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 Stamm.

How you doing, brother?

Doing good, man.

Just trying to stay, keep this sickness away from me.

The wife, he's down. sun's uh starting to do the

sniffles so um i'm just going to hide in here as long as possible and if you want to do a four

hour podcast with our guests then uh i might i might actually do it i mean some of you that

have been watching this show for a really long time will remember that Doug was one of our very first guests on this show way long ago.

Back when we first started this concept, Douglas Ford was one of the first regular fans we had on.

And now he's like spread his wings and flown off to North Shore 9 and he's a regular

contributor over there. So Doug, say hello to everybody, brother. If you're still there.

I see Doug, but he's not moving.

I thought he was literally just like being super like locked in.

I thought he was just eating up the praise.

That's what I thought.

I thought he's just going, oh, yeah, the praise is pretty awesome, actually.

There's Doug.

He's back now.

Doug, I just got done praising you and telling everyone how awesome you are.

So just take your flowers and then we can start talking.

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