Too bad for the A's, but I can't say I feel too bad for a team with 9 championships, the most recent coming in 1989.
I'm so conflicted! When I was little I supported the Dodgers (because they were my home town team's MLB affiliate); when I started playing baseball as a teenager my club was called the Cardinals, so I supported St Louis. I've never been able to separate the two; and now they're playing each other, I don't know who to root for. This is the same reason there's no MLB team in my avatar.