Be Like Tike

Jump to Comments

For those of you unfamiliar with Pittsburgh Pirate lore, Tike Redman was a onetime prospect who played five seasons in a Pirate uniform. He made it through the days of Operation Shutdown, played next to supposed football star Al Martin, experienced the awesomeness that was Adam Hyzdu, had to listen to John Wehner all the time in the locker room, was jealous of Bruce Aven’s goatee, wondered why Omar Olivares looked like an olive, hoped Ryan Vogelsong would get ripped before he would, begged Kevin Young for some cash, was intimidated by Chad Hermansen’s obviously superior talent (no, he is actually God), really wanted Brian Giles to put the towel back on, lost to Jimmy Anderson in a wing-eating contest, lived through the JJ Davis experience, had a massive crush on Anna Benson (you would too…), wanted to disappear like Raul Mondesi, watched JR House receive a huge contract just for thinking about playing football at a pre-powerhouse WVU, observed the firesale of ‘03, and generally experienced the awfulness that is the Pittsburgh Pirates under the current regime.

All of this explains why Pirates fans are looking more and more like, well, Tike over here.

The Pirates have depressed us enough that we have decided to blog to their futility. The fact of the matter, though, is that we would become as detached as Jim Tracy after his team gets screwed on a call if we only wrote about the Pirates. We will (uh oh . . .), therefore, write about baseball in general along with other sports in this space.

Hope you enjoy! Visit often . . .

-Adam

[Ed. This site will be moving to a .com address soon. Within a week or so, this site will redirect there. Feel free to bookmark either URL]

Related Posts

• Tike and House Update
• How Did We Miss This?
• A change that the NHL needs to make