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The Pirate Way: “We can beat anybody today”

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

If you rattle off the numbers 68, 67, 62, and 57 it’s not because you’re not playing Keno. Pittsburgh Pirates fans know exactly what those numbers are. They represent the win totals for the Pittsburgh Pirates over the last four seasons of futility. This year things are different in the ...

Clint Hurdle and His Pittsburgh Pirates Have Re-bonded a City With Its Baseball Team

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Just days before the All-Star break, the Pittsburgh Pirates are just 1.5 games out of first place in the National League Central Division. Yep, that's right. You can go back and reread that sentence over and over again and it's still going to be true no matter how weird that ...

And The Pirates Wonder Why They Struggle To Retain Fans?

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

The Pittsburgh Pirates have been the laughing stock of the NL Central for the better part of two decades now - basically since Barry Bonds and Bobby Bonilla got away to free agency in the early-mid 1990s. Since then, the Pirates have suffered losing season after losing season, alienated their ...

Freddy Sanchez On His 6-for-6 Piece Of Work

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

I play slow pitch softball every summer – aka: I’m too old for baseball – and, when Freddy Sanchez states he had nothing going through his head in his 6-for-6  game versus the Cubbies, he’s speaking the truth.  Hitters simply clear their mind and let the bat speak when things ...

SRIs 1st Annual MLB Spring Training Round-Up: National League Central Edition

Friday, March 13th, 2009

SRI continues its spring training audio round up with a look at the National League Central, one of the more quality divisions in baseball last year thanks to St. Louis playing much better ball than expected, and a late season barrage of victories from the Houston Astros. Lou Piniella and ...