DK's Daily Shot of Pirates: Let's talk 'tanking'

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Sports, Football, Nhl, Dejan Kovacevic, Pittsburgh Pirates, Baseball, Pirates, Matt Williamson, Mlb, Dk Pittsburgh Sports, Pittsburgh Steelers, Steelers, Penguins, Pittsburgh Penguin, Pittsburgh, Nfl, Hockey

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The Pittsburgh Pirates have been the center of the 'tanking' world in baseball, but today Scott Boras went another direction in talking about teams tanking. Boras went after, of all teams, the newly christened World Series champions, the Atlanta Braves for 'tanking.' Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's Daily Shots of Steelers, Penguins and Pirates -- three separate podcasts -- every weekday morning on the DK Pittsburgh Sports podcasting network, available on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/dkpghsports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football.
0:07.0	What a fantastic night of football.
0:10.0	Including 10 Premier League games.
0:13.0	It doesn't get much better than that.
0:17.0	And Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match.
0:22.3	The biggest live games from the biggest leagues all wrapped up.
0:28.2	It's on Prime.
0:33.4	So remember when I promised yesterday that today's episode would be about baseball, about actual baseball and not payrolls and finances?
0:48.1	Well, I lied, as it turns out.
0:51.5	Good morning to you.
0:52.6	Good Thursday morning.
0:53.8	I'm Dan Kovachov of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.
0:56.7	And this is Daily Shot of Pirates. It comes your way bright and early every weekday. If you're into football and or hockey, I also offer up daily shots of Steelers and Penguins where you found this.
1:09.8	Blame this episode.
1:12.7	On one of our listeners, Jamie McCormick, who's also a longtime subscriber to D.K.
1:18.2	Pittsburgh Sports, Jamie sends me an email, this is last night, that says, I can't wait to hear your response to this.
1:31.0	And this would be a link to an ESPN article covering Major League Baseball's general
1:39.8	managers meetings that are currently taking place out in Carlsbad, California.
1:44.1	Don't confuse these with the winter meetings.
1:46.0	The GM meetings are generally not a big deal, and they're only covered by, like, the biggest media outlets anywhere.
1:52.9	And the reason for that is only the biggest media outlets anywhere have any interest in this.
2:01.2	Because, you know, you know why.
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