In last week's episode, I said that when men who have many years of learning and thinking about the game are removed from the game, far more is lost than many people realize.

Let me hear you, going ahead now. A one.

A two.

A three.

Three.

The answer is a lot.

Welcome to In the Bullpen with Mark Dure.

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And look who's coming up.

I fly ball into right field.

She is gone.

What I said at the end of last week's episode, and I said at the beginning of this episode was in reference to experience scouts and player development personnel.

And those words came at the conclusion of three episodes of conversation with one such man, Jim Rooney.

And I hope you enjoyed and learned as much as I did through the stories that he shared with us all.

Now, there hasn't been an episode of In the Bullpen that did not include Jim Rooney since July 28th.

That particular episode was titled My Family at PNC. I could have titled this week's episode, My Family at Covenant Health Park. More on that shortly. But if you

looked at the title of this week's episode, you may have thought that I was going to discuss

one knee down catching.

As I've said before, I have no problem with one knee down catching when there's nobody on base

and there's less than two strikes on the batter. But otherwise, I have significant problems.

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