Major League Baseball

Pirates rehire racing pierogi

Published Jun. 25, 2010 1:00 a.m. ET

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The pierogi is back, but the Pittsburgh Pirates say it's not because anybody turned up the heat.

Kurtz was fired after using the Internet to criticize contract extensions given to general manager Neal Huntington and manager John Russell.

Warecki says Kurtz was rehired because he had not been dismissed in accordance with company procedures. Warecki says when team management learned of the firing it promptly offered Kurtz his job back because he shouldn't have been terminated in the first place.

He says bad publicity played no part in the decision.