Yea, they broke that record in 2010
Pittsburgh pirates 19 seasons
As far as MLB is concerned, the longest losing streak in 23 games held by the 1889 Pittsburgh Alleghenys (soon to be Pirates) and the 1961 Philadelphia Phillies.
The UPS guy asked me this and seems to think my beloved Cardinals is the team with only 2 consecutive losing seasons in the last 30 or 40 years but hopefully someone can confirm and explain. When you google it only seems to correlate losing with most. ---- The Cardinals had consecutive losing seasons in 1994 (53-61) and 1995 (62-81). Prior to that their last consecutive losing seasons came in 1958 and 1959. Since the 1960 season, the Cardinals are the only MLB team to have one set of consecutive losing seasons. The Los Angeles Dodgers have had two sets of consecutive losing seasons since 1960 (1967-1968 and 1986-1987).
The Baltimore Orioles?
The Steelers, then known as the Pirates, became an expansion team in the NFL when Art Rooney Sr. paid the NFL a $2,500 franchise fee for the rights to a new team to be located in Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh pirates 19 seasons
as of September 8, 2008, the pirates lost their 82nd game making this year their 16th consecutive losing season
Pittsburgh pirates at 18 straight and counting
As far as MLB is concerned, the longest losing streak in 23 games held by the 1889 Pittsburgh Alleghenys (soon to be Pirates) and the 1961 Philadelphia Phillies.
The UPS guy asked me this and seems to think my beloved Cardinals is the team with only 2 consecutive losing seasons in the last 30 or 40 years but hopefully someone can confirm and explain. When you google it only seems to correlate losing with most. ---- The Cardinals had consecutive losing seasons in 1994 (53-61) and 1995 (62-81). Prior to that their last consecutive losing seasons came in 1958 and 1959. Since the 1960 season, the Cardinals are the only MLB team to have one set of consecutive losing seasons. The Los Angeles Dodgers have had two sets of consecutive losing seasons since 1960 (1967-1968 and 1986-1987).
The Baltimore Orioles?
Pittsburgh Pirates have been below .500 since 1993. They currently have 17 losing seasons. Lets Go Bucs!!!!!
The Pittsburgh Pirates (1993-2010) hold the current record for professional sports-18 straight losing seasons.
The Pittsburgh Pirates were the losing team in the 1903 World Series.
The all-time record for most consecutive losing seasons is held by Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View, Texas. PVAMU, a Division I-AA (FCS) school, compiled 31 consecutive losing seasons from 1976-2006. From 1989-1998, the Panthers lost an NCAA record (all divisions) 80-straight games, nearly doubling second-place Columbia's 44 consecutive losses. The Panthers finally achieved a winning 7-3 record in 2007 before going 9-1 in 2008, and again going 9-1 as well as winning the SWAC championship in 2009. Oregon State University ran up 28 consecutive losing seasons from 1971-1998 to earn the NCAA Division I-A (FBS) record for consecutive losing seasons. During that time the Beavers compiled a 65-238-6 record.
Detroit just broke their own record by losing 25 consecutive road games. They set the record previously during the 2001-2003 seasons.
Through the 2008 season, that would be the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who lost 26 straight games starting September 12, 1976 (Game 1) and ending December 4, 1977 (Game 26). Those 26 games were the first 26 games in the Bucs' franchise history.