Thank you all so much for the amazing support you've given this documentary! Just wanted to say that I've learned how to pronounce Mike LaValliere's name since this video was made, so I apologize for the butchering of it
I was born in August of 1992, just a few months before the ‘92 NLCS. The Pirates’ next winning season came in my junior year of college. I’m glad somebody made such an inspired chronicle of those 20 years of futility. I think it made the 2013 season feel that much sweeter.
I'm sorry you missed some great teams. I was 13 for the 92 NLCS. The ONLY bright spot for game 7 was the winning run scored by longtime Pirates favorite, Sid. It was definitely crushing. Then in 2013, winning the wild card game, I'd be lying if I said I didn't shed a tear....
I can’t believe this documentary has been on TH-cam for over a year and I’m just finding it now. This is insanely well done and some incredible knowledge on the late 90’s early 2000’s Pirates! I own 219 player bobbleheads from teams all across the country, but I own 7 Pirates ones all from those mid 2000’s teams! Jason Bay, Oliver Perez, Zach Duke, Ronny Paulino, Paul Maholm, Matt Capps, and Freddy Sanchez. I loved the Freddy Sanchez story at the end of this video with what he overcame growing up to becoming an MLB Batting champion and eventually World Series champion.
Thank you for this. As a long time, die hard bucs fan, I can't help but be disgruntled by the team year after year. Alas, this stroll down memory lane reminded how I fell in love with this team growing up and why I cannot help but support them. I remember the days of little league wanting to emulate Freddie, Jack, Bay and Duke. I don't know what the next few years has in store for the buccos. I don't know if they will ever win a World Series in my lifetime, but damn if that day ever comes it will be one of the best.
So cool as a pirates fan to see someone actually take the time to go over the franchise history even though it’s pretty frustrating seeing some of the decisions they made back then.Awesome video 🔥
I lived in the city of Pittsburgh for a number of years in the early 2000s and attended a lot of games at PNC Park - including the very first one vs. the Reds. I have a lot of good memories there (the most recent of those occurring in the summer of 2021). Even though I am a Phillies fan, it was hard for me to root against the Pirates - it still is (well except when the Pirates are playing against us, of course).
I am a very big Pittsburgh pirate Fan never miss a game live through all of this thank you very much for taking the time to do this TH-cam video series you didn’t amazing job
Fantastic video about a not fantastic franchise. Amazing work guys, it was hard to watch at points knowing things still haven’t improved much almost 20 years later 😂
As non-Pirates fan, I find this rather informative about a team that made the NLCS before I was born and didn't make the playoffs again until I was in high school.
I'm sorry y'all have had to endure so much losing. I'm not a pirates fan, but I rooted for them against the braves. I was a big fan of bonds, vam slyke, and slaught.
Thanks for making this I grew up watching these teams yeah they aren’t great but at least we got to see Jason bay and Freddy Sanchez be successful I hope the pirates can be good again at some point
Are you by any chance a fan of Jon Bois? This video reminded me of The History of the Seattle Mariners, and similar to that series, this was very well made. I eagerly await part 2
I "was" a Pirates fan from 1971 to 2015. Now I hope for 100 loss seasons. Pathetic owner. Sell to Mark Cuban. How can you have a team like this in the same city as Penguins and Steelers. Keep showing up fans to watch AA baseball
I grew up out west in Dodger territory. I moved to pitt about a decade ago and started following the bucs. It's been a depressing 10+ years but the happiest place on the planet for me is still PNC .. win or lose.
It is sooooooo hard to be a Pirates fan these days 2013-15 was fun but here we are right back to the bottom. Even when they were good they underachieved.
Pirates also have to stop dealing with the Rays,or learn to back away from a deal where they are getting fleeced. Learn to better negotiate or hire people that know how.
everyone says the pirates are rebuilding the problem is that this current rebuild is 30 years old what's sad is that we have only seen 4 winning seasons in the past 30 years i'm sure danny murtaugh clemente and stargell must be spinning in their graves seeing what has happened to the pirates
@@ZzzBliss Not dead! Working on these long-form sports docs takes time. This channel has always been a hobby anyway, so I have never had a consistent upload schedule.
