Small-town hype

It did not...and likley may never again...involve the Pirates. Therefore, it was "backpage" news material. Besides, it involved Filthadelphia, the City of Brothers on Drugs and the national largest cespool, New York. Nobody else cared!

Next time just Google it.

Or just quit being so cheap and get cable; ESPN covered it for about 17 straight hours.

You have to understand, we get very little coverage of the NBA here because we don't have a team. Same with major league baseball.

By the way, that anti-Steeler attitude will really endear you to your new co-workers and neighbors, kind of like mocking the Pope in Rome. In 1540.

I, for one, am tired of people moving here from out of area and then complaining that Pittsburgh isn't like every other cookie-cutter city in th U.S.  You don't like it here?  Move back to Boston or Denver or whatever other color-by-numbers city you come from.

I've lived here all my life, and I think local news stinks!  I read the PG for local news, and watch cable for national.

What is newsworthy about the Yankees buying another World Series?  

david,

jealousy and the "little man syndrome" pervades the Pittsburgher's mentality.

You need to know this if you plan on staying in Pittsburgh:

The deer are bigger (which they're not,) the bass are giant (which they're not,) Primanti's makes a great sandwhich (eek! which they don't,) and Shop & Save is a wonderful supermarket (gritty floors, frozen pies, and all.)

They do however sport some great sized potholes throughout the greater Pittsburgh area and of course very little in the way of manufacturing jobs and still working steel mills.

The golden rule is to continue to purchase your weekly pound of chipped ham and Iron City Beer and accept the losing little league team called the Pirates.

Mr. Yelle and chilco99:  What arrogance!  So sorry that you view yourselves so superior to the "average" Pittsburgher.  Maybe another city would be happy to welcome you both.  

Laverne,

I LOVE PITTSBURGH, but there is an arrogance that it is the epicenter of the universe. You are a few miles removed from Applachia and very little if anything ever changes in the area (with the exception of massive job losses, young people leaving, and a rising elderly population.)

Maybe you don't notice (because you live there) but crime-homicide and drugs continues to escalate, education is slipping, and the infrastructure is in decay-----all in a place where you are taxed highly and have very little to show for it.

I am a Pittsburgher!!! No matter where I go or where I die it is my home but sometimes the self-congratulatory nature of the city gets a little tiresome.

What really gets tiresome is the constant criticism and attitude towards the "elderly" population.

Many, many, many of the "elderly" population are helping to care for both members of the "younger" generation and other "elderly" members of their families with both physical and financial assistance.  They volunteer at their religious communities, local hospitals, libraries, schools, Meals on Wheels, etc.  They visit family and friends in nursing homes which many members of the "younger" generation are loathe to do.

Since most of the elderly population are receiving Social Security, there are Federal tax dollars coming back into the community.  This helps support the local merchants and other businesses and service providers as almost all seniors are spending this money here.

Some people may think this sounds self-congratulatory but I think that the elderly are doing their fair share for the good of the community.

Chico, the Pirates are indeed feeble, but all in all for pro sports fans Pittsburgh is a fantastic place. I'll take two great teams and one historically bad one.

All cities have a certain degree of hubris, even if in some places like Newark or East St. Louis it leads to them bragging about how WOEFUL their cities are. I'm living in Des Moines now, which is a perfectly fine place, but the locals seem to believe it is some prairie utopia.

There are plenty of good, new things going on in the 'Burg, from the high tech starter businesses to the condos downtown. It is not a stagnant place-but it doesn't do change for the sake of change. I think what was done to East Liberty back in the day has had a chilling effect on large redevelopment efforts.

Kevin,

ahhhh East Liberty. spent my summers there with my grandparents, went to 6:00 AM italian mass on sundays, played in the parks and to go thru there now it makes one want to vomit.

That should have never happened to a section of Pittsburgh that was so rich in culture and ethnicity.

What a total social failure. Not to mention it's tough to get a good loaf of italian bread these days.