00:00He didn't make it five innings again, Craig.
00:02What is going on?
00:04Yeah, like I said, I think you just have to wait until the end of the season.
00:08I promise you that Paul Skeens is going to be a beast again next year.
00:14They're going to figure it out.
00:15They're going to get him on the right workout, whatever it needs to be.
00:18A lot of weight, no weight, arm slot, no arm slot.
00:23Whatever's going on, Joe, I've attended I don't know how many games this season.
00:28Let's see.
00:29So I've attended probably I mean, I'm doing a total of 70, 70, 70 games, 70 games at the end
00:37of the season.
00:37And I went to two in Tampa Bay.
00:39I'm going to end up close to 100 games this season.
00:41So I've seen it all.
00:43OK, you can't fix a pitcher in a month.
00:47You can't do it.
00:48It takes for a pitcher like that.
00:50It takes time.
00:51Can you make some little tweaks along the way?
00:54Sure.
00:55But physically, you just can't change a guy.
00:58Like you can't they asked him probably to be somebody else than what he is right now.
01:02And it's obviously affected him.
01:05And he's going to be a Cy Young Award candidate next year.
01:08He's going to be a superstar.
01:09He's going to be back.
01:10But they're going to sit down.
01:11They're going to go through the video.
01:12They're going to go through his workouts.
01:13They're going to find the smartest guy in the world to fix Paul Skeens.
01:16And he's going to get fixed.
01:17I am not concerned whatsoever with him.
01:21But as we've discussed, if you think that just magically next week, he's going to throw
01:25eight innings, one run, strike out 10.
01:27That's not happening.
01:28Now, it doesn't mean, by the way, that Skeens is a pitcher on the Rockies or the A's.
01:33He's still probably going to give you five innings of three run ball and occasionally six or seven of two
01:38run ball.
01:38Yes, he's just not.
01:40It doesn't appear he's going to dominate like Bubba Chandler or Braxton Ashcraft, who's just amazing.
01:47It doesn't appear that he's going to be one of those guys for the rest of the year.
01:51So they did win today.
01:53So good for them.
01:54The Pirates, Joe, somehow are like, you know, it feels like the rope is about to be cut, you know,
02:00and then they grab the rope and then they're back in again.
02:02You know, so they're barely, barely still alive.
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