That's what I've been saying all along! I think we started going downhill when we picked up guys like Giambi and Kevin Brown through ridiculous free agent signings. And now look at us; Jaret Wright was a bust. Randy Johnson was a bust. Carl Pavano barely even played for us. Kyle Farnsworth is a bust. Giambi is a semi-bust. A-Rod, it's yet to be seen....
I say 30 for Melky and Cano, 60 for Wang and groom Shelley Duncan into a powerful first baseman/DH who can hit 30+ HR's a year, pray that guys like Phillip Hughes are the real deal, and then maybe, just maybe, we can create a winning team out of nothing and also, inadevertently prove ourselves wrong and win it all with the A's philosophy, which I think is a good one, though Billy Beane takes it too far. But that's for another thread...
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