The second half has begun. The Giants are poised to provide their fans with another summer of strangely glorious torture, and the A’s stuck in the big-league equivalent of the “friend zone,” wondering if it’s safe to try to take what they’ve got going to the proverbial next level.
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Tony La Russa is simply the best manager I’ve known, and his final act was his best: Taking a team that was 10½ games out in the wild card race to a triumph in the World Series. Can’t top that.La Russa also had a powerful influence on the way the game is played. With the A’s in the ’80s, he pioneered the idea of having one reliever for the seventh inning, another for the eighth and a closer who came in at the start of the ninth inning.
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