I think major league baseball is too blame for the current debacle that is the pirates Mark cuban wanted to buy the pirates and major league baseball wouldn't let him looking what he did for the mavericks I think he would've spent the money too make the pirates a long term winner
I never would have though that when the Pirates won 2 championships during my youth that they would be the last championships they would win before i enter my retirement days. What an absolute insult that franchise has been to the city that was "the city of champions". With the success of the steelers and penguins it would have been nice if the pirates could have at least tried to win during the last 3 decades. I personally dont brag about winning a wildcard position so dont try that line of crap. Next time they threaten to move, while blackmailing the area for millions, consider me the first volunteer to help them pack.
Me to I’m done enabling Nutting and will not go to a game until Nutting sells this team and ends his minor league operation. The people of Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania have to have an breaking point at some time with the losing still ongoing.
Grew up in Baltimore sobim always an os fan first, but the pirates are 2nd ony list alway hoping for the best, and ibhave a sweet oneil cruz rookie card collection
I remember in 2006 when Bob Smizik wrote that the Penguins had surpassed the Pirates as the worst team in Pittsburgh. It was stupid when he wrote it and got more stupid every year after.
He just enabled the Pirates organization to keep losing even more but the Pens got serious and started a long period of success with 3 Stanley Cups and deep playoffs runs.
Geezuskrist this was depressing. Some of those personnel moves were downright gdamn embarrassing especially when they traded Jason Schmidt and Aramis Ramirez. Talk about getting downright fleeced.
It baffles me why he is allowed to be the owner for so long 🤯 you can raise the Jolly Roger on how shitty the Bucs are such a beautiful park going to waste
And they're still in the basement. Can't hold a damn lead even when they happen to have it late in the game. Other teams know, "You're never out of it playing the hapless Pirates." Just pathetic. They field a AAA team (I'll be kind) every year.
Sadly, the only positive about the Pittsburgh Pirates since 1992 was the opening of PNC Park in 2001.Three Rivers was a dump. Aramis Ramirez became the Cubs' best 3rd Baseman since Ron Santo.
@@NateSexauer He had some good years in Houston and then an average year in New York. It was clear to everybody he was in decline and he still had the gall to pull that shit. What a goof.
Let’s just face it the pirates are all about the ballpark and always will be. Nutting bulit the team just to end the 20 year losing season streak in 2013 and give a glimmer of hope so the younger generation gen Z can say they never saw the pirates be losing all the time in their childhood. I like to know what the ownership was smoking in keeping Dave Littlefield as long as they did all he did was made bad trade after bad trade.
I think you could make the argument that Dave Littlefield is one of the top 5 worst GM's of all time, in any sport. I checked out from fandom for a long time during his tenure and they almost lost me entirely, but I'm a glutton for punishment I guess. Keeping him around so long was the biggest F you to a fanbase that didn't deserve that.
@@collintinsley4755 delivered pizzas to him back then and he couldn't have been a nicer guy. Every time I delivered to him i wanted to ask him wtf he was thinking with his moves though (I didn't for the record)
It’s a damn shame they can’t get competent ownership anymore in that city. It’s a shame for the city and a storied franchise like the Pirates once were. They’re a glorified minor league team that would struggle to win even at the lower level. They didn’t deserve the state of the art stadium they got. The city did and the label but not ownership.
