Steve Blass

He was kind of like hiding.

He was kind of like in a corner secluded.

He didn't want to mix with the public, I can tell.

He was right off as a parent.

So what happened was he came up.

And he goes, hi, and he kind of nods, and he looks the other way, and I said, oh, hi.

I said, how are you doing?

So we shook hands, and he said, you know, he asked me how I was doing, and he said that he was really anxious to get to Florida.

You know, he said, I'm looking forward to my retirement.

And I said, oh, I said, well, you're going to be leaving there.

And I said, are you going to miss the place here?

And he didn't say anything.

So I said, well, what do you think of the Pirates?

And he said, well, they're not going to get anywhere until they spend money.

And he was pretty...

I would say he was pretty precise about, you know, he was saying about Bob Nutting and the Pirates that they really had to get serious before they got good.

We need to get to the... I asked him what he... I said, well, how do you like working with Joe Starkey?

And he kind of like looked up at the ceiling for about 10 seconds and he said, Joe Starkey.

He said, Joe is something else.

And then he tried to sell me this beer and I didn't buy it.