On Sunday night, while avoiding a show in which a lot of people I've never heard of sang songs I didn't know on national television, I tweeted about Burnett and his potentially new employers -- who actually pays Burnett is irrelevant for this discussion -- and wondered if Pirates fans felt excited about possibly acquiring him. I wasn't aiming to be sarcastic. Some of the tweets made me laugh, ranging from the requisite "He's terrible," and "Pirate fans are probably excited, but not as much as Yankee fans," to "It's easy to be excited when expectations are so low," and "Getting that clown is about as exciting to a Pirate fan as a colonoscopy would be."
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Eric Karabell is a senior writer for ESPN.com. He has covered fantasy sports for ESPN since 2001, specializing in baseball and football. Eric is the host of the Baseball Today Podcast, is seen several times a week on ESPNEWS and contributes to ESPN The Magazine. He has been honored twice as fantasy sports writer of the year by the Fantasy Sports Writers Association, his blog was named best fantasy baseball series for 2007 and he was inducted into the inaugural FSWA Hall of Fame class in 2011.
Eric grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs, and accordingly, favors all Philly teams first, his fantasy teams second. He previously served as ESPN.com's lead NBA editor, and is a former Washington Post and Philadelphia Inquirer sports writer. Eric is also the author of "The Best Philadelphia Sports Arguments," published by Source Books and available in bookstores and online.
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