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Best of Bucco Territory, Year 1 · Bucco Territory: A Pittsburgh Pirates Podcast

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Bucko Territory.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Platinum Key, aka Mark. Joining me, as always, is
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  Speaker 1: my co-host, Josh Harrison. Usually Noah Hiles would be sitting
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  Speaker 1: here as well with us, but he's on his way
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: back from Paris covering the Steelers in the Paris game
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  Speaker 1: for the NFL. So Noah will be rejoining the show
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday, so glad to have him back. But today,
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  Speaker 1: you see the episode of the show, you see the thumbnail.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be going through some of our best
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  Speaker 1: moments here on Bucko Territory.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, man, it's crazy to think that we're pretty
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  Speaker 2: much almost a year into this. Time has flown. And, man,
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  Speaker 2: for the subscribers, thank you. For those, this may be
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  Speaker 2: your first time watching. Excited for the show. It's definitely
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  Speaker 2: a snapshot of, you know, some of our most memorable
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: or favorite moments. So thanks for the support. And as
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  Speaker 2: we said, if this is your first time, it's been
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  Speaker 2: a nice little episode to watch to kind of see
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  Speaker 2: what the show is about and, you know, how myself,
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  Speaker 2: Platinum Key, aka Mark, and Noah, you know, how we
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  Speaker 2: go about, you know, handling Bucko Territory. So once again,
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  Speaker 2: thank you and excited for you all to catch this episode.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, appreciate everyone who's tuned in, whether this is your
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  Speaker 1: first or if you watch every single one, really appreciate
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  Speaker 1: all the support. We have a ton of fun doing this,
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  Speaker 1: as you guys are about to see. So sit back, relax,
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  Speaker 1: and enjoy some of the best moments of year one
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  Speaker 1: of Bucko Territory.
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  Speaker 3: What's up, everybody?
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  Speaker 4: Welcome to the first ever episode of Bucko Territory on
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  Speaker 4: the Foul Territory Network. My name is Noah Hiles from
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  Speaker 4: the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. I want to introduce my two co-hosts
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  Speaker 4: on this program now.
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  Speaker 3: First guy... I think you all recognize that face.
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  Speaker 4: Josh Harrison, former pirates, all-star infielder Jay Hay is on
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  Speaker 4: the program and maybe try to get him on some length. Obviously, Josh,
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  Speaker 4: they haven't signed a multi-year free agent since you were
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  Speaker 4: still in a pirates uniform. So I think there it's
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  Speaker 4: time to break that stigma.
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  Speaker 5: It's yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yvonne Nova was the last multi-year free agent. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: 2017.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you for our clip there. Thank you for
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  Speaker 3: our podcast clip there.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, yeah. Speechless this time.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: It's something.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Offensive woes.
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  Speaker 4: The Pirates, they stink against left-handed pitching.
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  Speaker 3: And boy, oh boy, did they really stink up the
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  Speaker 3: joint yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: Eight strikeouts in a row against the Brewers starter.
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Harrison.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Kyle Harrison. Not my cousin.
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  Speaker 3: Not related, believe it or not, to Josh. That was
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  Speaker 3: a hell of a line there, Josh. Well done. And
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  Speaker 3: alongside him is Mark, a.k.a. Platinum Key.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even want to call you Mark, Mark. We're
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  Speaker 4: just going to call you Platinum Key.
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  Speaker 6: I think, honestly, just like mindset. Before we get too far,
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  Speaker 6: do you like Platinum?
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  Speaker 5: Do you like Key, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Platinum?
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  Speaker 1: Platinum, Key, whatever, Mark. Whatever makes you feel most comfortable.
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Platinum is for you.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Platinum, I'll keep it for you. Let's go.
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  Speaker 6: Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw Noah's tweet. That was
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  Speaker 1: pretty funny. I have a podcast with two of these people.
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  Speaker 4: It's your baseball reference page and Mark looking like an
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  Speaker 4: idiot in a coat.
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  Speaker 2: Along the field, and sometimes somebody would want you to
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  Speaker 2: sign a baby. People ask some features on, but I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: babies are some of the most like fragile things to
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  Speaker 2: where like the smallest thing can make them sick. I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not trying to, I said, I'm not trying to
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  Speaker 2: have you sue me for giving your baby like lip
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  Speaker 2: or Mark, you know what I mean? Like not being funny,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't want to sign. And they'd be like, man,
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  Speaker 2: Josh Harrison signed that baby on a stomach or the forehead.
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  Speaker 2: And now the baby's got, you know, like sick. Like
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't going to be that one. So I would,
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  Speaker 2: anytime they asked and I got asked to sign a
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  Speaker 2: couple of babies and I was like, you know what?
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  Speaker 2: I'll take a picture. I can hold your kid. But
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  Speaker 2: at the same time, you know, We made a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people. I wasn't trying to pass germs from people.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, you're not about to sue me.
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  Speaker 1: That's such a relatable experience. Noah and I, we've been
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  Speaker 1: asked to sign babies too.
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  Speaker 4: Dude, I'm so glad I asked that follow-up question.
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  Speaker 3: And then real quick, the other one I'll throw out.
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  Speaker 3: The realistic one.
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  Speaker 4: This is a trade I would love to see them
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  Speaker 4: actually make and I think is realistic. This is my
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  Speaker 4: favorite name in baseball, Lake Bakker. Uh, he's a middle
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  Speaker 4: inning reliever for the Miami Marlins. Um, just as solid
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  Speaker 4: as they come. So Lake Walker, if it happens, you
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  Speaker 4: heard it here first. I will take the most nauseating.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be watching this on Noah's Twitter right now.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'll be, I'll be calling everyone I know in
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  Speaker 4: that front office being like, I deserve some kick. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: You guys got this from me. It's just so you did.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And, and, I want to be abundantly clear.
