My favorite line was “You have to really love the Pirates to want to watch them play for 30 seasons in a row.”

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  2. “You have to be comfortable saying no” says pre-teen, spurning Pirates offer (I can only hope)

  3. I am legitimately offended that the organization (I know it’s not the same exact people) has genuinely put more effort into trying to obtain this baseball card than actually get the team out of last place

  4. If the team put half as much effort in to putting a stable team on the field, as they did with publicity stunts, we’d at least be playing over .500 ball at the end of the season.

  5. The season tickets literally do him no good. He lives across the country. And a softball game for 30 people at PNC Park? I would bet he doesn’t care about that either

  6. Get this kid 1 mil+ via auction and put it in a trust. Meeting Paul skenes and all that other crap is meaningless

  7. I’m a 42 year old diehard Pirates fan and I wouldn’t even accept their offer. Selling the card online could get season tickets no problem. I love softball but it isn’t much different than just being on the field for a tour. Meeting Skenes would be cool, but awkward and forced. I don’t need a private tour of anything because you’ll get the same information in a regular tour. And why in the hell would I want to watch a game with someone else’s girlfriend? That’s just weird and creepy.

  8. The Pirates’ offer was made hoping a local person pulled it and even then I think they knew no one would take it since the card is going to fetch at least half a million.
    I also think the writer is selling the value of 30 years of season tickets behind home plate short. I have to think it’s worth more than $7000 per year but maybe I’m wrong?

  9. Why do the pirates even want the card? Like what are they even gonna do with it? This just seems ridiculous

  11. I’m 36, a Pirates fan, live 25 minutes from PNC, and would love all the things offered (outside of the game in Livvy’s box, that just feels weird/creepy), and I would sell the card in a heartbeat. The amount of money would be life changing, at any age. Get it into the right investment account and I might only have to work another 10 years, if even that.

    Hell, I’d be more than willing to sell it to the Pirates, on the condition I still get the softball game, in addition to a fair market value. If there is two offers, one at $1M and the Pirates at $970k plus the game, I am taking the Pirates’ offer, $30k is worth the once in a lifetime time experience.

  13. I’d totally take that deal lol. I don’t believe that that card will go for $1M and what the Pirates offered is pretty great.

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