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October 7, 2025 • 41 mins
The Monroeville Mall is about to undergo a major makeover, and we reminisce on the golden era of PF Changs.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
That sounds made up.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
No, man, it's like.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
I'm a monster. I'm serious. That was one of those
movies that it wasn't even shown on cable a lot.
But it's funny to see de Niro is the Frankenstein Monster.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
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Brandy Bellman and the d V Morning show.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Think I had more comments on that video you posted
about de niro Frankenstein than any that we've ever posted before.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Really, people love that.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, you should probably just do an entire series of
like spin off movies monsters.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Yeah, mummy, he announces what he is.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
That's it. Man, this is a hit. I'm telling you
right now.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Yes, I just can't believe that it was real and
I missed it completely.

Speaker 5 (01:17):
Like I love de Niro. I've seen, of course, a
Copla movie. You know it's big, wild. Yeah, it's just wild.
It just did not people did not dig it for
some reason. You look it up and watch it.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Oh for sure. Yeah, it's not like impossible to find
or anything. It's just is not a widely celebrated movie.
He looks spooky in it. He does, Like it's not
the traditional Frankenstein. It's more like what a guy would
look like if you dug him up and reanimated him.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, I mean, I haven't seen Cape Fear in so long.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
He's he's a monster in that movie of a different sort.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
I'll come out wherever you are.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
Just that that that pick for an accent was terrifying.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Sing de Niro was the scene he'd does well.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Also, Nick Nolty's so damn they're all every single person
is great in that movie. And the scene he does
with Juliet Lewis is one of the spookiest, scariest scenes.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
You just terrified for her.

Speaker 6 (02:24):
Yep, that movie.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
If I was a dad, I don't know that I
could watch that scene. Yeah, you know.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
It's like my brother always says, there's that movie where
the kid. Do you remember the movie where the kid
got on a train in India and then he like
gets lost, like the train takes.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Him like way far away millionaire. No, it was like.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
It was not a hugely popular movie, but like when
it came out, people were like, oh my god, that's
a really terrifying premise and basically the kid just gets lost.
He's a little kid and he just ends up on
a train and goes far away and gets lost.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
My brother's like, in a million years, I couldn't watch
that movie.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
No, I'm like, I saw that happen, not on a train,
just in a hotel the elevator with a kid. Like
the kid ran into the elevator, the elevators close.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
And started going down, and the parents were like.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Oh my god, like because it's a it was a
giant hotel, so you have no idea.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
What floor is he getting off on? Yeah? Is he
going to get off? Oh that is that's spooky.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
So I can't imagine like a train leaving a station,
I would be running new speeds.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I would be unlocking like Tyreek Hill.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Speed Lion as the movie that I think I'm thinking of,
I don't.

Speaker 6 (03:43):
Think I've ever heard of that.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, oh I definitely it's the guy from Slumdug Millionaire,
is it.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, he's the parent I believe what.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
The boy's accidentally trapped in India, loses his way, he
ends up.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, he ended up with an Australian couple or something.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
It's a it's a harrowing tale, yes, but I think
as parents you kind of get screwed out of watching
a lot of movies.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Probably they're just scenarios where you're like, can't take it.

Speaker 6 (04:14):
No, I wouldn't watch that for fun.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
You know what I couldn't even watch when I was
a kid, The movie Kids.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Oh, it's it's like it's it is so dark. It
is is Well, it's like that movie thirteen. Any movie
where there's like adolescents doing things way beyond what they
should be doing at that age.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
It is just super depressing.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
Like having unprotected sex with somebody, doing aids.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
And doing drugs.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, that was the first movie that what's her name was?
Chloe seventy? Oh really yeah, that kind of kids. Yeah,
that Broker. It's a Larry Clark movie.

Speaker 7 (04:49):
It is.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
I didn't think that movie was good.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
The one dude actually died uh shortly thereafter who was
like the main like bad kid. They were all like
these kids in New York City and they did like
tons of drugs and the one kid had aids and
didn't know it and was like sleeping with all of
these girls and like it's the darkest tale.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh man, Yeah, I did not love that movie.

Speaker 8 (05:16):
I remember that being lore in high school. Yeah, like no,
I never saw it. I just remember it being almost
like a dare if you had seen it or not.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
It's one of those you watch it one time and
you're like, yeah, I'm good for a long long time.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Never need to see this again.

Speaker 9 (05:33):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
But onto less.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Depressing things and on the happier topics, like the Steelers
are in good shape right now in the AFC North
and the Chiefs got beat last night. I don't know
if anybody's good in the AFC anymore. Maybe we're the
good team in the AFC. Have you ever thought about that?

Speaker 6 (05:49):
Thank btch think that?