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  Speaker 4: I have not talked to anyone in any baseball organization
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  Speaker 4: ever about Lake Bakker.
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  Speaker 3: I have never had one conversation. I just watched him
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  Speaker 3: pitch against the Pirates last year on opening day.
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  Speaker 4: And I said, that name rules. And I look into
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  Speaker 4: him and I can't get him out of my mind.
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  Speaker 4: He's just my favorite player that no one else talks
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  Speaker 4: about in baseball. Go get Lake Bacher.
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  Speaker 3: Forget Jose Soriano.
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  Speaker 4: Forget Senzatella or Willie Castro or Jeffers.
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  Speaker 3: This is the Lake Bacher episode.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect.
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  Speaker 6: You got a name. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, buddy.
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  Speaker 5: Mic drop. Wet.
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  Speaker 6: Kobe.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: Listen.
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  Speaker 6: Turn it to the Lake Bacher episode.
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  Speaker 3: And overall, it's just. It's just funny. It's just funny.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not flexing my muscles saying, I do think I
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  Speaker 4: know a decent amount about Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 3: This is just a shot in the dark.
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  Speaker 4: It's no different than anyone who watches this show who
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  Speaker 4: comments their trade deadline targets.
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  Speaker 3: But, I mean, this was a sicko pull. This was
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  Speaker 3: a sicko pull on my end.
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  Speaker 6: And, man, it's just great.
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  Speaker 3: It feels like when you pick the 16 seed to
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  Speaker 3: win in March Madness.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: That's what that feels like for me.
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  Speaker 4: But in reality, all jokes aside, all Noah Heil's victory
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  Speaker 4: lap put to the side here, this was a really
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  Speaker 4: good addition.
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  Speaker 3: For the Pirates.
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely love this move, not just because Lake Bakker
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  Speaker 1: is an awesome name that looks really cool. And it's
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  Speaker 1: a sicko poll for my podcast co-host here, which by
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  Speaker 1: the way, just like, it's one thing to nail like
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  Speaker 1: a trade prediction. Like I'd like, this is a trade target.
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  Speaker 1: The part you get, Hey, they actually went out and
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  Speaker 1: got them. That's cool. It's another thing when that guy
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  Speaker 1: is Lake freaking Bacher, a guy who I had never
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  Speaker 1: heard of. I think we mentioned on the episode, like
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  Speaker 1: 500 people listening to this, probably one is might know
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  Speaker 1: him and they're lying. Like, Yeah, no, it's just insane,
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  Speaker 1: insane pull. So yeah, major, major props, Noah. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it also helps this bullpen out a ton. So I
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  Speaker 1: love the move, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Josh, when you look over these two guys, McNeil's a
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  Speaker 4: little bit more expensive. Lau probably comes with a higher
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  Speaker 4: price tag, though, as far as a trade.
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  Speaker 3: Chip, who do you think makes more sense for the
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  Speaker 3: Pirates and why?
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  Speaker 6: I think both of them are two different players.
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  Speaker 2: To me personally, I think Brandon Lyle would make a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more sense talking about, you know, some pop
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  Speaker 2: from the left side, which is what the Pirates are
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  Speaker 2: looking for. Somebody to man second base and provide that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, feared hitter, you know, somewhat that can drive
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  Speaker 2: and runs, you know, early, you know, middle part of
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  Speaker 2: the order. But I would think that his price tag
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  Speaker 2: via trade would be a little bit more expensive.
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  Speaker 3: So, Mark, I'll ask you what what's the most you're
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  Speaker 3: willing to give up? For Brandon Lau.
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  Speaker 4: You look, I mean, I think the price tag's pretty
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  Speaker 4: clear on a guy like this. A similar player, similar contract,
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  Speaker 4: just got moved. Yep.
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  Speaker 3: This month.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Taylor Ward. Yeah, Grayson Rodriguez.
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  Speaker 3: Grayson Rodriguez.
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  Speaker 4: So what is an overpay for the Pirates, and what
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  Speaker 4: is a fair trade, in your opinion?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think an overpay is when you
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  Speaker 1: start getting into the young, controllable talent. Obviously, like, I
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  Speaker 1: think a Bubba Chandler is way too much for one
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  Speaker 1: year of Brandon Lau. But as you start moving down
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  Speaker 1: that pitcher list, maybe a Braxton Ashcraft or a Mike Burrows.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that would get the Rays to jump,
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  Speaker 1: but they're also trying to shrink their budget this offseason.
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  Speaker 3: Mark, hit the sirens.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go.
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  Speaker 4: Breaking news, trade alert. The Pirates make another big move here.
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  Speaker 4: In December, they acquire Brandon Lau, Jake Mangum, and Mason
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  Speaker 4: Montgomery in a three-team trade.
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  Speaker 3: And all they gave up, Mark, is Mike Burrows.
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  Speaker 4: I have a lot of analysis on this deal, but
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  Speaker 4: I know the fan in you has to be going
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  Speaker 4: absolute nuts right now because it seems like they got
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  Speaker 4: a lot for only giving up one picker.
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  Speaker 1: I let out a huge, like, woo, right as soon
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  Speaker 1: as I saw, like, Ken Rosenthal, like, the Pirates are
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  Speaker 1: getting close, like, rubbing my hands together, like, come on,
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  Speaker 1: come on, make this happen. And once we saw that
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  Speaker 1: it's been confirmed, pending medicals. Yeah, I mean, this is
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  Speaker 1: so exciting. This is exactly what we've been begging the
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  Speaker 1: Pirates to do. We've been saying, hey, Brandon Lau's right there.
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  Speaker 1: Go get him. And look at that. They did it. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm ecstatic. The excitement level is palpable, and it feels
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  Speaker 1: like this team's a lot closer than they were just
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  Speaker 1: a few hours ago.
