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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Oh, I don't know where Bob is. Mr. Lewis did an incredible job on that song. He lives internationally and listens to the show just about every day, Joe. He goes back and it's like 3 a.m. where he lives. Wonderful man. Limits, you wouldn't believe the trek I just went on. This morning. I woke up early. I was having a heart stress test today. Been there. Over at Presby. My PCP wanted.
Everything's fine. Probably just my paranoia. Big surprise there, I know. Anxious and scared, you might say. But I drove in. I left at 6.15, so I'm like, oh, I'm going to be early. I'll stop at the Starbucks in the basement of Presby. It'll be wonderful. Wait, are you allowed to eat or drink before the stress test? I don't know.
Chapter 2: What are the concerns regarding the stress test?
Well, I did. I would think not. Okay. That's probably a good point, actually. Yeah. Just like when you get a blood test, they say don't eat or drink anything for six to eight hours. Well, what does eating or drinking have to do with your heart beating? Well, that can still affect whatever your symptoms might be. Really, Malsy? Tell me more. I think. I don't know.
I've taken a stress test before, and I believe that that's what they told me. It's beside the point limits. Can I get to my story to open the show? Please. So at 6.15, I go out on the parkway. And there's a gigantic accident, unfortunately. And we stood in traffic for a full hour, a full hour and didn't move. And then get through the Fort Pitt tunnel and then go to Oakland.
Have you been in Oakland? I was going to say lately in the last five years. Oh, my God. Yeah. Limits. It's one big construction site. You want to talk about a place to get your orange cone for the Pirate Games, just walk up and down Forbes Avenue for an hour. You'll come out with 100. So I tried to find a parking spot. I might as well have been trying to find Malzi at a bald man's convention.
I mean, it was ridiculous. Oh, then you have to parallel park into like a small little box where you're about five inches away from the next car. It was insane. And then I got into Presby, and I love UPMC. Believe me. But I'm glad they're opening a new Presby because the elevator system in the old one is the most...
insane maze I've ever been in in my life to the point where even the people who work there don't know how to get to the next floor. I can't even explain to you what happened. I can't even explain it. I'm a reasonably intelligent man. I'm smart enough to know that I'm not that smart. I'm just smart enough to know that I'm not that smart, which is a bad place to be. But I can use an elevator.
Normally they're numbered one, two, three, four. This one has all these different symbols on it. And I was supposed to go to A429 and And it said Lothrop something or Scaife Hall 4. And I pressed it. And then letters came up. L-N. You're in car. N-L-N-O-P.
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Chapter 3: What challenges did Joe face while getting to the hospital?
Q-R-S-T-U-V. So I asked some guy, random guy, I said, how do I get to the fourth floor? And he said, press 4. He said, press 4. I said, I know that. I just did. Nothing's happening except someone's yelling letters at me. So I pile in the elevator with people who work there. I get off at what I think is the fourth floor.
And then I'm supposed to go to the A part, the A part of the fourth floor, the A wing. And not even the workers knew. I'm like, how do I get to A? They're like, I don't know. I don't know. What do you mean they don't know? How did the workers not know? They didn't know because nobody knows because all it is is a sea of confused humans. Do they just take the stairs every single day?
Because there's A, F, G, R, M on the fourth floor. So then I was just about to just sit in the middle of the floor and say, forget it. I'm already a half hour late for this thing. And finally, somebody said, oh, A, somebody yelled down the hallway back to me. Hey, it's over here. A, A429. So I'm like, great. So I walk over there and there it is, like out of nowhere.
So you were on the right floor. Like an oasis in the desert. For some odd reason, A429 is, there's no A428 that I saw, but there it was. So like I told my new friend, Olivia, who works there. I had a stress test before I came in for the stress test. It's like a double feature here. I'm your perfect candidate. So do they have multiple elevators at Presby? I've never been there. Yes, they do.
Because the first one I got on was the wrong one. You know, we've all done that. Where we get on the elevator and then all the workers are like, no, you got to go on the other elevator. I'm like, okay, which one? So they all don't go to the same floor.
I don't know where they go.
Like the left side goes to this part of the hospital. I don't know where they go. Then there's the maintenance elevator. Well, yeah, you're not taking the maintenance elevator. Well, you could pretty darn easily there. I'll tell you that much. I've never seen anything like it in my life limits. Never, ever. The good news is the stress test looked good. It really did.
At least the preliminary indications. They're going to study it a little bit more. And I got a workout in while I was doing it. You don't take the maintenance elevator. That's for carts. Ask somebody that's in charge of that. I don't drive carts and things of that nature. I don't think people ride on that. I know. So here I am. I live to tell about it, at least so far.
