and it feels like there's any one of several strings that you can pull and this entire operation

will just fall apart good morning to you. Good Friday morning from Miami.

I'm Dan Kovach, which of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

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Marlins 5, Pirates 4, you saw it, you lived it, you cringed through probably every single

pitch of the last four innings and change.

And I shared this with you on yesterday's show. I'm going to repeat it today.

Not even the offense is a bigger worry for me than the bullpen because I have no idea

what to expect from the bullpen, whereas I feel pretty comfortable

with what to expect from the offense, meaning I at least know what it's going to be.

This is something else entirely.

There was no point in this game, including when it was 4 to 1, when Paul Skeens was still

out there matching Sandy Alcantara pitch for pitch, that you said, wow, yeah, this is,

this is really under control.

First, because you didn't know what to think of the various lefties who were coming in,

probably didn't even know a lot of their names unless you were paying really close attention

to spring training.

And then, because Colin Holderman came in and the last time anybody saw Holderman in real games,

it wasn't going all that well.

And because you knew that Derek Schulton really

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