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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the dB Morning Randy Bauman, along with Bill Crawford
and Abby Prisner, Mike Pursuda from New Jersey dot Com
or the New York Star Ledger. New York Yankees beat
writer Randy Miller joining us right now on the DV
Morning show.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Randy, good morning. How are you man?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
I'm great, It's great to be on DVE. I'm a
native Jeannette, the guy who's grew up listingertation.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well, it's been a long time.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
We haven't spoken in a while, but you know, I
know you in pursuit of have been friends for a
long time, but you and I have crossed paths a
couple of times, and it's definitely good to talk to
you again. This story's making a lot of ways here
in Pittsburgh. There's some some people who are saying, oh, oh, well,
Paul Sken's denied this report, but I don't hear a
denial in what he said. What did you make of

(00:46):
Paul Sken's comments about your story about him wanting to
be traded to the Yankees and vocalizing that to teammates.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
I wasn't surprised. Haven't been a Yankee. I covered the
Phillies for seventeen years and this is my coming up,
my eleventh of the Yankees. And over the years I
heard a lot of stories from people would have been
in the organization, not good stories, and a lot of
people have been unhappy there. And I did a big

(01:18):
story last year on Domingo Herman and how that the
Parts signed him after he'd been through a lot of
issues and the Parts didn't do their due diligence, and
I kind of had pretty interesting phone conversation with GM
after that surprised me. Then I help players are a
lot of friends in the game and people I talked to,

(01:40):
and when I heard this story, I wasn't surprised, but
it wasn't from what It wasn't just schemes. I heard
that a lot of people when they're there. It's when
you're the miners, get to the big leagues, they can
develop you and then get out of there because the
owner just isn't going to spend money and schemes wants
to win. I'm in Las Vegas right now off of
the GM meetings, and I waited out and spoke to

(02:03):
the Pirates GM the other day by myself for a
little bit, and I told him what I'd heard, and
he's just he wasn't surprised. He knows. He told me
that every one of our conversation, schemes I want to win.
I want to win. Keeps been the best priority for
probably since Barry Bonds and Deans is doing it the
right way. And it's sad to me. I grew up

(02:26):
a big Pirates fan, kept score probably one hundred and
twenty or thirty games a year in the Starguel Park
or Candelira era, and it's sad what they become. It's
just I hope that the owner sells the team at
some point. I think there's going to be a lockout
next year that might we might even lose the entire
twenty twenty seventh season. I know the owners want to

(02:48):
get a floor to the I get a cap of
the floor, and maybe that's the best thing that could
happen to Pittsburgh because it's it's a shame. And look,
everyone knows that there's no chance the Pirates are going
to keep schemes for the long run. There's just no shots.
He's going to get probably five hundred million at some point.
And also, by the way, there's before I even talked

(03:10):
to a pirate about this, and it was brought up
to me. It wasn't something high asked. It was brought
up to me and it was I know in my
story it was a couple of comments, but it was
a ten minute conversation about the pirates that I've heard
from being out in the New York area. I have
heard from people that that schemes. His girlfriend has told

(03:32):
people that he's going to be a Yankee. I heard
that second hand. I didn't write it because I heard
its secondhand.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
But he was for an apartment in Dormont.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
I thought, I think she tried to buy Babe Russel
the Little House and it got denied at one point.
So after that happened, I had heard stories who who knows.
I just know that at one point last year someone
had told me that it's Kings of talk about wanting
to be an angel, and I mentioned the story about

(04:04):
how he got Mike Trouts autographs. From what I've heard,
people have said to him, why would you want to
be an angel? Look what they've done to Mike Trout's career.
Look what they've done to the six years of a
Tawny's career. You're going to go there and beat your
hometown team, and you're never going to win. And now
I'm hearing I'm hearing the Yankees, and I'm not hearing
that anything's going to happen. Now. I think he can

(04:24):
be a part for a couple more years. But I
do know that from talking to people with the Yankees
that they have heard the same thing. They've they've kind
of laughed off, like, hey, you know, you hear this
stuff all the time. Everybody wants to come here. Let's
let's see what happens down the road, you know, for
agency's a long way. Now see what happens down the road.
So the Yankees have heard this. They've heard the stuff too,

(04:47):
not from me, They've heard it from other people.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
The Skis agent must be like, shut up, you're killing us.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, you know, I have a funny story and uh,
you know, I I ripped the Pirates because I love
the old pirates and it's sad what become. But this
is this is a story that kind of illustrates what
the pirates are. And you wonder, why is nutting like this?
You know, if he's going to be an owner, why

(05:16):
not put some money into the team. Well, a few
years ago, a long time friend of mine passed away,
and I'm at the dinner after the funeral, and I'm
sitting next to his my friend's cousin, and her husband
was there, and her husband was a lot older, and
we're talking about my job, and her husband says, hey,

(05:36):
I want to let you know I am friends with
Nutting's father, who I think passed away maybe a couple
of years ago. And he says, every year, there's a
few of us that make this trip to Colorado and
it's it's a bunch of rich people to go and
have these dinners and go hang out for several days.
He goes, what's crazy is we're these dinners and they

(05:57):
are very expensive dinners. And at the end of dinner,
Nothing's dad pulls out of his jacket instant coffee and says,
I ain't paying twenty dollars for damn coffee. So here's
a guy that has close to a billion dollars that
was bringing his own instant coffee. So when you say,
you know, the apple doesn't fall apart from the three like,

(06:17):
it's just when you hear that, it's just like, oh god,
you know, it's it's sad to me. But look there's
no chance they're keeping Schemes for the long run. I
think this year ms Keller is going to make sixteen
point four million. If they don't trade him, that'll be
the richest contract in pirate history. I hear that he's
available for a trade, Reynolds is available for a trade.

