Hmmm...I hope I'm wrong

Rob Neyer thinks the A's have an outside shot at the division if the pitching holds up. Color me less optimistic. Even if the rookies continue to be halfway decent (which I am skeptical of), I still have my doubts about the offense. Cabrera is garbage, third base is always garbage, Kennedy is not this good, Giambi has disappointed, Sweeney is garbage, well you get the point. Going into this season I thought the hitting would be fine and the pitching was the key. How naive right, this is the A's, we always pitch somehow, yet flounder at the plate. Texas can hit, they've somehow been great in the field, and for some reason their pitchers havent put up the level of suck they normally do. Anahiem can't hit, but they do so better than us, and on top of this their run prevention has been about as good as ours...minus lackey santanna and escobar for most of the season. If we really have a shot at this division, not only does the young staff need to keep improving but our position players need to wake up fast. This winning streak has been fun, but its come against a poor whitesox team and a fairly hilarious baltimore team. People can dream about october if they wish, I'm going to focus my mind on tomorrows draft and what this Holliday fellow is going to land us.