Perhaps it’s too early to be pessimistic about the A’s chances this season, or maybe I’m just being a realist. The A’s found a way to lose yesterday despite figuring out Yankees starter CC Sabathia. They jumped out to a lead, blew it, and then regained the lead several more times in the game before finally succumbing in 14 innings on a Melky Cabrera walk-off homer. The final score of 9-7 might suggest the A’s found some offense, but it’s a bit misleading since this was a 14-inning game. They were shut down by the Yankees bullpen for the final 7 innings, and they have won of the worst lineups in baseball right now. They acquired 2 sluggers in the offseason, but the whole team only has 4 home runs in the first 14 games. There are several individual players in baseball who have more home runs than that right now. They just had a 3-game set in the new Yankee Stadium, which apparently has a wind-tunnel effect that blows balls out to right field, and they still didn’t manage to let the ball fly. My grandmother hit one out in an exhibition game last week, and she’s barely able to walk. Just put the ball in the air and the wind currents will take it.

The A’s are now 5-9 and looking like a team that will struggle to climb out of the basement of the AL West this season. That is, unless we can relocate the team to Colorado so Matt Holliday can get some home runs.

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