Arguments...
So I was at the Pirate game with my school yesterday... started talking about the Pirates with a couple of other kids in my class. One kid started talking about how the trades were awful and with this management the Pirates will never win. He went on to say that having an outfield or Jason Bay, Nate McLouth, and Andrew McCutchen, along with Freddy Sanchez and Jack Wilson would have made the Pirates a playoff team this year. I went on to remind him that without the trades they made they would have guys like Virgil Vasquez, John Van Benschoten and Ian Snell starting, which would result in nothing close to a playoff birth.
He didn't take my correction very well and went on to say that Jack Wilson was the best defensive shortstop in the league... I went on to ask him if he could even name 5 other shortstops in the league... and things got pretty heated.
At one point in the argument he muttered 7 words that pushed me over the top. "You don't know what you're talking about". WOW. That ticked me off so much that I knew I would end up making a large scene if I responded and probably making my fellow classmates think I'm nuts, so I just kept my mouth shut after that.
Bottomline is, it's people like this that are really going to ruin the Pirate fan experience when the team starts winning. I can guarantee that when the Pirates put it together and have a winning season or are in a playoff race, this kid will immediately jump on the bandwagon and start saying "Yeah, I've followed the team all my life" and act like a real fan. It's people like this that have ruined the Pittsburgh Penguins for me.
All my roommate does is bash the Pirates. He's a big baseball fan and he watches the games with me, however he only has bad things to say. The only guy he doesn't say bad things about is Garrett Jones, and then he acts like I'm stupid when I tell him that Jones is 29 years old and this year is more likely than not a fluke. Garrett Jones will not have another year like he is having now. It would be different if he was 23 or 24, like my roommate thought he was, however he is not. Garrett has been great for the Pirates, I like him as a player on this team for the next couple years, however he is not a part of the long-term future like an Andrew McCutchen or Pedro Alvarez.
I think I like being a Pirate fan better when I just focus on the stuff myself or go to games with the handful of people I know that actually understand baseball and the rebuilding process.
Can anybody relate?
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