(06:40):
He's making money. But when it comes time for Schemes
to get into his fifth and sixth year, I think
the last year he might make might set a record
for arbitration eligible numbers, which might be thirty thirty five.
I think Soto had the record two years ago when
the Yankees maybe thirty one million. By then, Schemes could
get thirty five million odie open market. He's gonna get

(07:00):
fifty million dollars a year. And it's just it's just
he's never he has no shots of staying, so at
some point the pirates are gonna have to trade him.
When I talked to the GM two days ago, he said,
the way to keep him the longest is to is
to win. Well, keep him the longest. What does that mean?
Keep him for five years instead of four, six years

(07:22):
instead of five. That's that's the best case. The best
case scenario. I believe is that is that he gets
to where Garret Cole was. You know, I talked to
Garrett Cole a lot who who still loves Pittsburgh and
still upset that the Pirates didn't keep him for six years.
And they try to win because a lot of people

(07:42):
that I talked to that come through your organization, they
just love the city. They love the fans. They they
know what it was like in the seventies when they won,
when the Pirates were as popular as as the Steelers,
more popular than the Penguins. And now what there's a
couple of generations fans that know nothing but losing. And

(08:03):
the Schemes is already the best right handed in baseball.
He in s Google Beside Young Winner for Detroit are
the best two pitchers in baseball. And it's sad that
he has no shot in making the playoffs. What are
the Pirates gonna do this year? The GM says, Oh,
we're gonna spend a little more money. What's that mean.
They're gonna get one bat that's a five million dollar player.
That's not gonna change anything. They're gonna lose. They're gonna

(08:25):
lose eighty five ninety games for sure. Agan next year.
It's just not gonna change.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
And that's Randy, correct me if I'm wrong.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
That's your perception of how baseball looks at the Pirates
that are not a serious player.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Of course, they're not a serious player. And and the
thing is is that we always hear the small market. Well,
look at Milwaukee, Milwaukee. I've been to Milwaukee. I've been
there with you. The night that the Mummy Brister's when
sister his sister are gonna fight in the bar.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Got to do a different interview about that one. He's
got a twist, Chubby Brister twins.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
I remember there was like the Evil Twin and the
good Win and I just remembers she got in a
fight and she was being drug away and she started
bra serious.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
That's amazing.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah, yeah, Mike. Mike was probably seventeen beers in and
doesn't remember.

Speaker 5 (09:29):
The fire engine red in the studio.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
You're welcome, love the bar. People are not in the industry.
You're not taking them seriously, is the suspicion.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
It's how can they They've had what four winning seasons
since Barry Bonds left and and it's I think of
in the seventies when I remember being excited at a kid.
When there was talk Peter Rose might come to the
it comes to the Pirates. Gallbrook was going to give
them some horses, even going to come, and now it's
just it's a joke. And they got a beautiful ballpark.

(10:09):
People come from all over the nation go see that ballpark,
and they just don't win. Well, why can Milwaukee win?
Why why can Tampa win? Look at Tampa. I go
to Tampa all the time. The Yankees play there twice
a year. I'm there for spring training. They get ten
thousand people at the games. And yet they've been in
the playoffs and they're in the Al East. They beat

(10:31):
out the Yankees for division titles, beat them in the playoffs.
How can they win? Because they put a lot of
money into their form system, they do things right. Even
with the Pirates. I hear stories that their farm system
isn't the greatest in certain areas. The scouts aren't the
greatest in certain areas. And that's where a lot of
these other teams that at least they put the money

(10:53):
in developing players, they can't keep them.

Speaker 6 (10:56):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
I hear a lot of times in spring training when
you get there, there's eighty people in the in the clubhouse,
and there's a lot of guys that are six year
freezing PARAMIDT League signs that are going to go to
Trip Away, and all the ones that play for the Pirates.
I go up to them and shout with them, what
was your time like in the organization? And this has

(11:17):
been going for years. You just you don't hear good stories.

Speaker 6 (11:21):
You know.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
The one guy who loves Pittsburgh was was Bednar I
I I, uh, it's a it's fun getting to know
him a little bit. He just came at the end
of the year. But the guy, the guy loves Pittsburgh
goes and he goes in tailgates with the Steeler games
of fans and uh and uh. Yankee fans are just

(11:42):
seeing what kind of guy he's a He's a true
Pittsburgh who's a founder of guy. And I think the
Yankee fans are gonna really go to love him. I
don't think any of them understand the uh his his
entrance song, you know Steelers Uh still he does renegade.
Yeah yeah, And I was pretty fired enough. I taped

(12:02):
the first time and sent to some of my friends
dot home. They were they were excited about it, and
nobody at the Yankee fans don't understand.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (12:10):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Randy Miller from uh in New Jersey dot Com the
the author of the article yesterday about Paul Skean's apparently
telling a teammate that he wanted to be traded to
the Yankees. I mean, this was this Tony Soprano in
that driveway scene where he picked up.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, of course he was yeah.

