Nutting has no shame!
by BFD1 on Sep 6, 2010 12:11 PM EDT
Email
PrintThe Nutting Pirates should be ashamed running out that pitiful team, day after day, while selling tickets by using the great Maz and 1960 team as a marketing ploy.
The good to come of honoring Maz, was the fact that bozo Bob Nutting was boo'd. What an embarassment!
I said before the year began that I knew this would be the worst PIrate team in my lifetime, but it could be the worst Pirate team EVER. It looks like that just may happen.
And lets remember folks. What you see is what you'll get next year. Cheap payroll, minor league talent, and cold and stale buns.
Look out 2020!
This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of the managing editor (Charlie) or SB Nation. FanPosts are written by Bucs Dugout readers.
110 comments
|
0 recs |
Do you like this story?
Comments
In other news, the Padres have a ten game losing streak
and they have about the same payroll that we do and about 3 less offensive weapons. Also in historical accuracy, Nutting became majority owner in 2007, the same time that DL was fired and money was being invested in players that have upside
Players who should be in the Hall of Fame: Pat TIllman, Dwight White, Donnie Shell, L.C. Greenwood, Ray Guy, Steve Tasker, Greg Llyod, Andy Russel, Cris Carter, Kevin Greene and Jerry Kramer
"Don't wory, I'm an untrained professional" WVPF
Canal Street Chronicles resident Steelers Fan
I think Maz’s homer was in 1961. Nutting rewrote the history books to make a fast buck. I’m sure he’ll realize the “mistake” next year and make a another late-season windfall.
Beer mug
hopefully next year his crack promo team will get the scores right……. I mean come on…. only the Nutting Pirates would goof up something like that.
15-33 since the All-star break & 16-39 since the mid point….. Go bucs!
Right
The Nutting Pirates should be ashamed running out that pitiful team, day after day, while selling tickets by using the great Maz and 1960 team as a marketing ploy.
The organization should only celebrate past players and events when the team is winning. It’s just crude to put up a Maz statue on the fiftieth anniversary of his historic home run. The Pirates should wait until the team is winning even if the wait carries them past Maz’s death. He’ll really appreciate the gesture after he’s dead. I’m sure that’s why he cried during the ceremony. He was overwhelmed by the tastelessness of the Pirates who would erect a statue in his honor when the team was not winning.
Bad Pirates. Bad.
s.zielinski
by steve_z on Sep 6, 2010 1:12 PM EDT reply actions 4 recs
THIS
The pirates should cease all activity and disband until they start winning. At that time they can start playing baseball again.
Nutting should sell the team, with a caveat that any owner who doesn’t win within 3 years has to strip the roster and sell the team if they then can’t win in 3 years. That way we’ll contend for sure.
Blah, blah, blah...
Same shit, different day…
by IAPiratesFan on Sep 6, 2010 1:20 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Maybe everybody should just agree with him.
I’m sure he would just get bored and start attacking WHYGAVS or Tim Williams.
by RDV across the sea on Sep 6, 2010 1:26 PM EDT up reply actions
so that BFD guy must stand for Big Fucking Douche right?
by BadAndy on Sep 6, 2010 1:50 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
He reminds me of this tool
named Allesandro on the facebook page. Same posting ‘strategy’. The only difference is, Allesandro thinks Adam Hyzdu is better than Pedro.
This man is 30-something, by the way.
Allesandro actually posted a plan one time. It wasn’t a good one (he and Littlefield would be good friends), but it was a plan nonetheless. For that, I have to give him some (very little) credit. BFD gets none.
Pirates, Vikings, Hokies. I'm used to heartbreak. At least I have the Penguins....
"When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth."
-The Great One
by blackjackfishtaco on Sep 7, 2010 11:06 AM EDT up reply actions
Maz's home run
was in 1960; the first hit of that world series was by #9 also, Roger Maris of the Yankees and it was really nice that the last hit was by #9, Bill Mazeroski, of the Pirates. Just a another baseball odd happening.
Tom Specht
Yeah, it's not even entertaining anymore..
Just go away, no one likes you.
Well, there
is good news after all.
Tom Specht
Also, why don't you ever post in the game threads?
If you’re only here because ‘I called you an idiot’, yet stick around to teach us a lesson or whatever your asperger’s syndrome convinces you is the right thing to do, why not do something constructive here?
Hey, ease up on Asperger's people.
I happen to be one.
Still, I join you in calling BFD an idiot.
