As bad as it was for the pirates, the Chicago White Sox are left

It is bad to be the Pittsburgh pirates.

It is worse to be the Chicago White Sox.

Yes, Jinzer, there are baseball fan bases that have to do with harder Times than you.

Well, a few anyway. The Colorado Rockies are 22-74. In comparison, the pirates (39-58) have 17 wins more than the Rocky Mountains.

Did you catch that? Colorado has 17 fewer wins as the pirates. How is it possible in the All-Star-Pause-17 victories less to achieve less than another Last Place team?

Also consider that the Bucs only have nine victories in 20 starts with Paul Slenes on the hill. But that's a story for another column.

One that I have already written.

Then there is chicago. The White Sox will come to PNC Park this weekend with 32-65. This is the worst record in the American League. They are 27 games behind the Al-Central Detroit Tigers.

This team only won successive games this month. The club was already 5-19 by April 23 and the season was over.

Not only that, but the white Sox are particularly terrible on the street. You are 11-36. In the meantime the Bucs have Strictly speaking Was good in PNC Park and won 26 of 47 games.

With 332 runs scored, Kansas City (328) is the only Al -Offensive that has less than Chicago. Even with minus-98, only athletics (minus-134) have a worse running differential.

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Bailey Fleger (6-4, 3.79), Mike Burrows (1-3, 4.83) and Andrew Heaney (4-8, 4.59) Are planned begin for the pirates. They become be opposite by Jonathan Cannon (3-7, 4.44), Adrian Houser (5-2, 1.56) and Aaron Cival (1-6, 5.30).

Even more discouraged for the franchise is that newly installed Pope Leo XIV is a white SOX fan. But his team is Despite it That bad.

In Pittsburgh we have been waiting for divine intervention since Sid Bram began on the third basis in October 1992. Now that the White Sox are cut into the queue, what does it mean how long we have to wait?

I mean, water is transformed into wine and then after Oneil Cruz is asked to remember how many outs there are.

Who do we expect miracles from above at this time?

At least this is the perfect opportunity for the pirates to generate a dynamic from the all-star break.

They stopped bleeding a defeat of eight games on Sunday in Minnesota. How about the start out of With a Sweep of the White Sox at home this weekend?

After all, it is Yinzerpalooza weekend. Mac Miller Bobschlehead Doll Night is Saturday. The doll itself plays “Knock-Knock”.

leave it To the pirates so as not to answer the door and to go Chicago with a series victory here.

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