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The Oakland Athletics became the first round of victims to the defending MLB champion Boston Red Sox’s attempt at their third title in five years. BoSox slugger Manny Ramirez took little time stepping back into the driver’s seat of his team, delivering the go-ahead double in the 10th inning of a 6-5 win in Tokyo, Japan.

I’d like to overstate the obvious by pointing out that the BoSox are projected to go 162-0 at the moment, and the A’s 0-162, both MLB records.

A’s fans: be afraid, be very, very afraid!

Yankees fans: be terrified, put a wall up around the city, “The BoSox are coming! The BoSox are coming!”
A few suggestions to enhance an 0-162 A’s team:

• Sign Jose Canseco — No one would sit next to him on the bench or on the bus, because “Jose can you sing” is always wired for sound, needing a new quote for his next book. This would convert the team into the 1st openly run sting operation in MLB history. And for entertainment purposes, there’s a 1 in 10 chance another baseball will bounce off Canseco’s head again.
• Sign Rickey Henderson — What’s a Canseco book without a few quotes from the oldest strongman in America who loves to speak in the third person? Rickey would be more than willing to sit next to Canseco in the dugout and on the bus; in fact, Rickey will sit next to anybody, anytime so long as he can talk about himself. Just think, somewhere, at this very moment, Rickey is talking the ear off someone — possibly in a Used Car lot — and loving every minute of it.
• Hire Isaiah Thomas as GM — That should get the media swarming the dugout! He would at least find a way to get rid of those pesky dollars laying around in Oakland. Does Allan Houston play baseball? Marbury? Got a pen, fellas?