Jack Flash

You know sometimes every sane person asks himself about the Pirates, 'Here we go again'..

Recap

What a game. Maholm was unreal as expected-- Should have had at least 15 W's last year if not for the league leading 9 leads the bullpen blew for him. Left too many runners on base early, i think like 7 through 3 innings and it came back to hurt in the bottom of the 3rd when Andy LaRoche forgets that he just had a month to work on that exact play in Florida.. probably had snow in his eye.. twice. Gave up a few but didnt get killed with the big inning, could have been a lot worse if one of those ropes headed for a gap. Double play saves our ass.
Got a couple in the 6th, to tie it up but Maholm buzz-killed with a really bad base running mistake that would have given McLouth an opportunity with runners on 2nd and 3rd.
The 8th was bad from the 1st pitch to Ludwick, Homer- Pop Out- Walk; Captain America comes in relief and right away gives up a single- Sac fly which should have never happened except Brandon Moss had a throw that would piss off a high school coach-- (A 4 bouncer. From about 150 feet. Really Brandon.. wow)
Then the 9th, a first pitch Sanchez double immediately puts the tying run at the plate for the heart of our order.-- McLouth K's and Doumit grounded out. LaRoche awakens from his hibernation a month beore usual and decides to get a cluth hit.-- 4-3. Hinske Doubles and Moss gets plunked to load the bases for Flash. Double to the wall scores 3.
Capps closes it out without much trouble.
Gametime.

Stats

• Nyjer: 3-5, 2 R.B.I.'s, Looks phenomenal in the new Gray Uni's
• Doumit: 0-5, 5 L.O.B., Ugh
• Flash: 1-5, 3 R.B.I.'s, 2 K's
• W- Captain America (1)
• L- Motte
• S- Capps (1)
  

Miscellaneous

• Pujols is Insane.. so good
• Wainwright threw a ton of pitches-- Maholm didn't
• Cardinals Bullpen may be worse than ours
  
• Remember Scott Spezio.. now he was a tool
  

McLouth Signs

• Buccos signed All-Star McLouth today to avoid arbitration. McLouth signed through 2011 with a club option for 2012
  
• Club Option for 2012 is $10.65 Million
• Incentive Bonuses for the total contract could reach a total of $1.25 mil.

With the signing of Doumit, Maholm and now McLouth, it finally seems as if there is a light at the end of the tunnel, but at the end of the day does this really make that big of a difference in the short term?. Realistically, there is little if no chance of us winning for the next few years and so the signing of these three players may sound great at first but when Alvarez, Bryan Morris, Brad Lincoln are all in Pittsburgh in about 3 years is the core of our team even going to be signed then? Would we want these three signed then? These are all questions going into these signings but at the time it may look promising.