RIP Syd Thrift

Syd Thrift, the architect of the only three good Pirate teams I've ever seen in my life as well as the man that executed the trade that brought the namesake of this blog to Pittsburgh, has died at the age of 77. He never matched the success he had here in Pittsburgh anywhere else, but Larry Doherty, Ted Simmons, Cam Bonifay, and Dave Littlefield have all miserably failed to live up to the job that Syd did in the 80s.