my coworker told me how there’s a cohort of homeschooling parents in his neighborhood that decided this school year they were going to hire specialized nannies with education backgrounds and rent a space so all of their kids could be homeschooled together. ladies and gentlemen.. they’ve invented school...
In case anyone was wondering...
The last time an MLB team scored nine runs in a single inning and lost was...
When we did it against the Rockies on August 1st last year.
Since some of you have either forgotten or may not be aware of it, let's review the case of Dimitrius Underwood, the only correct answer to the question of "Who was the worst draft pick in Minnesota Vikings history?"
Braxton Ashcraft threw a complete game on 85 pitches and struck out 10.
According to Stathead, there’s never been a tracked game where a pitcher threw 9 innings and struck out that many on 85 pitches or fewer. Reggie Cleveland did so on 86 pitches on 7-21-1971.
It took Ben Cherington seven years to build this roster. We sat throw 100-loss seasons, Evan Phillips batting third, 20-run losses to the Cubs for this.
The 2015 Pirates won 98 games, second most in baseball, and their reward was a one-game wild card against Jake Arrieta, who had just posted a 0.75 second-half ERA.
He threw a complete-game shutout.
Ninety-eight wins, and it ended in a single night.
Unpopular opinion: The fact that they can quickly install data centers nationally means they could've been updating infrastructure which they claimed was too difficult and expensive.
Since the advent of the All-Star Game in 1933, there have been three times the Pirates have led the league in runs scored going into the break:
1960
1971
2026