Joe Starkey

All right, back to where we began.

Happy New Year.

It's the last day of the year, and it was a year of dissatisfaction in Pittsburgh sports.

It truly was.

Things came to a head.

You basically yelled like the famous line from whatever movie it is, and I forget what it was, when the guy opens the window and yells, I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.

You couldn't take it anymore.

Not with the Pirates.

Where there were a plane flying overhead before the home opener saying sell the team and booing the manager and chanting sell the team.

You had it with the Pirates.

You had it with the Steelers and that manifested in the Bills game when Steeler fans booed Renegade and chanted fire Tomlin.

You had it with the Penguins.

More in an apathetic way with that franchise than the others.

There was no fan insurrection at those places, at their games.

More just people not showing up anymore.

With two of our teams, the dissatisfaction, whether it's directly related or not, also then came with change.

The Penguins fired Mike Sullivan.

They've changed.

For better or worse, I guess we'll find out.

The Pirates have done things differently.