2019-2020 Pittsburgh Pirates Off-Season Thread

Postby **MR25** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 9:05 am

Would be a better use for it than what it's currently doing.

Postby **Morkle** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 9:37 am

All I know is that if I'm city officials, I'd laugh if/when Nutting comes to ask for public funding to renovate, build a new stadium.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 11:49 am

The public voted against PNC Park and they built it anyway. They'll talk a bunch, but not do anything.

Postby **Ted** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 4:48 pm

I thought Dejan wasn’t running the business? In any event, he will sink it if it means righting the wrong going on at PNC Park. He’s like the “it’s still real to me, dammit” wrestling fan.

Postby **MrKennethTKangaroo** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 12:15 pm

DSL pirates 2 aka @dickie dunn''s team of destiny, lost in the semifinals of the DSL playoffs. there is no hope.

Postby **Beveridge** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 12:23 pm

I'm surprised DK or someone hasn't run an "article" saying that before the trade deadline Nutting knew about the investigation into Vazquez so he gave the mandate not to trade him knowing he would get out of that contract and any future contracts a trade would have created if the investigation turned out the way it was going.

Postby **Morkle** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 12:33 pm

I wouldn't put that past him lol.

Postby **Morkle** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 12:54 pm

mega oof:

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 1:00 pm

Buctober!

Postby **skullman80** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 1:20 pm

Oh man. That is telling and sad.

Postby **NailedPenguin** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 4:06 pm

In related news, Uncle Ray and Tom Prince have been fired.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 4:07 pm

At least that means Prince has no chance of being manager.

Postby **willeyeam** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 4:35 pm

I thought I read that the new manager would get to choose his own staff. Which means everyone was already fired for all intents and purposes

Postby **Morkle** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 4:35 pm

They gonna get the cheapest manager and cite how they're going to grow with the young talent they have or some ****.

Postby **NailedPenguin** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 4:40 pm

Greg Brown is unsurprisingly full in on Wehner getting the job. "He's a good baseball man, he's got a rapport with the city...."

Well i'm sold.

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 5:12 pm

Banister. End of speculation.

Postby **Viva la Ben** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 5:48 pm

I’d endorse a AI supercomputer running advanced sabremetrics for the next Bucco manager.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 7:03 pm

I’d endorse a AI supercomputer running advanced sabremetrics for the next Bucco manager.

The thing that put Tike Redman in the cleanup spot?

Postby **LeopardLetang** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 9:53 pm

I’d endorse a AI supercomputer running advanced sabremetrics for the next Bucco manager.
The thing that put Tike Redman in the cleanup spot?

Well he was more of a backup leadoff man so that set him up to leadoff the second inning

Postby **shafnutz05** » Fri Oct 04, 2019 7:24 am

I’d endorse a AI supercomputer running advanced sabremetrics for the next Bucco manager.
The thing that put Tike Redman in the cleanup spot?

Postby **Morkle** » Fri Oct 04, 2019 9:14 am

Greg Brown is unsurprisingly full in on Wehner getting the job. "He's a good baseball man, he's got a rapport with the city...."

Well i'm sold.

Greg Brown is the biggest puppet for the Pirates on the media today. I absolutely despise when he's spouting his Pirates bible verses on The Fan.

Postby **NailedPenguin** » Fri Oct 04, 2019 9:17 am

It's even worse when they're on a winning streak and he starts begging/shaming fans for not coming out to see them.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Fri Oct 04, 2019 9:36 am

I used to really like Brownie and was super pumped for him when the Pirates finally made the playoffs, but he's become such a stooge for management and ownership that I just can't take him anymore. His baffling contention on Dickless and Mulzy last year that the Pirates **** ass roster was as good as the Yankees or Dodgers or whoever and they just had bad luck was the last straw for me.

Postby **NailedPenguin** » Fri Oct 04, 2019 9:43 am

That's when he lost me and I turned on him for good. He said something about if you go up and down the lineup they're right there with the Dodgers. This was when LA was like 40 games over .500

Postby **Morkle** » Fri Oct 04, 2019 9:56 am

That's when he lost me and I turned on him for good. He said something about if you go up and down the lineup they're right there with the Dodgers. This was when LA was like 40 games over .500

I have to say that was largely my turning point too. This dude can't believe the stuff he says and feels good about it. I just refuse that.