These Pirates cannot tell a lie...

Just as he was starting to seem to come around, Kdro went down with a quad strain and was placed on the 15-Day disabled list. In the name of "position flexibility,” and finding a guy named Pedro who would have an even more difficult time adjusting to big league pitching, the Pirates have called up Pedro Ciriaco from AAA Indianapolis, who was hitting a whopping .190 for the Indians at the time of his promotion.

That’s right folks, .190 at AAA is good enough to get you a promotion to the big league club. Of course, being the Pirates, they couldn't even handle a simple injury replacement without some espionage and bizarre cover up operation being involved.

An entire convoluted story was fabricated in Indianapolis about Ciriaco goofing off and being lazy in batting practice, taking a ground ball off his leg, and being injured was given as the reason he was scratched from the Indians lineup on Friday night, not an impending Major League callup. Given his .190 batting average and 9 errors in the field, do you think fans and media in Indy would really question him being sat out for a game if they didn't make up such an intricate story in the first place? Bizarre lying is apparently part of the Pirates much touted "organizational depth."

Opie was furious about the lack of honesty, as the man who was given the Top Secret Contract Extension that wasn’t announced to the public for 6 months, he understands that only at the highest levels of the organization, should information about the ballclub be hoarded and spun in peculiar Machiavellian fashion.

"If it was a blatant attempt at dishonesty, there will be some consequences," he said. Of course being the Pirates, the information about the punishment for deliberate and deceitful information will be under stricter top secret classification than the raid that took out Osama Bin Laden.

"We're in the midst of looking into what happened, how it happened, why it happened," Huntington said. "Blatant dishonesty is not something we will tolerate as an organization. We're going to be protective of information. We may not disclose information ... for competitive reasons, for personal reasons, for the player's sake. But we're never going to just flat-out lie about something."

You heard it right there folks: blatant dishonesty WILL NOT be tolerated in the Pirates organization. They WILL NOT flat out lie to you. War is peace, Love is hate, and losing baseball is hope for the future. But don’t you dare accuse the lying liars of lying.

When they say that this is the core group of young players going forward to bring the team back to respectability and contention, and they will keep this team in place and make the needed additions to fill in the holes as the team gets better, this time they really, really, really mean it. Promise.