A Glint of Hope? Not as Bad as You Would Think

From the Game Notes distributed this afternoon by the Ironpigs:

WITH A WIN TONIGHT, THE PIGS WILL…:
• Record their 100th all-time victory at Coca-Cola Park (entered today with a 99-115 all-time home record).
• Clinch their first-ever, winning season-series against SWB — which defeated LHV, 14-2, in 2009; and 10-6 in 2008.
• Avoid falling to a season-high 30.5 GB — which would be their largest deficit since they ended 2008 at 33.0 GB…
LHV never fell more than 12.5 GB in 2009 — which they were at 6 separate times.

99 win and 115 losses is only 16 games below .500. For a home record.. yeah it’s awful, but as awful as their 3 season records have been.. we have seen the Pigs win almost half their home games. Looking the other direction, we have seen them lose more than half of their home games. From my perspective, I really didn’t think they won that often. A win here and there add up…

Also, I remember a wager between Ironpig GM Kurt Landes and the Scranton WB Yankees GM who, after the final series, had a wager that whoevers team won the season series.. the other team’s GM would serve as batboy for a game in the opposing stadium. The Yankees stomped the Ironpigs in 2008 and 2009 however, this year the Pigs have a 8 games to 6 advantage over Scranton.

So there are two things us Pig Fans can say this season..

“At least we’re not Rochester”

and

“Eat it Scranton Yankees!”

🙂

OinK!