Our Takeaways from a Big 4-3 Win over the Brewers

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We're giving away some sandwiches tonight, so drop those hashtag raises in chat because the Pirates win their fourth straight against the Brewers.

They are back in the win column yet again, and vibes are high. How are you doing tonight, Doug?

I'm excited. I wish we could play the Brewers every game. Four straight against the Brewers. that's just great.

as always, it's not an easy win. It's not a sit back and relax win, but it's a win. The important thing is it's a win.

So, yeah, I'm excited. Let's talk about it.

Yeah. what a weird, bizarre world season where we're like, yeah, let's play the Brewers more often, right?

Yeah.

That never happens. Like, no one, we're never like, before it's like, going to Milwaukee is like, I think we used to call it the House of Horrors.

House of Horrors, yeah.

But now it's the House of Horwitz, my friend. It's the House of Horwitz.

Nice.

Thank you for setting me up.

This is why we pay Doug the big bucks here.

No, just a really good team win.

Pitching, I thought, was excellent overall tonight.

It didn't matter. The Pirates didn't really hit all that well today.

the Pirates strike out 13 times today and still managed to pull out a pretty solid victory.

It really, outside of one play, which we will get to tonight, I felt the Pirates were pretty easily the better team all throughout today's game.

Yeah. it's what it looked like. you look at, that's the problem with Milwaukee.

You look at them and you're like, they don't look that good, but they just do so much right.

And if it's, in the rare games that they don't do so much right, it's like, you could take advantage of them.

And that's what we did. Bubba pitched pretty well, right?

Spencer Horwitz was welcome back, you know.

Valdez, three walks. I just love his patience at the plate, you know.

Yeah.

And Andy's, Andy, it's so, I'm so happy to have Andy playing, so.

Yeah, the Bucs are getting healthy, aren't they?

So, yeah, I think it's a good segue.

First, we'll get to this $5 from Steel Dog.

Hopefully his performance in the last, in the last, makes Montgomery their official closer.

Yeah, we've talked about Montgomery before.

so good.

And he was, he was fantastic tonight.

Looked amazing.

Just exactly what you want from an elite shutdown pitcher.

Excellent stuff.

We will get to him later, though.

He's going to be toward the end of the show, but excellent stuff.

Thank you for the super chat.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But let's talk about some of the offense, because the offense wasn't great tonight.

But they do take advantage of facing Brandon Sprout, who has not been very good.

Brandon Sprout only goes three innings tonight because he is chased after three innings.

Because of a Spencer Horwitz, bases clearing double.

And, man, just, we missed him so much.

You could, the Pirates desperately needed some offensive spark today.

And Spencer Horwitz is exactly that.

He comes into the third inning.

He gets a, he works a nice count.

And he makes a beautiful bases clearing double.

and it propels the Pirates to victory.

But the Pirates getting healthy is so big for this team going forward.

Right.

there's probably some frustration among some fans that we didn't do, other than the bullpen acquisitions today that we didn't do much.

But, you've got Spencer coming back.

Andy has just got back.

Cruz is coming back.

Connor will be coming back.

Ryan O'Hearn will eventually be coming back.

It's like, you're almost extending your trade deadline, right?

if Cruz gets here in a week or so, that's a pretty good addition, you know?

So, I, and I, and I think that's what they're counting on.

again, the Pirates are not ever going to be able to overextend or overspend or just say, Hey, we can add Tarek Skubel just to keep him away from the other team.

that's not the position we'll ever be in.

So, yeah, so it was great to get Spencer back.

He is such a good hitter.

and he's a good defensive first baseman and just a consistent, steady presence on the team.

I think we always underrate him and, I think he is a huge part of the offense, a huge part of the success that they're going to have this year.

Yeah.

like it just feels so good because I think especially the last couple of weeks, it was disappointing to see the offensive lineup come out.

Every single time.

And like, there wasn't a whole lot of guys, like you were really confident could get on base on a regular basis.

