline, They're gonna have
Speaker 3: their hands full.
Speaker 5: It's it would be almost criminal if they did move,
Speaker 5: Murph Gray, don't you think.
Speaker 4: They would be? I would go back to Italian prison,
Speaker 4: per Jay Staff.
Speaker 3: So back to the al you go the Italian list.
Speaker 2: You've never left, You've never left the isle. What are
Speaker 2: you talking about? That's incredible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we're also had a really good point
Speaker 4: up here. Miller would help, so Montcomery, like, look at
Speaker 4: the power arms that we would have at the back
Speaker 4: end of that bullpen. Guys like we already have it right,
Speaker 4: Like I know the bullpen has been very underwhelming, but
Speaker 4: like the power arms you'd have in Mason Miller, then
Speaker 4: Gregor Risotto and Mason Montgomery. I mean, that would be
Speaker 4: it'd be something to be old there in the back end.
Speaker 3: I want to address this real quick. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 3: I mean, again, things can a little bit misinterpreted through
Speaker 3: through text, but I wouldn't compare the two in the
Speaker 3: slightest one. Tony Blanco Junior is just not going to
Speaker 3: have a position. Really, this is a guy that they
Speaker 3: don't even allow to run run full speed because they're
Speaker 3: he's so big and they're worried that he's going to
Speaker 3: get injured. I think Murf Gray is a college bat
Speaker 3: and that has had more advanced skills, and Tony Blanco's
Speaker 3: more of a project. Uh, like a lot of the
Speaker 3: international guys are. So I think this is two different categories.
Speaker 2: It's p D literally told Tony Blanco Junior not to
Speaker 2: run this year.
Speaker 3: They told him like, wow, yeah, they're like if a
Speaker 3: ball in the gap and he's yeah, it's and I
Speaker 3: get that, like with with a top prospect and you
Speaker 3: see like the raw power that he has, but it's
Speaker 3: more of a project, right, it's more yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 3: it's it's more of a project for a guy like
Speaker 3: Tony Blanco, not saying that he won't be anything. He's
Speaker 3: still so so young and so raw, but a guy.
Speaker 2: Like swinging it like a full grown man, right yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's and playing playing a solid third base in
Speaker 3: a position that the Pirates really need moving forward. So
Speaker 3: I'd like to see what they have in a Murf Gray.
Speaker 3: It would take a lot to convince me that you
Speaker 3: need to trade him. Other than that, seth Rnandez is
Speaker 3: off the board for me, and pretty much. I could
Speaker 3: be convinced on anyone else to be in a trade package.
Speaker 3: I've fallen in love with a lot of people in
Speaker 3: this organization just from getting to know the guys and
Speaker 3: talking to them and having them on the show. But
Speaker 3: you have to also understand that this is a business
Speaker 3: and you got to do what's best for the guys
Speaker 3: down on Federal Street. And sometimes it takes the risks
Speaker 3: and it's just something that we're not used to in
Speaker 3: here in Pittsburgh, and I think a lot of people
Speaker 3: you can't have it both ways, right. You can't hold
Speaker 3: on to all your prospects and hope the major league
Speaker 3: team is better without, you know, dealing those guys and
Speaker 3: vice versa. Like, you got to pick one direction here
Speaker 3: and the other the direction that they've taken in years
Speaker 3: past hasn't really worked in our favor. So I think
Speaker 3: it's time to turn the page and really move some
Speaker 3: guys around in order to help what's going on right now.
Speaker 5: You got you got to have the stomach for it, right,
Speaker 5: Like yes, yeah, it's like, so we'll see if we
Speaker 5: all have the stomach for it.
Speaker 2: Because if you want them to be bold, and I.
Speaker 5: Think most people do right now. Right then, you've got
Speaker 5: to be able to live with what that term means
Speaker 5: when it comes to making trades.
Speaker 3: Well, I also think just you know, and we're we're
Speaker 3: we're guilty of this as we we cover the minor
Speaker 3: league system. We have a lot of guys on the show.
Speaker 3: You fall in love with these prospects and you look
Speaker 3: you watch the games and you look at the box
Speaker 3: scores and you're like, there's no way this guy is
Speaker 3: going to be bad and you want them to be
Speaker 3: in the black and gold, and it's just minor league baseball.
Speaker 3: The reality is most a majority of these guys don't
Speaker 3: work out at the pro level. Sometimes it's just a
Speaker 3: product the circumstances. Guys fizzle out. This game is really tough.
