Hey guys. Welcome to Double Shot of Pirates.

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

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It's NFL Draft Week here, and it's also the day of Stanley Cup final.

Stanley Cup final, getting it way ahead of myself.

Stanley Cup playoffs game two between the Penguins and the Flyers in a couple of hours.

We got time for some baseball talk.

Your club is off to a 13 and 9 start.

And that's only good enough for technical third place right now.

The whole division is off to a really good start, actually, the whole central.

What's been most interesting for me about this start been the

underlying metrics actually match it for anybody who doesn't know what i mean by that you can get yourself

some outcomes you can get yourself some results and you can get yourself some results.

And you can call yourselves a team of destiny or whatever else there is to it

because you're pulling out the close ones and you're winning in extras and walkoffs

and woo and dousing with, you know, gatorade and whatever else afterward.

This is, this, this team isn't doing that.

And as a result, a couple of things happened.

One is that I don't know that their, their victories get celebrated as much because it's not,

wow, what a fantastic finish.

No, it's just, you know, they won by four.

They won by three.

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