Sean Gentille joins to recap the 2025 year in Pittsburgh sports
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What are the highlights of Pittsburgh sports in 2025?
Myself and Nellie are celebrating quietly here, having a wonderful show. We're an hour into it. Bob's not here. I don't know where he is. Oh, you know what we didn't do is put up Bob's cardboard cutout over there, Nellie. Can you do that if you don't mind? I can do that as soon as I put on our next guest. Yeah. And our next guest is the great Sean Gentile of The Athletic. Do we have him? Where do we have him? Audio? Do we have him on video as well? Cellular device. What? On his cellular device. Cellular device. Okay. Sean, how are you, my friend? Are you disappointed that I'm not on video? A little bit. Is that what you're trying to say? A little bit. Yeah, last time you were. I'm wondering why you're not on video.
Last time I was not, I was talking about the Stuart Skinner trade, and I was out in front of a barbershop in Squirrel Hill. Oh, yeah, that's right. My apologies. But you have been on it before, haven't you? Of course. Yeah. Of course. So why aren't you this time? I didn't feel like it, Joe. Okay, all right. I'm just asking. I figured I would just ask. You're Pittsburgh born and bred, right? Of course, Greenfield, Central Catholic High School, yes. Do you agree with my take that this was the year of dissatisfaction in Pittsburgh sports where things came to a head here with really all three teams in a way? I think the biggest possible indictment of the scene overall is that it seems like rightfully, to some degree, the operation that people should have the most
Optimism about is the Pittsburgh Pirates. That is incredible. Isn't it, though? Yeah. That's how bad 2025 has been, is that the vibes are the best around the Pirates. I was thinking about that, too. And that was going to be my twist to 2026. All of a sudden, the Pirates come out of nowhere, off the top rope like Benzie at a Tomlin news conference, and they're the team that may have the best year ahead. Uh, we'll see. I'm, I'm not nearly, I'm not nearly ready to sign off on, on, on that, on that yet. We'll see, we'll see where the Okada pursuit goes. Cause if, cause if that falls flat and if he ends up signing with the angels or whatever, you know, whoever we're seeing Jared Triolo at third base again, I don't know.
I need I need a little bit more time to to sit with the idea of them being a competent, you know, major league lineup. What was the best moment in sports for Sean Gentile this year in Pittsburgh sports? Hmm. Can I prompt your memory a little bit? I think like probably the first. First, it might be the Pitt-Notre Dame game, like the moments before kickoff at Pitt-Notre Dame. Like the run-up to that and the possibility that, you know, the promise that that game had, I feel like that was probably it. And then, of course, like the result's the result. So I don't even know if that counts anymore. How about Doran Dickerson weighed in. I asked all my fan colleagues here for the best moment of the year. He said hosting the Open at Oakmont was spawned in that incredible putt.
Limits said, unbelievably, he didn't say it was Drew Aller related. He said Sid passes Mario. Uh, pop said Crosby moves past Mario, uh, all time points. And even our friend Mulsey, uh, he said, what did Mulsey? Yeah. Mulsey said that too. And Donnie football said skeins wins.
Why was the lead-up to the Pitt-Notre Dame game significant?
The Cy Young was the best Pittsburgh sports moment of the year. How about you? I guess you just said it. Didn't you? Like the skein size stuff is not even close because it's just a reminder of of the fact that they wasted a Cy Young season and that they're going to get two, maybe three more years of it, and that's it. I know you've talked about this. We've talked about this. Anything positive that Paul Skeens does is overshadowed by the overall state of the Pirates and the fact that he is kaput as a Pirate in three years. It's impossible. It has been... borderline impossible to watch that and not have that kind of hanging over hanging over every performance every positive thing that he's that he's done
I don't know. Maybe that makes me a pessimist. I don't know. No, we've talked about it.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What are the highlights of Pittsburgh sports in 2025?
0:00–3:39
2
Why was the lead-up to the Pitt-Notre Dame game significant?
3:39–9:27
3
What does Sean Gentile think about the state of the Pirates?
9:27–21:54
4
How did the Penguins perform in 2025?
21:54–22:29
5
What major trades impacted the Penguins this year?
22:29–35:12
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