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  Speaker 4: The other part of this return is also intriguing. Montgomery,
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  Speaker 4: he seems to be the bigger throw-in of.
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  Speaker 3: The three, I would say. But at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the day, Mark, I mean, this is a guy, he's
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  Speaker 3: a left-hander whose fastball sits 100. The Pirates.
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  Speaker 4: He's got something to work with.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the Pirates do well with these types of guys.
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  Speaker 4: They have a really good pitching group who will now
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  Speaker 4: look to maximize this guy.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, the fastball.
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  Speaker 4: The fastball velo per baseball savant is in the 97th percentile,
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  Speaker 4: as is the whiff rate. The K rate is in
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  Speaker 4: the 90th percentile. Chase rate at 83rd percentile. So the
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  Speaker 4: stuff is clearly nasty.
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: Now that the pirate season is over, I've been trying
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: to get out of the house and go to other
• 10:42
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• 10:51
  Speaker 1: my area, including concerts, sports, festivals, and more. So Josh,
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: what can the people of Pittsburgh look forward to here
• 10:58
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• 11:02
  Speaker 2: Oh man, they got a big matchup on November 1st,
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns versus the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  Speaker 6: It's going down.
• 11:08
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• 11:13
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• 11:15
  Speaker 2: dots as you're looking through that. So big matchup November 1st,
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns versus Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a firm believer that their biggest move has to
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  Speaker 4: still be on the way. If O'Hearn or Lau are
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  Speaker 4: your biggest move, those are big moves in comparison to
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  Speaker 4: the ones that you made.
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  Speaker 3: Over the last five, six off seasons.
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  Speaker 2: Right, for the Pirates. Right, right.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, but that's not enough to begin with.
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  Speaker 1: For a playoff team, no.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it made them better, no doubt.
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  Speaker 4: But if they're... In my eyes, they really still haven't
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  Speaker 4: backed their rhetoric. This is the same exact rhetoric that
• 12:18
  Speaker 4: came from Jorge Polanco.
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  Speaker 3: It's, yeah, this.
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  Speaker 4: This team is clearly the most interested in me, but
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  Speaker 4: is there anyone else?
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  Speaker 3: Anyone else who wants me? Anyone better?
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  Speaker 2: Cool.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I can go to prom with the six,
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  Speaker 3: but is there any seven or eight?
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  Speaker 6: There's a couple still out there.
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  Speaker 3: Right, exactly, yes.
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  Speaker 4: My other point is, and it goes back to what
• 12:42
  Speaker 4: we said, I think it was like the second episode
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  Speaker 4: of this show, is like what Josh kind of alluded to,
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  Speaker 4: you can do it, you want to do it, then
• 12:52
  Speaker 4: do it. There's a difference between wanting to do something
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  Speaker 4: and just going out and doing it. To me, that reporting,
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  Speaker 4: which is identical between two competitive outlets, I'm just going
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  Speaker 4: to leave it there. tells me that the Pirates wanted
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  Speaker 4: a certain message out there. And to me, that message
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  Speaker 4: is nonsense. You did not want him enough. Because if
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  Speaker 4: you did, you would have found a way to get him.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't want him enough. Because you know what's better
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  Speaker 4: than playing a great American ballpark for $ 15 million?
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  Speaker 3: Playing somewhere else for $ 20 million.
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  Speaker 4: If your whole argument is our offer was as good
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  Speaker 4: as the other guys, then you don't even understand the problem.
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  Speaker 4: And that is what's most frustrating for me as someone
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  Speaker 4: who's covered this team.
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  Speaker 3: And the most frustrating, I'm sure for fans like Mark,
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  Speaker 3: and even for players.
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  Speaker 4: Who've played for them, like Josh is you don't even
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  Speaker 4: recognize the problem that you don't get to just try
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  Speaker 4: as hard as everybody else. You have to try harder.
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  Speaker 4: You're a small market team and you don't win. So
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  Speaker 4: you're going to have to work extra hard. And if
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: you're not willing to do that, don't make excuses. Just
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: shut up and take your L. But now we're going
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  Speaker 4: to see the same old comments about the Pirates.
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  Speaker 3: And guess what? They deserve it. And now your only
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  Speaker 3: hope to get.
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  Speaker 4: That to go away is that this same payroll.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 4: They're a better team than last year, but you better
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  Speaker 4: hope they stay healthy because there's just not a lot
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  Speaker 4: of depth offensively. to get through 162 game season without
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: one of these bats. So, but before we get into
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  Speaker 4: the big picture, just want to get your instant thoughts
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  Speaker 4: on this signing.
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  Speaker 3: We'll start with Mark.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, my first thought is, so I guess Andrew McCutcheon
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: is not going to be a pirate this year. Um,
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  Speaker 1: that was my first initial thought. And I mean, it's,
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  Speaker 1: it's nice having some power, uh, but I'm concerned about
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: as soon as 35 is, is he going to continue
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  Speaker 1: to decline? Um, So that's kind of my next thought. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I mean, I think this is a different Pirates
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: team than the past few seasons. The Pirates teams that
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: kept Paul Skeens in the minors, that kept Bubba Chandler
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  Speaker 1: in the minors. This is a team that's trying to win,
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: that's committed to win. They've spent on winning this whole offseason.
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  Speaker 1: So everything to me is pointing at they're expecting Connor
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Griffin to be their opening day shortstop.
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: And before we get into this year's World Baseball Classic team,
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: I want to talk about, you know, This show's favorite
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: player in World Baseball Classic history.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: This guy right here, Josh Harrison. Josh, what team were
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: you on? Was that 2016?
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  Speaker 5: 17.
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  Speaker 3: 2017, right. That was my senior year of college. I
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: remember watching. You guys won it that year, right?
