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How can that be? We're poverty stricken.

We may need a tie breaker. What if the Pirates end the season 74-87 (and don't make up a west coast rain out). Who wins? The person that guessed 74-88 or the person that guessed 75-87? First of all, we aren't going 74-87, 74-88, OR 75-87. A little humor there. Simple! In the event of a tie, the win...

Why? No matching predictions.

Regardless, this is why I've grown to support the WBC. Games mean so much more than ST games by far. I'm completely with you. I'm firmly in the spring training camps don't matter, since it's just intra-squad scrimmage. As a soccer fan, I'll tell you that the greatest sporting event, by far, is the ...

I see no reason to "love" Shelton unless one loves any Pirates manager. What's he done to love? Nice guy. So what? The guy's got to win, at least eventually. I realize that his boss does nothing to make his life easier. Guys chow sunflower seeds with balls in play rather than being prepare...

I'm optimistic. 64-98.

You dog.

Shedman wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 8:13 pm I think Bauer could have been a significant improvement to a pitching staff that is staring at a high 90 loss season, with more promises about the future. I am 74, I am beginning to think I will never see a winning season again.

We haven't lost enough for some people's tastes. NWWL.

I'm not looking to marry the guy. I want a guy who wins baseball games. Ours don't. He does.

I dont care why competitors don't do something. I told you their reason above. My goal would be to beat them. He would.

Bauer > anyone we have.

I dont care what he does off the mound now that he has served his time. Nice guys lose 100 games two years in a row. That's what the guys we have do.

OK. Let's use your reasoning.

Who cares what other clubs didn't do? We should have.

Chances are, teams just followed Manfred and went along with the program. Makes life easier.

If it ain't on BOB, then it's sure on Ben. Bauer is better than anyone we have. The Burgh looked the other way on another Ben in town for how many years?

Who needs Trevor Bauer when you have Mitch Keller and J.T. Brubaker?

BOB doesn't care about the noise. He just didn't want to pay the $4 mil.

Which, he would've gotten back on Day 1; from the hooting & hollering contingent.

I wonder the overall effect.

We may (which means- may not, too) see more on base activity.

But, that doesn't necessarily mean a noticeable difference in scoring.

Fans want to see activity, so that could be positive.

I guess we'll find out- is it something.....or, is it a whole bunch of nothing?

I follow games mostly on satellite radio and internet. I agree. Not as much dilly dallying around. I'm not much into radio solliloques. I know others are. They're just not for me. Because I watch only so often- and, not at all this ST- 'll ask others who have: do you think that the shift elimination...