Spencer Horwitz is one of those guys.

he only gets one hit tonight, but it was the biggest hit of the night exactly when it was needed.

and yeah, he's not a flashy hitter by any stretch of the imagination.

he didn't hit like an amazing grand slam, but I, it was such a breath of fresh air, especially considering the team hadn't been very good with our underscoring position

recently, or as you alluded to, I was a little frustrated that they didn't get anyone at the deadline today to help supplement this offense, particularly against lefty pitching.

I think even just like one bat in would have been like an amazing thing to get, but you are correct.

There is, there was nothing on the market that is better than getting your 800 OPS bats back and healthy.

And Spencer Horwitz is one of those dudes.

Absolutely.

exactly.

It's just the way the pirates operate.

we had a super chat from Dean Horwitz.

Camelo looked really solid.

I think he's going to be a really important piece to this bullpen down the stretch.

the pirates certainly think so.

they went out and fired him.

it's been two outings so far, clearly better than some of the guys we've been running out there.

So, just by having a pulse and look, he had a high area, but he was pitching a Yankee stadium coming to the national league and getting out of Yankee stadium, usually it drops about another run off the RA.

So I think he'll be a little more effective here than he was, in a Yankee stadium in New York.

it's early and we've got a bunch of new guys, a bunch of new stuff to jumble around.

And, it looks like Carmen will be going back to the rotation.

if he decides, it's really, but, if I had to guess, I think he will decide to go back.

Yeah, that's, I guess too.

but yeah, so yeah, it's hard to make any predictions because the pirates never do any of the things that you think they'll do.

like I said, it's looked like they've been grooming, Mason Montgomery to be the closer, but now you've got Weaver and you've got, yeah, who knows?

So, I'll hold off on making any proclamations about what I think they're going to do because, they'll mix and match and, hopefully figure it out effectively.

Yeah.

And I just want to continue the trend of like the offensive acquisitions through and coming back from injury, because you mentioned Endy Rodríguez who gets a run score today.

three for four gets one of them off a lefty today.

Just a fantastic day from Andy.

and Ben Cherington sure loves his positional flexibility, but in the case of say like Horwitz needed the DH to like ease back into the lineup, O'Hearn being gone, it's nice that Endy Rodríguez can just man first base today, get three hits, look really professional at

the plate.

and again, just another guy who's been mashing and the pirates have desperately needed back.

It's fantastic.

I, it was, it was really fun watching him play tonight.

I think he, I guess Valdez is the most pleasant surprise of the year, but Andy is hit in a different way for me.

Right.

Cause we had written him off.

He was such an exciting prospect and he just got up here and couldn't do anything.

And then he just got hurt for two years and couldn't do anything.

And then he wasn't doing much of triple A and comes and just comes up here and starts just, and he's simply, he's hitting a bunch of singles and then gets a stroke down.

Then he starts lacing stuff into the, into the gaps and getting doubles, getting some home runs.

And, I just love having him on the team.

He's got such a great aura, such a great vibe about him.

again, he does have the position flexibility.

he stole a base today.

he's just got great energy and this team has always seemed like they're in a bit of a coma, throughout, I, in a lot of it's been that our best players have been very even keel over the years, Mitch Keller, Bryan Reynolds,

Ke'Bryan Hayes, Cutch, bunch of, and it's nice to have some of these guys that have a little fire and I'm not saying one way is any better than the other, right.

Cutch being even keel and Bryan Reynolds being even keel has served them well.

but it's fun to see the guys that have some enthusiasm, some fire and don't appear, that they're, what do

you say?

I'm here to make the people happy.

What can I say?

we talk about it.

I know the broadcaster was like main gum may, mayhem, but, gotta say like, Andy, I think got three, not stolen bases, but like he advanced three times on the bases today, he is, two were on wild pitches, but like he is hungry and he does

play with that energy.

he really is a bit of a spark plug in the offense.

Like, he's not complacent.

He knows he hasn't like earned his spot yet.

and when you have Endy Rodríguez batting in the bottom half of your order and he is batting the way it does that we're getting back to that part of like having that long offensive depth that made this lineup so good for the first part of the season.

Yeah, you're absolutely right.

it's just the key to this team's offense all year has been its depth, right?

You're not counting on the two, three, and four guys as it's all we've been able to count on over the years.

And now suddenly, like I said, you got Andy down there.

Sometimes it's Mangum.

