The Chicago Cubs assured the Pittsburgh Pirates of a record-breaking 17th consecutive losing season
Must be embarrassing to walk the streets of Pittsburgh as a Pirate Baseball player.
Bad enough to have one of the worst franchise in history but to have it in the same city as one of the best sports franchises in history, the Pittsburgh Steelers, must really suck...
You have to wonder what might happen to the Steelers when the eventually get sold.
I wouldn’t call the Pirates one of the worst franchises in history. The Pirates have won 5 World Series and at least 10 or more division championships in its over 100 year history.
In recent times, yeah, they’ve been bad ... no way to spin anything there :-).
I’m one of those rare fans here in Pittsburgh that roots for the Browns and thinks the NHL is a garage league, but that’s just me :-)!
I couldn’t stand the fans around here after the Penguins collapsed against the Islanders in 1993. I was a Devils fan thereafter, saw them win the cup in 1995, then really didn’t follow hockey after that.
Moreover, I still can’t believe the fans here still, to this day, think the Steelers won Super Bowl XL “honestly” against the Seahawks ... if there was EVER a fixed championship, Super Bowl XL had “bought and paid for” written all over it. I guess the refs felt bad after the Indianapolis debacle earlier in the playoffs.