“Hindsighting” may not be a word, but if Oscar Wilde can introduce the world to the notion of “Bunburying” and then a century later Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs can bring “Blindspotting” to popular culture, I would like to think I can get away with gerundifying a noun. That’s right: I invented the word “gerundifying” to justify inventing the word “hindsighting,” none of which really provides analysis of the A’s off-season moves. So let’s get to that, shall we?
The concept of “happy to be wrong” was invented in 2015 when scores of A’s fans, myself included, watched in horror as Marcus Semien played shortstop (or should I say, shortstop played him) and we all turned to our dogs, cats, and empty rooms, timidly, to ask “They’re not going to keep playing him there, right?