The baseball this season so far is making me crazy. But I’ll be fine. The Giants keep losing in ever-more retarded ways. The A’s keep losing in ever-more pathetic ways. Both are decidedly unimpressive and inconsistent. I guess that’s how it is sometimes. Your team has a few very good years and win a lot and everybody smiles, and next thing you know they trade away Tejada and Hudson, or Bonds busts his knee, or Nen has to retire, etc etc. Sigh.

Right now the A’s have come back in the 9th to take a 1-run lead over Boston but I am sad to say I have very little confidence in their ability to not choke.

I still love the baseball though.

I am pleased with the White Sox. I’ve been following them for a couple years ever since I watched them lose to the Tigers in Chicago in my first non- west coast baseball game in 2003. (That was the year the Tigers successfully proved in the last week of the season that they would not go down as being worse than the ’62 Mets.) This year the White Sox appear to have the best pitching so far, which sure enough, is what counts. They also have former A’s outfielder, cutie-patootie Jermaine Dye.

The Yankees are also starting out with a below average year, which is great news.

I think I enjoy a Dodgers loss more than a Yankees loss, though. I mean, at least New York is a great city; L.A. is just a hellhole full of smug bastards and two obnoxious ballclubs, the other being “The The Angels Angels of Anaheim.”

As a native Pacific Northwesterner, I always hold out hope that the Mariners will come up with some kind of run, but they are even bigger chokers than the A’s, unfortunately. Though who knows, maybe this season they will prove me wrong. Somehow.

Ok just checked the scoreboard. AS I PREDICTED, A’s blow it in the bottom of the 9th, Red Sox win. What a joke. I mean, choke.