Some, Nick G is a little lower sometimes.

and they're producing, somewhat consistently.

And, they said that Mangum is 330 hitting 330 over his last 50 games.

that's not the smallest of sample sizes, and right.

And guys like him and Andy, they're just dying to get to the next space.

Like it's all you could do to hold them back from getting to the next space.

And it's fun and it's productive and it's keeping the other team on their toes, making them playing, have to play, more efficiently and they're forcing the action.

And sometimes that action, brings errors and misplays and that thing.

And it's been fun to watch.

Yeah.

And then finally, we'll wrap up the segment.

I think with S Esmerlyn Valdez, as you mentioned, you're like, again, the list of young prizes, the guys were going to be on this team for quite a while Esmerlyn Valdez.

He doesn't get a hit today, but he only has one at bat because this guy walks three times.

The guy is a true three outcomes player, but man, and I just want to highlight emphasis.

Like he, no matter who was on the mound, professional quality at bats where he's able to work the count zero fear.

And just to keep getting on base, even when, even when he's not necessarily getting the hits that you want, he is still providing by getting on base.

I remember someone on Twitter today was like, oh, well in the last 10 games, Valdez has only had an OPS of 700.

And I'm like, if that's his slump where he's able to do stuff like this tonight, give me the slump.

Cause this is, this is incredible stuff out of the rookie.

If we've watched seven years of lineups of having four or five guys with an OPS under six.

Yeah.

If he slumps down to 700, you said, like I said, his good plate discipline, that thing, professional, like these are mature at bats that he's having.

Right.

Right.

He's, we still have guys much older than him and much more accomplished at him that are swinging at stuff that they shouldn't be swinging at.

And this kid, with two guys on base and it, where you think he'd just be trying to swing out of his shoes.

He's waiting for his pitch and he's got a good eye.

Yeah.

He's, I love having him back in cleanup.

That's for sure.

Yeah, it's funny.

And like, I think you could make an argument that the pirates probably should have scored more than four runs tonight.

they, I think they definitely had their opportunities to do so, didn't really do much against the Brewers bullpen.

but I really wanted to highlight those three guys because if there is a playoff stretch coming, these guys are going to be at the forefront of this and we need more of them.

And they need to ensure that Marcell Ozuna never sees the field again for the rest of the season.

but two for 10 with runner scoring position tonight, eight left on base.

It could have been, I feel like that they probably could have put up an extra two or three runs there, which is good to see.

And, but they got just enough to win and that's all that matters.

Yeah.

Again, it was not comfortable.

I was not sitting back relaxed on the couch.

I was on the edge of the seat, but the bullpen did come through.

I've seen people in here complaining of bullpen, but Soto did his job, wasn't pretty, but he did his job.

Doval was good.

Montgomery was good.

They scored just enough.

And honestly, isn't this is what we thought every game was going to be like at the start of this season.

We didn't, we didn't think we were going to score nine runs too often.

We thought just get to that four, just get to that four.

And that's what they did tonight.

And then the pitching did the rest.

It's not, again, not as smooth as you would like it to be, not as comfortable, but the result, I will take the result every time.

Yeah.

Well, I won't blame the pitching too much for why it was so comfortable, uncomfortable, but I'll say this before we get into pitching, cause we're talking about Bubba because Bubba deserves his flowers.

So I thought Bubba was quite good tonight, but I remember, I think I forget who said this on Twitter, but like essentially there's a long stretch of time where the pirates didn't win a game if they didn't score five runs, just however it worked.

Like it was just something that happened.

Like the pirates need to score a lot of runs.

And I think down the stretch as the offense probably cools off to like a more reasonable standard, like probably on pure talent, they're not a top five, top three offense in baseball.

You need to start winning these close games.

And the bullpen was excellent tonight.

I thought the starting pitching was excellent tonight.

You got the more complete team needs to start coming around this ball club.

If they're going to make a push.

so let's get the Bubba who goes five and two thirds.

He does have four walks.

I think that's the biggest issue from Bubba tonight with the four walks, three runs, only two of them earned five strikeouts, but really unlucky to not get out of the six tonight.

I get at least six really unlucky.

I don't think that was fair to him.

Yeah, you're right.

