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?

Doing good, man.

I'll tell you what, like baseball is really not that far away, Gary, but it's kind of hard to envision with the deep freeze that we are in,

man. It just, it seems like baseball is a million miles away. Yeah, I mean, I think we're about

four weeks away, believe it or not. And yeah, I mean, it's even harder to believe when you're

going to market that isn't doing much, right? So it's been a frustrating off season, man,

and I want to kind of roll right into Pirates Fest

because I know you didn't end up making it down there, right?

Ben wasn't feeling great.

And I rolled down Saturday, kind of, you know, took in the festivities listening to the q and a

walked around a little bit talked to some people ran into some some folks like outside

kind of left like i mean like it wasn't much different than last year frankly yeah like

obviously you went.

I couldn't this year.

It just didn't work out with Ben with his fever.

But tell me, like, what was before we get into like some of the stuff that was tweeted about it and some of the happenings, what did you think of it?

And was what was the vibe like? What did you pick of it? And what was the vibe like?

What did you pick up on?

I mean, outside, you noticed the protest and whatnot.

But once you're inside, not really.

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