Garbage!!

Why do I end up going to the worst fucking games and selling the good ones?  Pirates are GARBAGE tonight.  Worst game ever.

Nice Night for a Ballgame

I think I'll go! What a great idea, I have season tickets, baby!

Graphs Updated: Playoff Chances and Overall Season Graph

The most important line is the blue line.  It's suffered it's worst month of the season -- we need to see it turn upward.

Two in a Row a Good Sign

After losing the first of three at home to Houston on Labor Day, the Pirates played well on Tuesday and Wednesday to stay within a game and a half of the last wild card spot.  They're hanging tough. In other positive news, our kickball team started off the season with a big win last night.  Props to the Orange Team.  Our first game of the fall season got off to a miserable start when the first kicker crushed the first pitch down the right field line for a homerun, but it was all Orange the rest of the way.  We even nailed a base runner at the plate, which is perhaps the most rewarding play in all of kickball.  There just isn't a whole lot better than throwing that red rubber ball at some dude as hard as you can and drilling him in the chest.

Wild Card Standings

Sales Thinning Out!

As an example of my previous post today, I wasn't able to sell my tickets for tonight's game.  That's the first time that's happened.  Every other game that I've sold (14 total) I've been able to sell on game day (if not already sold in advance).  Today marks the first time that failed.  It's starting to seem like the Brand New Bucco Experience is becoming defined as 'showing potential in the middle of the season for 1 or 2 great months but stumbling through August and September like it was 2006.'  I would still be interested in going to these games if 30,000 other people were.  I'd still be interested in rooting on the home team, the team that's a couple games out of the wild card with an entire month to play, if there were some other like minded fans out there.  That's not to say I don't get it -- I do.  Losing more than you win and drawing 15,000 fan does not make me want to go to the games either.  But being right there in a potential play off race in September, isn't that all you can ask for?  Isn't that exactly what you'd hope going into a baseball season?  I don't know, it's a week night, it's rainy, it's the Astros... but still... last week against the Cardinals there was no buzz either.  So don't blame the Astros.  The Pirates are the 7th best team in the National League.  The best 5 make the playoffs.  That's really really close, it's within reach.  Is football season already taking over?

Well... It's September

Well... it's September... and the Pirates are in playoff contention.  Somehow there's no buzz, though.  Maybe it's because they've lost 4 in a row.  Maybe because August was awful.  But still, I think many fans are victims of their own heightened expectations.  They've lost 4 in a row, are playing horribly, yet they remain a mere 2.5 games out of the wild card.  That's a good thing.  There's a month of baseball left and the Pirates are within striking distance of making the playoffs.  So why all the empty seats?  Why all the disappointment?

More on this later...