Spring Training is a time for sunny overconfidence. However, Spring Training doesn't last forever, and neither does that window in which a fan is free to be hopelessly optimistic. For Pirates fans, an announcement earlier today officially slammed that window shut for this year.
Announcement Signals End Of Spring Optimism Period For Pirates, Pirates Fans
#Pirates Kevin Correia to start on Opening Day; will be followed by Maholm, Ohlendorf, Morton and McDonald: http://tinyurl.com/6fxsgut
Jenifer Langosch
LangoschMLB
That is among the five most starkly depressing sentences a fan can read about his baseball team in March. The complete list ...
(5) Your manager penciled “whatever” into eight of nine lineup slots for a Spring Training game and left the other one blank.
(4) Your team’s Opening Day starter will be Kevin Correia.
(3) Your team’s Opening Day starter will be Kevin Correia, and he will also be the third starter.
(2) Your team’s Opening Day starter will be Brett Tomko.
(1) Your team’s best player is literally dead.
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