THE BLACK HAND FORUM

[quote=mike68 post_id=134731 time=1578418068 user_id=121]
Pittsburgh will win the NBA title before they win a World Series......yes, I know they don't have a basketball team, that's the point!
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Fuck the NBA, a bunch of zoo animals filing bankruptcy within 5 years of retirement. Pirates and Steelers were legendary

[quote=Moscone65 post_id=133679 time=1577390721 user_id=5735]
[quote=JCB1977 post_id=133678 time=1577390209 user_id=116]
[quote=Moscone65 post_id=133676 time=1577390026 user_id=5735]
Kansas City was a bit different as they still had a decent bunch of younger guys and associates even up to the 80’s and early 90’s. They still have younger guy to this day although it’s disputed if there’s any family or just remnants, however the younger guys are there..
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Same with Pittsburgh...there have been many busts since the demise of the family that are related to gambling involving former associates.
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Ya but what I’m trying to say is KC imo always had more structure even up until more recently, and they made more guys. I guess it depends on the boss ect
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In your opinion? Do you have any solid info to back that up? I'm not trying to be an asshole, but KC has been dying forever and it is highly debated.

They have one made guy who is near 90.

Are there connected guys who do gambling? Sure.

But to have a mob you'd need to have some kind of structure and addition as opposed to subtraction of members and some young blood. Even if that youngblood is 50 as opposed to 85.

They have none of that. Their last induction was in the late 80s or really early 90s.

It's been subtraction ever since.

Pittsburgh will win the NBA title before they win a World Series......yes, I know they don't have a basketball team, that's the point!

[quote=Lou_Para post_id=134663 time=1578354223 user_id=86]
Q: Why doesn't Johnstown, PA have a professional baseball team?
A: Because if they did, Pittsburgh would want one too.
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:lol: :lol: :lol:

Q: Why doesn't Johnstown, PA have a professional baseball team?
A: Because if they did, Pittsburgh would want one too.

But the pirates signed a catcher who batted .188 so there is signs of life ha ha

[quote=mike68 post_id=134636 time=1578333988 user_id=121]
So, who is more dead, the Pittsburgh mob or the Pittsburgh baseball team??
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The Pirates got a better shot at coming back to life than the Pittsburgh Mob does :lol:

So, who is more dead, the Pittsburgh mob or the Pittsburgh baseball team??

[quote=JoeTheBoss post_id=129183 time=1573874185 user_id=298]
Whats the skinny on Pittsburgh? I thought they were defunct but I've been reading some about them and it seems they may not be defunct, just laying low, running gambling ops and what not. Seems to be the trend, long thought dead LCN families coming back from the 'dead'. Buffalo and Springfield being the best examples. Any thoughts on Pittsburgh? Any evidence? Thanks
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I wouldn’t say that Springfield fits into this conversation considering it’s not it’s own family. It’s just a crew of the genovese family.... and it’s always seemed to have very limited made men.. honestly when they killed Bruno was probably the height of that crew, besides the heyday of course ... but for 2003 you had Bruno as a captain, arrilotta as made, tranghese- made, fusco- made, santaniello and his father Amedeo and his brother italo as associates, calvanese- associate , depergola- associate , the geas brothers- associates , Calabrese- associate, valentini- associate... so honestly I’n the early 2000s that’s a pretty solid fucking crew.... when rooster took over as skipper somewhat recently he said he had 6 guts up there and was proposing 1 for membership, which was Ralph santaniello... which makes me think Springfield has 0 made men the last few years, judt associates kicking up to the captain rooster.. and when jr rubeo the rat asked rooster if he could go up there and if there was money to be earned rooster said he already had enough guys (6). Lol but they’re basically all off the street now besides calvanese and Ralph’s father..

[quote=Pghcraig10 post_id=134116 time=1577765424 user_id=5654]
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2019/12/30/samuel-rende-contract-killing-hazelwood-pittsburgh-dead-obituary/stories/201912300087
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“The 90-year-old Mr. Rende .... He remarried and had two daughters — one is [b]currently[/b] in college and the other in high school.

Popping out kids in his late 70’s?

Ooookay.

i know but everyone said they were dead and gone.

[quote=JoeTheBoss post_id=134569 time=1578260986 user_id=298]
no Springfield, Ma
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Springfeild was never its own family. They were a Genovese Crew.


Pogo

no Springfield, Ma

That is just crazy - being somewhat involved all those years and get picked off like that - at the age of 90.