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Freddy Sanchez and the Pirates are miles apart on salary figures. Things like this tend to not end well. Everyone else on the Bucs has signed.

Charlie's look at small market GMs and how their careers started turns to what I think is the most apt comparison for the Pirates, the Brewers. It's worth noting that Doug Melvin started with more talent than the Pirates have in the minors, has done a pretty good job as a GM, and won't go to the playoffs before 2008, more than five years after he was hired.

I don't know how many of you are familiar with WearPittsburgh, but it's a website full of awesome Pittsburgh-related t-shirt designs. I am forced to link to it now as a Duquesne graduate that spent a lot of time on the South Side, because they're selling Cat on a Stick shirts. I'm not sure if the Cambodican Kitchen ever made Dejan's lists of "things that make Pittsburgh great," but it's way up there on mine.

It's now officially official: baseball can't get here soon enough.