It’s been a crazy, A’s-less last few weeks for me, with general life happenings and the decision to leave the Sports Cartel blog network and transition to my independent blog site (yay, dot net!), and now I’m trying to getting myself back into the loop.

I noticed the A’s lost a few. I was at the Dodgers/Brewers game last Wednesday and was watching the out of town scoreboard throughout the game. The A’s lost that one 2-0, as they ran into the buzzsaw that was the Cleveland Indians pitching staff. In fact, since that day I spent at Miller Park in Milwaukee, the A’s have gone 2-6. Maybe it’s because I wore a pink A’s hat with a Brewers T-shirt. That has to be curse-worthy, doesn’t it? If so, I’m sorry. It won’t happen again.

It was just a little over a week ago when ESPN.com named the A’s the #1 team in all of baseball in their Power Rankings. They dropped to #5 the following week, and will likely find themselves out of the top 10 by this time Friday. Such is the long marathon that is a baseball team.

But which A’s are the real A’s? The 6-11 May A’s? The 15-10 April A’s? The 1-1 March A’s? I say the latter, as it seems likely this team will settle somewhere in the middle. But that’s the easy answer, isn’t it?

Today is an off day as the A’s get ready for another go-round with the Boston Red Sox. Haven’t we seen enough of these guys this year already? With the A’s currently two games above .500, I’ll be happy if they can be still above .500 on Memorial Day.

Go A’s!!