Konnor the Conqueror

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Technical Director, the Grand
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Come on Pittsburgh, let's show a
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Welcome to the porch, everyone.
Hey Schwaber, how you going?

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I'm doing pretty good.
Where's TD today?

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Where is the technical director?
Well, he had some family duties

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to take care of, so we're giving
him the night off.

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Oh, OK, good.
I think we'll have a better.

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Fair enough.
I think we'll have a better

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show.
I think everything's going to

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flow just perfectly.
In fact, I think we already had

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a better opening than most.
I think so.

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I think so.
There was no complaint about

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getting something wrong.
Right.

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Yeah.
There was no complaint about us

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badgering him.
You know, That's right.

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The typical things that happen,
you know, always, always us,

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never him.
Well, TD, enjoy your night off.

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I'm sure you're listening.
Somewhere out there in

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cyberspace, you probably already
made a dumb comment and we're

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just going to ignore that if
that happens.

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Yes, yes.
We'll see you next time, Klein.

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So if you're not familiar with
who we are, we're 2/3 of the

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sports porch on your hockey.
Jesus.

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I love to watch hockey, all
things pens, all things hockey

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and the grandchois.
Beanie is a true Pittsburgh

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Steeler fan from Philadelphia,
which is weird, but you know

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when you marry into the
Pittsburgh Steeler life, you're

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a Steeler for life.
That's just the way it works.

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Yeah, I mean, you know, marriage
will do crazy things to you.

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It will bring you football and
it will bring you life.

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So that's what we're doing
tonight.

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Tonight we're actually, you
know, you probably saw the

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start.
Connor the Conqueror.

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Yes.
I hate to say this, but we do

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have to talk about some Pirates.
Connor.

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Connor Griffin is definitely
gaining some momentum, not just

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here in Pittsburgh, but all over
the Major League Baseball world.

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He's just a phenom.
We're going to talk about him.

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We're also going to definitely
approach the Pittsburgh

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Penguins.
What's going on with them since

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Sidney Crosby?
Been having a good week so far.

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So far so good.
We'll see how it goes.

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We got the trade deadline coming
up in the NHL this Friday.

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And of course we must talk about
the Pittsburgh Steelers because

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they got a lot of holes they
need to fill free agencies

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coming around.
I think there's this thing

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called Mccombine going on.
So, you know, we'll probably,

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we'll probably approach that to
see see, see who is broken

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records with jumping, who's
broken records with speed and

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how it doesn't make any bit of a
difference on the football

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field.
And lastly, the Grand Schwabini

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will bring us into what we're
watching and I'm sure that is

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going to be a rousing segment as
always.

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So let's get started.
What do you say, Mark?

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Absolutely.
You know, I'll tell you what I

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think in in a show or two ago,
I, I posed the question like, do

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we really know if this Connor
Griffin is any good?

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You know, look, I mean, he's
really being touted, right?

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I mean, it's, it's, it's almost
like Paul Skeen's type level,

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how much he's being talked
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And I was just like, but how do
we even know he's any good?

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Right?
And and then I saw his two moon

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shots and I was like, oh, these
are like Schwarber home runs.

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Maybe we should show one right
now.

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Yeah, let's show one.
Yeah, let's put it on the.

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Ball time in AA.
Here's the pitch swinging a ball

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rope down the left field line.
This one is deep and this one is

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over.
The monster Connor Griffin with

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a long home run to left field.
The 19 year old has hit a two

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run shot to put the Bucks up two
to nothing right off of Ranger

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Suarez.
Let's see you Joe Lynchin see

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that Connor Griffin has his face
a ton consistently, a ton of

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high and Major League pitching.
This one A-21 breaking ball that

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he just hammers right down the
left field line.

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Flying over that wall in left
field, the green monster.

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I mean, it's identical.
Goodbye, Mr. Spalding.

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Yeah, he looks he he's, he's a
big guy, isn't he?

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Yeah, and, and I thought what
was really important about that,

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you know, sometimes these guys
have big springs, but, you know,

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they're they're hitting, you
know, minor league pitching.

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But this this was Ranger Suarez.
This is an All Star pitcher

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here, right?
You know, and he I mean, look,

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he just turned on that thing
like like he didn't have any

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concern who was on the mound,
you know, very confident.

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He's got a great swing and he's
really crushing the ball now.

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I I think he's still only
hitting around like 200 in the

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spring, but.
Yeah, he only has four hits and

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they're all home runs.
Yeah, I mean, like guys like

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him.
I mean, like, I'm sure he's

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he's, you know, probably like,
you know, a little happy to hit

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the Homer.
You know, he's he's probably

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looking at, you know, crush the
ball.

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I'm sure he'll settle in to
becoming, you know, a more

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complete hitter.
But yeah, I mean, I don't think

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that's really much of A concern.
I mean, if you can hit the ball

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that far, you know, watch out.
I mean, I think they they

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actually will have a position
player star this year as well.

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Yeah, the one thing, the one
thing you know, and I don't

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watch a lot of pre season
baseball.

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I don't watch a lot of baseball
in general.

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But but I mean, with a guy like
this and a pitcher like Skeens,

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you know, you're you really have
and this is the sad part, but I

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have to bring it up.
You have the building blocks for

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something really special.
I mean, when was the last time

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we had a hitter like that up
here?

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Maybe Kutch in his prime, you
know, maybe Brian, Brian Giles

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way back when.
But even hit, he didn't hit the

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home runs like this.
I would, I would say McCutcheon

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in his prime and, and to be
honest, maybe even not, I mean,

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like, you know, like this guy.
Look, I don't get me wrong, I'm

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not going to get crazy here and
say this guy's Barry Bonds, but

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he's coming.
But he's coming in with that

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kind of cachet, you know what I
mean?

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He's coming in with like a big
time, like he could be a big

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time *.
Yeah, I agree.

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And you know, The thing is he's
19, so you know, you got to give

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him some space, right?
I I personally would love to see

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him start with the team, but I
get it if they don't, if he

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doesn't start with the team.
But when, when you have, I mean,

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just look at him, 6 foot four,
220 lbs.

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He looks massive out there.
And, and as a 90, he doesn't

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look like a, like a 19 year old,
right?

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A 19 year old.
You figure, you know, somebody's

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got a baby face.
You know, maybe he, he, you

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know, he lifts some weights, but
probably weighs 180, you know,

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soaking wet.
But this, this, this, this child

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is a man.
He, he, he is big.

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Did you know that he's engaged
to be married?

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No, I did not know.
That at 19 yeah, I was, I was

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just, I was just looking for a
picture for the for the

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thumbnail and it was like
Connor, Connor Griffin's wife.

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And I'm like wife.
And it was like, yeah, they,

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they, I guess they got engaged
in October of last.

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Year is she like a high school
sweetheart, I.

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Guess must be I didn't.
I didn't read the article.

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I mean, she's smoking hot, of
course.

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Probably, probably.
I would say that, you know,

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probably a high school
sweetheart for sure.

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I mean, hell, he's not even in
college yet.

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Or what do you have one year in?
College, so I don't know.

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So I don't know, maybe they met
in college anyway, So, you know,

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not only is he a big guy, so he
he fits the part, but you know,

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he's already kind of settling
down, so to speak, at the age of

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19, which is, you know, you
don't hear that very often, but

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hey, I mean.
If anything, it's probably a

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good thing, you know, I would
think so.

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So he's not out there running
around, you know, getting drunk

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and picking up women.
Well, you know, we were all 19

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once, so we we know what it's
like to be 19.

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I'm not saying that we ever did
that.

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Yeah.
And I'm, I don't think that any,

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even the three of us, you know,
I'll include TD in this.

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Yeah, at 19, we're thinking
about being engaged, you know?

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No, no, that is true.
So I think, yeah, that shows

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his, his, his mental fortitude
is probably a little bit higher

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than ours, but he we, we
probably shouldn't be the bar

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for him.
That's that's a pretty low.

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Bar when it comes to mental
fortitude.

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Don't compare yourselves to to
to us, Connor.

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Well, what do you think about
the rest of their lineup?

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I know he, you know, he could be
a big plug in.

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Yeah, I'm looking at their
lineup now.

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I I pulled it up because I
wouldn't know it, but you know,

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it's it right now.
It's shortstop.

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They say that Nick Gonzalez is
the guy.

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And of course, they always put
the Asher around Connor Griffin,

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you know, second baseman.
They have Brandon Lowe or Nick

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York.
I guess Lowe's probably going to

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be the guy there, right?
Horowitz at first base.

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They got, you know, the
combination of Barton, Henry

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Davis at catcher.
I mean, does that sound like a

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lineup that's OK?
Better than last year, right?

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Well, yeah, I mean, it's better
than last year.

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They got triolo at the third
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I mean, I, I would, I would say
this, I mean, I, I would still

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say it's, it's not top half of
the league.

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I mean, I'd say it's, it's more
bottom half of the league.

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I would just say it's just not
the bottom.

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You know, like if there's what
are their 32 teams, I'm guessing

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in baseball, 30. 2.
Right.

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So if there's 32 teams, I'm
going to say it's maybe like

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line up #20. 20, yeah.
You know what I mean?

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So compared to last year, that
was probably 32.

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You know, that's a, that's a
good step up, right?

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I guess in the, in the outfield,
they got Reynolds Cruz, they got

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that Ryan O'hearn they picked up
and that Magnum, Jake Magnum.

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So, you know, I guess they got
an outfield that can be a piece

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together.
Right.

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I mean, I mean, really, it's
Connor Griffin that can make

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that, you know, can bring you up
from 20 to 12.

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Yeah, right.
And only him, right?

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Right.
And only him if he's that good,

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right.
I mean, look, you think about

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it, I.
Mean if Zuno's going to be DH

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and so you know he's another guy
could hit thirty home runs

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easily right it.
Could it could.

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And then the, the, the rotation,
you know, Skeins, Keller, they

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got this Braxton, Ashcroft,
Bubba Chandler.

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I don't even know who this Jose
or Kwaita.

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I think I'm saying that, right,
yeah.

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And of course, Jared Jones is
going to be the guy when he gets

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back if he gets back from
injuries.

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Soon, I mean, they they seem to
hold, hold it together with

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pitching and and with Paul
Skeens.

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So the best part of having an
ace like Paul Skeens is he's

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he's a a losing streak stopper,
right, You know, So you know,

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you got that going for you.
Puppet Chandler probably has you

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know #2 type potential.
Sure, you know, Keller's like a

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really good third, you know, So
hey, I mean, I, I think their,

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their pitching will be fine.
It's really just gonna be can

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they hit?
And, you know, I guess what I

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would say is like everybody
should probably caution

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themselves because this may be a
team that is really streaky.

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This may be a team that hits the
cover of the ball for a couple

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weeks and gets off to a really
great start.

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And then they start kind of
falling back towards 500.

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But then it might get hot again.
You know, it's it's still going

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to be a team in my estimation
that's going to be, look, I

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think they're in the equation to
go over 500 this year, which is

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something we haven't said in a
really long time.

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But I don't think like this
isn't I, I'd be stunned and

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shocked if this was, you know,
like a 90 win team.

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Well, OC Chris Chado, welcome
back, buddy.

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Good to see you again.
He's he's wondering, is Skeens

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and Griffin going to be better
than Strasbourg and Harper back

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in the day?
I mean, you're probably going

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back to 2000 for those guys,
right?

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Yeah, well.
You think they could be that

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that combination?
Well, I actually kind of look at

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it a little differently and I I
think skins can certainly be

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better than Strasburg.
Strasburg kind of had his career

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cut short due to injury.
Yeah, he did.

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But I, I wouldn't, I wouldn't
call Connor Griffin in the

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Harper category yet.
You know he's got, he hasn't

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played a Major League game yet,
right?