Speaker 4 (05:52):
I mean, the Patriots look real good the other night,
beat them.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
We'd beat that.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
Although you know, Digs, it wasn't completely healthy. Stefan Diggs
went off the other night. Maybe it's because he's playing
his old team. But Drake May looks like a dude.
Drake May looks like the dude. I hope Dylan Gabriel
is not the dudes.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Browns are coming into Akroscer Stadium this Sunday for a
one o'clock kickoff, with all of the pregame action starting
nine am here on your radio Home of the Steelers, DVE.

Speaker 6 (06:22):
News This hour brought to you by your neighborhood Ford Store.

Speaker 8 (06:25):
It is going to be mostly cloudy, not as warm today,
showers and a high of seventy two. A development project
that proposes tearing down Monroeville Mall and creating a modern
mixed use destination is seeking funding from this state.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Nope.

Speaker 8 (06:40):
Monroeville Mall Gateway is one of dozens of candidates for
the twenty twenty five round of the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program,
according to a list posted on the state's website, and
that project is asking for seven point five million dollars.

Speaker 6 (06:53):
So here is the project description.

Speaker 8 (06:56):
The Monroeville Mall Economic Revitalization Project will trans form the
space into a modern mixed use destination that strengthens the
regional economy. The project begins with a full demolition of
the existing mall structures, clearing the site entirely for redevelopment.
Construction will include new retail, restaurant and entertainment space supported

(07:17):
by new landscaping, pedestrian friendly design, and public open spaces
for community use. Site preparation will include grading, stabilization, and
modernization of utilities such as water, sewer, electric, and telecommunications.
Walmart bought Monroeville Mall earlier this year. So in February,

(07:37):
Walmart said it was very interested in being part of
any future redevelopment of this site and that it was
working with Cypress Equities mostly Cypress soell on mall.

Speaker 6 (07:54):
On mall operations and potential redevelopments.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
So well, it sounds like they want to turn it
into the Waterfront. Yeah, I air mall.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
Because when when we did the story about Walmart buying
that space, I was like, that's a big ass.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Walmart because the Monroeville Mall is massive, but now redeveloping
it and you want state money. I don't like it.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
I don't. I don't believe you. Everybody wants money. If
you're building, they want money.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
You know what's crazy is the Waterfront put the Monroeville
Mall on a track to being out of business.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
I remember when it happened like that because.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
All those people used to go to the wall.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Ye that was our mall, was the Monroeville Mall.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
Like if you live or grew up in the east
anywhere on that side of the tunnel, you went out
to Monroeville. That's where our movie theater was the Showcase
Cinema East, and the Monroeville Mall had its own little
movie theater up there behind the mall. And as soon
as the waterfront opened, everybody was like, all right, well,

(08:59):
it's nice to go walk around this fake little town
in Homestead, so let's just do that and not have
to watch people fight each other in the Monroevo mall.
I told you the last fight that I saw in
the Monroevio Mall was one of the craziest fights I've
ever seen. It was a woman who was fighting another
woman and she had was holding a baby carrier and

(09:21):
there was a baby in it, and it was on
the second level.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
I was like, this is.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Terrifying to watch because the baby carrier is swinging all around.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
I'm like, that baby's gonna end.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
Up in the coy ponds like the Untouchables. It's too much,
But I don't know. I mean, it could be nice.
Maybe there's enough people out there now to support that.
It just it wasn't true when I was growing up.
But maybe it's just the newer thing is going to
attract people.

Speaker 8 (09:49):
I don't know what you put in that mall that
makes it any better than any other mall that's struggling
right now.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
That's why you do the outdoor thing.

Speaker 6 (09:59):
What's the outdoor component?

Speaker 8 (10:00):
Because the waterfront having a tough time, remember that, you
know there was just a story last week about how
like they're cutting bus routes to the waterfront.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Oh really, they restored it.

Speaker 6 (10:10):
They did temporarily or permanently.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
No, because a lot of stuff closed, like Sing Sing
and the piano bar closed.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Sing Sing?

Speaker 4 (10:20):
Is the piano bar rock bottom closed? And I don't
know that anything's gone up there. I mean my parents
still go down there and really have been supporting Macy's
more than anybody for several years.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Uh do you guys work at Macy's.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Is PF changed still down there? Oh?

