Thank god we are not pirate fans!

[PaulRigdon]

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/boxscore.jsp?gid=2009_04_02_macbbc_pitmlb_1

 

Losing to a junior college team? How embarrassing!

[patrickgpe]

i know they are still major league ball players but it looks like they hardly played their regulars. I remember a few years back the brewers lost to a minor league team (snappers?) and i was embarrassed too. This is much much worse. I still don't understand why the pirates schedule this game.

[Patrick425]

I don't think this is all that rare. I'm guessing you could find other times in ST where a college (or even a junior college team) beat the "major league" team. I put major league in quotes, because I'm not sure if any of those guys in Pittsburghs line up will be on the opening day roster.

[SeriesFinale]

It looks like Manatee threw their entire roster out there ("I played against a MLB team!!!") and that the Pirates did sit almost all their regulars--doesn't look like it was meant to be particulalrly competitive for either squad.

 

Worthless trivia: I took classes at MCC after transfering out of Florida State before going to Beloit College.

 

They always had a pretty good baseball team, FWIW

[pitchleague]

McCutchen was the only guy I recognized by name, but I only scanned the box score briefly.

 

Still, that's not a good morale booster, even if their better players were no where near the field.

[Mike2k33]

The saddest part is that one Pirate fan actually made a t-shirt for the game.

 

You can see it here.

 

Ouch.

[RU Rah Rah]

Holy starter-by-committee, Batman! Manatee had nine guys pitch one inning each.

[cubfan1126]

I don't think this is all that rare. I'm guessing you could find other times in ST where a college (or even a junior college team) beat the "major league" team. I put major league in quotes, because I'm not sure if any of those guys in Pittsburghs line up will be on the opening day roster.

How many guys are on the Pirates opening day roster that wouldn't be on anybody else's opening day roster? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[Invader3K]

The article makes a good point...if your team's biggest thing to brag about is beating a community college 10 years in a row, maybe you should be re-thinking what team to cheer for.

[SeriesFinale]

I am 99% certain that t-shirt was tongue-in-cheek

 

Hilarious either way.

[Legacy25GT]

Sorry, but?I can't help thinking of Dwight Schrute whenever anyone?says they're 99% sure.

[craigharmann]

How many guys are on the Pirates opening day roster that wouldn't be on anybody else's opening day roster? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Probably half of them would be propped up by the Cubs folks at the next Ryne Sandberg, Ernie Banks and Ron Santo combined! :-)

[lcbj68c]

Unfortunately, I am living back In Manatee County again. However, MCC is one hell of a junior college, making several JUCO championship tournaments in the past ten years, led by one hell of a coach in Tim Hill. I still take part-time classes at the college, economy willing, so I guess that makes me alum, kind of. "Brewers" farm system guys that have went to junior college off the top of my head include Callix Crabbe (yes that explains the man crush) and Chris Barnes. The list is more lengthy, but these are the two that I remember from my days.

[lcbj68c]

The entire list can be found here.

 

http://www.mccfl.edu/pages/658.asp

 

Brewers include Robert Hinton , Justin Barnes, Callix Crabbe, & Danny Kolb

[jeffy]

Just about anything can happen in a single game. The Netherland all-stars beating the Domincan all-stars in the WBC comes to mind, for instance.

[rluzinski]

A good community college beat a team of mostly minor leaguers. Woopy. And that T-Shirt is so obviously a joke that it's painful to read that guy get all worked up about it.