Speaker 5: Is just traded We just traded for one today, yep,
Speaker 5: I mean hasn't worked out.
Speaker 4: This is why I get so infatuated with the draft,
Speaker 4: because this is this is it's important to have good drafts,
Speaker 4: like you got a recognize talent and continue to churn
Speaker 4: it out year in and year out, and that's your
Speaker 4: opportunity to add twenty plus guys to your system that
Speaker 4: can replace other guys right that you want to move.
Speaker 2: To improve the assets the major league level.
Speaker 4: So, you know, I think they did a good job
Speaker 4: this year, Like they they a solid job. I would
Speaker 4: give it like a B B by Thiss maybe, but
Speaker 4: like they added a ton of college players in this draft,
Speaker 4: and it made me think, like they're really trying to
Speaker 4: supplement that upper level depth that they have right now,
Speaker 4: especially the arms.
Speaker 2: So what is in what is in the works right
Speaker 2: now now?
Speaker 4: Are they working to deal some of the arms that
Speaker 4: are currently in the system like that. There's a lot
Speaker 4: that you could speculate from this draft because while overall
Speaker 4: was a college heavy draft, the Pirates were one of
Speaker 4: the most college heavy draftees this season.
Speaker 3: Scott, why don't you address this real quick?
Speaker 2: It definitely changed the strategy.
Speaker 4: Like I think I think Justin Horowitz would have taken
Speaker 4: Eric Booth with pick five or a high upside high
Speaker 4: school player like that. He was more of a big
Speaker 4: swinger and he hit like he got. He hit on
Speaker 4: every pick his first round picks. But I think Kevin
Speaker 4: Graham's went more safe this year in terms of strategy,
Speaker 4: and you saw that with the twelve out of twenty
Speaker 4: one picks being college arms, fourteen of them total being
Speaker 4: arms two high schoolers, but the college arms were the
Speaker 4: safe picks this year, and I think nil and some
Speaker 4: other factors had to do with that.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, like, I don't think just
Speaker 2: In horriwsold have went Derek Curile.
Speaker 4: It picked five, and I maybe if you went college,
Speaker 4: Betty when it went Drew Burris with the higher upside
Speaker 4: college guy. But I think Curial is a high probability
Speaker 4: Outdolder in the big league.
Speaker 3: Scott, you mentioned all these arms. These are Friday night
Speaker 3: starters too at the college I mean.
Speaker 2: That premier college programs, right.
Speaker 4: You got Ryan Moron from NC State, Tyler Fay from
Speaker 4: Alabama and NASCC.
Speaker 2: You've got Rowan Leto from San Diego State.
Speaker 4: You've got Liam O'Leary from Saint John's who's one of
Speaker 4: the top Big East programs every year. Like they've got
Speaker 4: some pretty experienced arms that have pitched at the highest
Speaker 4: levels and deep into the college season, into Super Regions,
Speaker 4: into the College World Series, So you know, I expect
Speaker 4: them to move quickly. You look at Connor Whitgriff, who
Speaker 4: went was at a big TEP program like Minnesota. This
Speaker 4: is a pitch ability lefty like you know, his college
Speaker 4: career wasn't anything close to like a Tyler Fay or
Speaker 4: Ryan Moron, but look how quickly he's in Triple A
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 2: And this is a guy that I.
Speaker 4: Expect to see big league innings from in the next
Speaker 4: year or so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why don't we talk about Cleveland real quick because
Speaker 3: we're getting into tomorrow. I don't know if they're going
Speaker 3: to play tomorrow with how this smoke looks. And I
Speaker 3: don't know if you saw a picture of Cleveland right now,
Speaker 3: I mean some mighty yeah, some might look at the
Speaker 3: smoke in Cleveland and just say, well, that's just what
Speaker 3: Cleveland looks like right now. It's worse than it usually is. Okay,
Speaker 3: I know, it's just such a bad, terrible smoke. Eat
Speaker 3: the smoke?
Speaker 2: Does it a favorite? Because who the hell was to look.
Speaker 3: At Cleveland right exactly? It's actually not a favorite. It's
Speaker 3: a little band aid on it. But the boys are
Speaker 3: already out there and I saw them. Some people get
Speaker 3: some work out in the field today and tomorrow is
Speaker 3: supposed to be really bad. Hopefully they play tomorrow because
Speaker 3: Saturday there's some rain issues as well. But Scott, who
Speaker 3: are we facing this week? Walk us through. What arearson
Speaker 3: all you're getting in the scouting report on the starting rotation?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so, I mean Friday tomorrow, if they play, it's
Speaker 4: gonna be two power arms.