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Changed in a minute since I went and got Mongolian beef.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
I remember how fancy PF Changs was when the first opened.
It was like a luxurious experience.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Dude, I'm telling you. My buddy Vinnie opened the one
in Vegas and the palms that was I can't even
imagine was the spot to go to in Vegas when
it opened, and he had like like Tiger Woods was
calling him for a table and stuff like like that
level star Every movie star everywhere. The dude was rolling
out there. He had to move out of Vegas because
he was like he lived there doing that. He opened

(11:11):
the pic Taco in a hard rock before that, so
he was like in on that.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
You know, the handshake economy of you scratch my back,
I scratch yours.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Out there, it's like everybody doing each other's favorite and
it's such a high living, like it's it's just a
fast lane that you are in.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
And he was like, I have to get out of.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
It because you you can't stop when you're in it.
It's a jet stream and you're just you're in the
fast chant. You are on the fast chang. Yeah, And
but I went there and it was literally tables of celebrities.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
At a p of changs, which now would be like
the core was so awesome at the beginning, like we
hadn't seen anything like that.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
It hadn't been franchised to the hilt at that point either,
So there was like a quality, there was a there
was a quality that was a little a lot different
than what you have now, which I'm sure they're opening
plastic bags and dumping them into walks now, you know.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
I remember going on a date there when I was
in college and feeling like, this is it.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
I've made it in my life. Have a girlfriend.

Speaker 4 (12:15):
We're going to get us fancy Asian fusion.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Oh dude, the lettuce wraps were incredible.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
We're still great. I bet it's just if you look
up the nutrition on Cranny and.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
That funny shrimp. It was like candy.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
I remember saying to him after because they opened one
in Pittsburgh and his buddy came to open it. His
buddy came to open it, and I'll never forget this
was like the funniest thing. He's like, hey man, my
buddy's coming to open that one in at the waterfront.
Will you, uh you take them, you know, take care
of him, hook him up, blah blah blah. I'm like okay.
And so he comes out with us one night and
we're like at Rollin's in the Strip and that is

(12:47):
just not cool enough for this guy. He cannot handle it,
like we were not cool enough for him. And he
was like, so, dude, what, so what do we do?
And I'm like I don't know. We're having beers, we're
gonna watch the game or whatever. And he's like yeah,
but then what and I'm like, we're gonna put on
our to Pfchangs. Like, I don't know what you want
to do here, and he goes, make my nose fall off.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
That's what he said to me. Oh, I get it.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
He wanted coke. I'm like, I do, we got nothing.
I'm like, we I got nothing for you. I'm sorry, man,
it's just not and he goes, I want. He goes,
where's the strip joint and where is the blow? And
I'm like, dude, you just got the wrong guy. I
don't know to tell you the strip joints over there,
but like, like, I don't know what to tell you.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Let me make a call.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
And so then I.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
Mean that dude was absolutely hilarious, and he was Vegas material,
not so much Strip District. But my buddy said, what's
your favorite meal at PF Chang's And I was like, dude.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
I'm a will and beef. Every time I get it,
it is the best. I swear to.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
God, that's gotta be one of the best dinners I've
ever had. He goes, you know why you like it
so much? I'm like why. He's like, it's like eighty
grams of sugar in it. I'm like what he said,
there's sugar in everything they make there. So then it's
like so it's like mc donald's. You go and you're
just like, oh my god, everything tastes amazing.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
He's like, because it's full of sugar, tons of sugar.
Think about it everything, you believe me, the taste.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Nothing tastes that good.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Nothing.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
I remember it the first time. It was like doing drugs.
The lettuce rat. You guys want to do some some seriously,
get in the rat, dude, get into the rap raph
to the table, rash to the table. I'm doing gummies.
Yeah with the riced.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Oh I can't fit my face, make my nose fall up.
By the way, that guy, that guy jumped out of
our car in traffic like he he was like.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Was on coke.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
I don't he had to be something. He was out
of his mind, like he was the craziest. Then I
called my buddy the next day. I'm like, hey, your boy,
he is out of control. He's like, oh yeah, And
I'm like, how about a lot of heads up for
something like that.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
He's like, I figured you handle it. I'm like, I
didn't want to handle it. That's not a favor.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Was he doing winds Princeton an Alley.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
He was he was doing wins Printon An Alley. He
was arguing with every old truck driver he could find.
He's wildly stabbing and filming the entire thing.

Speaker 6 (15:18):
Sounds like he wasn't on coke and that was the problem.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
Yeah, he might be one of those guys where he
has coke and then he calms down like a like
a riddling kid.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Definitely make my nose fall off. Made me laugh.

Speaker 6 (15:31):
Sod, that is an amazing line.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Nose fall Meanwhile, have you seen Artie Lang in the
more recent.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Off. Did he ever get a septum fixed? I don't
think so. I mean, it was just like his nose
was just like a hunk.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
It was like a clown nose that got depressed and
never popped back out.

