It's almost as if this whole Andrew McCutcheon thing just sneaked up on all of them.

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Roberto Clemente Jr., who is exactly what he sounds like, wrote this on social media

to Cutch.

Your impact to the game, the city of Pittsburgh, and Pirates Nation is special.

You deserve the curtain call season alongside the city that has stood with you through it all.

Love you, brother.

The father of Roberto Clemente, Jr. meant a lot to the city, the franchise, and all that, to say the absolute least.

Cutch meant a lot, has meant a lot, to Pittsburgh, to the pirates.

Ben Charington has meant nothing.

The concept that there's some sort of impasse between Cutch and Charrington is challenging even to just say out loud.

It's so insane.

There isn't something that needs to be figured out or meet somebody halfway or figure out some financial

agreement or what? No, no. The only acceptable solution, like the number one at the top of the

list solution to this scenario is that you fire Charrington, not because of this, but because of,

you know, the other six years. The fact that he's still here offends the sensibilities of

anybody who'd care about this franchise and understand what's actually gone wrong with it

this decade.

So yeah, that's it. You're welcome. That's the answer.

Fire Charington bring in somebody with a common sense to do right by this player and for once in his tenure do something, anything right, by this organization.

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