Don't Be Fooled-Things Can Always Get Worse.

About a week ago, the beloved team of my youth, the Pittsburgh Pirates, were, although having been completely blown out in the losses and having only 2 or maybe 3 major league starting pitchers, sporting a respectable 7-5 record and had just completed a series sweep of the Reds. Then Milwaukee came to town- the closest team to a rival due to some bad blood over headhunting and the like.

First game: 8-1 loss, shutout avoided with a ninth inning run.
Second game: 8-0 loss
Third game: 20-0 loss ( not a typo, they gave up twenty runs)

On to Houston (which started the season 0-7) but the Pirates drop 3 straight (but on the bright side in only one loss did they allow the Astros to score 10 runs).

Back to Milwaukee where the Bucs have lost something like 22 straight. Disparaging Milwaukee Journal headlines are posted on the bulletin board to fire the team up and the Pirates "best" pitcher is on the mound.

Result: 17-3 loss.

These would be blow outs even if they were football scores.

After a 7 game losing streak, the W-L record is 7-12 and the team is in last place in the division where I would wager they would stay for the rest of the season (only 143 games to go)- Maybe other teams might rest their starters when they come to town?

This team has the chance to eclipse the record of the 62 Mets and the Tiger team that lost 119 games a few years back. Hope there's a budding writer on the squad.

Related note: Although not owned by the same folks as the Pirates, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette showed Bucco-level competence by implementing a pay wall for its on-line Pirates blog as of the end of this week. Wonder how that's going to work out for them.

Biggest question is Pittsburgh sports this month is which is more embarrassing? Ben Roethlisberger off-field or the Pirates on-field?

I will of course still be watching MLB Gameday online tonight to see if the Bucs can avoid loss 24 in Brewtown.