He pitched pretty well.

He does have, troubles later in games, like finishing things out, but this one was not on him.

I would have been very happy if this team acquired a third book basement today, but, yeah.

well, like what was interesting about him is like, I felt like the first three innings or so he was so efficient with his pitch count.

Like he was just getting through batters.

Like it wasn't like the strikeout stuff you expect, but like he was really getting through guys really fast.

And then, as you mentioned later on the game, he really did struggle to get guys out.

Cause that pitch count did get up there.

He was at 96 pitches when he leaves.

but I, also it's not entirely his fault because, in the top bottom of the fifth, I think he gets really unlucky too.

Where like David Hamilton and Joey Ortiz, like there's like some, like blue pits and then Joey Ortiz singles him home for one, but that's a, I don't know, five innings, one run perfectly fine.

Then we get to the sixth inning and well, that stupid Jake Bauers hit with two outs that barely gets, so like barely out of range of Esmerlyn Valdez runners in first and third.

and then Andrew Vaughn comes the bat and well, Doug, Nick Gonzales, Nick Gonzales gets a relay throw from Esmerlyn Valdez after Andrew Vaughn's singles and the ball hits is basically

at Gonzalez's chest.

Yeah.

And the ball skips to the backstop and the Brewers score two runs and now it's a four, three ball game.

And suddenly you're like, here we go again.

he would, it would not have been a great play had he made the catch, right?

It was just a standard fundamental, like put your glove here and catch the ball.

And he didn't do that.

Bubba didn't back it up.

So that doesn't help too.

Hopefully, Bubba and again, Bubba seems to tire or lose focus or I don't know what it is, but again, I, if you're third baseman and average third baseman, Murf Gray would have made that catch.

I'm just saying even, Bubba, so Bubba, that's a definitely a rookie mistake where you got to go back the guy up.

And like, that is like, if he's backing that up, the second run doesn't score, but Gonzalez is a second baseman by trade.

Gonzalez has caught plenty of relay balls in his life before.

You would think, and I just, I don't understand how that happens, even if you don't get the out, cause you're not getting the out because Nick, no, right.

You're just not allowing the other run to score, which, it is an important part.

Now he's gotten worse, right?

When he, again, when he first came up, we were told he'd compete for batting titles.

He couldn't hit it all, but he fielded.

Okay.

But we talked about him many times, like, oh, he's been a better feeler than I thought this year.

After he's finally hitting, like the way we're told he could hit and he can't catch anything, the double clutch early, after that, he had the double clutch and doesn't get the guy out at first base.

And just, I don't know, I guess he put his, all his off season effort into hitting and didn't take any grounders or something or make any throws in his off season thing.

But man, it was, it's just not been good.

It's been really ugly.

Yeah.

I'll say two things.

Like, I feel like it's just, it is not for tonight, but like in his defense, going from second to third base, when you probably haven't played too much third base in your career is very hard.

Sure.

Like, Ke'Bryan Hayes just made it look so easy.

Yeah.

We were spoiled because he made every play look just so basic and he never looked spectacular.

And that was where his spectacularness was, is that he made every play look just so simple.

Yeah.

But like, so that's hard.

And it's like, in that sense, I feel for Nick.

Cause like, he had to carve his way into this lineup and play in third base.

The really only way he was going to get in.

And we weren't sure he was going to break camp.

Yeah.

Right.

Because they went out and they went out and replaced him with Brandon Lowe, right?

They saw that as the one of their, significant, and then spent the rest of the off season looking for a third baseman.

They had lost all faith in Nick Gonzales and to his credit, boy, he's broken out with the bat and earned his way onto the team.

But I'm guessing next year, we don't extend or re-sign Brandon Lowe and that we're going to move Nick to second base, not to do something else at third.

Which is unfortunate, but like, I do just want to stress to like, this is the second almost blew the game.

Like it almost blew the game.

It didn't, the pirates will win, but this is just after Nick Gonzales also blows the game against the Reds a couple of nights ago where he just doesn't throw the ball the first.

And yes, Brandon Lowe needs to catch the ball.

I'm sure we, they talked about all done in the post game, but the point being is that the margins are really thin here when it comes to the pirates and making the playoffs.

