Spin! Spin! SPIN!!!

The PG has eaten up McClatchy's assurance that:

We're serious about keeping our young players here. That's one thing we said we have to do. We have to develop players and we have to keep the right ones.

That's all well and good, except that it's not really true. Like I said yesterday, like Charlie said earlier today, all this deal does is keep Bay in Pittsburgh for the same amount of time that he HAS to be here, only for a bit less money than we would pay him were we to go to arbitration. The Bucs take on the risk that he won't get injured seriously. This is a move that was a common sense move and there's no real need for celebration because this is nothing extraordinary.

It's analogy time.

Say you have a dog, he's like 5 years old and housebroken. Then all of a sudden he starts pissing in your living room. He pees all over the carpet, all over the couch, behind the chairs. At first you think it's an accident, but it keeps happening for a week or so. You're getting exasperated; he was a good dog. You're thinking about taking him to the vet when he walks up to you, whines, and goes to the front door. You put him out and he goes in the front yard. You're incredibly excited, but you really shouldn't be. I mean, the dog was already housebroken, him going in the front yard is nothing extraordinary. You were just so tired of having the couch pissed on that this seems like a miracle. You tell him he's a good boy and you probably even give him a treat. Still, it's not like he walked into the bathroom, peed in the toilet, wiped the rim, flushed, and put the seat down because he knew your girlfriend was over. That would be extraordinary. That's not what the Pirates did. The Pirates just stopped pissing on the couch and went in the front yard for once. While it was nice to see, all they really did was use common sense, something they should've been doing for a long time now.