They trade away all of their good players, (
Adam LaRoche,
Nate McClouth,
Andrew McCutchen is probably next) they have
projectile vomit-inducing uniforms, and seem to find ways to lose games instead of finding ways to win them. After watching this global soccer tournament nonsense, the Pirates have made a decent argument to implement team relegation in the MLB.
I was boning up on some player news updates when I came across this astonishing sentence: "[RP Evan] Meek, who gave up a game-deciding unearned run on a solo homer to Kurt Suzuki on Sunday..." I had never heard of this occurring in a baseball game, but considering the team being discussed was the Pirates, I could totally see it happening.
Nevertheless, I investigated the box score and
the video at Pirates.com (a website that could possibly be less exciting than
this one). At the 1:05 mark, you can view the error by C Jason Jaramillo; he drops an easy pop-foul ball hit by Oakland Athletic's C Kurt Suzuki. The play seems harmless until you see how Suzuki handles Meek's 2-2 pitch by depositing it into the left field bleachers for the go-ahead run.
The fun doesn't end there.
Keep watching to clip to see the game end with Pirates' baserunner Pedro Alvarez being hit by a ball off the bat of soon-to-be-traded-highly-touted-prospect Jose Tabata. But look on the bright side. At least it counted as a single, so all you fantasy baseball junkies probably got that half point increase in your team's batting average.
I would like to thank the Pittsburgh Pirates for allowing me to reminisce about the way my 6th grade Little League baseball team used to play. Ah, those were the days.
Derek Jeter recently cracked the ripe old age of 36, and I think he's been planning for his second career for quite some time. Take a gander at this 'Rescue Me' promo and you'll see what I mean.
