“I’m completely honored to be the Pirates’ general manager,” Neal Huntington said by phone Wednesday. “It’s amazing it’s entering year 10.”
Isn’t it, though?
For a while it didn’t look like Huntington would make it out of year five. He was fired in newspapers, websites and barrooms countless times before busting through in 2013. People will surely want him fired in October if the Pirates miss the playoffs again.
Oh, who am I kidding? They want him fired now. Which is insane when you consider that Huntington, while far from perfect, tore this rat-infested plague of a franchise to the ground, built it back up and fulfilled his promise to make it a winner again.