As we part ways, figuratively speaking with a 2025 edition of the Pittsburgh Baseball Club,

a friendly reminder here.

It's not that they're bad, it's that they don't care that they're bad.

Good morning to you.

Good Monday morning from Dublin, Ireland.

I'm Dan Kovachovich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

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I also offer daily shots of Steelers and Penguins, Braves 4 Pirates won yesterday in Atlanta that concluded the baseball season in Pittsburgh with the team at a robust 71 and 91.

That, of course, represents a five-game drop-off from the Pirates back-to-back

76 win seasons, except in Ben Charington math, when it's even more winning.

Dave now missed the playoffs 10 years in a row.

If you want to pretend that there's been progress of any kind over Charrington's six full years now,

you'd have to go back to the 14 wind jump from 2022 to 2023.

But they stunk then too. They just happened to stink less between those two summers.

In this last stinkfest, they managed one run on six hits. Five of those six hits were a single. Brian Reynolds

had the double. Pitching was okay, as is almost always the case. It's either okay or it's good

or Skeen's pitches and it's otherworldly. But the alleged purpose of maintaining a sports franchise, whether that's at the ownership

level, management level, field level, is to win games.

And this team doesn't do that, but I'm not even stretching it when I say that they don't care that they don't win.

Now, don't confuse that with would they be happy if they won?

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