Pirates fan's hilarious moment fakes out camera crew, sends message to Bob Nutting

For nearly a year, pleas from Pittsburgh Pirates fans begging principal owner Bob Nutting to sell the team have fallen on deaf ears. Still, those fans won't be deterred.

According to multiple posts on social media, one intrepid Pirates fan pulled a fast one on the PNC Park camera crew during Tuesday's series opener against the Los Angeles Dodgers when she held up a sign that read, in both English and Japanese, "I flew 23 hours to be here." However, as soon as the cameras spotted her and showed her on the jumbotron, she flipped the sign over to the other side, which read, "Hey Bob, sell the team!"

Needless to say, the camera quickly panned away after that.

Pirates fan's hilarious moment fakes out camera crew, sends message to Bob Nutting

Tuesday night was merely the latest of several incidences of frustrated Pirates fans trying to send a message to Nutting and the front office.

There have been chants during games. There have been organized protests. There have been t-shirts. There have been billboards. There have even been planes flying over PNC Park. The message behind each one is the same: Pirates fans are fed up with losing baseball, and if Nutting isn't going to spend more on team payroll to field a better product, they want him to sell.

Even national reporters and pundits like ESPN's Pat McAfee and Jeff Passan have lent their voices to the cause, arguing that Nutting is wasting a golden opportunity by refusing to spend the necessary funds to build a competitive team – specifically, a competitive offense – around reigning National League Rookie of the Year and Cy Young frontrunner Paul Skenes. But Nutting hasn't said or done anything to indicate that he's caving to the outside pressure.

Pittsburgh fans are passionate. They want to go to the ballpark and cheer for their baseball team. Unfortunately, Nutting hasn't given them much of a reason to – so they go to the ballpark anyway but use it as an opportunity to make their voices heard and their displeasure known, because their passion hasn't been reciprocated.