Speaker 5 (12:28):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
But this to me, you know, we talked about this earlier,
This to me is the least surprising story in the world.
You know, guy who's in jail, who committed no crime
wants to escape.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, of course.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
I do believe that Skeens knows he's there for a
couple more years, and I believe he wants to win there.
I have friends in Louisiana that followed him when he
was at LSU from all counts. I hear he's a
pretty good guy. People reporters I talked to. I hear
he's a pretty stand up guy. But he knows, he

(13:06):
knows he's not going to be a long term pirate.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
It's it's it's obvious. I know that he's I know
people that talk to him about it. Then, look, he's
just not going to come out and say, yes, I
want to I want to go to the Yankees. I've
never heard anything about the Yankees. I've been telling people
last year. I hear he wants to go to the Angels,
and people like, what, why would he go there? That's
what someone told me that that talked to him. And

(13:29):
then now, uh, when I brought that up to uh,
I remember the Pirates. No no, no, no, no, no, it's it's the Yankees.
And then I said, okay, well that makes sense because
I've heard some stuff about I don't know his girlfriend,
but it's out there to to where it's got back
to the Yankees. I know it's got back to the
Yankees that that they've heard it, and they've kind of

(13:51):
laughed at off. Look, you hear all the time people
want to play for this a lot of times that
the agents are always throw the Yankees and everything to
try up the price. That I still believe that he'll
be a Pirate for at least two more years, and
then I think when they realized that he's not going

(14:13):
to sign long term, at that point he will move on.
I know Garret Cole was interested in being a pirate
long time, long term heartbreak.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
That's what's heartbreaking, because these guys actually do want to
stay here, you know.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
And Bob Nuttings.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Who loved it there, he still does. We talked about
Pittsburgh all the time. I pulls a great guy to
be around. He could be the best pitching coach in baseball,
but he's never going to do it because he's made
so much money. But a great guy. And we talked
about Pittsburgh a lot, and he look. He pitched in
All Star Games, pitched in a World Series with the Yankees.
Some of his best moments of his life were the

(14:50):
playoff games in Pittsburgh and winning in Pittsburgh when nobody
thought today or whoever winning They had that three year
stretch where where they were in what the wild Card series,
and they won one game where the fans were all
over the Reds pitcher and that was a great moment
in Pittsburgh and it was I remember watching that game
on TV and it's like, wow, this reminds me of
what it was like for a kid. And now it's

(15:11):
a whole generation of fans that are seeing this for
the first time and cool that let's build it let's
add on to this team and at least keep me
through six years. And look, he ended up going getting
trade with Houston, he gets another World Series, goes to
the World Series. There, he goes the World Series the Yankees.
He gets this big contract, but he's he still wishes

(15:32):
that he would have had another run with the Pirates
to see if they would have added on that last
year instead of getting rid of him, they would have
added on. He thought they were close. And when you
look at how close Milwaukee has been over the years,
I think those those Pirate teams were as good as
any of these Milwaukee teams. You looked the same thing
with the Pampa Tines. So a small market team, if

(15:54):
you do it right, you can you can get in
there and have a little two or three year run
like the Pirates had years ago. But look, everybody knows
that they're not They're not spending like they should. They're
keeping their luxury tax money, and uh, it's it's disgraceful
because there's a lot of great baseball fans in Pittsburgh.
I know because my friends are Pirate fans. My dad's

(16:16):
a Pirate fan, my cousin's a big Pirates fan. And
you see their Facebook posts and and they're still living
and dying. I have a friend in Louisiana who watches
every freaking, every freaking game, and it's like they're they're
they're so upset. Uh. One drove the drove to Cooperstown
for Parker from Louisiana to to Coopertown Parker's can All
Day induction. Then then two weeks later drove from Louisiana

(16:38):
to Pittsburgh to go see l Over going to Pirates
All Fames. So there's still huge Pirate fans out there
living in the past, hoping that they live long enough.
And but look, there's a lot of Red Sox fans
that never thought You're one of them, right, Randy, Yeah,
you probably never thought I think I got your tickets
to one year.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yes, and uh and uh and I'll never get it.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
And you never thought you'd never see the Red Sox
win the World Series.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
And I got to go with that.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, And then now the Cubs have won, so things
can change. I just wonder when we heard rumors years
ago about Cuban, if Cuban would have bought the team,
how it would be different. But I still believe the
Silver lining here for the pirate fans is and it's
a really good thing that the Dodgers won the Real

(17:22):
Series this year because from what I hear is that
most of the owners in baseball are united against the Dodgers.
The Dodgers are bringing in so many millions of dollars
in Japanese advertising that basically the the O Tawny contract
was paid off in a couple of years. That's right here.

