Pirates Prospects · Jul 31, 2024
First Pitch: Pittsburgh Pirates MLB Trade Deadline Magic
Years and years ago, before I was a sports writer, and before I started this site, the MLB Trade Deadline was one of my favorite sports-related events.
Even today, after running this site for 16 Pittsburgh Pirates trade deadlines, there is some magic on deadline day.
We are all, as human beings, looking for some sort of validation in our thoughts. Sports provides one of the rare special realms of objectivity. You can’t say “fake news” to the fact that the Pittsburgh Pirates are currently 55-52. You can’t dismiss the home runs the last two nights from Michael A. Taylor as occurring in an alternate reality. In a subjective world, sports provides glimpses of true objectivity.