BRADENTON, Fla. -- Sure, there's been a bunch of grumbling at the Pirates' spring training, from the moment the first of the pitchers and catchers reported. One after another, it seemed, Josh Harrison, David Freese, Sean Rodriguez would pipe up complaints about the front office, soon followed by some kind of comeback from the front office.
Well, forget that now.
Thursday marked my first day down here this spring and, coincidentally, it might have marked the end of the drama. Tony Clark arrived in the morning for his annual meeting, took questions from the players regarding the union's recent grievance against the front office's failure to properly spend revenue-sharing monies, then made some pretty powerful remarks afterward. But when I later surveyed some of the above veterans -- and several others -- there was just nada. Not on the record. Not off the record.
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