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Ian Snell and Taylor Buchholz at seven eastern. As for this comment from Ed Eagle : Whatever it is that separates winning teams from losing...

Zach Duke and a fish called Wandy at eight eastern.

Hey - " What's wrong with you people, anyway? " Dejan Kovacevic takes the John Perrotto suggestion one step further: all this...

Breaking story : TAMPA, Fla. -- Former outfielder Derek Bell was charged with felony cocaine possession, police said Thursday. Bell, 37, wa...

So the Bucs hit the anticpated one-day break with a record of 5-12. And a lot of guys are injured. Yikes.

Chris Carpenter and Victor Santos at noon-thirty eastern.

Wilson is on pace for 40 errors. And 40 walks in 570 at-bats. Also 101 runs, 101 RBI, 10 steals, and 41 home runs. Curious start . I'm p...

Great day for baseball. Should be clear and in the sixties when Oliver Perez battles dead arm at seven eastern.

One of my favorite kinds of sports writing is the essay that blames the fans for the team's poor performance. The same people who compla...

The Bucs are bobbing along at six games under .500, the winners of four games in their last eight. Much of the good in the past week came fr...

Alan Robinson on the Pirates' coming decision on Ian Snell .

Glendon Rusch and Ian Snell at 1:35pm eastern. With the win yesterday, the Pirates are 4-9, five games under .500.

Yesterday, Cubs blog The Cub Reporter had a piece titled "What You Need to Know About the Pirates" . Overall, it's a fair su...

Casey's fractures are in a transverse process of one his lower back vertebrae. Not good. No surgery, but out 6-8 weeks. DK points out ...

From DK's pre-Duke Saturday notebook : "Josh Fogg, released by the Pirates in December, is 2-0 with a 4.67 ERA for the Colorado Roc...

Jerome Williams leads the 6-3 Chicago team against Zach Duke and the 3-9 Pirates.

Get well, Sean . Good thing we've still got Craig Wilson . Update (5:20 PM): Casey out for up to two months with two fractures in his ...

The Cubs start a nine-game road trip tonight, and they've arranged their rotation so they burn none of their top starters on the Pirates...

From the comments in the previous thread. If you don't read the comments to this blog, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good...

Jody Gerut checks out . File this one under Mysteries. Anyone care to figure out who is in the right, who is in the wrong, or what the team ...