[Akileese]

Wait wait wait, you're gonna bash the Boston re-plants (Mass people who end up moving to different parts of the country and I know about two dozen who go to Sox games) supporting their team on the road? Who's fault is it that the home team doesn't support THEIR OWN TEAM? This isn't Red Sox/Yankees or even Yankees/D-Rays (it's a known fact that a large populus of people from NY spend time in florida, which is why they have so many fans at d-ray games). You have no right to complain about fans who support their team on the road when you can't get enough of your own fans to drown us out. When I went to the Sox/Rangers games last year, I counted more Sox fans than Ranger fans. That's fucking pathetic. Funniest part, we sat in a group of about 20 people, most of whom had Boston accents (meaning they were recent re-plants who had moved).

Look, I'm all for competitive home crowds and all, but when you can't get people to support your own home team, you have no right to complain about the amount of support a team like Boston gets on the road.

As far as the A's go, their pitching staff is phenominal. The Mets were trying to pry Haren away in spring training/off-season, but Billy Beane wouldn't give him up even for 3 cornerstones and Aaron Heilman (this was just a rumor but I heard from a fairly reliable source that they wanted Haren, but the A's were shopping Harden). The only problem Oakland has is hitting. They could barely score runs against a completely flat Boston squad mainly because their bottom 3 is as sterile as it comes. Kotsay (who's only played like 30 games now) is barely batting .100, Kendall is awful, and they have one more guy who isn't even batting .200. You can only go so far with great pitching. They'll never catch the Angels with that lineup.