By now, if you care about this sort of thing, you are well aware of the skid that the Pirates have hit....16-15 since the All-Star Break, 3-6 on the current home stand, fallen to six games behind the first place Reds, and hold the last wild card spot by the narrowest of margins. There has been no God-awful ten game losing streak as there was last year, but things are, as GM Neal might put it, "trending downward".
As the holder of a partial ticket plan, I availed myself last night of one of the perks, and cashed in on two free tickets to last night's game with the Dodgers. It was a prime example of the old expression "you get what you pay for" - I paid nothing for the tickets, and the Pirates, in losing 11-0, gave us absolutely nothing in the way of performance. I kept having horrible flashbacks to the 2010 John Russell-led 105 loss Buccos.
Still plenty of time left, and nothing that a nice five or six game winning streak wouldn't cure, but the clouds are dark on the Bucco horizon right now.
As the holder of a partial ticket plan, I availed myself last night of one of the perks, and cashed in on two free tickets to last night's game with the Dodgers. It was a prime example of the old expression "you get what you pay for" - I paid nothing for the tickets, and the Pirates, in losing 11-0, gave us absolutely nothing in the way of performance. I kept having horrible flashbacks to the 2010 John Russell-led 105 loss Buccos.
Still plenty of time left, and nothing that a nice five or six game winning streak wouldn't cure, but the clouds are dark on the Bucco horizon right now.
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