Well the A’s got swept at home by the Yankees, and I can’t say I’m surprised.
I mean, we all saw how horrible this team was on that stretch through San Francisco, Chicago, and St. Louis, and then at home versus the NL-Central-leading Reds. Sure, they went on a 7-2 run against the doormats of baseball [...]

Bob, your starting pitcher was dealing today and had only thrown 83 pitches through 6 innings. He had retired the last seven batters he faced. But you pulled him.
Oh, I know, his spot was due up in the top of the 7th inning. Mark Ellis led off that inning with a home run to break [...]

That’s the A’s current record with Conor Jackson on the team. Of course they are 0-1 in games he has started, but that’s not his fault.
From the leadoff spot (!) last night, Jackson was 2-for-3 with two singles and a walk, and was on the front end of a perfectly executed hit-and-run with Daric Barton. [...]

Good baseball teams take advantage of other teams’ mistakes and capitalize when given extra outs to play with.
The A’s, who sometimes don’t look like a good baseball team, fortunately looked like one last night, as they took advantage of four Cub errors on the way to a 9-5 win.
A rain delay of over an hour [...]

What an ugly weekend. I mean, the weather looked nice and it seemed like a beautiful weekend to spend in the Bay Area. But it was indeed an ugly weekend for the A’s.
After dropping the first game against Tim Lincecum, the A’s found themselves behind in the late innnings in both Saturday’s and Sunday’s games. [...]