Entries Tagged as 'Snapshots of Futility'

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Snapshots of Futility – 2000 – Position Players

Sorry for taking so long (seven and a half months go by quickly…), but I’ve finally recovered from the first post of this series, and I’m ready to move on to the position players. The batting and fielding this year wasn’t particularly bad. As a team, the Pirates hit .267 and had three [...]

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Snapshots of Futility – 2000 – Pitchers

[Ed. This post became an epic. We have decided to separate it into position players and pitchers.]
For the first installment in our ongoing series, we will be analyzing every player who appeared on the 40-man roster of the 2000 Pittsburgh Pirates. It was the turn of the century…a new millennium. Optimism filled the air, although [...]

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Snapshots of Futility – A Series

We have decided that it is our right, no our duty, as fans of such a miserable franchise to recount just how pathetic the players on the past eight teams have been so that a future owner somewhere reads this and realizes just how embarrassing a baseball team made up of guys with names such [...]