Willie Stargell would be ashamed.
Willie Stargell would be ashamed.
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At first I thought this was about Somali Pirates... then I read the article and was like, “Oh yea, Pittsburgh has a team.”
It is just a curse based on the stupid caps the Pirates used to wear.
I became a Pirates fan when they won the World Series in 1960 with the Maz’s homerun. I know everybody likes a winner, but I was only 7 years old. My hero was Roberto Clemente. But since the early 90s, the Pirates have become basically a minor league team. I remember a few years ago their total player payroll was less than $30M, about the same as one single player from the Yankees (A-Rod)
Bruce
Stop complaining!
You have got the Steelers and Penguins - in the same year, no less.
Tigers got their last winning manager in Jim Leyland.
I remember the Pirates had some great teams in the early ‘90s.
There’s still a strong Pirate fan base here. The big problem is mainly due to incompetent management. While money has (I should say had) a lot to do with it, we’ve done nothing but draft morons over the past several years.
The Pirates are now a profitable team. This doesn’t mean that they can go sign Arod and the like (not like that kind of talent would want to play here), but they do have serious cash to start building the team from the bottom up. This was never done in recent memory. They’d always trade players away and focus only on the Major League team.
Wow, 17 years. A record that will stand the test of time. We’ll probably make it to 19 or 20 years before anything even hints at changing.
Wow - and I thought being an SF Giants fan was tough.
The Chicago Cubs assured the Pittsburgh Pirates of a record-breaking 17th consecutive losing season
Must be embarrassing to walk the streets of Pittsburgh as a Pirate Baseball player.
Bad enough to have one of the worst franchise in history but to have it in the same city as one of the best sports franchises in history, the Pittsburgh Steelers, must really suck...
Baseball needs to be more competitive or it’s going to die a slow death. When they are ready to talk team salary caps, let me know. Maybe I’ll actually attend a game for the first time in 20 years. It always comes down to who is paying the most that year. Most teams except for NY and Boston, usually break a winning team up once they’ve achieved a world series and start again from scratch. They don’t have the ability to compete financially on a consistent basis.
Pittsburgh hasn’t cared a whole lot about baseball for decades.
It’s not the city’s fault-—the Pirates go back to the 19th century-—it’s MLB’s fault.
My condolences to Bucs fans (from someone who knows - you’d be hard put to match the epic fail of my 61-101 Mariners of last year). Thanks for Snell, and best of luck with Cedeno and Clement, both of whom I liked.
I geuss the Pirates still haven’t gotten over “When Sid Slide” in 1992. One wonders if the Pirates had won that game how would things be different. Truthfully Pittsburgh has not been a baseball town for quite some time. Even many of those playoff games from the 70’s were never sold out.