I love the Pittsburgh Pirates, and I had fun following their wild opening night win in Atlanta. But despite how crazy a game this year’s Pirate opener was, it still doesn’t top the wildest baseball game I’ve attended — April 21, 1991 Pirates vs. Cubs in Pittsburgh, a game Andy Van Slyke predicted he would never again see anything like it.
So after 3 games of the 2008 season, the Pirates are 2-1 and have a winning record (I just wanted to type that because it’s been such a long time). They are hoping to avoid a 16th consecutive losing season, which would tie the major league baseball record for years of futility (the 1940-50 era Phillies spent 16 years in the tank). I’m not so optimistic they will turn things around dramatically in 2008, but flirting with a .500 record would be a big improvement. The only big changes from 2007′s underachieving team is off the field — new management in the dugout and in the front office. It was a long-overdue change, and it may take a while to undo the damage from the past few years.
As for the icon … I found a great high-quality desktop icon for my other favorite team (aka the Red Sox), but the Pirates get no love in iconland. After an exhaustive search, I decided to create my own Pittsburgh Pirates icon to match the Red Sox icon I found. And I’ll share it for personal use: here’s a zip file with both Windows and Mac versions enclosed.
The Pittsburgh Pirates have thousands of fans all over the world. Here, I may consider myself as one of the big fans of this wonderful team. Whenever I’ve time I try to attend their games, though sometimes it becomes a little difficult to get Pirates tickets and this is due to these great fans that the team has. Pittsburgh Pirates tickets are a little pricy or hard to be found but the team, as a professional and essential team of MLB, worth any price to watch their games. And when we love a team we try as much as possible these financial obstacles.