About every other month or so for the last three years, a member of the Pittsburgh media has asked Pirates general manager Neal Huntington what amounts to the same question:
“How are you ever going to get to a point where you’re going to spend more money?”
Usually, Huntington responds with a version of his answer that goes along the lines of:
“We need to put a winning baseball team on the field that more people will want to see, and when that happens, we’ll re-invest the additional profits that come along with it.”
A lot of the media, some ignorantly and some maliciously, interpret that as Huntington blaming the fans.