The A's Current Status

 Here they come! The DL is starting to clear. Harden and Foulke will be back by this weekend. Gaudin is going to the bullpen, so Kiko stay away. The other bet is that an outfielder will be the other caualty to be sent down.

Anyone else notice that Thomas is 0-for-Oakland in the HJR department. Frank knock a few out on the road in Texas over the weekend. We can not keep relying on Ellis and Suzuki for power ball.

Our 12-5 road record will be put to the test this weekend. Let's get back at Texas for their recent 2-of-3 here and take 2 or 3 on their home turf.

 Three games won this weekend would be great, but I will be happy with 2-of-3. Texas just swept 3 games from Seattle, which is one more win than we have been able to achieve in 5 games against the Mariners.

 One of the issues I worry about this year is the order of the pitching rotation. Having 2 similar left-hand pitchers pitching in back-to-back games does not bode well for the guy starting the second game, in my opinion. I would rather see a right hander in between the lefties in a 3 game series. The A's have had this problem in the past with right handers, when they had Haren, Blanton, and (can't remember who that other ex-Baltimore starter was). When the A's had Mulder and Zito, they were drastically different. If I were Curt Young, I would try to break this up before the second time around for teams seeing these two.

Go A's!

 Well we backed into first place this weekend. A 2-4 start against Texas is not good. They just happen to be on a hot streak. Let's hope we do better when we face them at the end of this month.

 We need to clear that from our minds and concentrate on Cleveland. "Dutch" and Blanton will the tone for this series. Then were off to Atlanta. I would be happy with a 3-3 split of these next two series.

  Eric Chavez starts his rehab in Sacramento this Thursday and if all goes well he could be back in the line-up some time during the next homestand. Fingers-crossed!