The A’s Early Losing Woes: Nothing Compared To The 1974 Padres
The 2021 Athletics start could have been worse. They could have been donning the brown and yellow of the team 47 years ago that had just been kept in San Diego.
Read moreThe 2021 Athletics start could have been worse. They could have been donning the brown and yellow of the team 47 years ago that had just been kept in San Diego.
Read moreIt’s easy to soothe someone’s feelings, say by renaming something. It’s an easy fix and one of many fairly useless things on the list of possible actions to be taken by our politicians in order for them to be able to come to you and say, “See? We now call this thing a different name. Isn’t that great? How about a campaign contribution?”
Read moreSurely, I can’t be seeing what I’m seeing. It’s the playoffs and we’re jogging to first? In addition to kids on my lawn (can’t you see the over-seeding?) and young people not knowing the value of a dollar (1.17 Euros), I have a third pet peeve: ballplayers who don’t run to first base every time. It’s selfish, undisciplined, and unexplainable.
Read moreThe starting pitching is really good for Cleveland, but so is New York’s offense… Gary Sanchez not withstanding.
Read moreThe Twins held a nice service at the Indians’ funeral, which included clubbing more homers than any team ever and striking out a franchise record number of opponents.
Read moreCleveland did not look all that hot last year. Why are we surprised that someone is kicking their tail this year?
Read moreOne of these teams will win no more than 60 wins. Not excited? None of them will win 90. Mmmmm. Tasty.
Read moreThe thought of spring has us all fluttorious with thoughts of Kershaw and Didi Gregorius
Read moreCleveland’s lucky they’re in a lousy division..
Read moreThe Indians pay homage to Jim Thome with a statue and may bring a World Series title to lay at its feet this year. Photo by Erik Drost via Flickr (cropped)
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