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  Speaker 5: Wow, man.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, we won it that year. I mean, part
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: of history. Only team to win it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: To this day, we still go down in history. We're
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  Speaker 6: the only U.S. team to win it.
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  Speaker 2: I think if you're ready to do it, you'll see
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: that with an extension. I don't think it's anything that
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: they'll just be like, oh, you're going to be the
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: shortstop and that's that. If they're going to do it early,
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: I think we would see an extension. Commit to it.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: If you're going to commit to it, you might as
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: well commit to it that way because other teams have
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: done it with their prospects that aren't quite Connor Griffin,
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: just speaking. My second part of the hey now is, uh,
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: I think, I don't think I can go without this
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: show without highlighting, uh, my boy Kutch, uh, signing with
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: the Rangers. Um, I think we all kind of saw,
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: you know, the writings on the wall there you see is,
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: you know, got the little horse in the background, got
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: the cowboy hat.
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: Um, you know, happy for my boy excited.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: I know at this point, man, you just want an
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: opportunity and, uh, you know, might not get that opportunity
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh, but, uh, I think we all, as I said,
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: we all saw the writings on the walls.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: And Jay Hay, a.k.a. the newest member of the Hall
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: of Pretty Good. That is how we're starting today's show.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: We actually have another surprise guest joining the show. It
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: is the commissioner of the Hall of Pretty Good. On
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: to officially congratulate.
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: Josh. Mr.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Hall of Pretty Good, please introduce yourself.
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm... My name is Bryce Whitlow. I run the
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: Hall of Pretty Good social media accounts, just like you said.
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: And Josh, I just wanted to take a second and
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: congratulate you on being the 35th member of the illustrious
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: Hall of Pretty Good. 81% of over 35,000 votes.
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: That's huge. How does it feel to be inducted into
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: the Hall of Pretty Good? Oh, man, it's an honor, man.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Appreciate, you know, I think I saw the tweet said
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: I was the first pirate as well.
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: So definitely honored.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: You know, when I saw Noah's tweet saying I can
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: tell somebody that I'm a co-host with, you know, that's
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: what made me spark off like, hold on, what happened?
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: And, you know, it was one of those things where
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: I read and I thought, man, that's pretty cool.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: You know, accolades continue to come even when you're not
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: looking for them, you know, no matter how big, how small.
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: Grateful for all of it.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: And then final rapid fire question. Favorite Uber driver you
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: had in the year 2018? Oh, Noah flipping Hiles, baby.
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: What i was going to spring training because i'm not
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: leaving my car at the airport for six weeks so
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: i would just take an uber to the airport if
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: many of my people can't take me and that day
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: i couldn't and i'm like no i'm like wait a
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: minute noah the writer i'm like what's up man dude
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: took me.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: To the airport 2018 I remember that that was, that
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: was early in the career days when, you know, I
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: had to do a little something, something on the side
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: to get by. And I remember picking you up thinking like,
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: oh man, I don't want to see another writer reporter
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: kind of seeing me doing this, but.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: It was kind of cool.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: I got, I got like my first exclusive Robbie experience
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: in that car ride from your house down to the
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: airport and everything.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: And that's, um, you know, gave me some career advice,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: career advice.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: And it's kind of surreal now to, to have you
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: on the show and see how things come full circle.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: Life is crazy, isn't it? Real question, did he give
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: you five stars?
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: He sure did. He tipped, too.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: I remember when I dropped him off at the airport,
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: he goes, he said something like, well, now I have
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: to tip you, well, because you know everyone I know.
• 19:26
  Speaker 9: If you were in my position, kind of going into
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: spring training, got a lot on my mind. There's so
• 19:32
  Speaker 9: many rumors about open day roster, when I'm going to.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: Get called up.
• 19:36
  Speaker 9: What's a little piece of advice you got for me
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: just to kind of go into spring training and kind
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: of focus on, you know, just taking it one day
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: at a time? Like, what's the best way to go
• 19:45
  Speaker 9: about that?
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: Uh just with so much noise going on on the
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: outside right now it's.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: A really good question um and my answer to you
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: is be true to yourself and granted you're only 19
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: years old um you're still learning uh no matter how
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: old how old you are you're gonna still be learning
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: but um for three years after making my debut i
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: was fighting for the 25th man spot um You know,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: and what did I have to do every spring? I
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: had to stay true to who I was, showing up
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: and being who I was, not that I was going
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: to be any different.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, I just had
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: to prove myself right.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: And even if proving myself right meant I had to
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: go to AAA, that didn't mean that the door was closed.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: It just meant that the timing wasn't right. But, you know,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: needless to say, I made the team every year out
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: of camp. But that's just one of those things where
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: there's always going to be pressure, whether you're playing well,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: whether you're not. Stay true to yourself and enjoy the process, man.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Pick the brains of those that are there to help you.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: We will meet in person. I'm going to speak it
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: into fruition.
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: You said hopefully we will make it happen. Yes, sir.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: Let's do it.
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: Maybe you can teach me how to get out of
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: some rundowns.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: Hey, trust me, you're already halfway there playing multiple sports.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Multi-sport athlete. I saw, like, alley-oops. I saw a couple
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: football highlights, and I just wanted to pull one up
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: really quick and have you watch it with us here.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: You may be familiar with this, but apparently Randy Moss
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: thinks you're a pretty good football player as well. This
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: is your freshman year, I believe.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: If you could just walk us through it, what was
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: it like having Randy Moss talk about you on ESPN
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: as a freshman in high school?
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was crazy.