Speaker 2: Jared Jones with Skevin Williams. Agevins has had a good.
Speaker 4: Year ten and four three eighty one ERA one hundred
Speaker 4: and thirty four. K's can spin the ball really well.
Speaker 4: He's a power pitcher, has elite velo with improved strike
Speaker 4: throwing this year. The sweeper is his primary primary put
Speaker 4: away pitch. I mean, this is a guy that can
Speaker 4: rack up double digit case pretty easily. I found that
Speaker 4: they've done pretty well with these type of guys this year.
Speaker 2: So we'll see that.
Speaker 4: On the contrary Saturday, they got Braxton Ashcraft versus lefty
Speaker 4: Joey Cantello, and this is a guy they struggled with,
Speaker 4: the soft tossing lefty.
Speaker 2: He's done really well this year.
Speaker 4: Kind of emerged as a middle rotation guy eight and
Speaker 4: four with a three fifty six e R. We'll top
Speaker 4: out it like ninety three ish, low nineties to mid
Speaker 4: nineties at best, but he's got plus swing admissibility due
Speaker 4: to his deception and especially with the change up to
Speaker 4: that he throws twenty seven percent at a time.
Speaker 2: That's a big pitch for him.
Speaker 4: He's his improved command has has really helped him a
Speaker 4: lot this year. Missus bats an above average rate, but
Speaker 4: especially with the elevated fastballs at the top of the
Speaker 4: zone because it gets a lot of carry. But let's
Speaker 4: go to Sunday Paul Skeins versus Tanner Biby. This should
Speaker 4: be a good one, Tanner Biby. You see Santa Barbara
Speaker 4: product three and nine this year the three ninety e
Speaker 4: ra Elite command of all pitches rarely beats himself with
Speaker 4: walks sequence as well, but generates generates a ton of
Speaker 4: weak contact as well. But fly balls can become an
Speaker 4: issue with him if the fastball leaks up. So that's
Speaker 4: a guy I think we can elevate and celebrate on.
Speaker 4: But this isn't gonna be an easy task. Guys like
Speaker 4: two power arms soft tossing. Lefty Cleveland just knows how
Speaker 4: to beat guys.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, before we get into the promotion, let me add
Speaker 5: one more thing about Cleveland. They play on some pretty
Speaker 5: tight margins, Like, this is a team that doesn't score
Speaker 5: a lot of runs. They've only one team in baseball
Speaker 5: has scored less runs than the Cleveland Guardians, And yeah,
Speaker 5: so that was It's the Padres, by the way, that
Speaker 5: are last. But they also are a little stingy on
Speaker 5: the pitching side. I think top six to seven and
Speaker 5: runs allowed. So this is going to be a tight series.
Speaker 5: But this is a team the Pirates can definitely if
Speaker 5: they're playing well, going there and and show up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm really really excited for this trip. In this
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Speaker 3: All right, July twenty seventh, Scott, what date is it?
Speaker 2: July twenty seventh.
Speaker 3: Okay, that is a Monday versus the Arizona Diamondbacks, and boys,
Speaker 3: we will be at the top of the rotunda because
Speaker 3: it's the Wolf Game. The Wolf Game is back. If
Speaker 3: you have to ask about the Wolf Game, maybe the
Speaker 3: Wolf Game's not for you, but I will tell you,
Speaker 3: just come out if you're brave enough to come out
Speaker 3: to the Wolf Game. If you have that dog in you,
Speaker 3: that wolf that lives inside of you. Put on your
Speaker 3: best wolf T shirt, wolf paraphernalia. If you will get
Speaker 3: out there and come to the top of the rotunda
Speaker 3: and how with the boys. Okay, we're the dog days
Speaker 3: of summer. You need it, The boys need it, the
Speaker 3: pirates need it. They count on you for the wolf game.
Speaker 4: Last year Chased Clayton kershot up P and C Park
Speaker 4: and his last appearance in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: Come out.
Speaker 2: You don't even need two wolves inside of you for
Speaker 2: this one.
