The Pittsburgh Pirates all-time record countdown to below .500 watch - Record: 10877-10874, .500 W-L% - Just when you thought you were out

 THEY PULL YOU BACK IN. The Pirates had won 6 in a row and now they have lost 5 games in a row.  The watch continues.

The Pittsburgh Pirates all-time record countdown to below .500 watch - Record: 10871-10869, .500 W-L% - Will it happen before the 4th of July

 It seems likely that the Pirates all-time record will fall below .500 sometime in early July unless some sort of miracle happens.

The Pittsburgh Pirates all-time record countdown to below .500 watch - 10,869-10866 .50006 - closing in on imperfection, Lose to Tigers

 The Pittsburgh Pirates are back down to 3 games above .500. Their all-time record has been above .500 since August 22, 1903.

Sport Card Blogger - Page views per post analysis and comparison

 Analysis of Sport Card Blogger Stats – Pages views / per post.

 

Recently Sports Card Collection mentioned in their blog they reached 3 million page views. So I decided to look at other Sports Blogs to see how many views and posts that they have. Unfortunately most sports blogs do not have page views listed on their front page. So this is a limited but interesting analysis

 

Blog	Views	Posts	Page View Per Post
Night Owl Cards	6,727,950	5759	1170
Sports Card Collection	3,043,673	6311	482
Chronicles of Fuji	2,619,848	2601	1007
Cardboard Collections	1,876,217	1673	1121
Cardboard History	1,794,078	1100	1630
My sports card obsession	1,595,897	2675	595
Donruss 1982	277,199	1196	231

 

This information was taken from around June 7, 2025

 

Jim From Downingtown has a bunch  sports blogs that I can use in this post and they kind of blow the numbers out of the water. He posted from 2009-2021 or so on these blogs

 

 

Blog	Views	Posts	Page View Per Post
1968 Topps Baseball	544,102	258	2018
1966 Topps Baseball	462,104	214	2159
1969 Topps Baseball	385,757	174	2216
1970 Topps Baseball	339,767	140	2426
1963 Topps Baseball	163,844	58	2854
1965 Topps Baseball	76,522	50	1530

 

A Few Observations

*It is surprising that Cardboard History (i thinking posting since 2017) has more views per post than Night Owl but that could related to a number of factors.

*Less posts could mean a higher page view average . You can see that when observing Jim from Dowingtown's blogs with 1965 Topps baseball the exception. 

*I did notice a spike in views in my Blog a few years ago when I was hardly posting. I am assuming Autobots, Spam or something and not real people.

*I have always associated Cardboard History with The trading card database which may create more traffic.

*If everyone stopped posting today, everyone's page per view would go up.

Addendum Cards over Coffee stated  on June 22, 2025 they reached 400,000 views in about 750 - posts which gives them an average of 533 page views per post - they have only been posting since 2020

There will be no 2025 Topps Roman Anthony rookie cards

 The cut of date appears to be earlier than ever for Topps on who will get a rookie card. It appears the date was May 31, 2025.

The set up now appears to be

June-September - previous year show up as rookies in Topps Series 1

Opening Day rookies appear in series 2 plus some left overs from last year

Update gets all new rookies who came up after opening day until May 31th. 

Roman Anthony will appear in Series 1 next year and probably be the headline rookie.

The Pittsburgh Pirates all-time record countdown to below .500 watch - 10,860-10856 .50009 - Staying above water

 I believe the Pirates hit their peak in early 1993 taking their All-Tme records above .500 at 553 games. It now stands at 4.

A problem with Baseball Part 2 - The MLB batting avg. will be .248 or below for 6 straight years tying the worst stretch since 1904-1909

 

This maybe because teams are using so many pitchers.  The current average is.244 (it is possible the average could finish above .248 before the end of the year. 

When you look at - it is probably worse in todays game

A comparison (looking at the best each of the categories during that time on a per game/per team basis)

                 1904-1909                     2020-2025

Runs             3.89                            4.28

Singles         6.50                            5.39

Doubles       1.50                            1.69

Triples         0.46                            0.15

Home Runs 0.14                            1.28

Steals           1.22                           0.79

Error            1.88                           0.58

Baseball has tried everything in the last few years to put balls in play.  Because there was almost 4 as more errors back then - it meant the  ball was probably put in play more. A lot of those errors were probably because of poor conditions or poor fielding gloves or over zealous scorers. 

Strikeouts  3.85                            8.66

If you would time warp and put 1900s game in to stadiums today - I think fans would be more enthused as there would more action and not everyone would be waiting for the long ball