See, my plane lands here in South Florida.

Just a couple days ago, you get a text for a buddy of mine, scouts for an American League team.

And he says, hey, it looks like your buckos are in trouble.

I didn't know what he meant.

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Steelers and penguins in the same place that you've found this. Pirates conclude their grapefruit

league schedule today in Fort Myers. I'll be over there covering that. That's a cross alligator alley from here

in sunrise where I was covering hockey, Penguins versus Panthers last night. And I'm not going to

lie. I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to being back around the team. That means today.

That means a practice that they've got scheduled for Wednesday.

Back here on this side of the state in Miami.

And then, of course, the 144th season opener, Thursday against the Marlins.

And yeah, yeah, there's some things that are concerning.

So the text itself from the scout did not throw me,

but probably just like you are, I wanted to know what he meant. Like, what was he referencing? Because it feels like it could have been any number of things. Was it, for example, that Jared Jones is having some sort of elbow issue?

We're going to find out this week the extent of that.

And that was the first thing I asked.

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