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A's reach a new low getting swept by the Devil Rays. It's going to be a fight for this team to beat out the Royals as the worst team in the A.L. Won't be surprised if Ken Macha is fired by the end of the week. He got the dreaded vote of confidence from ownership recently.

Brian pretty much hit the two key points. I'd say only Bobby Kielty, Keichii Yabu, and Huston Street haven't underachieved so far this season. I keep waiting for the law averages to work themselves out and them to be a competitive team, not a playoff team mind you but at least capable of hovering around .500. Right now I wouldn't be surprised if they lose 100 games.

This is hardly original. Nobodies do this every year as a joke. Back in 1996 while I was a Junior in high school, a guy at our school officially declared for the NBA Draft (filled out all the paper work) as a stunt to get elected as student body president and he wasn't even on the school team. The local NBC affiliate even came out and interviewed him.

A's actually take advantage of a bases loaded situation, Eric Chavez gets three hits, and Octavio Dotel doesn't blow a save (although he tried really hard) against the Red Sox. Truly a night of miracles!

Now that I think of it Garciaparra probably will be voted the starter, because most fans are idiots. In that case Barmes might actually get to start as his replacement but it's still early. Cardinals fans vote in big numbers so don't be surprised if David Eckstein could win it as well. The All-Star Game is in Detroit this year so Tiger fans will vote in big numbers. I see absolutely no way Rodriguez doesn't get voted the starter. Lopez didn't come within a million votes of I-Rod last year. Alfonso Soriano was the leading vote getter for the A.L. despite having an off year last season. He bested the field at second base by 1.5 million votes. Roberts has no shot.

Losing streak now at eight. I have doubts that it will be over by the time interleague play begins with the Red Sox coming in next. I'm going to the game next Saturday in San Francisco, my first A's game ever as a visiting fan, so maybe I'll watch them break the losing streak at 12! What a memorable day that will be! Welcome to the Losingball era.

Rich Harden is officially placed on the DL, Seth Etherton called up. Eric Chavez has been benched for today's game. Good god Bobby Kielty might be the A's All-Star rep this year. They really need to eliminate the one player per team rule.

Speaking of losing faith, A's down 9-1 in the 3rd inning. This looks like a 100 loss team right now and it's time to start blowing it up, which I suppose they started this past offseason. Scott Hatteberg for one needs to be dumped when they have a better option in Dan Johnson at Triple A right now.

Giambi gets a hit for a second straight night. The A's are the official slump busters for the Yankees. Already down 4-0. God this team fucking sucks. Edit: From what I've heard the Yankee announcers said Rich Harden was placed on the DL but that isn't true. Harden will miss his next start but that might be it.

Very rarely does a team reach a worst case scenerio in terms of expectations. Unfortunently the A's are rapidly heading towards that. Rich Harden gets hammered tonight and leaves with an injury. This is a nightmare.

In Oakland they charge $14 for parking. That's more than what upper deck and bleacher seats cost.

Click the link for local news recreation of his accident! http://www.newsnet5.com/sports/4460612/detail.html

A's are DONE. Dotel gives up another walk off today. 90+ loss season is on it's way.

As long as we're pulling up old boxscores here's a good one http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B07010CHA1990.htm Andy Hawkins throws a no-hitter for the Yankees, loses 4-0. White Sox score four in the 8th on two walks and three errors.

And the A's season continues to spiral out of control. Dotel blows it on a homerun to Kevin Millar. 14-19 now. The Beane bashers are loving it. It could be much, much worse as they've won about five games this year on late inning defensive blunders by the opposition. I doubt they'll be with in single digits of .500 by the end of the month.

Podsednik is on pace for 80-85 steals so he's no where close. He'll never get on base enough to make a serious run. That's a big reason why Rickey was able to steal so many because he was on base so much. Vince Coleman conceivably could have stole more than 130 in a season but the guy just wasn't a good hitter so he just didn't have nearly as many opportunities.

Jerry Rice's 22 touchdown receptions in 12 games in 1987. No receiver in history has had more than 18 in a 16 game season and Rice did it in only 12 games due to the scab games of '87.

The A's are three innings from me about to throw in the towel on the season. If you get shutout by the current incarnations of Mike Mussina and Kevin Brown, you have no hope. This offense could end up being historically bad in the current slugger's era.

They're an embarassment. If Beane doesn't make a move soon to improve this offense they are officially punting the season.

The A's were shutout three times all of last season. They've now been shutout five times in 30 games to start this year. Pathetic.

Pffft, The Jeter likes to show he's occasionally mortal to appeal to the common man. I'm happy the A's are winning (and I hope hold on) but god damn this has been an ugly last couple of innings of baseball. It's really painful to watch these two once great teams play so ugly.

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Awww tonight could have been so much fun with Barry Zito vs. Carl Pavano in the battle of the Alyssa Milano's current boyfriend vs. the ex but apparantly Zito and Milano broke up. I wonder what starting pitcher she'll be banging next?

Just move them to the N.L. West and make it a six team division and move the Pirates to the East where they should already be.

A's down 5-0 in the 6th, a completely insurmountable lead for this offense. They are just getting worse and worse.