Go Bucs! Go Bucks!

Well, there's absolutely NO doubt what season it is here in Ohio.  Exactly halfway between Cleveland and Pittsburgh.  Hate the Browns, "OK" with the Steelers, but I'm honestly a Miami Dolphins fan.  Larry Czonka lives in Lisbon Ohio, about 40 minutes from here. Google him!  Only player in NFL history to never fumble, and I know why. I've shaken his hand.... up to my elbow!

So I'm sitting here tonight, Pittsburgh Pirates in my ear, Youngstown State Penguins play tonight, and #2 OHIO STATE BUCKEYES play Saturday!  It's all about football season here in Northeast Ohio right now!

I'm gonna rewind a bit.  Way back in the best of my memory, in 1976 My oldest sister was a HUGE Pittsburgh Pirates fan.  At that time, I was just getting into Little League baseball.

She taught me SO much about baseball without even knowing she was doing it.  Dad was the coach, "Susany Construction" on my uniform, Connie showing me what to do.  I played center field, short stop, and pitched a little.  Because SHE was a Pirates fan, so was I.  Willie Stargell, Dave Parker, Omar Moreno, Tony Pena, Burt Blyleven, and my favorite Kent Tekulve.  I could never pitch like him, but oh did I have a HELL of a game one day thinking about what he would do.  In my mind's eye today I had 37 strike outs!  But we all know that's bullshit!  But oh my, what a game!  Literally bottom of the 9th, and even though I didn't understand what a "save" was, I guarantee you I go Susany Construction one that day.

So that being said, I've been a Pittsburgh Pirates, Miami Dolphins, and of course OSU fan pretty much my whole life.  Then it happened.  The Pirates set a record for ALL professional sports.  The longest "losing season" record in all of professional sports.

WOW

I've spent $7 for a seat 3 rows from first base at 3 Rivers Stadium.  Now PNC park is sold out, I can't afford a ticket to go see them, 4 games away from breaking a 20+ year losing streak.

I can't go to the games, I can't stand the band-wagon "fans".  But I want you to know, there really are die hard, tried and true Pittsburgh Pirates fans out there!  Just go anywhere in downtown Pittsburgh right now!

And if you need any further assurance, ask my sister Connie!