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It's mid-May and the Pirates are 17-19 and three games out of first place in the NL Central. How many of you thought that would be the case when the season began? That April was supposed to kill the Buccos. So, now as the weather gets nicer and the Pirates aren't out of it, you […]

Seeing free agent signings fall flat is nothing new to the Pittsburgh Pirates. After all, this franchise has endured the likes of Adam Laroche, Jeromy Burnitz, Joe Randa, Raul Mondesi and, of course, Derek Bell. While Clint Barmes's poor play hasn't reached the point where I could be considered a "saga", I still believe it […]

I'm a baseball writer. There are thousands of us all around the country, and we seem to all be writing about one player recently – Bryce Harper. This kid's been hyped up since he was a young teenager, and he was on the cover of Sports Illustrated at the age of 16. He's 19 years […]

Last July, Neal Huntington had the privilege of searching the trade market in hopes of acquiring major-league talent at the deadline. The Pirates were buyers for the first time in two decades and Huntington was able to land two bats (Ryan Ludwick and Derek Lee) for marginal minor league talent. This season, the forecast for […]

Ken Laird's thoughts from the Rookie minicamp and interviews with David DeCastro, Mike Adams, Sean Spence and Toney Clemons. http://filesource.abacast.com/tribtotal/507-365.mp3

The Pittsburgh Penguins have built a lot of success using the three center model over the last six seasons. Since Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, and Jordan Staal made their way to Pittsburgh, the Penguins have made six straight playoff appearances including two conference titles and a Stanley Cup. However, not all is well in the […]

The roulette wheel known as the Pittsburgh Power quarterback position keeps spinning. This time it landed on Bryan Randall, but the results were pretty much the same they've been all season as the Pittsburgh Power lost to their division rival, the Cleveland Gladiators, 58-43. Randall did finish the day with 309 yards passing and 5 […]