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: I love football. I love playing receiver. Just kind of
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: throw it up to me, let me try to go
• 21:43
  Speaker 9: catch it. That was some fun times, and I remember
• 21:47
  Speaker 9: that game. Catching that pass was pretty cool, but I
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: didn't think it would end up on ESPN.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:53
  Speaker 9: Randy Moss talking about it, so that was pretty cool,
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: but I give a lot of credit to playing multiple
• 21:59
  Speaker 9: sports when I was younger, I think it kind of
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: built the athlete that I am. And, uh, I still
• 22:03
  Speaker 9: try to run routes in all seasons, just, uh, keeping
• 22:06
  Speaker 9: the athleticism.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: So football may have.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: To go, uh, catch some passes for, uh, Paul Skeens
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: when he's warming up once you're up in Pittsburgh. Uh,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: that's right.
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: I have been in a group chat talking with Mike Trout.
• 22:18
  Speaker 9: So I, it's hard not to say Mike Trout.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's pretty good.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Well, that's awesome.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah. So that was pretty cool.
• 22:24
  Speaker 9: He's, he's big into cards and, We were kind of
• 22:28
  Speaker 9: talking about making a double card where I sign it
• 22:30
  Speaker 9: and he signs it.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: So that could be pretty cool. Wow.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Someone will retire off of that card.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, you just you're going to pay
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: for about eight college educations with that card.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: So thank you in advance.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no doubt.
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: I mean, I'm not going to roll up in there
• 22:46
  Speaker 10: like giving speeches like, hey, I'm the guy listening to
• 22:48
  Speaker 10: me talk.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: But, you know, I'm I'm.
• 22:51
  Speaker 10: Want to help out and, you know, build relationships with
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: all the guys as much as possible. Um, if I
• 22:57
  Speaker 10: feel like something needs to be said, I have no
• 22:58
  Speaker 10: problem saying it. Like you said, we've, uh, you know,
• 23:02
  Speaker 10: seen a lot of baseball and you kind of seen how,
• 23:04
  Speaker 10: you know, good, uh, leaders work and how maybe not
• 23:08
  Speaker 10: so good leaders work. And, um, you know, if I
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: feel like I'm, there's something that needs to be said,
• 23:14
  Speaker 10: like I said, I'll, I'll say it. I, uh, I
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: don't really consider myself like the most vocal leader.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: Um, but You know, there's a time and a place.
• 23:23
  Speaker 11: It wouldn't be the same place without the fans. So
• 23:25
  Speaker 11: it always starts with the fans. And remembering that I
• 23:30
  Speaker 11: was a fan first. When I was a kid, I
• 23:32
  Speaker 11: was a fan. Sure, I played t-ball, baseball, kid pitch baseball,
• 23:37
  Speaker 11: all that stuff. But like going back to day one,
• 23:40
  Speaker 11: I was a fan. And I just remember as a kid,
• 23:44
  Speaker 11: like I thought it was the coolest thing ever whenever
• 23:46
  Speaker 11: players would come up and sign my baseball and, you know,
• 23:50
  Speaker 11: sign a bat I had. taking time out of their
• 23:53
  Speaker 11: day to say hello and thank me for being here.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: That stuff meant a lot to me.
• 23:58
  Speaker 11: And I just always said when I was a kid that,
• 24:01
  Speaker 11: you know, if I ever get the opportunity to do that,
• 24:03
  Speaker 11: I'm going to try to be a light.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: But I'm going to tell you, 29 ain't old, man.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Back when I was playing, which wasn't long ago.
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: 29 is considered your prime. Literally, 29 is considered your prime.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: Thank you, man.
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: And you speak like a guy, as you say, at
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: an age where you understand– not only yourself, how you move,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: what you need to improve on. And these are things
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: that a culture you speak about. I can remember my
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: time in Pittsburgh. That was part of our culture was
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: we knew what our strengths were as a team individually,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: and we knew how to build off of that and
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: play off of each other's strengths. Being a bullpen guy,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: you probably don't know. When I played with the Pirates,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: our bullpen was called the Shark Tank.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: Okay, yeah. You know I was part of the Shark Tank, right?
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, too many.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Apparently too many games.
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: That's why I was a part of the Shark Tank.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: Had a shirt and everything.
• 25:01
  Speaker 12: The routine going into the game, I don't know.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: It's developed over the years. I think in 24, I
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: definitely started doing it in AAA.
• 25:10
  Speaker 12: But got a good friend, Brandon Marsh, with the Phillies. B.
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: Marsh, that's my dog.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Hey, we played together with the Phillies.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: Hey, that's enough. That's all you got to say. Yeah.
• 25:23
  Speaker 12: I played with him in the Angels organization coming up,
• 25:27
  Speaker 12: and that is something that he has kind of had
• 25:30
  Speaker 12: as a staple, where he'll just dump that water on
• 25:33
  Speaker 12: his head.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: And when it's ice cold, yeah.
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: When it's ice cold, it gets you going. So I
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: got to tip my cap.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: That's where I got it from.
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: I'm going to be honest.
• 25:45
  Speaker 13: Like Aaron Rodgers, good example, with football. I modeled my
• 25:48
  Speaker 13: entire game after Aaron Rodgers on the football field.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: That's fair.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: My guy.
• 25:52
  Speaker 13: You know, like love A-Rod, hope to meet him one day.
• 25:55
  Speaker 13: But like everything I did on the football field, I
• 25:58
  Speaker 13: watched taped Aaron Rodgers. And on the basketball court, you know, look, man,
• 26:04
  Speaker 13: I broke my elbow.
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: I couldn't shoot.
• 26:06
  Speaker 13: You know, that was my excuse that I couldn't shoot.
• 26:09
  Speaker 13: I couldn't shoot in general, but I did break my elbow,
• 26:11
  Speaker 13: so I couldn't extend it. And, but Larry Bird could shoot.
• 26:15
  Speaker 13: But everything else Larry Bird did, just gritty as hell,
• 26:18
  Speaker 13: just got nasty, talked a lot of crap.
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: Like, that was me.
