I’m on vacation until Monday, but I have this post here for Joe to place his links and for any commenting on stuff. I’ll put one of these up all week.
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Pens win 7th in a row…even if they almost let it slip away. A win is a win!
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GENERAL DAILY UPDATED BASEBALL SITES
1- MLB Transactions
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/transactions
2-MLB Trade Rumors-Pirates
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/pittsburgh_pirates/
3- 2011-12 Pirates Prospects Off-Season Calendar
http://www.piratesprospects.com/2011/10/2011-12-pirates-prospects-off-season-calendar.html
4 Pirate Offseason Stats
http://www.mlb.com/milb/stats/org.jsp?id=pit
5 Yahoo Free Agent Tracker
http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AvN8KLXkNW0TcRjzSCagLIMBbgM6?slug=jp-passan_ultimate_free_agent_tracker_baseball_110211
6 Pirates Prospects Offseason Tracker
http://www.piratesprospects.com/offseason
7 Pittsburgh Pirates 2012 Spring Training Tracker
http://www.piratesprospects.com/st2012
PIRATE BLOGS
8—Pirates Prospects
Is This the 2002-2003 Off-Season All Over Again?
http://www.piratesprospects.com/2012/01/is-this-the-2002-2003-off-season-all-over-again.html
Winter League Playoffs 1/24 — Homers By Gimenez and Cortes Not Enough
http://www.piratesprospects.com/2012/01/winter-league-playoffs-124-homers-by-gimenez-and-cortes-not-enough.html
9 Bucs Dugout
Prince Fielder Agrees To Terms With Tigers
http://www.bucsdugout.com/2012/1/24/2730724/prince-fielder-agrees-to-terms-with-tigers
10 Rumbunter
Chris Leroux … And Stuff
http://rumbunter.com/2012/01/24/chris-leroux-and-stuff/
RumBunter Oscar Nomination
http://rumbunter.com/2012/01/24/rumbunter-oscar-nomination/
Detroit Tigers Owner Gives Fans, Players What Ever City Wants
http://rumbunter.com/2012/01/25/detroit-tigers-owner-gives-fans-players-what-ever-city-wants/
11 WHY GAVS
How good is the Pirates’ minor league system?
http://whygavs.com/pittsburgh-pirates/january-2012/how-good-is-the-pirates-minor-league-system.html
NEWSPAPERS and MAGAZINES
12 Altoona Mirror
Mehno: Cut athletes some slack after mistakes
http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/557553/Mehno–Cut-athletes-some-slack-after-mistakes.html?nav=751
13 USA Today
Rich, famous bidders line up to buy Dodgers
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/nl/dodgers/story/2012-01-23/rich-famous-bidders-line-up-to-buy-dodgers/52780200/1
14 Montgomery Advertiser
Bulk up the hall, Baseball Writers
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20120125/SPORTS/201250325/Josh-Moon-Bulk-up-Hall-baseball-writers?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFrontpage%7Cs
15 NY Daily News
St. Louis Cardinals’ Carlos Beltran tells Met fans: Time to get over 2006 and move on
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/carlos-beltran-tells-met-fans-time-2006-article-1.1011482#commentpostform
SPORTS WEBSITES
16 Fangraphs
Three Designated Hitters: A Tigers’ Roster Crunch
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/three-designated-hitters-a-tigers-roster-crunch/
17 PBC Site
Around the Horn: Pirates outfielders
http://pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120124&content_id=26450488&vkey=news_pit&c_id=pit
18 Baseball Nation
Has This Off-Season Derailed The Pirates?
