“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.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Fam-a-lee, and because I’m a masochist, I decided to conduct a comparison between where the team stands heading into the 2019 season and where they stood heading into 1979.