A few years ago, you switched allegiance and became a Red's fan. Now
that your new team traded away a couple hitters (Kearns and whoever
the other guy was) for some mediocre middle relief pitchers in a futile
bid to make the playoffs did you switch teams again? I'll always be a
Pirate's fan no matter how bad Littlefield or the owners screw up. But
like I've said before, its only a game so why do you go through so much
angst and feel the need to rain on our parade when we enjoy whatever
modest positive accomplishments the Pirates can manage.

Hey if only the Pirates had picked up Hee-Sop Choi, Derrick Turnbow and
Russell Branyan they be a contender by by now! :-)

"contestant" <contestant@cox.net> wrote in message
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contestant wrote:

Never switched anything. I'm originally from New York and my two
favorite teams have always been the Yankees and the Reds. Having lived
in Pittsburgh for some time I've simply followed the Pirates because
they are the team closest to me geographically and afford me the best
opportunity to see major league baseball - logistically speaking.

I'd love to be able to pay to see a competent team play locally,
especially since so much of my tax dollars are tied up in the
organization. Absent any effort on the part of the ownership and
management to field a competitive team I'm just as happy to spend my
time applying what I've learned about baseball to why the Pirates
continue to fall apart and can be satisfied attending fewer games in
Cleveland and Cincinnati than helping to prop up the failures at PNC.


Because I enjoy demonstrating that myself, amongst a large number of
others out here, with some modest tools know more about baseball and
what it takes to win than the clowns in the Pirates front office who are
being paid for repeated failure.

It's not your parade I like to rain on, I just like mocking those
certifiable idiots running the Pirates into the ground.

gig wrote:

Heck no they wouldn't, but they would have a great deal more competitive
than they have been the past few years and spent less money on their
payroll than they have. Nobody I know ever suggested that acquiring
those guy on the cheap would have been a better strategy than spending
tens of millions on "established veterans" to produce less.

Now if that nit-wit Littlefield had traded Benson for Ryan Howard and
Oliver Perez for Hank Blalock when he had the chance they probably would
be winning the NLC crown in a few weeks.

I don't know about you but I'm just all a quiver waiting to see what
studly left handed hitter David Littlefield signs in the off season for
10 million bucks. ohhh ohhh I'm getting a vision, it's coming into
focus, he's over 30, hit 30 home runs in a season around 1999 and walks
once every 25 at bats and is just ooooozing with veteran presence... his
name is ...

Another Day Another OS wrote:

Yikes did that get mangled in the edit...

Meant to say ... Nobody I know ever suggested that acquiring
those guy on the cheap would have made them contenders only that
acquiring them would have been a better strategy than spending
tens of millions on "established veterans" to produce less.

And really with the 14th losing season about to close isn't this a given?

In article <eem2dk$fqm$1@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu>,
UspammerzSux@stayaway.com says...

Dave Littlefield, December 28, 2005

We are proud to welcome to Pittsburgh our first ever 40/40
player! It only took him 4 years to do it.


--
Dan Szymborski
dan@baseballprimerREMOVE.com

"A critic who refuses to attack what is bad is not
a whole-hearted supporter of what is good."

-Robert Schumann

In article <MPG.1f79b69e1ed0c912989898@news3.news.adelphia.net >,
dan@baseballprimer.com says...

Errr, 2006.

--
Dan Szymborski
dan@baseballprimerREMOVE.com

"A critic who refuses to attack what is bad is not
a whole-hearted supporter of what is good."

-Robert Schumann