Tuesday, August 05, 2003
I was just watching Baseball Tonight and saw highlights of the A's win behind another strong outing from Rich Harden (of course it was against the Tigers, so naturally they're flashing statistics about Detroit matching the '62 Mets for 120 losses in the season). This is the team to watch in the last months of the season: they're in the Wild Card and AL West hunt...and Miguel Tejada is just starting to come alive. They've just acquired an outfielder who's on fire this season (Jose Guillen), and of course, they have one of the best staffs in baseball. Sure, Barry Zito needs to pick up from where he left off last year, but if I was a team in a playoff series having to face Tim Hudson, Zito, Mark Mulder and Harden (if he keeps it up), I'd be very afraid. Remember that they were one win away from the ALCS two years ago until Derek Jeter somehow appeared at the first base line to throw out Jeremy Giambi.
The Oakland lineup may not be producing runs as much as they should, since I'm waiting for Erubiel Durazo to become the superstar he was destined to be, but they're young, fast, and exciting (the two they took from the Yanks was great baseball), so how can you not root for them?
I'll also be checking in from time to time, and probably won't talk much about my poor Mets. Wait 'til next year, Amazins.
posted by Charles Curtis 7:26 PM
