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Instant Reaction: Paul Skenes leads Team USA to WBC Finals · Bucco Territory: A Pittsburgh Pirates Podcast

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: What's up, everybody?
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of Buco Territory, presented to
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  Speaker 2: you by the Foul Territory Network.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Noah Hiles.
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  Speaker 2: Joining me as always are my co hosts Josh Harrison
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  Speaker 2: and Mark aka Platinum Key.
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  Speaker 1: We got a one topic show for you all today.
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  Speaker 2: Team USA just grind it out a two to one
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  Speaker 2: gritty victory over the Dominican Republic in the World Classic
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  Speaker 2: semi final. We're gonna break it all down now here.
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  Speaker 2: We want to remind everyone that all of our World
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  Speaker 2: over the next few weeks in that or and after
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  Speaker 2: that the best baseball action all season long. So guys,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of Pittsburgh connections in this game. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and the headliner is obvious. Paul Skeins gets the win.
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  Speaker 2: He goes four and a third on the mound allows
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  Speaker 2: I believe, six hits, strikes out, two no walks allowed.
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  Speaker 2: The game's only run for the Dominican Republic a solo
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  Speaker 2: shot by junior Cameron Aro. But overall, I want to
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  Speaker 2: just get both of your impressions. I'll give mine real quick.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the stat line doesn't obviously jump off the page,
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  Speaker 2: but when you consider the lineup that he was facing,
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty darn impressive.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah. I mean this is a team that scored
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  Speaker 3: fifty one runs I think coming in in just four games,
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  Speaker 3: and so their five games, so I mean just a
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  Speaker 3: loaded offense. I think like eight of the nine starters
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  Speaker 3: had like last year, got MVP votes, So just an
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  Speaker 3: absolutely stacked, stacked lineup, and Paul Skeins made them look
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  Speaker 3: like nothing. I mean giving up a solo shot that
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  Speaker 3: Junior came a narrow You'll take that. If you only
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  Speaker 3: threw one bad pitch in seventy some pit, that's phenomenal. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: So it was excellent to see Paul Skins do that
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  Speaker 3: in front of the world, have all of America get
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  Speaker 3: to understand what it means for his skiings say to happen,
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  Speaker 3: and just have that trust. Like when he loaded the
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  Speaker 3: bases and got himself out of it, wasn't worried for
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  Speaker 3: a second. And that's what an age feels like. And
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  Speaker 3: that's so cool to have that on the Pittsford Pirates.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, I thought he pitched well. Definitely a different
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  Speaker 4: outing from.
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  Speaker 5: The Mexico game where you know he was I would
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  Speaker 5: say striking everybody out. Today, you could tell a different lineup,
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  Speaker 5: different game plan. He pitched to the zone, pitched the contact,
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  Speaker 5: and as you said, the solo home run, that's what
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  Speaker 5: you want to limit it to if if you're going
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  Speaker 5: to give up, you know, a big fly like that,
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  Speaker 5: and you know it kept him in a game, kept
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  Speaker 5: him in long enough to you know, get two runs,
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  Speaker 5: which is you know, realistically, to beat Paul you probably
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  Speaker 5: need more than one run. And he made pitches when
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  Speaker 5: he needed to, and it was it was a good
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  Speaker 5: win for the US to you know, have a chance
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  Speaker 5: to win a title.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah for context on just yeah.
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  Speaker 2: For context on how good this roster that skans, this
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  Speaker 2: lineup that Skians face today is. I wrote about this
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  Speaker 2: in my column that ran Sunday morning. They have a
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  Speaker 2: combined twenty seven All Star appearances and the average age
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  Speaker 2: of this lineup is just over twenty seven years old.
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  Speaker 2: Last year, the lineup slashed a combined two seventy one,
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  Speaker 2: three fifty three, four eighty one. So that's an eight
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  Speaker 2: thirty four ops. I made the comparison, Bobaschett had an
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  Speaker 2: eight forty ops last year, so that's essentially facing nine Bobaschettes,
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  Speaker 2: which you know, his WRC plus was one thirty four,
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  Speaker 2: which means, you know, thirty four percent above league average
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  Speaker 2: productivity at the plate, and you're getting that one through
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  Speaker 2: nine and oh, by the way, this lineup also averaged
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  Speaker 2: one through nine twenty nine point three home runs last
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  Speaker 2: year per batter.
