Can We Get A COMON?
By Joe Smeltzer The Yankees are winners. The Pirates are losers. The Yankees are rich. The Pirates are poor. The Yankees eat steak. The Pirates eat fast food. The Yankees are Kendall Jenner. The Pirates are Ms. Gulch from The Wizard of Oz. This is the narrative, and, for the most part, it’s an accurate perception. Yet, for reasons even more
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By Ryan Simpson I can’t say I didn’t see this one coming. Adam Frazier (pending physical) has been traded to the San Diego Padres. The return for the Pirates is a group of three prospects, and I am here to break down their potentials and grade the trade.The headliner of the return is Tucupita Marcano, a 21-year-old infielder who has
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By Joe Smeltzer Bob Nutting is the boogeyman of Pittsburgh sports. People don’t like the guy. Bucco optimists see him as no more frugal than most of his billionaire brethren, but more people than not find him cheap more often than not. For the pessimists out there, well, Nutting makes it hard to get excited about the Pittsburgh Baseball club.
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By Joe Smeltzer 2021 would have marked the 50th anniversary of the 1971 World Series champions. Alas, it doesn’t look like there will be a celebratory reunion this summer. “Postponed” wouldn’t be a fair word to use since there never was a tentative date scheduled for the likes of Steve Blass, Manny Sanguillien and Richie Hebner to put on knockoff
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By Joe Smeltzer For as bad as the Pirates have been since 1993– get your jokes out now– they’ve only lost 100 games twice. This year’s team might be No. 3. One day, I was looking through a Twitter account called “PGH Sports History,” which posts newspaper articles to coincide with the day’s date. I stumbled upon an article the
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By Dylan Mitchell, Capel Faithful Guest Contributor If you would have told me after the season opening loss to St. Francis (PA) that Pitt would be 8-2 and 4-1 in the ACC in mid-January, I would’ve said… 1) Why have they only played 10 games? 2) Yeah, I bet…. Although I was not pressing the panic button that many Pitt
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By Jack Hillgrove Ah, yes. 2020. Perhaps the most cliché year of our lifetimes if there is such a thing. Every once in a while I’ll come across the Match.com commercial where Satan meets up with a woman named “2020,” and I can’t help but laugh. In the most comical way, I think that is the perfect summary for how
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By David Haddad, Guest Contributor Unique stadium anthems have become a valuable calling card in American athletics, galvanizing fanbases before the 4th quarter, leading up to do-or-die defensive stands and after wins. These ballads that have become synonymous with their program’s successes and have deeply embedded themselves in the culture and brand of their respective institutions. They enhance the game-day
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By Dylan Mitchell, Capel Faithful Year 3 of the Jeff Capel-era at Pitt tipped off with an absolute disaster of a loss to St. Francis (PA). There were a lot of reasons to be excited about this season, even though most were never entirely sure we would get to play due to the pandemic. Another year of experience for the
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