The Pittsburgh Pirates' annual ad campaign appears to have found yet another new and confusing angle for the upcoming 2010 season. Such inspired, open-ended slogans like the memorable "We Can" have given way to this year's "It's Time", starring a bunch of sweaty Buccaneers working out and getting ready for another season of sub-.500-but-still-exciting Pirate baseball.
Being that we don't know where exactly the Pirates are going with this, I figured now would be a good time for a comment contest. So here are the ground rules: explain what "it's time" for in the comments section (no emails please - so everyone can see all the entries) - and the one I judge as the best will receive this framed photo of Roberto Clemente's 3000th Hit, courtesy of The Steel City Auctions Gallery. Entries must be posted by 11:59 PM on April 1, with the winner named on April 2.
Being that we don't know where exactly the Pirates are going with this, I figured now would be a good time for a comment contest. So here are the ground rules: explain what "it's time" for in the comments section (no emails please - so everyone can see all the entries) - and the one I judge as the best will receive this framed photo of Roberto Clemente's 3000th Hit, courtesy of The Steel City Auctions Gallery. Entries must be posted by 11:59 PM on April 1, with the winner named on April 2.
*Prize rules: Must be redeemed within one month of the end of the contest (May 2, 2009).
No cash value, cannot be combined with any other discounts.
Shipping included for all prize redemptions.
No cash value, cannot be combined with any other discounts.
Shipping included for all prize redemptions.
It's Time...to start waiting until the Steelers report to camp.
ReplyDeleteIt's time....for the losing streak to become an adult.
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ReplyDeleteIt's Time!... because the Pirates traded Morris Day to the Red Sox for two prospects.
ReplyDeleteIt's time we realized how bad this organization is
ReplyDeleteIt's time for the Pirates to hire a new marketing firm.
ReplyDeleteIt's Time!...To cash that MLB revenue sharing check so that we can keep 7 Springs and our newspaper business solvent!
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It's Time!...To sell spring hope; that gives way to a summer of selling bobbleheads, fireworks, concerts, and pierogie races.
Bar Keep that is a classic! Well Done
ReplyDeleteIt's time...to make the donuts!
ReplyDeleteIt's time ....to sell the team to Mario Lemieux!
ReplyDeleteIt's time...for Mario to buy the team.
ReplyDeletehaha nice. same thought within 1 minute of one another
ReplyDeleteIt's time...it's just time. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteIt's time...to be jealous of Cleveland Indians fans...
ReplyDeleteIt's Time...to think of new promotions so fans show up
ReplyDeleteIt's time for the Meek to inherit loaded bases...
ReplyDeleteIt's time . . . to figure out who's going to be traded in July.
ReplyDeleteIt's time...to learn all of our names.
ReplyDeleteIt's time...for Hope and Change (hey it worked for Obama).
ReplyDeleteIt's Time...To graduate high school without ever seeing the Pirates finish above .500 in your life.
ReplyDeleteIt's time for Sid Bream and Francisco Cabrera to get out of my head.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to ...
ReplyDeleteTurn off the lights, the party's over.
Its time...to come to the ballpark where the sideshow isn't whats playing on the field.
ReplyDeleteIt's time...to learn who the Pirate is in the above screen grab.
ReplyDeleteIt's time 4 66 2 86 Nutting!
ReplyDeleteIt's time... So, "let's go to work" because "we can" "give 110%"
ReplyDeleteIt's Time...for Pittsburgh to get it's own Major League franchise.
ReplyDeleteits time... for playoff hockey!
ReplyDeleteIts Time... for that narrow window between the end of the Penguins season and the beginning of the Steelers where you have to watch us because we're the only game in town.
ReplyDeleteit's time to start rebuilding.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to confuse you with another meaningless short slogan to debate instead of the product on the field. And the cool pirate ship video too
ReplyDeleteIt's time...for Bobbleheads...and we will...have Concerts...Pride. Passion. Skyblast.
ReplyDeleteIt's time for pierogi races...