Hey, an out is an out - unless you're Mario, in which case it's probably two outs. -UtesFan89
Hard work always beats talent if talent doesn't work hard.
Bad andy & rye
I share my truthful well informed opinions and get attacked by you two?
Nice
If i saw you 2 in person, i’d bitch slap the shit outta both of you panzies
Boooooooo Nutting!
Funny how so many boo the man associated with 14 years of the futility streak, but you 2 clowns defend him
Go back to the hillbilly hills with him!
Sell B- nut!
Hey, there's a threat.
We can ban him now, right?
Hey, an out is an out - unless you're Mario, in which case it's probably two outs. -UtesFan89
Hard work always beats talent if talent doesn't work hard.
If he gets flagged enough, he will.
Flag it, and don’t use foul language in responding.
Better yet, don’t take the bait at all.
Free your ass and your mind will follow.
by cocktailsfor2 on Sep 6, 2010 10:55 PM EDT up reply actions
The former, I already know and apply.
The latter…well, I can’t help myself. Sorry.
Hey, an out is an out - unless you're Mario, in which case it's probably two outs. -UtesFan89
Hard work always beats talent if talent doesn't work hard.
Funny how a man who had been majority owner for three years gets blamed solely for 14 years of the losing.
That, again, is why I call you an idiot.
Also, keep the threats coming. I haven’t been in a scrap in about a year, so feel free to slap me. I mean, I might hit back, but I just have to defend myself, you know.
by ryebr3ad on Sep 6, 2010 4:08 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Also, I don’t defend Nutting. If you weren’t an idiot (meaning you have reading comprehension), you would realize we don’t care about who owns the team. If Mario buys, and keeps the current plan going, I’ll be perfectly fine with it.
by ryebr3ad on Sep 6, 2010 4:14 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Rye
if Mario or any owner interested in winning bought the team, the current cheap “plan” go go out the window and the team wouldn’t make history annually
Out of curiosity, was Heredia signed for shuts and giggles, or is signing a 3 million dollar Latin player not considered ‘trying to win’?
Of course, if the Pirates didn’t sign him, I’m sure it would have been used against ownership.
by ryebr3ad on Sep 6, 2010 4:32 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Ohhh yes
That tiny signing surely makes up for A dead last payroll dumbass!
Stupid shit comments like that are laughable enabler!
Tiny, ey?
Keep the ammo coming, idiot. You make it too easy.
by ryebr3ad on Sep 6, 2010 4:40 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Also, I asked if signing the top Latin American player is considered an attempt to win. Allie and Taillon as well.
You gonna answer that, or keep attacking those poor straw men?
by ryebr3ad on Sep 6, 2010 4:43 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
It is the cheap
easy way to claim they are trying to win w/o fielding a team with an avg. Payroll
Spending 10 million while saving 40 on the mlb payroll is a 30 million savings a-hole
actually that is $9,000,960 in losses
but how do you come up with the $40 Million being saved on the MLB payroll. Also when you have a young team with a lot of years of team control left, the payroll tends to be low
Players who should be in the Hall of Fame: Pat TIllman, Dwight White, Donnie Shell, L.C. Greenwood, Ray Guy, Steve Tasker, Greg Llyod, Andy Russel, Cris Carter, Kevin Greene and Jerry Kramer
"Don't wory, I'm an untrained professional" WVPF
Canal Street Chronicles resident Steelers Fan
You
sir just posted nutting excuse # 3 for the pitifully low payroll
that is not an excuse that is a fact
the Rays before this year were always in the bottom five of payroll, the Padres are something like 28 this year, Marlins have always won with a low payroll, A’s under Billy Beane have had a low payroll. So what are you going to make up next
Players who should be in the Hall of Fame: Pat TIllman, Dwight White, Donnie Shell, L.C. Greenwood, Ray Guy, Steve Tasker, Greg Llyod, Andy Russel, Cris Carter, Kevin Greene and Jerry Kramer
"Don't wory, I'm an untrained professional" WVPF
Canal Street Chronicles resident Steelers Fan
I'm not sure
that the marlins are a good example. Their owner actually WAS taking money from the team.
