It doesn’t matter that Pedro Alvarez had three hits or that Eric Kratz, Brandon Moss, and Steve Pearce homered or that Bryan Morris pitched well in an inning of work after a rough season. I mean, those things are nice but given the level of competition and wind in Bradenton, they’re relatively meaningless. What does matter is that the Pirates managed to beat their community college foes 6-1 this afternoon, to end their all-time longest losing streak to the Manatees at one and hopefully spare us from “The Pirates are worse than collegte teams!”jokes for a full season. Whew
To the Manatees and their players, who took a serious beating among Pirate fans and bloggers this week, I think it needs to be said that this is really all in fun and that we all wish them the best of luck during their season now that they don’t play the Pirates anymore.
Also, I’d like to point out that we’re covering a team a day at FanHouse for the next month and today was the Pirates’ designated day, so make sure you check out Ed Price’s excellent piece on the state of the team (I’m not being a company shill when I say that I love the opening line. It’s so true it hurts.) and my own team primer.
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