We'll see the results at the end of the day. I don't know what else to say. Bob's, of course, not here, as the song says. Where is he on Tuesdays? I understand that during the year, I was going to say the Tomlin.
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Chapter 4: How does the conversation shift to the Pirates' performance?
Guys eat that up at this level limits. You think he's going to wind up with a better ERA than 3.8? I would be surprised at that. 3-8 to 4 range. If it's better than that, I wouldn't be surprised, no. I would at this point, but go ahead. And by the way, great accountability on his part, like Ozuna. Love the accountability. Love what I just heard. Love Ozuna saying I deserve to be booed.
But great accountability doesn't alleviate the concerns. It just means they're accountable. Next. 3 is Connor Griffin because... He did go back to AAA and hit over 400, and it was a very limited sample size. But I did think that he unlocked something. I, like you, like Dan Zangrilli, like many others, kind of surprised that they called him up at this time.
I expected it to be before April 9th, if not later, if they truly care about that PPI pick, but didn't see it coming on the home opener. Thought maybe it would be maybe this series against San Diego at the earliest. The contact's been okay. I am just glad that he's not striking out that much. I think it's only four strikeouts in four games.
So they keep moving him around in the lineup from as high as six to as low as eighth. But the reason why I have him three and Henry Davis four is I am somebody that's buying into Henry Davis's at-bats so far and how well he's played defensively. He's three or four throwing out runners. Forget about defense. I still think his at-bats have been solid. He's hitting the ball the other way.
Griffin's defense has been great too. If I need a great defensive catcher, I'll call Jacob Stallings out of retirement. If I need a great defensive shortstop, I'll go get Jordy Mercer out of retirement. These guys are here for their bats.
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you know where to find them. Jordy Mercer's on the set of Sportsnet and Jacob Stallings is a bullpen coach. Period. They're here to hit. And just because Griffin hit 400 at AAA, Henry Davis is Henry Aaron at AAA. Go look at his AAA numbers. So, you know, at some point for a team that expects to be and looks to be like it could be in a playoff race, these guys need to hit.
And I'm holding Connor Griffin to a certain standard. Right. My God, after we all talked about him like he was he was to be sainted that day as a baseball great. You should have heard Dan on the air that day. And I agreed with him. He's like, you know, things we've been fooled before, but things have finally changed for the Pirates. This this one's real and it might be.
I'm not talking about 13 at-bats. What I'm talking about is if we're all going to say that on the first day, we can't turn around now and say, yeah, he probably shouldn't have been called up. No, he should have been, and he should be held to a standard. I'm holding him to Juan Soto's standard. Have a really good, high-impactful first year, and I still think he could.
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Chapter 5: Who is considered the best wide receiver in this draft class?
Who's the best touchdown maker of them all? I think the best pure route runner and separator, which is a guy that I consider creates explosive plays, is Concepcion. I think he is the best route runner of the four. I think he's the second best after the catch. I think Cooper is the best after the catch.
I think if you're looking for a showman that makes the flashy plays and can really wow you, that's Tyson. Who's the best fit as far as a team that already has Pittman and Metcalf on it? I think the good thing for the Steelers is I view all of Tyson, Cooper, and Concepcion as good fits. Boston, I think, is an atypical fit.
But I think the best fit of them personally in terms of how you play off those two is probably Concepcion just because he's a route winner. He's a main coverage guy. He can win after the catch. He's a returner.
Chapter 6: What makes Casey Concepcion a standout prospect?
But Cooper also a returner, yak guy. Cooper's gotten some Debo Samuel comps. If you get a young Debo Samuel with those guys, that is a really good person. And then Tyson, he can just play anywhere. You just put him out there. He plays slot. He plays outside. He's a route winner too. So all these guys are good route runners, good after the catch. Ball winners.
I think Concepcion is just very fluid in terms of how he runs routes. I'll tell you this. When I look at Casey Concepcion, I think people don't really give him credit for how good he is. The drop rate is going to scare people, and that's really what the knock on him is going to be. You know, he had almost a 9% drop rate last year.
But you look at the route running comparisons that he has in the NFL and talk about some of the best route runners in the league. And there's a chance that if Concepcion finds consistency in his hands, and I don't think that's crazy to think because I think a lot of it is focused rather than technique based, which I think is the much more easy thing to fix than a technique deficiency.
I think Concepcion has a chance to be the surprise wide receiver one of this class. And I think that's the ceiling of him. And so I don't really look at a guy in this class and think guaranteed superstar. There's not a Jamar Chase in this class. But certainly Concepcion has a chance to be a guy that could be a pro bowler.
