The last time
That’s me on the day the Pirates clinched the 1991 NL East title at 3 Rivers Stadium.
I love today, opening day of baseball. All of that hope for a winning season but unfortunately here in Pittsburgh we haven’t had that enjoyment for 16 years. Dejan, whom I think is the best sports writer ever to grace this town, wrote about things that have happened since the Pirates last had a winning season. On the verge of setting a major professional sports record of consecutive losing seasons at 17 I thought I’d put together a list of my own things that have happened since October of 1992.
- I had 1 niece at the time and she was 2. She’s now in college.
- I was 16 then, I’m 33 now.
- I stopped listening to Boyz II Men when I picked up a CD from this new band called Pearl Jam.
- Dallas Stars played in Minnesota, Colorado Avalanche were the Quebec Nordiques, Phoenix Coyotes still skated as the Winnipeg Jets and the Hartford Whalers never expected to be in Carolina.
- I averaged 15-20 Pirates games a summer while I lived in Erie. Living in Pittsburgh it’s 2.
- I hated computers unless I was playing Oregon Trail. Now, well you can figure that out.
- My best friend Tom and I would watch baseball games with the volume down and record ourselves on cassette tape doing the Play-By-Play. Now I have an internet radio show with over hundreds of thousands of downloads.
- In 1992 I drank my first beer, Golden Anniversary. Today I co-host a craft beer podcast and write beer reviews.
Teaspoon is only 5 weeks old. I hope that I can take him to see a winning team before he’s in high school. Then again I bet my brother said that after is oldest son was born too… 16 years ago.
