That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary

OAKLAND–A’s owner Lew Wolf says it’s the fans fault that things are depressing at the Coliseum according to one AP report and to add insult upon injury the A’s dugout toilet backed up on Tuesday night’s game which took much of the attention away from the game. A few weeks ago when the Tampa Bay Rays were in town their starter Fernando Rodney was in the bathroom in the Rays dugout and he was going to warm up and he locked himself out and he couldn’t get out of the bathroom dugout and it took 20 minutes for a maintenance guy to come out and rescue Rodney.

Rodney couldn’t even come out and warm up but Joe Maddon the Rays manager had a great sense of humor at the time saying, “the way he was pitching let him stay in the bathroom” this is an embarrassing place not just for the A’s but for Major League Baseball. It’s just not for the A’s but they play somebody else like the visitors who come into the Coliseum, it’s embarrassing for everybody in the American League because you play every team this is not only embarrassing for the A’s but it’s embarrassing for the game. Then Lew Wolf is saying the reason why it’s depressing at the Coliseum is because of the fans, it’s getting embarrassing for the A’s off the field but they’re winning where it counts on the field.

Bob Melvin & A’s leaving A.L. West in the dust: A’s manager Bob Melvin could win the manager of the year he’s really done a marvelous job for this team this is not that much of a talented team it’s just a bunch of kids who are hustling Yoenis Cespedes hasn’t had a great season, Josh Reddick has been hurt most of the year, so Melvin deserves a lot of credit the A’s are eventually going to win this division as they have a 6.5 game lead with about 11 games left their going to win it.

Things have been great for the A’s, the attendance has been great this year and the A’s plan to open up the third deck and take off the tarp for the playoffs, the only tarp that won’t be taken off will be the one at the top of Mount Davis right next to the sky and all the way up top because those are the nose bleeds and I’ve been told if you sit there you can’t see the centerfielder because your right on top so as many of you know Mount Davis is not for baseball but everything else going to be open and it’s going to be a great place to be in a couple weeks.

The Angels are going to finish third and the Angels are still fighting as their five games under .500 to finish with 81 wins and I don’t know if their going to be able to do it. They might have been playing great but it’s too late now it’s been a great disappointment. The biggest teams in the American League are the biggest disappointments the Angels and the Toronto Blue Jays. The Blue Jays were stacked with all kinds of stars and their fighting to stay out of the cellar.

It happens, it’s baseball and that’s why they play 162 games and the A’s this year are a lot better than last year and I wouldn’t be surprised this time if they draw the Detroit Tigers again. They might take the Tigers and the A’s took three out of four from the Tigers at Comerica and they could beat the Tigers this time.

Rangers Ron Washington gets vote of confidence: Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington got a vote of confidence from Texas management and that’s good and I’m glad to see that because he doesn’t get the media coverage. A lot of minority managers don’t get much recognition like the Cuban manager of the Braves Freddy Gonzalez or Reds manager Dusty Baker and the like. Gonzalez is doing a great job with that team.

It’s good to see Washington getting a chance from the Rangers and getting a vote of confidence, he’s a good man I wish he would have come back to Oakland as manager of the A’s. He’s won two pennants with the Rangers in 2010 and 2011. The Rangers had lost Nelson Cruz this season with that suspension for PEDs so the A’s are having problems and Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish who is pitching remarkable for Texas and a few days ago he lost a great duel to A’s pitcher Bartolo Colon whose 40 years old.

The A’s are looking very good and it should be a very exciting divisional playoffs. The Twins are coming to Oakland for a weekend series and half of the team is a triple A team although the Twins Joe Mauer is hitting way over .300 who is fourth or fifth in the league in hitting and Mauer has won three batting titles already. The Twins could hurt you but if the A’s win three out of four from the Twins they could clinch at the Coliseum.

If the A’s can sweep the Twins they’ll still be one game short unless they get help from Texas if they lose a few this weekend to Kansas City as they enter Thursday’s schedule with a magic number of five. In four games you still need the Rangers to lose one game so there’s a good chance the A’s could clinch this Saturday or Sunday at the Coliseum.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez does News and Commentary each week for Sportstalk Radio and is the Spanish radio voice for A’s baseball