Pittsburgh Pirates OF Jose Tabata Is Like Toothpaste?

Fourth is better than sixth.

thanks, Eugene, (or should i call you dr. obvious) ....yes, 4th is better than 6th, and if you are happy with a 4th place team, you can root for the cubs. The Bucs have finished 4th in 2002 and 03, yet nobody thinks of those days as good times. I expect a contender; as I am old enough to remember that this franchise, in the right hands, can produce winners, and for more than one year at a time. You missed the bigger point: Mr. Hurdle took a contending team and made it a losing team every year, save one; and that year it took a miracle finish. He is merely another excuse to folks to give ownership a pass on their abject failure as stewards of this once proud franchise.

Y have been a Bucs fan for a long time. Yes those Bucco teams were great but baseball's culture was different then. Unless a Rooney like owner comes forward and could acquire the team its not going to get better any time soon.

youre just going to have to wait until the prospects start rolling in for this team to be sucessful... saying a rooney or a cuban would make a difference for this team is misguided. they would spend the same amount of money that nutting would spend: theres only one owner in baseball who spends more money than his team takes in, and thats mike illitch of the tigers. face it, the future lies with the farm system, and our FO is building up a nice one.

First that Rooney remark was sarcasm. I agree that the Bucs FO is on the right track as far as the farm system goes. If the draft goes as expcted this year the Bucs will add a highly touted prospect to the burgeoning system. That being Anthony Rendon of Rice, so the Bucs can move Pedro to firstbase in 2014.