Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 by Adam Wagner
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 of passion (except for Ian Snell), and the ownership seems to want a place in the Guinness Book of World Records under “Biggest Tightwads.”
This team is so bad that they don’t even lose in entertaining manners anymore. They sometimes manage to get themselves to extra innings, but even then a loss feels inevitable. There is no hope on the horizon in the farm system and ownership seems unwilling to simply bite the bullet and start from scratch, which they should do. This team has nowhere to go but up, but they have no one to take them there right now. They are not worth rooting for and are rapidly becoming less and less worthy of mockery as the situation has just become utterly pathetic, from the day that four starters in the minors gave up four runs or more in five or less innings to Jim Tracy’s utter unwillingness to be ejected from any of his team’s games.
If the team were able to show half the heart that it’s fanbase does, it would be very far above .500. Instead, there are two or three players that are out there busting their humps day after day (including Snell) and a bunch of guys just showing up and collecting way-too-large paychecks (see: Bay, Jason; Wilson, Jack; Paulino, Ronny; Armas, Tony).
That is not to say that I still won’t write about them. They are, after all, still the only act in town. In the near future, at least, I am going to try to vary coverage so that it includes other, non-Pirate topics. They are too awful for me to deal with.
Most importantly, Pittsburgh fans are too good for this team, its management, and, most importantly, this lousy excuse for an ownership group.
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