Pirates President Frank Coonelly: “Losing stinks”

Pirates team President Frank Coonelly sat down for his monthly web chat earlier today, and was asked by a reader how it felt to run “the losingest team in baseball.” His response:

Given that we have many young readers of this chat, I will keep my answer G-rated: It stinks. It’s embarrassing, painful and incredibly aggravating. I never expected us to sit with just 44 wins on Sept. 1, 2010. We have more talent than that, and I expect us to play much better during this final month.

Nothin’ personal against Coonelly, but I am going to guess that you could count the number of “young readers” surfing over to a Frank Coonelly live chat on one hand and still have enough fingers left over to pick your nose and pound out the opening drum riff to “Wipe Out” by the Surfaris on the desk at the same time.

Well, maybe I’m wrong. I mean, I still remember the days of my youth, when my brother and I used to camp outside of Jim Campbell’s house in Grosse Pointe, hoping to catch a glimpse of him -- maybe snag an autograph -- and, perchance, to hear him hold forth on what the future held for the Tigers.

Those executives are why we all fell in love with the game, I imagine.