Pirates plumb the depths - The National Newspaper
At first I thought this article in The National, Abu Dhabi's main newspaper, was about the Somali pirates, who have been busy hijacking UAE boats and taking hostages of late. Imagine my surprise when the Pirates on display, wearing the familiar Bucco logo, were those from Pittsburgh, described as "one very, very, bad baseball team."
Why in the world would anyone in the UAE even be interested in the Bucs? A big case of schadenfreude, perhaps? Many in the USA seem to take pleasure in the whoops and downs of Dubai: the alleged sinking of the Palm island, the leak in the aquarium, the debt default. So I guess the losingest team in North America makes for a good read here.
Certainly a familiar story for those of us (can't be that many) from Pittsburgh, now in the UAE. (I've met a few.) A friend and devoted Bucco fan points out that the margin between losing and winning in baseball is very small, and getting to see many of baseball's greatest players (mostly on the other teams!) in the comfort of beautiful PNC Park more than makes up for seeing a few more losses than wins. So it's not a bad story, really. Let's hope the Pirates have stopped plumbing the depths and hit bottom so things will start looking up in the new season.
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