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Baseball |
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Attendance
at PNC Park sags, depending partly on the opponent |
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Barmes
and Barajas have the worst OBP |
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Baseball
could be expedited  |
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Baseball
from a front-seat row (in a parked car) |
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Baseball
records are closer to .500 than football records |
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Baseball's
new rules, proposed by Mike Kobik |
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Batting
the pitcher eighth? Doesn't matter much |
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BB/PA
vs LHP doesn't matter much, either |
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Cold
in April? "This ain't my style," said Casey. |
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Competitors,
to a sports franchise, are not the other teams |
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Computerized
databases empower baseball stats geeks |
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Dizzy
Dean "slood" into third |
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Duck
(rubber variety) heralds Pirates' return to playoffs |
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Fans
at big games are more fanatic nowadays, and noisier |
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Feast-or-famine
games: Pittsburgh Pirates 62%, Cardinals 32% |
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Fifth
place proves good enough for "second-division" 2015 Mets |
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Food
at the ballpark now includes Cracker Jack & Mac Dogs |
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Games
Behind column disappoints 2019 Pirates fans |
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Games
last 4:43 when the Pirates play the Nats |
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Half-games
in the standings: why divide by two? |
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"Hands"
statue: Counsell or Kiner? |
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Harry
Caray at Wrigley Field |
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Innings
piling up for pitchers? Shorter season, or 6-man rotation |
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Inverted-pyramid
newspaper style for a baseball "gamer" is confusing |
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Milestone
afternoon homers by A-Rod and Maris |
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Minor-league
baseball telecasts go away, attendance drops |
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Nicknames
instead of real names on uniforms? Not helpful |
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No-hitter:
I finally televise one! |
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Pirates
briefly lead, then implode; TV crew remains jolly |
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Pirates'
best starters have league's worst ERAs |
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Pirates
lose 101 games in 2021 while Dodgers are winning 106 |
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Pirates
of 2022 lose by at least seven runs in more than 10% of games |
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Pitch
clock planned for 2023 MLB games |
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Pitches
total 1,500,000 in a broadcaster's career |
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Pittsburgh
baseball nadir in 1890, before they became Pirates |
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Postgame
show must begin immediately |
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Postseason
games need a halftime |
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Relief
pitchers usually get themselves into trouble |
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Ripken's
night off from The Streak |
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Rooker's
unintentional walk home from Philadelphia |
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Runs
scoring with two outs |
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San
Francisco pitchers buzzed me with warmup throws |
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Shortened
2020 season: Pirates disappoint for 60 games |
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Slowness:
more than four minutes between balls in play nowadays |
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Steve
Blass is a funny guy |
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"Wasn't
Watching" the baseball play, but the blimp was |
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Weekend
Pirates games are wins; all other Pirates games are losses |
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Wilburys
song could have introduced a telecast |
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Winning
isn't everything  |
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Winter
baseball in Washington, PA |
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Wins-PIT
are matched by Wins-STL
for months; PIT
can't gain ground |
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World
Series? Why is it "World"? |
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World
Series 1927 press pass |