It's all for PR

Oops, guess this one started at 1:15 instead of 1:35, so we're already in progress here. Shawn Chacon will attempt to show the Yankees up for trading him (yeah right), while the Yankees will sent Tyler Clippard to try and hold the Pirates under 7 runs and get the Yankees a win today. Oh, look at that, Bobby Abreu just tripled. Sheesh.

Anyways, does anyone want to bet against a Masumi Kuwata/Hideki Matsui matchup. I was mystified as to why the Pirates would call a guy up just off the DL to fill a spot in our already awful bullpen until Greg Brown mentioned that Kuwata and Matsui were teammates in the 90s on the Yomiuri Giants and a matchup between the two of them would be huge news in Japan. And that's why we did it. Not to strengthen the bullpen, but to get on the front pages in Japan. Typical Pirates crap.