Irate due to Pi-rates
Q: If the worst team in Major League Baseball sweeps you in a three-game series, what does that make you?
A: The Steelers play their first regular season game on September 7th.
In the world of just-barely-large ball, the Pirates got pummeled again by Kansas City. The obvious headline over such a story would be "Royal Flush", which reminds me of a song Pete's college band, Dirty Weekend, used to sing. It also involves flushing, in that it's about a circumstance under which one's head is put in the toilet, and also aptly describes the Pirates' fortunes of late. You know the one I mean.
I find it fascinating that the team has failed to clear the very low bar that allowed me think, after they dropped six of seven in a homestand, that they were still playing relatively well. In fact it seems like there wasn't very much good baseball on either side this week in Kansas City. All I had to go on for this afternoon's game was the stripped-down running summary on the ESPN website but even from those abstract little dots and numbers it was obvious it was the sort of game that usually ends after six innings, in time to drive the players to Sweet Licks for ice cream before they have to go do their homework. Luckily America cares even less about the adventures of the Bucs and Royals than they do about their soccer team getting bumped from the World Cup, which by all accounts it does not.
Apropos nothing, as I was driving this evening I saw a car with a license plate from the U.S. Virgin Islands, which was pretty cool in that "wish I was five" kind of way. So that much of the world is happy.
A: The Steelers play their first regular season game on September 7th.
In the world of just-barely-large ball, the Pirates got pummeled again by Kansas City. The obvious headline over such a story would be "Royal Flush", which reminds me of a song Pete's college band, Dirty Weekend, used to sing. It also involves flushing, in that it's about a circumstance under which one's head is put in the toilet, and also aptly describes the Pirates' fortunes of late. You know the one I mean.
I find it fascinating that the team has failed to clear the very low bar that allowed me think, after they dropped six of seven in a homestand, that they were still playing relatively well. In fact it seems like there wasn't very much good baseball on either side this week in Kansas City. All I had to go on for this afternoon's game was the stripped-down running summary on the ESPN website but even from those abstract little dots and numbers it was obvious it was the sort of game that usually ends after six innings, in time to drive the players to Sweet Licks for ice cream before they have to go do their homework. Luckily America cares even less about the adventures of the Bucs and Royals than they do about their soccer team getting bumped from the World Cup, which by all accounts it does not.
Apropos nothing, as I was driving this evening I saw a car with a license plate from the U.S. Virgin Islands, which was pretty cool in that "wish I was five" kind of way. So that much of the world is happy.
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There were nine unearned runs scored in that game.
I am disowning this team until further notice.
In related-ish news, I went to the Red Sox game Monday night (my friend Zac was in town and we went with a couple of other mutual friends) and it was pretty cool to see a baseball stadium packed full all the way from the start of the game to the finish. It was something like their 255th or so consecutive sold out game. But don't worry, I'm not about to start just rooting for the Red Sox all willy-nilly, but when the Pirates are this shitty, there's really no other choice but the adopted-hometown heroes.
Where'd you get the tickets? Scalpers?
Zac purchased 4 tickets back in March. Something to do with the internet. The game was against the Nationals, so not necessarily as in demand as other games (but, like I said, the stadium was packed wire-to-wire).
During the game we enjoyed Trader Joe's Virginia Grown Roasted In-the-Shell Peanuts ($1.19 a bag), and also some wraps the demo chef at our store (who also was attending the game) made up with left overs from his demo of the day.
I did manage to go the whole game without paying $7.25 for a Sam Adams, so that was nice too (spending the five hours preceding the game at Bukowski's helped on that front).
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