They had a 3-0 lead on Texas in the bottom of the ninth on Sunday and Glen Perkins fucked it all up; the Bastard Washington Senators v.2.0 tied it, then won it in extra innings. On Friday they wasted a 15-strikeout performance by Francisco Liriano (aside: It is still striking that even after Liriano's superlative performance -- and his performance ever since he was sent to the bullpen -- that the team and fans are still thinking like he's about to be traded. That fatalistic attitude towards a guy who's playing as well as any pitcher in MLB right now is due to two things: We've been through this song-and-dance before and know that he'll just go back to sucking again, and the organization is so bad that we see his lights-out production as a trade asset accruing in value, not a piece of a World Series-winning team. We should be keeping hurlers who can strike out 15 batters, not trading them!), and the bullpen, the supposedly rock-solid bullpen which has been rested all this week, cratered late in a 6-3 loss to the Bastard Philadelphia Athletics. And Saturday Cole De Vries, who seemed to have his shit together, was shaken down for, like, six runs in the first three innings (that's probably incorrect but I don't give a shit because this franchise blows) on their way to a 9-3 loss to the Bastard Kansas City Athletics.
They are now by far the worst team in the American League, and they are now also contending for worst team in the majors. They try to avoid the sweep to Team Moneyball Sunday afternoon, then finish their homestand with a four-game set against the Bastard St. Louis Browns before starting a series in Kansas City on Friday.
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