Every time I think the A's may have hit rock bottom, they prove otherwise.

Luckily, I was busy and missed Wednesday's thwacking by the Devil Rays. I didn't suffer at all. Ignorance is bliss.

So let's think about something else. Here is the phrase "catfish stew" translated into five Continental European languages:

Dutch: katvis hutspot
French: ragoût de poisson-chat
German: Welseintopfgericht
Italian: stufato del pesce gatto
Spanish: guisado del siluro

Heerlijk! I'll be busy over the Memorial Day weekend, so I'll be taking a few days off from les blogs du grille-pain. Let's look at it as an experiment. If the A's immediately go on a winning streak in my absence, then we've found the jinx.

Si ce blog est la malédiction, je peux ne jamais retourner. Ik betwijfel dit, nochtans zal gebeuren.

Auf Wiedersehen!