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So.
But that's the upside.

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Right.
That's yeah, sure.

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That's absolutely the upside.
I mean, yeah, it's fun to think

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about.
Yeah, I mean, you, we haven't,

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we haven't been able to like say
that name with anybody even

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close.
So to say it like that is fine.

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Looks like T DS around.
He said that Conor Grifter was

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drafted straight out of high
school and into the minor

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league.
So I guess he did not find his

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wife at the university like we
didn't.

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Maybe junior college.
Maybe he went to junior college.

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No, he played for some prep
school.

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It it was like Saint Petersburg
prep school or something like

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that.
I did see that.

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So he, he, you know, he
basically, he basically went to

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school to play baseball.
Right, right.

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Yeah.
He was like playing.

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His degree is hitting baseballs.
Yeah, he's like playing at

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Swickley Academy around here.
You know, you're you're you're

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going to play sports.
You're not going there for an

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education, although education is
always in quotes when it comes

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to these phenoms.
Right.

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What else do you want to talk
about with the Pirates?

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I don't have anything else.
I'm happy to get out of this

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subject.
I think, yeah, I think we

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covered enough, You know, God,
God bless him.

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Let's hope for a better year.
Let's hope for a better year.

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I, I, I guess the only other
thing I want to, I want to just

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finalize it on.
So you think they're going to be

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an over 500 team or do you think
they have the possibility of

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going over 500?
I'm going to say possibility.

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Yeah.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna.

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Look, if everything goes right,
I think they could be 82 and 80.

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I like that I I I think they can
get the eighty wins.

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The one thing I would like to
see this year is if they can hit

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the ball.
Let's get skeins 20 wins this

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year.
How about it?

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Come on, that's what I want to
see and for me it's all about

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skeins.
Let's let's maximize his

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potential.
Let's turn him into he's already

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a superstar.
Let's get him the wins.

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We he already has the ERA.
Let's start getting him some WS.

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Let's hit the ball for him this
year, unlike last year to me

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that's more important than the
pirates winning.

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I'm sorry, I just don't I don't
care about the pirates.

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You know, I tried to get the
counselor to come on tonight.

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Of course you know he's he's
working late, but he told me

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over the weekend and I didn't I
didn't let him have it and he's

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probably listening now.
So this is for a conversation

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later there counselor.
He actually bought pirates

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tickets this year.
Now I get it.

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He has a family and as a family
they like to go as an outing,

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but I just can't condone giving
money the Bob Nutting.

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I just can't.
Yeah, yeah.

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But he, his reasoning was, you
know, he's going to buy them

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anyways.
And it's the no fees, you know,

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time.
So you're not paying all those

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fees to, you know, to
Ticketmaster, which I'm 100, I'm

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100% behind.
Or you're making nutting pay

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those fees because, you know,
Ticketmaster's probably getting

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there.
So I guess you are taking some

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money out of his pocket a little
bit by doing it that way.

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I mean what, What do you mean he
got tickets like to a couple

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games or did he get like a
package or something?

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He got like, I think he got a
six.

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I, I stopped listening when he
said he bought tickets.

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No, I didn't.
I think he said he bought it

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like a six ticket plan because
he wanted to go to the home

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opener and and so that was the
way to definitely get into the

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home opener and it's kind of
tradition for them to go so.

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I got to be honest.
I mean, I I've been, you know,

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down the home opener Rd. before.
I think it's actually one of the

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worst days to go to a baseball
game because it's often bitter

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cold.
Well, yeah, if if the weather's

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nice, yeah.
It's probably the only chance to

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go to a game that's going to be
sold out.

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So if you like that, you know,
right, you have to do that.

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OK, Chris, we're going to give
one last one last plug for the

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Pirates here.
If Griffin pans out and the

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Pirates get the 500 the schemes
decide to stay, what impact

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would it have on his big
upcoming deal?

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I'm going to let you take this
and I got some thoughts.

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Well, well, first of all,
doesn't schemes really have one

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more year beyond this year?
So at the end of this year,

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because he won the Cy Young, he
is up for arbitration at the end

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of this year.
Right, so he.

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He has two more years of
arbitration after this.

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Right.
So, so the way I kind of look at

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it is I, I look, I, I don't see
Paul Skeens as the kind of guy

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who's going to demand a trade at
this point yet.

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I think if they have a, you
know, like a 500 ish year, I

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think he'll take the whatever it
is, the 27,000,000 that he gets

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in arbitration.
No, we looked it up.

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Remember at the end of this year
it's only going to be 15,000,000

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most likely.
Oh, is that right?

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Yeah, he it it, it like
escalates so.

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OK.
The first year it's like going

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to be probably 15,000,000.
The second year it's going to be

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like 25,000,000.
In the third year is where it

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goes up to, you know, full
price, which would be, you know,

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3035 million.
Nobody really knows.

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Yeah.
So that's that's kind of the

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price tier in the next three
years for him.

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So I guess if if I'm him, he
probably takes arbitration for

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one more year.
So he's here for two years.

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If they're not like a wild card
team, not this year but the year

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after, then I think he'll he'll
leave.

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I think it I think it's real
interesting because I thought

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the same thing as you.
I thought it I thought it jumped

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to the highest level right away,
but it doesn't.

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Somebody actually on on the one
of the one of the reels

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chastised me for it.
Thank you, by the way.

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I forget who it was, but we do
appreciate the feedback on those

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reels.
So please do comment.

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We do use it to try and get
better, believe it or not.

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But I think it's interesting
that he's only going to get

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15,000,000.
Now he did get, he did get a few

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million in bonus money.
I guess they have some some

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fungible monies that they can
add if he he hit certain

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accolades.
So I think he ended up getting

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like 2 1/2, three and a half
million last year.

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But man, I mean, he's leaving so
much money on the table,

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15,000,000.
I mean, you know, if he signed

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any, any, anywhere else that had
money, they would already be

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looking at him and saying let's
sign this kid for a. 10 year.

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Let's give him a $400 million
contract.

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Let's give him a $500 million
contract, you know, And boy,

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when you think about that kind
of money, it's really hard to

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think, wow, I'm only going to
get paid 15,000,000 in the prime

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of my career.
So I don't know what's going to

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happen.
I agree with you.

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I think Skeens is a good guy.
I think he does want to do the

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right things.
It's really going to be hard to

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make him out as the villain when
it comes to this arbitration

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stuff, especially if the
pirates, even if.

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They get get a little bit better
this year.

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It clearly states that, you
know, they need to get a lot

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better.
And the other thing obviously we

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have at the end of this year is
the collective bargaining

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agreements up.
So you don't even know how

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that's going to affect
everything, you know.

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So that's that's a tough
question.

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It's a little bit tougher than
you think, Chris Shotta, but I

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think it's definitely something
the worth worth thinking about

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for.
Sure.

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I did hear something that I
think would benefit the the

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Pirates greatly.
Is that the thinking on one of

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the proposals is that there will
be a floor of 160 million.

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Yeah.
That benefits the fans.

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I don't think it benefits the
owner.

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No, right.
But yeah, yeah, give schemes 50

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right now, you know what I mean?
Yeah, I mean, if, if that's

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going to happen, that's that's
what they'll Schemes will get

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his money.
So that is interesting.

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You're right.
That's a that's a good reason

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for Schemes not to even play it
out, because he they might have

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to give him 50 million just to
get to the the lowest level of

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the cap.
Right.

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You know, right.
So you have that factor, but

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then you know, you also have
other factors too.

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Like, you know what happens if
it turns out that there is no,

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there is no floor, you know?
They won't.

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They won't put a cap without a
floor.

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There's no way.
There's no way they, they can't

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like all the all the big three
have that, you know, of course

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they, they also, you know, you
know the NBA better than I do.

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Yeah, yeah, they have that.
They have that.

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Oh well, this guy doesn't count
against the cap because he's

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worth $100 billion by himself.
Right.

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No, but I'm, I'm just, I'm just
saying I, I don't know that the

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Major League Baseball players
want to agree to any kind of

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salary cap and floor, you know
what I mean?

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No, they don't.
The the MLB, the the players

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association will absolutely they
don't.

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They don't want it, right.
It's the owners that are pushing

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for the cap.
Right.

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So let's just say that the
players went out and then you

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don't have that.
If that's the case, then I think

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that's a different scenario
where skiing says I'm out of

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here, I want to make 100
million.

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Yeah, you know what I mean.
Yeah.

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And then the Pirates can say,
well, we push for, we push for

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the cap, even though, you know,
they're not pushing for the cap

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because there's no way in hell
they want to spend $150 million

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on payroll every year.
Right, Right.

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All right, Well, that's it for
the baseball talk.

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00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,080
I I just want to jump to the
Steelers because I want to, I

444
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,160
want to try and make this a
short segment.

445
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,200
What First of all, what do you
think about the combine so far?

446
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:25,760
What?
What did you see in the combine

447
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:30,560
that, if anything, that you know
makes you excited about the

448
00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:32,840
draft class?
Well, you know, I got to be

449
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:36,440
honest, I, I, I usually watch it
a little bit more than I did

450
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:38,440
this year.
I barely watch it this year.

451
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,840
And I think the reason why I
barely watched it is what you

452
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:47,040
were kind of saying earlier when
we just got on on, you know, on

453
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:52,520
the show here is that, I mean, a
lot of it's just a bunch of BS.

454
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:56,720
I mean, a lot of it is, you
know, like, for example, I mean,

455
00:23:57,120 --> 00:24:01,200
Jerry Rice didn't run a 42, but
nobody could catch him, right,

456
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:02,840
Right.
You know what I mean?

457
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:06,920
So I, I think that there's game
speed and then there's timed

458
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:12,720
speed and there's instincts and,
you know, ability to run a track

459
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:17,200
course, you know what I mean?
That's kind of polar opposite.

460
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:21,240
So I'm not sure how much it it
really means.

461
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,560
I mean, I think look, the the
bottom line is, is that if you

462
00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:30,000
got two players that are really
close and one, you know, and I'm

463
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:34,000
talking like, you know, the game
film, you can't decide, then

464
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,000
maybe you go with the guy who
has The Who has the better

465
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,280
measurables, right?
You know, but but outside of

466
00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:42,160
that, I don't, I don't put a ton
of stock into it.

467
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:46,240
I mean, I most of the stock that
I actually put into the draft is

468
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:52,160
I want guys mainly that are
coming from really competitive

469
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,040
football programs.
I agree.

470
00:24:54,120 --> 00:24:58,480
You know, give me the Georgia,
the Alabama's, the Clemson's,

471
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:03,720
you know, you know, Michigan,
Ohio State, give me those guys.

472
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:07,000
You know, I don't, I don't want
to, you know, use my second

473
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,600
round pick on some guy who
played for like, you know what

474
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,360
Shigi State.
I totally agree with you.

475
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,360
I think they got to come from
the big time program.

476
00:25:18,120 --> 00:25:20,640
They they have to have an
offense if you're bringing them

477
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:24,320
off of the on the offensive side
that runs in the NFL caliber

478
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,880
offense.
One that's a little complicated.

479
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,880
So that when they when they come
to the NFL, it's not the first

480
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:33,320
year trying to figure out how to
read, you know, a playbook

481
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:37,320
that's, you know, a 70 pages
deep and and you got to figure

482
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,480
it all out.
That I think to me, that's the

483
00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:43,040
most important thing, especially
in the first, you know, first

484
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:47,080
round pick, in the first 2-3
round pick even that's probably

485
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:50,560
the most important thing, which
is exactly why I don't really

486
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:54,920
pay much attention to the
combine because I just think

487
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,080
it's a bunch of guys running
around their underwear.