If people would stop spending money on merch and tickets then the owners would be forced to change their ways but people are real dumb so here we are. I believe they make more money on merch than most other teams again nice work dummies
I'm a long time Pirate fan. Who else besides does not see Oneil Cruz as a special person? He strikes out way too much. Sometimes striking out without the bat even leaving his shoulder. He is so careless on the bases. Makes too many errors. I like Greg Brown and Bib Walk but why do they think Oneil Cruz is so special. Can someone please explain this to me
As for the statement that Drabek and Bonds had nothing to show for their time in Pittsburgh. That is nothing but a lie. Drabek and Bonds played on some of the best Pirate teams that the franchise ever had They were National League Eastern Division Champs in 1990, 1991, and 1992. They also had some solid seasons in 1988 and 1989 falling just short in the eastern division those years to the Mets in 1988 and the Cubs in 1989. There are thousands of former players who never ever got to even sniff playing on a team that won its division. Especially in those days when you either won your division or your season was over unlike today where the regular season means nothing since everyone who doesnt finish last place pretty much gets into the playoffs it seems. Drabek and Bonds played on many great teams and being Division Champs 3 years in a row back when that actually meant a lot says a lot. I realize your just a kid and probably wasnt alive in the early 90s or was a toddler if you were. But I wish you kids would actually learn the history before you start teaching other kids a picture that is not correct. Also the excuse your team and city has used for more than 40 years is that your a small market city and cant compete on a money level with other teams. facts are the Pirates had a storied history in baseball. They have been saddled with penny pinching owners who refused to spend going all the way back to the late 1980s when they were rebuilding and building those Drabek and Bonds led teams. The Pirates chose to let everyone walk after 1992 and traded away anyone making over a million dollars pretty much on those great teams and no one was left by the end of 1994. As for that catcher, Mike Lavalliere, you butchered his name. It is not pronounced the way you said it at all which lets me know you were too young to know what your talking about and also have never been a big enough of a fan to actually watch an old playoff game even. Good try but like so many people on youtube, you should stick only to your knowledge of the sport since you were old enough to watch the sport if your not going to properly research the history and tell what happened. Older people hate these videos that get it wrong when we lived through it. Take it from someone old enough to remember watching the Pirates when Willie Stargell was still one of the best players in baseball. As I can remember the Pirates 1979 World Championship team. That was a team. You will never see a team with that kind of Chemistry in todays MLB. Todays athletes are too egotistical to ever play as a true team and family the way that team did. I seen other teams that had that family type feel. The 1993 Phillies were another that did. So were the 1990 Reds and the 1980 Phillies. But since the turn of the century......more and more players have horrible work ethics and teams struggle to find true team chemistry.
I’m almost 30 from Monaca and I’m done with going to games and hearing the excuses to enable Nutting to still run this team like a minor league team. The Pirates have given me so much PTSD. Their playing like the same old bucs right now losing and can’t hit a beach ball on even worse teams than the Pirates. The people of Pittsburgh drink so much kool aid for the pirates. I don’t care if i kind of piss people off in my city.
Why is this called The Losing Begins, The 2000s Pittsburgh Pirates (Part 1)? I know the easy narrative is to paint PNC Park and the beginning of the Nutting involved ownership as the harbingers of eternal baseball damnation that it is, but Three Rivers at the end was as equally a painful a place to watch baseball or house a winner. If we're being honest, and the '90-'92 teams are removed from the equation and treated as as much of an anomaly as the 2013-2015 teams are, then the Pirates really haven't been much of winner at all since 1980, when in the 70's they had winning records for all of just one year and won the World Series twice. 1980 is when the more recent state of losing really started, when they finished last 5 times and 2nd to last once in that decade, without so much of a sniff at the postseason. The 2000s? That's like Part 3. Like I said; remove those two incredibly short periods of winning Pirates baseball they had since 1980, and they've really been losers for 42 years now. At least I can say I've been alive for at least 2 World Series, and old enough to remember everything about the 1979 Championship, so I have that. For a Pirates fan that's the equivalent of seeing Bigfoot, and negates the existence of Sid Bream altogether.
The main goal of this doc series was to cover the record-breaking streak of consecutive losing seasons with a focus on the 2000s decade in particular. We do begin the documentary with the decline of the Pirates in the 90s as a preface to the rest of the story
Call me a rebel. I have been at PNC park once and deeply regret doing it. It's press is more wind than reality. The environment is one of a cheap carnival and it looks cluttered. Give me Wrigley Field anytime.
I never understood team owners expecting the public or fans to fund their new stadium 🏟️. You are the owner. Its your responsibility to pay for a new stadium out of your own pocket. Don't expect the public to pay for stuff you are responsible for as owner.
Thank you all so much for the amazing support you've given this documentary! Just wanted to say that I've learned how to pronounce Mike LaValliere's name since this video was made, so I apologize for the butchering of it
La Voll Yer!
I was born in August of 1992, just a few months before the ‘92 NLCS. The Pirates’ next winning season came in my junior year of college. I’m glad somebody made such an inspired chronicle of those 20 years of futility. I think it made the 2013 season feel that much sweeter.
