A.J. Burnett on his time in Pittsburgh and the way Pirates fans embraced him during his playing days: "I got new life coming here, and a lot of it had to do with the city. Like I said before, you got a guy coming from New York who was iffy, was pretty good, was iffy. What are we going to get? None of that was there. It was just acceptance from day one, and that just means the world to me."
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Burnett was given 'new life' with Pirates
A.J. Burnett on his time in Pittsburgh and the way Pirates fans embraced him during his playing days: "I got new life coming here, and a lot of it had to do with the city. Like I said before, you got a guy coming from New York who was iffy, was pretty good, was iffy. What are we going to get? None of that was there. It was just acceptance from day one, and that just means the world to me."
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