Entries from June 2007

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

What Became Obvious

Last night, the Pirates beat a Washington Nationals team that is even worse than they are in order to improve their record to 34-45, or 11 games away from that ever-elusive .500 mark. Ian Snell turned in another very solid outing and Jim Tracy’s gamble with his bullpen paid off on the way to [...]

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Daniel Moskos Catches on Quickly

Daniel Moskos is doing what Fox Sports Net won’t: acknowledge the inadequecy of Pirate’s management. While FSN is refusing to show any of the walkout tomorrow, Moskos is voicing his concern in the most discrete way possible…by joining a Facebook group.
Adam and I have the honor of being Facebook friends with Moskos. From [...]

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Recapping the Marlins Series

The Pirates are not worth game by game recaps anymore, so I’m just going to go over series’ as a whole for now, including random notes and making individual posts about especially interesting events. So, with no further ado, here goes:

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Why I Haven’t Posted Recently

Some of you may have noticed the lack of recent updates, at least from me, on this site. The simple reasoning is that, quite frankly, the Pirates are more awful than they have ever been. Management shows more and more that it does not care about the fans, the players show a lack [...]

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

Top 5 Baseball Fights

[Ed. This page is a bit of a mess.  Many of the videos here have been moved or deleted.  Instead of continually updating it, I will try to put out a new post ASAP. 1/6/08]
You just can’t have enough of these top however-many posts.
Who doesn’t like an old-fashioned baseball throwdown? You’ve got the stereotypically [...]

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

The Transaction Wheel Begins to Turn and other notes

It’s the end of June, so it’s the time of year that Pirate fans most dread . . . No, not the end of bobblehead season (even though that’s coming right up). I’m talking about the trade deadline and the inevitable firesale that accompanies it. The Pirates have decided to be proactive in this approach [...]