paul skenes

(Hour 3 with Jeff Hathhorn)

Should Paul Skenes make the team out of camp? Jeff goes position by position and what the Pirates have. What happens if Rowdy Tellez does not work out or gets hurt? What happens at first base for the Pirates? Is Oneil Cruz going to be in the 30-30 club this year?

New Pirates beat writer Andrew Destin joins us from Bradenton to talk about the impending spring training debut of Paul Skenes. Andrew says there is a definite buzz in the area with Skenes about to pitch.

Quick look at the position battles for the Pirates and is there still hope for players like Nick Gonzales?

Andrew talks to us about the buzz around Bradenton with the impending Spring Training debut of Paul Skenes. What will the Pirates rotation look like?

Where do the Pirates stand with their rotation? What happens if Rowdy Tellez gets hurt?

Sara and Shelly are joined by the Director of Podcasts at Pitcher List, Adam Howe to recap the GLARF draft through a series of debatable moments, moves and strategies in the episode.

Discussions:

Pitcher Run in the 4th Round: When there is a run do you change your strategy or stay the course? Is Tarik Skubal an SP1 and should you pivot if you're not in love with one of your earliest picks?

We've all been sniped and this time it was Adam Howe in the 13th round with Christopher Morel, leading Sara to take Tommy Edman and then snipe him right back with Nolan Gorman. How  do you react to players you love going right ahead of you with a fast clock?

Paul Skenes has thrown 6.2 innings of minor league ball and while the Pirates seem to be accelerating his development is he really a 17th round pick? How long can you stash him? Wouldn't you rather have Nestor Cortes instead?

Catcher strategy in two catcher leagues: Do you need two studs? If you find yourself somewhere after Alejandro Kirk and Shea Langeliers can late round darts on guys like Yan Gomes and Iván Herrera make up the gap?

Drafting prospects in the middle rounds Jackson Chourio went 12.12. Wyatt Langford went 13.15 and Jackson Holliday went 14.5. Are you drafting prospects with all that major league talent still on the board?

Closers are like catchers, do you need two studs and if you don't have them, how do you make it up later? Is Adbert Alzolay a stud? How secure does anyone feel about José Alvarado in the 12th round given the way the Phillies mix and match at the end of games?

How much does ADP influence a draft in the early rounds and should it?

Love it or leave it? We wrap up with the baseball news we're most into or out on each week.

Jenny Cavnar will be the A’s primary play-by-play announcer. First woman in MLB history to serve as a club’s primary, regular play-by-play voice.

Thrilled to see players like Vlad Guerrero Jr  winning their arbitration cases, but I’m over the whole process and bad blood it causes

Justin Steele shouting out Shōta Imanaga pitches and buying his cards

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Top 100 draft prospect and LSU commit, Kale Fountain joins the show to discuss his commitment, high school career, and many other things! Before that we discuss Hader signing with the Astros, Chapman signing with the Pirates, and more on this episode of Pack the Brew!
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The notion that the Pirates and small-market teams can only get ace pitchers via the top of the draft is a misnomer. A caller weighs in on small-market teams. Some tweaks are needed for the HR Derby and flopping will be penalized in the NBA this season.

That video of @la_cocoa_____18 stealing three bases including home for @reds was unbelievable & thanks to @markdwithat for sending it to me.  Brain fart by @brewers pitcher on letting him steal home and a terrible throw to his catcher.  Just terrible.  @yankees #aaronboone you need to go not the hitting coach.  #briancashman too.  And #gerritcole #allstargame is an EXHIBITION!  Need you healthy for second half of #mlb season. 
 @mets suck.  #polarbear should be focusing on getting #mets in contention instead of #hrderby tonight.  
@gothamfc congrats on first win over @thornsfc since 2017 & keep moving up @nwsl standings. 
@mrapinoe enjoy retirement but first lead @uswnt to @fifawomensworldcup title again.  
@mostcallmeo #bensimmons over/under this season for @brooklynnets I’d say 50.  #aaronrodgers great to see you’re working out hard this #nfl offseason. @nyjets fans expecting a lot from you this year. A lot.

