Frank Coonelly Explains "Dynasty" Comment

Uncle Nate — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:41:59 -0000

The Pirate's President picked up the phone to call 93.7 The Fan this afternoon to explain yesterday's comments to players wherein he used the word "dynasty" to describe his expectations for the current talent base's future with the franchise. I was admittedly distracted during the lengthy interview, but to my ears he Coonelly stated the obvious: that he was not predicting a dynasty for the Pirates.

The interview is well worth a listen. Here is the link.

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Uncle Nate — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:43:23 -0000

Bob Smizik is good at reporting on sports media and he has posted some juicy tidbits on his blog at the Post Gazette website in the past 24 hours. The CBS owned sports station that is set to take over 93.7 (B94) in Pittsburgh in mid-February is looking to have a largely competent line up featuring the potential to speak somewhat rationally on the Pirates.

The big news is that Joe Starkey has been swipped from his weekend gig at ESPN radio in Pittsburgh and at the Trib. While at ESPN, Starkey had notable worthwhile baseball conversations with Keith Law. Obviously Law will not be available to him any more, but competent baseball talk seems a realistic possibility. Starkey and an unknown co-host will apparently host the afternoon drive-time show. The hope here is that somehow Randy Baumann, formerly of the 'DVE Morning Show, is the co-host. John Steigerwald might be good too, though he is fairly blinded with anger towards all things baseball.

Paul Alexander and Jon Burton will apparently host a morning show. The thought here is that Burton is likely to be quite good, though I thought poorly of Alexander (who is much better on TV) when he had a show on KDKA-AM years ago (when KDKA-AM had the Bucs).

This is my first fan post and I'm not sure how to link, but here is my attempt to link to Smizik's blog: http://community.post-gazette.com/blogs/bobsmizik/default.aspx

Good day.

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Frank Coonelly Explains "Dynasty" Comment

Upcoming PGH Sports Station Threatens Competent Baseball Talk