Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Matt Morris grudgmatch part deux

Somehow within his first five weeks as a Pirate, Matt Morris gets to make a start against each of his old teams. This kind of feels like when the Steelers cut someone on Monday and their opponent for the weekend picks the guy up and adds him to the practice squad on Tuesday or something like that. Except that Morris is making eight figures and not going anywhere next Monday. Tonight he faces another one of the Cardinals reclamation projects of 2007, Joel Piniero who's been decidedly not bad with St. Louis this year. You may recall Piniero was on the Pirates' radar this year. Hindsight's 20/20 and all, but let's watch him tonight and compare him to the Tony Armas experience. I've got a feeling I know how this will turn out...