Here’s the first draft;
We’re back in the win column thanks to some clutch hitting by Drury, Moose, and our friend Trey Cabbage.
Detmers was solid and the bullpen held.
Draft two:
But then Esteves gave up 2 in the 9th and we lost.
Trying to rebound:
Ok, the Angels powered back to tie it at four and now I’m stuck. Key hits by Moniak and Rengifo knotted it up.
Soriano immediately cashed in tte free runner in the 10th. Angels down 5-4.
That was the final. The losing skid continues.
75-87
Got only 9 games left this month vs teams with losing records, Guardians, Tigers, and A’s.
They’ll have another bad month in September of less than 10 wins.
In some good news, Nolan enters the MLB’s list of Top 100 prospects, slotting in at #100.
Hopefully he will have a more significant Angels career than #99 Top Prospect Taylor Lindsey.
He probably would’ve been a higher rated player had he played at a SEC school.
Man the tickets are dropping in price online for home game. Maybe it would be fun to get cheap diamond club seats and pretend the Angels are a good team. Or enjoy watching Guardians play, they are at least still trying to make playoffs.
Just saw front row of the Field Terrace just behind 3B for $15. That’s 2001 pricing!
Oh and $4 Club seats. 😂
You are going to renew your season seats!
💩-bot should have been out a lot lately but I’m too GA and apathetic to rally.
Of all the tanks, this is the tankiest.
it’s almost beautiful.
The Angels are 8-23 in the month of August and September, shooting to eclipse the 16-36 record of the Ausmus 2018 squad and this will go down as the worst meltdown this century.
It could get a lot meltier. More melt = better draft position so melt away!
Half-game out of the magical 6th spot
Sometimes you need to go down before you can go up.
Didn’t understand Drury’s boneheaded play, though… i mean, that wasn’t exactly Joe West umpiring second base. Gotta make that play.
badteam.wav – Charles Barkley saying “Bad team man. Bad f***ing team.”
Good ole Chunkley
Sorry about formatting. Did this on my phone while out with friends.
u r a hero. njoy the nite! c u l8r bruh.
Downing Dude, this is for you.
The Angels are 10-26 over their last 36 games and at that rate we’ll win 6 of our last 23. Yes, 6-17…it rounds down, maybe 7-16 so that’s 70 or 71 wins
Are you saying that Rome is burning?
but probably only the 5th draft spot so meh.
5 is better than 13 to 17, where this team usually picks, and not always wisely!
Matt Wisely
It would be interesting to know what he tells the pitchers when he walks out to the mound. We already had the “throw moar sliderz “ Butcher quotes. We need moar fodder!
“You have not chosen WISE-ly by selecting the Angels as the team to play for”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
And the MLB lottery odds for finishing in 5th place you may ask?
1st 10.0
2nd10.3
3rd 10.6
4th 10.9
5th 11.1
6th 11.0
7th 16.5
8th 15.7
9th 3.6
10th 0.2
11th >0.0
but here’s the problem, when you got a slight mathematical chance at drafting10th (or lower) even though you’re really in 5th place , You’re drafting 10th.
TrAdition
Here was last years odds of winning the lottery. All non-playoff teams participate. If your team is in the worst 3 you have the best odds at 16.5%.
Nationals (55-107), 16.5%
A’s (60-102), 16.5%
Pirates (62-100), 16.5%
Reds (62-100), 13.2%
Royals (65-97), 10.0%
Tigers (66-96), 7.5%
Rangers (68-94), 5.5%
Rockies (68-94), 3.9%
Marlins (69-93), 2.7%
Angels (73-89), 1.8%
D-backs (74-88), 1.4%
Cubs (74-88), 1.1%
Twins (78-84), 0.9%
Red Sox (78-84), 0.8%
White Sox (81-81), 0.6%
Giants (81-81), 0.5%
Orioles (83-79), 0.4%
Brewers (86-76), 0.2%
In the above example, the first six picks are slotted due to the draft results. From there, the non-playoff teams are slotted in according to their winning percentage. So, for example, if the Boston Red Sox (above) did not “defy the odds” and win the lottery for one of the top six spots, they will draft 14th. If, hypothetically, one of the teams with smaller odds than Boston wins the lottery and jumps ahead of them, Boston would slide back one spot to 15th.
as long as we end the season on a 6-14 stretch, I’ll be happy. It means we’re WS-bound.
We can do anything we put our mind to. 💥💫⭐️✨
Estevez needs a week off to get his head, and his pitches back.
Take the rest of the career off.
Estevez sucks
Can Rengifo pitch?
Probably better than half of our current BP slugs.
I look forward to Escobar appearances. I honestly think he could do better than Carly right now.
The gallows humor around here for the final month is going to be epic.
Just think…we get to enjoy two more years of Estevez and Anderson.
YES! The guaranteed Tank era has begun! It IS in our DNA.
Ohh damn. Well, they say that bullpen pitchers are just streaky one year to the next, and a crapshoot, so Tyler Anderson, your new role is bullpen pitcher! We will test you for long relief and mop up duty
He is who we thought he was, just coming down to earth.
I prefer a happy ending and this was not it. Bad fundamentals equals more losses
Arte pays for players not for coaches. Plus like CJ Wilson tweeted out, the players aren’t even told to watch video, because Vladdy hit w/o it.
Uh C J Wilson never played with Vladdy on the Angels so how the hell would he know?
Plus that was like 14 years and 4 GM’s ago man. the Bitter dude should just stick to his Mazda dealerships.
because that’s what the coaches told the players when he was there.
“Whatever, dude.”
You think CJ listened to coaches?
nope, but I think he heard what the coaches were telling the players.
source?
he tweeted it out like a week ago or so I’d say. let me see if I can find it again.
hate to go to a competitor but this is what popped up first
https://halohangout.com/posts/former-angels-all-star-exposes-angels-in-hilarious-twitter-rant
i know the quotes, but it’s CJ Douche-nozzel wilson. He listened, but he DIDN’T HEAR IT. See the Wesley Snipes quotes.
he didn’t HEAR anything, dude.
He listens, but he doesn’t HEAR…
CJ Wilson as a source is about as solid as a runs from dia-barria.
well he also said things that are verifiable and not just oh so and so said this. Did the Angels not have a weight room in ST until 2013? Did they not serve breakfast? Those sound like things that if he was wrong, we’d certainly hear about it. I dunno though….
C J Wilson didnt get served breakfast some day 10 friggin years ago? boo hoo.
What is this a cry for help now that his playing career is long over?
BTW the Angels had the best record in baseball in 2014 so if the Angels were intentionally starving players if was working real well back then.
I suspect that was more a case of the Angles letting “Vladdy be Vladdy” because he was a such a special player.
Happy endings usually costs extra.
James – good thing it doesn’t matter. These games are meaningless other than for draft position so losing is actually productive!
Embarrassing. I think Trout should just take 50% of his contract and go to a team that can contend the next few years. If he doesn’t take money off, he’s not worth it at this point to another team and he’ll just wind up here doing what he has done for 10+ years.
and by what he has done here for 10+ years I mean lose, because there is no way he puts up 1000 OPS again.
Too expensive and too injury prone
He’s making a kickass golf course though! So there is that.
mini-golf?
lol … 😀
No way? He is this season removed from a .999 OPS (and 8th in the MVP race). Are you sure he has dropped off that dramatically?
tanks for that.
Tanks to you!
Tanks a lot
Tanks for the memories!
Those mammaries are tanks!
I’m fairly certain that this was a Russian BT-7 tank (circa mid-to-late 1930’s)
Tank you, tank you.
Ana 1 ana 2…
