The Pirates finally decided to hit the plunger, blow things up and start over. NH should have done that 30 seconds after Marte tested positive in 2017, but he lacked balls. Instead he kept the ghost ship coasting along without any real plan or direction, hoping to end up near .500. This would have w...

Unbeaten against the Caps. When can we start chanting "not our rival" at them again? Now?

@Rocco

Congrats on beating a team that's quit on their raging a-hole coach.

At least you can look forward to running for 700 yards against VT again.

For a team that doesn't care about losing their bye week they sure are complaining about it quite a bit.

I’m on the fire Narduzzi train. When your team is consistently at or near double digit penalties each game, it’s on the coach.

The downside of committing DPI on every play and daring the refs to call it is sometimes they actually will call it every play.

"We don't care, but we will be sure to leak stories to friendly media sources about our guys being tired when we fade down the stretch and blow a game to a crappy team."

Easy fix. Steelers and Ravens play week 7 and both have a bye on week 8. Titans have a schedule bye during week 7. Steelers vs titans week 7 with ravens bye. Steelers vs ravens week 8. Count week 4 as bye week for steelers and titans. Yes and no. Scheduling- easy. Logistically, not so easy. I'd ima...

was wrong. Holy hell was I wrong. This team might win 10 games. They have 2.5 hitters (Bell, Reynolds, Frazier the 3 days of a week he shows up). The offense was awful, in part because the 2.5 hitters on the team had better things to do for most of the season. Partial credit to myself here. They wo...

Everyone except Shelton saw that coming. And Dejan is defending it, because he loves this front office now.

Doofus McBeardy is yanking Keller despite the no-no to turn to his lights-out bullpen. Fire him now.

They added two former Steelers and the son of a former Steeler. Colbert is staying on brand.

How many people have to get hurt before they call up Hayes? Are there more jabronis off the street they can sign instead?

That was a foul ball, but the umps wanted to go home. I can't blame them. Exposure to this Pirates team is worse than Covid.

Any chance Polancan't hits a ball this season harder than he hit Philip Evans?

Del Bozo's reign of terror ended. Cherington realized that his doofus manager would keep smashing himself in the face with a hammer until the hammer was taken away.

Remember when Brault somehow barfed out three really good innings in his last start and DK screamed because they pulled him anyway?

#Embracethetank https://www.fangraphs.com/prospects/the-board/2021-mlb-draft/summary?sort=-1,1&type=0&team= Both MLB.com Prospect Watch and fangraphs have these two Vandy pitchers as the top 2021 draft prospects. Getting a plug and play NCAA stud SP would be ideal here if the target is a 2022-2023 ...

Murray was very good and the team managed the puck better as a whole. The game could have been lopsided if they Pens had any semblance of a power play, but a win is a win. Montreal, on the other hand, showed a serious lack of discipline and could not stay out of the box. They appeared frustrated an...

Del Bozo feels too obvious for a derogatory nickname, and I can't even recycle White Flag because Doofus McBeardy keeps bringing this schmuck in to pitch in meaningful spots.

Moran's an average bat that a) hits way too may singles and b) gives back any value he has at the plate by being a pylon on defense.

60 games of Drunk As Hell Pirates Baseball. Buckle up.

The Pirates could have traded Polancan't for Giancarlo Stanton in 2014 and likely would have won the NL Central.

What were his other options

Burdi. Adam Frazier. Literally anyone on the roster but Crick.