Speaker 1: I feel one on one. You see a couple of
Speaker 1: them in my taste with ye and my lemonade, because
Speaker 1: I let the way it taste best cease at the pirates,
Speaker 1: get it, Let me run the base. Yeah, my time
Speaker 1: is like my money because I can't afford to waste.
Speaker 1: Oh why see is alloyers in my date? To my dates?
Speaker 1: Or to stick by the plate? Send the case, pet
Speaker 1: the case from my race at my pace Cleared grass that.
Speaker 2: Is Snakes, Episode three ninety one of Bucco Banter Live
Speaker 2: at Brave Bean Coffee Company down here on the North Shore,
Speaker 2: right outside of panc Park. Underneath the garage you can
Speaker 2: park your car, get caffeinated, and then hop over to
Speaker 2: panc Park to hopefully watch the Buckos finally win a
Speaker 2: game in their first homestand back from the All Star Break.
Speaker 2: I wish we had more to talk about today, I
Speaker 2: really do, because what a frustrating series it has been
Speaker 2: coming back from the All Star break and what we
Speaker 2: deemed one of the most important series in recent memory,
Speaker 2: definitely the past ten years, maybe since twenty thirteen, where
Speaker 2: you come back, you have a playoff spot and then
Speaker 2: a division rival comes to town and you just don't
Speaker 2: show up, and the offense has been stale. The pitching
Speaker 2: has looked good as of recently. Paul Skeins looked good
Speaker 2: for the most part last night. The bullpen still has
Speaker 2: the same issues. We bring in Ron Marinaccio, which we'll
Speaker 2: have an interview with him coming up this week on
Speaker 2: Bench Banter. But really disappointing showing all around. I think
Speaker 2: you know, we could point to decisions made the offense
Speaker 2: the bullpen. The offense hasn't scored a run in three games.
Speaker 2: In three games, debo, it's been New York. They got
Speaker 2: shut out in game two. You come back here, you
Speaker 2: don't score a run, and then yesterday or you scored
Speaker 2: what two runs and then yesterday eleven to nothing. So
Speaker 2: you scored two runs in the last three games.
Speaker 3: That's bad.
Speaker 2: And I'm not really inclined to blame too much on
Speaker 2: the offense right now because of how much they've carried
Speaker 2: this team throughout the year. It's men mostly offense. The
Speaker 2: pitching staff. At least the starters have been decent. Obviously
Speaker 2: we want more out of them. I think you're still
Speaker 2: gonna get decent starts from these guys. Mitch Keller had
Speaker 2: a good outing in New York. That's promising, especially going
Speaker 2: after the All Star break when his career has really
Speaker 2: been the inverse as of lately, Paul Skins has looked better,
Speaker 2: Braxton didn't have a great start after the All Star break,
Speaker 2: Bubba has looked really good. The offense has to get
Speaker 2: going now. Offenses are gonna go through slups. That's just
Speaker 2: the nature of the game. It's hard to hit a baseball,
Speaker 2: it really is. You're never no matter who you are,
Speaker 2: best offense in the league or not, You're never gonna
Speaker 2: go a whole season where everybody is just on and
Speaker 2: everybody is producing. You're gonna go through this time. And
Speaker 2: this is where Brandon Law goes through his time right now. Apparently, Okay,
Speaker 2: this is where Brian Reynolds is starting to struggle a
Speaker 2: little bit as Maryland Daldez is starting to get figured out.
Speaker 2: He's still having some really good at bats, but teams
Speaker 2: are starting to figure out how to pitch him a
Speaker 2: little bit. That's just the nature of playing baseball. So
Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about it. We're gonna have a discussion
Speaker 2: here at Brave Bean Coffee Company. As you might notice,
Speaker 2: I'm riding solo today. We don't have any gym stam here,
Speaker 2: we don't have Scott Moore here. Uh, it's just gonna
Speaker 2: be myself and deboat behind the camera and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: try and weather the storm because it's been rough coming
Speaker 2: back here. Ends are palooz a weekend. You got sold
Speaker 2: out crowds on back to back days. You probably have
Speaker 2: a big crowd today as well with another giveaway. We've
Speaker 2: had a good time at the park, getting to know
Speaker 2: some people, walking around, doing some trivia, asking some questions.
