DK's Daily Shot of Pirates: How to change public perception?

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4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The public perception of the Pittsburgh Pirates is far from ideal and at times downright embarrassing. Save for Bob Nutting to sell the team, there really are no easy fixes to improve the public perception of the Pirates. Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's Daily Shots of Steelers, Penguins and Pirates -- three separate podcasts -- every weekday morning on the DK Pittsburgh Sports podcasting network, available on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/dkpghsports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football.
0:07.0	What a fantastic night of football.
0:10.0	Including 10 Premier League games.
0:13.0	It doesn't get much better than that.
0:17.0	And Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match.
0:22.3	The biggest live games from the biggest leagues all wrapped up.
0:28.0	It's on Prime.
0:33.4	The list of things that Pittsburgh's Major League Baseball franchise could do to truly reconnect with its fans, to truly regain their trust is exactly one deep.
0:57.1	Good morning to you.
0:58.5	Good Tuesday morning.
0:59.6	I'm Dan Kovachievich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports, and this is Daily Shot of Pirates.
1:03.9	Comes your way bright and early every weekday.
1:05.5	If you're into football and or hockey, I also offer up daily shots of Steelers and Penguins right where you found this.
1:13.8	The list has one entry, and you know what it is.
1:19.2	And you know what it is.
1:21.9	Because no matter what else happens with the Pirates, up to and including, I kid you not, winning a sixth
1:33.5	World Series championship.
1:36.3	Nothing will change the way this fan base and this general public, even people who aren't necessarily intense fans or
1:49.9	followers of the team, no one will change how they feel about it until Bob Nutting sells.
1:57.5	I thought that there was a period there, the obvious one, between 2013 and 15, but especially in 2013, the blackout game, and not only the team doing everything right, but also saying all the right things.
2:17.0	Clint Hurdle in particular with the city
2:19.1	rebonding with its franchise and so forth. I thought there was a chance there. There was even
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