Happy New Year!!!!

External Since: Jul 11, 2003 Posts: 15

Everyone

Happy New Year!! Please come to the two real Pirates boards where your
opinions will be heard and appreciated( Even Paul's). MLB.com and
OnlyBucs.net would both like to hear from real Pirates' fans. Steve Z. Can
you help me here?

External Since: Dec 28, 2003 Posts: 2

Collecting Fan wrote:
> Everyone
>
> Happy New Year!! Please come to the two real Pirates boards where your
> opinions will be heard and appreciated( Even Paul's). MLB.com and
> OnlyBucs.net would both like to hear from real Pirates' fans. Steve Z. Can
> you help me here?

I find it utterly amusing that some still like to rag on my opinions,
yet here we are in 2004 and the teams is exactly where I said they'd be
at this time and many of the people who argued most with me now
bemoaning the lack of talent, direction and competency through out the
organization.

The 2004 Pirates are going to be the first of a string of 90 to 100 loss
teams as much because the teams within their division, even those with
the same fiscal constraints as the Pirates like the Brewers, are doing a
better job at evaluating, drafting and trading for talent. Put together
the likely 2004 Pirate lineup and compare it to those of the rest of the
teams in NLC and try to find one nearly as bad. Then repeat the
exercise with the teams in the NL East and West. Who's likely to be
worse, the Mets? Hell even the farce that is the Expos is going to
field a vastly more talented team than the Pirates this season.

The Pirates' organization is in deep trouble and that's not going to
change until there's new ownership, one that understands baseball in the
modern age, and the entire front office has been shown the door and
replaced with outside people.