I plan to offer up my final thoughts on the 2012 Pirates with a lengthy post later this week when the season finally, mercifully, concludes, but I can't let the day on which they officially clinched their 20th consecutive losing season (say it after me now, "the longest losing streak in North American sports history") without noting this milestone, or should I say "millstone".
And when it actually comes right down to it, what can I say? As I mentioned on Facebook a few days back, the Pirates and their play in the month of September, combined with their front office follies, have left me speechless. So I will leave it to Bloggin' Bob Smizik who led his blog entry tonight with this great paragraph:
Forty years to the day after Roberto Clemente gloriously walked into baseball history with his 3,000 hit, the team he once so proudly represented slunk into baseball ignominy with a 20th straight losing season.
That, my friends, is a good piece of writing.
Your selection of Smizik's opening sentence as the ending for your blog post is quite fitting...adieu 2012.
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