more Austin Boston Chicago London ... Washington DC document.getElementById(base + curr).style.display= ""; May 24, 2005 A's Brand Baseball: Doom, Gloom And The Three-Run Jimmy Jack Local sportswriters are abandoning the A's bandwagon this season like it was, well, a sinking ship. In February, Ray Ratto predicted a 60-win season on ESPNews ( later , he amended that to 65. Thanks, Ray). Then, Bruce Jenkins rhapsodized about intelligent baseball, threw up his hands and conceded the AL West. We can never tell what the hell Scott Ostler is talking about, but we're pretty sure this , which includes the season's first lazy connection of Zito to Zen, wasn't optimistic. SFWeekly, so right about other important matters, named the 2006 A's the Bay's best baseball team . Finally, SFist itself (ourselves?) had the nerve to call the A's "questionably GM'd," as though that weren't heretical. The national media aren't being any nicer: Peter Gammons counts the A's, as only he can, among "holes dug that makes [ sic .] one wonder when and if they can be filled in." (See: Scott Ostler.) The Hardball Times has a graph that puts the A's way outside of a two-team race for the AL West crown. Even | |
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