488
00:25:57,120 --> 00:25:59,600
I mean, they'll run around their
underwear anymore if they're

489
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,560
offensive lineman.
It's impressive that they can

490
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:06,960
squat, you know, 1500 lbs Super
impressive that they can punch

491
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:12,720
up, you know, 320 lbs on the
dumb bar dumbbell, you know, 45

492
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,960
times.
I mean, yeah, it's impressive.

493
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,080
They're strong guys.
That's what they get paid to do.

494
00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:22,760
Is it fun to watch?
Does it make a difference on the

495
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,880
on the field of play?
I mean, strength can, but if you

496
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,480
don't have strength and agility
and smarts, if you can't put

497
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:32,840
that all together, one thing
does not make the man, you know,

498
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:34,520
speed, you can't make up for
speed.

499
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,520
But I wish they were running
with pads on to be completely

500
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,760
honest with you.
What's their speed in pads?

501
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,280
You know, for a defensive back,
what's his backward speed?

502
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:47,200
What's his sideways speed?
You know, a defensive back

503
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,960
rarely runs straight, right,
right, right.

504
00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:52,880
They're always all over the
place.

505
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,760
So I, I, I think for that
reason, it's fun to watch some

506
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,760
of those catching drills.
I have to be honest with you.

507
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:00,320
I think that's pretty
impressive.

508
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:03,880
You can see if a guy guys guys
got hands or doesn't doesn't,

509
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:07,320
you know, doesn't doesn't do
those things real quick, like

510
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,840
but other than that, Nah, you
know, I agree with you.

511
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,160
I think if there was any story
coming from the weekend

512
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:19,880
pertaining to the Steelers is
that, you know, Ty Simpson, the

513
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:23,760
quarterback from Alabama, had a
really good showing and

514
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:27,760
apparently really impressed
folks, including the Steelers.

515
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:33,560
So Mel Kiper has the Steelers
taking him, you know, in the 20s

516
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,600
where the Steelers are picking.
He'll never draft that.

517
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:37,960
He'll not.
He'll not last that.

518
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,360
Long Well, that's what they say.
I mean, they say he was one of

519
00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:44,400
those guys who, you know, was
stock up from from the combine.

520
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,360
So, you know, now he's maybe in
the teens or even in the single

521
00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:50,320
digits.
So who knows?

522
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,600
He's kind of an interesting
prospect.

523
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,280
Apparently he was, you know,
lights out in the in the

524
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,760
beginning of the season, then
caught an injury and kind of

525
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:03,240
struggled in the second-half.
But apparently he's got, you

526
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:08,120
know, kind of all the hallmarks
of of, you know, you know, a top

527
00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:12,760
tier NFL quarterback.
So look, I mean, I think if

528
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,120
there's an opportunity for the
Steelers to get them, they

529
00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:20,160
might, they might, you know,
apparently McCarthy really liked

530
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,400
him.
And, you know, McCarthy also.

531
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:27,960
Look, I mean, even though even
if you haven't, you know, Aaron

532
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,160
Rodgers coming back, if that's
the case, I mean, what what

533
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:35,200
better position to be in than to
have, you know, two young

534
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,360
quarterbacks, you know,
basically learning from from

535
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:42,160
Aaron Rodgers for a year.
But you know, at at the same

536
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,680
time, I know that's not going to
make everybody happy.

537
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:48,160
I mean, a lot of people want a
wide receiver in this, in this

538
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,800
first round.
I've, I've also, I've also heard

539
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:53,080
this.
Have you heard this at all,

540
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:57,040
Steve?
I've heard that it's possible

541
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:00,600
that DK Metcalf might not be on
the team next this year.

542
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,840
Oh, no, I, I haven't heard that
one, but I, I have heard that, I

543
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:09,520
have heard that in the combine
they've, they've basically had

544
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,920
interviews with every wide
receiver possible.

545
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,280
So they're definitely scouring
that position.

546
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:19,600
I have heard that the Drew Aller
is kind of on the on the way out

547
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,440
unless they can get him in like
the third or fourth round.

548
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,160
But even then, why do you need
another third or fourth round

549
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,240
quarterback when you already got
a guy who hasn't even tried it

550
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,600
out yet, you know?
But no, I, I didn't hear that

551
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:35,080
about DK.
Were they saying that it was

552
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:39,080
just speculation or?
It was like the, the story was,

553
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,000
I forget who who brought the
story, but the story was there's

554
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,240
going to be somebody who you
think's going to be on this team

555
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,600
who isn't going to be on the
team next year.

556
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:54,200
And, and they, they basically
thought that it was DK Metcalf,

557
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,760
that behind the scenes, even
though the Steelers have said

558
00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:59,920
all the right things, like, hey,
we're going to honor his

559
00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:03,200
contract and all that kind of
stuff, that behind the scenes,

560
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:07,120
they were not very pleased with
what happened with him last

561
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:08,800
year.
Yeah, especially with the

562
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,840
Detroit incident, I'm sure.
And and I guess the other, the

563
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:16,160
other part of it is like they
can basically move on with like

564
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,440
almost no penalty by getting rid
of him.

565
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,720
So we'll see.
I mean, look, that creates

566
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,640
another problem because now you
need 2 receivers, right?

567
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,680
Right.
And whether you feel that DK

568
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:32,080
Metcalf is a number one or a
number 2, they still have to

569
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:36,400
have somebody of his caliber on
the team when they go in the

570
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,680
training camp.
They can't play this game again

571
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,800
where it's like, you know, wide
receiver by committee.

572
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:43,320
They have proven that doesn't
work.

573
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,640
But they, they certainly could,
you know, bring in a a free

574
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:51,600
agent wide receiver and then
draft one in the first round if

575
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:53,680
they if they wanted to do that.
That's.

576
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,160
True, you know, so, so who
knows?

577
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:57,840
I mean, it'll be interesting to
see what happens.

578
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:01,640
It'll be interesting to see how
they approach free agency

579
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,600
because look, we don't really
know how they're going to

580
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,880
approach it because in the past
we really, we felt like we had a

581
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,160
pretty good idea because it was
mainly, you know, the, the

582
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:16,080
Tomlin way.
So right now, right now, we're

583
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:19,560
not entirely sure.
Like for, for example, if Mike

584
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,640
Tomlin was still the coach, I
could guarantee you Kenny

585
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,960
Gainwell is going to be back.
Guarantee you.

586
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,160
Yeah, right.
Probably already would have been

587
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:28,480
signed.
Right, right.

588
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,920
But you know, now that it's
McCarthy, I don't know.

589
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,680
I mean, I'd say it's a 5050.
You know, he probably

590
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:36,240
appreciates what he did last
year.

591
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,240
He probably says he's a great,
you know, third down back or

592
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,960
second back who's got good hands
and catch a lot of balls.

593
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,920
But they also might say to
themselves, well, you know,

594
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,320
somebody might give Kenny
Gainwell 10 million next year,

595
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:50,080
and we don't want to do that.
Yeah.

596
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,360
So who?
Knows Well, interesting enough

597
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,800
you bring up the free agents.
I mean, in the quarterback

598
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,200
position, we have Aaron Rodgers.
We're not even going to talk

599
00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:01,320
about Skyler Thompson.
Kenny Gainwell is the only

600
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,840
running back itself.
Wide receivers, they do have CA

601
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:10,680
3, Calvin Austin, the third MVS
scan Link and Scotty Miller all

602
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,960
up at wide receiver.
Now those those all three of

603
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,680
those guys at one point you
would say, wow, they got those

604
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:18,880
three guys, they got to sign one
of them.

605
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,160
Now you're like, do they really
have to sign one of them?

606
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,920
On the offensive line?
Probably the biggest name there

607
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:28,960
is say Amalu.
Do you do you bring him back at

608
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:30,920
tight end?
They got Connor Hayward up.

609
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,120
Do you want to upset Cam and and
let him go or do you sign him?

610
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:39,160
Defensive line, they got a
couple guys, but Loudermilk's

611
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:43,680
probably the biggest name there
and that linebacker Jeremiah

612
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:48,120
Moon is a restrictive free
agent, but Holcomb is a is

613
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,320
probably gone.
And the defensive backfield,

614
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,240
there are a lot of guys here.
Duggar that they picked up.

615
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:58,840
James Pierre, who's played great
for us, Sante Samuel Junior,

616
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:04,200
who's did OK, I guess.
Chucky Clark, Brill Preppers and

617
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:08,920
Miles Killebrew.
Now Killebrew is more of a, more

618
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,840
of a special teams guy, right?
So, so they probably bring him

619
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:16,280
back for that.
And Corliss Weibman is a

620
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,200
restricted free agent.
He's the punter.

621
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,040
So I I don't think that's a big
deal.

622
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:23,720
So of those names, who do you
think the Steelers should

623
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,720
prioritize and bringing back and
who would be a surprise that

624
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:32,160
came back?
Well, I would prioritize Pierre.

625
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:36,000
You know, Pierre, you know
Pierre a lot, a lot of people

626
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,400
probably don't realize this are
our viewers at home.

627
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,200
But like Pierre was like ranked
like in the top five in

628
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:44,760
quarterbacks by Pro Football
Focus, something like that.

629
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,200
You know, he, he, he, he had
like a great year.

630
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:52,840
So, you know, Pierre, I have to
bring back, you know, look, I I

631
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:57,680
would bring back Kenny Gainwell
as long as it wasn't anything

632
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,680
outlandish.
Yeah, you're not breaking the.

633
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:00,560
Bank.
Sure.

634
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:02,360
Right.
You know, like I'm not giving

635
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:08,280
him more than like 7 million a
year, you know, but you know, I

636
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:10,199
think you could use a little
what do you have a one year,

637
00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:12,400
five Year 5 million contract or
yeah it.

638
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:13,360
It was.
Yeah.

639
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:14,840
It was around there.
Yep.

640
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,520
OK, so, you know, give him a
little raise, but you know, I'd

641
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,360
bring him back on like another
maybe year or two year deal.

642
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:26,120
I'd bring back CA three, you
know, because I like his, I like

643
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,639
the ability to use him on
special teams as a punt

644
00:34:28,639 --> 00:34:33,000
returner.
And I look, I, I think a lot of

645
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:38,159
the time CA 3 is kind of being
used almost like a little bit

646
00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:41,080
out of place.
I mean, I, he's probably a

647
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:46,920
pretty darn good #3 you know,
and probably a great #4 if you

648
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:48,679
want to put him back there at 4,
right?

649
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,159
Yeah.
But but I, I just don't see him

650
00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:54,159
as, as, as a one or two.
But he can play, you know, he

651
00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:56,560
can play, he can get open, he
can catch the ball.

652
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:04,920
So I'd keep him and you know,
would I be surprised by anybody

653
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:06,640
coming back?
I mean, I guess I would be

654
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:11,520
surprised if they brought back
like a Scotty Miller or Marquez

655
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:16,520
Vandes Scalding, like, you know,
those guys, You know what I

656
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:17,880
mean?
I'd be surprised if those guys

657
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,880
came back.
What about Samalu?

658
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,720
Do you think they pay up the the
keep him?

659
00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:26,640
Keep him basically at the salary
he's at now it's, I don't know,

660
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,120
15,000,000 or something like
that?

661
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,320
You know what, actually, you
know what I would say he would

662
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:35,960
be the one that it wouldn't
shock me if he's not back.

663
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,240
And the only reason why I say
that, I think he's a really good

664
00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:41,120
player and I think I would want
to have him back.

665
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,920
But he's also an offensive
lineman that's got a lot of

666
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:49,840
tread on the tires, you know,
you know, So he's, you know,

667
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,960
like the chances of him getting
through healthy seasons over the

668
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,440
next couple years is starting to
dwindle a little bit.

669
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,680
Maybe it's time for Frazier to
step it up and be the leader on

670
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,520
that offensive line.
Yeah.