http://mlb.sbnation.com/2012/1/24/2704639/has-this-off-season-derailed-the-pirates
Steelers Blogs
19 Behind the Steel Curtain
Super Bowl News: The Aftermath of the Conference Championships
http://www.behindthesteelcurtain.com/2012/1/24/2729501/super-bowl-news-the-aftermath-of-the-conference-championships
Former Steelers Offensive Coordinator Bruce Arians Says Retirement Came After New Contract Wasn’t Offered
http://www.behindthesteelcurtain.com/2012/1/24/2730647/former-steelers-offensive-coordinator-bruce-arians-says-retirement
-20 Steelers Depot
The Terrible Podcast
http://www.steelersdepot.com/2012/01/the-terrible-podcast-discussing-arians-departure-future-oc-championship-games-episode/
21 Steelers Gab
Arians Speaks Out – Still Not Sure Why He’s Not Coming Back in 2012
http://www.steelersgab.com/2012/01/24/arians-speaks-out-still-not-sure-why-hes-not-coming-back-in-2012/
Pitt Blogs
22 Pitt Blather
Not Sure Pitt Can Be This Picky
http://www.pittblather.com/2012/01/24/not-sure-pitt-can-be-this-picky/
23 Cardiac Hill
Big East Basketball Power Rankings: Pitt Can’t Escape Basement
http://www.cardiachill.com/2012/1/24/2729027/big-east-basketball-pitt-acc-syracuse-pittsburgh-panthers-khem-birch-uconn-syracuse-top-25-polls
WVU Blogs
24 Metro News
Macon A Big Impact
http://www.wvmetronews.com/wvu.cfm?func=displayfullstory&storyid=50525
25 WV Illustrated
Nathan Adrian Eyes a Future with the Mountaineers
http://www.wvillustrated.com/story/16584638/nathan-adrian-eyes-a-future-with-the-mountaineers
Holgorsen Still Working to Finalize WVU Staff
http://www.wvillustrated.com/story/16587142/holgorsen-still-working-to-finalize-wvu-staff
PENGUIN BLOGS
—26 Pensburgh
Fleury shines as Penguins win seventh straight, beat Blues 3-2 (SO)
http://www.pensburgh.com/2012/1/25/2731616/fleury-shines-as-penguins-win-seventh-straight-beat-blues-3-2-so
Nice to see Leah get her money’s worth. Great, great game.
Fleury was absolutely amazing.
Leah ~ I envy you. Great game!
Dave G, Fleury stole the game for the Pens
January 25
24 days until Pirate Spring Training
Cap’n Nutting & his “Two Li’l Buddies” say “This is the team.” Look out for shipwreck . . . .
Groat2maz:
Love the daily countdown, thanks.
An observation I made at last years MLB All Star break may apply to this weekend as well.
I said the Pirates who were hot at the time didn’t want the break because it could end their momentum.
I would imagine the Pens feel about the same way right now.
Both the AP & ESPN reported yesterday that Tony LaRussa will join John McGraw as the only 2 men to manage the All Star Game the year after they retired.
Danny Murtaugh managed the 1972 All Star Game after retiring following the 1971 World Series.
Milo
MLB does not consider Murtaugh retired because he returned to manage the Pirates in 1973.
Neal an all-star according to the other paper in town.
Lucky, yes he is, and he sure will be more fun to watch than Ovie!
And the Trib. Sorry. Too busy to look at both all the time.
Interesting fact I discovered recently:
—St. Louis led the Major Leagues in least strikeouts batting
—Texas led the American League in least strikeouts batting
I thought you had to strike out a lot to have power.
‘course I know a team for which the converse was true: led league in K’s/NO power!
May the Pirates’ problem with hitting is not their hitting but their missing!!!
Put your stat gurus on that, Neal.
@ Groat–
Bad and inexperienced hitters are a bad combination. The PBC had a lot of both of those last year.
Good, very good/great hitters who have a decent amount of experience or who are in a lineup with Pujols, Holliday, or Josh Hamilton–which the Cards and Rangers have in abundance–tend to, you know, hit the ball or take a walk.
Hurdle mentioned this problem over and over last year in press conferences. On another site, you could listen to his pre-game and post-game pressers every day and he talked about this problem all the time. Comes with the territory of playing A LOT of youngsters due to a LOT of injuries.
No exclamations needed for that. It (the lineup), stunk last year except for a couple of months when it was right around average.
(with a nod to Milo)
Today the Pirates did nothing.
Thanks John. Saved me the trouble.