Who's worse? The Pittsburgh Pirates...or Terrorists?

That ain't Andy Van Slyke in center field...

This little gem comes from your e-Breezewood mayor-ette, Maria.

so...today i was reading the empty netters blog and there was a reference to the movie "sudden death." (which, by the way, has the best wikipedia page EVER--read the last two paragraphs). that got me thinking. the penguins have been in a movie where terrorists attack. footage of a steelers-cowboys game was used in the movie "black sunday," in which terrorists plan on blowing up the super bowl. the pirates?

nothing i can think of.

which brings me to my point, do people not include the pirates in disaster movies because they realize no one cares, or is the level of play so disastrous that adding terrorists to the equation really can't increase the level of misery?

Well...I think option 2. I mean...have you attended a Buccos game in the past 15 years? If I had a dollar for every Hammas roadside bomb that occurred on the field...well...I'd have a lot of dollars.

Do we not remember the walk-out last year? All those people might as well have been leaving to attend an insurgency convention.

And I'm pretty sure it was Hezbollah's fault that the "Outback" is no longer in the outfield.

Oh...and the Pirate Parrot was recruited from the mountains in Afghanistan. Look it up. I'm sure it's on Wikipedia somewhere.

The bottom line...

- The Pirates play baseball.
- Baseball is American.
- Losing 15 straight seasons in pro Baseball is un-American
- Terrorists are un-American
- The Pirates have lost 15 straight season.
- The Pirates are Terrorists

Trust me...I have a degree in science.

e-Breezewood Alert

A new segment I shall call... "e-Breezewood Alert"

More news in the string of bad ideas from the Buccos....

Pittsburgh's old pal Sid Bream....yes...THAT Sid Bream...has been named assistant coach to the Bucco's farm team in State College.

For those Yinzer's who love to relive painful memories...here's the recap from Wikipedia.

The Pirates carried a 2-0 lead into the bottom of the ninth inning under the pitching of their ace, Doug Drabek, needing just three outs to make the World Series. However, Drabek gave up a leadoff double to Terry Pendleton, then allowed another runner (David Justice) on an infield error by second baseman Jose Lind. After Drabek walked Bream to load the bases, Pirates manager Jim Leyland pulled him out of the game. Reliever Stan Belinda replaced him on the mound, and managed to get two outs, despite giving up a run on a sacrifice fly by Ron Gant. Then, Braves third-string catcher Francisco Cabrera belted a single to left field, and Justice scored easily to tie the game. Pirates left fielder and eventual National League MVP Barry Bonds fielded the ball as Bream (known as a slow runner) plodded around the bases toward home plate. Bonds' throw arrived first, but it was slightly offline towards the first-base line. As soon as catcher Mike LaValliere received the ball, he desperately lunged toward the plate to tag Bream out, but Bream was able to slide just underneath the tag to score the winning run and send the Braves to the World Series for the second consecutive year.

You be careful, Sidney Eugene Bream, e-Breezewood is watching you....


p.s. - $1 to the reader who can tell me what the hell ever happened to Doug Drabek

F- you, Pirates

You are all mediocre pieces of crap.

Andy VanSlyke, wherever he is, is very very angry with you. Same for Jose Lind.

A collective sigh from Bucco nation...

The sadness continues at PNC park.

Quote our new ass-clown manager...

"Quite frankly, you can't really rebuild and compete at the same time. But I also don't think we're really in the position to just blow it up, and that's probably the fine line we're walking right now. We can't pull the plug just because this team lost 94 games. The fact is, we haven't been presented with an organizational-changing trade."


No moron. You pull the plug and blow it up because you haven't had a winning season "Hey Dude" was on Nickelodeon and it was hip to loop your braided leather belt around itself so it hung down a little bit.

F- you Pirates.

Whooooo-hooooo

In a move that rivals sheer genius...Bob Nutting has actually started to put his money where is ass is....or however that saying goes.

.500 baseball....here we come....

Bob Nutting's giant dome...

Seriously. The folks at PG have gone crazy. I understand you've got the new website and all, but this picture of Bob Nutting's gigantic cranium is too much for us to handle. Please tone it down.

Anyway...if anybody still thought that Bob Nutting knows what he's doing...today we read this...

"What I've really tried to do," Nutting said, "is focus on the process itself to make sure that I had a chance to understand alternative structures -- what's been effective for other teams and what kinds of options are there as well as getting a good assessment of who candidates are, who's inside baseball, what other skill-sets might be most helpful and most important."

Um....Ya. Like someone who has any clue on how to run a baseball team. Thanks for you insight though, Bob. Any more nuggets?

"It is a critically important hire," Nutting said as the Pirates careen toward a 15th consecutive losing season. "It's one I really believe we need to get right. Not only do we have to have somebody who understands the situation in Pittsburgh -- understand what the team needs -- but I also have to have confidence that they have sufficient vision and capability to be able to step in and really have an impact where we need to see improvement and change.

Thank you Great Swammi. "Someone who really understands the situation in Pittsburgh". Oh no! However are we going to explain the situation to someone? Oh right....we suck.

"I think what I've learned and decided is, we want to have a single person who will be an overall team president with full responsibility for the club. My sense is that [with] our business-side operations we have a very solid group of executives running those operations right now. I have an awful lot of faith in them. They've done a fantastic job this year.

Translation: We need someone to shift the blame to when we don't know what we're doing.

This guy is a total tool.

15 years and counting...