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LA Angels Thursday DIY Links
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Legend
18 days ago
Last edited 18 days ago by DowningDude
Super Member
18 days ago
I think Heefo can make it to 20 homers before the season ends.
Legend
18 days ago
Banned
Legend
17 days ago
Sigh…
Legend
18 days ago
Diaz with the start tonight. No lineup yet. I think, with Ohtani skipping the photo, he’s done forever for us.
Trusted Member
18 days ago
I think regardless of whether or not people here want him to come back in the first place, that he will be going to a new team.
This collapse has been so embarrassing and low, that when he faces the opportunity to go to any team, he will see what a mess things were here and want to start afresh.
Trusted Member
18 days ago
Bitterly disappointing season, and lamenting that it happened is certainly well and good… but please, let’s tap the breaks on this abused-lover, now-I’m-gone-for-good nonsense people keep spreading. The Angels are not a heroin addiction. They are not ruining your life. You are not quitting them. That’s all performative dog shit. You’ll be back next spring just like everyone else. And when the turn comes, it will be arguably sweeter.
Trusted Member
18 days ago
And I wish people would stop acting like Rendon cheated their grandmother out of her home.
Super Member
18 days ago
In your opinion, what did he do?
Trusted Member
18 days ago
They truly believe Rendon conspired with (invisible force) to take the money and run while deliberately injuring himself repeatedly after knob-slobbing one another over OMG WE BEAT THE DODGERS!!.
I’m not sure why you’re surprised, Vernon Wells got the very same treatment (after not demanding a trade and being traded here).
Look at the man who is the VERY definition of lazy on this site. Notice a common thread?
Legend
18 days ago
Through the 2023 season, Mr. Rendon has been paid $114m
What exactly has he contributed to the Angels during that timeframe that is commensurate with his remuneration?
Legend
18 days ago
*brakes
Legend
18 days ago
😂
Legend
18 days ago
Going into today we were tied for eight worst record, I hope we can show some tenacity and get it down to top 3.
Trusted Member
18 days ago
I know you’re semi joking, but top 3 isn’t really possible. Mathematically it is, but nearly impossible
Top 3 possibilities lie with the ping pong balls
Legend
18 days ago
the “best” we can get to is 5th. That would give us a 10% chance for getting the 1st pick, up from our current 5.5%
Legend
18 days ago
Why Win? We can’t make the playoffs- trAdition. If we did make the playoffs (A huge IF) we won’t beat anyone, even one game, because no Shohei. So, embrace the the high dive to the bottom, next year’s improvement will look better, and a better draft choice could make a difference. Our needs are simple, more pitching, a CF’er (“Cuz we will have traded Trouty to Philly), a Third Baseman, can you draft a new owner? Ok, dumb question (going for the laugh, but not funny.) The only thing we can do as fans is find a watering hole with Draft Beer 🍺 At the Big A it’s only 12 bucks, no wonder we can afford to pay 40-million-dollar contracts.
Ask Rendon what do you call our current streak? El Folddough.
Trout’s Angels career – blessed fish tank.
Legend
18 days ago
which sounds worse? 8-25 in our most recent stretch, or we’ve lost 25 of our last 33 games.
I’m just having fun here because what else is there to do? Those 33 games represent about 20% of the entire season. Playing at that level over 162 games would give us a 39-123 record. Yikes!
Legend
18 days ago
Oakland would still get first draft pick, we’d even screw up a 39 win season. 😂
Legend
18 days ago
Does this shirt make me look fat?
Lost 25 out of 33 games burns my eyes…that is worse.
Legend
18 days ago
Are you ready for some football?!
Legend
18 days ago
So, you’ve heard of reverse phycology, right. So here is how it applies the rest of the season – root for the team to “not win” and they will just do the opposite and “win”. 🤓
Last edited 18 days ago by GrandpaBaseball
Super Member
18 days ago
Looks like Davis Daniel will be taking the mound tonight for the Halos.
Legend
18 days ago
My reaction to this and our recent lineups is “sure, why not?”
Legend
18 days ago
My first reaction was “who?????”
Legend
18 days ago
I think Jeff interviewed him awhile back.
Legend
18 days ago
Are you sure it’s not Daniel Davis?
Legend
18 days ago
Miles Davis…..as in the “airline’s miles” that some dude named Davis will earn flying back and forth between SL and John Wayne 7 times next year.
Last edited 18 days ago by Twebur
Super Member
18 days ago
Confirmed by Fox Sports.
Super Member
18 days ago
Well, a sweep of Cleveland would end their playoff dreams.
But, a sweep by Cleveland would make the Twins sweat and would make the Angels v Twins series later this month very interesting.
