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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome back to Pomp and Joe. City Limits with us out here at the Baseball Card Castle in Cranberry. We're getting Feed the Need kicked off today. The official start is next Tuesday, but we're getting a head start. A lot of people coming in, dropping off donations in person. You can text NEED to 50... Wait, what is it, Limits? I just lost the sheet. I don't want to give out the wrong number here.
So hold on one sec on that. But a lot of people... Have come in here today. It's just been a ton of fun, as it always is with the general text need to 50155 to donate directly to the Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. And I'll give those items that people are bidding on in just a moment here.
But first, let's kick it off a limitless wonder with the Limitless Express fan Twitter brought to you by South Hills Kia Peters Township. It's them at South Hills Kia dot net. The text line brought to you by Edgar Snyder and Associates Personal Injury Law Firm. where they always say there's never a fee unless we get money for you.
And the hotline presented by Sullivan Super Service, Pittsburgh's trusted plumbing and HVAC provider for over 50 years. Let's do this. Joe, it is now official. The Penguins tweet, the captains return. Penguins, Hurricanes, 7 p.m. tonight with a picture of Sid by the dot. He's back. Bob, I think I'm coming over to your house to watch this tonight. Are you going to be down at KDKA?
No, I'm going to be babysitting tonight. Ah, this is must-watch television. Everything's must-watch. And given the stakes that are involved, the Penguins being seven points behind Carolina, team that played last night and lost, they're going to be back home. But Penguins have a lot of jump right now.
And now all the lines, the original lines that we saw from the Penguins when they were doing well are back together because Brezeau now moves to his normal spot between – you know, Kendall and Mantha on that line. Malkin goes with the Novak Chinnikov. It's all right there for them. Now, the question is how effective will, you know, Crosby be in this first?
If I know anything about Sidney Crosby, he'll pick up as if he was never injured at all. Well, and the timeline, remember when it first came out, was at least, what did they say, four weeks at the time? Yes, four weeks. At least four weeks. This feels earlier than that. I think they said it was retroactive to the injury, and it's certainly not going to be later than that. This is...
A gigantic boost for a team that, as we said at the beginning, is not out of the woods by any means. Not when Columbus is something like 17-2-4, and they're in the ninth spot. And the Islanders are right behind you, and they've been red hot at 9-3 in their past 12. The Bruins are on a 15-4-6 run. They've been a little bit up and down lately, but they seem to get points even when they lose.
The only team in that mix that's struggling really, I mean, the Penguins haven't been great. They've been surviving, is the Red Wings. So like we said earlier, Bob, one three-game losing streak, you mix it with somebody else's three-game winning streak, you're going to be on the outside looking in. They have to keep getting points. Another team to watch here is Ottawa. Yeah, they're surging.
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Chapter 2: Why is Sidney Crosby's return significant for the Penguins?
Would you agree with that? Well, here's the thing. I'm still not sold on Bryce Young, so I'm not sure that Kenny Pickett went to a bad place, but he's just not very good as an NFL quarterback. That's the problem. Having said that. He went to a place where I think there is a still vulnerable quarterback. He took a step forward, Bryce Young, but he ain't exactly Dan Marino, Bob.
No, but significantly better than you. He made the playoffs with a losing record, Wonder Twin. He still got in. He made it over Baker Mayfield, who we think is a better quarterback. We know is a better quarterback. Jeff Hathorne's here, and he just put money in there. What a nice man. Jeff, would you like to join the Limitless Express? Why don't you join the Limitless Express, Jeff? Here you go.
Here's a headset. And you got a baseball card or what kind of card? Who's on that card? It's my uncle. What? Who is? He looks just like you.
Chapter 3: How are the Penguins positioned in the playoff race?
Dean Chance. Are they related to Dizzy Chance and all those chances? No. No. Tell us more about this story, Bob, huh? He won Cy Young in 64. Wow. Holy ostrich milk. And how does the family treat him? In 71, sadly, he's not a blood relative. He's the in-law. Oh, okay.
So I have nothing in my arm that was like his, but he basically had the Tommy John injury before Tommy John's surgery, so his career ended. His velocity went down, and there was no surgery at the time, and His career ended in 71. Wow. Is he still with us? He is not. He is not. And it's funny because he's in the Hall of Fame with the Angels. Yeah. He's in the Angels Hall of Fame.
But he was bitter about how it ended, about how once he couldn't, didn't have the velocity anymore, that it was like... They'd just brush you aside. It was just a commodity, you know? So he was all – he never – he wouldn't go to many things. He didn't talk about it. He didn't save much stuff. He was just – Wow, what a story. And now you have his card. Yeah.
Well, Jeff, we're in the middle of a limitless express here, and the first item was Sid is in tonight. And I was – now I got to thinking, since you mentioned this limits – I'd have to go back and look, but it seems to me when Sid's been out for a few weeks or longer, he tends to come back with a flourish.
I'm remembering his return against the Islanders from all those concussion problems a long time ago. He came back, I think, had a couple goals in that game. He seems to have a knack for the moment. I don't think I'm overstating that. You expect something good tonight? Expect something good tonight. Here's the thing I also like.
What we saw when those guys would come back in the past or in the last few years was they tried to get too cute. But I don't think Muse is going to allow them to get too cute because they haven't played that way. They have to play a gritty style. So I think you keep that mentality and you add Sid to that. Pfft. Yeah, they've been running four lines all year, and he's not going to change.
He's not going to do anything different. Exactly. He just plugs and plays, and they have guys who can do that. So this will be great to watch, that first line. You know, it was obviously missing him. Trying to figure out who would be with Raquel at center just wasn't as good as it needed to be.
But they survived that, and now they're going to be back to normal with 15 games left in the season, all of them very big. Limits? So, five teams, Jeff, have two first-round picks in this year's draft. I feel like this is the most amount of teams that have had multiple selections in the first round in quite some time. Dolphins, Jets, Cowboys, Browns, and also the Chiefs.
Do you think that in any way... This could affect the Steelers in terms of the amount of trades and the amount of movement that we might see where teams might try to parlay those picks, especially if you're the Chiefs who have a later first-round pick and the Dolphins who are in a similar range. That could affect the Steelers. Yes. For sure. Yeah, absolutely.
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Chapter 4: What does the recent performance of the Penguins indicate about their season?
And Crosby's trying to make the most out of this situation.