Pirates Fan Forum: Tanking... in MLB? For real?

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4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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On this episode, Gary Morgan and Jim Stamm discuss whether or not tanking in baseball is a real thing and if so is there any way to actually solve it? Most fans think it's just the Pirates of the baseball world that willingly look like a minor league team for the rest of the MLB, but lately the Cubs, Astros, and Braves have all taken a turn in the gutter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football.
0:07.0	What a fantastic night of football.
0:10.0	Including 10 Premier League games.
0:13.0	It doesn't get much better than that.
0:17.0	And Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match.
0:22.3	The biggest live games from the biggest leagues all wrapped up.
0:28.0	It's on Prime.
0:33.4	The United States. Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome back to the Pirates fan forum here on D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.
0:52.0	I'm your host, Gary Morgan.
0:53.8	With me, as always, is my good friend and compadre, Jim Stam.
0:59.3	How you doing, brother?
1:01.0	Oh, pretty good, Gary.
1:02.9	Yeah, we've got a lockout, but that doesn't mean we can't talk baseball.
1:07.4	And we are in control for better or worse.
1:13.6	Yeah, the entire baseball world right now is pretty much Mets hires and minor league stuff going on so yeah that's that's kind of everything i
1:20.7	guess in uh reporters getting let go from part-time jobs and everybody losing their minds about it.
1:27.9	So before we get too far down the rabbit hole here today, let's make sure that everybody gets right up top here.
1:35.5	The live Pirates Fan Forum is going to be on January 22nd at the North Shore Tavern.
1:42.1	A lot of you know about it.
1:43.9	But the more of the merrier, we really think it's going to be a good time down there.
1:48.0	A lot of audience participation.
1:50.1	We really want to get as many of you on as we can.
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