Speaker 8 (15:53):
But he had like the bulbous alcoholic nose too, didn't
he through.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
It was like a Marty Moose situation. Yeah, it was
totally punched in.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah, the most nicest lovable guy of him.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah, it's just his demons made you feel bad for him.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
But it seems like he's, you know, been clean for
a long time now.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
I hope so, I hope that's the case, because he's
he's funny man. I just feel like we should be
seeing more of arready in the podcast world, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
Speaking him in Rouville? Is that convention center still doing
big shows? Remember when Billy did that yinzer Palooza out there.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
I didn't go to that one, but three.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
Thousand showed up at the same time and they ran
out of everything. They had like two people working the door.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yeah, that's the thing when people open venues and then
don't consider that they have to actually, you know, operate it.
They just think it's a space. Yeah, it'll be fine.
Usually has some growing pains. And I think that was
like the first show they did.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
It was catered by It's not the ankled Penny, uh
ten penny.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
The wrinkled Penny is isn't that another I know that's
a that's a euphemism, Yeah, but isn't there Isn't that
also like a.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Bar in like Ocean Beach or something like that. It was, Yeah,
you think the Wooden Nickel.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
You went from wooden Nickel to wrinkled Penny.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Knew it was a coin really good food.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
So apparently the waterfront is not doing great. You just
checked in yeah, I just checked in. I texted the waterfront.

Speaker 9 (17:41):
I was like, hey, yeah, I think that's the appropriate
sounder underwater there.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
Yeah, I don't know that whole area like out in
Monroeville back to that, like new things have popped up.
The Showcase Cinema East is now like a sheets I
don't know that. That was one of the last hooters
for a while. I know Madden would go out there
and do like watch parties or whatever.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
That's gone.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
There was like this really sketchy Chinese restaurant next to that.
I think that's gone. The Children's Palace across the street
from the mall is now like a children's palace car dealership.
So I don't know. I don't go out there anymore.
That's I mean East Kabama.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, yeah, you're a South Hills guy, now you don't. Yeah,
maybe you didn't hear. Maybe I'm all growns up and
grown up.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
I'm in the witness protection from Yeah, if I keep
telling everybody where I.

Speaker 9 (18:38):
Live my blue Heaven. But you revealed your idea, it's
my black and gold happened.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Kevin Gorman from the Trip is here to fill in
for triv with your sports and uh Monday Night football
last night. I didn't stay up for it, but I
watched the highlights this morning and looked like a pretty
good game to watch, a pretty fun game to watch anyways.

Speaker 10 (18:57):
Crazy ending, Yeah, Trevor, Trevor Lawrence pulling off a stumble,
not a fumble, but a stumble, and yeah, ing able
to score on that play was kind of crazy.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
Yeah, they ended up beating the Chiefs.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
We'll give the full details and a look ahead Steelers
Browns this coming weekend. Plus it's the home opener, not
the home opener, but the season opener for the Penguins
tonight against the Rangers. Staggy will give us call it
six forty five. We'll talk with Jeans Terator at seven
forty five. Charlie Batch also joining today eight forty five.
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Speaker 1 (19:58):
In this morning with your sports on DVE.

Speaker 10 (20:01):
What's up man, Well, we had some big games last night,
start with the Monday night football game. The Jaguars beat
the Chiefs thirty one twenty eight, but it wasn't as
easy as it looked. Chiefs had won twenty three consecutive
when leading by fourteen. Patrick Mahomes thrown for three hundred
and eighteen yards, but then throws a ninety You throw
a pick six, ninety nine yard interception return by Devin

(20:23):
Lloyd at the goal line. At the goal line returns
it for a touchdown, the longest touchdown from pick six
touchdown by a linebacker in the regular season in NFL history.
And the reason there's a caveat there is we all
know the longest interception return by a linebacker in NFL
history is James Harrison, So that was That's a cool one.

(20:45):
But Jaguars, thirty seconds left, they have the ball in
the one yard line. Trevor Lawrence drops back, gets stepped
on by the right guard Patrick McCarry falls to the ground. Yeah,
everybody stops. He gets up and runs for a touchdown
for the game winning score.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
He said after the game he was just getting to
get up and throw it away. But when he got up,
he saw daylight.

Speaker 10 (21:06):
He was like, yeah, I mean Chris. I think Chris
Jones was one of the players, you know, the Chiefs
All Pro defensive lineman, one of the players who just stopped.
Thought the play was dead. He stood there, no whistle,
That's why he played the whistle. But yeah, that was
an exciting, one great game last night in the NLDS,
the pitching duel between the Dodgers and the Phillies. Jesus

(21:28):
Lozardo had six innings, scored a six quorrees innings, had
given up one hit to Mookie Bets, and then in
the seventh the Dodgers score four runs. The Phillies come
back and score one in the eighth, and then in
the ninth they make it four to three, and then
the Dodgers run a wheel play which you don't see

(21:49):
very often, but you know, the Dodgers have a six
time goal glove outfielder playing shortstop.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Mookie Bets.

