Game 153: Dodgers at Pirates

Maholm and Wolf at seven. After receiving the biggest and shiniest bunting ribbon, the International Bunting Champion gets to sing back-up vocals on a Foreigner set - in their native language! ジュークボックスの英雄!

Game 152: Dodgers at Pirates

Garland and Karstens at seven. To protect the integrity of the travesty and to capitalize on G-20, the Bucs should just start billing the games not as baseball contests, but as stunts such as "The International Bunting Olympics". They could bring up and field a team of Rinku, Dinesh, Gift, Starling, Yoslan, the New Zealander, the North Pole kid, and that Easter Island guy. A resigned Kuwata could pitch. Everybody bunts, whoever gets on base the most wins. In the short term, the Bucs could really benefit by acquiring a market of people who didn't understand the real rules of this game of baseball.

Game 151: Reds at Pirates

Hey lookit, baseball.

Reds lead 4-0 in the 4th, I think it is.

Game 150: Reds at Pirates

Votto and Hart starting now.

Game 149: Reds at Pirates

Cueto and Duke at seven.

Game 148: Padres at Pirates

LeBlanc and McCutchen at seven.

Not a lot of baseball left.

NFL Week 2: Steelers at Bears

Game on pretty soon.

When I think Steelers at Soldier Field, I remember this game. Chicago is never an easy road game.

Game 147: Padres at Pirates

Correia and Maholm at 1:35. Bucs have won 3 of their last 22 games, so just by random chance should win a game pretty soon.

Game 146: Padres at Pirates

Richard and Ohlendorf at 12:35.

Congratulations to the Hillcats.

Game 145: Padres at Pirates

Stauffer and Morton at seven.

G-20 surprise: South Africa volunteers navy to escort ships full of revenue-sharing money.

Alvarez

Three dingers for Pedro. Todd Redmond gets the win.

Murray Chass

Murray Chass has some thoughts about these Pirates.

Game 144: Pirates at Dodgers

Hart and Kuroda at three.

Game 143: Pirates at Dodgers

Duke and Wolf after ten.

Pirates have won 55 and lost 87. Not sure what good comes of this last month of baseball. #2 pick in each round of the 2010 draft I suppose.

Game 142: Pirates at Dodgers

McCutchen and Garland after bedtime.

Game 141: Pirates at Astros

Maholm and Paulino at 2.

Game 140: Pirates at Astros

Ohlendorf and Moehler at seven.

Game 139: Pirates at Strohs

Morton and Norris, 8pm, Five Alive stadium.

NFL Week 1: Titans at Steelers

Oh yeah.

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Game 138: Cubs at Pirates

Pirates lost.