Love Pitt and believed in coach, but realistically
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You really must have a pathetic life if it is hard for you to stomach a 98 win baseball team.
I don't disagree with being frustrated at all, either with the team or with schedule. I just believe that those are two separate issues entirely.
I'll put it this way, if Pitt scheduled the 20 best teams in the country in the OOC, Pitt would have gone 0-20 (save for the occasional upset which happens when you roll the ball out). None of those games would have made Pitt any better. This team is what it is based on how it is constructed and how it executes. The OOC schedule would not have been some magical keystone to a path of greatness.
Now, would I rather watch Pitt play Kansas instead of Savannah State? Absolutely. So would 12,500 other Pitt fans I suspect.
He called jrob the C word after the last game, and didn't get banned. I wouldn't count on a banning.
What impact does it have on anything?
If you're a donor, stop donating?
If you're a season ticket Owner, stop buying to vote with your wallet??
That's it, that's the list.
Anonymous internet whining will have no impact or affect any team performance.
So, what's the point, really?
They're an illusion. Can't hit and built to reach the boobie prize level of the playoffs the last 3 years and that's it. They may be the most boring team in all of baseball.
You won't even have to worry about reaching that bar this year. Bucs will not be participating in the playoffs after another offseason of cutting costs and adding fringe garbage players to the roster. Their infield and starting pitching are a mess. Since 2004, the Bucs and Nutsack have played 44 players at first base, each a cheap bum. Can you imagine that? No team serious about winning a championship would have that track record of addressing a key position hole. Shine those bobbleheads and admire that sweatband collection in your closet. Nutting's a bum and anyone who can't see through his tactics is an idiot.
It's a tough life, for sure..
Not being satisfied with sports entertainment...
If only there was Free will to look away or do something else.
Alas, del plays the role of Sisyphus.. Forced to watch his teams falter perpetually.
Not being satisfied with sports entertainment...
If only there was Free will to look away or do something else.
Alas, del plays the role of Sisyphus.. Forced to watch his teams falter perpetually.
Forget it, we just have to take any criticism, no matter how hysterical, inaccurate, irrelevant, hyperbolic and accept it as fact.
You can see how beyond help a lot of these guys are, equating losing a basketball team to being raped. Shows how warped their priorities are.
Side note, best commentating moment of the year is when whoever was calling the Notre Dame game said ND must feel like Sisyphus when they kept getting close and we kept pulling away.
I understand the argument of how a tougher schedule early shows where improvement is needed.
However, the problems with this team were the same problems they had last season. Everyone knew what they were then, and no amount of ass-beatings from other strong OOC opponents was going to fix it.
Watching WVU and Florida yesterday. Florida is unranked. But they'd beat us by twenty because we don't have a dominating post, we aren't athletic enough at the guard spots, and the guys can not or will not defend.
None of this would have changed had we played an SEC team, or WVU, or a Pac-12 team out of conference. Because the players on the floor have proven for the past two seasons or more that they are precisely who they are both in strength and limitations.
Jamie has to own that. Jamie has to fix that. He'll be here for a while longer because of his contract so we'll see if he can. No way Pitt can make a move on him for at LEAST three more years.
However, the problems with this team were the same problems they had last season. Everyone knew what they were then, and no amount of ass-beatings from other strong OOC opponents was going to fix it.
Watching WVU and Florida yesterday. Florida is unranked. But they'd beat us by twenty because we don't have a dominating post, we aren't athletic enough at the guard spots, and the guys can not or will not defend.
None of this would have changed had we played an SEC team, or WVU, or a Pac-12 team out of conference. Because the players on the floor have proven for the past two seasons or more that they are precisely who they are both in strength and limitations.
Jamie has to own that. Jamie has to fix that. He'll be here for a while longer because of his contract so we'll see if he can. No way Pitt can make a move on him for at LEAST three more years.
Now why are you dragging me into your colloquy? I'm not forced to watch anything but if the teams I support fall short of my expectations, I say so. I didn't watch 5 complete Pirate games last year because they're boring as $hit and I knew they didn't have the hitting required to win a championship. My criticizing the teams I support Is not an unusual fan reaction on a message board.