Speaker 10 (21:54):
Yeah, my favorite player in baseball. To watch just just
an unbelievable it's it's amazing that you know that, it's
amazing that they let that happen. And then to see
that the Dodgers signed and I think it's a twelve year,
three hundred and twenty six million dollars contractor he's worth
every penny. But they run this wheel play where left
on left matchup, Phillies laid down a bunt for a

(22:17):
sacrifice to move a runner from second. All the momentums
in the Phillies favor. They just had Nick Castianos hit
a double and slid in and somehow avoided the tag.
He was dead to rights at second base, avoids the tag,
and then they laid down a bunt and Max Munsey,
the third baseman, crashes, turns and spins and throws to Bets,
who covers from short stop to third base, and it's
taken out by Castianos and hangs onto the ball, and

(22:40):
it was it was an unbelievable play, and so then
they and then they you know, it's four to three.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
That was the first out I believe at the inning.

Speaker 10 (22:48):
And then with two, with two outs, they hit a
grounder to Tommy Edmund and he throws it in the
dirt and Freddie Freeman like hangs on for dear life
to get the final out. But what a really exciting
game there, Dodgers for Phillies. Three Dodgers lead that best
of five series to nothing. They play in LA on Wednesday,
the Brewers and the Cubs were playing.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
That game is one game's ending. The other game has
already begun.

Speaker 10 (23:10):
Sega Suzuki gives the Cubs a three to zero lead
in the first inning with the home run. Andrew Vaughn's
answers with another three run shot for the Brewers, and
they end up getting homers from William Contreras and Jackson
Cherio and they leave the series now to nothing the
fourth after a seven to three wins.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
So tonight we have so it looks like we're heading
towards a Brewers Dodgers NLCS, no doubt. And then you
have on the al side tonight, the Mariners and the
Tigers play at four o'clock this afternoon.

Speaker 10 (23:39):
That series is tied one to one. And then the
Blue Jays have just dominated the Yankees so far.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
I can't believe the way they have been beaten up
on the Yankees just the offensive assault explosion. Yeah, I
mean that's a loaded team too. Still threw up some runs, yeah,
big time. They played eight o'clock, eight oh eight. Blue
Jays lead that series nothing, So we could see some
sweeps here in the nl D A, l d S,

(24:04):
NLDS And looks like, you know best what Bill has
asked me off air. It looks like we could be
headed for a Dodgers possibly Mariners world series, which would
be pretty wild West Coast World Series, which would piss
off the networks. Yes, only the only thing that would
be redeeming for them if the Blue Jays got in
would be that they would have an East Coast team.

(24:24):
But they hate when Canadian like when the Blue Jays
get in. They never liked that either. It's like when
you know an American team used to win the you know,
one of the Florida teams in the Stanley Cup, they
hate that, you know, even though that's the dominant team
in the league right now.

Speaker 10 (24:37):
In the NHL, no doubt, no doubt. And then you
know we have some Steelers and Pirates, Penguins News Steelers
just giving update there. The UH expected to get a
boost with cornerback Joey Porter Junior returning Sunday, he declared
himself back for sure back.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
He's been out with a hamstring injury.

Speaker 10 (24:57):
Alex high Smith looks like a possibility that he could return,
although that could cause some issues with Nate Herbig playing
so well, yea or Nick Herbig playing so well.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
I'm sorry, well, I mean, depth is never gonna be
a problem on the outside, you know, but give those
guys a blow. Has been getting better with more reps too, though,
you know that's the other monster. Gave him a little sunlight.
He's growing. Yeah, there is, you know, from what I read.

Speaker 10 (25:24):
I haven't been over there, but they do have a
three outside linebacker package that they unveiled against the Jets
right before Alex Higsmith got hurt. So there's a possibility
that the stewers could find a way to get all
three of them out there in some.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Type of package.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
Kevin Gorman from the trip of filling in for pursuit
of this morning, ABBI will have your news coming up
at the top of the hour.

Speaker 6 (25:43):
The Mark Sanchez story keeps getting worse.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
It sure does insane. The video is nuts.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
Talk about Frankenstein and she's just kind of stumbling around,
Roberto Robert Ginniro as Mark Sanchez.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Stagg. He's gonna give a follower here, Parker.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Uh stag you'll talk the Penguins season opener tonight, facing
their old coach Mike Sullivan at Madison Square. Guards some
pretty interesting things here. So we'll talk to Paul when
we return on the DV Morning Show.

Speaker 11 (26:20):
The rules of the road are a little bit different
with Chad Tyson. Heykat, he's got a reloaded cut from
the DV Morning Show Sports and a Workforce commercial three
hour at three afternoons with Chad ty Saw on DV
VET MGM is very Staggy.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
Staggy sleeping STAGGI hasn't gotten up yet.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
We're supposed to be talking to Paul Staggerwald here on
the DV Morning Show, but he's just.

