Pittsburgh Sports Media Thread

[NailedPenguin]

Got Poni, Mueller, and Arthur Moates breaking down the Zucker trade for your afternoon drive. I don't know how Madden competes with that.

[Freddy Rumsen]

[Dickie Dunn]

[Joegap]

Is there this much drama with other cities' sports media people?

[Morkle]

I actually don't fault Pittsburgh Dad Jr. there. That Vukovcan guy is crazy brained.

[pens9192]

Is there this much drama with other cities' sports media people?

I don’t know but other places probably don’t have a Pittsburgh Dad Jr. like character

[pens9192]

Just when you thought The Fan couldn’t get any better, looks like they are going to have a live steaming in-studio camera:

This will be gold. I’d like to see Zeise’s show on camera and Pittsburgh Dad Jr. looking like an idiot.

[Morkle]

I've never seen a member of the media flip on a team faster than DK with the Pirates. He went from screaming for the city to investigate, to believing hook line and sinker what this team is doing.

So gullible.

[NailedPenguin]

Just when you thought The Fan couldn’t get any better, looks like they are going to have a live steaming in-studio camera:

This will be gold. I’d like to see Zeise’s show on camera and Pittsburgh Dad Jr. looking like an idiot.

But what will become of the Fan morning show daily video were he sticks his phone is colony's face while he's eating and thinks its comedy becuz Jim, WuT aH LeGeNd

[robbiestoupe]

I've never seen a member of the media flip on a team faster than DK with the Pirates. He went from screaming for the city to investigate, to believing hook line and sinker what this team is doing.

So gullible.

Oh the PG did the exact same thing. I'm convinced Nutting was a part of it. He agreed to fire everybody in return for good press

[NailedPenguin]

That day a week or so again DK filled in for Madden. Jesus H. I think he did 3 hours of arguing with people over the definition of the word "rebuild."

[Morkle]

If this young team was as good as he's writing it to be, and incessantly promoting it, why isn't the team putting vets around them now? I mean they're so great.

But he'll trout out the same thing they've always said: "When the time comes, we'll spend the money."

[FlightlessBird]

I've never seen a member of the media flip on a team faster than DK with the Pirates. He went from screaming for the city to investigate, to believing hook line and sinker what this team is doing.

So gullible.

Thank you. I thought the same thing about a week or so ago when I read one of his tweets. I think it was about their payroll but I don’t remember. I thought “is this the same Dejan that was hashtagging #ourteamnothis in every tweet for weeks on end?”

[NailedPenguin]

I laughed at this line because it just could not describe Dejan's schtick any better.

~Contrary to what everyone else thinks, DK says the opposite..~

[DigitalGypsy66]

His subscribers are giving it to him in the comments on the site, too.

[willeyeam]

I wonder - everyone seems to be so meh on the Pirates that if he wrote articles bashing them, who would really care to read? So yeah, checks out.

[robbiestoupe]

A newspaper man owns a baseball team, and the local news writers have nothing but good things to say about him? You don't say!

[DigitalGypsy66]

Well, he did clamor for Nutting to clean house, and he did. DK is a big fan of Travis Williams, and seems to like what Cherington has been saying since he was hired. Why not go for a sliver of positivity? We'll have 162 games of negativity to get through eventually.

[NailedPenguin]

A newspaper man owns a baseball team, and the local news writers have nothing but good things to say about him? You don't say!

He just bought Wheeling Country Club too. I get the idea that he's not selling because he just makes money hand over fist, but when you're already a billionaire the baseball team is clearly so far down on your list of priorities, why would you even want to bother with it? The saying is that 'baseball owner' is just a hobby for him, but I dont know if it even goes that far.

[Morkle]

Well, he did clamor for Nutting to clean house, and he did. DK is a big fan of Travis Williams, and seems to like what Cherington has been saying since he was hired. Why not go for a sliver of positivity? We'll have 162 games of negativity to get through eventually.

I'm all for sliver of positivity, but that article reads like a hype track of the players. It easily entered, well if they're "that" good, where's the money surrounding them?

[pens9192]

I laughed at this line because it just could not describe Dejan's schtick any better.

~Contrary to what everyone else thinks, DK says the opposite..~

“ But speaking only for myself, my dream scenario all along was that the old front office would be fired, that a new one would produce a plan precisely like this, that the current young core would be given a chance to mature in Pittsburgh rather than elsewhere, and that somehow all of that could blissfully converge with the system becoming stronger.”

Wow, what happened to him? Hard to read plus hard to hear that three hours last week when he filled in for MM. it’s like he is fine with the FO staff being fired and the new management team could’ve said literally anything and DK would sing and dance about it. He still calls Cherington Ben Huntington so why would DK believe what Ben says?

[Morkle]

The team isn't even rebuilding, won't admit to a rebuilding, which was one of the frustrating things he's cried about for years. This really cements him into Pirate hack territory.

[Freddy Rumsen]

[mamaemeritus]

That show is thoroughly un-listenable this morning - moreso than usual. The **** they (Pittsburgh Dad Jr.) think is HILARIOUS from years past is cringey. i.e. going on and on about some yinzer in a bikini sitting on Colony's lap. Hurr durr it was THE GREATEST!

[Morkle]

My ten year anniversary memory. That time Jesse defended Pittsburgh Dad Jr. on LGP because someone said he has a punchable face.

Was an embarrassing day.