Tag: Pittsburgh Pirates

What We Have

Photo of Jason celebrating the homer – from MLB.com When I first started blogging, I wrote about my affection for the Pittsburgh Pirates. The 1979 Pirates/Orioles World Series was the first World Series I got to watch on my own.…

Like it never happened

That Lester/Aardsma/Hansen/Delcarmen shit show?  Never happened. Yep, I stayed up to watch the Pirates beat the Rays in 13 innings – on a two-out homerun by Jason Bay.  (If you’ve never heard the Pirates announcers, they’re highly entertaining.  And, rivalries…