Withdrawal symptoms

Please describe what weirdness, if any, you feel in this week without baseball, 2009 Pirates-style.

NFL week 4: Chargers at Steelers

Just kicked off. Mendenhall gets the start.

Game 162: Pirates at Reds

Karstens and Bailey at 1.

Game 161: Pirates at Reds

Duke and Cueto at seven.

Game 160: Pirates at Reds

Pirates need a win to avoid the 100-loss season.

Tonight at seven it is McCutchen and Lehr.

Game 159: Pirates at Cubs

Pirates up 3-0. If my math is trusty, a win today would clinch a no-100-loss season.

Games 157 and 158: Pirates at Cubs

Creature double feature. Games at 2 and 8.

Game 156: Pirates at Cubs

Former Cubbie Hart will start for the Pirates at eight.

Game 155: Dodgers at Pirates

Final home game of the year. The Dodgers will try again to clinch their division with a win today.

Spike said it best: "Not in our empty house!"

Kuroda and Duke at twelve-thirty.

NFL week 3: Steeler at Bengals

At Cincinnati.

Game 154: Dodgers at Pirates

Kickoff at 12:30.

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.