For the 18th consecutive season, the Pittsburgh Pirates will finish their year with more losses than wins. The 2010 club did so in a particularly pathetic fashion, notching their under-.500-clinching 82nd loss with a significantly-less-than-respectable 40 in the win column. At 75% of the way into the season, this was the earliest the club has been mathematically eliminated from finishing with a winning record over the entire 18-season nightmare streak.
The chart below displays what percentage of each season was completed before the Pirates clinched a losing record over the past 18 years:
Anyone remember the glory years of the late ‘90s when the Buccos went 3 straight years of better than 90% of the way into their season before being guaranteed of a losing campaign? What an excited time to be a Pirate fan that was.
I remember the glory days of the 60's and 70"s
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