Angels writers from the CRASHING THE PEARLY GATES blog discuss Angels baseball. Recorded on an Angels off day – Monday night, August 3, 2020 – Rev Halofan moderates a panel of Angels writers: Brent Maguire, Rahul Setty and Jeffrey Tan as we discuss the Angels after ten games of this crazy 2020 season:
•Shohei Ohtani injured – is this it? Should he just DH from here on out or do the Angels double down on this 21st century version of Babe Ruth?!?!?
•Jo Adell – recorded on the cusp of his major league debut we take a closer look at this rookie, how the organization will use him and what player in baseball he most resembles.
•Angels bullpen – Was it five blown saves in the first ten games or six, or twenty? Let’s find out what needs to be done with the Angels relievers.
Go easy on us, this was a first time trial…
I hope you make this a weekly thing with Sanity Clause as the moderator.
Nice! I’m stoked to hear that Goodwin and Upton will platoon. Goodwin’s been solid and Upton has, well, not been. Really glad to see management actually go with the superior players vs the bigger contracts.
Jo Adell will be the everyday right fielder and Goody will platoon with Upton in left.
Trout is back, and Ohtani won’t pitch again this season.
I don’t think Upton will be out of the batting order, whether he be the Dh or Lf, much. I think Adell picks off a start in lf an rf once a week and gets 90% of the Thaiss and Ward OF time, to start.
Very cool that Rev is sharing his Ol’ Timey Prospector cosplay with CTPG.
Just here to share the gold!
Thank you, Gabby Halofan.
Rip van Rev
Always remember:
I dish it out BECAUSE I can take it.
Upton’s OPS is lower than Rendon’s OBP?!?!
Factcheck: Yep, that’s true.
Great roundtable – thank you!
Rahul, what are those trophies for?
Participation
ha!
She ain’t wrong! Most of them are YMCA basketball participation trophies, lol. The year I was in NJB we placed 3rd in our league and each took home a much-bigger trophy, which is sitting on our linen closet (not pictured) outside our room.
@JessicaDeLine Hey o! I bit my tongue… Didn’t want to be cancelled for making a “generationalist” comment … 😂
Can’t wait to watch. Thanks for putting it together.
This was great you guys. Nice work!
Really loved the staff round table with Rev as mod. Hope we get to see more!
Pretty cool that we got Santa Claus on this!!
Santa was a good moderator, for sure!
Guess we found out what he does in August
Bashes Mariners trolls and Josh Hamilton? 😍
Missed seeing that 32 tattoo above the heart.