The Daily Paragraph -- Baseball is Ruined

So the A's have officially ruined another baseball season for me. They felt like an unlucky, underperforming mediocre team going into their current road trip, but seven losses later they are definitely a bad/hopeless baseball team with little to cheer for this season and little chance of recovering from fecklessness next season. I've been following the A's since 1998, and their worst record through that period has been 74-88; they did that twice. Right now, the A's have to win 23 of their remaining 42 games to reach that pathetic record. That's right, the team that just got swept twice on the road needs to win more than lose just to tie for their worst record over the last 17 years. In 1997 they only won 65 games, and I think they can beat that. My official prediction for their final record is 70-92. The next thing the team has to look forward to is the draft next Spring. This stinks.