Speaker 3: Just one, just one, that big dog. You need, the
Speaker 3: big dog Wolf, the Alpha r A. I got a
Speaker 3: sick wolf shirt. I had one last year that I
Speaker 3: just got off an Amazon because I'm I guess you know,
Speaker 3: we'll see where this goes. I went over to our
Speaker 3: friends at Z's the other day on the South Side,
Speaker 3: got an awesome vintage wolf T shirt. I am so
Speaker 3: excited to bring this thing out. Guys, it is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: And I know a couple of other people that have
Speaker 3: just gone they I know Debo might have multiple outfit changes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Divo goes on it's he's a fashionista of the crew.
Speaker 2: Well, he just goes into his closet and looks and
Speaker 2: sees what's already there.
Speaker 3: He's got a bunch of Wolf t shirts. As it is.
Speaker 3: Last year was pop night, So when we were howling
Speaker 3: at the top of the retunda, the dogs, we got
Speaker 3: dogs going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we kind of caused a little bit of a
Speaker 2: scene there, but it is what it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not going to be doing our normal Bucco
Speaker 3: banter stuff. We will be one hundred dedicated to the
Speaker 3: Wolf game. So we will be again at the top
Speaker 3: of the rotunda. You don't need a ticket there. You
Speaker 3: shout to get in the stadium. That's it, ballpark, past
Speaker 3: standing room, go to the top of the rotunda. Everybody's welcome.
Speaker 3: It's going to be quite the day, and we are
Speaker 3: really really excited for what the second half holds for
Speaker 3: Bucco Banter in the Pittsburgh Pirates because since we've been
Speaker 3: doing this this is year three, we haven't been playing
Speaker 3: meaningful baseball at this point. All right, showing up to
Speaker 3: the stadium sometimes was a grind. We do it. We're
Speaker 3: crazy people. We do it. We try and make the
Speaker 3: best of it. But this is when we go, now, right,
Speaker 3: this is when we go.
Speaker 2: You show bodies our bodies are ready.
Speaker 3: We're ready. We've been preparing for this our entire life.
Speaker 3: I'm urging Pirates fans to show up and make PNC
Speaker 3: Park what it's supposed to be. And that place is
Speaker 3: rocking when it's full. And you got a little bit
Speaker 3: of a taste of that during Country Weekend when they
Speaker 3: were out the stands a little bit and the people
Speaker 3: are getting a little bit rowdy. Let's keep that going.
Speaker 3: Let's get some button.
Speaker 2: Can I address this real quick?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had Jackson Wolf a lefty picture from Yeah.
Speaker 2: We had a lot of hopes for him. I thought, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's a tall guy, tall, tall lefty.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we'll dedicate this series to Jackson Wolf.
Speaker 3: I want to say this too, if any player will
Speaker 3: clip this, if any player is listening right now and
Speaker 3: you don't know about our game, hey, you never know
Speaker 3: who's watching a clip on Instagram. I'm not expecting you
Speaker 3: to tune into this episode. But if you're if you
Speaker 3: want to go in all this season, if you want
Speaker 3: to go all in, get a Wolf t shirt, show
Speaker 3: up to the stadium and you know, honor the pack,
Speaker 3: become a wolf pack, right and and really show the
Speaker 3: fans that you're serious, because a wolf pack is strong guys. Right,
Speaker 3: When people are are really connected and they're they're fighting
Speaker 3: as one. That's and you really start winning some games.
Speaker 3: If we can get the team behind this, I mean,
Speaker 3: Jake Mangham put on a wolf t shirt show up
Speaker 3: to the game, will absolutely do it. Yeah, just you know,
Speaker 3: throw up the wolf Oh just real quick. Okay, that's
Speaker 3: all it takes. Maybe some howling along with raising the cone.
Speaker 3: I think that's all it takes. And maybe we have
Speaker 3: something here. Maybe we don't, but I know we do, Okay,
Speaker 3: I know we do.
Speaker 5: Think like down the stretch, like the more the more
Speaker 5: vibes are at P and C Park, the better.
Speaker 2: Ben asked me today, is like that he goes, he goes?
Speaker 2: Is the is the is the Is.
Speaker 5: The vibe different at PNC Park when it's a playoff game?
Speaker 5: And you know clearly he has no idea, you know,
Speaker 5: And I said, yeah, man, it really is like And
Speaker 5: to treat those to treat some of these games down
Speaker 5: the Stretch as as important as I think they're gonna be,
Speaker 5: that would be that would be really cool because I
Speaker 5: do think like this, this is all these games are
Speaker 5: kind of quasi playoff games.
Speaker 3: At this point. Yeah, one day at a time. Let's
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