You think your team’s bad?
The Pittsburgh Pirates just lost to a community college. You think I’m making that up? I’m not.
Now, the Pirates are, at least theoretically, a Major League ballclub. So I don’t want to hear any whining or any excuses about how it was a split-squad of just scrubs and all the real players were back in camp or at home or wherever. That’s no justification. There’s really no reason in the world for a Major League ballclub with a $50 million payroll (incidentally, you jackasses paid Jack Wilson $6.6M last season? For what?) to be able to field a squad that can’t beat a community college team with a payroll of — wait for it — negative moneys. All those players pay to be on the team. You gotta figure, maybe if they were any good, somebody’d be paying them.
Maybe the Pirates should give that a try. Can’t be worse than $6.6M to Jack Wilson.
