What are we looking at here?

Rather than recap two games that I didn't watch, but were nothing terribly special from what I could decipher (besides the Nate McLouth stuff, that is), I'm instead going to use this post to address some issues that I've been meaning to talk about for a while but haven't really had a chance or an opening to do so until now. Currently, the Pirates are two games under .500. They only lost by one ... [link]