For nearly a year, pleas from Pittsburgh Pirates fans begging principal owner Bob Nutting to sell the team have fallen on deaf ears. Still, those fans won't be deterred.
According to multiple posts on social media, one intrepid Pirates fan pulled a fast one on the PNC Park camera crew during Tuesday's series opener against the Los Angeles Dodgers when she held up a sign that read, in both English and Japanese, "I flew 23 hours to be here." However, as soon as the cameras spotted her and showed her on the jumbotron, she flipped the sign over to the other side, which read, "Hey Bob, sell the team!