You know, for all the sad things you can say about the local Major League Baseball franchise, you can't say they've never won at all.

For 144 years, they have won five World Series championships.

There are five current teams in the majors that have never won.

And I'm going to go through my intro today and buy you some time, don't cheat,

to come up with all five of those.

Good morning to you.

Good Monday morning if you're ready for it.

I'm Dan Kovych of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily Shot of Pirates. It comes your way.

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If you want to put yourself in a better mood, then what this show usually would leave you in.

Five teams, ready?

Colorado Rockies?

Tampa Bay Rays.

Seattle Mariners.

San Diego Padres founded all the way back in 1969.

And yeah, the Brewers, who've made it to the National League Championship Series,

were founded all the way back themselves in 1970. They'd only been to one World Series ever,

and that was in 1982. And you can see when you're there at American Family Field, high atop

the roof out in left field, there's a marker for it. And it's actually, truth be told, it's kind of a

sorry, empty-looking thing. But they're one series away, and they entered these playoffs

with the best record in the majors. So you could argue, for whatever it's worth, that this is

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