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I know it's been a long time, but wasn't the PPG the rag that gave this site all that **** for posting articles? If so, looks like it bought em a few years, but ya gotta get with the times or be a relic.

Joe
 
Heard on 93.7 The Fan that the paper is losing too much money and will shut if down this May.
That’s ****** up!
I grew up in Pittsburgh with the Post Gazette and the Press.
I suppose folks just get everything they want from the internet.
Lots of journalists losing their jobs as well as many others.
Sad day for the Steel City!
 
That stinks. I grew up a Steeler fan in Eastern PA, so you didn't get much news in the 70s and 80s. But when I went up to PSU, I bought that paper every day during football season.
 
Yeah, my buddies on our Pittsburgh Yinzer text thread just made me aware of that. Of course that led to all of our conversations about our adventures being paper boys in Pittsburgh. Most of us were Pittsburgh press guys.
I still remember a Sunday paper we delivered with the headline, Joe who?
I also remember my brother and I fighting over who had to deliver to the high side of the street.
For those of you not from the Burgh and don’t understand what I’m saying, a lot of the neighborhood streets like ours had 32 steps to the front porch, and the other side of the street was almost ground level.
So you now know which side of the street you wanted to deliver the paper on lol
Yes, it’s true, Pittsburgh is basically rivers, bridges, tunnels, hills and valleys. Not to mention a ***** to drive around town, especially in the winter time.
 
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So many great memories from the Post Gazette and the Press.
Remember checking the MLB box scores, remember those? Player At Bats, Hits, Runs, RBIs.
I do remember the headline Joe Who?
I remember in the 60’s the headlines, same old Steelers. That was not a compliment for our younger posters. The Steelers really, really sucked back then.
Oh well, times change and you have to be ready to change with the times.
 
steelhurt said:
So many great memories from the Post Gazette and the Press.
Remember checking the MLB box scores, remember those? Player At Bats, Hits, Runs, RBIs.
I do remember the headline Joe Who?
I remember in the 60’s the headlines, same old Steelers. That was not a compliment for our younger posters. The Steelers really, really sucked back then.
Oh well, times change and you have to be ready to change with the times.
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Right on man.
When they drafted mean Joe, everything changed.
There were two Pittsburgh sports players that has a kid I could not take my eyes off of while they were playing one was mean Joe Green any other was Roberto Clemente
 
Roberto Clemente was a great,great ball player and first class guy.
I remember as a kid going to old Forbes Field in Oakland sitting in the right field bleachers with my buddies.
After one of those games we waited outside the Pirates clubhouse which you could do back then.
Roberto came out and signed our baseballs. Really cool guy. Try doing that now!
I would see Joe Greene around the city quite often. Especially a former seafood establishment in the strip district he would come in for fish sandwiches at lunchtime.
Quiet man who I think people were just afraid to approach but he was cool.
The seventy’s were simply a magical time in the Steel City with the Steelers and Pirates and of course Three Rivers Stadium.
It was funny also back then as I would ride the trolley (street car for you old guys) from the South Hills to Grant Street to my work in the US Steel Bldg. You could tell back then whether the Steelers won or lost back then by the mood on the trolley.
If they had lost oh man, it could be tense!
 
Steeltime said:
My aunt would send me the sports pages for the PPG after every Steelers SB.
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Yeah same. I would get them every week during football season. My uncle would read the paper after a steelers game and then send to me.
I would get them on Thursdays bit way better than nothing!
 
Fittipaldo and Carter do a nice job covering the Steelers. The high school sports staff is really good as well.
 
SteelerFan448 said:
Fittipaldo and Carter do a nice job covering the Steelers. The high school sports staff is really good as well.
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Carter can be a tool. Not that he isn’t a good listen. We had a back in forth once. Which he kept going and going. Then because he didn’t like my response he blocked. These people get a little notoriety and develop big head syndrome.
 
slashsteel said:
Carter can be a tool. Not that he isn’t a good listen. We had a back in forth once. Which he kept going and going. Then because he didn’t like my response he blocked. These people get a little notoriety and develop big head syndrome.
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Carter did get a bit of that after moving to the PG. Kaboly used to be that way and is now just goofy. Alan Saunders has smartest guy in the room syndrome.
 
madinsomniac said:
The PG just lost a lawsuit in a dispute with the staff over money... the paper was already operating ay a loss... the added expenses made it untenable as a tax write off loss so its just being shuttered... sometimes when a company cries poor... it just is
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Funny, I remember when the Tribune Review went bankrupt once or twice, now it'll be the only paper left.
I guess that's where I'll be putting my obituaries.
 
steelhurt said:
So many great memories from the Post Gazette and the Press.
Remember checking the MLB box scores, remember those? Player At Bats, Hits, Runs, RBIs.
I do remember the headline Joe Who?
I remember in the 60’s the headlines, same old Steelers. That was not a compliment for our younger posters. The Steelers really, really sucked back then.
Oh well, times change and you have to be ready to change with the times.
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We used to get both.. PG in the morning and Press in the afternoon.
I had two sets of comics and sports pages to read, it was great!
Remember Ask Andy? Someone would write to him about a topic and he'd explain and expand on it. Learned a lot from it!
 
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