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  Speaker 4: So didn't they didn't they set the record for like yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah fifteen two of the five games they played
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  Speaker 2: ended in a mercy rule. I mean, O'Neil Cruz was
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  Speaker 2: coming off the bench for this team like that. This
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  Speaker 2: is this is one of the best lineups ever formed,
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  Speaker 2: Like I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Off the bench must say that's yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So just to wrap up like it, it is really impressive,
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  Speaker 2: like what Josh mentioned to see Paul kind of recognize, like, look,
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  Speaker 2: if I try to strike these guys out, they're good
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  Speaker 2: enough hitters where they're gonna make every at bat a
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  Speaker 2: ten to eleven pitch at bat and I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 2: done after two innings. So for him to kind of
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  Speaker 2: pitch to contact and you have to be a special
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  Speaker 2: kind of crazy to pitch to contact to this lineup
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  Speaker 2: and feel confident with your stuff.
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  Speaker 1: In two Team.
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  Speaker 2: USA's credit, they got incredible defense behind Paul Skens. I
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  Speaker 2: mean the plays made by terrang the plays made by
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Judge, both with his glove and his arm. I
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  Speaker 2: mean Bobby Witt Junior just keeps doing Bobby wit Junior things.
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  Speaker 2: I mean Gunner Henderson, a guy who plays shortstop. Pretty
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  Speaker 2: good call by Mark de Rosa, who's taken a lot
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  Speaker 2: of heat this this tournament. He made the right decision
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  Speaker 2: to start Gunner Henderson at third base, who had a
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  Speaker 2: great defensive play today and hit the game or hit
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  Speaker 2: the game tying home run. And Dominican Republic also had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of great plays too. This was just a
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  Speaker 2: great baseball game. I want to talk about some other
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  Speaker 2: elements of this that aren't necessarily schemes attached because we can,
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  Speaker 2: we can circle back to Skeens, But I think we
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  Speaker 2: as a Pittsburgh podcast, we should absolutely shout out Mason
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  Speaker 2: Miller and David Bednar, two kids who grew up in
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  Speaker 2: western Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 1: David Bednar being.
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  Speaker 2: From Mars Mars High School product and then Mason Miller,
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  Speaker 2: who went to Bethel Park High School and then played
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  Speaker 2: collegiately at Waynesburg, a D three school not far outside
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  Speaker 2: of Pittsburgh, before transferring to Gardner Webb and then obviously
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  Speaker 2: becoming you know, an elite closer.
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  Speaker 1: Guys.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, neither you guys are both Ohio guys, so
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  Speaker 2: it's a little different.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, Josh, you've lived here for quite.
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  Speaker 2: Some time obviously, and in in Mark you lived and
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  Speaker 2: died for a year. Yeah. Yeah, I just got to say,
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  Speaker 2: as someone who grew up playing baseball around the same
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  Speaker 2: time as both of those guys, it's really cool to
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  Speaker 2: see how the game has grown. And really since since
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  Speaker 2: Josh's teams started winning baseball games in the city of.
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh, you saw that resurgence.
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  Speaker 2: In the baseball community, and now you see guys like
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  Speaker 2: Mason Miller and David Bednar impacting the game on a
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  Speaker 2: world stage. And I think that that's a credit to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what the pirates did when we were growing up.
