The Pirates did their job in the first half of the season, winning series against the bad teams and competing against the good teams. Now that they are four games over .500 at the break, fans, pundits and experts have deemed them contenders for the NL Central division. And they are. Now the Pirates will […]

Everybody knows the story of the Pittsburgh Pirates has been starting pitching this year. The rotation has performed exponentially better than anybody expected, a complete 180 from 2010 when they had the worst ERA in the National League. What I want to do with this post is take a look at what changed from last […]

TribLIVE Radio is proud to announce the additions of Guy Junker and John Fedko to our staff. Starting Monday August 1st, Guy Junker will host 10am to 12:30 every weekday joining Ken Laird and John Steigerwald. Then starting in September, John Fedko hosts every Monday 1pm-2pm with John Steigerwald. Fedko will also be a big […]

Here we are! The midpoint of the season is here, the All-Star festivities have commenced and, as usual, the Pirates are 15 games out of first place and 12 games under…wait, what? The Pirates are only 1 game out of first and 4 games over .500? As surprising as the season has been, it has […]

There aren't too many better stories in baseball this year than the story of Jeff Karstens. A guy who was constantly fighting just to keep a major league bullpen job, he had been sent to the minors a few different times, got another chance this year after the injury to Ross Ohlendor. Karstens took the […]

Some questions from tonight's game: Is Clint Hurdle a mad genius of sorts for calling the suicide squeeze with Jeff Karstens up and Lyle Overbay breaking from third in the middle of the count? Or did the Astros just get Hurdled? Who would want one of those wind-up Pierogies?(Give me the Chuck Tanner floppy hat […]

Over the last 18 years, the Pirates have been the black eye of Major League Baseball, owning a losing record in each and every season since 1992. After last year's disastrous season in which they went 57-105, the Pirates have shocked the world and are now 1.5 games back as of July 5th, 2011. Winners […]

The Pittsburgh Penguins have re-signed forward Tyler Kennedy to a two-year contract, it was announced today by executive vice president and general manager Ray Shero. Kennedy's contract will run through the 2012-13 season and has an average annual value of $2 million. Kennedy, 24, is coming off the best season of his four-year career after […]