The Pittsburgh Pirates haven’t won a championship since 1979 or delivered a winning season since 1992.
They moved out of Three Rivers Stadium (built in 1970) in 2000, hoping that the incredibly beautiful $216 million PNC Park would help their beleaguered franchise turn things around.
As most of their cheap players wouldn’t crack the starting roster on any other major league team, perhaps the Pirates should’ve invested some of that $216 million in their team’s payroll instead.
Once the home of Hall of Famers and champions like Honus Wagner, Willie Stargell and Roberto Clemente, the Pirates—by all accounts the embarrassment of Pittsburgh the last two decades—haven’t qualified for the playoffs once since 1992 and last year even broke the professional sports record for consecutive losing seasons with seventeen.
Conversely, the Pittsburgh Penguins have played hockey in the silver-domed Civic Arena since 1967 and have qualified for the playoffs a dozen times since 1992 and collected three Stanley Cup championships since 1991, the third coming last year.
The Civic Arena, ...
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