Hey everybody. I'm going to start talking slowly because I don't have intro music today.

And I want you to kind of join in for a second before I really get into talking.

But welcome to Pirates Fan Forum here on DK. Pittsburgh Sports Podcast Network. It is Gary,

your old pal and your other buddy, Jim Stam,

here with you. And we're going to talk today, Jim, about finishing the offseason strong and

what that looks like to us. You know, I mean, is it just a dude? Is it a dollar figure? What is it?

Like,

what makes this a successful offseason in your eyes and also hello?

Well, hello to you too, Gary.

I was thinking about beatbox in the intro, but, you know, um, yeah, you know, we're old

and white.

So forget that.

Um, it's, it're old and white, so forget that. It's funny because I'm sitting here today and I'm like, I'm doing the math on how close we are now to opening day. Yeah. And it's like nine, nine plus weeks. Ten weeks if you're talking the home opener so yeah it's

time to have this conversation i think right and it's officially pirate season because the

steelers bowed out you know of the playoffs so i've i heard there was even people saying let's go bucks

on the way out of the stadium the other night.

Yeah, amongst other things that were being chanted.

Yeah, so it does suck, man.

I thought maybe the Texans, I thought maybe they could get past them.

It just for what, three quarters it looked like that might happen. But yeah, so we're

here in Pirates season and we don't have a lot of time. And Gary, let me ask you this just

right off the bat before we get into that part of it is, isn't this where teams kind of really

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