Bob Nutting

Pittsburgh’s mayor is not hiding the ball on this one. Acrisure Stadium and PNC Park both need work, and Corey O’Connor says Pittsburgh stadium public funding belongs in the conversation. His logic is simple enough. The city pulls tax money out of those two buildings, so keeping them standing is good for everybody. Fine. Both...

MLB owners are ready to cancel the whole 2027 season and I hope they do it. I’m a Pirates fan. What the hell are you threatening me with? This is what baseball needs, a cap and a floor. A real MLB salary floor, not the soft one these guys just put on paper. Some of...

There’s no way this is a serious team. That’s the only conclusion I’ve got after reading Bob Nightengale’s report on the Pirates trade deadline plan, which is apparently to be aggressive, as long as being aggressive costs zero extra dollars. What do you mean you want to be aggressive at the deadline but you’re not...

Bryce Harper sat in a chair holding a bat last July while Rob Manfred talked to the Phillies about baseball’s economics. Harper sat quiet for most of the hour. Then he stood up, walked toward the middle of the room, and told the commissioner to get out of his clubhouse if the MLB salary cap...

A Pirates Mike Trout trade needs to happen. Not explore it. Not ask around about it as a box-checking exercise. Go get him. I know how that sounds. I’m not walking it back. The Pirates are 10-7 and sitting in first place in the NL Central right now. Paul Skenes is the best pitcher in...

Every winter, MLB teams start talking spicy. “We’re going to be aggressive.”“We have the resources.”“We know we have to do more.” If you are a Pirates fan, you have heard this monologue on loop. President Travis Williams says Bob Nutting has opened the wallet. Ben Cherington keeps dropping “aggressive offseason” buzzwords. Agents hear that Pittsburgh...

When the air downtown felt electric, fireworks blew over the Allegheny, and black and gold wasn’t just a color. It was a damn identity. You could feel it in your chest. The Super Bowl was expected. The Cup was realistic. The city moved different. 2009, 2016, 2017. We were alive. That’s gone. Long gone. Now...