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Pirates scuttle GM, no one notices
Posted by Fired Fred on September 7, 2007 4:18 PM
The NFL started up last night, and everyone I know is buzzing for the games this weekend. Baseball? That's where the Yankees buy up all the good players and win everything, right?
Wake me when someone wins the World Series, with games starting so late that nobody watches them on the West Coast either. I can't see how a kid in New York is going to stay up to see an Angels home game.
I've heard the attendance records are up, because there's nothing better than watching a grown man with 40 extra pounds of HGH muscle smack a ball 400 feet. Or even better, swing and miss, and nearly corkscrew himself into the ground.
Whatever. Leave a comment when someone actually drops a bunt in a game instead of swinging from their heels.
The point is, football has started, and the Pirates have fired their general manager. The Pirates are 61-79, so far back from the playoffs that they'll have to buy satellite dishes to catch the games. The Steelers are getting ready to go to Cleveland and kick the crap out of the Browns.
Who do you think people in Steeltown are more excited about? Yeah. But Pat Lackey may be the last Pirates fan who cares about baseball right now, and he's stoked that Dave Littlefield has been tossed out of Heinz Field...
Littlefield constantly did nothing to improve the team, often did things to make the team worse (Aramis Ramirez and Kenny Lofton for Bobby Hill and Jose Hernandez, turning down Ryan Howard for Kris Benson and getting Ty Wigginton instead, making terrible, senseless draft picks, I could go on but I won't). Instead of getting fired, his reward has consistently been a contract extension on or near Opening Day.You know who feels his pain? Detroit Lions fans, who have to see Matt Millen keep navigating the team into a brick wall year after year without repercussions.
As a Padres and Chargers fan, I feel for both sets of fans, Pirates and Lions. Really. I feel like I can't think about how much better off I am as a sports fan, without going into a giggling fit in front of people.
Hell Yes! Padres/Chargers ALL DAY LONG !!!
Posted on: September 8, 2007 10:46 AM