Epic Drop: Top 11 Marketing Slogans for the 2008 Oakland A's

Your link is here, and while I still trust Billy Beane as an A's fan... I'm tired of the shuttle system. Big time. You start with Mark Mulder, Tim Hudson and Barry Zito, and instead of being able to continue to coach and manage them, you have to roll the dice every few years. And while you occasionally get lucky and smart and replace a Mulder with a Haren, the Dan Meyer for Tim Hudson didn't quite work out... and what's the point if you then have to move Haren after two years?

Well, even Beane's not that smart. It's a game for suckers, like getting into a high stakes poker game with your last $100. You might survive for a while, especially if the guys with money play like idiots, but eventually, those people smarten up and clean you out. And that's what being a fan of a non-MLB+ team is like right now. Sucker bet, sucker game, sucker year. And it, well, sucks.