Hello and welcome to the Pirates Fan Forum here on D.K. Pittsburgh Sports Podcast Network.

I'm your host, Gary Morgan.

With me as always, Jim Stam.

I'm not even to let him do a whole preamble yet.

Because returning to the show is our friend, Travis Snyder, of 3A AthletA athletics and we were supposed to have Seth,

but because I, who run international business on a day-to-day basis of my real life,

didn't communicate well about Pacific Time versus East Coast time.

I think if we check the receipts, you actually communicated.

This was on me, so I apologize, Seth wasn't able to join us. But I'll take ownership for that one. No, bro. The host has to own it. That's the way it has to be. So we are going to just pepper, Travis, with questions. And you guys are all going to get a break from talking about a six-game losing streak. You don't want to hear anything else about anyway, right?

Come on now.

And if you don't know, Travis, shame on you for six weeks.

For real.

The guy was a former pirate, former number one overall pick.

His 244 career average would probably have him in the All-Star game nowadays.

I would say.

Welcome to the show, Travis. Thank you. I was at the Pirates Mariners game on Saturday, and I was looking at the stat lines up there, and I recognize what you just mentioned. My career stats don't look too bad now that the pitching has really passed up the hitting in terms of development. Right, right. Funny how that happens? So now, Jim, this is your turn because, Jim, the reason that Travis is back on is, yeah,

he's an interesting baseball guest.

Of course, we wanted to talk to him.

Sure.

You're going through it right now with the coaching and being a parent of a kid in sports.

And who else would we want to have on?

Man, like sometimes things line up right in your life.

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