76-79 wins
76 wins Posted by Pat on Aug 24, 2013 15:11 Good morning. It is August 24th, 2013. With last night's win, the Pirates are 76-52. Since 1992, the Pirates failed to win 76 games in the following seasons*: 1993 , 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 , 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011. I've told this story a thousand times before, but my primary memory of the Pirates' 1993 season is this: my dad spent the winter preparing me for my first really bad Pirate team (some of my absolute earliest and foggiest memories of anything are of watching baseball during the 1989 season, but much of what I think of as the foundation for my life as a PIrate fan was laid during 1990), then he went to the home opener in 1993, and the Pirates beat the Padres 9-4. I think that I intellecutally knew that things had to be different for the Pirates without Barry Bonds and Doug Drabek, but I was also eight years old. I figured that they'...