As fans of the last place Oakland Athletics, the All-Star Break is our opportunity to reset expectations and remember that for those of us that follow the club year after year, the postseason chase is not everything. One of the great things about sports fandom is, as Adam Sternbergh put it for The New York Times Magazine, "It allows you to feel real emotional investment in something that has no actual real-world consequences."
So the A's are probably not going to make the postseason this year, but we can still invest ourselves in the other wonderful aspects of our Oakland Athletics.