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We mentioned this last week that an 11-year-old collector pulled the Paul Skeen's debut patch card.

And the pirates had offered a whole bunch to get a copy of that card.

Two Pirates season tickets behind Home Plate for the next 30 years.

Meet and greet with Paul Skeens.

Two Paul Skeen signed jerseys.

Pirates game with Livy Dunn in her suite, much more.

And this 11-year-old said, no no thanks i'm keeping the card well this so

it's clear skein's desperately wanted this card and um so the pirates are desperate to try to keep him

because they know the moment he's eligible to hit free agency he's kind of scuddle on out the door

so they got in on the thing with him.

And this kid, thankfully, was able to listen to someone. I don't know whether it's his parents or

whoever, because all these auction houses have come out and said, look, this is potentially a million

dollar card. Don't do this trade. I don't care what they, you know, unless you were an avid,

the world's biggest

Pittsburgh Pirates fan and would actively use those season tickets or be able to sell them

in the, you know, or whatever, then you're, you know, totally getting the raw into this deal,

even though you might get to meet the guy or whatever. And so this kid, thankfully so,

was like, yes, no, thank you. I'll be collecting my million dollars because it got graded. They

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