Speaker 4 (26:56):
It's a late morning in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Staggy, Hey, well, we'll just have dad aarontel. Staggy wakes
up and just us breathing. Penguins are getting after it tonight.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
This is gonna be weird.

Speaker 4 (27:12):
It's gonna be weird to start the season seeing Mike
Sullivan wearing the wrong colors.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
He's wearing the wrong Colors, but they're playing the right
right way and JT.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
Miller being the captain. Yeah, the hell man, that's too
much Pittsburgh.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
I know, I mean I like it.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
There's a ton of youth on the Penguins roster right now,
and it's gonna be an interesting U season. To put
it mildly, Kevin, I don't know how much you've looked
into what we're in here, what we're in for this year.
We talked to Brian Russ yesterday. I know he's not
playing tonight, He's out for a couple of weeks. He
says he doesn't want to get moved. They're gonna move him.

(27:51):
I mean, that's gonna happen, right Raquel is also going
to be gone eventually, and then what happens to Sidney
Crosby at that point. I was gonna say, that's only
reason they're probably probably still here at this point as
at Crosby doesn't want to lose his line mates, and
it's probably, you know, put his foot down to some
degree after losing Gensel. They do have five rookies on
the opening roster, including a couple of teenagers. Harrison Brunneck

(28:15):
in the twenty five first round pick Ben Kendall nineteen
and eighteen years old. The interesting thing about that is
the Penguins last time they had two junior eligible players.
Because these are guys that can play, it's my understanding
they can play up to nine NHL contests before the
first year of their three year entry level contract is told,

(28:36):
so they can open the season with the team, play
a few games and still go back to the juniors
they if they so choose to do that with these guys.
But the last time they had two junior eligible players
on their opening season season opening roster came in two
thousand and six when Chris Latang and Jordan Stall made
the team. Out of the team, Latang was nineteen years,
one hundred and sixty four days, Stall eighteen years twenty

(28:59):
five days, so really just legal there.

Speaker 4 (29:02):
I mean, I'm optimistic about these young kids, but I
don't think they're going to.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Be as good as those two though I don't think
there's any comparison.

Speaker 10 (29:07):
But it's only the third time in franchise history that
this has happened where two teenagers made their NHL debut together.
The first time was with in nineteen eighty four, Mario
Lemieux and Doug Bodger. So you know there's some select
company there that you're talking about. You know, that's but
we're also talking about completely different circumstances too, so that
this is a Penguins team in full rebuild and one

(29:30):
that there's.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Not a whole lot of hope for right now.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
I am kind of like, I want sid to do
what he wants to do and everything, but I also
want him to feel like it's okay to go to
another team.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
I think he's so old school with.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
That that he wants to be a one helmet guy.
I think he would actually benefit both Sidney Crosby and
the Penguins greatly if they decided you really want to
wait around, Like how much of a leash is he
gonna give Kyle dubis here for turning this team around,
which is to say, halfway through the season, it's clear
that the team is in the basement in the Eastern Conference,

(30:06):
which is likely. You know, well, you think back to
when the Oilers traded Wayne Gretzky to the Kings and
sent him to LA and was great for the league,
great for the Kings, and.

Speaker 10 (30:18):
The Oilers won the Stanley Cup. But then, you know,
I think there are a couple of decades of the
Oilers being somewhat irrelevant, right, I mean, I don't think
you trade your superstar unless you have to. And I'm
not sure the Penguins are quite there yet, but I
do think, you know, they give them one last shot
of these. I think this is the first time as
well that the A team has had a trio of

(30:40):
guys played twenty seasons together see Crosby letang him out
and all playing together. So you know, that's history in
the making there. But I also think that you know,
it's to the expense. It's kind of like watching the
Red Wings when they won for Stanley Cup championships in
a decade and.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
Then they got old real fast.

Speaker 10 (30:58):
And then you watch the team that was, you know,
somewhat magical, and you watch them get old and and
all of a sudden the coach irrelevant.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (31:07):
Yeah, It's amazing how the coaches all of a sudden
lose their touch when it when everybody gets old, all right.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
It's crazy too how much time has passed.

Speaker 4 (31:12):
I mean, talking to Rusty yesterday, one of my questions
was our first introduction to you is when you're part of.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
SID and the kids and now you're the old guy.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
He's been in this he's been in the league over
ten years, and now he's the old guy. And and
when he started, he was talking about some of the
veterans that were on that team, and that team was
chock full of winners and and and experienced players like
Cullin and Coonants and Hornquist.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Yeah, I have a belief, you know.

