Oakland A’s at The Deadline

Well, it is official now. The Oakland A's suck.

OK fine, they probably have officially sucked all season, but I tried to deny, hide and dance around it. Anything to avoid the obvious. But it is no longer possible, I have lost hope. They suck.

Plus, they traded their best player, Matt Holliday. They suck even more.

The team has almost nothing going for it right now. I like the young pitchers. Give them a few years and I am hoping that Braden, Anderson, Cahill and Mazzaro will be reminiscent of Hudson, Mulder and Zito from 2000 to 2003. And Andrew Bailey is as good a closer as anybody in baseball right now, him and Michael Wuertz are a hell of a combo in the eighth and ninth. But beyond that?

Bailey and Wuertz are good, but Wuertz will g...

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