(17:42):
And now I know a lot of the owners, including
Steinbrenner for the Yankees, who has many billions, that they're like,
we have to stop this. We're not gonna be able
to even we can't compete with the Dodgers in their spending.
They're paying so much in luxury tax, but it doesn't
matter because the advertising money that they're bringing in from
Japan is offsetting this and they're still making money, a

(18:02):
big money. So from talking to players, they're insisting over
our mid body or we ever going to have our
salary cap, and the owners are saying, well, we're getting
a salary cap. So there's going to be a might
be the worst work stoppage in sports history, as bad
as the hockey. But I believe the way it's going
to get solved. Is I believe there's going to be

(18:23):
a cap. I believe it'll be a high cap, so
the Yankees and Dodgers and Mets will still be able
to spend a little more than everybody else. But I
believe it's going to force the Pirates, the Marlins, the Rays,
the Brewers, the small market teams to spend a lot more.
And that point, nothing's going to either have to spend
or sell the team. And so I think that'll be
a good thing for pirates. And is that that we

(18:46):
that they get a cap in here a couple of
years down the road, and that gives them a chance
to force the Pirates to spend and get a chance
to win, because it's it's it's a shame what's going
on here.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Certainly, way way, way too long.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Randy Miller, thank you so much. We really appreciate your
time this morning. Thanks for calling from Vegas.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Anytime.

Speaker 5 (19:04):
Guys, Thank you all, rybody, take care, kids, shout it
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Speaker 6 (19:07):
Back off, Boogaloo, go bring me down.

Speaker 5 (19:10):
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Speaker 1 (19:30):
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Speaker 2 (19:40):
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Speaker 1 (19:41):
It's our friend Dave Dannischeck's updating.

Speaker 6 (19:47):
Not as enthusiastic as usual for obvious reasons. Here the
flags across with all America flying at half staff or
something like that, or maybe replacing it with a terrible
chow to give a little shout for this big life
event for our guy Bill Crawford. Very sad stuff for
dve go get him though, Where what is the plan here?

(20:09):
So you're gonna what is the thing like you're angling
before you see Mike Comlins pattern over the last couple
of years, and Crawford's like, yay, maybe my numbers up
in twenty twenty six to play QB out of forty plus. Dude,
keep getting their shots, Why not me?

Speaker 7 (20:26):
I'm announcing myself as eligible for the twenty twenty six
Drafty and I'm just trying to get ahead of it.

Speaker 5 (20:31):
I want to get in the gym.

Speaker 7 (20:33):
I have a couple of trainers in Bridgeville here that
are gonna that are gonna get me in the tip
top shape that I know that I can be in,
and I know that I can take this team to
the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (20:44):
And not just to the playoffs, Dave, I want to
win a game.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
He just wants to be a long servant leader, that's all.

Speaker 5 (20:49):
Yeah, I want to be the servant leader.

Speaker 7 (20:51):
But I'm going into the caves Laurel Caverns to be
exact for just a couple of weeks.

Speaker 6 (20:56):
Yes, this is a good plan. You know they remember
last spring when they announced that the Steelers were you know, like,
can you imagine the talking heads, the grown up people.
I didn't hear a ton of this from the banks
of the Three Rivers, but nationally, just if you need
this is before the disaster, the rolling disaster that we

(21:18):
are watching unfold here with these Steelers once again, but
last spring, in between last year's shameful demise with Russell
Wilson at the Helm and between, but before what we
saw on Sunday night and so far and what is
a harbinger of bad times ahead. Perhaps we were told
by all the talking heads, like can you imagine how

(21:40):
great the Steelers are really excited about building to the
twenty twenty six draft, because if they in right there
at the point, if they could announce the first overall
draft pick as a pitcher, like no, no, no national voices,
that's Cleveland Brown's crap. The Steelers announced the first overall

(22:01):
pick indicates sorrow in the actual season. That, in other words,
is what we're experiencing right now as steel As fans.
But anyway, the good news is that if they do
announce local boy, if they do announce local son, Bill
Crawford is the first ever all pick. Now, them talking
heads was right all along, this is going to be

(22:21):
grand stuff.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
So I look forward to that.

Speaker 6 (22:23):
I'm just gonna I'm gonna go hibernate until the draft.
Somebody wake me up so I can I can celebrate
with Crawford because right now I'm just I'm just sick.
But I do want to say this very quickly.

Speaker 5 (22:35):
That I just want to know are at this well.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
I mean, I'm just sick over this.

Speaker 6 (22:45):
Oh listen, I'm going to be sick in my ball
now I already am, but I'm trying to say. I'm
trying to say some of the some of the more
serious illness to unfold around the holidays.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
So I could be really delightful.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
At Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I want to make clear
that it could have been worse, because if you're down
in the dumps, you know silver lining Dave is here
to boost your spirits. Yeah, it was grim and embarrassing
for what the second time in three weeks or whatever,
it was on a national stage, prime time, the uh
the the Mike Tomlin and company figuratively at least standing

(23:22):
nude before the pro football world to show to show balls,
sick or otherwise, and that that performed three points three
three points? Oh ohtho. But I don't know if you
heard all the all the people, all the all the
sober local people want you to know, the talking heads like, hey,

(23:44):
Chargers have a great defense. Oh okay, so so then
that so then that makes it okay to only score
three points in a pro football game when you're the
mighty Pittsburgh Steelers touted with a smart move. Oh no, Dave,
you don't get it. Aaron Rodger, you just see you
just seem angry about something that we can't quite put
our finger on. But I don't think you understand. We're
practice every day and you should see the command Aaron

(24:06):
Rodgers has. And you thought he was going to be disruptive. No,
I didn't think he was going to be disrupted with
his teammates. I thought he was old and wasn't going
to be able to evade professional athletes chasing him around.
And so far it looks like I'm right if you want.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
A gloater?