by BlindSquirrel on Sep 6, 2010 8:11 PM EDT up reply actions
ripping off the tax payers of Miami-Dade county
something we are not doing
Players who should be in the Hall of Fame: Pat TIllman, Dwight White, Donnie Shell, L.C. Greenwood, Ray Guy, Steve Tasker, Greg Llyod, Andy Russel, Cris Carter, Kevin Greene and Jerry Kramer
"Don't wory, I'm an untrained professional" WVPF
Canal Street Chronicles resident Steelers Fan
by WVPiratesfan on Sep 6, 2010 10:10 PM EDT up reply actions
B-nut
well
Nutting payroll= 40 million
Avg payroll = 85 ish million
Similar sized mkts payroll 80-90 million
BTW- every team signs their picks . That expense is NOT unique to B-nut
no not every team does sign there picks
the Brewers didn’t sign there’s this year, many teams have sandwhich picks year after year where they don’t sign players. What team in a small market like Pittsburgh’s has a payroll of 80-90 mil. The Twins Mauer, Cuddyer, Orlando Hudson, Kubel, JJ Hardy, Brian Fuentes and Carl Pavano are the only guys on the active roster who make over $4 million this year.
Players who should be in the Hall of Fame: Pat TIllman, Dwight White, Donnie Shell, L.C. Greenwood, Ray Guy, Steve Tasker, Greg Llyod, Andy Russel, Cris Carter, Kevin Greene and Jerry Kramer
"Don't wory, I'm an untrained professional" WVPF
Canal Street Chronicles resident Steelers Fan
I love this excuse
The reason Allie was passed on by so many teams is because he was a huge risk not to sign.
Turns out we ended up signing him.
Of course, let’s not let mitigating circumstances enter the conversation. Everything is black and white in a moron’s world.
All right, then.
If Nutting handed you forty million dollars, in addition to what is already being spent, exactly whom would you sign with that money to make the Pirates into a competitive team?
Hey, an out is an out - unless you're Mario, in which case it's probably two outs. -UtesFan89
Hard work always beats talent if talent doesn't work hard.
BFD...
When the Lemieux/ Burkle group took over the Pens they never used money out of their own pockets to fund the team. If you remember, for the first part of this decade the Penguins were terrible and never signed any big name free agents. Though by being so bad it netted them either the 1st or 2nd overall pick in the draft for 4 straight years. Those picks were Fleury, Malkin, Crosby, and Staal. After the lockout a salary cap was put in to their CBA, so they generally spend about the same as every other NHL team.
You have to realize that Nutting and every other owner in professional sports is first and foremost a businessman. This team doesn’t make the type of money that it takes to go and freely spend in free agency like the teams from NY or LA or Boston. It sucks, but it is what it is. What everyone is trying to explain is that while Nutting shouldn’t be up for owner of the year by any means, what he has done while being the majority owner to this point seems to be putting the team on the path to success. This success will not be now, or next year, or maybe even the year after, but it will come.
I don’t know if you write these posts with the intention of trolling or not, but until you understand that you can’t just say “Nutting is cheap, this team sucks” with no basis to your argument other than the Pirates record is bad, then these guys on here are just going to continue to rip you a new one.
Think before you speak my friend.
Idon’tknowifyou write these posts with the intention of trollingor not,
FTFY.
Free your ass and your mind will follow.
by cocktailsfor2 on Sep 7, 2010 7:47 AM EDT up reply actions
I can say with absolute certainty that Mario would not
buy players with money from his own pocket. Which is apparently what everyone wants Nutting to do, not only is it bad business, but with other minority owners it is impossible business.
Santa Roberto Clemente
Ora Pro Nobis
FireRickReilly
you are OH SO CORRECT
only the Tigers owner is doing this practice, and losing money on a yearly basic to boot.
Funny how the
People supporting this sham are the ones calling people idiots?
I also like how certain D-bags here talk shit on people here who Chuck banned unjustly, & therefore can not defend themselves
Classy blog chuck!
Here it is.
“it’s everybody’s fault but mine! How dare you ban people who only offer one opinion every time they post.”
If you weren’t an idiot (there’s that word again), you would realize that isn’t liked anywhere. But please, if you must, go to a Black Panthers meeting and preach about white supremacy. You have every right to do it, but you might get wrecked.
by ryebr3ad on Sep 6, 2010 4:12 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
"Classy blog chuck!"
This is one of the best sports blogs on the Internet.
by patthatt on Sep 6, 2010 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
So somebody called you an idiot....
….so you are here tossing around D-bags and a-holes and (also) idiots, among other things. Let’s just give it a rest, dude. Most people here don’t buy your arguments, and you don’t buy most people’s arguments here. What’s the point?
Santa Roberto Clemente
Ora Pro Nobis
FireRickReilly
then leave
Go post on the pirates website message board you would b right at home with those idiots.whoops almost forgot sale the team
by timmyjr78 on Sep 6, 2010 3:36 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
For the record, I love meta-trolling.
