Sunday 16 September 2012
On Aug. 8 of this season, the Pirates were 63-47. They were 2.5 games out of first. They were comfortably in the wild-card hunt. Andrew McCutchen was a surefire MVP candidate. If nothing else, that terrible streak of 19 consecutive losing seasons—all together now, the longest in the history of North American professional sports—was mercifully going to end. Not even the Pirates could screw this up. But it’s happening, and it’s been a slow, torturous, predictable process. This Is Now The Pittsburgh Pirates’ Worst Season Ever ☀
