Is Paul Skenes Going To Change Professional Baseball? | Pat McAfee Reacts

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have you heard about this AJ no what’s going on I think I know think I might have an idea of who be who will be throwing gas though we’ll make an announcement right now this man right here MH will be on the program tomorrow yes one0 Eastern Standard Time yeah can’t wait to talk to SK who well out there against Cubs just thre fashion anybody is already in the history books now had a couple Ducks on the pawn in the fourth inning and obviously the Pittsburgh pirat say n we’re not going to let you work yourself out of this we’re actually going to take you out of the game an inning before you could even get a win if this thing was to go on and end it and maybe throw a spinker throw that nobody else has ever seen and cause Double Play and get you out of this but nonetheless Paul skes lit up all of Pittsburgh as a baseball game stole the conversation in the Three River City because from warm-up where he played Charles Wesley Godwin’s Q Country Roads which is a perfect warm-up song for this particular man in Pittsburgh I love it even more but you got people all over Pittsburgh talking about this dude as if he’s a Pittsburgh Steeler you know they’re talking he big countries he’s [ __ ] worth the price of admission you you go down you’ll hear the catcher mitt pop you can hear that thing in the [ __ ] Outfield they’re saying about this guy they love him I think everything went you know well except for the fact that he is a 6.75 ra now because when he wasn’t pitching two guys ended up in yeah he only gave up one run but there was two guys on you see when he got pulled next pitcher came in through underhand those two go in now all of a sudden he gives up three and four they do the math you know cuz there’s uh uh you there’s nine innings so 9 divided by three what’s that times oh 6.75 if he was to play the entire thing so he he has a 6.7 five year which is [ __ ] ain’t that [ __ ] yeah that’s not going to matter I mean one Start If he if he throws seven Innings his start and doesn’t give up any runs like that thing’s going to okay good ladies and gentlemen joining us now as amand can baby break down how this is going to work for bsk okay I think he’s got 24 more games to be played if Shawn the mayor Casey’s numbers were accurate and I watched this guy play baseball I’m baseball program Watcher yeah jet passing good to see you jet gentlemen how are you I’m [ __ ] great the truth of you are I you you care about baseball right now it’s unbelievable like I love to see this like there was genuine excitement in your voice about Paul and about the Pittsburgh Pirates God bless that man for getting drafted there because you would not care otherwise amen amen and uh I don’t know if it’s good for baseball but I will say for me it has been a nice added benefit to my life knowing that there’s this massive [ __ ] country dude yeah who just started throwing a hundo within like the last three years of his life four years of his life who has in all he car cares about is baseball he we told him about a zoo here in Indianapolis which is literally right next to the ballpark in which he pitched for the Indianapolis Indians that’s their name the Indianapolis Indians there’s a zoo right next door he had no idea the zoo existed the guy had no [ __ ] idea we’re like you can literally see the chimpanzee exhibit from the mound propably especially with how tall you are I didn’t even know that cuz all he did was sleep and throw baseballs now he’s in Pittsburgh and everybody knows the song and dance he’s going to become great he’s going to go somewhere else they’re going to pay him hundreds and hundred of millions of dollars and he’s going to be a success story but now that he is a pirate I would like to enjoy this cuz I feel like we’re watching an actual potential history maker here right this guy can change the whole [ __ ] sport potentially yeah I mean I’m not gonna go like I’m not Cas said he could throw 105 like he might be able to get to a point where he’s throwing 10 what eventually eventually he needs to add some muscle and then he can is that healthy he’s not going to throw 1005 you don’t want him to throw 1005 yes I do that’s what I like I like balls H far I like balls thrown fast that’s what I [ __ ] like and I feel like one leads to another and if he’s throwing 102 103 he hasn’t even he hasn’t even shaped up yet he hasn’t even gotten to that Randy Johnson level of Staggering presence up there on it I mean it’s just like this guy’s good for baseball for me personally especially because he’s a pirate now so it’s a little bit closer and I got friends that to the game and they’re like you should [ __ ] see this guy whenever he wants it’s a whole thing go ahead Pat here’s here’s why he’s going to be good for baseball because over the last 20 or so years as the starting pitcher has become less and less important in baseball so we’ve seen more guys uh in more Innings out of the bullpen um Paul skem is a guy who you can look at on your calendar and say I’m gonna watch that guy pitch cuz I want to see something incredible happen there’s not a lot of appointment viewing when it comes starting pitches anymore because frankly guys aren’t allowed to go complete games guys aren’t allowed to go past 100 pitches but this is a guy who went 120 pitches in the College World Series this is a guy who wants to go deep into the game this is a guy who throws harder as a starting pitcher than anyone we have ever seen before and so even if you don’t get the 105 you’re going to get a consistent 100 and the closest thing I can think is is Jacob deg Gro I mean when deg Gro was at his best when he was going out there uh you had to watch it because it was so good but that was New York this is a guy who’s in Pittsburgh now and on top of that they’ve got Jared Jones in that rotation and he’s not quite Paul SK but he is pretty darn close in terms of watchability and the Pittsburgh Pirates all of a sudden with those two guys have become one of the most exciting teams to watch and all baseball and they woke the bats up too you know they woke the bats up I guess I guess the wood for the buckos had been off for a snooze for a while you know that’s why they were three and 13 at one point through a 16 game stretch but you see that big country [ __ ] throw the ball2 miles hour you can’t help but swing harder and I think that’s what’s happening over there look out okay look out the Pittsburgh Pirates what what you think they’re no um he’s from California you know that right n want the LSU listens to Charles Wesley Godwin from West Virginia Q Country Road just because the guy’s got a mustach and went to LSU does not make him