Either way, as long as the next series is a sweep, I’m fine.
Trusted Member
18 days ago
I could see this team having a 13 game losing streak, getting swept by the Guardians and the Mariners. That is what happens when more than half of the team belongs in the minors. Hopefully, Arte does decide that hes tired of being the laughing stock of owners and sells the team.
Also, it is good seeing Rendon’s unprofessionalism being recognized by the national media. Act like the pro thats getting paid $35 mil and not acting like Tony D’bags
Last edited 18 days ago by fyasko51
Legend
18 days ago
If we have any last gasp of life…..save it for the M’s. I’d lose every remaining game just to take 2 of 3 from them.
Free Rengifo
Free Barria
Free Phillips the hat monger
Free us from the Doom Loup
Free us from this hell.
Trusted Member
18 days ago
This team hasnt had a pulse since July.
Trusted Member
18 days ago
The Foundation Building Materials’ keystone of the game tonight for the Angels against the Whomever-It-Is-They’re-Playings is “Last of Our Kind” by The Darkness.
There weren’t very many fans at the Angel game last night. Interest is dwindling. Pineapple12 just threw in the towel. Jeff Joiner tried to rally what’s left of us with a ‘what to watch for now that the season is shit’ post the other day.
After decades of following the Angels, I actually mustered the fortitude to quit them last year. Baseball is stupid. The last decade of the Angels even more so. The franchise has just turned into a corporation where all of its employees work to put on whatever spectacle they can manage in order to get some money for themselves and to increase the wealth of its billionaire owner.
But because I suffered some lasting trauma in my junior high days and I was able to distract myself with baseball, this professional sport has been able to wrap me in psychological chains that I can’t really break free from.
Go Angels.
Legend
18 days ago
Hello darkness my old friend….
Legend
18 days ago
Legend
18 days ago
Super Member
19 days ago
FOOTBALL IS BACK
So long Angels baseball! I’ll be back in March
Legend
18 days ago
we still have a month of baseball. football is the devil!!!!
Legend
18 days ago
Football? Meh…
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Legend
18 days ago
Go Kings!
Trusted Member
19 days ago
What a disappointment sandoval has been. Dude has the stuff, just not in his head. Same issue with skaggs
Legend
19 days ago
Too soon
Legend
18 days ago
Let’s hope it has a better ending.
Legend
18 days ago
Detmer said hello.
Trusted Member
18 days ago
If he continues this pace for another few years then yup.
Legend
18 days ago
Nothing that a solid pitching coach can’t fix. One that doesn’t have a one size fits all approach. One that can implement a game plan to get hitters out. Someone who doesn’t make pitching harder with two outs. One that doesn’t love a certain pitch, and is capable of making individuals pitch to their strengths. Someone that understands a scouting report.
This is all assuming that Wise is the primary monster here. And not a PTP mandated pitching philosophy that has become an embarrassment.
Both might be a fault, but noting will ever change my opinion about the mouth breather Wise. I’ll assume PTP can adjust. 🤞🤞🤞
Super Member
18 days ago
For what it’s worth, pitchers have repeatedly said Wise isn’t the problem. They alluded to the upper management forcing like what you said, is a “one-size-fits-all” approach, with too much focus on inducing Ks, pitch shapes, etc., and not too much on pitching to the situation (inducing a groundball double play instead of so many pitches needed to K a batter).
I still believe Sandy and Reid’s issues can be fixed. Both had good seasons not too long ago, so it’s disappointing to see them regress. But they’re young enough to be fixable.
Legend
18 days ago
I hear you, and agree they are very fixable, might have a differing opinion on how to fix it.
I don’t recall ever hearing a pitcher publicly call out their pitching coach, ever. They were asked and they answered, the professional thing to do. If it’s happened recently I’m sure Mr Chan will do the proper internet research to point out I’m wrong.
Besides, IMHO they might know any better, Stockholm syndrome comes to mind. I’m willing to side with PTP’s pitching philosophy 51/49% over his teacher. Wise is the guy in charge, he’s done nothing to keep his job, and shouldn’t even be here to be fired. Let me know if he gets a MLB job next year as a pitching coach.
I give him 5 Sad Donkeys.
No more mound visits.
Free Rosenberg!!
Super Member
18 days ago
I’m basing it from here:
https://www.ocregister.com/2023/08/17/why-have-so-many-angels-pitchers-struggled-this-season/
When pitchers and staff members were asked privately for their honest opinions, they had some theories about the reasons for the team-wide pitching failure.
Most of them agreed on one count.
There has been an organizational philosophy – one that comes “from the top” of baseball operations, not from Wise, a player insisted – to concentrate more on spin, velocity and movement instead of command and working through game situations.