Speaker 6 (24:25):
Do you think I Do you think this makes me happy?
Do you think this gives me pleasure?

Speaker 2 (24:31):
A little bit? A little bit, a little bit?

Speaker 6 (24:34):
Yeah, well, look, consider my side of it. I'm slack
jawed that people who seem bright to me continue to
indulge this nonsense, that that after the Russell Wilson experience,
everybody's like, I don't think you understand, Dave. I don't
think you quite get it from out there in LA.
But but Aaron Rodgers is a different guy. How is
it any different than what happened with Russell Wilson? So

(24:56):
far it's exactly the same. But anyway, here's how it
could have been. Work the guy, the guy gashing him
up and down the field all night long on the
ground could have been Nachie Harris, and then it would
have been really embarrassing. Oh no, it was as about
as embarrassing as it could have been, but it would
have been a little bit worse if it would have
been nach The football gods have done their best to
protect Mike Tomlin from true shane. We've been talking about

(25:19):
it for what eight and ten weeks now. They should
have lost to Justin Fields. That would have exposed things
a lot earlier in the season than where we are now.
But as much as possible, the football gods have insulated
Tomlin from true shame. And as long as you don't
pay attention to what's going on in Dallas. With George
Pickens being one of the top receivers in the games
that also fielders, you.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
Know, you know who's glad that we didn't go to
Justin Fields full time last year Justin Fields he earned
another thirty million dollars because we benched him.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
No, this is the stink.

Speaker 6 (25:55):
And thinking of people being all over the place about
who these stealers are, you do you think as much
as many shots as I will take at the Steelers'
brain trust. You are now Randy Bauman, the signature radio
show on the banks of the Three Rivers for at
least the last quarter century. You you are asserting now

(26:16):
that the Steelers' brain trust equals the Jets brain trust
their coaching abilities and otherwise. No, oh, look now you
look dumb, Dave, because you wanted the Steelers to take
that to bring back justin.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Passing in the first half. No coaches are that bad.

Speaker 6 (26:33):
He sucks, but that's not the point is you bring
him in is a transition and.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
You I wanted that too, and it was obviously going
to be the wrong move.

Speaker 6 (26:42):
I disagree, because what if you if what you want
is to set yourself up with a bridge quarterback, I mean, listen,
PURSUITA and I are among a small handful of people
who I'm pretty sure I'm kissing pursuit into this. It
said for a long long time, and still say. Jackson

(27:02):
Dart was obviously the guy. It's the quarterback league. Well,
but we took Kenny Pickett and that didn't work out,
and you picked him in the twenties, and you see
what you get when you get into into the back
half of the of the first round, it's not as dependent. No,
you keep taking swings at the only position that matters.
You don't take a defensive tackle when you have a
desperate need for a quarterback. Oh no, but we got
the forty year old man who's going to bridge us

(27:24):
into into brighter days. Except that now none of those
guys in twenty twenties just appear to be worth it.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
Listen, here's what I'll say.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
You are right, and we have dissected their mistakes from
an organizational standpoint to the end that like there is
nothing left of the body.

Speaker 7 (27:42):
I will say that it is very Pittsburgh that we
have an old bridge that's going to get us to
the future.

Speaker 5 (27:49):
I will say we can all.

Speaker 7 (27:50):
Agree that at least that is on brand for Pittsburgh,
the lab without.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Kay, that's what I can do that.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Okay, So let's let's look at let's let's get let's
get optimistic. Okay, let's let's let's try to find a
silver line.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Okay, I want to do that.

Speaker 6 (28:11):
Samuel means that, Santi Samuel Junior, he this is this
move makes this defense historic.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Thank you for something I think say I'm a ray
of sunshine.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
Let me tell you something.

Speaker 6 (28:26):
Else I hate talk about, like what the national voices
were buzzing about.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
You are one of the national voices, FYI, But go ahead.

Speaker 6 (28:38):
I don't I don't wear that, I don't accept that.
I'm focused singularly on my I can. I'm capable of
weighing in intellectually on the thirty one other teams, but
by heart, it sits on the banks of the three rivers. Now,
the the I hate when they do the thing when
they have nothing to talk about. The the the unimatgined

(29:00):
of people. What should we do to fill this TV segment? Well,
I know, let's thirty two times over put up the
schedules of these pro football teams and hack through them
in April and pretend that we can divine what the
results are going to be in November and December games blind.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
Let's just do that.

Speaker 6 (29:15):
I do think we can now do that, now that
we've transcended the halfway point in the stealer schedule, and
let's just go at it. Obviously, we can't predict in
a league fully when the Carolina Panthers can go to
Green Bay and knock them off head to head and
all that, but as best we can tell me what
you think of this. They're five and four, as you know,
are they going to how many wins do you hear here?

(29:37):
Just count your head? How many wins do you count
out of this remaining schedule to get to ten, which
I think is we can agree, probably the magic number
to at least get into the postseason or take a
shot at winning the North. Here we go, Bungals at Bears,
Buffalo in Pittsburgh, at the Ravens, Dolphins in Pittsburgh, at

(30:01):
Detroit Cleveland with Baltimore. I count four wins there. I
think they wind up. I now it kind of seems
I have.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
I have Brown's Bengals, Dolphins, Crawford.

