Monthly Archives: March 2020

Friday Focus – How Short is Too Short for an MLB Season Pirates Fans?

MLB and team executives are meeting regularly with the Players Union. If this were a normal season and we were heading closer to regular season play in 2020, I might follow that revelation with discussion of the new CBA and the challenges that lie ahead there.

Five Pirates Thoughts at Five

I wonder, how many games would MLB have to play for you to consider it a season? I’m cheating here a bit as this is a big subject in tomorrow’s Friday Focus but lets say its 82 games, enough for you? Everyone has been thinking of ways to stay entertained as we self isolate, howContinue reading “Five Pirates Thoughts at Five”

Through The Prospect Port Hole: Yerry De Los Santos

When players are injured, especially early on in their professional careers, they often get lost in the shuffle; long forgotten by even the most avid prospect junkie. For some they fade to obscurity, never to be heard from again, while others burst back onto the scene and make us remember the potential that existed whenContinue reading “Through The Prospect Port Hole: Yerry De Los Santos”

In A World of Uncertainty

When will Major League Baseball start again? No one knows! Every date given thus far is just a shot in the dark, grasping at straws for a beacon of hope. In the past few days it has gone from a two week to an eight week delay. That is the bare minimum; an optimistic outlookContinue reading “In A World of Uncertainty”

Worth The Gamble

Every night at 7 PM no matter what was going on, my Grandparents’ television had to be tuned into the Pennsylvania Lottery to see if they won the daily number drawing and almost every time they came up empty handed. There would be conversations about how they were one number off or it was aContinue reading “Worth The Gamble”