Appropriate Baseball Axiom #1 – Momentum is only as good as the next day’s starter.
Appropriate Baseball Axiom #2 – A 20-0 loss counts no more than a 1-0 loss.
Look, there’s no use lingering on what happened yesterday. It sucked, it’s over, and now it’s time to move on. How does this team respond to a 20-0 thrashing? How does any team respond to that? We find out this weekend against the equally awful Astros. Paul Maholm starts tonight; if you’re a believer in Axiom #1, there’s no one better for the Pirates to put on the mound tonight.
First pitch is 8:05, Clemente/Cangelosi is after the jump
Not sure what this is? Check here and here. Short version: in the comments pick the Pirates you think will be most and least valuable in today’s game. If you haven’t jumped aboard yet, it’s been a lot of fun through so far and now’s as good a time as any to join in.
OK, I lied a little bit. I just don’t have time to update the standings today because a guy from my lab is graduating and my parents are in town. You can still make your picks for today and I’ll have a two-day standings update tomorrow. Also, I’m leaning strongly towards not giving anyone Clemente points for yesterday. Because, well, you know.
Yesterday’s standings:
- Woodward: 18
- dafletch: 12
- hwtrine:8: 10
- hisjazziness: 8
- Wizard of Woz, UtesFan89, brian2: 7
- North Shore Ryan, Carnegie Chip, whygavs: 5
- IndianaJohns04, dboz, appeal2smail: 4
- TomKaikis, Joek, tylerrcurtis, bwzimmerman, TheJewelryMan!: 3
- PatrickHealy, Garrett22, edgeman2k, apk, Don_Madden: 2
- FSU Bucs, Christy, MattB, appeal2smail, fruitbat, SeanGentile, shsteimer, TheHulk: 1
- Everyone else: 0
- NSN, CoryR, Mosca, wk kortas, danatural, J Latrobe, Teflon: -1
- ndbrian: -2
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