MLB

Hey all,

Little bit of a change of pace as we getting rolling here into baseball season. I know it's been the regular season for a while know but I have found something interesting enough, to me anyways, that I felt needed to be put out there. That is my 2 favorite teams, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Boston Red Sox's, both are having quite the surprising start to the season. The Pirates have had a better surprise, if you will, making it to .500 for the first time since 2004, while the Red Sox's have just made it to .500 this season with their sweep of the New York Yankee's. Even though Boston got off to a rocky start, so to speak, with their sweep of the Yanks that puts them 3.5 games behind the division rival the Tampa Bay Rays. Also they are one game back from their all time rival the Yankee's. Boston has picked it up as of late, and are starting to get back into their winning ways.

Now to the Pirates. It's safe to say that the Pittsburgh Pirates are having a good year, but like always they hit a rut like they do every year. They actually have something in common with the Yankee's this year. As of right now both the Pirates and the Yankees are on 6 game losing streaks. Which has had equally the same affect of both teams. The Yankees got knocked out of first place in their division, and the Pirates of dropped to next to last. Pittsburgh is 5.5 games back from the rolling Cincinnati Reds. Between the Reds and the Cardinals, picking the NL Central is going to be a tough pick. Both teams are having great years and are continuing to bring the heat if you will.   

If you ask me I think the Pirates, though losing tonight to the Washington Nationals, if they can pull it together can make a run for the NL Central. They just need to dig deep, find the way they were playing to get them to .500, and stop trading all their good players away to the Red Sox's and Yankees, and they should be fine. They were once one of the biggest teams in baseball, and can get back to that place to rename Pittsburgh "The City of Champions" once again. Boston on the other hand has seemed to figure most of this out and are playing pretty good, though they are in a tight one with Baltimore. Both teams should finish having good years, lets just hope that the Sox's can return to the post season and dominate like they always do, and for the Pirates, right now they should just look to finish .500.