Speaker 10 (31:40):
And this from covering some playoff hockey and I'm not,
you know, by any means a hockey guy, but I've
covered my share of it. But I always felt like
there's that veteran who's never won a cup, who everybody
wants to play for and kind of rally around. And
the Penguins have had their share of those guys. But
there's also the guy that's like the fourth liner, that
is willing to do anything to win and have their

(32:03):
name on that cup. And I Craig Adams always comes
to minds is that, you know, you think about Craig
Adams dove headfirst at Nicholas Lidstrom's shot on flurry at
the end of Game seven in two thousand and nine,
And there's a guy who was willing to take a
puck to the face to win the Cup, and like,
those are the guys to me that sometimes are just

(32:23):
as important when you have a guy that's like, hey,
this is my whole my whole life, my whole life
has been toward this moment, and they were willing to
give up everything.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Just to win a Cup.

Speaker 10 (32:32):
And I'm pretty sure Craig Adams was like an Ivy
League guy.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Oh, I was going to say, it's Harvard.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Guy, that's the smartest thing in the world to jump
in front of him.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
No, but he was willing to risk it all.

Speaker 10 (32:40):
And that to me, you know what if that just
had a fraction of changing Nicholas Lindstrom's shot and that
allowed Flurry to get there and block the shot with
a shoulder of the way that he did. So I
always kind of, you know, admired that aspect of it
as much as it was about playing for the Veterans
or winning another Cup and and you know, making history
in that regardless, the guy who knows this is my

(33:01):
one and only chance is what.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
I've played my whole life for.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
Back to the notion of it's amazing how the coach
all of a sudden falls out of favor when the
players get Old Bill Belichick in North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Right now, does this make you rethink? Oh?

Speaker 2 (33:17):
I already rethought it.

Speaker 4 (33:18):
I mean I thought when Tom Brady went to the
Bucks and won a super Bowl and the Patriots stunk
and he got fired, I think.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
That them that was a referendum was over like it's
it's players are more important than coaches.

Speaker 4 (33:33):
Ultimately, A coach can still bumble a game plan, but
the players are the most important component.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
If you don't have the players, you're cooked. I agree.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
I also think a good coach can win with a
subpar team versus a bad coach with a good team,
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
But not ultimately, like what I mean. You know there
is a line, Yeah, you know there is a despair
at some point. It's too great Tom Brady versus Duck Hodges.
You know, I could coach Tom Brady to win that game.
But right when you're talking like media, NFL players, I mean,
I think coaching is important. But and I'm sure Belichick

(34:16):
definitely it wasn't like anybody could have coached them to
that dynasty.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
I don't believe that either.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
I just don't think that it was Belichick as much
as it was Brady.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
But do you think like Andy Reid is the best
coach ever to do it?

Speaker 7 (34:32):
No?

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Or is he just like you know, he has Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
I mean he was really good with the Eagles too,
you know. I mean he had a long run.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
I think it helps, Like, it definitely helps if you
have good coaching, There's no doubt about that.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Like imagine Chuck Knowle trying to coach in this era
and the mind tricks he played on those guys. Now,
Andy Reid or anybody of his ilk having any sort
of longevity in the NFL with the way that the
players have changed over time, like the money that they're
getting now, the personalities society as a whole, If you're

(35:12):
able to get these guys to play now, I mean
that is a separate tool that you have, if you're able.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
To Like it's like Mike McDaniel. I think the thing
that people were.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
Like thinking he was going to be good at was
communicating to the players, and it ended up being the opposite. Yeah,
it was like, oh, this is the guy who could
relate to them. He really speaks on on their level
and he's like a modern coach.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
You know.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
But if you're like a defensive tackle. You're like, what
the hell is this dude smoking?

Speaker 1 (35:40):
Yeah? Literally, what is he smoking? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (35:42):
Whats strands too much?

Speaker 3 (35:44):
He's probably going to get gassed this week and I
we're soon. And I was rooting for him, I really was,
because I love having those kind of like personalities in
the league.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
But I think it will still be a good coordinator,
don't you.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
Yeah, well, I mean, just to make a comparison between
the Penguins and the Steelers, I'm still excited about what
the Penguins are doing because I think this fan base,
this city is used to watching a bunch of young
guys that you've drafted you want to see develop. You
have a couple of the veterans that are also homegrown
that you know, the three headed monster that's playing their

(36:19):
twentieth season together.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
That's exciting.

