2025 A’s: “Bad” And “Boring” Are Not The Same Thing

We have endured some mediocre A’s teams in between the fun runs of winning teams. The “Geren Years” of 2007-11 were trying (but was the team?) and 2015-17 not much fun either.

Those squads, though, were very different from the 2025 A’s — who may be one of the more frustrating teams and certainly had the worst 1/5th of a season of any of them — and it’s why I continue to be glued to my TV every day even if it needs to be with a chocolate martini in one hand and a cocktail of Xanax and Zoloft in the other.

The losing teams of yore were not just bad at winning and mediocre at baseball, they also committed the sin of being dull. It’s nothing against washed up veterans and again has-beens like…