True Piracy

Dejan Kovacevic describes the awesome speechifying of Steve Blass.

Byung-Hyun Kim

The Pirates continue their quest for that diversity of pitching styles and arm slot by signing Kim. Here's the PG report.

He used to be a great sleeper. Literally--when he was a rookie, he slept all the time.

Pirates 1, Braves 0

Adam LaRoche puts one on the scoreboard.

First full squad workout today. That and other synapses in Dejan Kovacevic's paper there I just linked.

Doumit

Dejan Kovacevic notes he continues to wear the tools of ignorance.

Good talker

Dejan Kovacevic reports that Mientkiewicz is a good talker.

The report also notes that he named his son Steel--after John Russell's son.

Steel is pretty cool name.

That's a shot of instant badass for any little boy.