And I don't think you can go forward with Nick Gonzales at third base.

If this is what it's going to be like on a nightly basis, I think you're absolutely right.

Especially, you get Cruz back and you can pick up that offensive slack.

I'd almost rather see Triello out there consistently making the plays.

I said this on the Thursday post game show with Cody, the pirates are in the playoffs.

It's now right.

And they're every, you can't throw games away, literally throw games away and you cannot not catch games away.

you said the margins are thin.

They need to make all the basic plays, they need to play winning baseball and Nick Gonzales is not playing winning baseball at third.

Now, yeah, he's been hitting great, but offense hasn't been the problem.

It's been pitching and defense and, you have other options.

He's got to step it up.

He's got to pick it up.

He's got to focus and he's, I don't need him to be to Ke'Bryan Hayes.

He can't be, and that's an unfair expectation.

I do need him to catch a ball chest high.

I do need him to not double clutch and throw to first, that thing.

So, hopefully he figures it out quick or, and, or they make the decision that you're going to be a nice pinch hitter and, spot starter there, Nicky.

Yeah.

Well, this looks just like, people are challenging DH him and like, we have so many DHs guys.

We have, yeah, both of this team are DHs.

so many DHs.

Like, I don't even know how, like you, I don't even know how it works.

Like by putting him in a DH, like it is a weird, it is suck.

It's like, you do need him in the field somewhere for him to play.

Right.

But the margins are so thin and he, if we're being honest, like the fact that he doesn't hit for a lot of power or extra base hits, the offensive value isn't as say valuable as say, it's like a Bryan Reynolds or a special Horwitz.

So he, we probably do like have to consider Jared Sciolo at the third base spot just going forward for that defense, I think, but we did win.

So let's talk about some more happy stuff.

but, the pirates do win tonight and they win four, three.

And that is because after they brewers score three runs and Bubba Chandler exits, the black pirates bullpen comes in again and shuts it down.

And, starts with Gregory Soto who, I don't know, like were the brewers just, the brewers like don't understand that Gregory Soto can't throw strikes.

Yeah.

it's like, it was almost as if they were thinking Gregory Soto as often as we do.

So yeah, it almost seemed like the Brewers fans thought Gregory Soto was trying to hit guys and like, no, like there were runners in scoring position when he got hit.

They get like, and also he did his job, but Gregory Soto and true Gregory Soto fashion.

He does not make it look easy.

three strikes.

This was the sixth inning too, right?

Yeah.

I thought it was interesting that he came in the sixth inning.

I, again, you, maybe that was, they use him and they think is the most important time, or maybe they're signaling that moving forward, that's where you'll expect to see him, that these other guys are going to move into the seventh,

eighth, the ninth.

well, I liked, I liked it.

I liked it from the sense that like the top of the Brewers lineup is when he was coming in like, terrain, yellow, like these are big left-handed batters.

And I think the, I think Don Kelly was just trying to play the matchups as much as everyone loves when managers play the matchups.

I think that was more of it, but I do, I prefer this flexible role for Soto than like, Hey, coming to the ninth and anywhere, it's a one run lead.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I, the way he's pitched, right.

I, at this point, I, again, he's had his moments, but yeah.

Bring them in the sixth or seventh inning.

It was, I'm excited about Weaver, Yates.

I, and I like what my, Montgomery's doing.

So, this bullpen, we might, the bullpen might turn around.

I don't know how much more that will mean wins.

And if we can go on any run, but the bullpen should be better.

Kudos, Ben Cherington.

I know in a couple of years, we're going to hear how did he trade MVP set for, just a year and a half of Luke Weaver, but sadly, you'll still, Ben will still be here because he's not going to get fired.

You're in a half of Luke Weaver.

yeah, no, Soto, again, if he keeps giving me heart attacks, but he gets the results, then I'm okay.

Yeah.

yeah, come on.

The bar is low for us.

We just want wins.

They don't have to be pretty.

I'm beyond asking for easy wins.

You just grind and dig them out and get them, but string them together.

Yeah.

And I'm in like 1.1 innings from Soto, three strikeouts.

He has a walk, a hit, and a hit by pitch.

