One more entrant into the ring...

The Pirates blogosphere's very own Bones (of HW) has declared that he is in fact available to manage the Pirates next year! He's currently about as qualified as or more qualified than at least Tekulve and Mackanin. Bones does illustrate his point perfectly of course, this is getting ridiculous. It seems like just about anyone with any assosciation at all to the Pirates has made themselves a candidate while Dave Littlefield has said nothing. Hey, where's Chico Lind? What about Zane Smith? No word yet if the guy that plays the saxaphone on the bridge is interested.

Also Gene Collier wrote a column (on Sunday, I'm a bit late here, I know) about how Leyland isn't a good fit for the Pirates for reasons like price, the flocking of failed Pirates managers to PNC that his hiring would bring about (Lamont and maybe even McClendon would be on his staff), the price tag, his patience with our situation, etc. etc. Of course, he argues, Danny Murtaugh's dead, so no one is a perfect fit.