Inside the Pirates-Diamondbacks weekend series
The Skinny: The Bumbling Bucs didn’t bumble this weekend, sweeping a three-game series with the Arizona Diamondbacks to tie a season high with three straight wins for the fifth time this series. It...
View ArticlePittsburgh Pirates season recap
The Skinny: The Pirates finished the season 57-105, their most losses during the 162-game era, one more than the 1985 edition. The most losses by a Pirates team was 112 in 1954. … The 105 losses is...
View ArticlePirates pitching woes go back decades
The Pittsburgh Pirates have many areas to seek improvement, but there biggest need is starting pitching. Will the Pirates get any return at all from the hoards of pitchers GM Neal Huntington has...
View ArticlePitching Wins Or In The Pirates Case Will Lose Games
Who is the one guy you can count on when he steps on the mound? Paul Maholm? Kevin Correia? Please don’t give me James McDonald. The answer is nobody. Maholm is probably the most consistent pitcher the...
View ArticlePirates: The Official Pittsburgh Pirates Preview
Pittsburgh, the City of Champions, as we Pittsburgh sports fans like to call it. The Steelers and their six 6 Super Bowl trophies. The Penguins and their three Stanley Cup wins. Pitt basketball, the...
View ArticlePirates .500 After Weekend Series With Astros
What does .500 generally mean for any sports club? The answer is mediocrity. To the fans of the Pittsburgh Pirates, though, it means much more. The Pirates haven’t been .500 since 1992, coincidentally...
View ArticleMLB’s Madcap May Madness
What in the name of George Herman Ruth is going on in baseball? The Cleveland Indians are still leading the pack (largest margin of any division leader and tied for second-best record in the majors)...
View ArticleHanrahan Named To All-Stars, Correia and McCutchen Snubbed
At noon today, the rosters for the All-Star game were released and fans everywhere tuned in to see who would represent their squad. As one of the surprise teams in the league this season, the Pirates...
View ArticlePittsburgh Pirates: Has Pittsburgh Righted the Pirate Ship
What in the bloody hell is going on in Pittsburgh? Pirates writer Michael Waterloo joins me to talk about all of the torture Pittsburgh’s endured throughout the past 18 years. What will they do at the...
View ArticleBucs Drop Second Straight Against Jays
For the second time in as many days, the Pittsburgh Pirates fell to the Toronto Blue Jays. After taking a 7-1 defeat yesterday, the Buccos returned to Bradenton, only to fall 8-5. One good thing is...
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