I was 19 when I had my first full-time job as a journalist. I’ll be 59 in October, and I’ve seen, heard and done a lot. I’m not sure if the 40-year anniversary has passed yet or not, but there is one thing I’m certain of: In those four decades, I have never met another sports writer quite like Dan
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Baseball season begins today. Hope springs eternal they say, except in Pittsburgh, where grumbling about owner Bob Nutting’s thriftiness has become the de rigueur social take. The Pirates will start the season with a $73 million payroll, or about $150 million or so less than the world champion Boston Red Sox. And it will go down significantly in late July
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It was just over a year ago, a January day in 2018 that the Pirates traded Andrew McCutchen to the San Francisco Giants, that I swore I was done being a Pirates fan. I ranted, raved and vented, and said I’d become a fan of a new team. Eventually, I said I was going to become a fan of the
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