What is bizarre is first, your posting 35, 000 times on a message board that fans shouldn't be emotionally involved with the teams they support and shouldn't use message boards for the reason they were created and second, notwithstanding almost 100,000 posts on both boards, your asserting that you are a cool, hipster chemist who stays above the emotional fray and simply has this hard edged analytical approach to it all. I think you're schizophrenic.
And since you expect the teams you follow to win a championship every year (because as you have said before, anything less is a failure) you've set yourself up perfectly to be able to bitch about every team you claim to care about pretty much every single year. Which for someone as perpetually gloomy as you is perfect.
It should be clear to any longtime member of this board that you revel in misery. Absolutely revel in it. Most people would eventually turn away from something that causes them perpetual misery. But not you. You love it.
Without it, he'd have to content.
It would be complaints about not repeating each year as champions...
Or margin of victory.
Del is right about the Pirates imo. They have done next to nothing in the offseason again except for dumping salaries and signing either over the hill pitchers like Vogelsong or dumpster dives. Reason? Nutting is cheap. We got lucky last year for a while because Kang was a rare find on the cheap and Cervelli played surprisingly well. No such players like that this year coming and our offense was not clutch at all. If this team wins more than 82 games I'll be shocked.
Not saying Nutting needs to spend like the Dodgers or Yankees but almost every Pirates beat writer and most of the fans agree that what they did this offseason was pretty damn awful. And it will show on the field believe me.
Not saying Nutting needs to spend like the Dodgers or Yankees but almost every Pirates beat writer and most of the fans agree that what they did this offseason was pretty damn awful. And it will show on the field believe me.
Because you enjoy complaining evidently.
You don't watch the pirates but comment on them endlessly.
It's what you do.
Like I said, I've gone from being amused, to ignoring it, now to just having pity for you for seemingly finding no joy in entertainment.
But refusing to walk away.
Hope life gets better for you.
So let me get this straight, you are suggesting that my dissatisfaction with Pitt sports and the Pirates is evidence that my expectations are unreasonable? Do you know how ridiculous that assertion makes you look? I've been very upbeat about Pitt FB all year. You have over generalized and your major premise flunks the logic test- that's the way sloppy thinkers operate usually out of a flawed effort to attempt to discredit people they disagree with. Better luck next time.
Sloppy thinker Number 2 -just see my response below to Joe. I , of course, already knew you were a sloppy thinker. You're a pharma boy who reads labels and memorizes major drug statements all day. Chimps will do your job in 5 years.
Poker, the bobblehead clan is just so thrilled to have a BB team in town so they can garner a few giveaways and watch fireworks that they ignore that the objective is to win a championship. That's the epitome of a fan who's a sucker. Nutting counts on his market being pervaded by suckers.
Full-time complainer. On a Section 8 disability pension from Enron.
What I do is make enough money to buy everything you own probably several thousand times. Use your imagination.
I know all you do is collect a social security check and come on the board to attack posters who criticize your boy. Go take an ex-lax. All those kielbasa you ate this summer at the BB stadium still have you clogged up. Nutsack is, by the way, a bum. Anyone who disagrees has long since lost his/her marbles.
I didn't realize being a research subject for new diabetes medications paid so well. Good for you.
The best part about you is that you are so clueless that you don't realize how hilarious it is that a one note moaner such as yourself is calling anyone a sloppy thinker. The next time you make any sort of serious, logical argument will be the first.
Yea, just ignore the stupidity of your original assertion because I hung you by your you know what's. Check that, you're not a sloppy thinker, you're a non thinker.
Being called a non thinker by a one note simpleton such as yourself is a badge of honor.
Keep trying to work your way out of having proved you're a vindictive idiot.
Keep posting your nonsense. Everyone needs a good laugh now and then.
Just remember, they aren't laughing with you, they are laughing at you.
You're dumb.....and it shows. No
Make that profoundly dumb!
Keep telling yourself that. Probably helps you sleep at night. Meanwhile the rest of us will continue to laugh at your perpetual misery.
You prove you're profoundly dumb with every post. You're my intellectual
Midget!
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