Baseball is Great

I am a Pittsburgh Pirates fan, which, for the past 15 years has been about the hardest fan in sports history to be.

The Pittsburgh Pirates are a terrible, terrible team.

I love them, but they are terrible. Part of this reason (the easiest one to blame) is the ridiculous financial make up of MLB, which allows teams like the Yankees to have a salary that is over 200 million dollars MORE than Pittsburgh's. But I digress.

My only joys in recent years have therefore come by way of hating the team that represents everything that is keeping the Pirates down: the Yankees.

I hate the Yankees.

I hate the way that Yankee fans moan at a season like this one in which they don't make the ALCS, as though the world is going to end.

The Yankees have made the playoffs for the last 13 years. Guess what, they will probably make it again next year, too.

Guess what hope the Pirates have of making the playoff next year: slightly less than Michael Vick has of playing football next year.

But for now, I can take joy in the simple fact that both the New York teams are out of the playoffs. I believe that I will be rooting for Cleveland, mainly because they haven't won a World Series in nearly 50 years, but when it's all said and done, I've already gotten my victory.

Baseball may have a lot of issues right now, but at least the bad guys won't win this year.



My only other hope is that stupid Joe Buck and Tim McCarver aren't the announcers for the world series this year now that it's on TBS, but I'll take what I can get.




go steelers.