Hey guys. Welcome to Double Shot of Pirates here on D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. My name is Chris Halleck.

And joining me for the last time from that tiny little box in Bradenton, Florida is D.K. himself.

D.K., I know how much you love Florida

and hate the fact that you're going to be coming home tonight. So soak in the sun as long as you

can, buddy, okay? Now, I'm just going to hide from it here, a little bit of shade. But I did make

sure that you were poking one little palm tree there over my

shoulder there. You see that? I see the Florida palm tree. I do believe you're actually there.

Palm trees make people irrationally happy. I never understood that. They're just trees.

But people see them and they go, oh my God, it's so beautiful. It's just a tree, man.

Vacation. Yeah. I know. I know. It's all symbolism. It's all perception. You know, you can plant those trees anywhere.

Anywhere. Yeah. I lived in, I lived in, you know you know, obviously lived in, in Texas for 23 years and

not natural palm trees nowhere, but every time you went to an in and out burger,

there were like, oh, palms.

24, 24, around around the in and out.

So, yeah, it's, it's hilarious.

Um, all right.

Spring training is continuing on in Bradenton and we have games coming up pretty soon, don't we?

Tomorrow.

In fact, today was the last day for the team at Pirate City, spread out on the four fields.

It was a very, very, very light day.

A brief workout.

There was a team meeting very early in the morning, and then

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