Tag Archives: Neal Huntington

04 Aug

How Hope Turned the Pirates Down the Path to Destruction, by Josh Taylor

published in category: Pittsburgh Pirates
Thursday, August 4th, 2016 – 1:03 am

It’s time to recognize a situation for what it really is instead of what it’s purported to be. When the autopsy of the 2016 Pittsburgh Pirates is conducted, the cause of death will not be a middling payroll, an unwillingness to increase said payroll or even trade-inflicted. If this team is indeed doomed to die […]

 

18 May

Cervelli Extension Means More Than Dollar Figures, by Josh Taylor

published in category: Pittsburgh Pirates
Wednesday, May 18th, 2016 – 1:14 am

It’s funny how the small moments become bigger in the right context. It was the same sequence of events we’ve seen a couple hundred times at PNC Park, nothing out of the ordinary. But on Tuesday night when Dean Martin’s velvety voice crooned “That’s Amore” through the ballpark’s P.A. system, the majority of the 19,400 […]

 

27 Oct

World Series Participants Follow a Familiar Path, by Josh Taylor

published in category: Sports Talk Radio
Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 – 10:15 pm

Watching this year’s World Series will likely be difficult for many Pirates fans, having suffered a third straight year of postseason heartbreak. But perhaps for just a fleeting moment of comfort, consider the methods that both the National League and American League champions used to arrive in the Fall Classic. Some of the characteristics of […]