Speaker 7 (30:15):
I don't like the Dolphins because it's a night game
and Aaron is too old to play at night. Now
three three bad, bad games in prime time. I don't
like that as a win. I got them at four.
I have I have them winning the game against the Bungles,
I have them beating the Bears. I've got them beating
the Ravens once.

Speaker 6 (30:37):
I mean, I think, what what I said, I talk
about pat myself on the back, but what I said, whatever,
it was three weeks ago before, before the first game
against Cincy, and I stand by this even as things
have spiraled a little bit here. If they had won
that game, they just have to beat the Crepa Joe

(30:58):
Flacco and they would have been then they that would
have gotten in to six and one, and that would
have been a five games spread against the Ravens. And
if you merely not merely, but if you split with
Baltimore in those two, it creates a mountain too tall
for Baltimore, no matter what they do the rest of
the season, for them to overcome. The Steelers would have

(31:20):
won the division with a win there. I know that
sounds retro and like wow, but maybe they stole want
to get the Colts that you didn't anticipate they had
been six and one, five game margin that it would
have been nearly impossible. Assuming again, like Crawford just said,
a split against Baltimore. I no longer see the possibility
of that split. Though you think they're gonna win at
the first game is at Baltimore, I don't have high

(31:42):
hopes for them pulling that one out in between. I
mean that's after they played the Bills, So I mean
they're not gonna win at Detroit. Clear they're certain. I mean,
who would pick that The swing game, aside from needing
to beat Baltimore at least once, is at the Bears.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
You know, Okay, so you're saying, but if they win
four games, that makes them nine and eight, and you
do they get in the playoff at nine and eighth
this year?

Speaker 6 (32:06):
And look at the It's just the way it susses
out if you, if you take a look at the
at the way things lay out right now, they look
comfy in a in a playoff spot. They're fourth seated,
but they're the the It is bizarre. It's downright weird.
If you look at as much conversations like who's saw
the Patriots and Buffalo at the top of the standings?

(32:28):
What is this two thousand and eight?

Speaker 5 (32:30):
Everybody?

Speaker 3 (32:32):
It's hysterical.

Speaker 6 (32:33):
But anyway, I can't stop.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Laughing about how delightful it is.

Speaker 6 (32:37):
But uh oh, you know, and they kiss the Steelers
into that too, because they still are holding on the
first place nominally, but look at the teams that are
rising up beneath them. Do you the Bills already have
a game on them so that they buy by necessity,
Pittsburgh would have to win that Buffalo game. To overcome
the Bills, otherwise they aren't passing them in the Still,
Buffalo is essentially ahead of Pittsburgh in the stand if

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you assume the Ravens are going to win the division.
The Texans are one game behind the Steelers now, and
here come the Chiefs on the rise as well. So
all the teams that are by number underneath Pittsburgh right
now are probably going to or some percentage of them
are going to wind up ahead of Pittsburgh. And where
that leaves the Steelers, I don't know. The only one

(33:22):
who they really have head to head is the Colts,
and that's nice, except that the Coults ain't going to
blow the division. So it's neither here nor there.

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Speaker 6 (33:34):
I don't mean to be a bummer, but of course
that that only aligns with where we are today, Will
mischie Bill Crawford, go get them out there, Region Square Son.
We believe in you. We know you're gonna kill it
out there, and and everybody's cheering for you on the
banks of the Three Rivers. Pali.

Speaker 5 (33:52):
Thanks check.

Speaker 7 (33:52):
It's it's been so fun talking Steelers with you Man,
as evidenced by h When everybody leaves the studio and
we're off air, we've done this segment, we've taped it,
we've sent it off to be repurposed for the next
day's show. And it's still me and you sitting here
talking Steelers for thirty five to forty five minutes. They

(34:14):
start closing the whole building down. Chairs are flipping around me,
they're turning the lights off.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
I'm already home sleeping.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
If you guys are still talking, it's like build it.

Speaker 6 (34:27):
The next day's show starts in ninety minutes.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
I'm miss hang out here. It's about that, Kay, late
to take a nap.

Speaker 7 (34:33):
Now, it's been a blast, man, and I hope we
keep in touch and I might just have to call
you to do this segment off air, just between us
on the phone sometime.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Oh.

Speaker 6 (34:43):
Listen, the Steelers season may be winding down, but the
Pens are just getting going. And then we got schemes
talk about bridging into twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Let's do it, fella, go get them out there.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
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Speaker 1 (35:13):
It's the DVE Morning Show Randy Bauman along with Bill
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Speaker 2 (35:30):
What's upbody?

Speaker 5 (35:31):
Good morning morning.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Yes, it is a good morning.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
So let's start with, Oh, it's kind of a bad
morning because it's Bill's last show and I got a time.
I'm gonna severely miss you. The amount of times coffee
has come back.

Speaker 5 (35:45):
Out through my nose and stuff that you have said
is like a record.

Speaker 4 (35:49):
So good luck to you, brother. I love you, and
you're tremendously talented.

Speaker 6 (35:54):
I know you'll do well whatever you do.

Speaker 7 (35:56):
Thank you so much, Guy, And I just want to
say it's been an absolute pleasure getting it to you
every week, and you've done such an amazing job filling
the spot of your partner.