Like, again, like not the cleanest.

He really did struggle.

Like he threw a lot of pitches tonight, 35 pitches from Soto.

but he gets the job done.

And then our newcomer, like you mentioned, they are super chat earlier.

We can, about, Camilo Doval, like he comes in and he looks really good for that one.

And, Brewers can barely touch him.

It's a clean one, two, three.

Excellent stuff from Duval tonight.

Yeah, it was, it was nice to see.

Cause in his first outing, I think he gave up the home run and we're like, oh God, here we go again.

You know?

And, but no, clean, efficient, like somewhat relaxing, so it's through strikes.

Yeah, right.

It would, nine pitches, seven strikes.

It's such a wide different thing.

so Grace, I would say yes to all of this.

I would say, yes, we are out of her mind.

We do want Triolo, playing third base.

we are smoking a crack, a virtual crack pipe.

We have two separate crack pipes, Paul.

Yeah.

And if you choose violence, choose violence, brother.

sometimes it is a solution.

and then Montgomery comes in, slams the door on the Brewers.

Fantastic.

And in three strikeouts for Montgomery, he looks fantastic, man.

like stuff is, his stuff is so good.

And it's finally under control.

I'm so happy.

Like, it's so much fun to watch Montgomery pitch.

Yeah.

He's really good.

His stuff is filthy.

it's just filthy.

And if he can harness the control.

Wow.

Yeah.

just three strikeouts, he doesn't give up a hit, but like, it was even with that hit, like you never really felt like the Brewers were getting anywhere close to getting on the board at all.

Like, I certainly didn't, just incredible stuff.

And he does it against the top of the lineup too.

I guess terrain to strike out on three pitches as a game against Churio striking out in three pitches.

Someone in the chat mentioned tonight, a big reason we want is at the top four of the Brewers lineup went over 14 tonight.

You shut down their best hitters.

You shut down their stars.

You made them get for like Joey Ortiz is the best hitter they had today.

Like excellent stuff from this pirates pitching staff all around.

And I'll say this, like if the pirates bullpen is fixed and like, you're getting good starts from Bubba Chandler, Ashcraft is returning back to form.

I'm like, that's a very good sign that this team can string together a lot of wins down the stretch.

Yeah.

it's look, like I said, they're there.

Every game is important.

it's a playoff thing and, hopefully iron sharpens iron type deal that if this bullpen can be effective and, again, you get Cruz back

and again, eventually, Connor.

And if Konnor Griffin, right on her and come back September, and just could, and the bullpen you've got settled by then, it could be great.

Yeah.

you do have to rattle off more wins in the September schedule is very easy.

Like it's, if you look at it, like it's very easy September schedule, but you do have to start taking advantage of games in August.

Like we've been playing punt the win streak down the road, down the month, a whole season.

And eventually you run out of time, but this is a good start.

And I really enjoy that we're able to go on the road and go blow the blow with the best team in this, in the central.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I said, it's, they're still in that, they control their own destiny thing.

Right.

and the defense and the bullpen have just, set this team off course.

I don't want to talk about easy games because there never seems to be an easy, every time we start saying, Oh, this looks like an easy series.

we go, we win one out of four against the red.

So, I want them to approach everyone.

Like it's a, it's a playoff series.

This is a wild card series, three games, four games, whatever.

and, yeah, that takes a lot of intensity.

It takes a lot of focus and, teams lose that toward this time of year.

but let's see what happens.

Right.

We got, it's a new team now.

Right.

you get Spencer and Harvey, Spencer and Harvey, Spencer and Andy are back.

and we've got, I don't know, like seven new relievers over the past couple of days.

Four new relievers.

yeah.

I don't know.

Over the last couple of days, we got four new relievers in.

So hopefully that does.

No, you get ice really counting.

They're like, I cert, Marinacci.

Oh, who's, he's already gone, thankfully.

and then, yeah, the guys you got in today, or, and Doval and then three guys today, it's been great.

it's, listen, he doesn't do anything.

It's silly that we thought he'd do anything before the deadline.

He's no, he has no sense of urgency.

He believes every move he's made is great.

