MidnightToker( • )( • ) wrote:Baseball is my favorite sport to play and watch. Unfortunately I live in Pittsburgh where we have great hockey and football franchises but also Bob Nutting, the man who has solely owned the Pirates for the last 30 years who does not care about winning or putting money into the team. The way the MLB is structured, he makes money whether they win or lose so he never will.
Closest I've seen was Game 7 of the NLCS in 93 when Sid Bream the ex-Pirate scored in the 9th to take the Braves to the WS.
Had a couple WC games when Andrew McCutchen was in his prime and we good decent starting pitchers and a bullpen, but everyone knew we weren't gonna go far.
For a bit the Pirates were my 2nd favorite NL team ‘cause Chuck Tanner was the manager. Chuck managed the Hawaii Islanders, a Triple A team in the old Pacific Coast League, for a couple of seasons. Offhand I don’t remember if the Islanders were affiliated with the White Sox or the Padres during his time in Hawaii but we loved our Islanders so we didn’t care who was the big league team.