OT: Pirates Talk: Lets Play Ball

[Factorial]

Reynolds heading to sub .200 average to join Canario and Pham.

 

[Factorial]

One positive, Hayes has been hitting well as of late.

 

[BusinessGoose]

Reynolds heading to sub .200 average to join Canario and Pham.

Much like a real blackhole.... Of a moth to flame...... the Pirates can never escape the alluring draw of the Mendoza Line

 

[Factorial]

Much like a real blackhole.... Of a moth to flame...... the Pirates can never escape the alluring draw of the Mendoza Line

I was work pants shopping at a dept store twenty so years ago and the salesman made reference to the Mendoza line so I asked him if he knew what it referred to and he didn't.

 

[cookthebooks]

i can’t be nothing but sad about reynolds who was a sole bright spot for long stretches

 

[metalan2]

19 straight games scoring 4 runs or less. It has not happened in over 100 years.

Pirates have had 8 quality starts in the past 10 games. They are 2-8 in those games.

MLB teams get on average 30-40% quality starts in that stretch and win 70-80% of quality starts.

Its beyond obscene this general manager was allowed to assemble the worst hitting team in history, while simultaneously having a very solid pitching team.

What can you be thinking if you can be considered the worst general manager in history?

 

[wheelz87]

Buccos have scored 5+ runs 6 times out of 43 games. One double digit game. Dead last in runs scored.

 

[BusinessGoose]

Sports teams are supposed to distract you from the failures in life

This is just looking in a mirror for me

Lol

 

[BusinessGoose]

Raise it!!

Still not scored more than 4 runs in WEEKS

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

Looks like the Pirates just said "trash them" when it came to the Bucco bricks.

 

[BusinessGoose]

What do you mean @GilbertSeinfeld ? They scrapped the replacement idea already, too?

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

According to the report the team was given the option to put the bricks back in their original place, contact the fans who bought a brick for the opportunity to have the original brick sent to them, or just get rid of them, so the team chose option C.

 

[Factorial]

I haven't been to PNC Park so no idea what this structure looked like, but do bricks only last 25 years now.

You know, like bricks used to build houses.

 

[ChaosAgent]

IMO Solak and Horwitz should be up now. Probably don't DL Reynolds, but give him the weekend off. Would probably drop Holderman and Bae.

As much crap as I give him, Davis looked much better in the box against the Mets

 

[WheresRamziAbid]

Also this whole "Nutting isn't making much money because they were at a -$2 million budget last year" falls flat when you realize that the appreciation of the franchise far outweighs any sort of losses that this team could be having. The Pirates are worth $1.32 billion and Nutting purchased them for $92 million in 1996.

Which is completely irrelevant to operations of a business. You cant cover payroll with “future bucks ill make if i sell the team”. The most you can do is take loans on that estimated value which have covenant limits.

Remember the ARam trade? It happened because mlb forced the pirates to reduce their debt ratios.

Good god people

 

[Empoleon8771]

Which is completely irrelevant to operations of a business. You cant cover payroll with “future bucks ill make if i sell the team”. The most you can do is take loans on that estimated value which have covenant limits.

Remember the ARam trade? It happened because mlb forced the pirates to reduce their debt ratios.

Good god people

Why are you quoting a post from 2 months ago when it has since come out that the Pirates are one of the most profitable teams in baseball?

Playing like MVP, Mets' Pete Alonso locked in at the 'right place at the right time'

Pete Alonso's free agent journey brought him back to Queens. He's proving his worth all over again.

www.usatoday.com

"The Pittsburgh Pirates, according to information received by the players union and confirmed by several owners, are one of the most profitable teams in all of baseball, stashing a huge chunk of their revenue sharing monies instead of investing in their team year after year."

I'm shocked