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.

We are fresh back from a Thanksgiving break.

We finally took one.

I think it's the first time we've willingly skipped the show, right? It is. Like, even whatever you mentioned, you know, you're like, you just want to, because I have, I had the in-laws in town, um, not to brag. Um, I survived that. But like, you were like, you know, it, do you just want to take a week off? And I was like, I don't think we've ever thought about that before.

Yes, let's just do that.

So I enjoyed it.

Yeah, man, it was it was nice just kind of dialing it back for a week.

It's, you know, the pirates have been a hard subject to talk about this off-season especially.

We're all in wait and sea mode. You know, you have even, even people that are kind of dialed in on being angrier, at least willing to put out there, I hope I'm wrong and all that.

You know, I think I'm wrong and all that.

You know, I think like for the most part,

until we start seeing what they're actually doing,

it's going to be really hard to discuss because we all have,

we all know the clear holes they have and things like that.

So, I mean, in this show today, that we're going to start talking about some of the team.

We actually want to discuss the, the pitching staff.

They have 16 guys on the 40 man right now.

I'd like to kind of talk about how those kind of slot in, how we, how we think like the bullpen could work if they didn't do anything. I always like to start with, what if they didn't do

anything? Because that's the baseline, right? Yeah. And yeah, it's one of those things where

you mentioned about not having a reaction right now

because there is nothing really to react to, even if you see something like the Chapman thing, right?

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