David Littlefield vexes me

I'm making plans to go to Spring Training again this coming year, but I don't really have much hope for the 2004 season. The Pirates gave away almost all of their good players last year and in this year's Rule V draft, lost 5 out the first 6 players taken. This has led many of us to wonder why they kept three empty spots on the roster and why they would protect retreads while letting Chris Shelton and Jose Bautista go. Well, turns out we're not alone here in Pittsburgh in thinking that this makes no sense. Baseball America agrees and calls the whole mis-management "inexplicable" which may be their nice way of saying "idiotic". I agree with all their observations (cause how could you not) but I'm a little worn of the fact that being a Pirates fan means that I must accept being a fan of laughingstocks. David Littlefield claims to still be confident; I guess it's nice on the planet where he lives.

Still I was looking into buying a partial season ticket plan for this year. I found again this year, as in previous years, that I can get better seats by buying individual seats than by doing a 20-ticket plan. I usually end up buying less than 20 because it's annoying to buy that many tickets individually, so they would have done better by letting me buy my 20 in a block, but that's the Pirates for you.