First...I was going to write about the tragedy down at Virginia Tech but I think everything about it has been said. It was senseless and absolutely tragic. I'm not sure what kind of sick person does something like this but it's just completely insane. More details will come out as time goes on...but no one will ever make any sense of what happened.
Anyway, on to the Pirates. We're 11 games into the young baseball season and the Pirates are only 1 game under .500. And that puts them only 1.5 games out of first in the NL Central. What is amazing about their 5-6 record is the fact that they are 0-4 at PNC Park. 0-4. How is it possible that the Pirates cannot win a game at home? They are 5-2 on the road. It's a shame they have to play home games at all.
But there are a lot of negatives to the Pirates 5-6 record. First, they rank 15th out of 16 teams in the National League in batting average. They're 14th in RBIs and tied for last in runs scored. The pitching has made up for some of the lack of offense but having an ERA of 3.56 and not scoring isn't going to win many games. The Pirates still need some bats to really compete with the Cardinals. With what I'm seeing so far, I think the 5-6 is a fluke. I don't see this as the seaosn the Pirates break the 14-year curse.
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Under the current revenue sharing agreements, teams like Pittsburg and KC actually make more money by mailin' in the seasons with glorified AAA players.
While it would be impossible with the century-old farm system that MLB uses, it is at times too bad that American baseball doesn't have a system of league relegation and promotion like they do in European soccer leagues. In other words: if you suck, you get dropped a league, while that leagues champs get bumped up. that way, if the ownership in those cities don't want to even try to field a decent team, then Buffalo or Louisville or whoever puts together a good AAA team gets a shot.
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