Well as I sit here and await thegreat Pirate sell-off of 2009 I am once again reminded by the cheap acting and sometimes befuddling  management team of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Don’t get me wrong I have warmed up to the Mclouth trade, he did a lot of damage with a short porch/high wall in right and Atlanta is nothing like PNC. I hope Nate well I just can see managements point in trading him for at least 2 potential long term starters. We certainly don’t lose a lot of anything except power with Mccutch out there anyway. I do scoff at the front office however In the we don’t want a .500 season we want a winner, guys you have to crawl before you can walk and we are not going to pluck a farm system that has nothing to begin with. What are we doing? Signing cheap as my colleague pointed out in his earlier post, but it puts tremendous pressure and little time for our players to ripen the way major leaguers require. The Pirates acquire and distribute talent to the rest of the majors like we were passing out “kick me” stickers. We can’t lose Jack that is for sure, he may not always be clutch or have any wheels, but what he saves us in runs on defense saves us probably 2-3 runs a game. Adam, Andy and even Maholm can go, I wont shed a tear as long as we get decent return. Freddy Sanchez is the guy that I think truly will show the best intentions of FO mice and men- If he is let go for a few rogue prospects or a quick money dump or even sold for a box of cracker jacks then we may legitimately have a riot on our hands. I really hope the Freddy Sanchez is considered enough of a “corner stone” that he retires a Pirate, but I doubt it. After the loss tonight the Pirates are in a gut check time we are 6 under with 2 more in Atlanta, reverting back to old form andgiving up a lot of runs early and constantly playing from behind (tonight being an exception) or blowing the lead late.  Minimal offensive efforts and the ever looming shaky bullpen. Sounds like a winner. The life of a baseball team  get a meal, have a drink go to sleep, wake up and do it all over tomorrow. Let’s Go Bucs.

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