I didn’t catch last night’s game and so I don’t have much to add about it (now that my committee meeting is over, I’m going to get back to the Electric Meter and we’ll talk more about McDonald when I do that) at the moment, but I did want to note Clint Hurdle’s quote about Miller Park:
“There is a history here, but I’m not a part of that and we’re trying to create new history,” Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. “Right now, we’re 0-1 at Miller Park this season.”
This is the sort of thing I was talking about in my Pittsburgh Mag piece that’s endeared me to Hurdle despite his penchant for in-game inanity: he’s built his wall around 2011!
I’ll also say that his quotes about the CC Sabathia trade and the time I spent watching Indianapolis have my gears churning a little bit. I probably won’t get a post up about it this weekend, but hopefully I’ll have my thoughts gathered by Monday.
Since I don’t have much else to say early this afternoon, I’m going to toss a bonus link out: Tom from RumBunter, Charlie from Bucs Dugout, and I contributed some quotes and thoughts to The Infield Fly about Jose Bautista. I think it’s interesting how differently the three of us remembered Bautista’s career and the trade that took him out of Pittsburgh. Bautista, meanwhile, has gone into full-on Barry Bonds mode this year if you haven’t noticed and is almost certainly the best hitter in the American League and maybe all of baseball right now. And as I said in the piece linked above, I don’t really think the Pirates did anything wrong with Bautista, but damn, does stuff like this happen to any teams that aren’t the Pirates?
Add The Sports Daily to your Google News Feed!
