In the last four years, we have seen the three biggest professional sports leagues in this country institute drastic changes to their respective postseason formats.
As a golf junkie, this is one of the best weekends on the sports calendar and will account for the vast majority of my sports viewing habits over the course of the next three days.
It's tough to get much worse than the situation in Oakland, but there are a few contenders around the pro sports landscape doing their best to do anything but put a winning product on the field.
I don't know about you, but Bello-Pivetta-Crawford-Whitlock-Houck doesn't inspire a ton of confidence in me, and it appears the Red Sox think simply having Craig Breslow in-house, as well as new pitching coach Andrew Bailey, is going to be the secret sauce in unlocking these guy's potential and turning what appears to be a lacking bunch of arms into the '98 Braves.
Because I'm a junkie, I'll be along for the ride, but as for excitement entering the year, or the attention I've paid to the team to this point? Yeah, it's at an all-time low.