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00:00Let's start off with the Pirates.
00:02Paul Skeen's pitches yesterday against the New York Mets does what he does.
00:05Six innings pitched, one earned run, six strikeouts.
00:07Pirates still lose.
00:09We also know that Derek Shelton is no longer the manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
00:14Also, Bud Black was fired by the Colorado Rockies.
00:17You know, you don't generally, Matt, see managers fired this early in the season in May,
00:23let alone two managers.
00:24We could even have more.
00:25I guess we'll see.
00:26You know, they got an initial bump, it felt like, with Pittsburgh when they made the move.
00:30And, you know, they were seemingly playing a little bit harder.
00:34But, dare I say, for the Pirates and for Paul Skeen's, this may be a little bit of a lost season.
00:40It's starting to feel that way.
00:41And I think a lot of us went into the season with high hopes for them
00:44and thought they could make a nice run.
00:46And, obviously, Skeen's would be the centerpiece to that.
00:48But it just really hasn't been there.
00:50The offense hasn't been there.
00:51The bullpen hasn't been there.
00:53And, you know, you look at yesterday's game and you mentioned Skeen's.
00:55He pitched well.
00:57It wasn't necessarily an overly dominant starter.
01:00Maybe didn't quite have his best stuff with three walks and six Ks and six innings.
01:05But, you know, he left.
01:06They had a lead.
01:07They had a chance to win that game and immediately gave it up and didn't have a lot of, you know,
01:12additional run support.
01:13And that was that.
01:14And you might be able to get by with those kind of starts against some of the, you know,
01:19lesser teams of the league.
01:20But they were playing a really good team.
01:21And it just isn't enough.
01:22So, it doesn't just, it just doesn't feel like they're going to be able to put it together
01:26and they're going to be able to find it.
01:28And, you know, whatever moves they make, you know, Skeen's didn't sound too upset that
01:33they got a new manager now.
01:35He was kind of like, yeah, whatever.
01:36Someone's got to go.
01:37So, I don't know.
01:38This is going to be, I think, you know, maybe a long summer, unfortunately, for the Pirates
01:42in a season where they went in with so much kind of hope and optimism.
01:45Yeah, and Skeen's announced that he will play for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic
01:50earlier this morning as well.
01:52He's moved ahead, by the way, Matt, of Yoshinobu Yamamoto to win the Cy Young based off Yamamoto's
01:57last start, I'm going to guess.
01:58This is kind of like varying back and forth.
02:00But I guess I would ask you at this point, like, the guy who gets the least respect always
02:05on this list because he never, like, you know, he never pitches eight innings and strikes
02:09out 15.
02:10He just, like, pitches to seven innings.
02:11He strikes out seven.
02:12And he gives up two earned runs, and he goes about his business as Zach Wheeler, who's
02:15always in the mix for the Cy Young Award.
02:17But on FanDuel, he is seven to one.
02:19Hunter Green currently hurt.
02:20I don't know that you could take that risk.
02:21But Skeen's, Yamamoto, Wheeler, those are the favorites.
02:24You agree with that?
02:26Yeah, I think that's a good group.
02:27I mean, I like Webb a lot, too.
02:28I think he gets undervalued a lot as well when we have these discussions.
02:32You know, and I know right now he's leading in Fangraph's war among that group.
02:36It's very tightly contested, of course, this early in the season still.
02:39But yeah, that's a good group.
02:41I think any one of those guys, it wouldn't shock me if at the end of the year they won
02:45the Cy Young.
02:45But I think, you know, people like to bet on Paul Skeen's for obvious reasons.
02:49He's the biggest star.
02:50But, you know, wins don't matter, obviously, as much as they used to.
02:55And team success for Cy Young doesn't matter as much as MVP for sure.
03:00But at the same time, if you're still on a last place team, I think it just makes it
03:04a little tougher to really get there.
03:06You really got to set yourself apart.
03:07And I don't think Skeen's has quite done that yet.
03:10So I definitely think it's still a race.
03:11まず there.
03:12So I'm hoping I'll see you if you've got somewhere around.
03:13Oli, some of those guys.
03:14I don't know.
03:15So I'm just theory.
03:16I don't think you've got to know I mean to repeat everything else.
03:26I know that a lot of things you've got to agree.
03:29But now I go over to the holidays.
03:29There's a new holiday and applause.
03:30I pick a little shepherd.
03:30I'm going over to 16rd Winning Let's Come in.
03:31Let's go over toили that.
03:32But now we're asking.
03:32So let's do it for maybe I'll be in your way.
03:34I'm gonna so please.
03:35So let me backslerst in my wand.
03:35Let's come in.
03:36Yeah.
03:37So let's go over to the next place.