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I think all Pirate fans have similar feelings. Who in their right mind would become a fan of a team that has had 15 straight losing seasons. The only fans that are left are the ones that have been fans for a long time. The only thing I can say at this point is....I feel your pain. I lived in the burgh when PNC opened and I had a partial season plan. I got my wife all excited for the bucs etc. We went the first game blah blah blah. We all know what happened next. My wife now refuses to even talk about baseball. She said she will discuss it again when the Pirates have a winning season.....It has been a few years since then.....Anyway, let me get off my soapbox and answer your question.
I hope you are familiar with David and Goliath. We are David in the baseball setting. We HAVE to develop young players and these players HAVE perform well to succeed. Where the Yankees of the baseball world will just buy another player when one does not work out. Unfortunately our young players have not performed well....so far. This year our team is really young and very talented. If they perform well, we can compete...and hopefully win.
Just know this. We will NOT be able to keep our players for long if they are performing well. So we HAVE to keep developing players to take their place. That is the only way we will have winning baseball in the burgh again.
Welcome back.
GO BUCS!!
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