Great article by Dejan- SIGN MARTIN!

[SteelPro]

Just my 2 cents, enjoy Martin these next few weeks. I think the back tracking the media does when Martin isn't resigned will be epic.

From what will they have to backtrack?

Most of the media is saying they are pretty sure he won't be re-signed, and that it's a bad move not to.

So when he's not re-signed, they can lambaste the Pirates for not doing so.

But I know he's gone. By going on this full bore PR campaign to prepare us for life without Martin, the Pirates are letting us all know he's gone.

The Pittsburgh media is softer than baby shit. When it comes time they will back track and make excuses. Last offseason they all said the Pirates must raise payroll. Some like Dejan and Tim Williams gave a specific figure of $90 million the team should be spending. When it was clear they wouldn't reach that number they went into excuse mode to defend the Pirates for not spending to that level.

Here you go. Dejan claiming the Pirates really don't make that much money.
http://dkonpittsburghsports.com/2014/09 ... n-fiction/

DK is a smart dude. He knows how to play to the yinzers yet stay in good with Bob Nutting. He also knows which guys in the front office it is ok to sling arrows at. GMs will come and go, but the owner is going to be entrenched for a very long time.

[Legacy User]

yep, Pro, these guys are all the same which is why I never get too fired up over the person writing the article. They all just want hits so they play both sides on most things. Stir it up.

Bottom line is that if The Nut doesn't have the proper capital to run a major league franchise, he should be shown the door or forced to bring in investors with bigger pockets, which I'm sure wouldn't be all that difficult to do, from where I sit.

He's a little boy playing a man's game. He needs to man up and do what it takes to be a winner and stop thinking his small pockets can do it, because they can't. Not when it matters most, when the team is primed and ready to take the next step, he sat on his money like a scared, whiny little kid, wetting his pants over the prospect of making a...heaven forbid..mistake that will cost him money.

This, to me, is more the answer of what happened over the off-season. I don't give a shit what NH said or what any fucking reporter believes happened, it was The Nut who had to rein that shit in. What happened at the trade deadline is a bit of both The Nut and NH, because NH values his prospects like gold, and is still in "getting to that contender/perennial competitor" mode. And The Nut wants him to be there, make no mistake. Keeping the team a contender, but not a champion, is the best way for him to keep playing it safe and raking in the dough--and no matter how much it actually is, it's profit that is not being turned back into investing in the team to try to push it to that next level. And oh yeah, before all the "you have to be nuts if you think Bob Nutting doesn't want to be a champion" crowd weighs in, of course he'd like to do that. We'd all like to do that. Every owner would like to do that. But is he taking the necessary steps--and more importantly, the necessary risks--to do everything possible to try to make that happen? That's the question and I think we all know the answer. It's not just spending money. We know that. It's more scouting and development. He's invested in that, admittedly. And it's helped this team go from the worst team in baseball to a contender that is probably primed to be so for a number of years in the future. But is that enough? Spend wisely when the time is right. I don't see it happening here at the major league level, even though we were told the team would do just that at a time exactly like this. The Nut has done just enough to keep the turnstiles turning and keep those profits humming--at whatever fucked up level the mustard reporter wants to say it is.

Bob Nutting is a ball-less liar and a crook. He has to do a lot to make me change my view on that.