If you go back through these threads, I have been one of the more optimistic posters, giving management the benefit of the doubt on trades and what they were building towards. I was a season ticket holder from 2006 until the year before they made the playoffs when I moved to philly. I couldn’t give tickets away or get people to go with me half the time.
Making no moves those years of contention and then unceremoniously trading Cutch and Cole for nothing really lost me. Then making a move for Archer just showed they had no strategy and were just concerned with their suddenly terrible attendance. The Pirates could have contended. They could have made moves. Look at Stl, cinci, Milwaukee, kansas city and san Diego. The padres signed machado. Imagine if the Pirates kept cutch and cole and made a move like that! They are one of the most profitable teams in baseball and showed what kind of attendance they could get and tv interest generate with a team to believe in. They threw that good will away.
The pirates abandoned me a long time ago, I was just in denial. I want them to succeed. But they will not with nutting and the current management. I want my kids to watch and enjoy baseball and i am not getting the mlb package to give the Pirates ratings. I don’t hate the pirates, but I cannot watch or support them until there is a change. In the meantime I will cheer on Cutch and a team that can win it all and bring my kids to a park that is pretty nice where we will hear that liberty ring from Cutch and Harper and the others.