OT: Raise the Jolly Roger: New season of plundering begins

[metalan2]

Ok Brown, we get it, Skenes is missing on some pitches.

1-0 seems like an insurmountable deficit.

 

[Coastal Kev]

This teams offense is offensive.

 

[td_ice]

Wow, both starting pitchers struggling to find the plate.

But somehow, it's only 1-1 in the bottom of the 5th.

Both guys living dangerously, but getting key outs when they absolutely need it.

 

[wheelz87]

I think the offense has had a chance to get that big hit in 3 out of 5 innings.
Well 0 for 3 thus far.

 

[since70]

It's the sixth inning and I'm doing everything I can to stay invested in this game, on the surface it looks like a pitcher's duel, but both pitchers are hardly dominating, it just looks like two teams going through the motions.

 

[WickedWrister]

"Bad" Skenes performance

 

[WickedWrister]

LOL Cruz strikes out as a pinch hitter for a pitch clock violation

 

[Empoleon8771]

Skenes is winning ROY because I genuinely do not think it's possible for him to have a bad game

 

[wheelz87]

What more to say about Cruz. Guy can hit a ball to the moon but he has zero awareness.

 

[since70]

At least we can't complain that Cruz took a called third strike!

 

[Coastal Kev]

"Bad" Skenes performance

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I'm starting to believe that they should trade him right now. They aren't winning with him and I really don't want to go through the 18 month injury years and watch then trade him for a bucket o balls.

 

[Empoleon8771]

I'm starting to believe that they should trade him right now. They aren't winning with him and I really don't want to go through the 18 month injury years and watch then trade him for a bucket o balls.

Legitimately what is wrong with you

 

[since70]

I don't follow the Pirates minors, is there anything in the pipeline to cause any optimism that the offense is going to help what might be a really good starting staff?

 

[Coastal Kev]

Legitimately what is wrong with you

I have an incredible amount of logic and I live in a place called reality.

 

[Empoleon8771]

I have an incredible amount of logic and I live in a place called reality.

Saying "I hope they trade Skenes right now" is anything but "logic".

If you hate the Pirates so much that you want to see Skenes traded, just stop following them.

 

[metalan2]

2 runs for skenes in his last two starts lol. Absolute travesty of an organization.

 

[Coastal Kev]

Saying "I hope they trade Skenes right now" is anything but "logic".

If you hate the Pirates so much that you want to see Skenes traded, just stop following them.

I hoped that the Pirates were going to take last offseason seriously knowing what they had in Skenes/Jones/Keller.

Using them to increase optimism with the fanbase while not increasing the payroll is a joke. I don't expect my teams to win every year. In fact, i love watching an up and coming team that has a bright future. But it seems all of Pittsburgh teams aren't really trying to win for different reasons and it's the most awful period of being a fan in my life.

 

[since70]

Glad Reynolds got his hit, but that was a butcher job by Duvall in right, it should have been an out.

 

[metalan2]

I hoped that the Pirates were going to take last offseason seriously knowing what they had in Skenes/Jones/Keller.

Using them to increase optimism with the fanbase while not increasing the payroll is a joke. I don't expect my teams to win every year. In fact, i love watching an up and coming team that has a bright future. But it seems all of Pittsburgh teams aren't really trying to win for different reasons and it's the most awful period of being a fan in my life.

Pirates are the lowest of low.

 

[since70]

I hoped that the Pirates were going to take last offseason seriously knowing what they had in Skenes/Jones/Keller.

Using them to increase optimism with the fanbase while not increasing the payroll is a joke. I don't expect my teams to win every year. In fact, i love watching an up and coming team that has a bright future. But it seems all of Pittsburgh teams aren't really trying to win for different reasons and it's the most awful period of being a fan in my life.

I'm of the same opinion, what in their recent history leads anyone to believe that we're not looking at another Cole, Taillon, Glasnow situation with Skenes, it's unrealistic to think we're going to see Skenes pitching game 7 in a World Series, they're going to use their tried and true method of operation, they'll ride him until he prices himself off the club, then trade him

 

[td_ice]

Head first slide, it's no contest, he's safe. Even a better foot first slide gets it done.

 

[DJ Spinoza]

Another Ben Cherington built masterclass.

 

[td_ice]

Another Skenes shutdown performance wasted.

 

[BusinessGoose]

Defeat from the jaws of victory again
Fundamentals? What's that?

 

[ChaosAgent]

Sweep incoming. When you have a bottom of the barrel offense, nothing comes easily. 73 win team.