Speaker 2: But you could tell people are here for more than
Speaker 2: just the giveaways this weekend. You could tell people are
Speaker 2: here not just because the yans are pollosive, because meaningful
Speaker 2: baseball is being played. And we've talked about this year
Speaker 2: and year again about all we're asking for is meaningful
Speaker 2: baseball at this time of the year. That's all we
Speaker 2: want the games to matter. We don't want to walk
Speaker 2: around the park and you know, we're having a good time,
Speaker 2: but the baseball in the field is just eh, it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter what happens now it matters, and when it
Speaker 2: matters most, and the crowd is sold out and everybody's bumping,
Speaker 2: you kind of flop, I mean not kind of you
Speaker 2: do flop, and that's a problem. And the problem is also,
Speaker 2: you know we're making moves up until August third. You
Speaker 2: bring in raw Maranachio to try and get rid of
Speaker 2: Dennis Santana. Addition by subtraction, Really, Maronachio hasn't had a
Speaker 2: great year. I think the Pirates believe in some of
Speaker 2: the characteristics in the Cutter. They like the change up
Speaker 2: to lefties, but it's not going to be the solution
Speaker 2: to all of their problems. They obviously need to make
Speaker 2: more of a move going into August third, but you
Speaker 2: also can not give this front office an excuse not
Speaker 2: to make those moves up until August third. They lose,
Speaker 2: say they get swept, all right, you're still in it.
Speaker 2: You go back your one game above five hundred right now,
Speaker 2: you go back to five hundred if you lose today.
Speaker 2: Hopefully that's not the case and you can kind of
Speaker 2: salvage the series a little bit. Arguably the more important
Speaker 2: series right now is Arizona, who comes to town tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Arizona's right there with you in the NL Wildcard race.
Speaker 2: The Cubs are way ahead of you right now. That's
Speaker 2: just the nature of it. They got it okay, But
Speaker 2: the d Backs are kind of in the same situation
Speaker 2: you are. If you're not able to write this ship
Speaker 2: right now, if you're not able to figure something out
Speaker 2: with the offense and produce some runs and really grind
Speaker 2: out some wins right here, it's gonna be tough for
Speaker 2: this front office to look at the current situation and
Speaker 2: say we're gonna go out and spend big. We're gonna
Speaker 2: go out and make a meeting move that's really gonna
Speaker 2: change the tides of the twenty twenty sixth season.
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to be dooming the loom right now.
Speaker 3: I'm really not.
Speaker 2: It's just a nature of the circumstances that we put
Speaker 2: ourselves in. But the reality is every game matters right now.
Speaker 2: We're not playing for tomorrow. We're not scratching yesterday and saying, oh,
Speaker 2: well that happened. It matters, and I'm happy I get
Speaker 2: to say that it does matter.
Speaker 3: How much, well, of course it matters.
Speaker 4: How much writing of the shift do you think getting
Speaker 4: Spenced back and getting O'Neill cruiz back will do.
Speaker 2: I think that definitely helps, because this lineup needs a
Speaker 2: shake up, and they've done fine without those guys. Obviously,
Speaker 2: I'd rather have Cruise, Connor Spencer in the lineup, even Endy, right,
Speaker 2: just because those guys are good.
Speaker 3: They've had really good years.
Speaker 2: Obviously, you get a lot of slug back there, you
Speaker 2: get a lot of on base percentage with Spencer. Yeah,
Speaker 2: options at the top of the lineup, another couple more
Speaker 2: lefty bats. Spencer got hit in the head last night,
Speaker 2: which is not great, so he's currently being evaluated. He
Speaker 2: needed to hit a home run, so he's looked good.