So until he's forced with a deadline to do some stuff, but this looks like a decent deadline.

we're not, I'm not really complaining about, any of the people that we've lost and I like the three acquisitions or the four counting Doval.

So let's go, man.

that's a whole new bullpen.

So, we got rid of the bad bullpen and hopefully this is a good bullpen and hopefully it makes it easier for Donnie is decision-making and let, again, get Cruz back and let him be hot and we can, we could be onto something.

It will be a miracle when Don Kelly suddenly has good pitching decisions, when he has good relievers to do so.

and now not one person in the chat said we should fire Donnie Kelly today.

So, already the vibes are improving and, things are looking up.

Yeah.

vibes going to be higher.

Let's give away some sandwiches.

Speaking of those.

Like, subscribe, follow, hashtag, raise it.

Get that in there real quick.

there we go.

Paul's right on brand.

Joey pepper.

He just won.

I think he won very recently.

So he's on a hot street.

Good for him.

He's on a hot street.

Maybe the pirates can string them together.

Like Joey pepper.

Oh, it's his.

Congratulations.

Joey.

Maybe you can name like the pepperoni rolls.

Some of it technically exists in PNC park after it, after him.

but please get though your email associated with your Permanente brothers account to North shore nine at gmail.com.

And we will get those sandwiches over to you.

We'll do one more.

Jordan L two, eight, nine, six.

Congratulations.

You too.

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And we will get you your sandwiches as well.

Congratulations to our winners.

Congrats.

What a day, Doug.

Thanks for playing.

Yeah.

What a day.

And the pirates are back at it tomorrow.

It is, I believe it's Jared Jones versus Logan Henderson.

So should be a good pitchers duel.

fan duel has the pirates at, there is no, well, at this point, after the trade deadline, the pirates are now plus one, two, five, zero to win the world series.

Not six, four, zero.

Okay.

One, two, nine, 64,000, 12,500.

Why?

So you bet a hundred to win $12,500.

that's almost worth taking a flyer.

Yeah.

I think, I think it's, I was going to say you might as well, but I'll bet the pirates tomorrow.

I'm going to take Jared Jones.

I took them tonight.

One with Bubba.

I bet a large sum, $6 and 35 cents, but we have to bet on them.

Cause we got to get over this.

we got to get over the 500 hump.

We can't be stuck at 500.

No.

Right.

We need to, we need to go on a little run.

And I understand everybody.

When I said that before, they're like, they've shown no evidence that they can't.

You're all absolutely right.

but it's a new team now.

This is, this is a different pirates.

This is a team that's going to be brimming with confidence because they know there's seven, eight, nine guys can shut it down.

that this takes some of the pressure off the starters.

hopefully Paul Skenes can, stop doing commercials and start pitching better.

stop protecting his arm to sign that first con that big contract or whatever he's doing, whatever he's doing and start pitching like an ace again.

Carmen should be better than what Mitch has been giving us.

And, Ashcraft seems to be coming around and Bubba and Jared Jones have both been doing pretty well.

Yeah.

but the people are yearning for, IQ bar, but unfortunately, we are, we are fresh out of IQ bars.

we gave them all away.

but anything else, Doug, or is it time to get out of here?

It's time to get out of here.

We got some other stuff.

we got to talk, backstage about some things.

So yeah, we do.

yeah, we have to go to very important things.

And we got to, have you seen the odyssey?

Okay.

But go see the odyssey if you haven't, by the way.

Great movie.

Yeah, absolutely.

Go see that and the invite.

There you go.

Those are my, although I enjoy Spider-Man too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I'm new.

I'm here at Doug.

Pirates win four to three.

Thank you everyone for joining.

Thank you for the comment section.

You guys were hopping tonight.

I'm not sure why you guys were talking about, like different songs, but, I think it was, they were looking for an entrance song for Mason Montgomery.

Ooh.

Okay.

That's a good one.

I like that.

Cody, don't insult me.

I did see Spider-Man already.

Please.

Don't you know me?

I thought you knew me.

Go see the odyssey before you go see Spider-Man.

But anyway, I agree with that, but yeah, it's a, it's a Zendaya and Tom Hawn summer.

All right.

Have a good night, everyone.

We'll see you tomorrow.

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