OT: Raise the Jolly Roger: Dull days of July

[wheelz87]

Does Cruz even close his glove on pop ups? It’s not going to be the first time but I keep waiting for one to pop out.

 

[BusinessGoose]

Does Cruz even close his glove on pop ups? It’s not going to be the first time but I keep waiting for one to pop out.

Non-chalant one handed fielding is my boomer pet peeve. I dont care who you are or the situation.

 

[DJ Spinoza]

Another game where we are unexpectedly battling and capable of winning but you just can't shake the feeling that we'll lose.

 

[BusinessGoose]

Another game where we are unexpectedly battling and capable of winning but you just can't shake the feeling that we'll lose.

Especially now that we're trailing. Chalk up another wasted quality start on not getting anyone in and a bullpen that can't do shit right

 

[wheelz87]

Thanks for that woodford but here’s your L. You didn’t give up negative runs. Another A+ night at the dish.

 

[bigdaddyk88]

Jazz got hurt

 

[BusinessGoose]

Gandalf at second base yelling "none shall pass" at the pirates

Jazz got hurt

Is it bad?

 

[bigdaddyk88]

Jazz Chisholm exits game early in Yankees injury concern

On a night that was already going poorly for the Yankees, Jazz Chisholm Jr. gave them something else to worry about.

nypost.com

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

*sigh*

 

[BusinessGoose]

Can't hang a full game

 

[ChaosAgent]

Backdoor ROY for Jackson Merrill incoming.

We suck, guys.

 

[metalan2]

And you're a masochist that gets off on following them.

Aren't we all? Unfortunately I was born being a Pirate fan.

It sucks being correct about them all the time though, it's also not hard to be.

 

[bigdaddyk88]

The faces change the story is the same

 

[Honour Over Glory]

What a bunch of f***ing losers.

In customary Pittsburgh sports fashion, I guess this means the skipper deserves a lucrative extension.

 

[BusinessGoose]

What a bunch of f***ing losers.

In customary Pittsburgh sports fashion, I guess this means the skipper deserves a lucrative extension.

 

[Factorial]

 

[cookthebooks]

the way the team stayed mired in mediocrity all season long, never winning too much or losing too much, right until there was a glimmer of hope for a wild card run then hitting the absolute skids is pure unalloyed pirates baseball

 

[DanielPlainview]

Well, at least they gave us something until football season started.

 

[ImporterExporter]

And fans are stupid enough to fight over who is more to blame (the GM, the managers, the players).

We all know where the blame should reside. MLB and their puppet Nutting.

But of course, that horse has been beaten to death so people (like politics) focus on screaming at each over nonsensical entities.

 

[BusinessGoose]

And fans are stupid enough to fight over who is more to blame (the GM, the managers, the players).

We all know where the blame should reside. MLB and their puppet Nutting.

But of course, that horse has been beaten to death so people (like politics) focus on screaming at each over nonsensical entities.

Sports are supposed to be a distraction

If you start applying actual logic and analysis of the entire industry, you'll just go on hikes instead.

I'm not attacking you, i don't think.

I'm just saying, bitching about sports is a fun pastime and more socially acceptable than us all sitting around the water cooler debating how infinitesimally small and meaningless we are in the universe and what does it all even matter when we all die one day anyway and why do our brains fight us the whole time when we could just be content and we work until our bodies are broken and where has my life gone..

Anyway, the Pirates really were just an arm and a bat away man, we got this next year, if nutting just invests in us, i swear I heard a rumor he would this time, let's go!!!

 

[Coastal Kev]

Someone should do an in depth breakdown of how Cherrington drafted and developed in comparison to Baltimore and Milwaukee.

Of Course Nutting and MLB are the real culprits, but that doesn't excuse Cherrinton's epic failure as a GM>

Side note: Also chart the Brewers and Pirates hitting performance organizationally since Haines left the Brewers and was added by the Pirates.

 

[bigdaddyk88]

Brewers have 10 more homers then us they have 4 guys with 14 plus homers we have 3. They have 5 guys with 50 rbs or more we have 2 our 3rd best rbi was Gonzalez and Tellez at 39

 

[TooManyHumans]

Cherington has been here 5 years. We have the 27th ranked minor league system, we have produced no hitters under him, and there are none on the way. That Haines still has a job is absurd given that no one ever gets better on this team and they almost all get worse, but Cherington has absolutely failed at building the depth he always claimed to be aiming for. We are 5 years in and nothing has really changed other than a couple of starters being good. We can bitch and moan about the owner or the manager, but the GM is not doing his job at all.

 

[ImporterExporter]

It took 7 years to win under Huntington and he never produced a playoff series win in 13 years as GM. Was he an epic failure?

Everything has been an epic failure under this owner. That's the problem.

Firing everyone below Nutting does nothing. That's the only fact that matters.

MLB does not want this team to be good. So it won't.

 

[Goalie_Bob]

It took 7 years to win under Huntington and he never produced a playoff series win in 13 years as GM. Was he an epic failure?

Everything has been an epic failure under this owner. That's the problem.

Firing everyone below Nutting does nothing. That's the only fact that matters.

MLB does not want this team to be good. So it won't.

While I agree mostly with what you are saying. Cherington's inability to build a prospect pool commensurate with where they have been drafting and via his trading has nothing to do with Nutting.