A case of the Mondays

If you can believe it, it's hard to find news about the Pirates here on a rainy Monday after a bad Pirates loss, especially since we can't lose 100 now. Anyways the Pirates notebook today in the PG details the "hard work" ahead for DL. You know, starting off with naming a new puppet to sit in the dugout, followed by attempts to justify not playing Brad "12 big league homers in his first 168 big league at bats" Eldred full time next year, mostly due to his strikeouts. I don't understand how throwing money at a first baseman will help the problem, what with Craig Wilson already around and Eldred hopefully improving a lot over the winter. He also states that we need help with right handed relievers, either because Rick White, Jose Mesa, and Brian Meadows are going to be free agents or because Rick White, Jose Mesa, and Brian Meadows were our main righties out of the pen this year.

Also, a friend of mine sent along this link from a Red Sox fan message board, the famous "Sons of Sam Horn", in which they discuss Dale Sveum as a manager. Some people say bad things, some say good things, everyone else just wants him out of the third base coaching box. It has some pretty good insight on what he's done the past couple years.