There should be a legal solution to deal with the hypocrisy that is the management of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Once again after season ticket holders have paid all or at least most of the invoice for their season tickets, the executives of the Pirates have shafted their most loyal fans.

On Monday afternoon, just two days after all the hoopla around PirateFest, the Pirates did another salary dump and traded the most talented player on the roster for a 12-year-old cow and a handful of beans. The trade will save the owner another $12 million in salary this year as the players he got in return are “low-level minor leaguers.”

Odds are pretty good that neither will ever wear a Pirate major league jersey in a game. Is the timing of this transaction questionable? No more than all the bad moves they have made ever since Bob Nutting took over as the principal owner.

Baseball is just a game. Remember that when you consider attending one of the minor league games that will be played at PNC Park this year and buying overpriced food and beer.

You remember that place? That is the stadium the taxpayers paid for in exchange for the promise of a winner.

Where is the winner? This will be the 20th year since the public gifted Nutting with one of the best ballparks in the league, and certainly it will be the nicest one housing a minor league team, such as the one that will take the field this year. It ranks as one of the worst deals ever made, aside from maybe the Louisiana Purchase and the deal where someone sold the Brooklyn Bridge for some beads.

There seems to be no end to the greed of this ownership.

I suspect the league and players union will undertake an investigation to see how it is possible that anyone can run a business this badly.

But that is where the real rub comes in.

The business is fine. Nutting makes millions of dollars in profit thanks to a free stadium, a lucrative television contract and a rule in which the bigger salary spenders have to pay penalty fees to the poor teams whose revenue isn’t as healthy.

Baseball is losing interest from fans all over the leagues, but nowhere do fans have more reason to stay home and to turn off their televisions than in Pittsburgh. What a shameful ownership group this is.

Maybe the whole new leadership team that was being praised this weekend will show some pride and resign, rather than work with an organization with no hope of winning in the foreseeable future. Let’s Go Bucs has become Please Go Bucs.