Backing into the victory lane.
The Oakland A's lost again last night. Their record this month is a robust 9w-11L so far. Yet somehow they are still in first place in an essentially two-team race, with a third party, the Rangers, playing the spoiler. From any conceivable point of view, the A's are in trouble. Ken Mecha, their commander-in-chief, is clueless as to how to use his troops. Their Big Three star pitchers have been a disaster lately, living in their past glory. The rest of the team, enemic, have been unable to mount any sustainable offense against even the mostly inferior adversaries. The whole situation is spinning out of control, and there's no way to stop the bleeding except to stay the course and finish what they started, the season. So should I credit the evil-genious mastermind, A's campaign manager Billy Beane for the state of my be-loved baseball team? it's his anything-for-winning attitude and highway-robbery tactics that have put many of his opponenets in MLB in a state of fear and second-guessing, and have put the A's on the way to winning the 2004 campaign, once again. Some people may blame the A's lead on the Angels' Kerryesque performance in September, but I would disagree. Don't call me ignorant. Even if I am, so what, as long as my team wins the whole thing six weeks from now.
posted by hedgehog @ 7:32 PM
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