Paul Skenes Tosses Six No-Hit Innings in Win | Pirates vs. Cubs Highlights (5/17/24) 

Home plate umpire did a terrible job. Called cutch, suwinski and Reynolds out on strikes on pitches that were clearly balls...

💯 the ump sucked ass. In fact he made Skenes pitch so many extra pitches that he may have even gotten to pitch a complete game instead of 6.

@@rags15061 totally agree however I feel it's appropriate to clarify that he sucked male ass...

Easy to say when you're at home watching the little strike zone box on the screen lol

@@ChildOfThe1970s umpires are human but the guy was way off...

Yup

And the Derek Bell curse. You think it wasn't destiny he left town on a boat like a Pirate?

Andy Haines still needs to go.

I think they're FINALLY going to spend the $$ to build. No more selling off Gerrit Coles, Tyler Glasnows ect. ect. If they pay Jones and Skenes and find some hitters they will contend. Go Buccos.

The curse of Bob Nutting

Sadly that probably won't happen if Pirates history tells us anything.

He's 21 not 41.

Well yeah Pittsburgh never seen great basketball since they don't have a professional team.

Gen X response (older than you). I would recommend editing your post from "never" to "not recently." It might be easy for people to forget that the Pirates used to be a very different type of organization, winning the 1979 World Series, 1971, 1960. I'd say that Willie Stargell and Roberto Clemente qualify as great, with Clemente on a special tier of greatness. I'm not old enough to have seen Clemente play live, but my father did watch Clemente play. The Pirates have a rich tradition that includes great baseball, but admittedly, before, you were old enough to watch the games live. By the time I was old enough (1980s) as a young child, the champion players of the 1970s were aging and past their primes. They had one last pennant chase in 1983. To borrow from a country song they weren't as good as they once were but, well, they had their moments. I was at the last Stargell game when I was a child. Sadly, people your age have not had the experience of great players in the Pirate uniforms until now (if Skenes stays healthy, he has the looks of a great pitcher). Even Bonds was before your time and he had an ugly exit, he's more associated with San Francisco. Prime McCuthen was good - even very good at his best in the 2012-2015 era - but not greatness. Something short of the Al Oliver-type tradition (Oliver was very, very good, but greatness is a special category).

I'd kill to see Pop's play, too bad he was before my time. Honestly, I wish I could see the Bucs win a WS in Cutch's last season with Jones, Keller, and Skenes but it's only a hope and a prayer on my part. It would be something great to see in my lifetime. Granted Pittsburgh has had great players from the day and great history makers as well. But if my wish happened, it would be something great for my generation at least. But it may not.@@billkerns9258

By the way, I find the Hillbilly remark a bit unnecessary. My family came from Pittsburgh to VA in the 70s and some of my family members who lived through the First World War to WWII were considered "Hillbilly." Agricultural Folk, Farmers, etc. They are what we Southerners would call Country, Redneck (because they would be working outside all day long the back of their necks would get red), or Hillbilly. Yes, they played Guitar, Mandolin, and Banjo. They were also Russian and Polish immigrants who came over the boat in the 1890s to the very early 1900s. So yes, Western Pennsylvania has its fair share of "Hillbillies" too.

@@SOLDIER_Class1_Avi Very good point. Thank you for saying it.

It will probably happen but I won't enjoy it. Pirates need to pay him big time money to keep him in the black and gold.

@@roningaijin7701hilarious take.

That shit is not happening

Don't forget Houston, or San Fran! Maybe the Red Sox. Braves would love to have him on their roster. Shoot, let's just give him to a rival team in the division! Then the Pirates can move on, and invest in bums that will guarantee finishing last or next to last every year because the front office throws away any chance to bring a championship to Pittsburgh.

Pretty sure they have five years of control on him. We will see.

And

There's been nothing to scream about in Pittsburgh for a LONG ass time. Let us SCREAM in peace.