Speaker 2: But hopefully that's nothing more than just a little bit
Speaker 2: of a boo boo and they can move by it,
Speaker 2: past it, and he is getting re evaluated. He's playing
Speaker 2: in Triple A tonight, getting reevaluated tomorrow in Pittsburgh, and
Speaker 2: then they'll go from there. But yeah, I think that
Speaker 2: helps a ton because this lineup just needs a little
Speaker 2: bit of a shake up right now. You haven't had
Speaker 2: much of you haven't had different lineups. Really, you have
Speaker 2: only so many options. With Jacob Gonzalez and Tyler Callahan
Speaker 2: coming off the bench. Marcelo Zun has probably played more
Speaker 2: than you wanted him to play. And guess what it's
Speaker 2: to say Marcelo's you know, I hate to say it,
Speaker 2: like the more he plays, the more you just see
Speaker 2: it's just not happening. The career's probably done there. It's
Speaker 2: a wash, okay. But the problem is, like I can't
Speaker 2: complain about that too much because you really haven't needed
Speaker 2: him this year. Like whatever, screw it, he hasn't playing,
Speaker 2: that's fine, They've been doing fine without him, But you're
Speaker 2: in a situation now where he has to play more
Speaker 2: often than not, and the options that you have to
Speaker 2: play with eventually you're gonna go stale. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: think adding those guys back eventually is gonna help. O'Neill
Speaker 2: is eligible to return to August eighth, I believe, and
Speaker 2: then hopefully Horwitz is fine, the hamstring is okay, and
Speaker 2: you get him back in this lineup. Then you give
Speaker 2: more options with Ryan o'hearne Dhing. You can give as
Speaker 2: Maryland a break in the outfield with him Dhing a
Speaker 2: little bit. You don't have to worry about Ozuna at all.
Speaker 2: Mangham can go back to being a fourth outfielder. Although
Speaker 2: I think Mangum has played really well defensively and he's
Speaker 2: provided sparks on the offensive.
Speaker 3: Side.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think that was one of the early
Speaker 4: criticisms of the Ozuna move was it takes flexibility out
Speaker 4: of DH. But if you're not playing him there you
Speaker 4: can rotate through the DH opens up some time for
Speaker 4: Mangnhum to play as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so the season's not over after all that.
Speaker 2: I gotta get it off much because nobody can sit
Speaker 2: here and disagree that the past two games have been disappointing.
Speaker 2: It has been. It is what it is. We got
Speaker 2: to win today. You got to win today. The Pirates
Speaker 2: just weren't gonna win yesterday. Showed to Imonaga debo. You
Speaker 2: know what the career stats against the Pirates and six
Speaker 2: starts are. You might have seen it because it's been
Speaker 2: going a bit viral on an interweb.
Speaker 4: I know Scott Scott talked about it for the last week,
Speaker 4: and I know that he just absolutely just serves crazily.
Speaker 2: And I'll give you major props if you can guess this,
Speaker 2: but I don't know if anybody can. So in six starts,
Speaker 2: he's thrown thirty eight innings, one earned run one. He
Speaker 2: has a point two four ERA against the Buckos. Do
Speaker 2: you know who that one earned run is? I'll give
Speaker 2: you this. It was a home run, and he is
Speaker 2: not on this team right now, give me Alexander Cano.
Speaker 2: So that's what I guessed yesterday. It wasn't Alexander Canario.
Speaker 2: That was my first guest because like, who is just
Speaker 2: the most obscure name that probably went deep because it
Speaker 2: was for him. It was either I'm going deeper, I'm
Speaker 2: striking out. Was Tommy Fam. Tommy Fam has showed it
Speaker 2: Imanagua's number. Other than that, the Buccos have not quite
Speaker 2: literally have not been able to touch a baseball for Shoda,
Speaker 2: he is the absolute crypt nite. You better not run
Speaker 2: into him later down the road because you just can't
Speaker 2: hit him.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: The guy is good. He's good against everybody, but against
Speaker 2: the Pirates. Is he is Prime Pedro? He is Roger Clemens.
Speaker 2: He's not like he is the guy. That's the guy
Speaker 2: you're going to ten out of ten times if you're
Speaker 2: playing the Pirates at the North Shore or the North
Speaker 2: in Chicago, it's just gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 2: You have a chance against Jameson tay On, a guy
Speaker 2: who you've been able to hit. Okay, you still struggle.
