The Pirates

A case of mistaken identity

While the Red Sox and White Sox busied themselves with breaking curses, the Pirates reliably produced 2 more lackluster seasons. As a Pirates fan, I have grown accustom to a full year's worth of news cycles without one mention of this team. That's how truly mediocre they have been.

Imagine my surprise this morning, while scanning MSNBC.com, when one of the top stories concerned the Pirates. Such is life for my beloved Pirates that the real-life kind of pirates -- the ones supposedly eradicated in the early 1800s -- garner more media attention than their mediocre-hitting brethern.

Fortunately for hundreds of tourists off the coast of Africa, these real-life pirates hit with the same lethality as the black and gold variety that can be found floundering their summer nights away in Pittsburgh.