Oakland Athletics Staring Into the Eyes Of Another Dying Season

If you don't bear the cross of being an Oakland Athletic fan, you should thank your lucky stars.

Unless, of course, you're a Cleveland Cavaliers fan—Cav fans should be grateful as well, but I'm not going to make that particular request of them until they can pull the serrated knife from the city's collective back.

A sports fan otherwise situated should have nothing but sympathy for the Bay Area's redheaded stepchild of baseball.

Understand, I'm a San Francisco Giant die-hard who cut his teeth under the City's shadow while the Bash Brothers were still in chemically enhanced business. In other words, those sentiments don't come easily to me.

So you know the situation must be ugly.

It is.

I never pretend to know what happens behind closed do...

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