[edh]

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.

[cripplecreek]

There’s still a strong Pirate fan base here. The big problem is mainly due to incompetent management.

Like I said, we got Jim Leyland and look what he's done for Detroit. He's got a beautiful hands off management style that seems to work.

[RayChuang88]

What MLB desperately needs is a salary cap AND floor so teams will actually spend money on decent player but not overpay for them.