“Pittsburgh is a baseball town that is being destroyed by a greedy owner.”
That is the first sentence of a petition started on Change.org to encourage Major League Baseball to force Bob Nutting to sell the Pittsburgh Pirates. Since the petition was created on Tuesday, the day after the Pirates traded Andrew McCutchen to the Giants, more than 50,000 fans, or maybe former fans, have added their names to the list.
Both the Post-Gazette and the Tribune Review have published stories about the online campaign. The Post-Gazette even bothered the Pirates for a comment before they predictably declined to respond.