Last Day all season all tied up
I'm sorry you missed some great teams. I was 13 for the 92 NLCS. The ONLY bright spot for game 7 was the winning run scored by longtime Pirates favorite, Sid. It was definitely crushing. Then in 2013, winning the wild card game, I'd be lying if I said I didn't shed a tear....
As a diehard since I was a kid in 86, this is the best retrospective of my life as a Pirates fan I’ve ever seen
I can’t believe this documentary has been on TH-cam for over a year and I’m just finding it now.
This is insanely well done and some incredible knowledge on the late 90’s early 2000’s Pirates!
I own 219 player bobbleheads from teams all across the country, but I own 7 Pirates ones all from those mid 2000’s teams!
Jason Bay, Oliver Perez, Zach Duke, Ronny Paulino, Paul Maholm, Matt Capps, and Freddy Sanchez.
I loved the Freddy Sanchez story at the end of this video with what he overcame growing up to becoming an MLB Batting champion and eventually World Series champion.
This is Tom Gorzelanny erasure and I won't stand for it
Thank you for this. As a long time, die hard bucs fan, I can't help but be disgruntled by the team year after year. Alas, this stroll down memory lane reminded how I fell in love with this team growing up and why I cannot help but support them. I remember the days of little league wanting to emulate Freddie, Jack, Bay and Duke. I don't know what the next few years has in store for the buccos. I don't know if they will ever win a World Series in my lifetime, but damn if that day ever comes it will be one of the best.
You and Utree are the best for Pittsburgh sports stories
High praise! I appreciate it! Love Tree's work
@@NateSexauer if you need footage from other sports I got a lot to help you out with other projects
@@janellemaynait I'll keep that in mind, thanks! Definitely got some other projects on the horizon
I love that the pirates have a fan base that cover our team this much. This is the 2nd documentary I've found on the 2000s pirates mediocrity
What fan base ... 300 ppl .. lol
@@kapo2012fb twice as many as the mets
@@mcroasty1956 yeah sure 7k a night at a home fk outta here
What’s the first one
I don’t comment on here very often, but as a lifelong Pirates fan… this entire series is very well done. Good job 👍
I like this documentary. It has the same effect on me as the Mariners doc that Secret Base did. Very fascinating. I like how it ended on a high note.
Thank you! That Mariners doc was the direct inspiration for this actually
So cool as a pirates fan to see someone actually take the time to go over the franchise history even though it’s pretty frustrating seeing some of the decisions they made back then.Awesome video 🔥
I lived in the city of Pittsburgh for a number of years in the early 2000s and attended a lot of games at PNC Park - including the very first one vs. the Reds.
I have a lot of good memories there (the most recent of those occurring in the summer of 2021).
Even though I am a Phillies fan, it was hard for me to root against the Pirates - it still is (well except when the Pirates are playing against us, of course).
Loved this documentary, it was a story needed to be told
I am a very big Pittsburgh pirate Fan never miss a game live through all of this thank you very much for taking the time to do this TH-cam video series you didn’t amazing job
Fantastic video about a not fantastic franchise. Amazing work guys, it was hard to watch at points knowing things still haven’t improved much almost 20 years later 😂
As non-Pirates fan, I find this rather informative about a team that made the NLCS before I was born and didn't make the playoffs again until I was in high school.
Curse of Barry Bonds
Great video. Those teams were such a mess, what a time to be a fan.
As close to Jon Bois Pirates content I'll ever get. For that I thank you.
That's the best praise I could get! Thank you!
I feel like I'm watching a channel with waaay more subs. Impressive stuff!
I'm sorry y'all have had to endure so much losing. I'm not a pirates fan, but I rooted for them against the braves. I was a big fan of bonds, vam slyke, and slaught.
This was really well made and brings me back. Thank you so much for this series. Let’s Go Bucs!
Excellent video man!
Really, really freaking good video.
I respect fans like you.
Thanks for making this I grew up watching these teams yeah they aren’t great but at least we got to see Jason bay and Freddy Sanchez be successful I hope the pirates can be good again at some point
Are you by any chance a fan of Jon Bois? This video reminded me of The History of the Seattle Mariners, and similar to that series, this was very well made. I eagerly await part 2
That series was what inspired me to make this documentary. I'm a huge fan of his work!
