LA Angels Wednesday News Crash: In Los Angeles

Boy – you really showed us tonight calling out someone for complaining about Duffy as a clean up hitter. LMFAO. Dude has no place batting cleanup on a major League roster … Was a scrub on a 90 loss team last year and now “the best hitter” on a team who can also lose 90. Woof

Ayup. I watched for an inning and a half. Then watched something on Netflix with my beautiful wife. Checked back on the game. It was now 4-0. Decided I don’t care. Took the dogs for a walk. Are some popcorn while watching a comedy.

We have no real vested interest in this team. They are not our friends. The players don’t give a shit about us. We make no money from success and lose no money from failure. Uniforms are just laundry. Put different laundry on any player – including Trout – and we would not like him. So why let his daily performance (and that of the others) decide your moods.

Gitcho – you’re right. Psychotic but right (Animal House). We all need appropriate boundaries as fans and we need to stop caring so much about something over which we have no control and about players who don’t even know who we are and wouldn’t come to help if we were in need.

Figures of speech mi amigo. But thanks for giving me a breakdown of your evening. 🙂

See. This is what happens when moms start “encouraging” their kids to play “safer” sports like soccer. Before you know it you have a whole generation of candy assed bitch boys who never grew up with a completely logical and well founded sense of abject fear when it comes to jinxes.

Next thing you know you are paying a lot of money to help China take over the world, destroy the environment and build slave labor camps because it would just be too hard to not buy Apple and have people who buy Apple see that you didn’t buy Apple.

Obviously soccer = Supporting Fascists, and fascism loves jinxes.

I think everyone can see this and agrees. No need to reply.

Watch them beat us 4 out of 5, lol.

He does that, he can’t help himself, jinks is just some silly cat that is after Dixie and Pixie.

Free Cheeseburgers! It’s the only thing I get out of this relationship!

I don’t think it’s the facts that make a person a Doomah. It’s that they are an asshole and, like most assholes, all they can do is shit on things. One tone, one color, always brown and smelly.

Perry should have been in tears….. He made a selfish decision that was not in the best interest of the team.

So when Dillon Thomas gets DFA’d in a couple of weeks by the Asstros I’m not sure it will really matter.

 😂 

My only guess is LF is “Marsh’s position”. We don’t want Trout to start getting jumpy…

Good points you mention, how about bringing in new folks to replace his VP’s, or increasing payroll, how long was he underpaying to take care of business for the minor league kids, and yes, he did inherit a winning team and soon started cutting corners elsewhere to pay for his high payroll choices. As guess on my part, it seems to have become noticeable after 2009. Cutting back on all levels of scouting, investing in player development, and you want to be sarcastic that I’m completely wrong. Other than in player payroll and ticket and concession price, where did he raise the spending threshold? On experienced GM and Asst. GM’s? Or maybe in scouting? Player development? Drafting? Experienced PxP announcers? He was forced into spending maybe more money in the minors, but he did get to cut one team from the Angels minor league roster, so there is that. He was not a Billionaire prior to purchasing the Angels. And he is a lot smarter than many here believe him to be. But as having a hand in building this team to be a winner and really caring he has more than a decade to prove that and he has failed at that while still making money. Disdain for the sport is not exactly what was written by me, but it comes before building a winner as he has shown. I don’t want him to sell, but it sure would work better if he could learn from his mistakes, but alas he does not see it as mistakes because it’s about the money.

Yes, Arte does love baseball but loves being an owner even more. Arte and Jerry Jones are one in the same. Always making bad decisions just to show that they are smarter than everyone else in the room. Rengifo could’ve been a Dodger if it wasnt for Arte.

Good point you make, but I believe PTP really did a good overall job of putting this team together, he covered all the teams needs and stayed within his allotted budget. What I mentioned during Spring Training was staying healthy and everyone, especially Trout having big years and we would be winners. Well, the best laid plans of….never mind, you are fully aware of the crash and burn. I’m only giving my opinion that some decisions need to be made next month and beyond about the real direction this team needs to make, and that includes the owner. The Owner shows his contempt to making a real winning team by for years short changing and cutting corners, to having a real winning team.

