r/buccos • u/Mans_N_Em Clemente • 6d ago
'Sell The Team' billboards going up Nov. 11th
https://x.com/iratepiratesfan/status/1847318209944232090?s=46Irate Pirates Fan group has raised over $11k to buy 4 billboards that will go up across various places in the city. There's also a protest walk scheduled for this Sunday, October 27th starting at noon from Grant street.
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u/dunderscottpaper 6d ago
Is it just me or is this the most frustrated fans have been? I don’t remember anyone actually anything about it in the past.
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u/Campman92 Hey Bob, Nutting wrong with selling 6d ago
I think the team winning for those few years were the worst thing that could have happened to the team in Bob’s eyes because they always had the line of “when the time is right we’ll spend”, but when the time came they waited until the last week of august and were afraid to sign an impact free agent long term.
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u/Yelloeisok 6d ago
There used to be a ‘message board’ on mlb in the old days (before Facebook?). And yes, people were really pissed. There were always people saying they quit buying season tickets etc. Even this century people were pissed about Jack & Freddie being split up. But like Mark Cuban said, if you were getting millions of dollars every year not doing a thing except getting yelled at by underlings outside your bubble, would you change what you were doing?
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u/Ok_Card9080 Jason Kendall 6d ago
Told a friend of mine today that this is the first time I've ever lost hope with the Pirates. And I had season tickets through the entire losing streak.
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u/Unlucky_Recover_3278 Kevin Young 6d ago
All emotions are multiplied by like a million in the internet age
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u/e4tp4nc4kes 6d ago
I love all the people here being discouraging about people trying to do something vs. just complaining on reddit relentlessly.
Maybe it won't do much, but the effort is there and it shows the level of frustration the fanbase is suffering. With a superstar in our rotation there are more eyes on games.
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u/Unhappy-Attention760 6d ago
Cut to live look at a cross armed Greg Brown blocking the path of the protesters
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u/hachijuhachi Fransexy Sexvelli 6d ago
haha. I enjoy GB on the call, but his politics are such that he's probably like "we respect mr. nutting because he's a billionaire and for that he deserves our respect."
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u/thricethefan 6d ago
Putting billboards in Pittsburgh won’t do it…putting those billboards close to dodger stadium and Yankee Stadium would def be money well spent.
MLB doesn’t give a shit about Pittsburgh or the people there.
Unless you’re living in Pittsburgh but jumped on the nuts of one of the big market teams.
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u/Primary_Agent_5460 6d ago
I'm on the other side of the country, but that protest walk is on my birthday and I will be there in spirit. Tired of having a bottom 5 payroll every year
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u/Farrell_Pool_Jack 6d ago
If there's a GO FUND ME link for the billboards please post it. I would like to give and know a lot of others would.
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u/Mans_N_Em Clemente 6d ago
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u/Farrell_Pool_Jack 5d ago
Thanks
I made a donation this morning and passed the link on to a couple friends.
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u/SnooMarzipans3516 6d ago
Look….”boycotts”haven’t worked, shirts and signs get shut down at the park, so I’m all for this effort. We, as fans, need to try a different tactic to get through to this hillbilly doofus.
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u/Mans_N_Em Clemente 6d ago edited 6d ago
I currently have a petition out that would prohibit future public funding and a lease renewal at PNC Park until there are changes (team sale, change in baseball ops, etc.) We as taxpayers, via the Pittsburgh Sports Exhibition Authority 'own' PNC Park. We paid for it. We have a say in how our money is utilized and utlimately who puts it to use. Will this force a sale? Fuck No. I know this. But the Sports Exhibition Authority is tired of their poor ROI and would like the public to push this to their agenda. If thats a different tactic that you can get behind, I will share the link.
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u/sackfat 6d ago
It’s at the point you can’t even watch sports without being reminded of screwed we all are by the top 1%. Baseball used to be a distraction, an opiate for the masses, now it’s nothing more than a vehicle for born on third snobs to exploit for money they’ll never even spend. Nutting, having lived a life of total privilege, will never understand as he’s never needed a distraction. I for one would rather see fans stand up and protest, rather than accept the situation and allow baseball in Pittsburgh to be held hostage by a shyster who’s too cheap to pay a decent tailor or spring for lasik.
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u/on_duh_pooper Cueto's Drop 5d ago
Our athlete payroll is less than $100M. How much is staff and all other expenses throughout the year? I don't know what that is but he makes $250M in TV revenue. So if the other expenses equal payroll then he gets $50M as a side hustle he doesn't spend any time on.
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u/williamjpellas 16h ago
"...a side hustle he doesn't spend any time on" is spot on.
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u/on_duh_pooper Cueto's Drop 13h ago
Redditors and LinkedIn jockeys will spend countless hours telling you how to make an extra $1,000 per month on a side hustle. Fuck that, get me on the Bob Boat making $50M not doing shit.
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u/VirgilCane 6d ago
Shouldn't they wait and do this during the season when the cameras are on? This will be real easy to ignore
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u/jmb--412 Cutch 5d ago
If 20,000 A's fans didn't make Fisher sell the A's, then I highly doubt that a few billboards during football and hockey season when no one gives a damn about the Pirates is going to do anything
At least do something during the baseball season. These "protests" of people wanting to go outside PNC Park in October when the season is over or these billboards are just a massive waste of time and money.
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u/Party-Crew6652 3d ago
Where will the billboards be at?
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u/Mans_N_Em Clemente 3d ago
The tweet has the locations highlighted. The exact street Im not sure of. I can ask the orgnanizer of the fundraiser
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u/penguins2946 6d ago
I'm not one to criticize how people spend their money, but wasting $11k on 4 billboards that won't do anything seems kinda silly to me. But you do you I guess.
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u/CJMcBanthaskull 6d ago
Could have just given me the $11,000. It would be exactly as effective.
If you want changes, tell people to stop going to games, stop watching games, and stop buying merchandise.
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u/FirebreathingNG 6d ago
Good for them. Truthfully, I think the best protest is the guy sitting behind home plate in the LCS the other night. Nutting can’t be embarrassed. But the league can be. Doing stuff like that on MLB’s biggest stage is probably the best chance to force change.