Pirate Gun Deck

[Black Panther]

She flys high over PNC again today!The Pirates beat the Indians today 5-3.Are you hanging in there Mister B?

[d-5]

The only way i saw it was on (STO) Cleveland ,,is it Ice time yet

[mister b]

Still here.

I am mildly P.O. that FSN Pittsburgh is blacking out games on my local cable provider. So is the editor of my local paper who had a piece on it in his editorial the other day. I need to drop them a email and ask what gives. Pirate fans want to see their Bucs play, win or lose. I can't stand turning on wanting to watch the game and seeing the World Poker Tour instead.

I guess I will have to switch to MLB.TV to watch the games.

LETS GO BUCS!!!

[Black Panther]

Was it because we were playing Cleveland? Or were the White Sox games blacked out too?The thing with me is-I live too far out of the Pirates market and of course right in the middle of the Cinn. and Clev. market.To me,where I live Clev. is as far away as The Burgh is, but that dosen't count to them.I have to get the Pirates on the extra innings package on Direct tv.

[mister b]

Was it because we were playing Cleveland? Or were the White Sox games blacked out too?The thing with me is-I live too far out of the Pirates market and of course right in the middle of the Cinn. and Clev. market.To me,where I live Clev. is as far away as The Burgh is, but that dosen't count to them.I have to get the Pirates on the extra innings package on Direct tv.

It could have been. Got to finally watch a game against the Rangers last night. We lost, but at least I got to see my team play.

[Black Panther]

I take it you dont get the lovely STO channel of of Cleveland?

[mister b]

I take it you dont get the lovely STO channel of of Cleveland?

No.

Rangers 13 Bucs 3

Game was blacked out again. I think we have blacked out as a team. 9-27 on the road. Manager John Russell's and GM Neil Huntington's contracts renewed thru 2011. Our new pickup from Toronto, Eveland touched up for 6 runs in 2 2/3 ininngs of work in relief. Ouch.

LETS GO BUCS!!!

[Black Panther]

They are saving you the pain and misery of watching. I watched every painful inning last night... I know the Rangers are good, but I think the Pirates have hit a new low... You really need to check into why they are blacking you out....You dont want this to strart happening when the Pens season starts..You will be really then...

[mister b]

They are saving you the pain and mysery of watching. I watched every painful inning last night... I know the Rangers are good, but I think the Pirates have hit a new low... You really need to check into why they are blacking you out....You dont want this to strart happening when the Pens season starts..You will be really then...

Your right. I need to place a call or send an email.

Missing the Pens would be very bad. But, with the new arena almost soldout for next year, I don't think they will blackout many games.

[mister b]

Rangers 6 Bucs 5

Pirates score 4 1st innings runs only to lose the game in the bottom of the 9th as the Rangers get a walkoff single.

On the bright side, the game wasn't blacked out so I got to see it. On the dark side, Bucs drop to 9-28 on the road and 22 games below .500 - on to Oakland.

LETS GO BUCS!!!

[Black Panther]

What Pirate fan couldn't see that ending coming? I said to myself,walk Guererreo,but then you would have had to pitch to Hamilton with the bases loaded.I still say I would have walked Guerrerro.

[mister b]

What Pirate fan couldn't see that ending coming? I said to myself,walk Guererreo,but then you would have had to pitch to Hamilton with the bases loaded.I still say I would have walked Guerrerro.

Your right. The hand writing was on the wall. Russell was between a rock and a hard place. But, Hamilton is leading the majors in every offensive stat for the month of June.

The game was lost when they brought in Meek. He had been rock solid out of the pen giving up only 3 hits in his last 11 outings and the Rangers touched him up for 3 hits in 1 inning. You can't be perfect everytime.

The big problem with the Pirates is that they have to play nearly a perfect game and the other team needs a mistake or 2 for us to win.

Milledge tryed a diving catch along the rightfield line and missed. The batter got a triple and 2 rbi's. Can't vault him for trying but a more experienced player would have slowed up and caught it on the bounce for a single and no runs scored. It is those type of mistakes that have cost the Bucs about 10 wins so far this year. The Rangers got 2 stolen bases purely off the pitchers making a slower than normal delivery. Experience is everything and we have so many first and second year players that are learning at the major league level when they should be making those mistakes at AAA Indy.

Hope we can fly the Jolly Roger in Oakland this weekend.

LETS GO BUCS!!!

[mister b]

A's 14 Pirates 4

Bullpen blows up in the 7th and gives up 7 runs and 2 more in the 8th.

Another example of a young team is Church and Walker running into each other in foul ground. Somebody has to call it. Walker gets hurt as Church's knee hits the back of Walker's head. Hope he is ok as he seems to have found a home as our everyday second baseman.

LETS GO BUCS!!!

[Black Panther]

I know Donnelly has done pretty well for us,but has he become a human rain delay here of late? Working so deliberately.I felt like I needed some no doze to try to stay awake for that ugly excuse of a game last night.At least tonight's game is an hour earlier...

[Black Panther]

My bad-The game has been moved back to 10:05 due to Fox's primetime game.Tonight's game is a thowback jersey game from the 70's.Break out the no doze..

[Black Panther]

The ship has hit rock bottom...Of all ways to lose a game today...Wow...I really shouldn't be suprised though...On to Chicago,maybe a couple of wins there can bring us a float,or at least give us something to build on....Cant remember our last road win...Was it in Cincinnati at the end of May?

[Doc Panther]

Hats off to fans on this thread.......thru thick and thin they remain fans of their team.

[Slim Jim]

Hats off to fans on this thread.......thru thick and thin they remain fans of their team.

I was going to say the same thing...Is there any Indian fans on here? I bet if they were winning there would be...What a bunch of front running bandwagon jumpers...

[mister b]

A's 3 Pirates 2

A's score 3 unearned runs on 3 hits as the Bucs committ 4 errors. Ohlendorf pitched his butt off and so did the pen. I could cry but there is no crying in baseball, right.

Black Panther is right, we have hit rock bottom, a 17 game road losing streak. Second longest in Bucco history to the 19 game streak in 1985.

9-31 on the road. 25-50 overall.

I can only say one thing...LETS GO BUCS!!!

Thanks to Doc Panther and Slim Jim for the support. Always remain true to your team regardless of their record.

[d-5]

Always remain true to your team regardless of their record Go Habs We love Al Oliver
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