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May Day! May Day!
May Day! May Day! Perhaps it’s good the Pirates are headed home after playing six on the road – the last three of which were all losses to conference rival Milwaukee. 2-4 on the road isn’t the way the...
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15 game losing streak? The Brew Crew come into town riding a 15 game winning streak against the Buccos punctuated by a sweep up at Miller Park just a week ago. The Brewers are only in town for 2...
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Piratical Fantasy
In the quest to make something out of yet another Pirates loss, we turn to the realm of fantasy baseball. In an article entitled Closing Time: Backing Up Matty Capps by Scott Pianowski the debate...
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April: Where did it go?
April seems like so long ago. After what can only be described as an optimistic first month of the season, the Pirates have crashed to Earth in May. They have won only two games during the month, being...
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Pirates Winning!…Elite Player Sweepstakes…Maybe….
Albert Pujols in the body of Hanley Ramirez. Those words greeted me today courtesy of the Pittsbugh Post Gazette’s Dejan Kovacevic who, in an article today, discusses the Pirates love affair with an...
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Could it really get worse?
Kansas City Royals make the cover of SI. And the Pirates are profiled in ESPN the Mag? Is the world right side up or upside down? Actually, while the SI article featured Greinke, the future of...
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Welcome Houston!
What is it that cures all ills? How about a visit from Houston! Fresh of dropping 2 of 3 from the Cubbies and falling a full 7 games behind St. Louis in the NL Central, the Pirates head home for a...
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McLouth into McCutchen
And thus McLouth become McCutchen. In a move that paves the way for 2005 first-round pick Andrew McCutchen to get significant playing time, the Pirates shipped Nate McLouth (!!) to the Braves for...
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McLouth Fall Out
More coming later on the debut of Mr. McCutchen later but for now, McLouth fallout! According to ESPN.com the players actually lit a candle in effigy of Nate McLouth: On Thursday, at the clubhouse...
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Because we lost to Houston today…
…more McLouth news! In what amounts to another bizarre move by Pittsburgh's front office, Pirates GM Neal Huntington wrote an email to Pirates' season ticket holders to explain that the McLouth trade...
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