2025 Pittsburgh Pirates

I don’t remember that, but if I had pirate tickets I’d gladly exchange them for a loaf of Town Talk.

 

I thought Forbes Field was dry.

 

never sold beer at Forbes Field.

 

Seeing how I was a very young boy, beer held no interest for me. My first beer at a Pirate game was at PNC.

 

I lived in Shadyside and we would walk to the games as kids. When I got older and went back to visit the Burgh I was shocked at just how long that walk was. We drove and checked the odometer and it was about 5 miles. No damn way I'm walking that now. My little golf course is about a 3 mile walk but benches at every hole and I'm resting a lot.

 

Yeah, my Aunt would have 3 of us in tow riding city bus from Dravosburg down into Pittsburgh.
Good times

 

When I go back home and look at the distances I used to walk, I am amazed

 

I'm certain the expression "I had to walk uphill to school - both ways" came from a kid growing up in Pittsburgh. When I was back as an adult, I was out of breath DRIVING up some of those hills over in Castle Shannon that I used to walk every day and sometimes twice for Scouts and Little League.

 

Must have been the aroma of beer farts from pre-game visitors to Gustines. Funny, cigars galore back then but no beer and now plenty o beer but no cigars (at least in LA).

 

Apparently this past weekend was the Buc players' response to the Adam Frazier trade and getting ready for the house cleaning party over the next 2 weeks.

 

I keep checking my phone to see who they have moved. Nobody since Frazier. I think the guys on expiring contracts will be swapped for minor leaguers, but because another team is only trading for half a season of Pham, Heaney, Canario, etc. the yield will not be much. More interesting will be the roster spots opened up by moving those guys, and presumably our first look at Ashcraft, Davanney, etc.
Peguero is up with the Pirates and if he does not hit I bet he will be DFAed.
A Keller trade may or may not happen before the deadline, though it seems to be all that people talk about. I would not be surprised if they held on to him until the winter meetings.