Speaker 5 (36:07):
It's It's truly been an honor to get to talk
to you.

Speaker 6 (36:09):
Man.

Speaker 7 (36:10):
I grew up watching you and uh and I love
how much you still know about every single sport. I mean,
it just it gives me hope that that's you know,
that's that's on deck for me for the rest of
my life. It doesn't matter if you're retired. You're working
now more than you ever did.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
Well, you grew up watching me.

Speaker 5 (36:30):
Is that an age joke?

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Because that you're I'm sorry, I mean you have got
that gray beard now you well, I mean you probably
got four shades grayer. Watching Penn State blow that game
to Indiana last week.

Speaker 4 (36:46):
I was talking to producer Jacob there went up to
the game. If you were just not interested in either
team and just watched that New Joe. It was a
fabulous football game. But it's a look, it's a terrible
They stink and it's don't I don't even know they
can win the last three games to get to a
lousy Bowl, but they got to be one of the
best three and six teams or whatever. They lost two

(37:08):
games by one point double overtime. The Oregon back to
back weeks against the one and two undefeated teams in
the country and played, you know, a good half against
Ohio State in a great game against Indiana. Yeah, you
want to pull your hair out, absolutely well.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
You know that's one of those things a good coach
might be able to get you over the hump there.
And there's really about Brian day Bole possibly going to
Penn State. He's wearing the Penn State hoodie a day
after being fired by the jet the Giants.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
What are your thoughts on that that?

Speaker 4 (37:37):
I don't want him.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
And he he has a kid that goes there too,
I believe, so that could be part of the reason.
He even has that sweatshirt, you know.

Speaker 4 (37:45):
And I want a young up and coming I would
love to see him. I don't even know who it is,
some Division two head coach or a thirty five year old, bright,
young coordinator somewhere. And as much as I supported James Franklin,
you got man, you gotta have somebody with the personality
to recruit. I don't care how good of a.

Speaker 5 (38:05):
Coach you are.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
You know, even though you know Sicknaty was just done
a fabulous job in Indiana. But holy cow, I watch
his interviews, I think, how can any how can he
ever sit in anybody's living talking to the common player.

Speaker 6 (38:15):
For him, he's a jag off.

Speaker 7 (38:16):
Yes, he looks miserable if they're winning by fifty or
if they're down in again.

Speaker 4 (38:23):
Right, you can't tell. The sideline reporter asked him last week,
you know, you know, knowing what your schedule's like the
rest of the way, how big is this game? And
he's like, I don't care about the schedule the rest
of the way. You know, he just didn't want to
give her, give her the time of day and whatever.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
So yeah, no they even have to recruit anymore, though, Guy,
isn't it just buying your money?

Speaker 2 (38:45):
Isn't it just what just buying players?

Speaker 4 (38:49):
And yeah, you know what that that's a good point.
I still think if that, But I where I think
it comes in, Randy is the guys that aren't getting
me and I that's true with the Stars, but I
still think if you want to a national championship contender,
you need trench players that maybe aren't going to get
nil money or get very little nil money. You need linemen.
It might have three or four big university opportunities that

(39:12):
are still just going for the scholarship. So yeah, with
the Stars, I think you're one hundred percent right.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
Yeah, and they have the money.

Speaker 4 (39:19):
They'll be able to get the big time players.

Speaker 6 (39:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
Now a big college football matchup this weekend. Of course
here in Pittsburgh. ESPN's College Game Day is going to
be filming here and Pat McAfee and crew will be
revving up all the technic fans getting super pit Notre Dame.
I got a call from somebody I don't really even know,
who's a friend of my older brother, and he's like,

(39:44):
call and see if you have any extra tickets to the.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
Pit Notre Dame game.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
Like, I couldn't pick you out of a lineup, number one,
number two, What planet are you on?

Speaker 2 (39:56):
There haven't been tickets for this game since they went on.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
I had a guy call me in the nineteen ninety
one baseball playoffs at five in the afternoon that I
played high school baseball with and hadn't talked to in
seventeen years. The wanted to know if I could get
him a ticket for a Pirate playoff, the Pirate playoff
game that was starting in two hours.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
So I know exactly what that is like.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
But it also shows you how.

Speaker 6 (40:23):
Huge this game is.

Speaker 4 (40:24):
And I wasn't quite sure what Nordoozy was trying to
do when he, you know, said, hey, we could lose
this game from one hundred and three to three the
next and win the next two, and I'd be.

Speaker 6 (40:34):
Okay with that.

Speaker 4 (40:35):
I mean, I understand the thinking. The biggest game left
for them is the road game at Georgia Tech. I mean,
they win that, they've got a really good shot of
playing in.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
The ACC Championship game.

Speaker 4 (40:45):
This game is not a conference game, but from where
they've been for a long time, and with all this
national attention, and then really their first chance to prove
this year that they belong with the elite or belong
as a ranked team. Maybe he just doesn't want to
make it that big. Maybe he's trying to play the
hype to his players. You know, Okay, game days coming
here to place, the sold out, let's just let's let's

(41:05):
everybody calm down. But I don't think he quite got
that thought across. I think some people scratched their heads
the way the way he presented that.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
He presents things in a lot of head scratching ways.
It's been my experience, all right. Aaron Rodgers and the
Pittsburgh Steelers taking on Joe Flacco once again the Flacco
led Bengals.

