Let me get this out of the way, first: I do not pretend that baseball is an easy sport to play. It takes an insane amount of coordination and skill to be able to hit a 90-100 mph pitch that moves both vertically and horizontally, moving towards you from only 60 feet, 6 inches away.… Read more

The Pirates are notorious for spending very little money in free agency–and also in attempting to retain their own players–and thus going dumpster diving in the off-season in an attempt to find players that they will inevitably attempt to move at the trade deadline for low-level prospects. This has been the franchise’s M.O. since before… Read more

To be perfectly honest, I was really struggling to come up with a topic about which I could write today. There are only so many times I can discuss the Pirates’ bullpen, although Ben Heller certainly made his presence known. In two innings pitched for the club, he faced 20 batters, surrendering eleven (!!!) earned… Read more

As the final whistle blew at Wembley on Saturday at approximately 10PM local time, Real Madrid were crowned champions of Europe for the fifteenth time, winning the UEFA Champions League with a 2-0 victory over Borussia Dortmund. To put that number in perspective, the next-most successful club in the competition is AC Milan who have… Read more

Happy Memorial Day, everyone! Today, we honor the people who lost their lives serving this great country of ours. In honor of the holiday, we are going to discuss something different…just kidding, we are going to talk about the Pirates again–namely, the pathetic excuse for a bullpen that this ball club trots out there after… Read more

Admittedly, there were a lot of topics about which I could write today. I could discuss Manchester City winning their fourth-consecutive Premier League title, the first club in the history of English soccer to win four-straight top-flight league titles. I could also discuss an eventful week for the Pirates, during which they won four of… Read more

As my Wi-Fi continues to go in-and-out (thanks, Verizon), it feels appropriate to again to discuss a Pirates team whose only consistent trait is to simultaneously frustrate, amaze, and drive their long-suffering fans crazy. No game that I have watched the Pirates play in the past five years (with the exception of the ending, which… Read more

Remember when the Pirates were 9-2 and three outs away from their tenth win? It was not that long ago (the loss against the Tigers to take the Buccos to 9-3 occurred on April 9th), but it feels like a distant memory–or even an illusion. Surely, the Pirates would not start two consecutive seasons with… Read more

While the NFL draft did not quite have the intrigue that I had alluded to last week, there were still numerous moments where one was expected to be shocked. Of course, exhibit A was the Atlanta Falcons drafting University of Washington quarterback Michael Penix Jr. with the eighth-overall pick, mere weeks after signing Kirk Cousins… Read more

Thank goodness the NFL draft is this week (Thursday, April 25th-Saturday, April 27th). It could not have come at a more convenient time. You may be wondering why exactly this is the case, but, believe me, you will understand soon enough.  First, I want to talk about the draft very briefly, as it is always… Read more