Have we all gotten so uptight these days that there can’t be just a funny little coincidence? Sure it’s low brow, it lacks class, and it may ruin some appetites, but there was something extra special about facing your cross state rival, looking at the score and cracking up because neither team had scored a run yet. As a proud Pennsylvanian, I highly doubt anyone looks at our great state and thinks of elegance and sophistication anyways.
This weekend marks the 2,331st-2,333rd regular season meeting between the Pirates and the Phillies. And since the advent of sports on television, many of those games were P 0 0 P games. Unfortunately moving forward, we no longer get to giggle when we look at that score bug. Most games we only got a few innings before it was fudged up anyways. But the higher ups at Big TV decided we couldn’t even enjoy that and flushed it.
This weekend, I propose that we unite as Pennsylvanians with those scumbags from Philly in defiance of tyranny all the way into the upper deck. If enough of us Pirates fans wear a P shirt, and enough of the Philly scumbags wear their P on their shirts, we can all bring 0 signs and get P 0 0 P back on the broadcast!
I didn’t come to this solution easily. There was an alternative and far more disgusting protest option I was weighing but I decided against it…. for now. We can always bring out the big logs on Sunday if we don’t get our point across Friday and Saturday.
Maybe just once, this movement can convince them to bring back the P 0 0 P so we can rightfully go back to hating one another. Deuces.
