He doesn't do anything, obviously, doesn't say anything, just as obviously.

So what exactly is the point of keeping him around, never mind being in charge of baseball operations. Good morning to you.

Good. Monday morning, I'm Dan Kovachovich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily Shot of Pirates. It comes your way right in early every weekday. If you're into football and or hockey,

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Cubs 3, Pirates 2.

Yesterday in Chicago, the home team ended up with three out of four in that series the Pirates even though they the first

place Cubs managed to score only nine total runs in those four games why you know the answer

because the visitors managed to score only seven the low number of runs was

very much an anomaly for chicago that is to the inestimable credit of pittsburgh's pitching staff

as a whole starters relievers oscar marine the catchers everybody everybody that's just a superb job over a four-game series against that opponent.

And it all gets wasted for the same reason that everything gets wasted with this team.

And really with this organization pretty much top to bottom.

That's that the general manager does absolutely nothing about it. There was a time when that

sort of inactivity could be painted as patience as attempting to build something in the

longer term or if you build up enough pitching prospects, you can turn them into hitting prospects.

We're so far past that. It's not even in the conversation anymore. In fact, beginning with five weeks ago, when Derek Shelton was fired, and Ben Charington stunningly was not. And the owner, Bob Nut nutting speaks publicly to placing a priority on how the remainder of this season plays out not from the standpoint of the standings or anything like that but just

perform better progress start making some strides. Since then, since that moment, since something that

really should have caught everybody's attention inside the building at 115 federal,

Charrington's body of work in assembling additional offense is hold up a fist. That's it right

there. It's nothing. He's done nothing. If you want to get technical on me and count the

210 hitting catcher that came up the 30-year-old from the miners and had himself a nice game,

you can go right

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