Speaker 2: He has a good pitch mix, he's not gonna overpower you.
Speaker 2: But you gotta score runs today going into tomorrow, going
Speaker 2: into the Wolf game. And to talk about the dog
Speaker 2: days of summer debo, you're not scoring runs. It's getting hotter.
Speaker 2: I mean, the past couple of nights been a little
Speaker 2: bit cooler, but it's still it's it's hard to show
Speaker 2: up to work on some days.
Speaker 3: It's tough.
Speaker 4: But think about this, Maybe the Wolf Game is exactly
Speaker 4: what the pirates need. Oh maybe maybe Monday, maybe tomorrow,
Speaker 4: And listen, I would love for great things to happen today.
Speaker 4: And if they do, think about the reinforcements coming on Monday.
Speaker 2: The reinforcements come beyond this team. Ladies and gentlemen. When
Speaker 2: we plan the Wolf Game, we pick an obscure day.
Speaker 2: It can't be a Saturday. That's cheap, that's cheating. Of course,
Speaker 2: people are going to be out there on a Saturday
Speaker 2: giveaway night. Of course, people are going to be there
Speaker 2: for a Friday firework night. Hell, even a Thursday, right,
Speaker 2: a Wednesday. Even you know who shows up to work
Speaker 2: ready to go as a baseball fan. Somebody who works
Speaker 2: a nine to five gets yelled at by their boss,
Speaker 2: is having a tough day. They gotta go home, eat
Speaker 2: a crappy meal for dinner, and then they throw on
Speaker 2: their best wolf shirt and they look in the mirror
Speaker 2: and they say oh. And then they drive down, they
Speaker 2: walk down, they bite down, they take the tee down
Speaker 2: to the north shore. They scan their ticket and they
Speaker 2: hop off to the rotunda and they howl with the boys.
Speaker 2: And you're part of a wolf pack. You're part of
Speaker 2: a gang who cares, and all jokes aside. It's all
Speaker 2: jokes aside. Right now, let's be serious. Let's put on
Speaker 2: our serious faces. The Wolf game is meaningful.
Speaker 4: Chase the Dodgers out of town last year, chase the
Speaker 4: Dodgers out of time.
Speaker 3: You might think this is a joke.
Speaker 2: You might think this is some sort of silly game
Speaker 2: that banters playing, that we've just formulated in order to
Speaker 2: have a good time for ourselves at the park.
Speaker 3: This is not for us. The Wolf game is for you.
Speaker 3: Look at me.
Speaker 2: The Wolf games for you. You show up and you
Speaker 2: how because you know what that does. It shows a
Speaker 2: sense of community. It shows a sense of belonging, that
Speaker 2: you are meant to be here, that the team is
Speaker 2: full of alphas, guys who are gonna stick together as
Speaker 2: a pack and be dominant. And I think all you know, again,
Speaker 2: all jokes aside, not joking. Look at me, am I am,
Speaker 2: I am, I laughing right now. Serious as a heart attack.
Speaker 2: Serious is a heart attack. You're gonna look down in
Speaker 2: that dugout. You might see some guys Allen, you might
Speaker 2: you might see some some wolf bears around the park.
Speaker 2: You might see some wolf flags. This is what's gonna
Speaker 2: turn the season around right now. And I can't stress
Speaker 2: enough how much this is not a joke. We need something,
Speaker 2: We need something. Baseball is a weird sport. People complain
Speaker 2: all the time, rightfully, so it's very reactionary on a
Speaker 2: day to day basis. Hell, this team could go on
Speaker 2: a teno rod and you're like, wow, this season's back on.
Speaker 4: Which And that's I was thinking about that the other
Speaker 4: day because I was talking about to some of my
Speaker 4: friends who are unfortunately Boston Red Sox fans. A month ago,
Speaker 4: they're like creater Boston a month ago, and now they're like,
Speaker 4: maybe this is the greatest team that's ever played the game.
