Stupidity makes me angry

I tend to shy away from the breaking down stupid things that are written about the Pirates, but seriously, check out Paul Meyer's recap of last night's game. He describes the White Sox win as efficient. They had 15 hits, we walked 2 batters and allowed a batter to reach via error, yet scored only 4 runs. That's kind of the opposite of efficient. Actually, in these circles I believe it would be called "Pirate-like." They got caught stealing once and made two stupid baserunning errors, yet Tracy says in the column that we played a good ball game and the White Sox were just a little bit better. That is patently false. We played our typical game, replete with poor fielding, average pitching, and an allergy to this thing the experts refer to as "hitting," but because the White Sox played a bad game, we didn't get destroyed. The sixth paragraph brings this:
"They had one out that was not productive," Tracy said admiringly.
BAM! That was my head exploding. There's more to this column, but I seriously can't take it and refuse to read further down the page. I'm going to go collect the little pieces from my spontaneous head combustion there.

While you're at it, feel free to check out Chuck Finder's article about online Pirate fans which chronicles the rage of Pirate fans instead of actually inducing it. There's a quote from a "Mr." Lackey in there, whoever the hell that is.

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