In the Tuesday’s Tribune-Review, there was an article detailing how Penguin officials were dealing with trade rumors, notably one involving Jordan Staal and Marian Hossa. To quote the article directly:
Several team officials found a recently posted Web rumor — center Jordan Staal to Atlanta for winger Marian Hossa — equally hilarious and absurd.
Those Penguin officials [...]
ESPN is using the Chris Berman loud saying reel to create something called the Greatest Highlight. This is probably just another idiotic ESPN promotion to put together meaningless shows, but if the six Pittsburgh-related moments on the list are successful, it would further prove that this small market city is a big time player [...]
The last Pirate’s song we posted was a bit better known, but not nearly as funny as the one released recently by local radio station WDVE. This ditty, sung to the tune of “Hey There Delilah” by Plain White T’s, was released towards the end of the season but I’ve only recently discovered it. [...]
For unknown reasons, Jim Tracy is not among baseball’s 10 worst managers, according to Maxim Online. I don’t think the editors follow baseball very much, as both Lou Piniella and Ozzie Guillen were included. Even Pirate fan fave Ken Macha made the list.
Their kindness almost makes up for Dave Littlefield’s mention in The Onion yesterday, [...]
On CNNSI.com today, Jon Heyman rated the best and worst MLB owners. Somehow, miraculously, Bob Nutting did not finish first. This makes no sense from the Pittsburgh fan standpoint, as this man has made no commitment to winning and only to his pocketbook, has relied on fireworks from Zambelli instead of from his [...]
This may be popping out a little bit late, but I feel that it is still a necessity. ESPN’s idiotic competition is simply another media stunt by the network to take sports and turn it into some lame form of entertainment.ESPN was obviously simply trying to draw more attention to aspects of its programming [...]
