Day 1,755: First Place

My baseball team, the Oakland A’s, are in first place today.

This is exciting, because nobody saw this coming at the beginning of the season, not even me. We’ve languished for a number of years after trading away our best (and impendingly expensive) players after falling short in the 2014 playoffs. ’15, ’16, and ’17 were lost years. 2018 wasn’t really supposed to be anything different. Perhaps a step forward with our young, emerging squad–the first home-grown crop of players I can remember in...