Buccos turn corner, discover cause of 12 year drought: Lanny

At the conclusion of the previous, 12th consecutive losing season for the Buccos, GM David Littlefield embarked on an intensive scientific explanation for the cause of the team's unrelenting woes, a search that involved months of computer algorithms at the University of Pittsburgh's supercomputing center. The answer, printed out on a 3 inch piece of calculator tape: "Lanny Fratere. GM David Littlefield: "The computer confirmed what we had all come to believe, that the one constant in the Buccos decades long misery was Mr. Fratere. Lanny was given his pink slip this morning. Myron Cope will fill in as interim announcer until a permanent replacement can be found".