Hello and welcome to the Pirates Fan Forum here on DK. Pittsburgh Sports Podcast Network.

I'm your host, Gary Morgan, with me as always my good friend, Jim Stam.

How you doing, brother?

Good, man.

Other than the weather, I can't really complain.

The pirates are playing pretty well, and my house isn't underwater yet. So that's a good thing.

Yeah, I saw a bunch of people. James Littleton got hit pretty hard actually.

Oh, did he?

Real bad. Yeah. So shout out to everybody who got flood damage. Hope it's okay. Also, our next

guest didn't bring it north with him. It came before he did.

He just arrived up here in the Pittsburgh area.

You know him from Locked-on Pirates, and most of you that watch this show,

probably seen me on there every other Monday or every Monday or whenever he decides to have me on every week.

So Ethan Smith, welcome to the show, brother.

Glad you can make it happen.

Yeah, of course.

And as I told Gary before we started recording, I stepped out of the airport and that cold air just hit me and it just felt great.

Just felt wonderful, you know, after being in the 70s for the last couple weeks.

You know, everybody's like, oh, yeah, he's mentioning the 70 degree weather.

Yeah, I know we wish we could flip places but

sometimes that cold weather hits you and it just feels different no i feel you man i was only in

florida for like about a week and i was ready to come back to my natural habitat you know i don't

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