Pirates Defeat Manatees in Tuneup Game

I’m kind of excited just reading this little recap.

I’m a big Spring Training fan – P&C is on my calendar as soon as I can find the date – and so, in some sense, this is normal for me. But, even so, I think things start to get interesting this year, and reading about Pedro and Gorkys and so on gets my blood pumping, at least a bit.

I didn’t say anything on any of those threads but, honestly, I totally get the “dynasty” comment – if this group of players comes together, if we have a real run of success (not like the Brewers’ pseudo-run), then 2010 will mark the start of that dynasty, just as surely as the early-90s dynasty was marked by that (essentially meaningless) game in which they beat the Mets and Gooden mocked them for getting excited about it. That was a bad team, but they knew they’d turned the corner.

I don’t think 2010 is the year we turn that particular corner, but it’s the year our upward trajectory* begins.

• decorum requires that I note that, from 2009, upward is the only feasible trajectory

…Raise the Jolly Roger!!!

…with Sues’s command? Two walks and a HBP, in addition to the homer.

We haven’t had a dumb ass troll in a while. This should be interesting.

http://www.mccfl.edu/

Then go under student life f/Athletics, then baseball. That tells you only about the college’s baseball program, which isn’t bad for a two-year college for lumbering, slow creatures that can’t run on land – hey, wait, did I just describe Ronnie Paulino?!

The local newspaper write-up is here…it doesn’t say anything that’s not posted up above, but if you go back to the sports page, there’s a nice article about a long-time Pirates fan.

Please let the season start soon…..