Don't look now, but Giambi is stealing Thomas' MVP award. The last three weeks, to me, he has turned it into a runaway. The A's also boast Miguel Tejada, who slugged 30 homers and drove in 115 runs and is the best shortstop not named Nomar, Alex or Derek. There's speedy rookie center-fielder Terrence Long, who hit .288 with 18 homers and 80 RBIs to give the A's the leadoff hitter they sorely lacked. We have great chemistry.
Ignorance is bliss.
Maybe these guys are too young to know we're not supposed to be doing this. It still smells in here. Speaking of smelling, the Yankees enter this series playing the way Selig and his blue-ribbon panel suggest the A's should. They have lost seven in a row and have been outscored 137-56 in that stretch. It gets worse.