Speaker 3: Right, how many they won fifteen games in a row?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they lost the fifteenth, So it's like
Speaker 2: fourteen in a row.
Speaker 3: Fifteen, yeah, somewhere around there.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not saying the Pirates are gonna do that,
Speaker 4: but the baseball is a fickle sport.
Speaker 3: It is. It's again very reactionary.
Speaker 2: We could do a show every single day and talk
Speaker 2: about something different and something you know that could have
Speaker 2: gone one way or another, or you know a play
Speaker 2: that it takes one guy on the other team making
Speaker 2: a miss thrower or committing an air or one mistake
Speaker 2: in order to change a game around. And that's okay,
Speaker 2: that's baseball. But we can't just sit here and say
Speaker 2: seasons over. I see too much of that, man, too
Speaker 2: much of that. If you're gonna, if you're truly gonna
Speaker 2: be a baseball fan, and you're gonna sit here and
Speaker 2: you're gonna watch one hundred and sixty two games a year,
Speaker 2: you're gonna show up to sixty plus games like we
Speaker 2: do and actually watch the sport and say you're a
Speaker 2: baseball fan and say you're a Pirates fan. You can't
Speaker 2: do this. I mean, I'm talking out for you just mentally, emotionally,
Speaker 2: look at me. It's not good for your health. For
Speaker 2: you every single day to be like seasons, back on seasons,
Speaker 2: back off seasons, back on seasons, back off, sell the
Speaker 2: you know, sell the farm. It's not good. I'm telling
Speaker 2: you right now, just be bought in. Try it for
Speaker 2: a second. It's okay. Then in the same breath, it's
Speaker 2: okay to be disappointed. It's okay to say, hey, they
Speaker 2: crack the bed. Okay, they they need this, they need
Speaker 2: the bullpen. Things aren't going their way. But like, let's
Speaker 2: be real with ourselves. We haven't had this in a while.
Speaker 2: No matter the faults with the team, no matter the
Speaker 2: false the bullpen's bad, we know that. All right, things
Speaker 2: gotta change. Maronacchio didn't do well last night. Isaac didn't
Speaker 2: do well last night. You have Tyler Callahan pitching for
Speaker 2: the third time this season. Not good, not good in
Speaker 2: any situation. Things need to change. But you're still able
Speaker 2: to watch these games and say, hey, something could happen, right, Like,
Speaker 2: there's that alternate part of you where, yeah, maybe they
Speaker 2: lose it and you're pissed and you want to point
Speaker 2: the finger, but if they win, you still have that
Speaker 2: feeling inside of you that like, things could change. Right.
Speaker 5: Parts are about five hundred Yeah, parts are about five
Speaker 5: hundred right now, right, and you're you're were the bullpen
Speaker 5: has this season, you've been without CRU's long term, without
Speaker 5: Connor for long stance, Spence having a bit of a breakout,
Speaker 5: you lose him.
Speaker 4: Andy has been good, really good. But also you've lost
Speaker 4: Andy for a little bit as well. I mean, and
Speaker 4: I think I talked about this a couple episodes ago,
Speaker 4: but for every bad thing that's happened to corresponding good
Speaker 4: thing has kind of happened as well.
Speaker 3: Right, Braxton has been kind of a revelation you've seen.
Speaker 4: I mean, without that has just been great, hitting fifteen
Speaker 4: home runs in a month or something like that. And
Speaker 4: all of that being said, you get those guys back,
Speaker 4: you maybe figure out the bullpen. By the end of
Speaker 4: the month or by August.
Speaker 3: You're still about five hundred.
Speaker 2: You're still about five hundred. If you lose today, you're
Speaker 2: five hundred, and then you have another opportunity to come
Speaker 2: back to PNC Park on Monday on the Wolf game,
Speaker 2: put BTA to the d Backs and try and right
Speaker 2: the ship. Now, it's gonna be a grind like seventeen
Speaker 2: games in a row here, man, It's not gonna be easy.
Speaker 2: You go right to Cincinnati and you play four games,
Speaker 2: you play Thursday through Sunday.
Speaker 3: You don't get that that often. It's not gonna be easy.
