{"id":5616,"date":"2013-04-28T17:53:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T21:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=5616"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:13","slug":"its-only-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2013\/04\/its-only-april\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Only April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 9-0, their third straight victory against St. Louis.\u00a0 After 25 games, the Pirates are now leading the National League Central Division.\u00a0 The last time the Pirates were in first place was <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/mlb\/standings\/_\/date\/20120718\">July 18, 2012<\/a>, when Mitt Romney was leading Barack Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-57475178-503544\/obama-romney-in-dead-heat-in-presidential-race\/\">by one point<\/a> in the polls.*<\/p>\n<p>In case any of you have forgotten (we die-hard fans cannot): from that point, Pittsburgh won only 28 of their remaining 71 games and finished the 2012 season with a record of 79-83, their 2oth consecutive losing season and a record for futility in major-league sports.\u00a0 Those 79 wins are the <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/playbook\/fandom\/post\/_\/id\/12516\/the-20-most-depressing-pirates-facts-of-2012\">most any Pirates team has mustered<\/a> since the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1992_National_League_Championship_Series\">Heartbreak of 1992<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I know, as all Pirates fans are obliged to remind themselves, it&#8217;s only April.<\/p>\n<p>_______________<\/p>\n<h5>* As it turned out, Mitt Romney also had a losing season in 2012.\u00a0 In case any of you had forgotten.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 9-0, their third straight victory against St. Louis.\u00a0 After 25 games, the Pirates are now leading the National League Central Division.\u00a0 The last time the Pirates were in first place was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2013\/04\/its-only-april\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5616"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28344,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5616\/revisions\/28344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}