just a quick blog to welcome the oakland a's back to a winning season. i'd like to take this opporutnity to remind everyone of a time, a few months ago, when the a's record was less than stellar. i believe i was heard telling several people "just wait till after the all-star break, we're always much better after the all star break" and now we've won 17 of our past 24 games. so i don't want to say i told you so - but this is why people are always shocked by how well the a's do. they don't pay attention and then all of a sudden we're back in lead of our division or winning the wild card - and while we're not there yet - i have no doubt we will be shortly. welcome back boys.