I "was" a Pirates fan from 1971 to 2015. Now I hope for 100 loss seasons. Pathetic owner. Sell to Mark Cuban. How can you have a team like this in the same city as Penguins and Steelers. Keep showing up fans to watch AA baseball
@@georgeslupski5987 Cuban isn't buying the Bucs. Thomas Tull is who Pirate Fans should be hoping can buy the team.
@@georgeslupski5987 loser
@@Gsnyderman5 the sad part is Cuban tried to buy the team from McClatchey in the 90s right after he bought the Mavs and MLB turned him down
That 2003 lineup was pretty good actually
Yes. You look at in on paper, it’s hard to believe they didn’t at least finish .500
This is exactly what every pirates fan needs to watch…
Someone mentioned this on the subreddit. Time to relive the torture of Dave Littlefield
I grew up out west in Dodger territory. I moved to pitt about a decade ago and started following the bucs. It's been a depressing 10+ years but the happiest place on the planet for me is still PNC .. win or lose.
my pittsburgh pirates 2000s slogan: come for the food (pls!) stay for the.... wait why are you still here? it's the 6th inning!
Outstanding documentary, buddy
It is sooooooo hard to be a Pirates fan these days 2013-15 was fun but here we are right back to the bottom. Even when they were good they underachieved.
Despite all the losing, I will always support the Pittsburgh Pirates. Hopefully a 2nd awakening will come soon, and this time as a huge succcess.
2001's attendance was so high because the stadium was brand new
PIrates baseball!
Feel the magic!
Pirates also have to stop dealing with the Rays,or learn to back away from a deal where they are getting fleeced. Learn to better negotiate or hire people that know how.
everyone says the pirates are rebuilding the problem is that this current rebuild is 30 years old what's sad is that we have only seen 4 winning seasons in the past 30 years i'm sure danny murtaugh clemente and stargell must be spinning in their graves seeing what has happened to the pirates
thank you for this video
The Pirates and Yankees actually have a common problem- they both need a new owner.
Watching that 92 NLCS footage still stings. I was 14 at the time and i took it hard.
Fantastic documentary
Zach Puke
Ian Smell
Tom Poorzelanny
Paul Mahorrible
What a rotation
It's May 2023 and the Pittsburgh Pirates are in 1st place in the NL at 20-8. McCutchen is back.
@This channel is dead, no more videos. random negative hate projection
@@ZzzBliss Not dead! Working on these long-form sports docs takes time. This channel has always been a hobby anyway, so I have never had a consistent upload schedule.
And they suck again better luck next year
all the stars lined against us
You forgot Kyle Schwarbers shot into the Allegheny in the 2015 wild card game. Put the knife in that build of the team
37:12 Yeah, but Ryan Howard wouldn’t have fit in with the impeccable culture they were building in Pittsburgh.
I think major league baseball is too blame for the current debacle that is the pirates Mark cuban wanted to buy the pirates and major league baseball wouldn't let him looking what he did for the mavericks I think he would've spent the money too make the pirates a long term winner
This. So much this
I never would have though that when the Pirates won 2 championships during my youth that they would be the last championships they would win before i enter my retirement days. What an absolute insult that franchise has been to the city that was "the city of champions". With the success of the steelers and penguins it would have been nice if the pirates could have at least tried to win during the last 3 decades. I personally dont brag about winning a wildcard position so dont try that line of crap. Next time they threaten to move, while blackmailing the area for millions, consider me the first volunteer to help them pack.
Me to I’m done enabling Nutting and will not go to a game until Nutting sells this team and ends his minor league operation. The people of Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania have to have an breaking point at some time with the losing still ongoing.
Littlefield is a doppelganger of Tom Verducci.
Dave Littlefield should be serving a life sentence in ACJ
Grew up in Baltimore sobim always an os fan first, but the pirates are 2nd ony list alway hoping for the best, and ibhave a sweet oneil cruz rookie card collection
Pops is my favorite player of all time!!!
I remember in 2006 when Bob Smizik wrote that the Penguins had surpassed the Pirates as the worst team in Pittsburgh.
It was stupid when he wrote it and got more stupid every year after.
