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Welcome to what a .500 team looks like. Despite their start to 2023, the Pirates have played the best part of May being the worst version of themselves and it’s got all of us up in our feels.

Well, fans who enjoyed the shelter of watching their team stink and still being able to say “hey, they’re in first place”, just lost their woobie.

I mean if the Pirates can take a week off offense, I can be a bit late with a weekly feature.

That’s 11 games over .500 folks. If the Pirates were to go 2 games under .500 every month from here through the end of the season, they’d still finish a game over. That’s how incredible this start has been.

Here I sit, preparing to write this week’s Five Pirates Thoughts at Five, its something like the 145th time I’ve done so give or take, but it’s the first time I’ve done so while the Pirates solely owned the best record in the National League.

Ahh, Manfred ball giveth, and it taketh away. Nobody knows how to play the situation. I see teams get the run in the top of the 10th then just about go for conceding the tying run in the bottom half.

I sincerely doubt there are many of you out there who thought the Pirates would at this point have a 6-3 record. I bet there are even fewer who thought that record was achievable after starting 1-2 against the supposed to be bad Reds.

Folks, if the Pirates had swept the Reds, I’d be saying largely the same thing. You don’t know much about this team yet. Neither do I, neither does anyone else. Baseball is not a sport that tells you much in 3 games.