Paul Skeens was blowing away guys down here.

Connor Griffin was mashing home runs onto rooftops.

And this is the fun part.

Maybe we should also talk about the one part that nobody talks about.

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Friday morning, I'm Dan Kovach of H. of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

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that you found this. Yeah, Skeens was awesome.

I know people probably get tired of hearing that,

but, you know, it still counts.

It's still worth bringing up on occasion.

He pitched what's known as three upsets.

Three simulated, not really, but game-looking type situations.

In the form of innings, he struck out six, walked one, and gave up a Brian Reynolds single.

Griffin hitting off a machine also happened to send that baseball off the roof of the batting cages, which is very far, out to left field.

Then hit one off the roof of the clubhouse beyond left center, which is very, very, very far.

And there I was, bouncing all over the place, trying to get answers to something that I had

promised you in advance of coming down here that I would at least pursue. And that's whether or not

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