:)
by ryebr3ad on Sep 6, 2010 4:18 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
you know what I hate the most about nutting
is that he always seems to go with the top two buttons of his shirt unbuttoned with no undershirt. On Maz’s Day he could have buttoned up. .Has he know shame. What is he to cheap to button that button. I am sure with all the revenue sharing money he can buy a sweet gold medallion to really accentuate his look, but he doesn’t probably because he is cheap.
by SHOOTFOR2010 on Sep 6, 2010 4:18 PM EDT reply actions
well
he could go for gold leaf instead, it’s much cheaper.
or just paint it yellow.
by BlindSquirrel on Sep 6, 2010 8:14 PM EDT up reply actions
Geezus people
Can you really not help yourself enough to not respond to this clown?
Here let’s practice for next time
Huruuurr Nutting’s cheap and has owned the team for 14 years and Mario Lemieux is really Santa Claus.
There, that’s as much substance as he normally has. Practice not responding to it.
by TravisDW on Sep 6, 2010 5:10 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
$$$$$$
I bet B-nut spanks his monkey to this blog every night
Try banning me, but I'm baaaaaaaack!
B-nut and I, we shoot our loads together to this blog every night. Sometime right at each other, yay.
I just don't get what your point is...
You don’t like us… We don’t like you… You aren’t going to suddenly be like.. “Oh I get their point.” and we aren’t going to suddenly be like.. “Oh I get what he’s saying”. We just disagree. End of story. Things turn personal and it just goes around and around and around.
Obviously all of us aren’t going to leave, as there’s more of us than you on this particular blog. Why not just go somewhere else or, even better, start your own blog.
You have
a homosexual relationship with Bob Nutting?
"Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway
The 1985 team was similarly shameless, with a “Bringing It Back” season theme honoring the twenty-fifth anniversary of the ’60 squad.
BFD2
if you could be so kind and just let us know when you’re done, we would all appriciate it. thanks
Bfd2 is an imposter
incase some of u have not noticed
If some asshole is imitating your posts
And no one notices the difference…it’s possible that you might be an asshole, too.
Just sayin’.
by maguro on Sep 6, 2010 8:12 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Noone here
Noticed cause your dumbasses & too busy polishing your Bib Nutting statue
No, the impostor really was spot on. And that’s pretty sad.
As a matter of fact, I thought 2 posted this reply; then I noticed my error.
Is it sad that I’m more on the lookout for an ‘impostor’ than the real deal?
And…Bib Nutting? Sounds like a parody name where Bob Nutting is actually an infant in a world ruled by adolescents.
sorry
BFD1 if you could be so kind and just let us know when you’re done, we would all appriciate it. thanks.
I'll keep you posted
but i’ll most likely continue “my plan” as long as NH continues with his plan of losing in bunches
This team sucks!!!!
Enjoy the fireworks, cracker jacks, feces dogs, and memories of the good ’ol days!
BTW – 7springs is a shithole as well since B-nut got his hands on it
Wow, you've finally convinced be, BFD!
This is definitely your strongest argument yet. I must say, now I realize just how terrible Bob Nutting is that he wanted to honor Maz on the 50th anniversary of one of the most important moments in Pirate history.
I also can’t believe how cheap Nutting is that he didn’t make the statue solid gold.
Come on Mark
Aren’t you gonna give some made up formula or stat
How’d your prediction this year turn out?
If he gave you a made up stat instead of a real stat...
would you even know the difference? I know, I know, you are going to have something “clever” to say about the W-L record. Save it.
Just because you don't understand it
doesn’t mean it’s made up.
The sad thing is, you’re a grown adult (I assume), yet you have the intelligence of a shoe and the logic of a first grader.
I've got one
100% of the children BFD1 parents fostered really need to deliver me my frigging pizza already.
Dude...
How is it that he’s spouting his crap and there’s 101 (sorry…now 102) responses?
Come on guys! We know better than this!
Now go out there and take it.
Other than Pitching, Hitting, Defense, this team is set
I’m not going away; there’s no stopping “my plan” of pursuing more PHDs (read my other post). I will not stop till I have more pitching, hitting and defense Pretty Huge D**** come my way!
Comments For This Post Are Closed
Secondary Sidebar
User Tools
FanPosts
Community blog posts and discussion.
Certain photos copyright © 2012 by Associated Press or Getty Images. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of Associated Press and Getty Images is strictly prohibited.
