Manny's Marauders

I was looking over a lot of articles this morning about the "Pirate Sale", mainly ones by Bob Smizik and Ron Cook of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and i was disgusted with the lack of respect they give to the pirates organization. They continue to blame the current management and ownership on the mistakes of the one before them. All they talk about is how much we don't spend on free agents well, to tell you the truth, that what we should be doing. The pirates are not one player away from going to the world series they are a young group of players with a lot of potential and need time to grow as a team. they slam the pirates every chance they get with them not signing "big name" free agents that would make the team "better". Their two favorite teams in town the steelers and penguins(because they're winning) are who they want the pirates to look up to in the way of spending. Well if that there example then they are actually proving the pirates write. First the steelers, they sign maybe one free agent a year if that and basically spend there money on re-signing the players they have and they can do this because they are one of the best drafting teams in the NFL, well if I'm not mistaken that's what the pirates are currently doing by drafting well and infusing the farm system with talent and when the time comes to resign these players they will and in turn will raise the payroll. There other example is the penguins, who up until the past few years ] had the lowest payroll in hockey and one,if not he worst, team in the NHL but the built the team up through the draft and now resigned there top players with multi-year contracts and since there winning, sign free agents and now have a pretty big payroll, hmm that sounds like the pirates plan also. On the opposite side of the spectrum you have the mets who have one of the biggest payroll's in the national league and in my opinion are worse off then the pirates. To end my rant i will leave the people who still don't believe me with something to chew on, how do you know that they will come in here in doing the "right" thing and resurrect the pirates or will they just sign free agents to big money contracts and trade away prospects for big names to please the moaning minority who just cares about payroll and in turn ruin the franchise, in my mind you having to give nutting and co. a chance for there plan to work and don't blame them for past blunders