• 26:21
  Speaker 13: Like, I was a good basketball player, but I'd elbow
• 26:25
  Speaker 13: you in the face before I let you get a
• 26:27
  Speaker 13: rebound over me. And, you know, that's kind of how
• 26:30
  Speaker 13: Larry Bird.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: You were Deli.
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: No, what's the dude that went to Duke? What's the
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: dude that went to Duke?
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, Grayson Allen.
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: Hey, Delva, Delva.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: That man made like $ 80 million.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: That's what I'm saying. Yeah, you'll take that. Giving black eyes. Yeah,
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: hell yeah.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I punched him in the mouth before, you know. When
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: was the first time that you met Joey Bart? And
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: can you tell us the story behind that?
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah, gosh.
• 27:02
  Speaker 13: I mean, I've known Joey since, I mean, I can remember.
• 27:07
  Speaker 13: My granddad, I actually just had dinner with my granddad
• 27:11
  Speaker 13: a couple of days ago. And I swear we talked,
• 27:13
  Speaker 13: talked about Joey probably 75% of the time. And he was,
• 27:18
  Speaker 13: he was just like, how's Bart doing? Like, he's good.
• 27:21
  Speaker 13: He goes, how's it going to be this year? It's like,
• 27:25
  Speaker 13: it's going to be good. Grandpa, like, no, he's a
• 27:29
  Speaker 13: good player, but yeah, Joey used to fish at my
• 27:32
  Speaker 13: granddad's pond at his house pretty much his whole life. And, yeah,
• 27:38
  Speaker 13: you know, Joey was a big-time name in high school.
• 27:40
  Speaker 13: Then when he went to Tech, you know, second overall pick. Like,
• 27:43
  Speaker 13: he's always been a big name around the area. When
• 27:46
  Speaker 13: I got older and realized, you know, kind of who
• 27:48
  Speaker 13: he was and, you know, everything, my grandfather didn't know
• 27:51
  Speaker 13: a dang thing about it. But he was like, yeah, Joey,
• 27:55
  Speaker 13: good kid, likes to fish, uses my pond. Not that,
• 28:00
  Speaker 13: you know, second overall pick and it'll be draft.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Right, yeah.
• 28:05
  Speaker 13: Yeah, it's known Joey a long time. And we're like,
• 28:08
  Speaker 13: you know, I got my feet wet, you know, in
• 28:10
  Speaker 13: this game. Like, you know, we got Joey coming up next.
• 28:13
  Speaker 13: Let's blow his doors. Like, he can't hit me. Like,
• 28:16
  Speaker 13: there's no chance this guy can hit me. He ended
• 28:18
  Speaker 13: up hitting me pretty far, pretty hard.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Whatever.
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: Who cares?
• 28:22
  Speaker 13: And I think after that, like, ended up putting together
• 28:24
  Speaker 13: a pretty good outing. Got Freddie Freeman out twice. You know,
• 28:27
  Speaker 13: does he care?
• 28:28
  Speaker 14: Not at all.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: Did I care?
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah. Fired up about it. Of course. Got to
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: take all those wins.
• 28:35
  Speaker 11: Oh, I was, yeah.
• 28:36
  Speaker 13: I mean, he, yeah, he doesn't know my name, but
• 28:39
  Speaker 13: I tell you one thing.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: I was fired up.
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: Trust me, he knows you.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: Trust me.
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: I was fired up. Trust me, you're a big leaguer
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: and you got him out twice. He know your name.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: All right. Hell yeah. Let me make sure my phone on.
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: Do not disturb. People that need to call me, either
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: on practice or upstairs, so I'm good.
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: You're good at laughing.
• 28:58
  Speaker 14: My parents' text is Harley Quinn, Josh, so sometimes I
• 29:02
  Speaker 14: have it really loud and it's like, I'm.
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: Like in the wrong place.
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: Everybody's like, what the hell was that?
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: My wife, dude. That's my wife.
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: I bet. What you saying, eh?
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: JJ, what you saying?
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: Good to see you, man.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: I brought that wiffle ball up to them. I brought
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: that wiffle ball up to them earlier. I was like, bro,
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: I was getting tanks off the TVs.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Until Josh came up and then I went over, but
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: What they don't know is we're talking about rain delays.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: We used to be in a locker room and AJ
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: had to hit left-handed and position players got a chance
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: to pitch.
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: That's probably why I pitched so well when I got
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: a chance to pitch.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: But the slow deuce, the slow deuce.
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: Couldn't hit it, dude. I hit everything but that. Good times,
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: wasn't it, man?
• 29:55
  Speaker 14: The winning culture is built on the field and in
• 29:58
  Speaker 14: the clubhouse.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: We all know that.
• 30:00
  Speaker 14: But they're going to respect you when you go out
• 30:02
  Speaker 14: there and you just compete day in and day out
• 30:06
  Speaker 14: at 100%.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: And if you get your ass handed to you, guess what?
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: I'm going to come out tomorrow. I'm going to compete 100%
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: day in and day out. And that's what we did.
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: And that's what they saw, I think, Jay.
• 30:16
  Speaker 14: And that's why we had to see a black in
• 30:17
  Speaker 14: the playoffs because they were proud because we went out
• 30:20
  Speaker 14: there and just competed and didn't take no shit from nobody.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: But he's like, man, we want to bring you back
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: to where the family can come back. And I'll just
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: honor you and, you know, retire you as a pirate.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, wow, man. You know, as
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: I said in the article, it wasn't anything that I
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: was like, oh, I want to retire a pirate because,
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: you know, I want to if something like that was
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: to happen, I would want it to be, you know,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: natural and organic. And it wasn't like a planned meeting
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: underneath the tunnel with Bob. It was just I happened
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: to be under the tunnel right before the game. And
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: the conversation just happened. And Mark was actually right there.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: But Mark wasn't like eavesdropping.
