Pittsburgh Pirates: Top 5 Reasons the Pirates Will Make the Playoffs

These are the five reasons/ways the Pirates will make the playoffs this season.

If the Pirates make the playoffs, the city of Pittsburgh will go crazy. This is a city that is deserving of a great baseball team.

I have no doubt that if the Pirates were good, the seats would be full. They had a better attendance a year ago than the Rays, which is absurd.

A lot of Penguins fans jumped on the bandwagon of Sidney Crosby and the new-look Penguins.

I have no doubt that the same thing would happen if the Pirates were good.

It would seem very unlikely that the Pirates would even compete this season, but if Kevin Garnett has taught us anything, he has taught us that, "ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!"

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