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  Speaker 1: So Hot tipped you, Josh, I guess.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, you know, trying to represent for the answers.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you look at the box score tonight,
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  Speaker 3: six point one innings of this game were pitched by
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  Speaker 3: Pittsburgh adjacent pitchers with six strikeouts. I mean, David Bednar
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  Speaker 3: had two strikeouts, got himself out of a jam. Mason
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  Speaker 3: Miller got the save with two strikeouts, albeit the one
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  Speaker 3: at the end may have been a little questionable, but
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  Speaker 3: we can get into that later. But I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: so cool for the city to just see so much
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  Speaker 3: representation on a world stage, not just a national stage,
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  Speaker 3: a world stage, and it just goes to show Pittsburgh's
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  Speaker 3: a baseball town.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 2: So let's talk about the abs here, Mark, I think
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  Speaker 2: he raised a great point. There were some very generous
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  Speaker 2: called third strike question yeah, questionable.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I mean the final out was one.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like there was one in the eighth inning
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  Speaker 2: as well against Was that was so to strike out
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  Speaker 2: in the eighth yes, yes, yeah, because that that was,
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  Speaker 2: as Joshua say, questionable as well.
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  Speaker 4: Questionable Yeah, and not just the zone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, probably better than one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean sorry, I don't know. Yeah, That's what I was
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  Speaker 3: going to say, is that it was the players recognize
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  Speaker 3: that they were blown calls as well. So this is
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  Speaker 3: something where the challenge system could have corrected all of
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  Speaker 3: these and it will be interesting to see avoiding these
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  Speaker 3: situations this year in MLB, right, I.
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  Speaker 5: Mean, that's ultimately what it's been place for is to
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I guess to make up for I don't
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  Speaker 5: want to say make up, but you know, in those
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  Speaker 5: moments where you feel a this might have been a miscall,
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  Speaker 5: I can take the heat off of, you know, an
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  Speaker 5: umpire per se.
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  Speaker 4: Saying oh he missed that coup. I guess what I
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  Speaker 4: got overturned.
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  Speaker 5: But that's also the the risk that teams take when
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  Speaker 5: they're using a challenge.
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  Speaker 4: If you miss it, you know, you lose it.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, the Classic I think for some of
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  Speaker 5: the guys might be a little different. They're gonna have
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  Speaker 5: to get back and spring training mode because I did
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  Speaker 5: see early in the Classic where a couple of guys
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  Speaker 5: got calls and they you know, at they head it
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  Speaker 5: was like, no, it's it, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: So to their to their credit, they did a good
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  Speaker 5: job of being able to you know, kind of not
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  Speaker 5: go too crazy because they know the abs. But at
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  Speaker 5: the same time, sold school baseball is hey, not everything
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  Speaker 5: is going to go your way, And I mean, I
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  Speaker 5: think it'll be a question do they bring it in
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  Speaker 5: for the next Classic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you're gonna make it a part of
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  Speaker 2: the game, like in the highest stage of the game, right,
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  Speaker 2: which is Major League Baseball. I mean, I guess you
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  Speaker 2: can excuse it not being a part of this Classic
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  Speaker 2: because it hasn't really been a part of Major League
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  Speaker 2: Baseball yet major League Baseball spring training.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I think and I mean even in the Olympics.
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  Speaker 2: If major leaguers are a part of the Olympics in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight, I think they should consider it because
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you're going to play a big football game,
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  Speaker 2: now for a big basketball game, and it's gonna be televised,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna want to have instant replay.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a form of replay that baseball's.
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  Speaker 2: Highest caliber of league has decided, we'll make the game better.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe this it would have made the game better.
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  Speaker 2: I mean selfishly, as an American, I like the results. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you give Soto an extra chance there Perdomo at the end,
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  Speaker 2: it would have been maybe a game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would have been on first if that bitch
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  Speaker 3: so yeah, who knows, But I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Patis coming up, Yeah, that would have been That would
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  Speaker 2: have been interesting. Guess what we'll we'll never know because
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  Speaker 2: that that was the game. And as Josh noted, if
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  Speaker 2: it's close, you can't take it especially.
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  Speaker 1: And to be fair, there had been miscalled.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it had been a loose zone all games,
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  Speaker 2: so you've got to have that in your mind while
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  Speaker 2: you're batting in that situation.
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  Speaker 4: Easier said than done, though, yeah yep.
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  Speaker 5: But I mean, like you said, the result benefited you know,
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  Speaker 5: us and they got a chance to, you know, go
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  Speaker 5: for go, which I don't think is gonna be easy
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  Speaker 5: to ask.