671
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,520
And maybe, you know, maybe you
just maybe you just signed

672
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:09,560
another guy that like maybe you
signed another say Amalu like

673
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,760
when the Steelers first signed
say Amalu.

674
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:15,760
Yeah, You know what I mean?
Somebody who's still got like,

675
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:18,240
you know, the best years of
their football in front of them

676
00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:21,400
instead of maybe being behind
them.

677
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,840
You know, you might have two or
three more good years, but I

678
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,840
don't know.
Yeah, the, and I'm just looking

679
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,640
at the you know who they're
talking about.

680
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,160
If Samalu doesn't come back and
the names are not familiar, that

681
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:34,920
doesn't mean they're not good,
right?

682
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:39,320
But they they're talking about
David Edwards or Wyatt Teller.

683
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,480
I've no idea who these guys are.
So, so.

684
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:46,240
Yeah, so I mean, but you know,
maybe they're the next Samalu.

685
00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:49,560
But when Samalu was signed, you
know who he was those guys.

686
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:51,600
I don't.
I think you'd have to pull out

687
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:55,120
your Google to find out who
those guys played for and and

688
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:56,640
how many years they've been in
the league.

689
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:01,040
My only, my only complaint with
what you said there was CA-3

690
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:06,200
gets injured a lot and and you
need a guy in that third

691
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:09,280
position or returning punts
who's pretty healthy.

692
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,560
And that's be my only, only
reserve.

693
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:16,560
I think they do have to bring
back one of those three guys for

694
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,880
sure because they're going to go
out and either get a wide

695
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,480
receiver and or draft a wide
receiver that gives them that

696
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:25,160
gives them 4 pretty good
options.

697
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:29,200
I love to see them do both.
Go get a wide receiver, you

698
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:33,760
know, maybe, maybe make a pitch
for an Alex Pierce or a Rashid

699
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,880
Shaheed.
I'm not a big, I'm not a big

700
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,640
Datsun fan, but even Datsun
wouldn't be terrible.

701
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:45,640
But somebody like that, that's
assuming DK is coming back,

702
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:47,480
which I'm going to assume he is
at this point.

703
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:51,600
Then if you get a if you get a
young guy who can come in and,

704
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,680
you know, maybe catch 2030
balls, who knows, Maybe they

705
00:37:54,720 --> 00:37:58,440
they hit the jackpot and and and
the guy that they they draft in

706
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:02,040
the first round is is likes out.
They haven't been able to do

707
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:05,680
that ever, But maybe that
happens.

708
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:10,560
The big the big thing is for me,
and I agree with you, Pierre, I

709
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:14,600
think Pierre is a a good guy.
If you're keeping Pierre, then I

710
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,360
don't think you need to even
worry about Asante Samuel Junior

711
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,200
coming back.
You go get go out and draft

712
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,920
another cornerback.
So now you've got 3 cornerbacks

713
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,800
so you can play.
You got both starting positions,

714
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:31,120
you know, solidified and then
that rookie can come in and play

715
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,200
and if he plays great, you know,
may you know, he's the

716
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:38,320
nickelback.
You know, the big problem is

717
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:42,200
clearly with quarterback.
Now I've heard that Aaron

718
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,560
Rodgers is likely to make a
decision in the next couple

719
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,360
weeks.
I think that's the only I think

720
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,960
that's just pure wishing to be
completely.

721
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:51,960
Honest.
Probably, yeah.

722
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:57,320
And or they may be saying that
because supposedly Minnesota's a

723
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:01,280
little interested in him, too.
I think he would rather play in

724
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:05,040
Minnesota knowing he's going to
play against the Bears twice and

725
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:09,920
his old team twice than to have
to stick around even if he even

726
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,280
if he is chummy again with his
old coach.

727
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:15,840
I don't know.
That's a saga that's going to

728
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,240
play out for way too long and
we're not going to be able to

729
00:39:19,240 --> 00:39:22,440
solve it here on the porch.
But I think clearly that's their

730
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:25,640
their number one need and
unfortunately it's going to

731
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:28,320
continue to be their number one
need till they find their next

732
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:29,560
bed.
Right.

733
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:33,400
Yeah, I think you're right.
And I don't think there's any

734
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:37,720
way around that.
Well, I think that's it for the

735
00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:40,280
Steeler talk, unless you got
something something else that

736
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:44,160
you want you wanted to bring up.
Oh, you know what we we probably

737
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,360
should mention because I'm sure
our our fans heard this.

738
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:51,640
What's that?
About the F minus ratings in,

739
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:55,880
in, in, in on the field and in
the locker room.

740
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,640
F minus ratings.
F minus ratings.

741
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:03,120
That's not just an.
F, That's an F minus and I I've

742
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:04,960
never gotten an F minus in my
life.

743
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,600
I haven't either now.
And actually, they were #32 out

744
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:14,640
of 32 teams, as far as the worst
grade overall.

745
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,600
Overall, overall because of
those F minus.

746
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:19,600
Ratings.
And that's pretty.

747
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,560
And that's pretty hard to do,
you know?

748
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:25,960
Well, what do you think about
that?

749
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:30,880
Yeah, Chris, Chad is saying that
the Steelers have 5 toilets for

750
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,240
players.
That's five toilets.

751
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,120
That's actually, that's actually
true.

752
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:37,680
It is true.
Yeah, that is true.

753
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:41,320
They have 5 stalls in their
locker room, 5 stalls in their

754
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:41,840
locker.
Room.

755
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:46,920
Look, I, I, I, I can't blame
that on anybody but the top, you

756
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:51,560
know, I mean, I think the bottom
line is, is that there has not

757
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:58,600
been any evolution from, you
know, Rooney senior to this

758
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,200
version of Rooney.
Yeah.

759
00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:06,320
And I think he, he really has
not done, he has not done a very

760
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:10,040
good job.
And I think the, the, the, the

761
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:13,680
specialness of the team has, has
suffered, it suffered, you know,

762
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,600
the past ten years or so.
Well, here's the thing.

763
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,320
I think in the past, the
Steelers would skimp on those

764
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,080
the frivolous things, if that's
what you want to call it.

765
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:26,320
Like, do you really need to have
a PlayStation room in your

766
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:29,000
friggin locker room?
You know, do you really need to

767
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,480
have a daycare to take care of
the kids?

768
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,680
Now, teams have that and I think
that's good.

769
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:38,600
And when you're bringing kids in
from from college and they see

770
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:42,360
these, you know, lounges and,
you know, these places where you

771
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:45,800
can chill out and for players
that are already have kids, you

772
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,280
can bring the the whole family.
You can bring the whole family

773
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,760
to the stadium and they you have
child care at the stadium so

774
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,040
that you know, your wife can
watch the game.

775
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:56,440
You don't have to worry about
it.

776
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:58,600
Everybody's coming in the car to
the game.

777
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:02,240
You know, that does make a
difference on, on, on, on, on

778
00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:05,280
the, on the feeling, you know,
as opposed to we got to get a

779
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:08,640
babysitter or, you know, your
wife can't come to the game or,

780
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:12,240
or whatever, whatever it is.
I, I, I don't, I don't think

781
00:42:12,240 --> 00:42:14,800
that's a terrible thing.
But before the steers, like

782
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:16,280
we're going to focus on
football.

783
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:20,160
And you know what the when the
results say you're focusing on

784
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:21,960
football and you don't need
those things.

785
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:27,400
OK, But we all know the Steelers
playoff record in the last

786
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:32,680
decade and it's not been good.
And if those are the things that

787
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:38,440
that are necessary now to keep
your head focused on football,

788
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,440
then you got to do it.
And the other thing is, you

789
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:46,880
know, 5 stalls in the locker
room, that's ridiculous.

790
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,400
You know what my wife said?
My so my wife is an interior

791
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,400
designer.
So, you know, she works with

792
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:53,280
architects that, that make these
buildings.

793
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:57,120
She said, she said, well, there
was probably some minimum

794
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:03,240
standard for how, how, how few
toilets you need in a facility

795
00:43:03,240 --> 00:43:05,480
like this.
And the number was 5.

796
00:43:05,720 --> 00:43:09,600
And the Steeler said yes.
Which is crazy.

797
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,360
It's cheap you.
Know, I, I mean, it's like,

798
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,160
well, why do we need more than
five?

799
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:16,120
You know, it's just like, you
know.

800
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:20,560
'Cause you have like 90 people
there, you know, I mean.

801
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,920
Right.
I mean, and not only that, but

802
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:26,640
some, you know, you got, you got
college kids there too, you

803
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:29,600
know, right have both the
college and the pros in one

804
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:30,920
place.
So you would think it would have

805
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,160
double the amount that would be
necessary.

806
00:43:33,720 --> 00:43:36,920
And the other thing too is I I
think you also too, I mean, like

807
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:40,440
you just got to keep improving.
Like, you know, you can't you

808
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:43,920
can't sit there and say like,
well, we got a new stadium in

809
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:48,560
2002 or whenever it was.
And that's it for 30 years, You

810
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,000
know what I mean?
Like, you know, think about

811
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,080
these, you know, some of these
kids who probably go to like

812
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:59,080
Alabama and Auburn and Miami,
you know, they probably have

813
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:01,760
better than pro facilities.
Yeah.

814
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:06,360
You know, So you know, you got
to, you got to look, you got to

815
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:08,920
cater to these athletes, you
know, you got to make them want

816
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:12,960
to be here, right?
I agree, especially the high end

817
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:14,560
ones.
You know those are the ones you

818
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:16,800
really want, right?
Exactly.

819
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:18,840
I mean, you don't want to baby
them, but you got to have the

820
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:21,400
bare minimum.
And to me it's if you're getting

821
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,240
an F minus that's saying you
don't even have the bare

822
00:44:24,240 --> 00:44:25,880
minimum.
You have the less than the bare

823
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:29,760
minimum and finally the field.
Now we all know the field is

824
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,200
abysmal and at times it actually
has helped us.

825
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:36,280
So you know, it actually has
worked in our favor to have an F

826
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:38,920
minus field.
But the time has come.

827
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:43,680
I can't believe that the NFL
doesn't require teams that get

828
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:47,960
like less than AC on this report
card to do something with their

829
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:49,920
field.
Now, right after this was

830
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:53,960
announced, surprise, surprise,
Art Rooney said, Oh, didn't we

831
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,520
tell you we're redoing the whole
field?

832
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:58,920
We're putting in a whole new
blend of grass.

833
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:03,840
It's a combination of Bermuda
grass and some, some synthetic,

834
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,720
some synthetic thing that
everybody uses.

835
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:10,840
And it's like, so let me get
this right, You get an F minus

836
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,920
and now you're changing it and
you're saying that you had this

837
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,040
in the plans.
I don't buy it.

838
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:18,320
I don't buy it at all.
Right, right to.

839
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:23,040
Me, it's just PR and it's a
little too late now.

840
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:24,960
I am.
I am excited about having a

841
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:30,040
field that actually won't have a
ball stick right into the field

842
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:31,640
when it gets punted.
That'll be fun.

843
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:34,200
Right.
But that means we're going to

844
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:37,040
have to find somebody other than
Caleb Johnson to return kicks

845
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:39,200
this year, right?
Right.

846
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:42,440
Because maybe the ball will
bounce enough that it'll

847
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:45,200
actually bounce out of the end
zone next year.

848
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:48,040
Right, right.
It's just, yeah.

849
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:52,640
It's, it's, you know, it's, it's
just kind of, it's a shame.

850
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:54,800
It's a shame.
It's a it's a shame to talk

851
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,160
about the Steelers in that way.
It is.

852
00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:01,280
It's a franchise that is not
headed in the right direction.

853
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:05,440
Maybe this year we can turn it
around, but we'll find that out

854
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,960
real soon and hopefully it'll be
after the draft.

