Bay Area sports has been struck with a feeling of disbelief. All 4 sports have been utterly disappointing, making it hard to read the Sports section every day.

In baseball, Oakland and my team Baltimore have been traveling down different roads. Oakland was to be the class of baseball with 3 top pitchers and a capable offense. The O's have been struggling to stay afloat after many disappointing seasons. Yet today, these two roads converge. Oakland's streak of playoff appearances snapped today as the Angels eliminated the A's from playoff contention in what has to be the most traumatizing meltdown seen by the A's in recent history. Across the bay, San Francisco blew a 3-run lead in the 9th as it saw the Dodgers hit a walk-off grand slam and win the division. The Giants playoff hopes have not disappeared though, but it needs Houston to lose at least once or then it's over.

Moving to football, the 49ers are not the 49ers we know. They got shut out last week for the first time since 1977. They're starting the season 0-3. The Raiders have come out decently but question marks remain as they replace their starting quarterback with Kerry Collins.

In basketball, the Warriors are the Warriors. What do they and Stanfurd have in common? They'll both probably win 30 games tops. Of course, the Warriors play 82 games and Stanfurd only 35.

The HP Pavilion is silent as hockey continues its lockout of players. The Sharks should have been playing exhibition games by now with the season to have started October 14. But that's thrown out the window.

The only major team outperforming all others? The #10 California Golden Bears, now 3-0 with a win at Oregon State today, head down to L.A. next weekend for a matchup against USC with the winner most likely becoming the Pac-10's representative at the BCS bowls.