Stuff comes my way, and that's kind of understandable for anybody who's ever been in this business,

if they've been on a beat long enough.

You don't always have to go scraping around to find stories that'll just kind of come to you.

Good morning to you. Good. Monday morning. I'm Dan Kovachvich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily

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Had kind of a weird three, four days as it relates to baseball following the last time we met last Thursday.

And here's what I mean by that.

Initially, the team fed report on ESPN about the pirates being really into spending this offseason

and how they're chasing Kyle Schwabur and how they chased Josh Naylor before he was

brought back by the Mariners and how they chased Josh Naylor before he was brought back by the Mariners,

and how they're open to having Connor Griffin start the season in Pittsburgh,

that stirred a lot of nests that aren't often stirred this time of year.

I am never inclined to go chasing down other people's reporting

or trying to verify it or reject it. I just really don't care. I either have the reporting

myself, I have the knowledge myself, or I don't. No part of the job entails checking on anybody

else's work. At least not as I see it. I'm sure there

are some who would see it differently. But what did come my way were a couple of things that are

worth sharing, even if they're not necessarily related or even some kind of after effect of that

report. The first thing, and this was, this was one of those, you find something out, and it runs

counter to what you yourself have been telling people, so you immediately get a little

bit defensive as a reporter.

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