I believe in the Pittsburgh Pirates

"I," she told him, "Can believe anything. You have no idea what I can believe." "Really?" "I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not ..." -Neil Gaiman, American Gods If there's one question that I've been asked more than any other during my four and a half years as a Pirate blogger, it's not "When will the Pirates be good again," or "What would you do differently than the front office to turn this team around?" It's "Why on earth are you still a Pirate fan after all these years?" This is a straightforward question that is not at all easy to answer. Life is not static. In my lab, and I suspect in most workplaces everywhere, there's an old saying that's often repeated. "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity." ...