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  Speaker 4: Venezuela.
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  Speaker 5: It's kind of, you know, caught a little bit of
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  Speaker 5: fire coming back from the other day to advance, and.
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  Speaker 4: I think you'll see another entertaining game. That's what you
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  Speaker 4: hope to see.
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  Speaker 5: I think these games have been really good and I'm
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  Speaker 5: excited to see what's coming up because as I said,
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  Speaker 5: somebody come joined us as you know, a U S
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  Speaker 5: a t USA gold team.
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  Speaker 4: You know it's only one, let's make.
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  Speaker 3: It too And I'll just think that was that by
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  Speaker 3: saying that, what a result for Major League Baseball. Their
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  Speaker 3: product was on full display tonight, and I really hope
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  Speaker 3: a lot of new baseball fans tuned in those first
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  Speaker 3: Indians like several, you know, getting those strikeouts, just going crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Like I was, like, I hate that this is happening,
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  Speaker 3: but it's hard not to get excited just watching this
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  Speaker 3: guy go crazy. I mean Benard getting out of that jam,
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  Speaker 3: all of the defensive plays, Skiings getting out of the
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  Speaker 3: bases loaded jam, the stadium just going electric hearing USA chance.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you're a new baseball fan, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: make sure I tune in Tomorrow night and Tuesday night
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  Speaker 3: on Fox one to make sure I catch all these games.
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  Speaker 3: So I really hope this spreads the game more in
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  Speaker 3: what a great spot for baseball right now.
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  Speaker 5: And I think this long day made me speak. I
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  Speaker 5: turned Italy and Venezuela to plays tomorrow, right, yes, sir,
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  Speaker 5: my apologies to both teams. Not I mean actually Italy,
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  Speaker 5: I said, Venezuela my bad service, my bad, my bad.
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  Speaker 4: So I'll be tuned in tomorrow to see either way.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's still going to be a good game
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  Speaker 5: because one Venezuela is not anything take to be taken lightly.
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  Speaker 5: In Italy has also made themselves, you know, a team
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  Speaker 5: to be to know to be on watch, and.
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  Speaker 4: He's gonna be.
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  Speaker 1: Excited it's the Francisco Survelli Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's a Venezuelan born man with Italian and
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  Speaker 2: now he's managing Team Italy against Venezuela. Mark, real quick
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  Speaker 2: here before we wrap this up, I just wanted to
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  Speaker 2: point out, like, because I mentioned your name, just because
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  Speaker 2: you said, like, what a win for baseball, What a
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  Speaker 2: win for Pittsburgh too.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, for Paul.
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  Speaker 2: Skiens to to have that moment with him where entering
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  Speaker 2: this I I spent all day reading about this game
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  Speaker 2: on the athletic.
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  Speaker 1: I got a copy of the New York Post at.
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  Speaker 2: The publics around the corner from where I'm staying, and
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  Speaker 2: I was reading just even you know, I wrote about it,
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  Speaker 2: reading just anyone that was was previewing this game, and.
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  Speaker 1: It was all the talk of how good this.
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  Speaker 2: Dominican lineup was, but it was, well, do you US
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  Speaker 2: has the equalizer?
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  Speaker 1: And it's they have the picture.
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  Speaker 2: And that's such a rarity in sports where I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there have been eras in baseball where there hasn't been
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  Speaker 2: a pitcher that could do what Paul did against the
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  Speaker 2: best lineup that you could form with, you know, on
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  Speaker 2: the planet at that time. Really, and Paul did it
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  Speaker 2: and the fact that he's a Pittsburgh Pirate is such
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  Speaker 2: a boost to this franchise for its branding. And obviously,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think it goes without saying that he's
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  Speaker 2: not going to be here forever, and who knows what
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  Speaker 2: he will actually even achieve team wise while he's here,
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  Speaker 2: But these moments are things that Pirates fans should cherish forever.
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  Speaker 1: And it's it's again, it's super valuable to.
