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 sounding a little bit more like himself this week.

Yeah, yeah, I'm doing good, Gary.

I just had Ben at the batting cages.

I squeezed that in before we got here doing this.

And I was afraid Andy Haynes was going to show up, so we got out of there anyway.

You know, I didn't want him to get his hands on Ben just yet.

But no, man, everything's good.

Pirates could be doing a little better.

I'm looking forward to Skeens tonight, so.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to Skeens, too.

I'd like to see him maybe push back a little bit and look a little bit more dominant again,

you know, a little bit less picking around the edges he's been doing

in some of his recent outings here. And if that's kind of part of what Grundal is doing with him,

I'm not sure I'm interested in it. Like, maybe we need to get him away from Grandaugh for more reasons than one, right?

Well, it's funny you mention that because the, I'm sure you've seen it.

The Grandal offensive numbers when he catches for skeins is totally bizarre.

Like, the guy can't hit much for anything, but when he catches skeins, he decides, I can hit.

It's strange.

But, yeah, as far as schemes go, I feel like, you know, Lake Jones, he spoiled us right away.

And then no matter how great you are at this game, there's always going to be

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