MLB 2013 (Primarily non-Nats/O's

[Lanky Livingston]

Eh, Nats have been posting awesome attendance records all season long. I'm not ready to crap on them yet.

Their season is definitely falling apart though.

Bryce Harper walk-off HR - they needed that one.

 

[Lanky Livingston]

Check out this "routine" baseball play in Independent League ball - awesome!

Routine Baseball Play Turns Awesome Thanks To Some Crazy Bounces

 

[Jugband McGillicuddy]

It sucked to lose yesterday after battling back from 4-0 and 7-3 down. But I'm more than content with taking three of four on the road from the penciled-in NL champs. And Harper didn't hurt us in the series except for the fatal blow yesterday. I can live with that. I know the fans who were at PNC East were disappointed though.

20 games over, 100 games in and going to Miami. Life is good in the 'Burgh.

 

[Lanky Livingston]

Life is good in the 'Burgh.

GROSS. You need to wash your mouth out with soap after that. Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin & Ben Rothlispickle all said the same thing.

 

[Jugband McGillicuddy]

GROSS. You need to wash your mouth out with soap after that. Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin & Ben Rothlispickle all said the same thing.

I'm just glad that to pick a fight, you have to turn to teams that you know I despise.

 

[Lanky Livingston]

I'm just glad that to pick a fight, you have to turn to teams that you know I despise.

Not picking a fight...but when someone says "things are good in the 'Burgh" it makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit.

Not to mention, Sh!tsburgh already has a nickname.

 

[Jugband McGillicuddy]

Not picking a fight...but when someone says "things are good in the 'Burgh" it makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit.

Not to mention, Sh!tsburgh already has a nickname.

Cause Baltimore's such a great sports town. Mayflower, FTW!

 

[Jugband McGillicuddy]

Once again, 20 over, 1.5 back of St. Louis. One more vs. the Marlins, then it's home for FIVE against the division leader.

May there be a NEW division leader when the dust settles.


RAISE IT.

 

[Jugband McGillicuddy]

As 7pm approaches, I'm starting to get that knot in my stomach. Five in four days versus the best team in baseball ain't the most attractive proposition. But it's put up or shut up time. Biggest series in the 'Burgh since the 1992 NLCS.

LET'S GO BUCS!!!

 

[Lanky Livingston]

Orioles need to sweep the Astros & Mariners this week to stay in the AL East race. At least the Rays & Sox play each other...

 

[Jugband McGillicuddy]

1/2 game removed from first place in the division, and the best record in baseball.

It's July 29th folks. Any questions have been have been answered. The Pirates are legitimate contenders. Do I expect to win the World Series? No. Do I expect to win the division? No. Are we in the conversation when talking about the top 5 teams in the sport? You bet your ass we are.

LET'S GO BUCS!!!!

 

[Jugband McGillicuddy]

On July 30th, 2013, at 11:22pm, I'm posting this as a fan of the team with THE BEST RECORD in ALL of Major League Baseball!!!

Cards don't want none.

RAISE IT!!!

 

[Lanky Livingston]

BSPN is the WORST. They are such an awful network! Here, instead of finding a picture from a different angle, they flipped another one and turned the league's best hitter into a lefty. Its not scandalous or anything like that, its just mind-numbingly stupid, and par for the course for them.

ESPN Clumsily Promotes Miguel Cabrera As Lefty With Botched Photoshop

 

[Jugband McGillicuddy]

Make it FOUR in a row over the (formerly) best team in baseball!!!

Bucs go for the FIVE GAME sweep of St. Louis tomorrow!!!

Every single team in baseball continues to look up at us!!!!

It's really nice to go from 20 years of worst, TO FIRST!!!!!

 

[Lanky Livingston]

Meanwhile, the Orioles got destroyed by the Astros, in Baltimore. Not cool, Butters!

 

[Jugband McGillicuddy]

Meanwhile, the Orioles got destroyed by the Astros, in Baltimore. Not cool, Butters!

Every dog has its day. But y'all need to heat up here soon. *Captain Obvious*

 

[Lanky Livingston]

Make it FOUR in a row over the (formerly) best team in baseball!!!

Bucs go for the FIVE GAME sweep of St. Louis tomorrow!!!

Every single team in baseball continues to look up at us!!!!

It's really nice to go from 20 years of worst, TO FIRST!!!!!

RE: The 5-game sweep:

That feat's so rare that no one was even tweeting about the possibility shortly after the Pirates finished off the Cards on Wednesday night, with Mark Melancon working a 1-2-3 ninth inning for the save, his fifth of the year and third since then-NL saves leader Jason Grilli got injured last week, and there's scant wondering about it on the Internet. The 1927 Yankees did it twice, but they a) were the 1927 Yankees and b) swept a sub-.500 White Sox team and an awful, 51-103 Red Sox team in those series. (Update: The 2006 Yankees swept a pretty good Red Sox team, Ben Kabak notes.) The Cardinals are a lot better than those clubs.

http://deadspin.com/the-pirates-might-just-sweep-a-five-game-series-from-th-984666066

 

[Jugband McGillicuddy]

*I* didn't consider it a possibility until after last night's game. And you won't find a bigger homer than I am.

Incidentally, the last time we swept a fiver was against the Giants in 1996.

The Cardinals haven't been swept in a series of at least five games since 1916...against the NEW YORK (Baseball) Giants.

 

[Jugband McGillicuddy]

The Pittsburgh Pirates would like to welcome the Boston Red Sox to the exclusive .600-plus club.

 

[Lanky Livingston]

Let the A-Roid circus begin...