Neal Huntington opened his press conference with a mini-monologue on this seismic Sunday afternoon at PNC Park, addressing that the Pirates had just fired Clint Hurdle.
“Where do we go now?" Huntington began one segment. "Honor Clint. Appreciate Clint."
As God is my guide, that happened. A grown bleeping man spoke those four words. About someone who, an hour earlier, he'd basically shoved out of the building forever. About someone he and others in the front office had been burying as a way to save their own jobs.
Yeah, imagine that meeting agenda the next morning at 115 Federal:
• Honor Clint
• Appreciate Clint
• Undo a dozen years of damage
• Lunch!