Welcome to the Pittsburgh Pirates Wake-Up Call, a daily feature here at RumBunter.com. Every morning at 9 AM, one of us will give you our random thoughts on the goings-on around the Pirates’ organization, and we’ll throw out a few links to some good Pirates-related items your way from around the web as well.
24 hours.
Ok ok. Technically, it’s 35 hours between now and the epic National League Wild Card Tilt between the Pirates and the Chicago Cubs. It almost doesn’t seem real. Perhaps it’s because its hard to properly gauge things outside of the “Pittsburgh baseball bubble,” but I cannot remember a game that has reached such a critical mass in anticipation.