by Charlie O Mallonee & Jerry Feitelberg

The A’s you would think after the fire sale everthing would be a little depressing for them around there and yet they just had a very good homestand against the Houston Astros last weekend. They had a 6-4 homestand they lost to Cleveland in three 2-1 and went 1-2 against Baltimore.

That series didn’t surprise Baltimore right in the throes of the wild card so their very motivated right now but then coming back and taking three out of four at the Coliseum against Houston no one saw that one coming. The A’s could have come back in the fourth game and they came back from behind to tie it but they lost it when the bullpen let them down.

To see the A’s come together well and to do that well and your starting to get a little glimpse for what maybe next year for the A’s. It’s still tough for them their still 51-63 and their still in last place in the AL West. Their ten games behind Houston and their 1.5 games back of Seattle.

The Athletics are 9.5 games back of the wild card, so for the A’s it’s an interesting situation that they are where they are and if you wipe out that first six weeks of the season it’s an entirely season for the A’s. The A’s have had good games and they’ve had some poor games. On the current road trip their in Toronto, the Jays are a very potent and very red hot team that Oakland is going into the Sky Dome to face and the A’s found that out by dropping Tuesday night’s game to them 4-2 in the series opener.

The Jays came into the series having won nine in a row, swept the Yankees in Yankee Stadium where they’ve had 17 loses before that and took all three games. They made two blockbuster deals getting Troy Tulewski and pitcher David Price and plus some other minor deals. They also got veteran pitcher LeTroy Hawkins who just picked up a save with the Jays, Cliff Pennington from Arizona, and Mark Lowe from Seattle joining the Jays.

The big news in the off season was Russell Martin and Josh Donaldson who joined Toronto. From Toronto the A’s go to Baltimore for four games before going to face the Dodgers in an interleague game on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. For the series it’s going to be very tough in Toronto. On the MLB Network they were talking about Donaldson could possibly be the MVP for the A.L. and it’s like stabbing A’s fans in the heart. He may not overcome the Angels Mike Trout but there is a chance that Donaldson could become the MVP.

Charlie O and Jerry Feitelberg did the A’s podcast for this week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com