Mike Schur

There is no... I'm a huge Patino guy.

There's so many jokes.

So many jokes that I'm not going to make.

Yeah.

But yeah, if those are the choices, then I dare say things will get worse and we should be so glad that we got to see fandom create an economy that got so big that, of course, the financialization of everything came to burn down the field of dreams.

Joe Posnanski, Mike Schur, this was a total delight.

Congrats on the book and thanks for coming in.

Oh, thank you.

Thank you, buddy.

I'm very excited to be here.

Yes, it has been a while, but also, you know, baseball disappears for six months, so it makes some sense that it's been a while.

It's so exciting to have him on the pirates because they already have schemes and they have Bubba and they've got these, this like the baseball is better when the pirates are good.

And it just is, has been such a rare thing in the last 30 years, but they now have arguably three of the what, like 12 best, uh,

prospects or like young guys at the major league level on the same team and credit to them.

They did some good work of like packing in like legitimate MLB players around those guys in the off season.

So I think that the, the two signs that are really pointing in the right direction for them are number one,

Small sample size, but in his first game, he just looked like he absolutely belonged in the majors.

And the second thing is that they locked him up like this is a thing they have.

They have not done at all in the last, you know, two decades.

Right.