Neither of these trades are anything hard to imagine the Pirates doing. Why does he get any benefit of the doubt versus any other fan with a Twitter account? Is that the perks of being a Harvard grad with a degree in environmental science and public policy? Getting to work for MLB.com and be an ‘insider?’ He’s even implicating teams that are interested in these trades that have no idea what he’s talking about. He’s speculating to get a reaction, and everyone is catering to it. Like anyone else’s trade opinions, there’s no fact or source to any of it.
“This guy is basing his statements on what he would do or think if he were in the Pirates front office. Steve has an opinion about Jon Morosi’s recent trade reports surrounding Andrew McCutchen and Mitch Keller. Every time he sees a picture of himself hitting his first homer, he’s going to have to double check to make sure it wasn’t a photo from an Arizona fall beer league or something. Nice slow pitch beer league softball unis Mike hates the Pirates’ City Connect uniforms. Now which of Tomlin’s records are we talking about? Regular season or postseason?Īnd are we talking about from 2007-11? Or 2012-22?īecause those options end with very different “periods.” “A quote from Bill Parcells … ‘You are what your record says you are.’ Period.”Īgreed, David. What else are we supposed to do?Ī different David emailed about Mike Tomlin. There’s no offensive coordinator in baseball. So I think we just settle on blaming the hitting coach. On the other hand the GM needs to be fired. On the one hand, fans want all of BC's draft picks called up. Let’s start with a tweet about the Pirates from a guy who seems to have a pretty good handle on Pittsburgh we have reached peak Pirate Fan dilemma. Needless to say, there was no June swoon for this week’s “U mad, bro?” post to wrap up the month. Oh, and the Pirates released new uniforms that look like they were passed-over options for the Springfield Isotopes in a lost episode of “The Simpsons.” And two of the Pirates’ top players were mentioned in trade rumors.
There’s talk of Mike Tomlin getting a contract extension from the Steelers even though he hasn’t won a playoff game since 2016. Since last week’s “U mad, bro?” posted, we saw the Pittsburgh Pirates’ losing streak peak at 10 games.