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: He couldn't hear.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Talk about feeling like you don't belong in a conversation, Josh,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: when you and Bob Nutting ran into each other in
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: the back hallway and I'm following you around with a camera.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I'm just like, I'm going to drift away slowly because
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: this is not a conversation I belong in. But that
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: was pretty awesome to see. And, yeah, I'm really looking
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: forward to August 7th and 8th here.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: I just got to say, as someone who grew up
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: playing baseball– Around the same time as both of those guys,
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: it's really cool to see how the.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Game has grown.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: And really, since Josh's teams started winning baseball games in
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: the city of Pittsburgh, you saw that resurgence in the
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: baseball community. And now you see guys like Mason Miller
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: and David Bednar impacting the game on a world stage.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: And I think that that's a credit to, you know,
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: what the Pirates did when we were growing up.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: So.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: hat tip to you, Josh, I guess.
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: Thank you. You know, trying to represent for the answers.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at the box score tonight,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: 6.1 innings of this game were pitched by Pittsburgh adjacent
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: pitchers with six strikeouts. I mean, David Bednar had two strikeouts,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: got himself out of a jam. Mason Miller got the
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: save with two strikeouts. I'll be at the one at
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: the end may have been a little questionable, but we
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: can get into that later. But I mean, it's so cool.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: for the city to just see so much representation on
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: a world stage, not just a national stage, a world stage.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: And it just goes to show Pittsburgh's a baseball town.
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: The headset. Yeah.
• 32:32
  Speaker 14: You're, you're a media guy now, Jay.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Hey, you're doing the podcast.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Buckle territory, uh, under the foul territory network. And, uh,
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: you know, it keeps me in the game, allows me to,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: you know, see from a little different lens around, you know,
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: my schedule with my wife and kids.
• 32:46
  Speaker 14: Pajas takes a strike.
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: It's 1-1.
• 32:48
  Speaker 14: Josh Harrison in the broadcast booth with us in a
• 32:51
  Speaker 14: 2-1 ball game. Did you ever think you'd get into
• 32:54
  Speaker 14: the media end of it?
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: I'm not surprised. Your personality. I don't know if you're surprised.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say yes or no, but I had always
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: been told that I, you know, people are like, man,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: I think you'd be good for it. And it's not
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: anything that I was set out to do because, you know,
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: I like to do things natural. And if it happened,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: you know, I want to be as authentic as possible. So,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: you know, I would never say I would rule it
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: out because, you know, it's... I don't mind talking the
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: game and interacting.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Any final thoughts, Mark?
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: I saw on Twitter just before we hopped on to
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: record tonight that the Pirates added a cone to the dugout.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: I'm very, very excited to see how that gets hoisted
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: and under what circumstances and hopefully soon. So what about you?
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: I'm really glad that this whole cone thing didn't happen
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: when I was in college because as someone who, you know,
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: might've happened to find one laying around on my way
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: back from the bar when I was, you know, a
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: younger lad and took it back to the fraternity house.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: This is incentivizing that type of behavior.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: And I don't think that was the intended, but I
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: think there are going to be a lot of students
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: at Pitt point park, Robert Morris, all the ones.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Are going to be a tough commodity to find.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: School for the summer. Yeah. The cones are mayor, mayor O'Connor.
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: Get the people ready.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Might want to double the cone budget.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: The Buccos are about to get hot. They're going to
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: get hoisted.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: We're going to get some money around because the cones,
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: they're coming for us.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Heisted and hoisted, yep.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: We'll wrap it up there.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at O'Neal Cruz like, man, this dude is
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: like six, seven.
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Funny story.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: We were playing them in Clearwater, and I was playing
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: shortstop this game for the Phillies, and O'Neal was.
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: Playing shortstop for the Pirates.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: My mom and my aunt are at the game and
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: this person doesn't know that she's my mom.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: And, you know, they're like, man, their shortstop.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Is so tall and ours is over here like Kevin Hart.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: And my mom goes, that's my son. And they go,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: oh no, no, he can play though.
• 34:56
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: But the perspective of just where we've come from the
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: last few years, I mean, when Connor Griffin did his
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: debut video with the, like looking down up into the camera,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: it reminded me of, when the pirates hyped up signing
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Vince Velasquez in 2022, where that was their big signing
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: at off season. And that was the big social media
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: post for like their big debut of that year. Now
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: we have a generational 19 year old shortstop, number one
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: prospect in baseball in that video. And we have a
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Cy Young pitcher who just got a win over the
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati Reds the day before. It's a completely, completely different
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: feel as a fan base. And I'm so excited to
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: get to PNC Park and just experience it myself this weekend.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: You're going to see Connor be able to come up
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: and give that. And not only him give that, I
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: think the guys will feel it from the crowd, from
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: the fans. And I think that in itself is enough
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: as to why it's going to be special because Pittsburgh
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: is a special place to play.
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: And it's been a while. And rightfully so, it's been
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: a long time coming. So let's go.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: It can make it somewhat easier in ways once you
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: start to build that momentum because it's like, okay, this
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: is a place that is starting to be appealing.
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: Look at what they're doing.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: And they've already kind of created that kind of wave
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: and that marked this offseason heading to, you know, now
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: with this, you know, extension of Connor. So it's a
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: little bit of both. And I think that's just going
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: to be dependent on how the rest of this season
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: plays out. Because obviously, you know, we've spoken on the
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: podcast about, you know.
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: The additions that they've made this offseason, how they're already
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: making an impact. And, you know, that's already been seen
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: around baseball. So, They continue to do what they're doing.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: It's going to make Pittsburgh appealing, which, you know, it's
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: one of those cities that should always be appealing because
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: it's an amazing sports town.
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: As a fan.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: What is this feeling like?
