MILWAUKEE -- It's safe to assume that what all of Pittsburgh's angst-ridden baseball fans would prefer to read this morning, above and beyond anything, is this: Jeff Locke and Neal Huntington carried on a lengthy conversation in a side corridor of Miller Park's visiting clubhouse late Wednesday night.
This, of course, came after Locke's latest dud -- 3 2/3 innings, five runs, nine hits -- that cost the Pirates a 9-4 annihilation at the Brewers' hands Wednesday night.
And it didn't appear to bode well for the beleaguered lefty, any more than when Clint Hurdle flatly declined to discuss his immediate future in the rotation.
"You know what?" the manager came back when that was raised. "Those are conversations we have internally, not something we'll pop up after a guy leaves after 3 2/3 innings. We're continually looking to improve our team, whether it's a position player or starting pitcher."
That's not exactly a banishment, but if you picked up any heck-yeah-he's-my-guy tone in there somewhere, that makes one of us.
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