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.
Showing posts with label PR SNAFU. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PR SNAFU. Show all posts
Monday, May 23, 2011
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Welcome Aboard
Let's get a few things out of the way:
The purpose of this blog is for the many, many jaded Pittsburgh Pirates fans to voice their opinions on the franchise. Since 1992, the Pirates have been a much maligned franchise and while some people are still inexplicably optimistic year in and year out that somehow this team will catch lightning in a bottle, most of us living in reality know that just isn't going to happen without some DRASTIC changes to the organization. Also, have you ever tried to catch lightning in a bottle? That's damn near impossible! Odds are something like 1 in 775,000 of getting hit by lightning alone, I am sure actually catching it would be like 1 in 2,000,000. What's ironic is that if you add those 2 up, that is precisely the same odds of the Pirates having a winning season under the current ownership group.
If you know me, and chances are you do because you are just reading this as a favor to me ,you know I love irony almost as much as I love my wife and my dogs. So a little bit of irony is what lead me to finally starting this blog. Yesterday, I learned that the Pittsburgh Pirates organization has had yet another Public Relations SNAFU ( situation normal: all f***ed up). If they could count PR blunders as wins over the years, we wouldn't have a losing streak in place old enough to legally vote. Yesterday's mishap, however, was the straw that broke the camel's back for me as a (disenfranchised) Pirates Fan.
Upon learning that a local bar in Kennedy Twp, The Stroll Inn, runs a promotion of 5 cents off a pitcher of beer per Pirates loss ( cumulative for the season) employees of the Pirates conjured up the brilliant idea to initiate a company wide boycott of the this little bar in the suburbs. News of the boycott eventually reached the owner of the establishment, Estelle Aversa. who was justifiably angry at the thin skinned nature of supposed professionals.While I side with Ms. Aversa, I would have cautioned her that an organization who can't bother to put a team of professionals on the field shouldn't be relied upon to do the same with their administrative staff as well. Moreover, it was later discovered that team President Frank Coonelly, referred to from here on out as the "Lying Liar", contacted Ms. Aversa. According to her account of the conversation, he was rude, unprofessional, and discourteous to her. He said he supported his employeess' right to freely express their opinions. This is from the same organization that just a year ago fired a Pierogi Racer for making disparaging remarks about the teams' win/loss total via his facebook account.
With that in mind, it occurred to me that the Lying Liar is a hypocrite. Actually, he is a fascist. You are free to speak your mind as long as what's on your mind is something that he agrees with. It reminded me of an early episode of The Office when Michael Scott tells Toby Flenderson: "This is an environment of welcoming, and you should just get the hell outta here." because he didn't agree with his practices. But that is the nature of the beast when dealing with the Pirates, assume the worst, most inept, idiotic situation will occur and then watch it unfold before your very eyes. With the Pittsburgh Pirates organization, if you hope for the epitome of embarrassment, bottom dwelling, hall of shame level performance, you are in luck because you are going to get it in spades.
This organization can't take a joke because they are one. From top to bottom and every person in between, it's like a comedy of errors day in and day out. The only problem is, to fans who want to be something more than a punchline, this joke isn't funny anymore.
The purpose of this blog is for the many, many jaded Pittsburgh Pirates fans to voice their opinions on the franchise. Since 1992, the Pirates have been a much maligned franchise and while some people are still inexplicably optimistic year in and year out that somehow this team will catch lightning in a bottle, most of us living in reality know that just isn't going to happen without some DRASTIC changes to the organization. Also, have you ever tried to catch lightning in a bottle? That's damn near impossible! Odds are something like 1 in 775,000 of getting hit by lightning alone, I am sure actually catching it would be like 1 in 2,000,000. What's ironic is that if you add those 2 up, that is precisely the same odds of the Pirates having a winning season under the current ownership group.
If you know me, and chances are you do because you are just reading this as a favor to me ,you know I love irony almost as much as I love my wife and my dogs. So a little bit of irony is what lead me to finally starting this blog. Yesterday, I learned that the Pittsburgh Pirates organization has had yet another Public Relations SNAFU ( situation normal: all f***ed up). If they could count PR blunders as wins over the years, we wouldn't have a losing streak in place old enough to legally vote. Yesterday's mishap, however, was the straw that broke the camel's back for me as a (disenfranchised) Pirates Fan.
Upon learning that a local bar in Kennedy Twp, The Stroll Inn, runs a promotion of 5 cents off a pitcher of beer per Pirates loss ( cumulative for the season) employees of the Pirates conjured up the brilliant idea to initiate a company wide boycott of the this little bar in the suburbs. News of the boycott eventually reached the owner of the establishment, Estelle Aversa. who was justifiably angry at the thin skinned nature of supposed professionals.While I side with Ms. Aversa, I would have cautioned her that an organization who can't bother to put a team of professionals on the field shouldn't be relied upon to do the same with their administrative staff as well. Moreover, it was later discovered that team President Frank Coonelly, referred to from here on out as the "Lying Liar", contacted Ms. Aversa. According to her account of the conversation, he was rude, unprofessional, and discourteous to her. He said he supported his employeess' right to freely express their opinions. This is from the same organization that just a year ago fired a Pierogi Racer for making disparaging remarks about the teams' win/loss total via his facebook account.
With that in mind, it occurred to me that the Lying Liar is a hypocrite. Actually, he is a fascist. You are free to speak your mind as long as what's on your mind is something that he agrees with. It reminded me of an early episode of The Office when Michael Scott tells Toby Flenderson: "This is an environment of welcoming, and you should just get the hell outta here." because he didn't agree with his practices. But that is the nature of the beast when dealing with the Pirates, assume the worst, most inept, idiotic situation will occur and then watch it unfold before your very eyes. With the Pittsburgh Pirates organization, if you hope for the epitome of embarrassment, bottom dwelling, hall of shame level performance, you are in luck because you are going to get it in spades.
This organization can't take a joke because they are one. From top to bottom and every person in between, it's like a comedy of errors day in and day out. The only problem is, to fans who want to be something more than a punchline, this joke isn't funny anymore.
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