that you weren’t watching the postgame show, when someone emailed Teke to ask what Nyjer has done that resulted in the improvement we’ve seen so far (or something to that effect). I think Teke was doing his best; he kind of hemmed and hawed a little with some pretty generic stuff about seeing the ball and hitting the ball, and then said that if Nyjer could get his OBP up around .400, he’d be seriously in demand. Oh, is that all he needs to do? Quick, somebody call Don Long.

that stated in the 6th inning of the broadcast tonight that they would like to see ALL the bench players (Rivas, Gomez, Minky and Michaels) return next year. That the team needed that type of experience, with all the young players.

I must have missed something. Freddy and Jack and Adam aren’t anything near rookies. Doumit and Nate are becoming leaders. Experience doesn’t always beat talent. but you have 5 of your 8 starters that should be/are leading by example. I can see keeping Doug, a team can always use someone with his fire that can play 4 or more positions.

Do we really need $6M in salaries sitting on our bench? Would we be happy with Jason Michaels playing every day and hitting .230? Do we even have a need for a Nyjer Morgan with Andrew McCutchen and Jose Tabata coming soon? Frankly, I expect Steve Pearce to eventually get traded or released. He’s not going to be given an opportunity to play full-time in Pittsburgh. And Andrew McCutchen…they are going to waste about a year of his career, by delaying calling him up, and then watching him struggle in the middle of a season instead of September when they are already out of the race and there is no significant pressure. Bring him up in September, he will either succeed, or see what he has to do to improve and remain in the majors.

that went wild because Alfonso Soriano only has 19 unintentional walks this year. Called him a ‘wild swinger’.

Ummm…guys…Freddy Sanchez only has 12 walks…total…this season. His last walk of any type was June 15th, 200 plate appearances ago. Don’t hear Walk and Brown calling Freddy a wild swinger.

I’m more concerned about Andy LaRoche than Nyger flipping Morgan getting a few at-bats.

It is painful, isn`t it?

Rocco brought up a good point on Pirates Post-game. Nyjer may not be a prospect, but he’s at least more exciting than watching Jason Michaels get the ABs.

Pearce would turn into Chris Duffy if we kept him up here dying alive for the last two months. Pearce needs to forget this season, and going 0fer in his last month wouldn’t help matters. I think it is much less painful for Pearce, the team, and the fans to watch Nyjer Morgan for the last month.

Trust me, I don’t think anyone aside from a few beat writers consider Nyjer a legitimate prospect, but in a season already lost, it is at least entertaining (or laughable) to watch him over-slide a few bases and occasionally beat out a ground ball.

Pedro Alvarez is foolishly wasting more time when he could be preparing for his career with the Pirates. I`m really starting to wonder about his commitment to the organization.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08239/906938-63.stm

but if Alvarez can`t think and make decisions for himself-if he is completely under Boras` thumb-then it is a pretty fuc*ed up situation.

I might be reading too much into the situation, and, as Dejan points out, Alvarez`s verbal assent to the contract as much as means he is a member of the Pirates` organization without signing the contract/doing the physical yet, but I have a bad feeling that Boras has been trashing the Bucs` management, and MLB`s Aug. 15 deadline in particular, and has Alvarez ticked off that he had to accept the $6 million and the minor league contract.

So many people made a huge deal out of getting Alvarez signed, well, that was the easy part to some extent. Let`s see him show up(someday), in shape, and perform, and then I`ll start to get impressed. He has done nothing for the Pirates yet, and he has wasted a helluva a lot of time. This sucks.

Bob Nutting had better start budgeting some big money for our first two rounds of the draft next year. We are looking more and more like picking from #3-#5 overall in 2009, and we have the comp pick for not signing Scheppers, in addition to our regular second rounder.

“What gets me here is that the idea that Nyjer Morgan is a prospect simply will not die. He isn’t a prospect.”

Then what is it?

The Mr.Excitement Label?

The Room-Brightening Smile?

Adding to the 8%?

If the team allows Morgan a lot of playing time in September at the expense of other OFs, then we will know that these guys can be just as stupid as the ones who preceeded them.