The World Series was as expected – weird, short and long, all at once.
But now that it’s done, two things can happen that are of more geographical interest.
One, the A’s can announce that Billy Beane, David Forst and Bob Melvin have new contracts.
And two, the Giants can announce that they hired the future of their organization.
The first can be filed under “fait accompli,” since only a madman would look at Oakland’s season just passed and think that baseball operations needs a makeover. True, one year of grand results after three of poor ones may constitute a small sample size in galactic time, and there is no indication that the A’s and presently built are a true threat to the Boston Red Sox – given, of course, that nobody was this year.