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Archive | April, 2007

April 2, 2007

Playing catchup after a long weekend: We roll out the red carpet at Lumber Co., covering Fifteen Years of Opening Day Baseball, giving you our Fearless Predictions, taking a quiz on What We Learned About the Pirates, passing along the 25-man roster, and breaking down Bob Smizik’s column about the 2007 and 1987 Bucs. Nancy [...]

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Fifteen Years Worth of Opening Day Baseball

April 2, 2007

If you’re a fan of Grapefruit League baseball and you were fortunate enough to tune into a broadcast of any of the Pirates’ spring games—especially those hosted by our opposition—there’s a good chance you heard the streak mentioned early and often. As Pat said at MLB Fanhouse: I can’t tell you they’re going to be [...]

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Fearless (Meaning Wrong) Predictions for 2007

April 1, 2007

Feel free to throw yours in as well. Pittsburgh Lumber Co.’s a blogocracy, opinions of all shapes and sizes are welcome. Obviously—because these ones are all off base and useless. Still, the only way to predict the unpredictable is to make off-the-wall prophecies. There’s no time like Opening Day for boundless optimism. Let’s have at [...]

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