Neil Walker

Like I preached a couple days ago, you got to just figure out a way to keep him because he is the best second baseman this Pirates team has had in a very long time.

He has absolutely shattered the second baseman home run record for this team that was previously held by Neil Walker.

And I don't know if any other second baseman besides Brandon Lau, if he's a pirate next year, would even come close to 32 home runs for this Pirates team in that spot.

So, yeah, figure out a way to keep them.

You have to do whatever you can to keep Brandon Lau on this team.

because this is the perfect second baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates, shattered the previous Neil Walker home run record for a second baseman, which I think was 21 at the time.

It is now 31 for Brandon Lapp.

So keep Brandon laugh.

The o- the only Pirates, uh, what'd I say? The first one? Yeah, the, he's the only one to do it.

[laughs] Neil Walker hit 20 and, and yeah, now Brandon Lau is, uh, the Pirates only third ba- or second baseman that had 30 home runs.

So uh, really good season.

Just Brandon Lau keeps doing it.

Uh, 30 home runs, but what a season.

What, what a season for him.

Uh, Molly says, "How about the last second baseman?" Uh, I'm as- I'm, I'm assuming you mean Neil Walker? That was the, the one that had hit, uh, the, the most before Brandon Lau.

But yeah, he only had, uh...

I just, those are some good memories there.

Honestly, those teams with like Kutch, um, Pedro Alvarez, like Neil Walker, Russell Martin, you know, some of those guys like AJ Barnett, Jason, really just to name off a couple of guys that I remember watching.

I was growing up, um, from those pirates teams.

And those, those teams are a lot of fun to watch for sure.

weird.

I did have an honorable mention of Neil Walker.

He was there when they were really good and Pittsburgh kid and all that stuff.

I had the thought of doing... whether it was like the war statistic or like some other category of like pulling numbers for each one of our teams and like comparing the three other than just like just the names, like assigning, assigning a value to it or something.

They're up against it, but hey, at least they're playing well down the stretch.

Oh, it's kinda good 'cause we have Neil Walker coming in next week for with us, and as a special guest.

And I think when you look at it, Larry and Dave, they're, this is the first time...

I think I've read something, it's the first time in 10 years that they've even been in this, had the opportunity that we're still in the hunt, where they're not X-ed out in the, when you look at the standings and they're already gone.