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, fresh in from the cold and running his kid around to practice.

How you doing?

Yeah, man.

Dude, it's, if my math is correct and sometimes it is most most

the time it's not it's like we're like 35 days out from opening day and it feels like the frozen

tundra of lambo field out so um yes the calendar is saying we are close, but the weather does not feel like it.

Yeah, we got baseball games starting Saturday, you know, for the Pirates. So, I mean, we're going to talk a lot about spring training.

Yark is going to be along shortly. He's got practice for one of his little girls tonight at cheer.

So he's just going to show up a few minutes late.

We're just going to pop them in.

Now, see, I thought Yark had cheerleading practice, which totally made sense to me.

Well, if he's drank enough, that's what I hear it turns into.

But we'll see.

Before we get started tonight, Jim, we lost a legend man uh mike lang you know uh yeah boy that that hurts you know uh people our age especially when we grew

up with him before it was even like normal for every game to be on TV.

You know, people forget like there were, it was hard to find penguin games on TV.

If there was one on, you all gathered around and the one place that could get that channel in somehow.

You know, like they had the rabbit ears that would turn the right direction

and you'd be able to watch a game or the playoffs.

Maybe you'd get to see something.

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