Baseball Prospectus Event

by dtoddwin on Aug 26, 2009 3:18 PM EDT Comment 10 comments

For those of you who haven't seen it Baseball Prospectus is hosting an event at PNC Park. Here are the details. Looks like a great event. (Charlie, I am assuming because this is publicizing an event they are hosting and it was not behind the subscription wall it is okay to post like this. Please alter if necessary.) The seats are in the right field bleachers.

Pssst… Wanna Meet Neal Huntington and Dan Fox?

by Shawn Hoffman

Then you better buy your ticket to our PNC Park event while there are still some spots remaining. Here are the details:

When: Saturday September 5th, at 5:00 PM
Where: PNC Park’s picnic area
How: Call 412-325-4497 and ask for the Baseball Prospectus event. Tickets are $44, and include a seat at the game, plus food and drink at the pre-game event.

Will Carroll, John Perrotto, and I will be there, along with BP favorite Rocco DeMaro and we’ll be holding a Q&A session with Neal and Dan, so bring your best questions.

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I have my ticket

Looking forward to it!

by Traco Bucco on Aug 26, 2009 4:23 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Is it worth it?

I have a feeling that all questions asked will be by Yinzers, and will have something to do with:

-The “Revolving Door”
-Trading our good players for nothing
-Asking why Pedro Alvarez isn’t starting over LaRoche
-“Salary Dumps”
-Why don’t we spend money on big-name free agents, like CC

If there are any questions that aren’t listed above, I think it would be worth it… I just don’t know if that’s possible.

by H2O on Aug 26, 2009 5:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Put a few conjunctions in that list

and you’ve just written Gene Collier’s next column!

by maguro on Aug 26, 2009 5:28 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

You forgot . . .

— “Why didn’t you sign all 50 of your draft picks?”

by WTM on Aug 26, 2009 5:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

And

- “Is there any chance we can resign Jack and Freddy in the offseason?”

by Brakeman8 on Aug 26, 2009 5:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don't know...

…how well publicized the event is outside of the Baseball Prospectus/Bucs Dugout community? My guess is that most of the Yinzers will be distracted by the start of college FB season that day: Pitt-Youngstown State, PSU-Akron and WVU-Liberty (or give me death)!

by Traco Bucco on Aug 26, 2009 5:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm not a Yinzer...

but the start of PSU football is always a big day for me. I say JOPA you say TERNO…!

by Slick1 on Aug 26, 2009 7:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's true.

Why would the average yinzer pay $44 for that? And it’s not like they actually read Baseball Prospectus or else they wouldn’t care if the Pirates resign Jack and Freddy.

by IAPiratesFan on Aug 26, 2009 10:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Replace $44 with $25, and you can ask the same question about “PiratesFest”. They don’t get a ticket with Pirates Fest, so it’s really a bargain for them… But since I’ve only seen this here, and Perrotto’s site, I have a feeling that it will be ALMOST Yinzer-free.

The few Yinzers there will be the ones who read a lot about the Pirates, but still don’t understand that all good players come from the minor leagues, and contending teams aren’t willing to trade their Pujolses or Longorias or Johan Santanas. So we might get to hear the “Why do we trade for nothing” question.

by H2O on Aug 27, 2009 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs