Another year, another Pittsburgh Pirates thread, another summer of depression-related substance abuse

Heretic drunk due to happiness instead of depression. I'm happy for you.

Something like 34-12 vs Reds at PNC last 46 games

posted by justincredible

Heretic drunk due to happiness instead of depression. I'm happy for you.

It is a weird thing for this time of the year. I wouldn't have picked them to be first in the division and only second to Tampa overall in MLB on April 24, but I'll take it! Starting pitching has been great so far, relief pitching has been rock solid, at least with the key guys. Offense has been better than expected with Cutch and Santana having good bounce-back years so far and less-heralded guys like Connor Joe being great. Even the bad stuff has turned out to not be a total negative. Sucks that Cruz got hurt, but Marcano and Mathias have both shown a lot in their time on the field. I remember last year thinking that Marcano, Suwinski and Cal Mitchell all seemed to have potential, but weren't able to put it together with consistency. Suwinski is doing well so far and Marcano has shown ability in his appearances, so I'm hoping that's a good sign.

Bednar has been real good

posted by Ironman92

Bednar has been real good

He was real good last year until around the All-Star break. Think he'd pulled something in his back around that time and never really got back to 100%. When healthy, he's as good a closer as there is in the bigs.

Better sit down -- 

The Pirates have extended (long term) Bryan Reynolds, and are spending more money on him than anyone in their history. 

posted by QuakerOats

Better sit down -- 

The Pirates have extended (long term) Bryan Reynolds, and are spending more money on him than anyone in their history. 

Saw that. Very good news for the future. They're actually making an effort to not lose their stars as soon as possible. And were able to get a guy who had requested a trade to not just stick around for the short term, but instead, for the long term.

And two out of three over the Dodgers. Which should have been all three, if not for a bullpen meltdown in the first game that turned a 7-2 lead into a 7-8 loss.

Was fun following it on Twitter while in the office and watching Dodgers fans melt down in real time because their gazillion dollar team is hovering around .500 and was made to look pretty pedestrian by an far less expensive team that's getting infinitely more "bang for the buck" so far.

Put a few bucks on pirates over 3 runs for the game and they got it in the first lol!! Fuck the dodgers 

Second best record in all of baseball. 

Nice to Maggi get the start at 3B ..............cool story this week. 

posted by QuakerOats

Second best record in all of baseball. 

Nice to Maggi get the start at 3B ..............cool story this week. 

Would have been great if he'd have gotten a hit, just because that would make his story even better. But, man, hard to imagine the journey he had getting to this point. Like 12-14 years of nothing but minor leagues (and one very brief cup of coffee in the bigs where he didn't even get to play) and basically being a generic sort of journeyman (got called up from AA AND his career average is around .250) who probably was as shocked as anyone to find out he was getting called up to the bigs. And has gotten both his first MLB at-bat and first start. And probably has stayed up longer than expected, due to it being Canaan Smith-Njigba being sent down when Reynolds returned.

My brother in law kicked his wife in the face for a HR ball last week lol 

DH

6-3 W

16-0 in game 2

With Maggi, who got optioned back to AA but got one more day in the bigs as the 27th man for the doubleheader, getting his first two hits and an RBI!

posted by Heretic

With Maggi, who got optioned back to AA but got one more day in the bigs as the 27th man for the doubleheader, getting his first two hits and an RBI!

I feel sending him back down is bad karma….also my kid clearly brought good fortunes to many sports teams within the city of Pittsburgh but he’s now home and I feel the Pirates will now revert back to being the Pirates

0-1

posted by Ironman92

0-1

Bad juju

Return of the Maggi, please

Pirates are 0-5 since my son left Pittsburgh….

Turn the car around 

posted by Ironman92

Pirates are 0-5 since my son left Pittsburgh….

0-7 now. He needs to go back. Forever. You can visit him when they host the Reds.