Speaker 2: You're you're gonna have to figure out a way before
Speaker 2: August third.
Speaker 4: What's today's day debo? Today is Sunday, July twenty sixth Okay,
Speaker 4: you got about a week.
Speaker 2: To convince people that you're one or two moves away
Speaker 2: from really figuring it out, one or two moves and
Speaker 2: we all know what those one or two moves are.
Speaker 3: And I think you know it's it's not.
Speaker 2: The seller's market is gonna be tough because you just
Speaker 2: mentioned the Red Sox.
Speaker 3: They look like a great team now they might be buyers.
Speaker 2: There's been a lot of talk about them maybe going
Speaker 2: out and getting a shortstop. Okay, maybe going and getting
Speaker 2: a catcher. Shay Langeleier is gonna be out for the season.
Speaker 2: He was on trade talks a little bit. I know
Speaker 2: the A's would have to be blown away, but he's
Speaker 2: he's out of the equation now. A role to Chapman
Speaker 2: probably won't be moved if they're looking to compete. So
Speaker 2: it's gonna take a lot like it's not gonna be easy.
Speaker 2: And there might be two moves that the Pirates make
Speaker 2: that aren't the sexiest that could be really good moves.
Speaker 2: But it's gonna be a lot on this front office
Speaker 2: to kind of put together a package that makes sense
Speaker 2: for the Pittsburgh Pirates, because you know what the Pirates
Speaker 2: are gonna do. They're gonna put together a package that
Speaker 2: isn't going to deplete them for the next couple of years.
Speaker 3: We don't know what next year holds and Sore.
Speaker 2: I think Seth is pretty much untouchable, although we've heard
Speaker 2: stories that you know, maybe he is. He just went
Speaker 2: he's getting checked out for an oblique issue here. I
Speaker 2: don't know, Man, Like I wouldn't, I wouldn't trade them,
Speaker 2: But I think you have a deep enough farm system
Speaker 2: to make moves that are meaningful in order to help
Speaker 2: the major league team right now. And you gotta you
Speaker 2: gotta keep this window open. You gotta you can't give
Speaker 2: up on this team, man, You can't give up on
Speaker 2: the fans. You have to the worst thing that could
Speaker 2: happen for this fan base forget about the team right now.
Speaker 2: The worst thing that can happen for this fan base
Speaker 2: is for you to give up on them.
Speaker 3: That is, it's the truth. I agree.
Speaker 4: Do you think that they'll need to make more moves
Speaker 4: than just bullpen help with Do you just say we
Speaker 4: got the offensive firepower coming back, We were just gonna
Speaker 4: focus on the bullpen.
Speaker 3: You think they needs more than that?
Speaker 2: I think by default, getting Horwitz back, getting End back,
Speaker 2: getting Cruise back is definitely gonna help. We don't know
Speaker 2: how Cruz is gonna play. Guys coming off of hand injuries,
Speaker 2: finger injuries. For guys that slug, it's tough. Man like you,
Speaker 2: you might not feel the same for a while. You
Speaker 2: need some rehab starts to get your bearings about.
Speaker 3: But I could see.
Speaker 2: Them going out and looking in the catching market a
Speaker 2: little bit. I mean talk about where you need a
Speaker 2: little bit more in your lineup. Yeah, you get Indy back.
Speaker 2: Can you rely on Dy to stay healthy historically?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Right when he's here, he looks pretty good. I trust
Speaker 2: him defensively. Rafa just went down on the il. Henry
Speaker 2: is Henry. Obviously. I could see them maybe going out
Speaker 2: and not making a crazy sexy move, but maybe a
Speaker 2: move for a catcher. Maybe maybe another move for like
Speaker 2: another outfield option, just a depth piece. But right now,
Speaker 2: like I'm not trading anybody from the major league lineup.
Speaker 2: I'm not really making moves from the major league roster
Speaker 2: right now. I think that's okay. I think getting those
Speaker 2: guys back and then maybe adding one person outside of
Speaker 2: the bullpen helps. I think a starting pitcher could be
Speaker 2: a move too. I think you've lacked a lefty this year.
