“I’m surprised it hadn’t been done before with all the great teams and great individual hitters that have come throughout the course of the game,” Granderson said.- From the AP recap via Yahoo! Sports.I listened to a game today that I couldn't stop listening to. I was at work and decided today to listen to an A's game. Even though I was busy the day just kept seem like it was dragging so I listened to the A's in hopes that the day would go by a little faster.
Well just my luck the A's-Yankees game was in a rain delay for 90 minutes. And then when it would finally start, I wouldn't be disappointed one bit.
The A's jumped out to a 7-1 lead by the fifth inning and it looked like the A's were actually going to sweep the Yankees in the Bronx. And then all hell broke loose and the A's would be on the wrong side of history.
Rich Harden gave up the first grand slam of the game, but it didn't stop from there. The Yankees would go on to hit two more grand slams making history by becoming the first team in history to hit three grand slams in a single game. So what started out as a 7-1 lead, turned into a 22-9 rout for the A's. I feel like this could only happen to the A's, so the Colonel and I met at the Mos Eisley Cantina to discuss this situation.
"I saw the highlights when I went home to change," says the Colonel. "Only the A's could lose like that."
"That's my thought exactly," I say with big eyes and a grin. The Colonel knows already what we're about to discuss. "Only the A's can lose in spectacular fashion. From the Jeter to home plate play, to Brad Radke shutting them down in game 5 of the 2002 ALDS when the A's where the best team in baseball, to losing to the Tigers in the 2006 ALCS on a walk-off grand slam.
"The A's can't lose like a regular team. They have to go out in spectacular style."
I haven't even mentioned yet Kirk Gibson and Dennis Eckersley or being swept by the Cincinnati Reds when the A's were the clear favorites.
"Maybe they're cursed by Charlie O.?" asks the Colonel talking about the former A's owner who brought his ass on the field, tried to fire a player during a World Series, and then eventually sold all his players. "Charlie O. was basically forced to sell the A's because of a divorce. Maybe Charlie O. put the hex on the A's because of bitterness from the divorce."
The Colonel was clearly grasping for straws but it is curious that the A's could lose a game in such spectacular fashion. It also hit that this is probably why A's fans are so bitter or at least part of the reason. Their favorite team loses games/series in the most peculiar way possible. That would certainly make me a bitter sports fan.
I find the general bitterness from the east bay really off putting. There used to be a friendly rival between the two sides of the bay and now it's just bitterness.
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