I preview the Mets series for SNY.tv. I should have noted, probably, that the Pirates' offense's most likely path to improvement is regression to the mean.

One of the better first pitches I've seen in a while.

Meet The Marauders: Gift Ngoepe

... He sang, thus ending every baseball argument until June. Via Grant.

Ex-Buc Nyjer Morgan talks about adopting his cat, "Slick Willie", in a PSA for pet adoption recorded with PETA.

A.J. Burnett adresses media at Pirate City

Rumbunter found this. These past few days have been as slow as any since Christmas, and Opening Day still feels like eons from now, so this 2011 highlight video is well-timed. And I'm not a big radio-rock guy, but the song is a good one. Certainly, it's a lot less depressing for a Pirates highlight video than this one was.

Let me be the first to say Saaaaarrrrrsgaaaaaaaarrrrrrrd should throw out the first pitch

Jack Wilson on vacation. His dad sent me this.

The first episode of Baseball Wives features the wives and exes of Kris Benson (yes, Anna Benson, who has a voice you have to hear to believe), Jason Kendall, Ron Villone and Nyjer Morgan. I'm not sure whether it will be possible to keep this thread classy, but I'm going to post it because I saw this on Twitter (via emptynetters), and since it was Pirates-related, I was curious to watch it. If this thread gets ugly, and keep in mind that my threshold may be different from yours) I reserve the right to ban people, delete the thread entirely, and so on.