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Posted on 06/20/2010 2:37:00 PM PDT by martin_fierro
Prompt punishment for Pittsburgh pierogi who piled on Pirates
By 'Duk
So a team struggles through an epic losing streak and its manager and general manager are somehow rewarded with contract extensions in the middle of it.
Meanwhile, a low-level team employee who makes about $100 a month racing around in a pierogi costume says what we're all thinking on his Facebook page — and promptly loses his job.
Welcome to the world of the Pittsburgh Pirates, a team that appears more concerned with curbing criticism of its club than demanding more from the men — John Russell and Neal Huntington — who have sparked it by regularly fielding last-place teams.
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
"Andrew Kurtz, 24, of New Brighton, one of the 18 men who take turns posing as pierogies in a crowd-pleasing race after the fifth inning of every game at PNC Park, was dismissed by the team Thursday because he posted disparaging remarks about the Pirates on his Facebook page ...
"(His message was) aimed at team president Frank Coonelly, general manager Neal Huntington and manager John Russell. It read: 'Coonelly extended the contracts of Russell and Huntington through the 2011 season. That means a 19-straight losing streak. Way to go Pirates.'"
There's more on the situation in the link above, but let's get something straight: The first rule of being a mascot is that you never break character and open your mouth, especially when it's to criticize the people who sign your paycheck. At 24, Kurtz is old enough to realize that's the sort of thing that will get you axed. You can't badmouth your employers, no matter how small the forum or how consistently terrible the product produced at PNC Park. The Pirates had fair grounds to
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Gotta be better n’ the Pirate Parrot gettin caught dealin drugs like in the 85 season anat.
Bad year, most of the Pirates on drugs, an the Gunner dyin three days after they brought him back.
Being sauteed with onions is the normal punishment, no?
Where’s Randall Simon when you need him?
“Harding Peterson is a bozo.” — John Candelaria.
This coming from the team that had Dock Ellis pitch a no-hitter while on LSD.
"Andrew Kurtz, 24, of New Brighton, one of the 18 men who take turns posing as pierogies in a crowd-pleasing race after the fifth inning of every game at PNC Park, was dismissed by the team Thursday because he posted disparaging remarks about the Pirates on his Facebook page ...That's outrageous...
So was Chuck Tanner.
The guy did win a world series...with Danny Murtaugh's team, and Joe L. Brown's farm system.
i can remember Tanner lifting Burt Blyleven for a pinch hitter in the sixth inning of a game against the Cubs when the guy had a no hitter going. The Cubs tied the game before the Pirates lost in the 20th inning.
Then the guy claims that he didn't know about all the drug use on his team. If he didn't know, then he needed to be fired.
Or so Ellis claims. His teammates seem to think that Ellis was full of $#!t
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