855
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:10,920
Hey, if you made it this far,
thank you for staying.

856
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:12,880
We really appreciate you, our
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857
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:16,600
We do this so that, you know, we
can have interaction with you

858
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:20,560
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859
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:23,680
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860
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:27,680
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861
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,760
If you want to send it to
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862
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:35,720
And I guess we're on our last
subject before we get to what

863
00:46:35,720 --> 00:46:39,800
we're watching, and that would
be the Pittsburgh Penguins.

864
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:43,560
My love and my joy.
Have you imagine any hockey

865
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:44,880
lately, Mark?
I have now.

866
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:47,640
I imagine you're you're probably
in a pretty good mood because

867
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:51,160
they took down a pretty good
Golden Knights team decisively

868
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:54,760
the other day.
Decisively. 5 Nothing. 5 Nothing

869
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:56,000
but the backup.
Goalie.

870
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,600
But then the game before, you
know, they they get the loser

871
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:01,480
point to the Rangers.
Oh boy, you know.

872
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:03,560
Yeah.
So but before.

873
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:07,160
That before that they they eked
one out against the New Jersey

874
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,640
Devils.
That was the first game back and

875
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:14,240
the good thing about that game
is they they they played well in

876
00:47:14,240 --> 00:47:17,160
the third period and that's
that's been their bugaboo all

877
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,120
year.
Their first two periods they

878
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,400
play lights out.
I think they lead the league in

879
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:26,040
first, first goals, something
like 38 or 39 of their 59 games

880
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:29,960
they get the first goal.
So that helps.

881
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:34,320
I mean, Muse definitely has them
ready to come out and play the

882
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:38,880
game, you know, and whatever
he's doing, he definitely, he

883
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:42,880
definitely has them ready at a
high level so that they usually

884
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,520
get the first goal and that's
nice.

885
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:48,720
The problem is, is when they
have a two goal lead going into

886
00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:51,600
the third period, you never
really feel comfortable about

887
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:53,240
it.
Right, right, right.

888
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:56,600
And that's at least in the last
game, it didn't matter.

889
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:59,400
It did.
It did not matter in the last

890
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,960
game because they had a four
goal lead going into the last

891
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:03,480
period.
But you're not going to have

892
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:06,600
very many games where you're
having a four goal lead going

893
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,520
into the last period.
And I can remember a game way

894
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:12,080
back when, when they were
playing Anaheim where three

895
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:15,400
goals wasn't enough going into
the third period.

896
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:18,360
So yeah, that's something that
they have to work on.

897
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:22,600
But yes, I'm, I'm ecstatic as
far as the Ranger game goes.

898
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:25,520
My God.
And I went off on this on my HJ.

899
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:28,520
And by the way, if you don't
even care about, if you care

900
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:32,760
about hockey, I'm your guy.
I do a, a segment after every

901
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,240
single Pittsburgh Penguins game.
I love it.

902
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:39,000
It's about, you know, 8 to 12
minutes almost.

903
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:41,920
And it's just a recap of the
game.

904
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:44,960
The way I feel about it, what
happened and what I said in the

905
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:49,880
Rangers game was that goalie
interference, I cannot figure

906
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:51,280
out goalie interference for
life.

907
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:54,560
Me goalies can't figure it out.
And I don't think refs can

908
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,480
define it either.
They're just like, well, we know

909
00:48:57,480 --> 00:48:59,160
goalie interference when we see
it.

910
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:00,880
You know, it's one of those
things it's like.

911
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:03,480
What's that?
It's impossible to know.

912
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:07,080
And like the goal that they took
away in New York, Schisturkin,

913
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:12,360
in fairness, Mantha's skate was
in the blue, right?

914
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:17,680
But he was like on the up, on
almost the outside by the rim

915
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:21,160
where the red was.
Shusterkin stepped in that

916
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:27,320
direction and hit his skate.
He stepped in the Mantha and it

917
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:30,160
was goalie interference.
And it was goalie interference

918
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:33,360
because he couldn't push off to
save it, save the puck.

919
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:35,680
Meanwhile, the puck went
underneath his arm.

920
00:49:36,240 --> 00:49:37,120
Right, right.
It's.

921
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:40,680
Not like it's not like he
outstretched and was like

922
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:44,080
falling down because of it.
It went under his freaking arm.

923
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:45,200
Right, right.
I.

924
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,960
Just I can't figure it out now.
Muse is terrible at these

925
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:51,040
challenges.
I think he's O for six or O for

926
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:53,680
8:00 on the air with the goalie
interference challenge.

927
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:56,080
And you just, you just never
know.

928
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:59,120
Like I, I think I was watching
maybe it was the, maybe it was

929
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:02,160
the Flyers game against Boston
and there was a goalie

930
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:07,280
interference and I was like that
that was that was even worse

931
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:10,080
than the Penguins one.
And it's just like you can't

932
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:12,840
figure it out, you know?
Yeah, I don't know.

933
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:16,920
I I mean, I also the the other
thing I can't stand is these the

934
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:20,800
ones where like you know, they
they say no gold due to an

935
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:23,240
offsides.
Yeah, they have been 2 minutes

936
00:50:23,240 --> 00:50:24,840
previous.
Right.

937
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:26,920
That.
That's just insanity to me.

938
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:29,600
I mean, you either make the call
or don't you know what I mean?

939
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:33,840
Some of those awesome, I mean,
and that's why that's why that's

940
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:37,200
why teams, you know, employ
people just to watch those

941
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,080
cameras because they're not even
watching the game.

942
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:42,880
Whenever there's an entry into
the zone, they're looking at the

943
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:45,200
cameras and they're like, oh,
that could be close.

944
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:47,880
Let me let me rewind that and
look at that again.

945
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:50,480
You know, right, right.
And they already know if they're

946
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:53,360
going to challenge it until the
puck comes out of the zone.

947
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:57,360
So I don't I don't have this
much problem with that just

948
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:01,400
because if it was really offsize
and it and it shouldn't count.

949
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:06,400
But some of them like was that
was that in the Olympics where

950
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:09,320
there was an offside so you
couldn't even see it, You

951
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,720
couldn't even see where it was,
but you just were like, well, if

952
00:51:12,720 --> 00:51:15,840
you think about it where the
puck should be, even if you

953
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:18,840
can't see it, then they then
they call it off side anyway,

954
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:23,040
you know, Yeah, those, those do.
Those are a little madding.

955
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:26,840
But hey, you got the trade
deadline this week in the NHL.

956
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,600
Yeah, Now what do you think the
Penguins are going to do?

957
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:31,240
Do you think they're going to
make a move?

958
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:35,280
Do you think it's do you think
they approach it any differently

959
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:39,080
with Crosby being sidelined?
I don't, I don't think you can

960
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:43,520
replace Crosby even if you want
to get a Jason Robertson, which

961
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:45,120
he's probably, he's not
available.

962
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:49,320
Yeah, to be honest.
So no, I don't think they make a

963
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:51,000
big move.
I think the big moves going to

964
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:54,960
happen in the in the in the
offseason when they're going to

965
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:57,440
have the money to go out and
sign somebody big.

966
00:51:58,240 --> 00:52:00,920
There's no reason to.
The only thing, the thing that

967
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:04,000
they have that's really
interesting for the the Penguins

968
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:08,040
right now is they got a lot of
guys who are having good years,

969
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:09,480
but they're only a one year
contract.

970
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:12,160
Let's take Mantha for example.
Right.

971
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:14,280
Yeah.
Mantha's having a great season

972
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,800
and you know he's proven that.
He's a commodity and the only

973
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:20,640
reason they got him for cheap
was because he had a huge knee

974
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:22,840
injury.
Well, this guy's back.

975
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:27,040
He can play in NHL.
He's proven that they're not

976
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:29,840
going to sign him next year.
They they just aren't going to.

977
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:31,880
They caught lightning in a
bottle with him this year.

978
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:36,560
Do you trade him?
You know, he's playing so great

979
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:39,600
with, with Brazeau and Kendall
on the third line.

980
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:43,200
It's like that's the type of
that's the type of decision that

981
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:46,280
Dubis has to make.
And I trust that Dubis will be

982
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:48,640
the right do the right thing.
And if he wants to hold on to

983
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:53,720
him, I say I don't have any
problem with that because they

984
00:52:53,720 --> 00:52:56,280
don't really have somebody like
Mantha they can put in his

985
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:58,240
place.
They would they would I would

986
00:52:58,240 --> 00:52:59,920
think they would lose in that
trade.

987
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:03,600
So unless they went out and got
somebody like Mantha.

988
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:05,840
But why do that?
You know, you know, he's a good

989
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,560
fit.
So I don't I don't think so.

990
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:12,000
I the one, the couple things
that I did here was if they're

991
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:14,760
going to do something, they
should either get like a a third

992
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:18,760
line center, you know, someone
to give them more depth while

993
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:22,560
SIDS out so that they can move,
you know, kindle or you know,

994
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:25,440
because they, they tried Raquel
in the center position on the

995
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:28,520
first line.
He's dog shit up there as a set.

996
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:31,920
He can't win draws.
He looks out of position.

997
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:34,480
He doesn't know.
He doesn't know where to be on

998
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:36,960
the ice.
They got to get him back on the

999
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:38,400
wing.
And then if you're going to do

1000
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:42,880
that and you, let's say you move
Kindle up there, even if you put

1001
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:46,240
Tommy Novak up there, you, you,
you're stuck.

1002
00:53:46,240 --> 00:53:48,120
You got to you got to replace
them with somebody.

1003
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:52,520
And there are two guys out there
as as third line centers that

1004
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:55,080
they could get one's Charlie
Coyle.

1005
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:58,360
He plays for Columbus.
He used to play for Boston for a

1006
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:00,400
while.
He's in the last year of his

1007
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:05,920
contract with Columbus.
And they could also go get you

1008
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:11,240
like this one, Teddy Bluger.
Oh, bringing back the bluger.

1009
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:16,400
They could bring back Bluger.
He's only 1.8 million and

1010
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:19,360
probably would only cost him a
third rounder to go get Bluger.

1011
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:22,200
They might do something like
that.

1012
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:25,320
That doesn't I mean to give up a
third round pick to get some

1013
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:28,080
depth.
Bluger can can win draws.

1014
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:31,080
So, you know, I think you can
look at it that way.

1015
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:34,640
So that could that could
possibly happen.

1016
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:38,000
The other thing they might do is
go get a right-handed defenseman

1017
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:40,120
and there are a couple of those
guys out there.

1018
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:42,320
Tyler Myers, he plays for
Vancouver.

1019
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:46,200
He's an unrestricted free agent
after this year, actually after

1020
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:50,400
next year, he's 3,000,000, but
he would cost a second rounder

1021
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:54,880
and so would Conor Murphy.
He's playing for Chicago now.

1022
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:56,720
They're both right-handed
defenseman.

1023
00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:59,680
I don't think they're going to
go get a right-handed defenseman

1024
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:02,840
just because I think they're
going to hold out for Jack St.

1025
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:08,080
Ivany and or Dumba coming back
from injuries.

1026
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:11,760
And, you know, I think they're
just going to wait it out

1027
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:15,280
because right now they're doing
OK with Connor Clifton over

1028
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:17,320
there.
But Connor Clifton's great.

1029
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:20,760
I love him, but he's better in
small doses.

1030
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:24,800
If you got to play him every
night, I think I think he can

1031
00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:28,120
make too many mistakes.
Although he did get a nice goal

1032
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:30,280
the other night.
I think it was in that New

1033
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:34,920
Jersey Devil game.
So I don't think I don't see any

1034
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:38,400
big moves from the Penguins.
Maybe a couple small moves like

1035
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:42,520
that.
And Chris Schott is asking how

1036
00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:46,480
Crosby's injury is progressing
or what's the prognosis.

