It really is no secret that I am a huge Pittsburgh Pirates fan. This comes to a surprise to many people who get to know me because let's face it, I was 9 the last time they had a winning season. I was still coming into my own wearing my sweatsuit outfits (no embarrassing picture available) and going back and forth with my awesome pair of rec specs. Besides trying to get out of elementary school, I concentrated on playing tee ball and trying to reenact plays from the Pirates games from the night before.
Little did I know what I was watching would be my lasting memories of the Pirates having a winning season and making the postseason. Led by a much smaller version of the first B.B. worth mentioning in a guy named Barry Bonds. No question Mr. Bonds was quite the talent when he arrived in Pittsburgh and I will be the first to say I did not see the potential of him becoming the all-time leading home run leader. But as history tells us, Barry Bonds would leave us, do a total transformation (make sure you compare the two pics), and our lead star was now another B.B. in Bobby Bonilla. Not long after, Bobby B. hit the road and the Pirates organization failed to keep it together losing what was arguably one of our best pitchers in the last 20 years in Double D as well. Not the Double D most of you are thinking (fan friendly website remember), but the other in Doug Drabek. Not many ordinary guys can pull off the stache, but Doug Drabek was not what you call an ordinary guy.
Most organizations usually bounce back from free agency, but the Pirates just like many of my favorite teams of the time (49ers post Joe Mo, and the Giants post LT) found a way to continually play what I guess you could call baseball and draft worse than the Detroit Lions of modern day. This is truly an art to continue to be terrible and now that the Pirates share arguably the worst record in all of professional sports with none other than their hated rival Philadelphia Phillies. I begin every spring watching opening day and hoping the curse of steroids in baseball will not haunt the minor league talented Pirates, but somehow I find myself finding other things to do by about the end of the May when the Pirates are officially out of the pennant race, and looking to trade anyone who might have any potential for cash considerations. Just so the team owners stock can go up another quarter of a point (you know what I reference). Will this be the year of the Pirates? I'm not holding my breath.
As for what is going on with me because I know you are dying to know. Well, I made the trifecta tour this weekend to Bucky, to Charleston, and back to Beckley in a 24 hour period. I led the people I ate lunch with that I came all the way to Buckhannon to do two things and two things only. To see the new Rite Aid and eat at the world famous CJ Maggies. I was craving some mediocre food and that world famous super slow service. Check and check. Then I ventured down to the metropolis of Charleston to show off my Kevin James dance moves. I definitely met my goal and I am sure those haunting pictures will follow with my name tagged on Facebook in the coming days. Just another reason to love Facebook. And speaking of websites, I have found a new website that I am becoming more infatuated with by the day. Almost as much as I love my mentor on in Mark Titus, the website www.funnyordie.com. If you haven't checked it out yet, you should.
Bottom Line: Could be the year the Pirates get over the hump. Maybe.
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