OK, Friday really has nothing to do with anything. That is just one of my favorite lines from the not-so-classic ’80s movie Vice Versa. But a lot’s happened since I last posted.
Ryan Sweeney landed on the DL and is out for the year. Ben Sheets landed on the DL and is probably out for the [...]

Thank goodness. It’s time to go back to Oakland and, more importantly, go back to playing by American League rules.
A few thoughts from the weekend series with St. Louis:
1. What does Matt Holliday have against Oakland? First he played like crap when he was with the A’s. And then he kicks our asses to the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I love that the A’s won the first game of the Tigers series last night, and that they are 3-1 on the current road trip.
But man, that game had “frustrating loss” written all over it.
Dontrelle Willis was wild in the first inning. So wild, that Jim Leyland actually got the bullpen going with one out [...]