ReplyDeleteIt's time for the funeral
ReplyDeleteIt's time- seriously this time. No, really. Seriously, stop laughing. Don't roll your eyes at me. It's time. For real. Cut it out. It's ti- c'mon, let me finish. Eh, nevermind. Jerk.
ReplyDeleteIt's time for Operation Shutdown
ReplyDeleteIt's time to fear the 'stache
ReplyDeleteIt's time...to annually get your hopes up as we start 5-2.
ReplyDeleteIt's time...for Barney Dreyfuss to roll in his grave again
ReplyDeleteIt's time...for us to walk the plank AGAIN!
ReplyDeleteIt's time....to bring back Reboulet
ReplyDeleteIt's time . . . to spend $8 dollars on a beer even after you told yourself chugging 7 cans of I.C. light in the parking lot before the game would prevent you from doing this
ReplyDeleteIt's time to start practicing actual baseball fundamentals, now that you've seen us complete P90X!
ReplyDeleteIt's time... to stop kidding yourself.
ReplyDeleteIt's time... to give up hope.
It's time... to drown our sorrows in an ice cold Iron City, or twelve.
It's time... to start counting down days until the NFL Draft!
It's time... to wonder why Big Ben gets all the attention.
It's time... to open up your wallets!
It's time... to redefine what is considered sports failure.
It's time... for my old man to uselessly get his hopes up about the Pirates again, while his kids all talk about the Penguins and the playoffs.
ReplyDeleteIt's time... to tell stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt. Which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where was I... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
ReplyDeleteIt's time to keep on slippin, slippin, slippin into the future.
ReplyDeleteIt's time...
ReplyDelete* to start the fire sale before the all-star break.
* to admit we're more about bobbleheads and fireworks than strikes and balls.
* to just make it official and affiliate ourselves with a real MLB team, as a minor league affiliate.
* to admit that little Washington offers a better baseball product experience for the fan.
It's time...it's Vader time! Come out to PNC on May 6th as the 1993 WCW Champion throws out the first pitch.
ReplyDeleteIt's Time...and Wish You Were Here, Shine on You Crazy Diamond and all your favorites at Pink Floyd Appreciation night, August 17th against the Marlins!
It's Thyme...with Parsley, Sage, and Rosemary, the members of the Simon and Garfunkel tribute band 'Scarborough Fair' after the Pirates play the Giants on June 6th.
it's time....to come up with a slogan that the frank stallone of ring announcers didnt come up with
ReplyDeleteit's time... for another mock draft
ReplyDeleteit's time... to start rebuilding for 2011
It's time... for the Cheezburger network to create a special FailBlog just for the Pirates.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to make some donuts.........in the runs column.
ReplyDeleteIt's time... no seriously, when is the trade deadline?
ReplyDeleteIt's time... Obama gives us a federal bail out.
It's time... wait a minute, this guy here is dead.
It's time...to find something else to do with your summer.
It's time...for us to replace the Kansas City Royals as the punchline to baseball jokes.
It's time to start drinking the Kool Aid!
ReplyDeleteIt's Time . . . to order more bobbleheads of Maz, Stargell, and Clemente.
ReplyDeleteIts Time for to buy my 4 months supply of Ambien
ReplyDeleteIt's time...to throw on your Andy van Slyke jersey and get miserably drunk in your basement again.
ReplyDeleteOk, I'll go Obama with this one:
ReplyDeleteIt's time to act!...like this season will be any different than the previous 18.
It's Time....for false hope!!!
ReplyDeleteA plus .500 record the first week of the season will only once again lead to 9 win months the rest of the season, crushing the belief that this team is different then the past 18!
It's time....the traded ones become the lucky ones.
ReplyDeleteIt's Time...to grab your rifle and climb the bell tower next to Bob Nutting's house.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to grab your ankles and BOHICA
ReplyDeleteIt's Time....For Bryce Harper.....No seriously he's our only hope.
ReplyDeleteIt's time... FOR AN F'ING SALARY CAP.
ReplyDeleteIt's time...for Jalapeno Hanna, ladies and gentlemen!
ReplyDeleteIt's time for a new Marketing Department
ReplyDeleteIts Time…for you to pay us money for the cheapest talent that we can bring to you..
