Hello and welcome to the Pirates fan forum here on DK. Pittsburgh Sports Podcast Network.

I'm your host Gary Morgan with me today.

Only.

It's Michael Castragano, formerly of the 412 Double Play podcast and currently of Steel City Pirates say hello michael and jim hope

you're having a great vacation with the fan brother i'm going to do my best filling in for jim i've got my

in his honor icy mangoes nope it, it's disgusting.

Nope, can't do it.

Sorry, Jim.

The only fruit that should be in beer is an orange slice, a lemon peel, a lime, wedge, and the occasional olive if you've got a martini.

So let's get the show on the road.

I'm not a huge fan myself, but I'm just doing ice tea tonight because after that

concert and everything that I drank yesterday, my body needs a day.

That's all I'm going to say.

It was a good time, a really good time.

But I'm tired.

So let's talk about another reason we're tired.

Michael,

one of the reasons we wanted to get together here is first you and I write together

and we go back and forth sometimes in DMs about some different concepts and issues,

but it's been a long time since we've been able to sit down and just talk about baseball.

So let's talk about what's going on

of this team. Where are we right now? I mean, I'm to the point where I think if they played 500

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