When you hear something dumb, like it's just a perfect way to begin your week after pressing play on this particular program to find out that, I'll get to it.

I actually have a whole lot of dumb to cover today.

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I'm Dan Kovachvich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

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check out Reds 14 Pirates 8 yesterday at PNC Park.

Mike Burroughs gave up four runs.

The bullpen gave up 10.

And the hitters, despite obviously hitting with eight runs on 16 hits, still managed to strand 10 guys.

That leaves the team at 51 and 68, obviously dead last by a mile in the Central Division and heading tonight to Milwaukee to face

the best team in Major League Baseball based in a market that is two-thirds the size of Pittsburgh

but with ownership that cares and management that knows what it's doing gasp and to lay out a

couple of examples of what the opposite of that looks like,

I offer this seemingly small and not all that much discussed case of Lea Ver Pagero. He's 24 years old.

He's been in the system for half a decade. He's always been a Tulsie kid. And on the second of August,

just nine days ago, he hit not one, not two, but three home runs. Yeah, they were in Denver,

but they carried for miles. They would have been bombs anywhere. Three of them. One game. Three days

before that in San Francisco, a very fair park. He also homered. So four home runs in a three-game

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