He just enabled the Pirates organization to keep losing even more but the Pens got serious and started a long period of success with 3 Stanley Cups and deep playoffs runs.
Geezuskrist this was depressing. Some of those personnel moves were downright gdamn embarrassing especially when they traded Jason Schmidt and Aramis Ramirez. Talk about getting downright fleeced.
It baffles me why he is allowed to be the owner for so long 🤯 you can raise the Jolly Roger on how shitty the Bucs are such a beautiful park going to waste
And they're still in the basement. Can't hold a damn lead even when they happen to have it late in the game. Other teams know, "You're never out of it playing the hapless Pirates." Just pathetic. They field a AAA team (I'll be kind) every year.
Sid Bream was out
Just subbed.
Sadly, the only positive about the Pittsburgh Pirates since 1992 was the opening of PNC Park in 2001.Three Rivers was a dump. Aramis Ramirez became the Cubs' best 3rd Baseman since Ron Santo.
Those late 90s and early 00s teams were laughably bad.
Jason Kendall, Jason Kendall, momentarily Brian Giles and Jason Kendall.
Honestly, we should've let them go after 1994. It would've saved a lot of misery.
Born and raised on northside ..
Derek Bell, what a goof.
Good summary
@@NateSexauer He had some good years in Houston and then an average year in New York. It was clear to everybody he was in decline and he still had the gall to pull that shit. What a goof.
Of what i know of giles, i met him before the bucs traded him to the 619 for Canadian Bay. Decent guy but turned out to be a bit of a hypocrite.
Let’s just face it the pirates are all about the ballpark and always will be. Nutting bulit the team just to end the 20 year losing season streak in 2013 and give a glimmer of hope so the younger generation gen Z can say they never saw the pirates be losing all the time in their childhood.
I like to know what the ownership was smoking in keeping Dave Littlefield as long as they did all he did was made bad trade after bad trade.
I think you could make the argument that Dave Littlefield is one of the top 5 worst GM's of all time, in any sport. I checked out from fandom for a long time during his tenure and they almost lost me entirely, but I'm a glutton for punishment I guess. Keeping him around so long was the biggest F you to a fanbase that didn't deserve that.
@@collintinsley4755 delivered pizzas to him back then and he couldn't have been a nicer guy. Every time I delivered to him i wanted to ask him wtf he was thinking with his moves though (I didn't for the record)
Pirates are one of the great suckfests in baseball history.
He really said MACK WHACK TALLYWHACK?
It’s a damn shame they can’t get competent ownership anymore in that city. It’s a shame for the city and a storied franchise like the Pirates once were. They’re a glorified minor league team that would struggle to win even at the lower level. They didn’t deserve the state of the art stadium they got. The city did and the label but not ownership.
Good stuff what is the Song at the end?
I licensed it from Soundstripe.com. It's called Against it All by Be Still the Earth
If people would stop spending money on merch and tickets then the owners would be forced to change their ways but people are real dumb so here we are.
I believe they make more money on merch than most other teams again nice work dummies
I'm a long time Pirate fan. Who else besides does not see Oneil Cruz as a special person? He strikes out way too much. Sometimes striking out without the bat even leaving his shoulder. He is so careless on the bases. Makes too many errors. I like Greg Brown and Bib Walk but why do they think Oneil Cruz is so special. Can someone please explain this to me
Who’s here after 21-0
The Pirates are MLB’s version of the Cleveland Browns
Uhmm excuse me. We all know the worst pirates trade is the Glasnow Meadows one
Can't pronounce Mike Lavalliere or Jose Lind correctly.
