Mark Messier

It's hard to tell a fan base, I'll be honest with you, it's hard to tell a fan base that the Pittsburgh Pirates are incapable of competing at a higher level at that.

Is there any way we can start incentivizing some of these teams to spend more?

Well, the last one was pretty ugly.

And it went pretty long.

And there was multiple times where we thought we were missing games.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, well, off of that, because with gambling there's also bad calls, right?

And so we've had a kind of, or you've had a referee issue, an umpire issue for a while, and this year they're going to be implementing the replay.

with the balls and strikes.

Where are we with that?

Are we looking at how far along the line before we get just full automatic?

Where are we with just calling the replay?

Where do we see the replay system going for balls and strikes?

I mean, that's the concern of it, right?

I mean, that's still the concern, the time of year.

I suppose, I don't know if there's a better time to do it right before the season gives guys as much time possible to recover from injury, but that's the concern of it.

It does bring a lot of excitement, but the baseball fan's concern is we saw devastating injuries to players, and we know baseball, unfortunately, especially pitchers, ramping up

you know, their workload early to go take on these very competitive games.

And to the credit of the tournament, it feels like it's ramping up in its competition.

USA's really brought a lot of players to the team this year.