Are the Pirates waiting for Tony Pena?

Rob Biertempfel of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that the Pirates haven’t interviewed anyone for their managerial vacancy in a week, and that they’re “considering additional interviews.”

We’ve talked about the current candidates — John Gibbons, Dale Sveum, Carlos Tosca, Jeff Banister, Bo Porter and Ken Macha — but Biertempfel thinks Pittsburgh is waiting on Yankees bench coach Tony Pena’s season to be over before making a decision.

Pena certainly has a history with managing seeming lost causes. He was with the Royals, after all.  And he actually had one pretty nice season there back in 2003.  He also has a history with the Pirates of course, so it might make sense that they at least want to talk to him.

UPDATE:  Great stuff from Posnanski on Tony Pena the other day.