Pirates 7 White Sox 6

We can talk all we want about wanting to see this team lose as many games as possible to expose our fraudulent owners to the harsh national spotlight, but man, games like today never get old. It's hard to keep on seeing the same shit day after day, it really was getting to be like Groundhog Day. In fact, that parallel is fairly apt as the day that Phil Conners finally breaks out of his own personal slump he hears Sonny and Cher on the radio and is sure that he's still stuck on February 2nd, until he realizes it's a different part of the song and he's finally free. Today the Pirates tried their damndest to keep on losing and with the Thome home run and all, but Freddy Sanchez wouldn't let it happen. Speaking of Freddy Sanchez... sheesh. He piled on four more hits today including his walkoff homer and raised his average to a mind boggling .363. I don't really have any superlatives for Freddy that someone else hasn't said already, but the longer this goes on the more insane the whole Joe Randa deal seems. This year you can break the Pirates into three categories, Inconsistent, Consistently Bad, and Freddy Sanchez. And has it ever been more comforting to finally hear Lanny's "NOOOOOOO DOUBT ABOUT!!!"?

Now let's lose the next 10 and get Irate before the break (also, there are apparently fake shirts going around, if you didn't get 'em from the Ebay store, you got 'em from someone just trying to make a dollar off of your anger and other people's great ideas, I know, imitation, flattery, and all that, but if you can get them from the real source, you should do it).

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