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Chapter 1: What recent event has caused disappointment in the Olympics?
Sean, very, very upsetting and disappointing thing just happened at the Olympics. Team USA curling just lost in the semifinals. That's the worst news I've heard in a minute. This was a huge week of curling. Two weeks of curling where members of the Pittsburgh Curling Club had called in and explained curling to us. Now, you told me you've never competed in curling.
I don't think I'm alone in that. You're really intrigued by watching it. Every four years, I'm locked in on curling. Mainly because, I don't know, it's on every single day. I think curling started like day one or day two of the Olympics. And it's still going on. It's just three weeks of curling. It's like cricket, right? I mean, it takes forever sometimes.
Yeah, like a lot of the speed skaters and figure skaters and like Malanin, the great skater for Team USA. I think he's been done for like three or four days. And there are some people that competed in the early portion of the Olympics. Now they're just kind of hanging out and hanging around for the closing ceremony.
When I become an Olympian, which is probably inevitable at this point, that's what I want. What would be your sport? There's multiple sports I could probably compete in.
um we'll say table table tennis go with that skeleton no i don't want to hurt myself severely badminton someone yeah maybe that someone on the text line was mad at me uh yesterday with my argument that three on three hockey would be a horrible idea in overtime of the nhl playoffs and they said limits stick to badminton and wiffleball i've never picked up a badminton before i don't think that's a thing it's a shuttlecock
That proves my level of knowledge about badminton. Anyway, when I'm an Olympic athlete, I want to be done early. I want to compete right off the bat and then win or lose, hopefully win. But even if I lose, then you get to sit around and enjoy the rest of the Olympics there as a spectator. All the pressure's off, right? Well, I mean, curling just never stops.
The grind never ends when you're curling in the Olympics. Is it like, did you have to give a speech in school and you were one of the first speakers? Oh yeah. And you got out of the way and you could just sit back and kick your feet up. But when you're the last, like the very last, you're stressed the entire time. Yes. Well, in college, I would try to be the first or second speaker.
I would try to go second. I never wanted to be the first, but I would try to go second so that one, I got it out of the way, and two, I set the tone. Yeah, first is a tough spot to be in as well. The level of confidence from freshman Austin as just a moron that had no idea who I was to where I was in college that finally got some confidence in myself.
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of Sidney Crosby's injury on Team Canada?
Bucks and pucks on the table. Here is Justin to chime in. What's up, Justin? Hey, how's it going, guys? Doing well. So, question for all you guys. So do you guys feel like the Pirates, with all the new signings, with all them on the team now, do you feel like they can go further than what they've done in the past in the season?
Or do you feel like they could stay the same if things were to go what they've been going? Are you saying win a playoff series? Is that what you're saying? Like win a three-game wildcard? Yeah, and with the new signing, do you feel like they could go further with that? Yeah, thanks, Justin. I think it's possible because of the rotation. Bubba Chandler is a big wild card.
He is a considerable question mark. Chandler, last year, started out in the bullpen, and he told a couple of reporters this spring that it was beneficial for him. He went into the rotation late in the year, had one really bad start where he pitched two and a third innings, and allowed nine runs. But other than that, was really solid and was a considerable pitcher.
So, if you have Skeens pitching game one, Chandler game two, or game three, plus Mitch Keller, and whatever Braxton Ashcraft becomes, maybe Hunter Barco, maybe Thomas Harrington figures it out, maybe a trade for somebody. A lot of question marks there.
But the point is, if it's a three-game wildcard series, home or road, and you throw Paul Skeens out there, and Bubba Chandler becomes the pitcher that many believe he can be this year, and I don't think that we're talking about Chandler enough, that that can be a rotation that just wills you
to a playoff win with a league average lineup is what this team should be considering the amount of home runs that they've added and the amount of bona fide professional at-bats that have been added compared to a year ago when the end of the season the lineup included some guy named Cam Devaney and Alexander Canario. Might mention that name a little bit later in our Pirates numbers game.
But I think basically the caller saying it was a weird way of phrasing it. Can they go further? Well, that just to me means make the playoffs, right? Because they're coming off a season where they weren't even in contention whatsoever down the stretch of the playoffs. I don't know that you have to necessarily make the playoffs for it to be a clear step forward this season.
If the team came up, let's say, a game or two shy of the postseason, but we're in the mid-80s, would you consider that a successful season, Austin? I would if I'm a Pirates fan, even though there'd be some disappointment that you didn't get in the playoffs because it's such a toss-up in baseball. Once you get in, anything can happen. No, I think it's postseason or bust.
So 84 wins and missing the wild card by two games. No, because what's the goal? Maybe not a failure, but it's not a success. There's a difference between is it a successful season and is it a failed season. That would not be a fail. Well, you did say playoffs or bust. To me, bust would correlate to a failure.
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