As for the statement that Drabek and Bonds had nothing to show for their time in Pittsburgh. That is nothing but a lie. Drabek and Bonds played on some of the best Pirate teams that the franchise ever had They were National League Eastern Division Champs in 1990, 1991, and 1992. They also had some solid seasons in 1988 and 1989 falling just short in the eastern division those years to the Mets in 1988 and the Cubs in 1989. There are thousands of former players who never ever got to even sniff playing on a team that won its division. Especially in those days when you either won your division or your season was over unlike today where the regular season means nothing since everyone who doesnt finish last place pretty much gets into the playoffs it seems. Drabek and Bonds played on many great teams and being Division Champs 3 years in a row back when that actually meant a lot says a lot. I realize your just a kid and probably wasnt alive in the early 90s or was a toddler if you were. But I wish you kids would actually learn the history before you start teaching other kids a picture that is not correct. Also the excuse your team and city has used for more than 40 years is that your a small market city and cant compete on a money level with other teams. facts are the Pirates had a storied history in baseball. They have been saddled with penny pinching owners who refused to spend going all the way back to the late 1980s when they were rebuilding and building those Drabek and Bonds led teams. The Pirates chose to let everyone walk after 1992 and traded away anyone making over a million dollars pretty much on those great teams and no one was left by the end of 1994. As for that catcher, Mike Lavalliere, you butchered his name. It is not pronounced the way you said it at all which lets me know you were too young to know what your talking about and also have never been a big enough of a fan to actually watch an old playoff game even. Good try but like so many people on youtube, you should stick only to your knowledge of the sport since you were old enough to watch the sport if your not going to properly research the history and tell what happened. Older people hate these videos that get it wrong when we lived through it. Take it from someone old enough to remember watching the Pirates when Willie Stargell was still one of the best players in baseball. As I can remember the Pirates 1979 World Championship team. That was a team. You will never see a team with that kind of Chemistry in todays MLB. Todays athletes are too egotistical to ever play as a true team and family the way that team did. I seen other teams that had that family type feel. The 1993 Phillies were another that did. So were the 1990 Reds and the 1980 Phillies. But since the turn of the century......more and more players have horrible work ethics and teams struggle to find true team chemistry.
I’m almost 30 from Monaca and I’m done with going to games and hearing the excuses to enable Nutting to still run this team like a minor league team. The Pirates have given me so much PTSD. Their playing like the same old bucs right now losing and can’t hit a beach ball on even worse teams than the Pirates. The people of Pittsburgh drink so much kool aid for the pirates. I don’t care if i kind of piss people off in my city.
Go bucks
Be honest Aramis Ramirez was better off with the cubs 😆
Why is this called The Losing Begins, The 2000s Pittsburgh Pirates (Part 1)? I know the easy narrative is to paint PNC Park and the beginning of the Nutting involved ownership as the harbingers of eternal baseball damnation that it is, but Three Rivers at the end was as equally a painful a place to watch baseball or house a winner. If we're being honest, and the '90-'92 teams are removed from the equation and treated as as much of an anomaly as the 2013-2015 teams are, then the Pirates really haven't been much of winner at all since 1980, when in the 70's they had winning records for all of just one year and won the World Series twice. 1980 is when the more recent state of losing really started, when they finished last 5 times and 2nd to last once in that decade, without so much of a sniff at the postseason. The 2000s? That's like Part 3. Like I said; remove those two incredibly short periods of winning Pirates baseball they had since 1980, and they've really been losers for 42 years now. At least I can say I've been alive for at least 2 World Series, and old enough to remember everything about the 1979 Championship, so I have that. For a Pirates fan that's the equivalent of seeing Bigfoot, and negates the existence of Sid Bream altogether.
The main goal of this doc series was to cover the record-breaking streak of consecutive losing seasons with a focus on the 2000s decade in particular. We do begin the documentary with the decline of the Pirates in the 90s as a preface to the rest of the story
You said "Mike Lev-UH-leer." Sure you're a Pirates fan?
I am, just not old enough to have heard his name called during games. I've since learned how to pronounce it!
@@NateSexauer Spanky a.k.a. Sir Spank-A-Lot.
makes me sick.
Call me a rebel. I have been at PNC park once and deeply regret doing it. It's press is more wind than reality. The environment is one of a cheap carnival and it looks cluttered. Give me Wrigley Field anytime.
Pirates suck 😢
Would have been a little better if you pronounced some of the players names right.
7 minutes in and you already mispronounced 2 names of the Buccos....sheesh!
You can’t even pronounce correctly the players names from the 90s
Kip wells was the goat
I never understood team owners expecting the public or fans to fund their new stadium 🏟️. You are the owner. Its your responsibility to pay for a new stadium out of your own pocket. Don't expect the public to pay for stuff you are responsible for as owner.