Paul Skenes' Struggle with Fame and Performance Issues

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00:00And the Pirates are home this evening at PNC.

00:03And, of course, they'll get a big crowd because who's on the mound?

00:06Paul Skeen's night in Pittsburgh against the Nationals.

00:10That also means you're going to pay for it.

00:12Minus 205 for the Buccos this evening.

00:15The Nats are plus $1.70.

00:16They'll have your boy, Brad Lord.

00:21May the Lord be with you.

00:21Seven and a half is the total.

00:25And also with you.

00:26I will say this.

00:28Paul Skeen's is amazing.

00:30But I think he's doing too much stuff on the side.

00:34He's become so famous.

00:35He's doing GQ shoots and, you know, doing all kinds of, you know, video games.

00:41And he's on the cover of this and that.

00:43And they got him, you know, already winning the Cy Young.

00:46And what he's doing is he's going out and getting lit up.

00:50His last start, he gave up five runs in four innings.

00:55I'll take him tonight anyway because I think the Nationals suck.

00:58And I think Skeen's has to wake up and stop doing all this Hollywood stuff and start being who he is.

01:04He's a pitcher.

01:05I think all this fame and fortune is getting to his head.

01:09And it only took one year.

01:10Am I wrong, Mike?

01:11Like, he's not pitching well.

01:13He gave up five runs his last start.

01:15And he's already had two bad starts.

01:18And he had the 4-1 lead.

01:21And the Pirates blew that game in Miami.

01:23But he has not been great at all.

01:26I think it's because he's doing all this other stuff.

01:28Not only that, he's doing interviews about his other stuff.

01:30He's like, yeah, I can't believe I'm in GQ.

01:32I'd never heard of him before.

01:33But it was a pretty good photo shoot, didn't you think?

01:35I thought my girlfriend looked good.

01:36Like, bro, honestly, just go pitch.

01:39I would say this is his fourth start of the season.

01:43I would say only one of the first three were really good.

01:46That was the one in Tampa, that afternoon game, where he pitched really well that day.

01:50But other than that, the Miami game and the St. Louis game, he didn't pitch well in either of them.

01:56Even the game that they blew for him.

01:57You know, he wasn't great in that opening day game.

01:59They already handed him to Cy Young.

02:01He's not even winning that.

02:02That's not happening either.

02:03Yeah, there's a long way to go to be handed anybody to Cy Young in April.

02:09Yeah, thanks.

02:10There's just way too much time left in the season.

02:13He needs to work.

02:13He needs to bust his ass and work and stop being famous.

02:18Like, I think it's gotten to him already.

02:20It took one year.

02:21Is it part of that because the team sucks, so he thinks he has to do all that to get himself boosted up?

02:28Because if he doesn't do it, the team is so bad, he's not going to be in these high-profile games or the playoffs or anything like that.

02:35Maybe that's why.

02:35I think there's some semblance of that, that he's not in anything that matters except all-star games where he started.

02:42But I think that he's a great talent, and he needs to show what he's made of pitching.

02:48And all this other stuff is bullshack.

02:50I mean, that's just money and side cheese and side hustle and all this other stuff.

02:56Fame and fortune, it ruins everyone.

02:59It ruins everyone.

03:00It really does.

03:00I don't care what anybody says.

03:02It ruins everyone.

03:03I want to see the guy pure as day pitch and not have his arm fall off.

03:08I've told you that a thousand times.

03:10I don't care about all this other bullshack.

03:12I don't care about it.

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