Things are about to turn a corner in Pittsburgh. End the Futilitywatch, ace pitching prospect Daniel "The Man" McCutchen will make his Major League debut Monday night against the Cincinnati Reds. This year McCutchen is already 13-6 with a 3.47 ERA in 24 starts, and in his last 52 innings has walked only four while striking out forty. He is like Jay Bruce and Matt Wieters combined! Except his pitches!

Though general manager Neal Huntington said last week that the Pirates would not go to a straight six-man rotation in September, it appears that they are reconsidering it, because 38 guys on their 40-man roster are pitchers. The other two are Lastings Milledge and the Parrot.

Tonight's Dugout is after the jump.

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	NealBeforeZod: I don't know how to read or count, how many games back are we in the division?
	RussellFanFest: 22, Mr. Huntington
	NealBeforeZod: ...and how many games do we have left in the season?
	AndradeGiant: 34, Mr. Huntington
	NealBeforeZod: and how many games are there in a season? Normally?
	DonLongSilver: 162 normally, Mr. Huntington
	NealBeforeZod: and what division are we in?
	YouGottaVarshoAss: The NL Central, Mr. Huntington
	NealBeforeZod: Hmmm, that's the one with the Yankees and the Red Sox and the Dodgers, right? Hm, that's going to be hard
	NealBeforeZod: but opening up the calculator function on my computer and getting my assistant to do the math, I just found out that 34 - 22 = 12
	NealBeforeZod: So that means we aren't mathmatically eliminated!
	RussellFanFest: we were mathmatically eliminated so bad last year they gave us rollover losses and just eliminated us again for this year
	NealBeforeZod: /frantically mashes keys
	RussellFanFest: i was kidding
	NealBeforeZod: haha, you guys and this chatroom, always exaggerating so much, acting crazy... lol remember the time when you said we hadn't had a winning season in 17 years
	NealBeforeZod: n e wayzzz, how do we get better? How about a new stadium? You guys want that?
	AndradeGiant: our park is beautiful and great
	NealBeforeZod: You don't want like, like a retractable dome? Or a big sliding board? Or a train? A pirate train!
	AndradeGiant: no
	NealBeforeZod: no Wednesday afternoon concerts before, during, and after the game by Big and Rich? No? Okay, how about uniforms?
	DonLongSilver: our unis still look really good, too
	YouGottaVarshoAss: except for the sleeveless red ones that made us look like an intramural basketball team
	NealBeforeZod: You didn't like those? I designed them myself, after I fell into a disasterous arrangement of condiments
	NealBeforeZod: in 2010 the Pirates will be debuting new blue and red uniforms with our new logo, "Pittsburgh" written in cursive while a grimacing, muscular cartoon bird swings a bat
	AndradeGiant: ughhhh
	NealBeforeZod: It gets better, instead of pants you'll be wearing black mesh shorts with slightly longer grey shorts underneath. Like my favorite shorts from second grade!
	RussellFanFest: I have a suggestion
	NealBeforeZod: Oh, good! Hi, and what's your name?
	RussellFanFest: Uhhh, John Russell, I'm the coach...
	NealBeforeZod: I thought Craig T. Nelson was Coach???
	RussellFanFest: Why don't we stop trading away every talented 28 year old we get if we keep them in the minors until they're 27?
	NealBeforeZod: how about instead of doing that, we get inspired by soul hits of the 70s
	DonLongSilver: no, seriously, we get some pretty good young players, if we kept them or arranged them in some kind of useful way we could at least be like, San Francisco good
	NealBeforeZod: you think I don't like good players? Look at Ryan Doumit! We've held on to him FOREVER
	RussellFanFest: Ryan had one good year and then his attitude went to sh**, I had to bench him in the middle of the game the other day
	RussellFanFest: I told him I was replacing him with Robinzon Diaz, but I think he figured out there's nobody named "Robinzon" in the world
	AndradeGiant: we should trade Robinzon Diaz to Florida for Logglobo Vlandignorf
	NealBeforeZod: How old is Vlandignorf?
	AndradeGiant: pretty sure I just made him up
	NealBeforeZod: Hmmm, sounds risky, he might end up being too good and we'd have to trade him right back
	NealBeforeZod: How about this, I didn't want to do this until the end of 2012, but I'll go ahead and call up Daniel McCutchen. Maybe he can help.
	NealBeforeZod: /activates palm crystal
	Online Host Meanwhile, in the AAA Indianapolis Indians Chatroom!
	CookFoodInMcCutchen: /red symbol on hand begins to flash
	CookFoodInMcCutchen: I just got called up to the Pirates roster! I'm pitching against the Reds tomorrow night!
	WaterMeloan: NO! Don't go in there! You're going to be 27 in a few weeks! No one has to die at 27! You could live! LIVE! Live, and grow old! I've seen it! He's seen it!
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	TaggBozieSpray: No! Don't! Don't go! Listen to him! He's telling the truth! We've been outside! There's another team you can play for! We've seen it!
	WaterMeloan: Pirate callups are a lie! Carousel is a lie! There is no contract renewal!

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