New Years Eve Full Pomp and Joe Show

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2025, not a banner year in the Bender household. Not a great year in Pittsburgh sports. In fact, it was the winter of your discontent and your fall, spring, and summer of your discontent if you're a Pittsburgh sports fan. Everything finally sort of came home to roost. Everything came to, you couldn't take it anymore. You couldn't take it anymore. At the Pirates opener, we had a plane flying above the stadium saying, sell the team. We had fans chanting, sell the team.

How do Pittsburgh sports fans feel about their teams' performances?

0:42

The manager was booed in the intro at the home opener. Eventually, at least, the Pirates changed. They fired the manager, and now they've gone out and unbelievably brought in two All-Stars from last season in a matter of a week. It's way too late. In some ways, it only underscores the rage you must feel about last offseason. I get that. But at least something's changed. With the Penguins, something pretty big changed. They got rid of a Hall of Fame coach. That's a pretty big change. And like I said, the Penguin anger. We're tired of this. We don't want to watch this anymore. You know, manifest itself more with that franchise and just screw it. We just won't go. Then it does in, you know, fan insurrections.

1:43

And then, man, with the Steelers. Just blind rage is what it's turned into. And they've had these franchise teetering moments this year coming off the horrific playoff loss to Baltimore. And I've sent out a mass text today to all my colleagues here at the fan saying, give me your best, worst moments of the year. A lot of them are texting in the worst moment. The worst game, the worst thing was that, and we've forgotten about it by now because it's been usurped by the Cleveland game, plus it was a year ago, was getting destroyed, just systematically destroyed and seemingly quitting on national television in a playoff game against the Ravens. A lot of them are pointing to that. But anyway... I guess this is a long way of saying you're the story in Pittsburgh sports this year.

2:41

You, the fans, are. Honestly, I really believe that. And I can't tell you how many people that I run into. In person or just get feedback from on this show. Columns that I do for the Post Gazette, all of that is just like, oh, my God, is is anybody going to change anything? Are we just going to sail into oblivion with these three underachieving, in some cases, tragic sports teams? Well, a couple of them said, no, we're not. I wonder about the third one. They have a pretty big game on Sunday. And I know what some of you are thinking is that a loss would prompt the kind of change you want. That really, really presents a twist on the affair, to put it mildly. We have a bunch of people on the lines, O Limitless Wonder.

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Actually, you're Charlie Borges, aren't you? I find that offensive. Well, I think you're a Limitless Wonder as well. You're capable of anything. Who's on? Let's go to Matt in Greensburg. What's up, Matt?

What changes have occurred with the Pittsburgh Pirates?

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Hey, what's going on? Happy New Year. Yeah, you too. It's still going to be hard to beat. Probably 10 of the Pirates' worst moments of the year with their PR. Yeah, you're right about that. I mean, I'm a season ticket holder, so it was... Well, what do you think? Let me ask you this, Matt. And yes, we could pick 76 different pirate moments for the worst of the year. What do you think when people out there blame people like you and say you're part of the problem over at the Pirates? Because I think people like you should be commended to no end for still supporting this team in spite of it basically kicking you in the groin year after year. Yeah, so here's the thing. I don't expect them to win a World Series, probably in my lifetime.

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but I love baseball. I have a 10 year old son that loves baseball. So I like, I love, I love pirates. I love all of MLB, but I follow it closely. So I kind of have a different take. I'm not there. Like they need, they're not going to spend money. Okay. And I think like this year could change if they, if they sign Okamoto, but I, I go in with a different expectation, maybe like, And I go to the games for what, you know, like my kids like to go, our family likes to go.