Yet another Bonehead Pirate move…

People paid for custom bricks. Now they are at the dump! Every sports team is in the public relations business. This is not the way to go about it. Who on earth is running this **** show?

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/pirates-statement-missing-bucco-bricks/

 

Boneheads.


I have a question. Are they Pirates or Buccaneers? Because the definition is different.


Skull with crossbones equals a bonehead.


I hope the Pirates get out figured out. The league needs us small market guys. If the MLB wants a share of the pro sports pie they better recognize the value of the small market teams. They should be following the NFL model and not the NBA model. That's where the real money is. But every year the suits are rooting for a NY/LA series.

 

Yep. Would not disagree with a thing you said. Ever wonder why no one talks about a small market NFL team? Because when the league entered the modern NFL era in 1970, they made the decision to have a strong league. And they do. Revenue sharing and the salary cap make it possible for everyone to have a realistic chance to win. In baseball, the same few teams compete year after year and everyone else is a jobber (term I borrowed from pro wrestling, a jobber is the guy whose job is to lose to the headliner).
Are the Pirates are trying to drive attendance so low that they can trigger some exit provision in their lease and move the team somewhere else? It has to be deliberate, I have no other explanation. No one could be so stupid as to make the public relations gaffes that they do.
Where a major league team could be moved to, I am not sure. San Antonio has four times the population of Pittsburgh and only a AA team.

 

I'm not going to try and excuse one of the worst run franchises in professional baseball in the last 25+ years but I can absolutely see how this went down.

Plans finalized and work begins, contractors ask what to do with the bricks, some mid-level guy says oh whatever you typically do, recycle them or whatever. Work nears completion and fans start to notice their Bucco bricks are gone and start asking questions. Management says what are talking about your Bucco Bricks are right where they have always been....oh no. It's amazing how stupid management can be on a day to day basis.

My old job I had an order for 65K lithium camera batteries. They come 2400 to a box to conform with hazmat restrictions. Then federal guidelines on hazmat restrictions changed due to belief that lithium batteries caused the disappearance of a passenger jet. So no more air shipments of lithium batteries. I asked my supervisor and his supervisor how they wanted to handle it. I was blown off and told to do it like I normally would. So I wasted five hours boxing it up, doing paperwork and getting it ready for shipping. Only took 10 minutes before I had 3 ppl from management wanting to know why did it the way I did because it wasn't allowed that way anymore.I looked right at two of the them and said because when I asked about it that's what I was told to do. Idiots!

As far as moving the team, I'm sure any number of larger cities that would love a professional sports team to move to their area. I'm sure Toronto and Montreal would love to have their teams back but there is a huge difference between having a proven baseball club and having a good pro baseball club.

 

I would think Nashville or Charlotte before San Antonio. With 2 teams already in Texas, a 3rd may be thinning the market a bit too much for Houston and the Rangers. In another post I mentioned that there is a group forming to bring a team to Nashville, and Dave Dombrowski of the Phillies is rumored to be joining that group. With the lease expiring in 2030, they wouldn't need an exit provision. I do believe they are doing things on purpose to alienate the area so much that it makes leaving seem more on the region than the ownership.

 

I've lived away from Pittsburgh for 50 years. When people here me say "Go Bucs" they have no idea it's the Pirates. I've been asked many times if I'm a Tampa Bay Buc fan.

 

That was me as a kid as well. My cousins would look at my Pirates cap and go there's a bucco's fan. I was like huh, no Pirates. I was out of high school by the time I figured it out.