Hello and welcome to the Pirates Band Forum here on DK.

Pittsburgh Sports Podcast Network.

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

Sam, how you doing, brother?

Aside from some seasonal allergies, I'm all right.

I just, I don't know, maybe I'm, maybe I'm like the pirates.

I'm just allergic to postseason baseball and I just, my body can't take it, Gary. I don't know.

So excuse me and everybody listening if I snort and sniffle, bear with me tonight.

Yeah, it'll be, it'll be okay because I'm going to talk a lot and that usually ends up drowning

it out.

We're going to talk about the playoffs tonight.

It's been fun.

The role changes are fully in effect.

I think we've had teams have ample time to adjust to the expectations of the playoffs now and the way this format works and all the ins and outs of what happens if you do earn the five days off to sit around and wait for the to find out what your matchup is versus just squeaking in and riding momentum into the playoffs and

seeing what that does to a team.

I want to talk about all the different angles of what that has created now.

What kind of teams are we actually seeing put together?

Are people trying to build World Series victors or are they trying to build teams that

get in, Jim? That's really the point of what I want to talk about today. And we also want to talk

about how these teams were built, these ones in particular. Yeah, and how it relates to pirates

and what do we think of a setup in general and numbers of teams that get in.

So, yeah, I mean, this is, I think this is a, we're going to have a good talk today on this stuff.

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