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EPISODE 242: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (1:42) SPECIAL COMMENT: Not even five days since it went live, Zuckerberg's 'Threads' has exceeded the 100,000,000 users mark. And what is Musk doing? Calling him a "cuck" and personally servicing "Libs of TikTok." He's already made a fool of himself threatening to sue Zuckerberg and he HAS sued Twitter's old law firm for accepting the money Twitter owed it. So as Twitter is losing about two and a half billion dollars in value a month, what is his only other play? What it's ALWAYS been: ask the government for a bailout. It HAS to be!

For once I'm rooting for the Republicans to take a state-level plan national. One Michigan county GOP leader says of another Michigan county GOP leader "“He kicked me in my balls as soon as I opened the door." And a dismissed budget chairman says new State GOP boss Kristina Karamo's spending is "so far out of proportion with income as to put us on the path to bankruptcy.” MAGA: Make America Groin Again.

THIS is unlikely: Ron DeSantis says Trump colluded with Big Tech to bury the Hunter Biden "story" in 2020. Again - more of this please, Republicans.

Even President Zelenskyy is scoring points off Trump, and while in an ideal world we'd admit Ukraine to NATO tomorrow, Biden makes two unanswerable points as to why we can't - not now.

B-Block (19:04) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Oh, nothing, it's just Tucker Carlson losing 92.5% of his audience between Episode 1 and Episode 8. You can guess which paper asked that moronic cocaine question. And Trump's imbecility at a Dairy Queen invokes one of my Dad's greatest stories and greatest punchlines. (25:04) IN SPORTS: The same day the LOS ANGELES Times sports section essentially announces it's going out of business, the 28 surviving members of the NEW YORK Times sports section rebel and protest and mutiny against their dying outlet in the only way they can: With a letter to the editor. And MLB is trying to spruce up and speed up its player draft. But with it cut from 70 rounds to 20, what happens to all the people who won't be drafted and thus won't start their careers as the lifers who are the backbone of the game?  (34:11) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The podcast host talks about liquidating Joe Biden. The podcast guest - Jeanine Pirro - doesn't walk off the show. And given that assassination-adjacent conversation, why is Nikki Haley STILL predicting the president's death? Plus: Andrea Mitchell thinks magnetometers can detect cocaine. I think I detect the time for Andrea Mitchell to retire before she destroys her reputation and becomes Tom Brokaw.

C-Block (41:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Last week was the 20th Anniversary of Ambassador Joe Wilson's famous New York Times Op-Ed that destroyed George Bush's lie that there was WMD in Iraq - and thus destroyed George Bush's legacy. So they decided to destroy Joe Wilson. And craziest of all: they thought I could help. Only one problem - they couldn't figure out how to spell my name so they could email me the weapons.

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How bout the @lsubaseball winning 7th #mcws #championship and first since 2009. #geauxtigers🐯 & over 69k in #jelloshots for a good cause by their ardent fans.  @mets 6-16 in June & @braves 18-4 why they are 16GB & 8.5 in #mlbwildcard race. #buckshowalter says they need to win. No shit Sherlock!  
Props for #jackadamsaward winner @nhlbruins head coach #jimmontgomery talk about his past battles with addiction.  Love his honesty.  
I don’t want @nyjets on @hardknockshbo this #nfl season.  A distraction not needed.

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Stephen Schoch (@bigdonkey47), Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman (@CespedesBBQ) review one of the greatest college baseball games of all time, as LSU defeated Wake Forest 2-0 to earn a spot in the championship series. They break down everything from the Paul Skenes vs. Rhett Lowder duel, Tre' Morgan's unbelievable bunt defense, and Tommy Tanks' walk-off dinger. 

Next, they discuss how the transfer portal has dramatically impacted college baseball, some for better and some for worse, before previewing the championship series between LSU and Florida.