FAIL of the day 4/3 (this time with sporty goodness)

[Anima]

The near future doesn’t look so bright for the Pittsburgh Pirates, who are very likely to set a very dubious sports record with an unprecedented 17th Consecutive Losing Season in 2009.

Beyond that, the long-term future doesn’t look so bright either - because today, a team loaded with the Pirates’ top prospects lost to Manatee Community College by a score of 6-4.

Let’s let that sink in.
The Pirates lost to MANATEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE.

Usually the Pirates wait until opening day to crush the hopes and dreams of their fans, but this year I guess they started a little early.

Oh the Huge Manatee!! (Get it? Oh the Humanity? Manatee? Oh forget it.)

Now mind you, this was a split squad game and no one from the Pirates 25-man roster was playing in the game. Just Minor League prospects. So it was basically a team of guys in the Pirates’ dirty laundry who lost.
But that’s still … simply put … just not acceptable.

But I have something that’s even less acceptable. Before this atrocity unfolded … Pirates fans were chirping about this game. So much that they made T-Shirts trumpeting the fact that they had beaten the Manatee CC squad ten years straight.

Let’s take a look at that T-Shirt. Front and Back.

SERIOUSLY? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? This is worse than when the Tampa Bay Rays got all cocky with their T-Shirts last postseason.

When you’ve had a losing record for sixteen straight seasons, you have no right to talk smack about the fact that you’ve beaten a Community College ten straight years in an annual exhibition game. YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BEAT THEM!!

http://homerderby.com/archives/4075

 

[JE]

Ouch.


If McCutchen and Alvarez were playing... damn.