Overt the last five seasons, the A’s have ranked near the bottom of the league in slugging percentage.
2009: Last in the AL, 25th in MLB with a .397 slugging percentage.
2008: Dead last in all of MLB with a .369 slugging percentage.
2007: 11th in the AL, 23rd in MLB with a .407 slugging percentage.
2006: 13th in [...]

With yesterday’s game being an afternoon game on a Thursday, I missed IT.
Of course, I had to go back on MLB.tv this morning so I could see IT. And man, was IT awesome.
IT, of course, is this:

IT was Ryan Sweeney robbing Ian Kinsler of a three-run home run in the eighth inning, with the score [...]

My brother has a story from a 2006 interleague game between the Rockies and A’s at Coors Field that we often retell and joke about. He was sitting in the bleachers for this low-scoring game – I believe the A’s were down 2-1 in the ninth. A fan next to him was confident the Rockies [...]

OK, I know I’ve been MIA for awhile. But I really couldn’t wait for that horrid season to be over with. Now that it is, and we’re looking clearly toward ‘09 and not back at yucky ‘08, let’s talk some A’s.
1. So I read online this morning that the White Sox are aggresively shopping Nick [...]

1. What? Bobby Crosby is on the DL now? It was just a week or two ago when I read an article online in which he was referred to as the A’s “Iron Man.” Unfortunatley, there is no such thing on this Oakland A’s team. The other two players who have played almost as much [...]