Angels get blown out by the Mariners

JHW thank you very much for the thorough recap, it’s easy to be negative and/or just not give a shit. Anyway it’s appreciated

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Let’s take 2 today! Halo’s tossing out a couple of lefties; Sandoval and Suarez.

For more baseball, College World Series:

Arkansas vs. No. 2 Stanford, 11 a.m., ESPN
Ole Miss vs. No. 14 Auburn, 4 p.m., ESPN2

The fridge is stocked with Carlsbad PizzaPort Swami IPAs.

Maybe Walshie has the COVID?

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The starting point is that Arte cab run this Org any way he desires. He is the owner.

He has clearly decided to run the Org as a marketing machine. The vast majority of decision makers and influencers in the organization are marketing folks not baseball people. That’s Arte’s prerogative.

And for the ordinary fan (not anyone on this board) it’s fine. They get to go to a clean ballpark with decent food items and cheer a bit for Trout and Ohtani and take some video of Ohtani swinging the bat and maybe also pitching. Sometimes they go home with a free bobblehead. Sometimes they get a hotdog, other times a pizza. Maybe they see a HR or two and high-five their buddy. Their life and mood really doesn’t change much one way or the other win or lose.

Most So Cal fans really could give a shit about any of this – they want entertainment and Arte brings it to them. Maybe the next day Disneyland is planned.

So Arte has no motivation to invest in his minor leagues or scouting or strength and conditioning. Those things don’t provide immediate marketing benefits. As hardcore baseball favs we know the benefits of those investments. But Arte is running a marketing organization not a baseball one.

It’s Arte’s prerogative. It’s his team and his money. Ultimately we have to decide as hardcore fans whether we can live and die with a team that focuses primarily on marketing and not baseball operations.

So what about Corey’s older bro now that RenDone has turned into cardboard?

Every day, better teams are trying to slip guys back to the minors whom they have removed from their 40 mans. I track this because I play in deep fantasy leagues. I would hope Minasian takes a look too, because the bottom half of our roster truly is “overexposed.”

Brandon Phillips just signed a minor league contract. I realize he is well past his sell by date, but the current MIs have never been approved by the FDA as actual major league players.

Clint Frazier passed through waivers unclaimed and accepted a minor league assignment. Juan Lagares continues to occupy a roster spot. Frazier at one point was a top prospect. Juan Lagares is and continues to be Juan Lagares. Do something Minasian. I’m tired of almost getting no hit every night.

Anyone who pays MLB anything is a complete idiot. This sport needs to be gone. If anyone hasn’t noticed MLB already has their playoff teams picked out before the season starts.

Serious question, do most wrist surgeries like the one Rendone is getting take that long to recover?

Is it unfair to question how necessary this surgery is and how long he’s expected to recover?

I guess it’s unfair. But then he’s developing a bit of a rep.

Trade Trout and Ohtani for a shit ton of prospects and start over

Every game has the excitement of the Angels potentially being no-hit. What other team can offer that for the price of admission?

Really glad I walked 10 miles/had some awesome Korean beer/In-N-Out Shake
Shack copy and just enjoy the sounds of the ocean instead of watching this game. I’ve been joking that this team will never win back to back games again/any game outside of Ohtani pitching but I guess that may come true…

Wow, this was a rough game to watch.

With Rendon gone for the season, you have to wonder if he can be relied upon to come back next year and contribute at all.

Someone on the board suggested putting Ward at 3rd and calling up Adell.

Why not? Doesn’t this make more sense than having Captain Jack at 3rd? and Lagares in the outfield?

In my mind, the Halos still have a shot at the postseason. The playoffs are not going to happen if Nevin keeps rolling out the same bullshit lineup as he did today.

There are only two options to improve the lineup:

1) Bring up a prospect from the farm system
2) Bring in new players from outside the organization.

I’d rather the organization (ie., Perry) take a fucking chance and bring up some young blood instead of doing the same shit over the last 20 games expecting a different result.

There are so many holes in the lineup now it feels the team is more Swiss cheese than a playoff contender.

I’m not throwing in the towel yet.

Let’s see if Perry has any balls and if Nevin is worthy of an managerial extension.

Perry, grow a pair. Do something more that just firing Joe….!

My concern for 2022 is that Nevin made out arguably the worst lineup card of the season.

Sure, he has a questionable roster but he must have felt that Duffy and Lagares were better options for this game than Walsh and Shohei.

It’s funny, I can criticize Nevin while knowing that a large part of the problem has been caused by Perry and then, beyond that, knowing that Perry is constrained by Arte. It’s like the phone call is coming from inside the house.

Anyway, this game was treated as a throwaway. When you’re losing you can’t do that.

How many of the worst contracts and trades belong to this organization?

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Ward to 3b and bring Adell up! And shut up about messing Ward up! He had 1 good month in his entire career and now looks like his normal self. Need to try something, anything. Golly after 1,2,3 our lineup is so so pathetic.