Major League Baseball's winter meetings begin this morning in Orlando, Florida, and the Pittsburgh

Baseball Club seldom disgusted these things might actually come up a time or two. Good morning to you. Good.

Monday morning. I'm Dan Fawatchewitch of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily Shot of Pires presented to you by

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Kyle Schwabber's name was connected again to the Pirates yesterday.

This one was kind of loose.

Not really even worth mentioning, but I'm going to do it anyway because it's really how this whole event goes.

I've covered a bunch of winter meetings.

And they're incredibly uncomfortable for a reporter who, boy, how do I say this?

A reporter who doesn't want to feel tempted to just take something that they might have heard in the most random conversation and try to turn it into a headline.

Or worse, just makes it up.

Because you're there under one gigantic roof where these events are

always held, these monstrous city block wide hotels and all of the executives and all of the

managers and all of the assistants and scouts and everything else.

They're all there.

They're all there.

As are most of those who cover baseball for a living in the journalism world.

So when there's a report, as there was yesterday, that the pirates have made an offer to Schwerber,

that's four years somewhere in the range of a hundred million, if you know what you're doing

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