No dooming here based on PTP’s budget and who was available on the cheap. Wade and Capt. Jack and Rengifo have under performed. Squid was not supposed to be a starter but a back up. Everyone here posted there ideas of who should have been signed to play SS. Most of those choices have failed also in one way or another this year btw. I think Thor was a good pick up, but not at 21 mil per. But pitching is always at a premium, especially in July (coming up, right) and again in the off season.

If I project being a Doomer it should be noted that I think we should be sellers next month. We have too many needs to plug all the holes and still have enough players for the future. We need at least one catcher, one ML hitting ss and keeping Squid as the backup, one OF’er capable of playing the corners. Two or three but settling for one very good relief pitcher with long term future.

I am really bummed at what has broken down, but PTP would have been exulted if the injuries did not take the team down followed by hitting, pitching and fielding taking a huge dump out on the field. It’s time for Adell to come up and play for his career in the next 5 weeks. Time to make a very expensive trade with Oakland for a starter, or one with the Reds for a starter. Time to pull a rabbit out of the hat for a relief pitcher or two and find an OF’er to play almost full time as Ward and Trout will go down shortly. (Mancini or Hays from Balt.) Otherwise trade for youth and trade away the tradeable pieces and rebuild.

Doomer, that is up to you guys if I am one. I don’t whine and complain much and when I do I try to come up with a solution.

When owners in the past wanted to sell and get out they shaved payroll down to almost nothing, but in this case that won’t happen because Ruth/Gehrig only come around once every 50 years. They are what makes the Halos value over 2 B$ and he will be most happy golfing or playing shuffleboard or whatever. But what if he sells to that creep who owns Facebook, then we find another team I guess.

I agree. I think as fans we are all upset over what has happened and just want to trade everyone which from a fan standpoint is understandable. No reason to trade Trout since his contract is along ways from expiring. If this was six years from now I would say get what you can for him. As far as Ohtani, I wouldn’t trade him right now either. The only time you would trade him is next July if the team stinks again. Hopefully that won’t be the case next year.

And has commercials. Good to see the dude went from an altima on 20’s to a Bentley.

I think Perry is actually a pro and could handle the Ohtani negotiations just fine. He’s handcuffed at this point by a budget that is around 85% gone before the season begins. That and a terrible farm that he inherited.

Well, there is Upton’s money coming off of the books. Also, hoping that some of the pitching prospects push forward – so we have years of Sandoval, Suarez, Detmers, Ky Bush, Bachman, Adell, Marsh, Walsh all making less – allowing for more spending on Ohtani.

Let’s see….players OD’ing, club personnel selling drugs to players, firing scouts during the pandemic, minor league players “homeless”, revolving door of GMs and managers, having the quivalent of Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle on the roster and not winning, etc.

….and we’re worried about a “PR nightmare”?

This franchise by definition is a PR nightmare.

It’s a bad PR nightmare right now

Why would the team just settle on prospects. If you are going to trade either Trout or Ohtani you better make damn sure you get some major league quality players. I don’t want to wait another 10 plus years to win again.

I see you point but I still don’t think this team can shoulder another enormous contract and be competitive given Arte’s budget.

Counting on prospects to do well is risky business- although I hope it happens.

If a player and prospect haul of a really top young shortstop (who could fill the position for something like 5 seasons), a high prospect outfielder, a good starting pitcher and top pitching prospect could be had for Ohtani- I would do it. I’d be sad – but it’s a good baseball move.

I don’t think that we’ve done super bad with the mini-selloffs we did in the past few years, at least.
We nabbed players like Buttrey, Sandy, etc.

It’s a good question. Trading a generational player like Ohtani is difficult and I’m not sure there are many times in the history of baseball where that type of trade has been made. But I think the Angels have to do it unless Arte increases the budget. Otherwise I think Ohtani is gone after next season with nothing in return.