Speaker 2: I think somebody like a Foster Griffin, if Washington's willing
Speaker 2: to move on from him, could be a really good move.
Speaker 2: Lefties have pitched historically well at panc Park. A lot
Speaker 2: of guys have turned their careers around. Tyler Anderson, Jose
Speaker 2: Kintana have played very, very well in Pittsburgh. There's more
Speaker 2: moves than just the bullpen that need to be made.
Speaker 2: I'm I think you can make a move in the
Speaker 2: next couple of days just to try and write the
Speaker 2: ship and just give us options right now before August third.
Speaker 2: But when we get close to August first, August second,
Speaker 2: those moves need to be the moves Capital t the
Speaker 2: big SpongeBob. Write in the paper, write a little bit
Speaker 2: of this, a little bit of that fire reference. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but right now, you're okay, just scouring the waivers and
Speaker 2: trying to do addition by subtraction, moving guys around, because
Speaker 2: you just can't count on guys anymore to do the job.
Speaker 2: You can't be like, well the excuse of like, hey, well,
Speaker 2: we like the guys on the roster right now, we
Speaker 2: like what we're seeing the analytics, we like the movement here,
Speaker 2: we like the pitch arsenal. That's all fine and dandy,
Speaker 2: but it just doesn't play at this time of the year.
Speaker 2: That plays in spring training or in April, March, whatever
Speaker 2: it may be, where you can count on guys a
Speaker 2: little bit.
Speaker 3: But look, this team just hasn't caught a break man Like.
Speaker 3: It sucks.
Speaker 2: Like you can you can afford injuries early on in
Speaker 2: a year, right a little bit, but you can't get
Speaker 2: them right around the AL start break.
Speaker 3: They put guys on the sixty.
Speaker 4: Day Yeah, I mean, how many games did Connor play
Speaker 4: after coming back?
Speaker 3: A week? Like a handful?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like a week And that was we talked about it.
Speaker 2: That was the biggest one. You know, Crew getting back
Speaker 2: would be obviously huge, Horwitz coming back would be great.
Speaker 2: I think Horrords was still there maybe for a little
Speaker 2: bit when Connor came back. Maybe I'm wrong, but getting
Speaker 2: Connor back and just suring up that lineup, and that
Speaker 2: moves Triolo to a position where you could play him
Speaker 2: more in that true utility role and he doesn't have
Speaker 2: to get every day at bats. His at bats haven't
Speaker 2: looked bad as of lately. He's been doing well, and
Speaker 2: obviously the glove is there. He's valuable in that aspect.
Speaker 2: But losing Connor sucks, man. And talk about a twenty
Speaker 2: year old who's just been just nails for this team,
Speaker 2: playing near gold gloves, shorts up, being electric over there,
Speaker 2: being able to put him at the top of the lineup,
Speaker 2: at the bottom of the lineup, in the middle of
Speaker 2: the lineup, the mayhem that he creates on the base path,
Speaker 2: You're just not getting that anywhere else. You're really not.
Speaker 2: And kudos to him. I mean, he still shows up
Speaker 2: every single day. We see him out there on the
Speaker 2: field early, you know, getting some workouts in. The kid
Speaker 2: is mentally strong for a twenty year old. You just
Speaker 2: don't see that often. I hope he could play meaningful
Speaker 2: baseball this year, but right now it's just not the
Speaker 2: our reality that we're living in.
Speaker 3: Fortunately, man, it really is, and losing him sucks like.
Speaker 2: A lot of this season was reliant on Connor Griff.
Speaker 2: Going into the season, it's like he makes the opening
Speaker 2: day roster and if he doesn't, the biggest addition that
Speaker 2: you're making is Connor Griffin.
Speaker 3: And now that turned out to be true.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously ohearn Low incredible, but the lineup's just
Speaker 2: not the same without the kid. It's night and day.
