Jason Mackey

You know, you hate to think this way, but it's a pitcher, and what if he's lost for a year?

Then all of a sudden, you're paying for nothing.

So I...

That's what I mean about just where he's at contract-wise and all that stuff.

It's just not terribly optimistic.

If I say 50, that's a pomp answer, isn't it, Joe?

Yeah, pretty much.

It may be the truthful answer.

I'll say this, Joe.

I'm not as high on that as I used to be.

I'll put that at maybe like 25%, 35%, somewhere in that range.

A lot of what I've heard is that there will be a lockout.

there will be maybe a delay.

But the people I've talked to aren't thinking that there will be a lost season.

And I think a ramification of that is not a drastically different financial system, which I know a lot of people in Pittsburgh don't like.

I don't like.

But I think here's where it's coming from, too.

Not only talking to people, but baseball is...

It has a lot of momentum after the World Series, after the World Baseball Classic.

I don't think it's in a place where it can afford to go away.