Speaker 4 (36:22):
The thing that worries me about the Steelers is that
all the winning is acquired now. It's like they are
acquiring culture. They no longer are drafting and developing Steelers.
They're looking for guys and collecting like Formers, Pro Bowlers

(36:43):
and and so, I you know, it's not I mean,
it's I still want them to do well. I'm still
rooting for them, but it's not it's different. It's I mean,
I'm still all in. You can't be more than all in, right.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Well, the difference between the Penguins and the Pirates when
it comes to a rebuild.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
I mean, the Penguins have done this before. Don't forget
the X generation.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
I mean they basically told you, we're going to stink
for a couple of years, but we have a plan.
And then that plan was, please let us get Sydney Crosby.
They did and it worked, but we watched them and
we paid attention to the team back then. It was
fun and they stunk, and we knew it was going
to be a rough couple of years. And I think
that that's what they've been asking Penguins fans the last
couple of years. Because they have come through on that

(37:23):
in the past, Penguins fans will stick with them. Yeah,
crowds will be diminished this year. There's no way to
avoid that if they're going to be in a full
rebuild mode with all these young kids and stuff. But
they're the expectation is different, where with the Pirates, you're like, well, no,
they're never going to win. They're never you know, that's
why they were I think they were twenty fourth in
attendance this year.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
They were low. I know it was down like ten
or eleven percent.

Speaker 4 (37:46):
And I think we all give them flack for not spending,
but we don't give them merely enough flack for the
drafting and developing, which hasn't really had. Like their minor
league system is the reft right and.

Speaker 10 (38:00):
Now because they made so many trades that yeah, they're
they're a top five minor league system right now, but
that's because they traded all stars to get more prospects.
So you know, the numbers that they've drafted, well, what
they haven't done is fill in the gaps like the
Steelers have. Like the Steelers haven't drafted as well in
the last few years, but they've filled in those gaps
with all Pro Pro Bowl caliber players. So very very

(38:23):
much different. But I mean, you know, you look at
the Pirates in into some degree, some of their best
players are homegrown guys. Yeah, you know, I mean but
c well, no, Neil Cruz was he was acquired in
the trade and that was yeah, he came. He Tony
Watson traded to the Dodgers. You know, a trade deadline
they got Cruise when he was seventeen years old, so

(38:44):
he's come up through the pirate system, but he wasn't acquired,
like he wasn't an international signing for them, and Brian
Reynolds was acquired in the trade. But when you look
at Skens and Chandler and Davis and some of the
guys that are, you know what I would say, the
future foundational pieces and I and I you, I don't know,
it's it's kind of tough to hunt lump Henry Davison
with those guys. But he was a number one overall pick,
kind of like a you know, Jeff King was a

(39:06):
number one overall pick, even though he wasn't the star
of that team either. But yeah, it's it's interesting to
see how these teams are constructed. I mean, the Steelers
that we grew up with, or at least that I
grew up with, were very much drafted and developed by
the franchise. And I remember when they signed James Ferrier
and that was the big free agent signing, and that
was kind of them stepping out of the out of

(39:27):
the box a little bit and doing.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
Something that the most unheralded signing, though James Ferry signed
and people were just kind of like, oho. He was like, well,
he's a leading tackler on the Jets. Like it was
a big signing and it made no splash.

Speaker 10 (39:41):
And then he became indispensable and he was he was
the unquestioned leader of that defense. I mean it was
for all the stars that were on that defense, Ferrier
was the guy that everybody kind of respected into some
degree feared.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
Abby's got your news.

Speaker 8 (39:53):
When we come back, we'll get you caught up on
what we know of the Mark Sanchez story.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
That's Paul Stargerwald Penguins to night against the Rangers.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
Eight pm.

Speaker 12 (40:03):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Record on DVE, brought
to you by Calli and Pizza in Draft Holes, three
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Speaker 1 (40:15):
Here's Tom Opperman.

Speaker 13 (40:16):
The Steelers returned from their time off over the weekend
to practice yesterday at the upmc reney Sports Complex, and
two key players on the defense returned to the fold.
Outside linebacker Alex Highsmith has been dealing with an ankle
injury since the team's home opening loss to the Seattle
Seahawks in Week two, but returned to the practice field yesterday.
High Smith was participating with the first team defense, which
is a good sign that he will most likely be
available for Sunday against the Browns. High Smith has a

(40:38):
sack and three quarterback hits and his two games played
this year, and his return will provide a boost to
a pass rush that already has fourteen sacks, which is
high for fifth most in the league. Cornerback Joey Porter
Junior also participated in practice, and even though he was
a limited participant in practices leading up to the Vikings
game in Dublin, Porter was ultimately ruled out of the game.
That won't be the case this week, as the thirty
year cornerback said after practice that he'd definitely be playing

(41:01):
against Cleveland and that he's surely back, good news for
the Steelers, who will be without corner Jalen Ramsey for
likely the next couple games.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
Mike tom Will will give his weekly.

Speaker 13 (41:09):
Press conference at noon today and will shed more light
on the status of both high Smith and Porter Junior
for the game Sunday.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
I'm Tom Upfreman with the Steelers report the Black and.

Speaker 12 (41:19):
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