Comments on: What’s The Solution? Off Season Pirates Pickups Clint Barmes and Rod Barajas Still Struggling http://rumbunter.com/2012/05/07/whats-the-solution-off-season-pirates-pickups-clint-barmes-and-rod-barajas-still-struggling/ A Pittsburgh Pirates Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Sat, 29 Dec 2012 02:45:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Tom Smith http://rumbunter.com/2012/05/07/whats-the-solution-off-season-pirates-pickups-clint-barmes-and-rod-barajas-still-struggling/#comment-1127635 Tom Smith Mon, 07 May 2012 17:52:31 +0000 http://rumbunter.com/?p=33955#comment-1127635 Hahaha! Thats a great analogy man. Hahaha! Thats a great analogy man.

]]> By: cookierojas16 http://rumbunter.com/2012/05/07/whats-the-solution-off-season-pirates-pickups-clint-barmes-and-rod-barajas-still-struggling/#comment-1127634 cookierojas16 Mon, 07 May 2012 14:50:03 +0000 http://rumbunter.com/?p=33955#comment-1127634 What a great post.  I'm not a Bucs fan -- just over here trying to find out what the hell happened to Barajas, the ballast who threatens to ground my fantasy team -- but as a Phillies fan during the 80s and 90s,  I feel your pain.  It's like buying cheap tools at the dollar store because, hey, they're only a dollar!  But the tools never work right (Greg Jeffries), even if they don't break the first time you use them (Danny Tartabull) and you wind up throwing them away and wishing you'd ponied up for Snap-On, or at least Craftsman. The dollar store approach  of building a roster works out about once a generation, and then only if you're Billy Beane. What a great post.  I’m not a Bucs fan — just over here trying to find out what the hell happened to Barajas, the ballast who threatens to ground my fantasy team — but as a Phillies fan during the 80s and 90s,  I feel your pain.  It’s like buying cheap tools at the dollar store because, hey, they’re only a dollar!  But the tools never work right (Greg Jeffries), even if they don’t break the first time you use them (Danny Tartabull) and you wind up throwing them away and wishing you’d ponied up for Snap-On, or at least Craftsman. The dollar store approach  of building a roster works out about once a generation, and then only if you’re Billy Beane.

]]> By: cookierojas16 http://rumbunter.com/2012/05/07/whats-the-solution-off-season-pirates-pickups-clint-barmes-and-rod-barajas-still-struggling/#comment-1127633 cookierojas16 Mon, 07 May 2012 14:36:16 +0000 http://rumbunter.com/?p=33955#comment-1127633 cookierojas16 cookierojas16

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