Reds Reporter Blasts Fan Over Pirates Hate, and He's Right
The Pittsburgh Pirates have been the laughing stock of Major League Baseball over the past few years. There are some teams that can obviously talk about the Pirates being bad, but the Cincinnati Reds aren’t one of them. For some reason, fans seem to think that this is the same Pirates team that we’ve seen over the past few seasons.
It’s impossible to say whether they are just yet due to only playing seven games, but the Pirates are 4-3, just called up Konnor Griffin, have the best pitcher in the world, and a slew of talent. That’s the point Jason Williams of the Cincinnati Enquirer wanted to get across after Reds fans continued to say Pittsburgh isn’t that good. “This is an ingrained way of thinking in Cincinnati that needs to change.
We all need to stop looking down on the Pirates and thinking of them as easy wins on the schedule. Why haven’t the Pirates earned our respect? They’re now 36-25 vs.
the Reds since 2022 after taking 2 of 3 against Cincinnati this week. In the past decade, the Reds have almost as many last-place finishes in the NL Central (four) as the Pirates (five). The Reds have lost the season series to the Pirates 5 of the last 8 years.
“Pittsburgh has won a playoff series more recently than the Reds. That was in 2013, when the Pirates beat the Reds in the wild-card game. Pittsburgh and Cincinnati each have the same amount of World Series titles (five).