Oakland Athletics: Meet Your Montreal Expos
They’re a little similar to Expos fans, really. To be a devoted fan of the Oakland A’s, you have to want it. You have to dive in and study, obsess, learn the minor leaguers, find goofy upstart kids you love, your tubby Landon Powell, your scrappy Mark Ellis. You have to do that to be a devoted of any team, of course, but with the A’s, there’s no choice. You’re always starting from scratch: You’re never asking if someone is a True Athletic, because there’s no such thing. It’s a team of transients and wannabes. These are terrifically fun teams to cheer for; you’re always the plucky underdog.
I don’t know which is more exciting: that baseball is about to start again or that Will Leitch is writing about it again.
Source: deadspin.com
