bugsandcranks.com - 11/25/2008
—
Talk about change.When Dave Littlefield and Kevin McClatchy ran the Pirates, I’m not sure there were scouts assigned to cover Indiana. With Frank Coonelly and Neal Huntington running the show now, there’s word today that the Pirates have signed two pitchers from India to minor ...
walkoffwalk.com - 11/24/2008
—
walkoffwalk.com —
My favorite new Japanese baseball blog NPB Tracker
has the biggest and best news of the week...
: the Pittsburgh Pirates have signed our favorite Indian contest winners Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel to minor league contracts! Hopefully, this means ...
(more)
Baseball Yatra is Great Success: Pirates Sign Rinku and ...
walkoffwalk.com - 11/25/2008
—
walkoffwalk.com —
That's a screenshot of MLB.com as of 7:30PM
EST, displaying our Indian heroes in all their glory....
They're the top story because Pittsburgh Pirates general manager Neal Huntington has made it official : Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel are now ...
(more)
Neal Huntington Makes It Official: Rinku and Dinesh Are ...
bugsandcranks.com - 11/25/2008
—
bugsandcranks.com —
As an Indian-American, it baffles me how weak
we are as a people in sports. While the...
Chinese have managed to develop a machine that wins gold medal after gold medal, and even has managed to develop talent good enough for American sports with their 6 ...
(more)
1 billion people can’t be athletes…or can they?
Busted Coverage: Booze, Ladies And Football: Daily Dump: Lions Fans Need #12 Jersey, Idaho Coach Beating Now On Video, Blogger Boasts About Maui, British WAG Sleeping Around, Eva Roob Shows Why Career Changed & Jessical Biel Poses
Bugs & Cranks: Rounding The Bases: Andy, Andy, Axel, Barry, Bambi, CC, & Dinesh Go To White Castle
Comments
Blog Reactions
Daily Dump: Lions Fans Need #12 Jersey, Idaho Coach Beating Now On Video, Blogger Boasts About Maui, British WAG Sleeping Around, Eva Roob Shows Why Career Changed & Jessical Biel Poses
Busted Coverage: Booze, Ladies And Football —
... The Idaho football coach beatdown video is now available [Machochip]
Blogger not impressed with Bob Knight’s pronunciations [The Big Picture]
Awesome photo dump from blogger at Maui Invitational [Rumors and Rants]
Predict when Raptors coach gets fired, win some money [Cuzoogle]
British WAG can’t stop bedding down soccer players [SbB]
Don’t these guys belong behind a phone instead of 2-run lead? [Bugs and Cranks]
We’re not sure what the hell this is but it was ...
Rounding The Bases: Andy, Andy, Axel, Barry, Bambi, CC, & Dinesh Go To White Castle
Bugs & Cranks —
So we haven’t covered it much here on B&C but the Pirates signed these two pitchers from India…. Shinsano’s got a scouting report on both of them. [eastWINDUPchronicle]
Those pitchers from India got to meet The G-POPE Barry Bonds and they were super-psyched! They also mentioned The G-POPE’s hunting skills. [theMILLIONdollarARMblog] [via beyondTHEboxscore]
Sensational Cartoon: THE G-POPE vs. BAMBI [sfGATE]
Play Name That Kaufman! [538]
Preview of CC ...
Power. This Whole F-in Thing’s About Power.
Bugs & Cranks —
... As beat writer Dejan Kovacevik points out, Turnbow would be the fourth pitcher acquired by Huntington in less than a year that’s noted for having a power arm but lacking control (along with Tyler Yates, Denny Bautista and Evn Meek - and anyone who saw Evan Meek pitch last year knows that lacking may be putting it mildly). I might add Phil Dumatrait to that list as well, but I’m not sure he his arm is quite as god as the other guys. Heck, even Dinesh Patel and Rinku Singh can do little but throw a baseball relatively hard, and the Pirates were willing to ...
Pirates Sign Iraqi Shoe Thrower
Bugs & Cranks —
... , there has never been an Iraqi-born player in the Majors. Earlier this offseason, the Pirates signed a South African shortstop and two Indian pitchers. ...
