The Pirates were a big part of my life, and through the years, because of the slide and all that took place after that, there was a lot of interest on my part in seeing them get over .500 again just to take away the Bream curse.'' It finally happened in 2013, when the Pirates won 94 games and reached the playoffs for the first time since Bream's slide in 1992 brought about 20 years of heartache.