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  Speaker 2: The franchise because I think back to when I was
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  Speaker 2: in high school and the Pirates had a superstar and
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  Speaker 2: just the awareness of like, holy cal like the Pirates
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  Speaker 2: have a guy on Sports Center commercials, the Pirates have
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  Speaker 2: a guy on video game covers, and it makes the
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  Speaker 2: baseball world to take your franchise seriously, and that's something
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  Speaker 2: the Pirates have struggled with. And Josh, I mean, I'll
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  Speaker 2: let you speak on this because you were around to
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  Speaker 2: see at firsthand what a superstar can do to a
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  Speaker 2: franchise that's really looking to kind of insert itself in
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  Speaker 2: the baseball world.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, for sure, especially when that's what the fans
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  Speaker 5: have been longing for.
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  Speaker 4: Even baseball wants it, because after a while.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you want to see a fresh face, and
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  Speaker 5: you know that was able to be done while I
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  Speaker 5: was there with the Pirates.
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  Speaker 4: You know, cut you're gonna cover the show.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, you know our locker rooms getting beats by head
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  Speaker 5: you know it's getting beats headphones.
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  Speaker 4: Hey man, last year we couldn't get protein shakes. You know.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, it's definitely one of those things where
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  Speaker 5: you know, you understand the history of not only baseball
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  Speaker 5: but also the organization and what the Pirates have been
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  Speaker 5: able to do, and you know their history, and I
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  Speaker 5: know that's something that the fans want to get back
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  Speaker 5: to the winning ways. And when you can have a
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  Speaker 5: player that can bring, you know, some type of shed
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  Speaker 5: some light on your organization in a positive way, you know,
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  Speaker 5: it makes you excited for what the future can hold
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  Speaker 5: because you don't have this opportunity. It's like a once
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  Speaker 5: in a lifetime opportunity to have a picture like this.
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  Speaker 5: And as you said, no, he's not going to be
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  Speaker 5: here forever. You need to cherish moments like this and
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  Speaker 5: wrap the wave and you know, see what can be accomplished,
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  Speaker 5: you know what his time here, but this is definitely
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  Speaker 5: something that you know, fans should be proud of and
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  Speaker 5: you know USA fans as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's hard within the moment to just
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  Speaker 3: appreciate the greatness of Paul Skins. And he's only twenty three,
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  Speaker 3: but I mean, Derek Jeter was saying he was arguably
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  Speaker 3: the best picture in the world tonight. Big Poppy said, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: there's no argument he is the best picture in the world.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight.
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  Speaker 3: They're talking about a Pittsburgh Pirates player being the best
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  Speaker 3: position or best player at his position, at one of
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  Speaker 3: the most valuable positions in sports. That's crazy. So it's
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  Speaker 3: just yeah, the branding for this team, I mean, getting
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  Speaker 3: the shout out on the broadcast being like, come on, Pirates,
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  Speaker 3: like they added some to this roster, but like everyone
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  Speaker 3: in the baseball world wants to see the Pirates succeed
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  Speaker 3: and so thrusting them into that spotlight saying, hey, we
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  Speaker 3: got someone that we're ready to build around, let's do it.
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  Speaker 3: I think we saw that this offseason already, that impact
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  Speaker 3: that Paul Skins has brought to this franchise, and looking
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  Speaker 3: forward to seeing what it brings the next couple of
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  Speaker 3: years as well, We've.
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  Speaker 2: thoughts before we wrap it up.
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  Speaker 3: I just want to extend a happy birthday to uh
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  Speaker 3: Noah at the time of this, that this gets published,
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be his birthday. He's going to be
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Uh, just to piggyback that I think we've spoken
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  Speaker 5: up on the Classic. Just want to piggyback like.
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  Speaker 4: Like Platinum Key said, happy early twenty first birthday to.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was your twenty second.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Care, I don't thirty thirty one is not Yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: once you get.
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  Speaker 3: Closer to the forty, yeah, we'll talk.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's like everyone's like, you make it any yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do when he turned thirty one? Work?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe have a nice stake tonight, you know, like yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like it'll be all right.
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