Austin Bechtold

And I know that might sound crazy, but I think it's worth it because these are your two foundational pieces.

These are your Mario Lemieux's, your Sidney Crosby's, your Mean Joe Green's, your stalwarts of Pittsburgh.

You cannot let them go.

I think it would actually be more detrimental to

and perpetuate a loser mentality like, well, that's the same old pirates if we lost Paul Skeens because everybody expects that.

And so here's how we can keep them.

Everybody knows Paul loves the military.

We should give Paul any and everything that he wants as far as the military.

We should be unique.

We should give him some things that the Dodgers and other places can't, whether that's full

with whatever he wants to do.

I don't understand that.

So, like, the U.S.

trips, the overseas trips that Paul does, the investment into the Air Force, like the Pirates, I was doing some research, and I know other teams in professional sports, let alone baseball, you can invest into military, whether that's through ceremonies...

whether that's through having like sign up drives, having more tabling, the pirates can benefit from that.

They could feed two birds with one loaf of bread, which means they could, you know, love up on our military, which is needed.

But we also can appease Paul schemes, which I think would be good.

But the other aspect I want to get to really quickly is, you know, we always say that Pittsburgh is a small market, which kind of is true.

But pound for pound, we're about on par with St.

Louis.