Dom Cosentino is a lifelong Pirates fan (yes, they still exist). To commemorate the 17th consecutive losing season of the franchise, he's provided this essay on what it's like to be under .500 all those years. Sept. 30, 1990, was a bright, early autumn afternoon in Pittsburgh, a Sunday in which the Steelers were playing the Miami Dolphins at Three Rivers Stadium. Only nobody cared. The record shows that 54,691 were in attendance – roughly 5,000 short of capacity-and I was one of them,...