Futilitywatch 09: The Saddest Time of Year

by Pat LackeyFiled under: Pirates, NL CentralFutilitywatch '09 is a our semi-regular update on the Pittsburgh Pirates and their march toward their record 17th consecutive losing season.The reason that Futilitywatch wasn't made a weekly feature earlier in the season was fairly simple; I wasn't sure the Pirates would be interesting enough to do weekly updates on. The three weeks since we've looked in on the Pirates' slow march towards infamy is emblematic of that; there just isn't much that happens week to week. In a basic week, the Pirates win two or three games and lose four or five, their record slowly eroding, hope slowly extinguishing. That said, three weeks encompasses almost the entire career of Garrett Jones and with the trade deadline looming, it's certainly time for an update on the team that's a mere 29 losses from setting one of the most dubious records in sports history.Futilitywatch 09: The Saddest Time of Year originally appeared on Fanho...