Speaker 2: And I don't think anybody can disagree with that. If
Speaker 2: you do, you're wrong. I'll say that he is the
Speaker 2: future of this organization. There's a lot of things that
Speaker 2: have gone wrong that haven't gone well, but he has
Speaker 2: not been one of them. I'm gonna wrap it up
Speaker 2: here pretty soon. We're down here at Brave Bean Coffee
Speaker 2: Company on the North Shore. I've heard a lot of
Speaker 2: people say like, hey, I need coffee on the North Shore.
Speaker 2: We've been guys who have talked about needing a little
Speaker 2: pick me up before or after games, and we didn't
Speaker 2: really know about any coffee shops around here until we
Speaker 2: discovered Brave Bean. And my god, was it in the
Speaker 2: perfect location because right above me is right where we park.
Speaker 3: My car is like a floor.
Speaker 2: Above me right now, and I can just walk on
Speaker 2: down the stairs, take the elevator, whatever you please, come
Speaker 2: in here. Get a coffee real quick. I'm drinking a
Speaker 2: cole Brew right now. Debo's drinking a col Brew. This
Speaker 2: is really good. It's really really good coffee. I don't
Speaker 2: just go get coffee everywhere, but we trust them to
Speaker 2: get us to pick me up in the morning.
Speaker 4: And pirates people, all the pirates folks. I just saw
Speaker 4: Danni's angrily walk out of here. Gave me a little
Speaker 4: tap on the arm. Everyone who's who's down here daily?
Speaker 4: They know it's a spot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know players have come through here. It's it's
Speaker 2: really good. So come check out Brave Bean Coffee Company.
Speaker 2: You still got time. It's only eleven thirty six right now,
Speaker 2: on a beautiful Sunday day, by the way, a really
Speaker 2: really nice day.
Speaker 3: Cooled off a little bit from yesterday. Yeah, so mid
Speaker 3: seventies action.
Speaker 2: Let's let's try and make yinzer Palooza hole again. We'll
Speaker 2: show up today. What's the giveaway they got the little bear,
Speaker 2: mister Rogers, Mister Dan, I don't know what it is, man,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just want to see good baseball.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's a cool giveaway, But come to Brave
Speaker 2: Being Coffee Company. Get caffeinated, come over here. They are
Speaker 2: the one of the winners of the small Businesses of
Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Pirates, so you're gonna see a lot more
Speaker 2: of them in the next coming months. But really appreciate
Speaker 2: everybody for listening and dealing with just me today.
Speaker 3: That's a tall task, all right.
Speaker 2: I mean, let's just talk about people that have to
Speaker 2: deal with just me, my girlfriend, my parents, my whole family,
Speaker 2: Debo Scott, my co workers, pretty much anybody I run
Speaker 2: into on a daily basis.
Speaker 3: It's not easy.
Speaker 2: It's not easy for me and you just to have
Speaker 2: a conversation face to face. And I really appreciate you
Speaker 2: whoever is watching right now, I don't know you guys
Speaker 2: are the best.
Speaker 3: We appreciate you again.
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Speaker 2: This is my last, this album to close out the show.
Speaker 2: We talked about the Wolf game. Look at me. The
Speaker 2: wolf game matters. It's the dog days of summer. The
Speaker 2: pack matters. The wolf game matters. It's not gonna be
Speaker 2: just you alone. You're not a lone wolf on this
Speaker 2: upcoming Monday, it's a six forty game. The sun's going
Speaker 2: to be going down and a full moon is going
Speaker 2: to be going up, and it's up to you to
Speaker 2: go to the highest point in the park. We could
Speaker 2: see the moon in the city, in the field, everything
Speaker 2: coming together at one time. And again, you're not a
Speaker 2: lone wolf. You're there with your pack, your brothers and
Speaker 2: your sisters who are going to be there all in
Speaker 2: one joined with you wearing wolf gear, and you're gonna
Speaker 2: how how how, And that's going to have an impact
Speaker 2: one way or another, either on the Pirates or on
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Speaker 2: to make the decisions. They really propel you forward and
Speaker 2: move on to the next step of the season or
Speaker 2: whatever you haven't planned.
Speaker 3: But I think the Wolf game's a good reset for
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Speaker 1: The best seats at the Pirates game. They let me
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