Speaker 5 (41:26):
Hunk Bowl Part two, geriatric Boogaloo.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
They've gotten in four weeks better than the last time
they faced each other.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
Well, you talk about gray hair watching Penn State Indiana,
I reckon they went bald. Watch That reminded me of
the Steelers of the sixties when I was a little
kid and I became a New York Giants fan because
they sucked.

Speaker 6 (41:49):
So bad every year that came from beginning to end.

Speaker 4 (41:53):
I kept thinking, Okay, he'll settle down, and then even
at halftime, all right, he'll get himself together. And it'sn't
just him.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
I mean, it's muffed punts.

Speaker 6 (41:59):
It's stupid coaching.

Speaker 4 (42:01):
Cana Johnson finally gets a chance to come back in
the game when they're in the shadow of their own
goal host When the last time you saw me let
one go through it over his head into the m zones.

Speaker 5 (42:08):
Yeah, in the Seattle gain.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
I just that whole game.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
I want to make me kill myself.

Speaker 5 (42:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (42:14):
But now so since so, all right, Cincinnati's coming in
here now. Normally they've beaten the Steelers four straight times. Now,
it's been been a while since the Steelers have been
able to beat them, and you have to be concerned
with the way Jamar Chase and the way they threw
the ball against them, and since he as banged up,
as the Steelers secondary is right now. But the key
to this time around is they the Bengals running game

(42:36):
is not good. They let them run on him the
first time, which opened up that they got to shut
down the run first. Jamar Chase is gonna make some
catches if they allow them to run the ball as well.
He's gonna throw over them again. But I think they're
gonna beat him this time around. You know, that's the
only damn win they have in their last six or
seven games.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
I mean, they stink.

Speaker 5 (42:55):
I said the same thing off air today, guy.

Speaker 7 (42:58):
I said that I think they're gonna win this game
because I thought the last game that they played, they
totally and completely overlooked the running game of the Bengals
and Chase Brown, and that caught them so off guard
in that game that the wheels came off.

Speaker 6 (43:16):
Well.

Speaker 4 (43:16):
I hated the way they made it. I think you're
a roundre percent right, But I think they also acted
like they weren't.

Speaker 6 (43:21):
You know.

Speaker 4 (43:21):
Tomlin referred to in this press conference this week that
you know they weren't exactly sure how Flacco was going
to fit into their offense, you know, just ten days
into his tenure there. I mean, I've seen Joe Flacco
twenty plus times in the regular season over the years.
I would have think you'd be a little more, a
little more prepared. I find it funny that there is

(43:42):
such gnashing of teeth about Aaron Rodgers' performance.

Speaker 6 (43:46):
And it was hideous.

Speaker 4 (43:47):
I mean, it was terrible, but to this, I think,
up before the game last Sunday, he's their most valuable player,
if not him Boswell, And it's just funny. I was
taking out some newspapers to the recycling and I'm looking
at the post his head from before the Packers game,
and it's like, here's the headlines, Rogers turning back the clock,
turning heads. I knew we'd see the quick decisions in

(44:09):
the accuracy. I wasn't expecting the mobility. Another headline, Rogers
defying Father time ahead of Packers showdown. And after one
lousy performance, everyone's like, oh, I think his career is over.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
He's like that, he's Doug.

Speaker 4 (44:22):
I just think it was a terrible game and I
think I think we'll see more. I think we'll see
more of the rest of the way of what we
saw the first couple of months. You know, not him
in his prime, but certainly better than he was against
the games.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
Well, let's hope.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
So I want to clock kickoff here on DV Steelers
Bengals this Sunday on the flagship of the Black and
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Speaker 2 (44:42):
Thanks guy, We'll talk to you next week, Budy.

Speaker 4 (44:43):
All right, guys, Happy football viewing Bill, happy future.

Speaker 5 (44:47):
Thank you guy.

Speaker 8 (44:49):
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Speaker 9 (45:01):
The Steelers will try to get their revenge against the
Bengals this Sunday, since he comes to Pittsford for the
second leg of the division rivalry this season. Pittsford lost
to since he back in Week seven, thirty three to
thirty one, in a game that saw Bengals star wide
receiver Jamar Chase put up sixteen catches on twenty three
targets for one hundred and sixty.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
One yards and a touchdown.

Speaker 9 (45:17):
That kind of game is the norm for someone like Jamar,
who was the NFL's second leading receiver this season despite
losing his star quarterback Joe Burrow to injury in Week two.
It was what the other Chase did to the Steelers
that was the bigger problem in the team's last meeting
since he running back Chase Brown ran for one hundred
and eight yards in just eleven carries, and the Bengals
as the team ran for one hundred and forty two
total yards, despite entering that game as the league's worst

(45:38):
rushing offense. Well fast forward to Week eleven and that
fact hasn't changed. The Bengals rank dead last and running
the ball with an average of just seventy eight point
eight yards per game on the ground. What better change, though,
is how the Steelers handle Brown, whose game against the
Steelers was by far his best of the season so
far and the only game he's eclipsed one hundred yards
rushing this year. With the Bengals receiving cores and passing

(45:58):
game posing such a massive threat, the Steelers will be
best to take the running game completely away from since
if they hope to successfully get their payback on tom
op forman with the Steelers

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