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00:00You're laying it out just cuz you know I'm in Pittsburgh and
00:02you want me to bring up the Pirates and
00:04whether they should do something at the deadline crash.
00:06Look, you've been here.
00:08You know how thirsty the fans are for competitive baseball, right?
00:13And we've all seen what it's like when they do get it.
00:16Like they go bananas.
00:17Think of the Johnny Cueto game, right, in 2013.
00:21And they feel like they're on the cusp of it again.
00:23I mentioned since mid-May what the teams like the Cardinals have done.
00:28The Pirates are right there.
00:29They're 31 and 26 since that point in time, too.
00:33Playing some of the best baseball since Skeens was called up.
00:36Is it just the Skeens effect or not?
00:38Fans wanna find out.
00:39They wanna find out if ownership will go in on a bat.
00:43You mentioned the Red Sox needing some pitching.
00:45The Pirates need some bats.
00:47Is that a team that you think maybe also similarly backs off and says,
00:52yeah, you know what, our board up Jake Hassan made a great comparison yesterday
00:57when I talked about the Pirates at 5-1 to make the playoffs.
00:59He said, no, this is the 2022 Orioles.
01:02This is a team that's still a year away and everybody knows it.
01:05They're gonna put up a great fight down the stretch, but
01:08just come up just a little bit short.
01:10Is that what the Pirates are this year?
01:12Or can they actually be a part of this conversation if they go in and
01:15do something at the deadline?
01:18I think they absolutely have to do something at the deadline.
01:22And I have seen, because I saw the first rebuild,
01:26I played in the minor leagues with those guys that came up, made that team,
01:31what they were, the Andrew McCutcheons, the Neil Walkers, the Pedro Alvarez,
01:36the Garrett Cole, then you supplemented it.
01:39You supplemented it strategically with a Russell Martin.
01:43You go out and you get your pieces at the trade deadlines.
01:49Justin Morneau, Gabby Sanchez, guys that are like, okay,
01:53well, I don't know why we didn't go bigger.
01:56They're never gonna go bigger.
01:58That is not the fan's fault.
02:00That is not the player's fault.
02:01It's really not even the front office's fault.
02:04It is the ownership fault for not saying, okay, this is the guy.
02:09To me, and I know the Mets are in it, so I want you to think in this ilk,
02:14if the Mets weren't in it, Pete Alonso to the Pirates to play first base
02:20is so doable, and I talked to Pete a little while ago.
02:26He wants to stay in New York.
02:28So I'm not saying that Pete Alonso is the guy that they're gonna go get.
02:32I'm saying first base is a position, and I love Rowdy Tellez.
02:36Rowdy Tellez is one of our guests on foul territory all the time,
02:41one of my friends, a great laugh, a great leader in that clubhouse.
02:46You don't have to get rid of Rowdy Tellez.
02:49You have to think about how can we get a Pete Alonso type of bat?
02:53And what that costs us will be a high price, but
02:58it's going to push this offense over.
03:01It's going to give this offense that already has some swag, and
03:05it already has a leader in Brian Reynolds.
03:08It already has elite defense at a keystone position at third base,
03:13in key Brian Hayes, and you supplement it with a guy who's going to be
03:18a fierce piece of that lineup that you have to navigate around.
03:22And unfortunately, I don't have a name for you right now.
03:25And I don't think Jesse Winker blips my radar at all for
03:30Pittsburgh having a Quato game.
03:33But you get that piece in the lineup, and you do what it takes to get it.
03:38Then you have another blackout in Pittsburgh.
03:41You have another blackout by the river, shiver by the river,
03:44whatever you want to call it.
03:46Because that first wild card game,
03:48because I don't think they're going to get the division.
03:50That first wild card game, when they're hosting a game, and
03:53Paul Skeens is on the mound, that place is going to crumble.
03:58It is going, if there was a roof, it would blow off.