Padres 6 Pirates 2

Stupid Joe Randa.

The Pirates were about to be avalanched in irony with the best possible reminder of the management's ineptitude, getting no-hit by a man they traded for absolutely nothing. It would've been a reminder to everyone why it's foolish to get excited about this team. A team that is run by a guy that once traded Chris Young for Matt Herges (while building a team around pitching), then cut Herges before he threw one pitch, has some serious obstacles to overcome before winning baseball can even be a possibility. Joe Randa hitting into a double play to end it would've been an amazing cap on everything. Now, this becomes a game that no one will remember, just another faceless late night loss on the West Coast in a season with so many losses. We couldn't even muster enough of a comeback to get Hoffman into the game for his record tying save, a fitting way for Lee Smith to lose his spot as the Save King, at the hand of the team that was the bane of his career. Keep in mind that I was not rooting for the Pirates to lose. Losing became inevitable when Gorzellany wasn't sharp and Tracy trotted out Littlefield's comical B-squad of relievers. If Gorzo had pitched a great game and Randa's homer had come in a 1-0 game, I'd be ecstatic. But this game had a chance to be a microcosm for the last 14 years, now it's nothing. Randa's homer only indirectly served to further the agenda of the bastards that run this charade of a baseball team. Somewhere, probably in a dark room, Littlefield is telling the Nutting family, "See, I told you he was worth the money!"