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 [...]

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 [...]

After getting swept by the Angels this weekend, the A’s are now riding a five-game losing streak and have scored a whopping total of five runs in those five games. That is the lowest total over a five-game span for the A’s since September 8-12, 1979. Those 1979 A’s lost 108 games.
These 2010 A’s are [...]

The A’s lost 4-0 to the Angels last night. Dallas Braden had to be perfect again and he wasn’t. As soon as Hideki Matsui launched that 3-run home run into the right field seats, we all knew this was was over.
So that means the A’s have scored two runs in the last three games! You [...]