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

I am finally home.

That's what it feels like to sit in this chair and do this show for all of you after a couple weeks off, great great great great to be back the the road

weary Gary Morgan is here and you know traveling used to be fun but my God anymore

when you have to go and be out of your own bed and you can't walk around in your boxers anymore. And, you know, well, you can. You know, it's just, I need my bed. I need my pillow. I need, you know, all that, all those comforts. The old days where you used to have to, like, get all dressed and head to the elevator go down 16 floors to walk outside

to suck down a dart you know it's it travel has gotten better that's all i'm going to say in

some ways but like when it's like stacked it's it doesn't matter how nice it is anymore you just you're tired of

everything you see wallpaper sucks you start critiquing the artwork in hotel rooms it it just turns

you into a weird creature of the night you know what I mean absolutely well you know at least

you had some baseball going on like for you know because the because the night, you're, you know, you're by yourself. What are you going to do? Go out and eat and then what. And then so you've had some postseason baseball games. I'm sure you've been able to keep track of and sit and watch. I'm sure that helped pass the time a little bit.

Sure, man. The baseball's been fun fun we should talk about that first let's

knock it right out all right let's get into the a lcs and the nLCS even though man we haven't

talked since it was wild card round yeah right really if if there's anything that you want to highlight

from the entire road here that's cool do it but um i'll start backwards i'll start

with where we are right now the dodgers are right so far embarrassing the brewers it looks awful

so far um and the brewers have probably thrown their two best pitchers at them to start. That's not

great. Man, the luxury of having a guy like Blake Snell that you can afford to pay like

$30 million, knowing he's hurt, to sit around and then all of a sudden kind of have

spring training towards the end of the season and then be the most fresh version of Blake

Snell that he's ever been they're letting him do things that he's never been allowed to do in his entire career

in the playoffs yeah he's going eight innings yeah eight innings faced the minimum

ouch in the playoffs bro that's not fun no no, this is where good story meets reality, right, with this series.

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