1037
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:48,680
You know, this is the craziest
thing.

1038
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:51,880
Like I heard somebody today, you
know, they were talking about

1039
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:55,160
the Olympics and how, you know,
stood, you know, man, I thought

1040
00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:58,120
he was going to come back and
then he came back and then now

1041
00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:00,360
he's not.
And they were basically saying

1042
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:03,840
they're just holding him out,
you know, so that he's 100%.

1043
00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:07,520
So he might come back sooner.
And then I've heard, well,

1044
00:56:07,720 --> 00:56:10,480
they're just, they're just
resting him and, and whenever

1045
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:13,320
he's 100% he'll be back.
And they're not giving a

1046
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:16,080
timetable.
So nobody knows.

1047
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:17,480
I mean, let's.
Face it, no.

1048
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:20,240
The one thing Mark Madden was
talking about on the show today,

1049
00:56:20,240 --> 00:56:23,680
he said he he sees Sid in the in
the in the press room, you know,

1050
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:26,720
during the games.
And, you know, I guess where he

1051
00:56:26,720 --> 00:56:30,160
sits is like way far away from
the from where everybody else

1052
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:31,960
sits.
And he was like, he was sitting

1053
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:33,280
there.
They showed a picture of him

1054
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:37,040
with his buddy Jack Johnson, I
guess during the New Jersey

1055
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:40,560
Devils game.
And Kevin Hayes was up there.

1056
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:43,760
But in the next game, he was
like sitting there by himself.

1057
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:48,080
And I was like, he's got to hate
that watching the game that he

1058
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:53,000
loves so much, you know, and his
injury probably is such that,

1059
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:57,400
you know, he can't play, he he
risks tearing it if he plays

1060
00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:00,480
now, right?
So, so that's why they're

1061
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:03,680
probably, that's why it's it's
speculation on my end that

1062
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:05,920
they're that they're holding
him, holding him out.

1063
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:11,440
So what how is it progressing?
I'd say it's progressing as well

1064
00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:14,160
as that type of injury can
progress.

1065
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:17,000
The thing is, he's never had
this injury before.

1066
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:20,520
So, and to your point, Chris
Chotta, he's not a spring

1067
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:24,680
chicken anymore.
So he's actually, you know, he

1068
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:29,160
he's he, he's going to need some
time to heal that puppy and

1069
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:34,240
until, until we really know
where he is when when you see

1070
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:38,240
him skating with the team with
the non contact injury, that

1071
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:40,080
usually means he's a week or two
away.

1072
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:43,160
So and he hasn't, he hasn't been
doing that yet.

1073
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:48,360
So I would say he's still on
pace, but I would say he's at

1074
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:52,280
least another three weeks away
from from making his way back

1075
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:55,200
into the lineup.
And that's fine when you can win

1076
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:58,200
5 out of 6 points, even if you
have to.

1077
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:00,800
You lose another goddamn
shootout loss.

1078
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:06,120
Pardon my language, they can't
ever win a shootout 9 What is

1079
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:08,280
it?
One and eight, now one and. 8

1080
00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:10,360
Remember when?
Remember when they used to win

1081
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:12,840
them all?
Yeah, back when they had.

1082
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:15,560
Colby Armstrong.
Colby Armstrong and they had

1083
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:17,840
Christensen, who was a shootout
phenom.

1084
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:20,600
I think he would, he would, he
would, he would make three out

1085
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:22,440
of four.
And before it was like the

1086
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:24,280
goalie was the problem.
Now the goalie's actually

1087
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:26,640
stopping some and we still can't
score.

1088
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:30,400
I mean, Mantha, when he went in
on that, on that one, he didn't

1089
00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:34,360
even get a shot off and, and
Chinikoff at least got a shot on

1090
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:36,400
goal, which was blocked by
Shisturkin.

1091
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:39,160
And then I think Tommy Novak
missed the missed the net

1092
00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:43,080
completely and he, he had to
make it just to send it to a

1093
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:45,280
fourth round.
But yeah, the Penguins are

1094
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:48,200
playing great.
I, I, I, the thing I love about

1095
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:51,320
this team is they've got a lot
of depth.

1096
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:55,240
They've got 420 goal scorers.
You know they could have as many

1097
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:59,280
as 8 or 920 goal scorers this
year if if everything worked

1098
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:02,120
well for them.
That's an that's some amazing

1099
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:04,000
depth that they never had
before.

1100
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:10,440
And boy, here's the thing.
They've put their self in such a

1101
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:13,560
good position.
If they lose 5 games in a row,

1102
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:17,000
which would be bad, they would
still be in a playoff spot.

1103
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:19,600
They would still be trending the
96 points for the.

1104
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:22,880
Season.
Yeah, so I I just think they've

1105
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:26,400
given themselves a lot of space
to to make a few to stumble a

1106
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:29,560
little bit here without Sid.
And I think they will most

1107
00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:34,040
likely when they hit the road
when they go out to Vegas and

1108
00:59:34,040 --> 00:59:37,640
they head out to Utah.
They do play in Boston tomorrow

1109
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:39,480
night.
That's going to be a tough one.

1110
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:43,080
Did the did Boston end up?
Yeah, Boston end up losing the

1111
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:45,920
Philly.
The other the other night.

1112
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:48,600
So, and that was, that was a
tight game.

1113
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:50,880
It was too long.
I think they they got the empty

1114
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:52,240
netter right.
Yeah, yeah.

1115
00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:57,520
So, so yeah, I I love what's
going on with the Penguins.

1116
00:59:57,560 --> 01:00:00,400
I don't see them making a big
move at the trade deadline.

1117
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:04,040
And let's see how this week the
great the, the fun thing about

1118
01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:07,240
this week for me is I get to go
to the game Thursday and

1119
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:09,200
Saturday.
So it's like back-to-back home

1120
01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:11,560
games.
So it's so much fun when you can

1121
01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:15,960
go back-to-back games because.
Is one against the Flyers?

1122
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:18,480
Is is.
Saturday, Saturday, after the

1123
01:00:18,480 --> 01:00:20,560
trade deadline.
I like to go to the after the

1124
01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:24,160
trade deadline game because
typically the team's a little

1125
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:26,920
bit different.
Sometimes they'll they, it

1126
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:29,160
doesn't look like it'll probably
be trending that way, at least

1127
01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:33,440
for for the Penguins.
I would imagine the Flyers are

1128
01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:35,320
probably going to sell off a
couple pieces.

1129
01:00:35,560 --> 01:00:38,840
I would think so, yeah.
But I mean, they're still in the

1130
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:40,880
hunt.
I mean, so they they don't want

1131
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:44,360
to sell off too much, but that's
it's so tough when you're in

1132
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:46,800
that position.
I mean the Penguins are I

1133
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:48,880
wouldn't say they're solidly in
a position.

1134
01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:51,960
I would say they were solidly in
a in a playoff position if they

1135
01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:55,960
had Sid, But there's just so
many teams chasing that, you

1136
01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:59,960
know, that wild card and, and
honestly, they're in the second

1137
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:02,720
spot if they drop.
And I think the Islanders right

1138
01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:07,000
behind them in the third spot,
the the, the first wild card

1139
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:10,760
spot is in the Atlantic and they
have almost as many points as we

1140
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:14,600
do.
So it's like those two wild card

1141
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:19,080
spots are not about metro teams,
they're about Atlantic teams.

1142
01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:22,560
And those Atlantic teams the
Penguins have trouble playing

1143
01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:24,920
this year.
So that's the problem.

1144
01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:27,600
The problem isn't that they're
in second place, which is why I

1145
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:30,440
never like to show where they
are in the standings.

1146
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:34,520
It's it's how many points the
wild card team has and they

1147
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:37,960
have, they have as much.
And I think maybe the first

1148
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:42,200
position maybe even has more
than the third position in the

1149
01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:44,160
metro.
So that's.

1150
01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:45,840
Would you?
Would you, Would you believe

1151
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:49,360
this?
You know, and I know you, I know

1152
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:51,000
you.
You pretty much know this.

1153
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:55,920
But like the thing that's just
so ridiculous about the hockey

1154
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:58,000
point system.
Yeah.

1155
01:01:58,280 --> 01:01:59,880
There's what?
How many teams?

1156
01:01:59,880 --> 01:02:02,840
Is it 30 teams or 32?
32.

1157
01:02:03,200 --> 01:02:08,080
OK, so there's 32 teams, there's
only sticks with a losing

1158
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:11,240
record.
And that's not true.

1159
01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:14,200
How's that even possible?
You know what I mean?

1160
01:02:14,520 --> 01:02:17,560
Like is it How?
Because it a loser point, right?

1161
01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:20,640
Take that third column and add
it into the losses, right?

1162
01:02:20,720 --> 01:02:21,600
Right.
I bet you have.

1163
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:25,440
You probably have right teams
with winning records then.

1164
01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:27,360
Right.
Right, It's the other point.

1165
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:30,600
The other is, is equally,
equally true, right?

1166
01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:35,960
The the Penguins, the Penguins,
right now, their record is 30

1167
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:40,160
and 2030 and 29.
No, no, that's not true. 31 and

1168
01:02:40,160 --> 01:02:45,440
31 and 28.
But it's but it shows us 3115

1169
01:02:45,440 --> 01:02:48,720
and 13.
That's right, right, Right.

1170
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:51,880
Right.
So it's not right, you know, no,

1171
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:55,000
that that's that's the crazy
thing about that damn loser

1172
01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:57,200
point.
That's why that but they love

1173
01:02:57,200 --> 01:02:59,640
it.
The NHL loves it, right, because

1174
01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:01,440
they're like, man, look at all
these teams.

1175
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:03,480
We have so many great teams this
year.

1176
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:07,520
But if you if and the Penguins
are probably the the the most

1177
01:03:07,520 --> 01:03:09,720
egregious with that loser point.
I think they have 11.

1178
01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:17,040
They have, let's see, the. 3rd
column which I don't like to do.

1179
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:18,760
You mean the overtime loss
column?

1180
01:03:18,760 --> 01:03:21,880
Yeah, 13.
Oh yeah, 13.

1181
01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:26,040
So there's 13 points right there
that they, you add, you know,

1182
01:03:26,040 --> 01:03:28,480
you add in there, they're,
they're a loser, but you'd add

1183
01:03:28,480 --> 01:03:33,520
those add 13 points on to their
31, you know, they're 31 * 2.

1184
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:37,160
There are two other There are
two other teams that have 14.

1185
01:03:37,520 --> 01:03:39,480
Yeah, overtime loss points.
Avalanche.

1186
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:41,400
Avalanche got to be up there
still.

1187
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:46,520
It's the Vegas Knights, Vegas
Knights of 14 and the LA Kings

1188
01:03:46,520 --> 01:03:49,400
of 14.
Oh my gosh, that's crazy.

1189
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:52,400
That's just crazy.
That and, and the fact that we

1190
01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:55,360
have Oh yeah, I think so We have
what, 13 you said?

1191
01:03:55,840 --> 01:03:58,920
Yeah.
Yeah, and like 9 or 10 of them

1192
01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:02,720
are actual, you know, losses in
in overtime or in shootouts,

1193
01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:04,760
right?
I think we're literally we're

1194
01:04:04,760 --> 01:04:07,880
one in eight in shootouts.
So only wins.

1195
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:11,360
We only have one win in the
shootout in nine in nine

1196
01:04:11,360 --> 01:04:13,440
attempts.
That's just ridiculous.

1197
01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:15,240
And that's the thing.
That's the thing about playoff

1198
01:04:15,240 --> 01:04:16,320
hockey, right?
Yeah.