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: You know, because as players, we know what it's like
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: when you but but as a fan, especially when it
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: hasn't really been much to cheer for, you know, in
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: so many years to hear something like, oh, the Pirates
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: have signed, you know, largest extension to a, you know,
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: prospect like what what what was going through your head?
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: It's surreal. Yeah. I, I, I pinched myself. Like, am I,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: did I oversleep?
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: Is this a dream?
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Like it, it's crazy. I even knowing that it was coming,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: it still is, feels so surreal. Like I was trying
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: to mentally prepare myself for like, all right, the pirates
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: are going to sign a superstar for the next decade.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: And yeah, like we have our own Sidney Crosby, the
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: own Ben Roethlisberger, like a face of this team. That's
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: going to be here.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: We have Paul schemes, but we all know he's going
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: to be way out of a price range of not
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: just the pirates, a lot of baseball teams in the
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: current market. I don't think the pirates have 50 million
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: that they can give to one guy. And that's probably
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: what it's going to take. So having that kind of
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: like now negated, like, all right, we might lose schemes
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: down the road. Maybe who knows after the CBA, who knows? Uh,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: but at least now you have a superstar face of
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: the franchise. Like kids can go out and get a
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Connor Griffin Jersey and confidently wear it to the ballpark
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: for the next decade. Um, and that's a great feeling
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: as a fan and the pirates really haven't had a
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: lot of that.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: But Carmen Majinski, I mean, he's solid, but he's not
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: one of the best pitchers in the planet, especially in
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: this organization.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: So you don't have that luxury.
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: So you can act like this and that's fine and
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: you might get what you want. It might not look
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: exactly how you pictured it. But you're not– this isn't
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: the only team who knows that he can be a
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: pain in the ass.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: Word spreads around baseball very quickly.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: It's pretty public now too.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: And now by doing it now– it's public. This was
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: a big story and this is going to be talked about.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: This went viral.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: I mean, his, his clip Thursday after the game went viral.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: And this was, this was the pirates won. The pirates
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: scored like 27 runs this weekend. No one's talking about that.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: Cause they're talking about this.
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: And you got to put your pride to the side, man.
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: It's not like you got option down.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: You still got an opportunity to go out there and
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: help this team win ball games. And I think that's
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: what you see is as they're expecting them possibly to
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: be back. But, um, You know, this is drama that
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: this team doesn't need, especially with everything that's going on.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: 17-year-old Noah would have been pissed if I didn't ask
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: you this. Tell the story behind the sit the F
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: down moment.
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: Behind the what?
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, S-T-F-U. The sit the F down to Hanley Ramirez.
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: I didn't know that these guys do stuff when they
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: hit homers now. I don't pay attention to that kind
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: of crap.
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 39:36
  Speaker 14: I see this dude around second. He's like, he's doing something.
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: He's doing something. I'm like, what is this, man?
• 39:47
  Speaker 14: It just fired me up and then I think I
• 39:52
  Speaker 14: might have been down 2-0 on him or something. I
• 39:54
  Speaker 14: can't remember, but I was just fired up. I just
• 39:56
  Speaker 14: wanted to punch his ticket so bad. And after the game,
• 39:59
  Speaker 14: I realized that wasn't even toward me.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: He was just doing his thing because he hit a homer.
• 40:04
  Speaker 14: And I was like, dang. And I threw a couple pitches,
• 40:08
  Speaker 14: and I threw one right down the middle. He called
• 40:10
  Speaker 14: a strike, and he was like, I was like, oh, no,
• 40:12
  Speaker 14: you did not just question that one, dude.
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: No, no, no.
• 40:15
  Speaker 14: So I think it was a 3-2 hook and I
• 40:17
  Speaker 14: got him and then he immediately drops the bat down
• 40:19
  Speaker 14: and starts complaining about, I guess, the other pitches.
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: And I was just like, man, just go sit the
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: fuck down and shut up, man. Just go.
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: You know?
• 40:27
  Speaker 14: And I've said that a million times in my career,
• 40:29
  Speaker 14: maybe not that vocal or that obvious, but I was
• 40:34
  Speaker 14: done with it, dude.
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: I was like, just go. I'm tired of seeing you
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: up here. Just go.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: So we'll see.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: So you say we'll probably see him Saturday night, but
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: you know what I'd like to see?
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: Oh, here it comes.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Everybody hit that subscribe button.
• 40:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Look at that.
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: Everybody hit that subscribe button.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: You know, make sure you hit the Buckle Territory shop
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: as well. I got to love the guy that brings
• 40:57
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• 41:00
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• 41:15
  Speaker 6: That's where I know this is going.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Good job, Josh.
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: I might have beat you to it.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: We're on the same wavelength. Go ahead.
• 41:21
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: And it can be over by the end of this
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: week if you don't wake up.
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I was about to say, it can happen fast
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: if you don't, yeah.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so.
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: You know, it's not over is this show. We're going
• 41:32
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• 41:36
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• 41:38
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• 41:41
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• 41:48
  Speaker 4: And while we're talking about pirates additions, we need to
• 41:51
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• 41:54
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• 41:56
  Speaker 4: We're on a mission to 3000 subs.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: Connor, you want to tell the people to subscribe?
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, go ahead and subscribe and give the guy some love.
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: Definitely makes you wonder what if.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's something I wonder.
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: Oh, my God.
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: Just put the thing on the screen.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Put it on the screen.
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: What if you hit that subscribe button? Yeah, that's what
• 42:22
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• 42:24
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• 42:26
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• 42:30
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• 42:33
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• 42:37
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• 42:40
  Speaker 3: Golly, that was gross. Guys, any final thoughts?
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: Putting the ball in play paid for them headphones, huh, Drew?
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: Putting the ball in play paid for these headphones, but
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: something that you don't have to pay for is hitting that.
• 42:59
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• 43:01
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