country does it okay Have you listened to his his warm-up song Have you listened to his warm up out in California the Compton Cowboys right here yeah they riding horses in Compton that’s I saw that on Amazon Thursday Night Football boom Marshon Lynch was on the back of a pony in Compton at a ranch nonetheless Country Must Be Countrywide pal because all you got Paul SK listening to is Q Country Roads as he’s warming up in the middle of Pittsburgh this guy and he just a [ __ ] love ball throwing heat [ __ ] love baseball that’s [ __ ] all he got he does he’s perfect for Pittsburgh we’ll never be able to this is if let’s say all works out well okay they they trade him soon okay see that’s just hold on they’re not gonna trade you know what they do they’re not they’re gonna pay him $500 million how does it work no no no no they won’t trade no they’re not going to pay him $500 million I don’t think they’re going to trade him though I really don’t I think you got when you’re the Pittsburgh Pirates and you have the opportunity with a guy like skin and with a guy like Jared Jones uh at the same time coming up that’s a window that’s opening and if Bob nutting the owner of that team does not go out and start spending significant money this off season to build around those two and to I know you can laugh all you want he just sold Seven Springs he’s got money right now he’s got money that’s the that’s one of the best ski slopes in uh tubin Hills in West pet M he just sold it just so he’s got the money to pay Western PA all Western Pennsylvania s spr is a real deal brother H yes you get up there you get on tube you know you’re gonna have a good day no doubt about you know you’re gonna have a good day up there n ain’t gonna spend money Jen what do you think this is what the [ __ ] are you talking about I know I I think look I I think it has to happen at some point I it it just has to or Major League Baseball should look at owners who don’t spend money and the major league baseball players association should go and and frankly hold them accountable because especially if you have this opportunity with two guys like skin and Jones if you ever want to be seen as a real major league baseball franchise then you unequivocally need to step up and act like it when you’ve got guys like that and and it’s on the Pittsburgh Pirates right now to do that they’re getting crowds there they’re going to have people coming to coming to watch those games they’re going to sell their concessions they’re going to sell their par they’re going to do all those things this summer all the things that they’ve wanted the crowds are going to be there baseball go out and reward them period okay amen I like that a lot Ty has a question for the Zan belly firework shows are about to be phenomenal top tier they might have what if they have SK throw a baseball to hit something like the Wrestlemania stage reveal Paul SK stands on the M turns around throws it out the center field there’s like a Target hits it Zan belly fireworks go just have him throw it into the Aly from there just have [ __ ] croop and just throw it into the [ __ ] River so like he has the strongest arm in all of baseball right now I don’t know mean up there if it’s not if it’s if it’s not him he’s he’s one of the two or three strongest Mason Miller is probably going to be stronger than that Mason Miller is the closer for the A’s who’s regularly thrown 103 and 104 he’s likelier to get to the 105 than I didn’t know this [ __ ] exist well it’s cuz the a [ __ ] suck but this some [ __ ] is automatic I mean if they have a lead he comes in is ridiculous 103 104 milph right down the regular I didn’t know that existed wow what he’s very good I’m hopefully they continue to suck and they’ll they’ll get rid of him at some point yeah bring him to the Pittsburgh Pirates you got the hundo boys to First let him play five innings pal who’s the skipper down there in Pittsburgh that I need to [ __ ] for this entire thing not Jim Leeland no you’re damn right Jim be on a SI saying skes do your thing let them play five innings that ain’t that the thing in baseball okay can I can I tell you why that happened so the the reason that schemes is coming up right now as opposed to the beginning of the Season well there are a couple of elements to it number one the Pirates didn’t really know how he worked they saw him for six and 2/3 Innings last year after he got dra drafted and they wanted to understand you know after an offseason what how his body is working what his preparation is uh and built him up slowly so that he could spend the majority of the season with the organization in the big leagues and not have to get shut down like Steven strawber did or like pitchers have in the past you remember with Jaba Chamberlain you know they would start and stop these guys Pats didn’t want to do that and so the idea was to build him up slowly and and Pat if the most pitches you’ve thrown over the first six weeks of the season is 75 going out there and going past 80 85 into the 900 range probably isn’t the best thing to do you just need to have some patience in this situation you to see a lot of Paul SK starts and uh you know he has been on board with this would he have liked to have started with a big league team of course would he have liked to have thrown every inning with a big league team sure but he understood that this is a progression and uh you know we haven’t seen a number one pick debut as quickly as Skin did uh in decades like that that is how quickly he ascended and he looked theart I mean the stuff is about as good as you’re going to find in major league baseball right now seven strikeouts four Innings 84 pitches and uh gives up two runs that he put on I guess the next pitcher did so that counts again I just learned what an ER is this weekend too Jen I me congratulations yeah that’s that’s called an inherited Runner when you when you Beque a runner to a relief pitcher when you leave a runner on base yes Beque with a t um when you leave a runner and a Rel pitcher inherits it and you give up and inherit it what’s going on here what’s going on did you say what did you say just so I can just so I can put this into my roll aex of words here b e que uu e a t h you need to be a little bit better is the important thank you not what I heard yeah I heard bequeen to leave something to someone else there you go okay so he Beed yes he Beed two guys on base but he could have I done he could have thrown the spinker double play he doesn’t he does but this next guy comes in throws the floater as if it’s Rookie of the Year and all of a sudden those Beque guys are in and now that’s been now it’s on beans his ass I don’t know how that works I don’t know how that works what the hell I don’t know how that works