Fansided · Mar 28, 2019
How This Year’s Pittsburgh Pirates Stack Up To The ’79 Champs
At last, Opening Day is here! As the Pittsburgh Pirates prepare to embark on another journey this season, we will compare them to a team that will be celebrated all season long – the 1979 World Series Champion We Are Fam-a-lee Pirates.
“It’s too damn long, 40 years,” Pittsburgh Pirates president Frank Coonelly said during a recent Q&A session at PNC Park, referring to the team’s most recent title while staking his claim to Master of the Obvious.
He should have stopped there.
“Everybody is committed to doing what we can to put a World Series championship team on the field,” he continued.
Hold your laughter, please.