WBC All First Round Team
Bugs & Cranks —
Never ones to let excellence go unrespekanized, Bugs & Cranks honors the 11 men who played better at their positions when it counted than anyone else in the first round of the 2009 World Baseball Classic:
1B Adrian Gonzalez, Mexico (Padres)
In two games with Mexico facing elimination, Gonzalez drove in 7 runs while the games were still within 3 runs or less.
2B Gift Ngoepe, South Africa (Pirates, signed last October at age 18)
In the first three innings of South ...
Related Content
It's in the Minors
bucsdugout.com 1/7/2009 —
Why didn't the Pirates just give this guy seventeen million? (Photo: Scott Ableman)
I can't blame any fan for being frustrated with the Pirates' losing ways, because we're all frustrated. But I still find this letter a little annoying.
I ...
WHYGAVS/Bucs Dugout Crossovers: Looking at the rotation
whygavs.com 10/13/2008 — After looking at the hitters a couple of weeks ago , Charlie from Bucs Dugout and I discuss the state of the starting rotation as we head in to Neal Huntington's second winter. Paul Maholm WHYGAVS: Maholm did a great job increasing strikeouts and ...
The End of a Grand Experiment
shysterball.blogspot.com 12/3/2008 — In the normal course I would never devote a post to the fact that a terrible, eighth-year pitcher has declared minor league free agency. Most terrible, eighth-year pitchers who declare minor league free agency, however, aren't John Van Benschoten . ...
The Pittsburgh Pirates signed two athletes from India. - MLB - SI.com
sportsillustrated.cnn.com 11/25/2008 — PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The Pittsburgh Pirates hope Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel really do have million-dollar arms. The two 20-year-old pitchers, neither of whom had picked up a baseball until earlier this year, signed free-agent contracts Monday with the ...
So like the Royals... Three Years Ago- A Chat With Bucs Dugout
royalsreview.com 1/28/2009 — Bucs Dugout has always been one of my favorite baseball blogs. Like me, Charlie Wilmoth joined the SB Nation empire in the summer of 2005 (BD launched about a month after Royals Review) and because of the obvious similarities between the Pirates and ...
Pirates-Mets good trade match...
metsfever.blogspot.com 12/1/2008 — I think Pittsburgh would be the perfect place for Aaron Heilman to begin his starting pitching career, for you Pirates fans seeing this and checking in, not because I'm trying to dump him on you. I believe Heilman has the potential to be a solid ...
We Are Now Pirates!!!
themilliondollararm.com 11/26/2008 — Special blog from both Rinku and Dinesh… On November 24, 2008, Rinku Singh and Dinesh Kumar Patel made Indian Sports History becoming the first athletes from that country to sign professional sports contracts here in the USA.
Monday our ...
Bucs Ink Indians Who’ve Never Been To Cleveland
sportsbybrooks.com 11/26/2008 — The wait is finally over. Our favorite Indian pitching hopefuls, Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel — who we have followed throughout their journey to America — have been signed to a minor league contract by the Pittsburgh Pirates. Makes sense. Nothing ...
Stupidity + Failure = Pirates New Uniforms
pabaseball.blogspot.com 1/29/2009 — So these are the new uniforms the Pirates will be wearing to lose 100 games during the 2009 MLB season. Here are my first impressions: - Generally speaking, I'm disappointed. - I like the grey road uni, especially when the player sports high socks ...
Pirates on lookout for bullpen help | pirates.com: News
pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com 12/18/2008 — PITTSBURGH -- They won't be the highest profile of names, but there are a number of relievers that Pirates general manager Neal Huntington continues to pursue as he looks to add to his bullpen options for 2009. Currently, the Pirates have most of ...
Pirates sign 2 Indian pitchers (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 11/25/2008
The Pittsburgh Pirates hope Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel really do have million-dollar arms. The two 20-year-old pitchers, neither of whom had picked up a baseball until earlier this year, signed free-agent contracts Monday with the Pirates. ...
