More on last night

Charlie, author of the Bucs Dugout, is living in San Diego, thus he was able to attend his first Pirates' game of the year last night. As you've probably realized, it was quite a night to be there.

Dejan's recap in the PG is full of fun facts about just how historical last night could've actually been, had Joe Randa not ruined things for Young.

There's also the typical wire recap, Deadspin's got one line on it (but it's a good line that I fully agree with), and of course there's always Padres blogs.

Last night after the game ended I said that the game had a chance to be a microcosm of the last 14 years and instead just turned out to be another boring loss. While that's true on some levels, I think it's also actually quite representative of the Pirates' plight. We were bad, but not quite bad enough to get noticed. Kind of like, say, having 14 consecutive losing seasons but only one of them being a 100 loss season.

Before I forget, Charlie also had a good summary up yesterday of why it matters that the Pirates have been outscored by their opponents since the break, record notwithstanding. As he says:

...the point is that you shouldn't trust a half-season's worth of games if
there's no compelling reason to do so, and you especially shouldn't trust it if
there's an extremely compelling reason not to do so. This is true of single
players, and it's just as true of a franchise that has a pretty lengthy recent
history of shooting itself in the foot over and over again.