1199
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:19,440
In playoff hockey, you're not
going to play it overtime,

1200
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:20,720
you're not going to have a
shootout.

1201
01:04:21,200 --> 01:04:24,240
And the Pens are Penguins are
pretty solid, 5 on five.

1202
01:04:24,240 --> 01:04:27,040
So you would think that a lot of
those games could be winners,

1203
01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:29,600
but you don't know you.
Don't know.

1204
01:04:29,600 --> 01:04:32,880
You don't know cuz you're only
not just doing it, yeah.

1205
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:37,200
Yeah, you just don't know.
Well, Mark, all right, finally,

1206
01:04:37,200 --> 01:04:41,600
we reached that time where it's
time to tell us what we're

1207
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:43,280
watching.
Would you like to tell the folks

1208
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:46,240
what that means?
I will if you haven't seen the

1209
01:04:46,240 --> 01:04:49,920
show before.
This is the point of the show

1210
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:55,120
where we give back to you.
You give us your love by

1211
01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:59,640
watching our program.
And we know that you do more

1212
01:04:59,640 --> 01:05:02,680
than just watch our program.
You watch TV, you watch

1213
01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:06,120
streaming, you watch shows,
right?

1214
01:05:06,120 --> 01:05:09,000
Series, movies, you watch a lot
of stuff.

1215
01:05:09,080 --> 01:05:11,200
And it's always hard to pick,
right?

1216
01:05:11,560 --> 01:05:18,160
So many things to choose from.
Hulu, Amazon Prime, HBO Max,

1217
01:05:18,240 --> 01:05:23,120
Netflix, it just goes on and on.
It's on and on and on.

1218
01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:26,320
And who wants to sit around
watching trailer after trailer?

1219
01:05:26,720 --> 01:05:30,600
I mean, my wife, she can't
handle it when I start going

1220
01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:33,640
from show to show, she's like,
stop it, stop it.

1221
01:05:34,760 --> 01:05:37,080
That's what she does.
She can't take it.

1222
01:05:37,320 --> 01:05:39,600
So so.
Aggravating something?

1223
01:05:40,320 --> 01:05:43,600
It's so aggravating, but we save
you from that.

1224
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:47,280
We what we do is we watch a
show, it has to be in its

1225
01:05:47,280 --> 01:05:48,960
entirety.
At least you have to watch at

1226
01:05:48,960 --> 01:05:52,320
least a full season of the show
to comment.

1227
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:54,720
And you know, if it's a movie,
you have to watch the whole

1228
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:56,640
movie.
We'll give you a 2 thumbs up.

1229
01:05:56,760 --> 01:06:02,600
If it's a lock winner, go ahead
and watch it 2 thumbs down if

1230
01:06:02,600 --> 01:06:06,120
it's a stay away.
And if you didn't listen to us,

1231
01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:08,080
then you can only blame
yourself.

1232
01:06:09,160 --> 01:06:11,760
Sometimes we'll give you a thumb
up, thumb down, which you know,

1233
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:14,800
might mean like, you might like
this if you're into science

1234
01:06:14,800 --> 01:06:17,840
fiction, but if not, you'd
probably hate it, right?

1235
01:06:18,440 --> 01:06:20,480
That is what we're watching.
Yeah.

1236
01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:22,000
So who who's going to start
today?

1237
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:23,440
You want to start.
I think I'm going to take the

1238
01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:25,040
lead on.
This OK, you take the lead.

1239
01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:26,240
What do you what do you been
watching?

1240
01:06:26,360 --> 01:06:28,120
So this is what I've been
watching.

1241
01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:32,200
I have been watching the Queen
of Chess.

1242
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:34,000
Have you seen this?
It's on.

1243
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:36,000
Netflix I have not.
I have.

1244
01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:41,680
I saw the that great, Oh yeah,
great series.

1245
01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:44,160
Queen's Gambit.
Queen's Gambit, Yeah.

1246
01:06:44,280 --> 01:06:47,080
Yep, Yep.
This is similar to that, only

1247
01:06:47,080 --> 01:06:49,080
it's a real life story.
OK.

1248
01:06:50,240 --> 01:06:57,160
This is a story about a woman
named Judith Polgar and she was

1249
01:06:57,240 --> 01:07:01,760
a phenom chess player in Hungary
back in the 1980s.

1250
01:07:02,400 --> 01:07:06,360
Now the problem with being a
phenom in Hungary in the 1980s

1251
01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:11,120
is it was communist.
She couldn't go anywhere to

1252
01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:12,600
play.
The only place she could go to

1253
01:07:12,600 --> 01:07:15,760
play was Russia.
Well, it just so happens there

1254
01:07:15,760 --> 01:07:18,880
was a guy playing there named,
you might remember Garry

1255
01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:24,280
Kasparov, the all time greatest
chess champion in the world.

1256
01:07:24,960 --> 01:07:27,440
The only problem?
Bobby Fischer, not Bobby

1257
01:07:27,440 --> 01:07:30,640
Fischer.
No, Garry Kasparov, he, he, he,

1258
01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:37,280
he is by far the best and and
the the problem was women

1259
01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:39,680
weren't allowed to play against
men.

1260
01:07:40,200 --> 01:07:43,880
Right, right.
So she only could play in in the

1261
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:46,320
women's tournaments and she
would kill everybody.

1262
01:07:46,320 --> 01:07:48,160
She would absolutely just murder
people.

1263
01:07:48,400 --> 01:07:51,360
She would just fly through.
And the way she did, it was her,

1264
01:07:51,560 --> 01:07:57,120
her dad basically put her and
her two other sisters, I

1265
01:07:57,120 --> 01:07:59,200
believe, I know she had one.
I think she had two other

1266
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:02,520
sisters.
Basically said, we don't have

1267
01:08:02,520 --> 01:08:05,760
any money, but you need to learn
a talent and instead of

1268
01:08:05,760 --> 01:08:08,560
learning, you know, how to play
the flute or the violin.

1269
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:13,440
He got a chess board out and he
he basically made her learn

1270
01:08:13,520 --> 01:08:15,680
every single chess move on the
board.

1271
01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:17,960
And they're all these, they're
all these scenarios.

1272
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:20,399
I don't know, I didn't know this
about chess, but there are like

1273
01:08:20,399 --> 01:08:22,720
these scenarios like the Berlin
defense.

1274
01:08:23,080 --> 01:08:26,279
And.
You know, there's a, there's an

1275
01:08:26,279 --> 01:08:30,279
Italian one where you attack
somebody's Sicilian attack or

1276
01:08:30,279 --> 01:08:33,560
something like that.
I'm, I'm sounding stupid because

1277
01:08:33,560 --> 01:08:36,560
I don't play chess, but I, I
have played chess before, but

1278
01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:39,359
not like this, right?
You, you know, when somebody's

1279
01:08:39,359 --> 01:08:41,840
making a move, what you need to
do the counter it, etcetera,

1280
01:08:41,840 --> 01:08:45,680
etcetera.
And she basically memorized all

1281
01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:47,640
these moves.
So she was, she was brilliant

1282
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:49,880
about it.
And she said in order for her to

1283
01:08:49,880 --> 01:08:52,960
learn new things, she needed to
play against men.

1284
01:08:52,960 --> 01:08:57,200
Will finally she was able to go
to Russia and play against

1285
01:08:57,640 --> 01:09:00,120
Kasparov.
And she wasn't able to beat him

1286
01:09:00,120 --> 01:09:03,080
for the longest time.
And in the end, she finally gets

1287
01:09:03,080 --> 01:09:06,479
to play him.
And after drawing with him,

1288
01:09:06,479 --> 01:09:09,880
meaning, you know, the the game
has got tied for a while, she

1289
01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:12,359
finally beat him.
But it was only after she got

1290
01:09:12,359 --> 01:09:15,960
married and kind of went away
from the things that her dad

1291
01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:20,240
taught her and her husband said
you can gain more points by

1292
01:09:20,240 --> 01:09:23,040
actually drawing games and you
move up in the standings.

1293
01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:25,399
I guess it's kind of like the
loser point, right?

1294
01:09:26,200 --> 01:09:29,240
Like if you draw you, you can
move up.

1295
01:09:29,399 --> 01:09:32,040
But if you lose a game to
somebody and that's what you

1296
01:09:32,040 --> 01:09:34,000
would do.
She would like go out of her,

1297
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:35,920
you know, comfort zone and do
something stupid.

1298
01:09:35,920 --> 01:09:37,279
And she would lose games that
way.

1299
01:09:37,600 --> 01:09:41,600
So she so she drew to the point
where she worked her way up so

1300
01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:44,520
that she could finally, you
know, play with the men.

1301
01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:49,000
And it's, it's a really
interesting life lesson in, you

1302
01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:53,200
know, do you really want to have
your children, you know, play

1303
01:09:53,720 --> 01:09:57,560
chess for 20 years?
And, you know, it's kind of like

1304
01:09:57,760 --> 01:10:01,320
I remember, I remember people
saying this, like my kids played

1305
01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:04,600
soccer for, you know,
competitively for 15 years.

1306
01:10:04,840 --> 01:10:07,400
And then when they got so then
when they got to college, they

1307
01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:10,280
didn't do anything.
We spent thousands of dollars on

1308
01:10:10,280 --> 01:10:14,000
travel team and this, that and
the other thing, you know, and,

1309
01:10:14,040 --> 01:10:17,800
and it's like, it's like, and,
and they asked her the question

1310
01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:21,440
like, you know, do you think the
things your dad did, you know,

1311
01:10:21,440 --> 01:10:25,080
to teach you chess were, you
know, did you enjoy them?

1312
01:10:25,080 --> 01:10:27,440
And she just kind of laughs and
she doesn't even answer the

1313
01:10:27,440 --> 01:10:29,360
question.
No.

1314
01:10:29,360 --> 01:10:33,520
Is this Is this a series?
It's no, it's it's, it's no.

1315
01:10:33,520 --> 01:10:36,320
It's documentary.
It's, it's a documentary, but

1316
01:10:36,320 --> 01:10:38,600
it's like an hour and 25 minutes
or.

1317
01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:39,680
Something like that.
OK.

1318
01:10:39,760 --> 01:10:41,880
And it just goes through the
whole, it goes through her

1319
01:10:41,880 --> 01:10:46,200
whole, she's still living, but
it, it kind of goes through her,

1320
01:10:46,360 --> 01:10:48,640
her lifestyle.
And, you know, it's kind of a

1321
01:10:49,200 --> 01:10:52,360
it's kind of AI don't want to
say women's Lib thing, but I

1322
01:10:52,360 --> 01:10:55,480
mean, it, it shows the
empowerment that she had and the

1323
01:10:55,480 --> 01:10:58,960
effect that she had on all these
women coming up playing chess

1324
01:10:58,960 --> 01:11:00,480
now.
They were like, you know, they

1325
01:11:00,480 --> 01:11:03,960
all wanted to emulate her
because she was so good at it.

1326
01:11:03,960 --> 01:11:06,800
And and she broke through the
ceiling of being able to play

1327
01:11:06,800 --> 01:11:10,360
with men and now men and women
play all the time together.

1328
01:11:10,360 --> 01:11:13,240
It's it's really not not a big
deal for that to happen.

1329
01:11:13,560 --> 01:11:18,880
So yeah, I give a 2 thumbs up.
Queen of Chess on Netflix.

1330
01:11:19,120 --> 01:11:21,560
If you got an hour and a half
you don't know what to watch.

1331
01:11:22,040 --> 01:11:24,200
I give it 2 thumbs up.
All right.

1332
01:11:24,480 --> 01:11:26,360
How about you, Mark?
What have you been watching?

1333
01:11:26,920 --> 01:11:31,680
I have been watching Vikings
now, have you?

