You love the Pittsburgh Pirates. I love the Pittsburgh Pirates, it's a special bond that joins thousands of strangers together. There are ups and down every year, unfortunately there are far more downs than ups.
Which is why it's important in my eyes to enjoy an off day like today. Watching the Pirates play this year has been gruesome. Probably 40 of their 44 games have had some serious stress causing happenings. It's mentally exhausting.
To my memory the team has had one game in which you were pretty confident they'd win the whole time. There hasn't been a game yet that they have opened up a big lead early on and kept it for the whole game; that's tough to deal with.
The team just played 16 straight games without a day off, and they performed okay in those games (they were 8-8 despite struggling to do anything on offense). You get excited to watch every single game and then they reward you by playing close frustrating games in which they should be able to win more than half of, but they don't.
So take advantage of these days off.try not to think about sports, especially the Pirates. Spend some time with your friends and family, do something fun; something that you know won't leave you going to bed upset.
Baseball is just a game. It seems more important to us because we've been waiting so long to have a competitive base team in this city, but the overall importance of the sport still pales in comparison to other things in life. Focus on what's important and forget about strikeouts and earned runs for awhile.
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