The 2015 Oakland A's have played 157 games and most of them have gone poorly. This was a season of bad baseball for the A's, and the fact that it followed three straight postseason years makes it even more of a bummer. All that's left to do is play out the string before a long winter full of figuring out how to make 2016 a happier story.
That's one way to look at it, at least. There are five games left, and you could see them as the final roadblock separating us from putting this miserable season in the past.