Friday Insider
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13.9KPiratesFriday Insider: What’s Nutting thinking?
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:00 AM September 1, 2017Bob Nutting owns the Pirates now, and he's going to continue owning for the foreseeable future. I've had countless people in the know confirm that emphatically.
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13.9KzFridayInsiderFriday Insider: Pirates never had ‘appetite’ to be sellers at deadline
in DenverPOSTED: 12:00 AM July 21, 2017So, the Pirates are now bound to be buyers, right? Sure looks that way.
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8.0KzFridayInsiderFriday Insider: Searage monitors Gerrit’s boiling emotions ‘to the extreme’
in PhiladelphiaPOSTED: 12:00 AM July 7, 2017Gerrit Cole often looks like he has a subdued rage on the mound, and those emotions do pour out from time to time.
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7.4KPiratesFriday Insider: Cutch’s hitting coach says ‘it’s not going to happen overnight’
in AtlantaPOSTED: 12:00 AM May 26, 2017Andrew McCutchen spoke with complete confidence Wednesday at SunTrust Park that he knows the issue behind his latest slump.
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8.7KPiratesFriday Insider: Is Glasnow ready? He’s got the gifts, for sure, but …
in Bradenton, Fla.POSTED: 12:01 AM March 31, 2017For all the questions still swirling in the Pirates' camp, even now that they're up in Quebec, the one that continues to tower above all is that of Tyler Glasnow.
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11.9KPenguinsFriday Insider: The brilliantly diagrammed play
in Edmonton, AlbertaPOSTED: 1:32 AM March 10, 2017Ever since the Friday Insider was born, we've offered news, other inside information and various stuff behind the scenes.
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15.3KPiratesFriday Insider: Liriano trade angered people inside, outside Pirates’ walls
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:01 AM September 30, 2016Since being traded to the Blue Jays -- sorry, dumped to the Blue Jays -- Francisco Liriano has made 10 appearances, including eight starts, and he's posted a 2.92 ERA.
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15.2KPiratesFriday Insider: What’s future of Pirates’ front office, Hurdle?
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:01 AM September 16, 2016When any team goes through a collapse at the level of these Pirates, careening miles out of the contention they knew less than a month ago, it isn’t just about...
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13.0KPiratesFriday Insider: The Pirates’ Bermuda Triangle
in MiamiPOSTED: 2:35 PM August 5, 2016It seldom takes more than a few seconds from the time the Pirates do something stupid until my text alerts go into a tizzy, so I wasn't surprised Monday.
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1.7KPenguinsFriday Insider: Callups were anger management
in Raleigh, N.C.POSTED: 12:00 AM February 12, 2016RALEIGH, N.C. — They say good decisions are rarely made in anger. They can be wrong. A few weeks ago, shortly before the Penguins fired Mike Johnston, much noise was being...
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1.3KPenguinsFriday Insider: The jolt that jumpstarted Kessel
at Consol Energy CenterPOSTED: 12:02 AM January 22, 2016Contrary to widespread public perception, the Penguins can be tough on their stars. Oh, it’s not that they’ll outright torment Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin or anyone else in the core. There would...
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Steelers
Friday Insider: He’d leave it all to serve again
in PittsburghPOSTED: 12:00 AM January 8, 2016Alejandro Villanueva and the Steelers will stride in unison onto the Paul Brown Stadium turf Saturday night, seeking a playoff victory that would bury a reviled rival and, perhaps, propel...
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2.1KPiratesFriday Insider: And the Pirates’ cash will go to?
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:00 AM December 4, 2015The Pirates have saved roughly $17 million via A.J. Burnett’s retirement and Pedro Alvarez’s release, and they’ve theoretically still got the $12 million salary they’d have been delighted to commit...
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1.3KPiratesFriday Insider: Pirates’ losses no coincidence
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:19 AM October 30, 2015Narratives abound about why the Pirates have been successful the past three years, some of them silly (defensive shifts and pitch-framing!) and some of them flat-out wrong (their oft-cited drafting...
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1.1KSteelersFriday Insider: Steelers loud, proud of Butler
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:14 AM October 16, 2015It’s gone from a whisper to a roar. Not so long ago, it was completely uncool inside the Steelers’ locker room to diminish in any way anything related to Dick...
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Penguins
Friday Insider: The salvation that is Sprong
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:02 AM September 25, 2015Daniel Sprong won’t break camp with the Penguins. That’s not hot news as much as it is common sense. Terrific as the franchise’s top pick in this past NHL Draft...
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1.4KSteelersFriday Insider: No bitterness for Beachum
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:05 AM September 18, 2015For all the fuss kicked up with the Steelers’ opener in Foxborough a week ago, from headsets to head-shaking playcalls, what might have gotten lost is something of potentially great...
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1.4KPenguinsFriday Insider: Dupuis 'won't hide' illness again
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:02 AM August 28, 2015CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — “The smile would be there either way, even if I was just with my family and not playing hockey. It’s just that it’s a little wider...
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1.7KSteelersFriday Insider: Tomlin takes charge … and how
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:03 AM August 21, 2015LATROBE, Pa. — For a coach who claims to not care in the slightest about public perception of the Steelers, Mike Tomlin sure does care a lot about … well,...
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1.9KPiratesFriday Insider: Pirates' players expected more
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:02 AM August 7, 2015The Pirates’ players aren’t exactly pouting. They aren’t about to pick up their bats and balls and stomp home in disgust. But that shouldn’t be taken to mean they’re delighted...
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1.3KPiratesFriday Insider: No love among Pirates for shifts
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:02 AM July 31, 2015Clint Hurdle has a term for when the Pirates buy in to a concept the coaches are preaching. He calls it, cleverly enough, ‘buy-in.’ Like a noun. More often than...
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1.8KPiratesFriday Insider: They were all (Pittsburgh) stars
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:02 AM July 24, 2015KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Upon visiting certain cities on the sporting circuit, I’ll find a favorite spot and make sure to stop each time. Here, for me, that’s always the...
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1.6KPenguinsFriday Insider: Mario will make his money
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:01 AM July 17, 2015The primary objective of the Penguins’ sale, according to two sources involved in the process, is this simple: Get Mario Lemieux the payday of his lifetime. And that means, according...
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Penguins
Friday Insider: Rutherford shows who’s boss
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:01 AM July 3, 2015Jim Rutherford had a boss kind of week. And not just because of the Phil Kessel trade, though it’s become almost universal consensus continent-wide that he pulled off an absolute...
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1.8KSteelersFriday Insider: Butler playbook back to basics
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:01 AM June 19, 2015BY DEJAN KOVACEVIC No, the Steelers’ new defensive playbook won’t fit on the front of an index card. That’s why Cam Heyward, among others in the fold, have bristled when...
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1.7KSteelersFriday Insider: The real reason James is back
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:01 AM June 12, 2015BY DEJAN KOVACEVIC The real reason James Harrison was brought back by the Steelers wasn’t to be anybody’s ‘mentor,’ no matter how often that term has been tossed around by...