1334
01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:34,840
Have you seen Vikings, Steve?
I would think that this might be

1335
01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:37,200
one that you and Klein have
engaged in.

1336
01:11:37,840 --> 01:11:41,720
I believe that.
I believe that TD has talked

1337
01:11:41,720 --> 01:11:46,880
about Vikings, but I have not.
I have not so refresh my memory

1338
01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:48,360
on.
Vikings So.

1339
01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:51,400
So here's the thing.
Now Vikings is.

1340
01:11:51,520 --> 01:11:54,520
Where is this anyways?
Scandinavia.

1341
01:11:54,880 --> 01:11:56,600
Oh no.
Where can you find?

1342
01:11:56,600 --> 01:11:57,080
Vikings.
Oh wow.

1343
01:11:59,360 --> 01:12:01,240
You can find Vikings in.
Scandinavia.

1344
01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:03,920
Yeah, that's true.
It's on.

1345
01:12:03,920 --> 01:12:05,760
It's on Netflix.
It's on Netflix.

1346
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:07,920
OK, and you know, like here's
the deal.

1347
01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:10,800
I, I wanted to show for myself,
you know, that, you know, it was

1348
01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:12,920
going to be too gory for, for
the wife Amy.

1349
01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:16,560
And I wanted one that I, it
could take, it could take me a

1350
01:12:16,560 --> 01:12:21,640
long time to get through right.
And so Vikings seem like the

1351
01:12:21,640 --> 01:12:25,840
perfect, the perfect deal
because first of all, it's six

1352
01:12:25,840 --> 01:12:28,360
seasons of Vikings.
And then?

1353
01:12:28,600 --> 01:12:30,920
I think I saw one seasons one
through three.

1354
01:12:30,920 --> 01:12:32,640
You watched.
Yeah, I watched seasons one

1355
01:12:32,640 --> 01:12:34,920
through 3, so I'm like halfway
through the Vikings and then a.

1356
01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:35,880
Lot.
Yeah.

1357
01:12:35,880 --> 01:12:39,800
And then after, and actually, I
think the first three seasons

1358
01:12:39,800 --> 01:12:43,600
are 10 episodes each and then
seasons 4-5 and six I think are

1359
01:12:43,600 --> 01:12:45,440
all 20 episodes each.
What?

1360
01:12:45,800 --> 01:12:48,360
Yeah.
And then it goes on to Vikings,

1361
01:12:48,360 --> 01:12:51,280
Valhalla, and there's three
seasons of that.

1362
01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:55,720
I think it's still going OK.
So I figured, you know, for

1363
01:12:55,720 --> 01:13:00,320
this, for this to be going on
this long, it's got, it's got to

1364
01:13:00,320 --> 01:13:04,440
be really good, right.
And here's kind of what I like

1365
01:13:04,440 --> 01:13:08,920
about Vikings.
See, I'm not the Game of Thrones

1366
01:13:08,920 --> 01:13:12,560
type.
And and mainly that's because I

1367
01:13:12,560 --> 01:13:15,160
I don't, I'm not big on things
that aren't real.

1368
01:13:15,760 --> 01:13:18,720
I'm not, I'm not into the
Dragons, you know, and stuff

1369
01:13:18,720 --> 01:13:20,200
like that.
So not.

1370
01:13:20,200 --> 01:13:26,080
A big Star Wars guy.
I mean, well, I know that that's

1371
01:13:26,080 --> 01:13:27,600
not real.
You know what I mean?

1372
01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:28,720
Oh, OK.
Yeah, like, like.

1373
01:13:28,880 --> 01:13:34,040
I, I don't, I don't like sort of
like mixing normal life with,

1374
01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:37,680
you know, like medieval.
Life with the Game of Thrones I

1375
01:13:37,720 --> 01:13:38,800
got.
You right, right, right.

1376
01:13:38,840 --> 01:13:41,080
So, you know, the thing about I
like about Vikings now, there's

1377
01:13:41,080 --> 01:13:43,800
a little bit of kind of like a
mystical side to it because, you

1378
01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:45,720
know, they believe in their
gods, right?

1379
01:13:45,760 --> 01:13:49,680
You know, Thor and, you know,
stuff like that, Odin and that

1380
01:13:49,680 --> 01:13:53,320
kind of stuff.
But mainly it's just really kind

1381
01:13:53,320 --> 01:13:57,120
of more going back to that time
where, you know, basically what

1382
01:13:57,120 --> 01:14:00,920
they did was they just kind of
like, raided places and stole

1383
01:14:00,920 --> 01:14:03,280
their fortune.
Right, Right.

1384
01:14:03,280 --> 01:14:04,840
Yeah.
Get in the boat.

1385
01:14:04,840 --> 01:14:07,440
And let's go take over some port
city somewhere.

1386
01:14:08,120 --> 01:14:11,760
Right, exactly.
But it's it's actually really

1387
01:14:11,760 --> 01:14:13,840
good.
I mean, the characters are, are

1388
01:14:13,840 --> 01:14:17,680
really good like that, that
woman there, her name is like

1389
01:14:18,040 --> 01:14:23,000
Lagarthur and like she's like,
you know, she's probably like

1390
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:25,240
the coolest woman Viking there
is.

1391
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:27,240
Yeah, she looks.
Hot too.

1392
01:14:27,360 --> 01:14:32,320
And then the the other guy there
is, is Ragnar Lofbrok.

1393
01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:35,880
Yeah, he's got, he's a bald.
Guy with a nice big burly beard.

1394
01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:36,400
I see.
Yeah.

1395
01:14:36,400 --> 01:14:40,000
But he's and he's kind of like
like the the smartest of them

1396
01:14:40,000 --> 01:14:43,720
all and the greatest warrior.
And then behind him there is his

1397
01:14:43,720 --> 01:14:45,680
brother who's like a great
warrior.

1398
01:14:45,680 --> 01:14:50,520
But he's always at some point
going against his brother, yeah.

1399
01:14:50,920 --> 01:14:53,320
He's got the great hair and he's
got the long sword.

1400
01:14:53,400 --> 01:14:55,760
I see it, yeah.
Yeah, and and here's the thing,

1401
01:14:56,080 --> 01:14:59,080
it it's it's good.
I mean, I wouldn't, I wouldn't

1402
01:14:59,080 --> 01:15:04,200
say that it's exceptional, but
but what I would say is it it's

1403
01:15:04,200 --> 01:15:10,040
always an entertaining watch.
Looks like looks like the the

1404
01:15:10,160 --> 01:15:14,600
the Kleinster here TD looks like
he says he likes he likes

1405
01:15:14,600 --> 01:15:16,560
Vikings.
Yeah, I'm telling you, I know, I

1406
01:15:16,560 --> 01:15:17,480
know.
He he did.

1407
01:15:17,480 --> 01:15:18,960
He did a review of it on the
show.

1408
01:15:19,080 --> 01:15:21,160
One of these.
Times, yeah, but but I will tell

1409
01:15:21,160 --> 01:15:24,520
you I'm interested to see where
it kind of goes from here

1410
01:15:24,520 --> 01:15:26,040
because.
Yeah, you're only halfway

1411
01:15:26,040 --> 01:15:27,640
through because.
I'm halfway through, but here's

1412
01:15:27,640 --> 01:15:29,600
the thing.
I, I was kind of like waiting

1413
01:15:29,880 --> 01:15:35,440
and waiting and waiting for like
something amazing to happen.

1414
01:15:35,560 --> 01:15:38,680
You know what I mean?
You know, to, to really cement

1415
01:15:38,680 --> 01:15:44,000
it into a show that could become
one of the top shows and the,

1416
01:15:44,320 --> 01:15:48,640
the finale of season 3.
I finally got that moment.

1417
01:15:48,760 --> 01:15:50,240
Nice.
Yeah, it was.

1418
01:15:50,240 --> 01:15:51,320
It was.
Very exciting.

1419
01:15:51,320 --> 01:15:54,080
It was just like a total, total
surprise.

1420
01:15:54,080 --> 01:15:58,160
Great episode.
And so I'm I'm pretty excited.

1421
01:15:58,160 --> 01:16:00,200
I'm I'm pumped.
Well, I'm a game.

1422
01:16:00,200 --> 01:16:01,880
I'm a Game of Thrones guy,
right?

1423
01:16:02,480 --> 01:16:04,960
And I'm currently watching A
Night of the Seven Kingdoms.

1424
01:16:04,960 --> 01:16:08,080
It's not over yet, so I can't
give a review, but I will be

1425
01:16:08,080 --> 01:16:12,760
given a review once it's over.
And they do the same thing.

1426
01:16:12,760 --> 01:16:15,280
It's kind of like slow.
You're into the character

1427
01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:18,160
development, you like what's
going on, but you need

1428
01:16:18,160 --> 01:16:20,720
something.
There's got to be something.

1429
01:16:20,720 --> 01:16:23,640
A big battle.
You know, somebody's got to kill

1430
01:16:23,640 --> 01:16:27,480
somebody, somebody's got to do
something, and you're just like

1431
01:16:27,480 --> 01:16:29,760
waiting for it.
When it does, when it finally

1432
01:16:29,760 --> 01:16:32,480
happens, you're always like, oh,
that was worth the wait.

1433
01:16:32,480 --> 01:16:34,280
Hundreds.
Right, exactly.

1434
01:16:34,560 --> 01:16:37,080
And Chris chatter here.
How long are the episodes of

1435
01:16:37,080 --> 01:16:39,200
Vikings?
They're, you know, like it, it's

1436
01:16:39,200 --> 01:16:41,240
sort of like a mix.
Like they're, you know, like

1437
01:16:41,320 --> 01:16:45,040
it's there's somewhere between
like, you know, 45 to 50

1438
01:16:45,040 --> 01:16:45,640
minutes.
I guess.

1439
01:16:45,640 --> 01:16:48,720
I I guess I'd say that's about
right. 45 to 50 minutes.

1440
01:16:50,120 --> 01:16:52,840
But yeah, it's, it's, it's a,
it's a real good show, real good

1441
01:16:52,840 --> 01:16:54,320
show.
I mean, especially if you if you

1442
01:16:54,320 --> 01:16:56,240
like that kind of medieval type
stuff.

1443
01:16:57,360 --> 01:17:03,040
So Mark is giving Vikings on
Netflix 2 thumbs up on the 1st 3

1444
01:17:03,040 --> 01:17:06,920
Series, three seasons, first
three seasons and he's gonna

1445
01:17:06,920 --> 01:17:08,800
he's gonna see what happens with
the other two.

1446
01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:11,240
Look forward to hearing what's
going on with that.

1447
01:17:12,200 --> 01:17:15,040
And with that, guess what,
that's.

1448
01:17:15,120 --> 01:17:18,560
It.
Made it to the end of the show.

1449
01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:20,400
You've made it to the end of the
show.

1450
01:17:20,480 --> 01:17:25,880
Thank you for sticking around.
We have just killed another one

1451
01:17:25,880 --> 01:17:29,080
hour and 20 minutes.
Sports and entertainment.

1452
01:17:29,680 --> 01:17:33,400
Thank you for speaking around.
You know, we'll be back.

1453
01:17:33,600 --> 01:17:35,840
Hopefully TV shows up next week.
What do you think?

1454
01:17:36,040 --> 01:17:38,520
Cancel that.
I don't know.

1455
01:17:38,520 --> 01:17:46,240
I'd say it's 5050 at best.
Well until then, hey, enjoy your

1456
01:17:46,240 --> 01:17:48,360
week.
I'll see you tomorrow night if

1457
01:17:48,360 --> 01:17:51,840
you're going to kick one day
mark, you have a great week.

1458
01:17:51,840 --> 01:17:54,680
I'll see you around late.
All right, all right.

1459
01:17:55,480 --> 01:17:58,000
See you.
Goodnight everyone.