The Major League Baseball trade deadline is tomorrow (July 30th) at 6:00PM Eastern. Normally, at this time of year, the Pittsburgh Pirates are expected to look to the future, to trade current assets for prospects that are a couple years away from hopefully contributing positively to the product on the field. I say hopefully, of… Read more

Another week has elapsed in the MLB season. The all-star game has come and gone, with Paul Skenes pitching a scoreless bottom of the first and Bryan Reynolds accruing a pinch-hit single in his only plate appearance.  One would have thought that the break came at the worst possible time for the Pirates. They had… Read more

After playing 96 of their 162 regular season games (59.26% of the season), the Pirates are essentially where they began the season–at .500. At this juncture, the team has 48 wins and 48 losses heading into tonight’s home-run derby in Arlington, Texas, where eight sluggers will aim to hit baseballs 500 feet for three hours… Read more

There are many problems with this country—let us just get that out of the way first. Anyone who has any semblance of sanity or self-awareness can see that. This, however, is a sports blog. We will not discuss politics unless it directly relates to sports… With that being said, there is something inherently wrong with… Read more

If you recall back to last summer, when the Penguins fired then-general manager Ron Hextall and replaced him with Kyle Dubas of the Toronto Maple Leafs, there was a sense of optimism within the Pittsburgh hockey community. A bright, young mind that might actually make productive moves, to perhaps do the improbable by simultaneously attempting… Read more

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