And I don't think people are giving him enough credit for how good he is doing stuff. outside of just catching the ball, which obviously is very important, but he has every tough thing on the wide receiver docket checked off. He can just improve that a little bit. We have star potential here in this guy.
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Chapter 7: How does Denzel Boston fit into the Steelers' plans?
While Denzel Boston is visiting with the Steelers today on a top 30 visit, how much do you think that matters in the Mike McCarthy era compared to the Tomlin era? It's been weird this year, Austin. They've had one or two first-round guys come in, so it's hard to say. I think based on what we know about Omar Khan and Andy Wiles' front office, they matter a lot.
They've drafted a lot of guys from these lists. Some of it might be medical. Some of it may be character checkups. But a lot of these guys don't have either of them, so they're clearly interested in some of these guys. So I think it matters. I mean, Boston fits a lot of what Mike McCarthy likes in receivers, too. You look at size. He likes bigger targets, too.
You know, he's an old school coach, man. He likes big targets. He likes big bodies. He likes physicality. Just think about your old school football. That's what Mike McCarthy thinks of still. And so that is Denzel Boston. I actually did this last night. I just wanted to look up some of the guys that kind of fit into Mike McCarthy's kind of idea of a wide receiver.
And you think about guys like Jordy Nelson and Devontae Adams and even lower tier guys like, you know, James Jones. You look at Jordy Nelson, and I looked at the number one athletic comparison just physically. It was Denzel Boston. That was just a little bit of an interesting find to me, but then you look at a guy like James Jones, too, and you kind of see there's Omar Cooper.
Those guys fit a lot of what McCarthy wide receivers look like. And so to me, those are the types of guys that I think they're going to be interested in.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of the Connor Griffin contract situation?
So I'm not surprised that they're bringing Boston in for a visit. He fits what McCarthy likes. I just think the fit's weird. He's an outside-only guy. He's not really a slot. Unless you're playing Pittman in the slot full-time, it's very weird. And I'm not sure you have a real route runner at that point. So it's kind of a weird fit to me with Boston. I think he's a good player.
I just don't think it's a great fit. Nick Farabaugh from PennLive.com. Sunny and a high of 43 today. Troy Polamalo, a low of 31. Donnie Schell, Fan Weather, brought to you by Secure Money Advisors. Looking to retire soon? Let Secure Money Advisors get your retirement on track. So who's the best actual, and we know who the top pick's going to be, Mendoza. Who's the best football player?
Who's going to have the best career of this whole draft season? I've stood on this hill, and I still think it's going to be Sonny Stiles out of Ohio State. There are rare guys at the off-ball linebacker position that can change a scheme, and he can do it. He's got everything. He's got strength. He's got athleticism. He's got the smarts. He's a three-down green-dot linebacker.
Him and Arvell Reese, those two guys out of Ohio State, because I think Reese is more of an off-ball than an edge, are going to be special players. I look at them, and they are true blue-chip talents. They just happen to play off-ball linebacker. And Sonny Stiles is going to go later than probably he should talent-wise. I still watch the tape and think he's the best player in this class.
And the weird thing about this class is you have all these guys at non-premium positions, right? You don't really have a star at receiver. You don't really have a star at tackle. You have a lot of stars at running back, you know, Jeremiah Love, safety, Caleb Downs, and these off-ball linebackers. And to me, you just watch Stiles, and he does everything well. He deconstructs blocks.
He flows to the ball. He sees really what you really want in terms of the processing of it, doesn't get fooled by play action or, you know, pulls. He takes on pulls in the hole very strong. He has hands that are like that of an interior defensive lineman sometimes with how he stuns.
offensive lineman climbing to the second level and he's fluid in space and good in coverage like this is a guy that you know his ceiling is best inside linebacker in the nfl and so that's the type of player i think is just unbelievable so i'm fully on the sunny style street wow all right well nick great stuff we appreciate the time man and hopefully we can do this again in studio before the draft
Yeah, anytime you guys want me on, just invite me in. I appreciate you having me on. What if we invite Kabaly at the same time? I'm down. Let's do it. All right. You and Kabaly. Me and Kabaly. Me and Kabaly debating would be fun. I like that idea. Oh, that would be a great idea. Can I ask Nick one more question? Please.
It seems like Vanga Iwane, who I still can't pronounce from my own school, is getting more and more momentum to potentially be drafted by the Steelers. I saw next-gen stats in their Ideal Fits mock draft that the Steelers are taking. Do you think that there actually is growing momentum that that could be the selection for the Steelers at 21? Sure.
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