ReplyDeleteIts Time...for another new mascot, we thought you could use just one more!
ReplyDeleteIt's time...to set our time machine to 1979!
ReplyDeleteIt's time...to party like the Pirates of 1979!
ReplyDeleteIt's time...to start planning the 2011 Winter Classic at PNC Park
ReplyDeleteIt's time to start paying for good players worth watching.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to stop being a national embarrassment.
ReplyDeleteIt's time... to point out that the Pirates have still won a championship more recently than the Flyers, Browns, Cubs, Capitals or Bengals.
ReplyDeleteIt's time...to get rid of the Nuttings and get some owner ship in there that knows what they're doing. In other words, it's Mario time!
ReplyDeleteIt's time to get rid of the NUTHINGS.
ReplyDeleteThe most hilarious Pirates slogan was "Come Hungry." Hungry for winning baseball I guess.
It's time for this losing streak to purchase some cigarettes
ReplyDeleteIt's Time for Roberto to roll over in his grave again!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's time...to go 81-81.
ReplyDeleteIt's time...you spend nutting and you get nutting
ReplyDeleteIt's time.. to trade us too
ReplyDeleteIt's time....it's time......IT'S VADER TIME!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's time to stop going to the games
ReplyDeleteit's time for the perculator.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to throw out that McLouth jersey. And the Jack Wilson. And the Sanchez. And yes, even the Plesac.
ReplyDeleteits time...... for new management
ReplyDeleteIt's time...to sign that strong-armed peanut vendor in the reserved section and make him our 5th starter.
ReplyDeleteIt's time...to get estimates on how much it will cost to transform PNC park into a casino.
ReplyDeleteIt's time... to lose.
ReplyDeleteIt's time...to forgive myself for moving from the couch to the easy chair during the 9th inning of the 1992 NLCS. This can't ALL be my fault, can it? Oh God, why didn't I just sit still!
ReplyDelete@give me the brandy
ReplyDelete"It's time... to point out that the Pirates have still won a championship more recently than the Flyers, Browns, Cubs, Capitals or Bengals."
my winner. very creative and not the usual bobblehead firework cliches
it time...to shoot some hot dogs, its time to shoot some hot dogs, its time to shoot some hot dooooogs. And catch yourself some meat.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to get serious...World serious!
ReplyDeleteits time....to start using Tom Emanski videos instead of a fielding instructor
ReplyDeleteits time....to stop getting my hopes up.
It's time to thank God that we are not idiot Yankees fans
ReplyDeleteYeah it'd be awful to root for a team that is competitive and has actual expectations. ???
ReplyDeleteIt's time...For Chris Duffy bobblehead night and an REO SpeedWagon concert.
ReplyDeleteKoz,
ReplyDeleteHave you ever been in a room full of Yankee's fans? Ones who have never lived in New York and roll on the bandwagon like it's covered in gold?
It's time to dress up like ninjas and use akward Kung Fu moves
@Dave
ReplyDeleteYeah, but it was a football crowd and they were Steelers fans.
Get real.
it's time... to have our highlights on sportscenter follow the WNBA
ReplyDeleteit's time...for 80-82
ReplyDeleteIt's time...to forgive Sid Bream.
ReplyDeleteIt's time...to highlight 18 years of futility.
ReplyDeleteIt's time . . . for all those fairweather fans to jump on the bandwagon and claim they loyally supported the Pirates through all the losing seasons.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to check if you have a jersey with a player's name who hasn't retired or been traded
ReplyDeleteIt's time to bring in Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez
ReplyDeleteits time...to see andrew before daniel is the only mccutchen left on the team.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to dupe what's left of our fan base.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to have the pitcher bat 8th.
ReplyDeletehttp://postgazette.com/pg/10088/1046523-100.stm
Its time for another perogie race.
ReplyDeleteIts time ... to be disappointed.
ReplyDeleteIt's time for Nutting to grow some balls and for the Pirates to throw some strikes! Go Buccos! Let's Turn it Around! - Jason (Gilbertsville PA)
ReplyDeleteIt's time...to realize Nutting cares more about Seven Springs
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