Welp that didn’t end well…. 52 tomorrow in one of those games that the Bucs are not supposed to have any business. Found Jobu. He said he will help Perez tomorrow even though he would not help Cerrano. Said he didn’t even need no stinkin chicken!
The broadcast cutting away to people’s dogs wearing Paul Skenes mustaches and the announcers guffawing while the home team stranded bases loaded twice is 100 percent on brand for this organization.
Maybe some fans got to create instagram moments of Pirates hitters striking out or GIDP
Well the last time Shelton pulled Skenes when he was in the upper 90s in pitch count, he was the evil one. Fans are still complaining. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t……
No denying Hayes has been a HUGE disappointment this year, but him getting a big hit there could’ve got him out of his funk. He barreled it, but unfortunately right at SS.
Yeah I didn’t expect for Shelton to stick with him in 9th, but I like the call to do so. A couple 50/50 plays went Cards way in 9th and one bad 0-2 pitch cost the game.
This is the type of game that makes you wonder if the Pirates are ready for Prime Time. Terrible managerial decisions and an offense that clearly cannot produce consistently enough to win
I'm kinda stunned Lance Lynn didn't give up a run. We do have some guys who can hit. Bart probably should've DH'd. Cutch has been awful vs Lynn for 15 years.
♩♩Imagine all the dollars Nutting likes to save. Ew-yoo-hoo-hoo. You may say I'm a moron but I'm just a Pirates fan. I hope someday Bob will sell the team and we'll leave Loser-stan♩♩
Streaming TV and drugs of despair are cheap! Identity politics from both sides of the aisle are pervasive! We know who to hate and it's not the rich! They own all the magazines and newspapers telling us which groups are the baddies.
Welp that didn’t end well…. 52 tomorrow in one of those games that the Bucs are not supposed to have any business. Found Jobu. He said he will help Perez tomorrow even though he would not help Cerrano. Said he didn’t even need no stinkin chicken!
The broadcast cutting away to people’s dogs wearing Paul Skenes mustaches and the announcers guffawing while the home team stranded bases loaded twice is 100 percent on brand for this organization.
Maybe some fans got to create instagram moments of Pirates hitters striking out or GIDP
Rinky Dink operation for sure
I’d like to think/hope someone in the offices at Federal Street is pounding the table®️for a decent bat.
It’s wasting, and likely unnecessary stressing, some fantastic arms.
Tough one tonight. Time to eat some ice cream. We'll get em tomorrow.
The right move would be to Chapman vs. Burleson in the 9th. Shelton should have been ready and not a spectator like us.
Or just intentionally walk him.
Well the last time Shelton pulled Skenes when he was in the upper 90s in pitch count, he was the evil one. Fans are still complaining. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t……
More like damned if you're dumb in Shelton's case.
I agree but that was most likely a marketing decision in large part. At any rate, it wasn’t the dumbest of the dumbfuck decisions Shelton made, IMO.
Then again, most nights there’s a list and fans have to stack rank from dumber than dumb all the way down to dumb full stop to merely questionable.
Bet Skenes is already wishing he went 2nd or 3rd in the draft.
Nah. But I bet he requests to take BP.
Why don’t I doubt if he put his mind to it he could eventually outhit a guy or three on the current 40?
I'd put $1000 on him out OPS'ing Ke Hayes and Grandal
6:40pm: Hayes needs a day off here to clear his head, try to get out of the horrible funk he is in
8:40pm: Scratch that, let’s pinch hit Hayes for our 5 hole hitter and the entire game on the line
No denying Hayes has been a HUGE disappointment this year, but him getting a big hit there could’ve got him out of his funk. He barreled it, but unfortunately right at SS.
Hayes’ problem hasn’t usually been EV. He belts the shit out of the ball, at too low an angle and/or right at a defender.
This is untrue for him in 2024. His EV has cratered.
Well Skenes was eventually going to get an L, probably shouldn't have been tonight though.
Yeah I didn’t expect for Shelton to stick with him in 9th, but I like the call to do so. A couple 50/50 plays went Cards way in 9th and one bad 0-2 pitch cost the game.
Our staff throws a lot of bad 0-2 pitches. Sad to see Skenes isn't the exception.
Tough loss.
Gotta find a way to pull one out tomorrow.
With Perez on the mound? Gonna have to cut the head off a live rooster
This is the type of game that makes you wonder if the Pirates are ready for Prime Time. Terrible managerial decisions and an offense that clearly cannot produce consistently enough to win
I'm kinda stunned Lance Lynn didn't give up a run. We do have some guys who can hit. Bart probably should've DH'd. Cutch has been awful vs Lynn for 15 years.
Any third basemen on the trading block?
vlad
As a matter of fact, Issac Paredes from Tampa Bay can be had. The problem is that the cost will be very steep.
If the Rays are willing to trade Paredes, it probably means he has some tropical flesh-eating disease.
You could play Vlad there. He hasn't done it full time since '19 cause he kinda sucks there, but you could.
Lower it. Especially for Grandal and Hayes. That one sucked. Paul was too good to take the L.
Why couldn’t Bart have pinch hit instead of Hayes?
Bart should have PH for Grandal who had no business batting — or perhaps even starting after Bart got full week off for AS Break
Maybe if they just strapped Grandal to a rocket and fired him into outer space they wouldn’t have to wrestle with these weighty quandaries
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We should send a FedEx truck full to Federal St. courtesy of BOD.
I just may buy a copy and mail it over there C/O Dairy Queen Derek Shelton
lol
I was thinking Michael A. Both were better choices.
If this is the way they lose, just so incredibly frustrating. So close to wild card yet never seem to grab the opportunity.
I feel your pain Angie but there's a ton of games left. Hopefully they'll make a few deals to help this putrid offense.
Fingers crossed! Hoping the Pirates actually trade for decent stars not average-ish DHers
Daily re-up: Imagine this team with even a modicum of offense. Not even average. Just below-average.
Evergreen
♩♩Imagine all the dollars Nutting likes to save. Ew-yoo-hoo-hoo. You may say I'm a moron but I'm just a Pirates fan. I hope someday Bob will sell the team and we'll leave Loser-stan♩♩
Yeah. Unfortunately, people of Bob's economic class tend to live into their 90s.
Our best hope is that in the later years Bob goes a little goofy and starts spending.
Whereas the lifespan of less than wealthy Americans is in freefall!
Stocks in guillotine manufacturers don't seem to be surging, tho.
Streaming TV and drugs of despair are cheap! Identity politics from both sides of the aisle are pervasive! We know who to hate and it's not the rich! They own all the magazines and newspapers telling us which groups are the baddies.
Don't forget smartphones and gambling apps.
This is a deflating loss. Man this one hurts
Didn't know it was over yet.
Anyone watching the game knew it was over as soon as they scored that second run.