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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Here we go, Joe. Yeah. Yeah. Come on, Joe. Here we go now, Joe. There's no reaction on the other side of the table. Joe, are you okay? I think he's by the poinsettias a little bit too much. The aroma of the poinsettias is getting to him. I thought Kabali was coming in at noon. He is. He's running a little bit behind. How is he running behind? We originally had it planned for 11. Then we switch it to noon. When we tell somebody noon. The Steelers are off today, by the way. They're not practicing. That's right. What do you think of that strategy this week, Bob? I like it. Waiting a little extra day. Thursday, Friday, Saturday. You look at the history of the Steelers. Thursday is Wednesday. Friday is Thursday. Saturday is Friday.
Sunday is Saturday. Finkel is Feinhorn, and Einhorn is Finkel. There it is, John Marossi, Pirates staying aggressive after pursuit of Schwarber. Okay, so they're among the teams that have inquired to the Rays about Brandon Lau, who you need to trade for. Great. Great. So several teams have inquired and the Pirates are among them. Isn't that exciting, Bob? It's exciting. Until it doesn't happen. Then it's not. All this stuff is just the same. I think social media has made it even worse because these kinds of posts come out all the time. And you're supposed to think that they're really engaged. And I hope they are. But you have to prove it. Like you say, deliver it. By the way, did you see where the draft lottery was held yesterday for Major League Baseball?
They get the fifth. They get another top five pick. They've had a ton of them. I mean, that is incredible. They were projected for the third pick. They had the third best odds to get the number one.
What are the latest updates on the Pirates' pursuit of Brandon Lowe?
Remember the year they got the first pick and they all clapped in that room, Bob? Yeah. It wasn't just a clap. It was an outrageously happy room. It was a loud roar, Bob. They were very excited. I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what. I think the thing that may save Ben Charrington in the end is that he took Paul Skeens followed by Connor Griffin. Yeah, I think those are two very good picks, and quite frankly, give him credit for that. They might be two historically great picks. Yeah, and I'll give Eddie Johnston, and people say, well, it's easy to draft Mario Lemieux. Well, you know what happens that makes it more difficult? When everyone offers you a whole bunch of stuff, and you're saying to yourself, I need a lot of things.
And he stuck by his guns. He took 66 in the rest of his history. Same thing here with Skeens. He didn't move off of that. He could have. Well, the other thing there was there was dispute as to who – it wasn't Mario because there was a lot of people who thought Dylan Cruz was the right pick and was going to get picked first. There was another legit option there. But my point was Skeens was what he has turned out to be, and they knew that. Yeah. So they could have gone the other direction. Same with Connor Griffin. There were other guys available, and he was seventh overall. Ninth. So it wasn't like – ninth? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Point is, those are good picks. Looks like it anyway. Absolutely, but I hope he's up here to start this season.
Man, it's been a long time since Shane Boz and Will Craig and Travis Swaggerty and Gunnar Hoglund. Do you remember him, Bob? Gunnar. The Gunnar was taken 36th in 2018. Quinn Priester, who's now good for another team, I don't know. Are we missing the story here, Bob? Are the Pirates going to be unbelievable this year with a big price-free agent and Connor Griffin and Skeens around? Are we missing it? No, they need help. They have to have help. Everything will be better in their lineup if they offer two bats.
How do draft picks impact the Pirates' future?
If you get two legitimate bats with what they have, I think they can be very much competitive in the Central Division. Don't you? Yeah, I do. But so close yet so far. Two legitimate bats. Alonzo at first and Suarez at third. It won't happen. But it financially could happen if they want to be aggressive here. And it would take them overpaying to get him, both. But you have to do it. You've created a situation where a lot of people don't want to come here, so therefore show that, yeah, we'll overpay for you to get here because we have something special.
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