Billy Beane

1) What are the chances that Fox gets its dream World Series matchup of Dodgers-Yankees, the teams that today have the two best records in baseball? The way this decade has gone, not very good at all.

It's hard to write funny. I know this is true because people mention it to me all the time after I write something that doesn't make them laugh. Well, they usually say it like so: "You're not funny." I take this to...

PHOENIX -- A's general manager Billy Beane is one of the smartest men in baseball. But sometimes Beane is credited with ideas that aren't even completely his.

PHOENIX -- Jason Giambi walked into the A's spring-training complex for the first time in eight years, pulled up a stool in an otherwise empty clubhouse, pointed both index fingers at a row of lockers and pretended...

To say pigs are flying around the Oakland Coliseum this offseason may be a bit of an overstatement. But the way the A's have been going about their business this winter definitely has a different smell to it.