One of the reasons the Angels were emphasizing pitch shapes, the pitchers said, is that the team was looking for more strikeouts. This year’s shift ban, plus the Angels’ overall weaker defensive infield, prompted the team to try to avoid contact.
The problem with that approach, the pitchers said, is it means too many deep counts, and too many breaking balls. The Angels rank 29th in the majors in fastball percentage.
one pitcher suggested that perhaps this year the game plans have gotten too predictable for opposing hitters.
Each day the pitching plan is the product of the work of five to 10 people, including the pitcher, one or two catchers, Wise, Hezel and a number of analysts.
The result of that plan, some pitchers suggested, is too often inflexible, not allowing for the myriad ways that situations can change during a game. A handful of Angels pitchers are not allowed to shake off the catcher, the pitchers said.
Last edited 18 days ago by smithy610
Member
18 days ago
Just another example of micromanaging from the top. This organization and its management are hopeless. Please, for the love of God, sell the team!
Legend
18 days ago
Obviously Perry might be the one to fire Wise only to get fired himself right after, I’m fine with both those things at this point.
But it’s best we find a guy that can teach this philosophy. Or the next one that comes along. I’m 100% sure Perry is guilty of all that was said. But I’ll say with certainty that it can’t get worse if Wise stays…..check that, it’s the Angels, it can.
…trAdition.
Legend
18 days ago
!NEWSFLASH!
Paparazzi confirm the following is Matt Wise at an organizational training session for pitchers teaching the proper technique for increasing spin, velocity and movement.
Last edited 18 days ago by Senator_John_Blutarsky
Legend
18 days ago
After their weighted balls work out, our opponents BBIP exit velocity, with 2 outs, increased by 2.9 MPH…Wise has improved arm angle and ability to repeat pitches. This is video of the Poop Sweeper.
Super Member
18 days ago
Sandoval is totally better than Skaggs now.
Legend
19 days ago
Phillips and Paris each have 1 hit.
Which one ends the Season with more hits?
Legend
19 days ago
It ends as a tie 1-1
Legend
18 days ago
If they tie, they should have “Singles Derby”. They can bring the children into the infield instead of the outfield like in Home Run Derby.
I’ve listed Phillips as a slight favorite.
Legend
18 days ago
Singles derby? All them bachelors will clog the field with lonely testoserone!
Trusted Member
18 days ago
How about 1-0?
Somehow Paris loses a hit.
Trusted Member
19 days ago
This photo reminds me of the most satisfying bowel movement I ever had.
Whenever I travel, I always have shy bowels, and on one particular trip, I hadn’t had a movement in 15 days. About ten days in without taking a dump, I got a little worried and bought some laxatives at a pharmacy on one of the Dalmatian Islands, but they produced zero results.
Then when my wife and I were in the Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia, I finally felt a presence in my colon. I located a bathroom at the park and went inside. What I found was amusingly shocking — there were no toilets, just a couple holes in the ground outlaid with a flat metal plate for you to put your feet on while you squatted down like Sandoval there.
So I assumed the position, and the results were glorious.
Thank you, official Angels photographer, for including this shot in your gallery. It brought back a nice memory.
Last edited 19 days ago by GhostGuest
Legend
19 days ago
TMI
Super Member
19 days ago
Nice baseball story, eh?
Legend
18 days ago
He was on the plane to Barcelona
Legend
18 days ago
Better than a flight to BARF-elona!
Super Member
19 days ago
Croatia is a great country. We did Zagreb, Split & Dubrovnik (with numerous small stops along the way) over a 8-9 day period in late 2019.
Our dollar was strong everywhere apart from Dubrovnik – which is Euro Zone – due to tourism.
Any G.O.T. fans must visit Croatia for that reason alone.
Legend
19 days ago
Your wife getting tired of hearing that story so much that you felt compelled to share it with us?
Thanks for that.
Legend
19 days ago
It was a shitty story
💩
Super Member
19 days ago
Kenya style. Areas there are the same way.
Legend
19 days ago
Most of Asia too.
Super Member
18 days ago
There’s actually been a few small studies that squatting while defecating ensures proper alignment of the rectum and reduces straining. Sitting for bowel movements is probably bad for our health (leads to diverticulosis, which in turn can lead to diverticular disease, which is associated with a higher risk of prostate cancer), we just haven’t proven it yet.
They’ve actually already started making (or rather, marketing step stools for toddlers as adult) products for it: Amazon.com: Step and Go Toilet Stool 7″ – Bathroom Squat Stool : Home & Kitchen
Legend
18 days ago
A week in Malaysia was like doing power squats at the gym. The quads start shaking after a few runs to the terlit
Last edited 18 days ago by DowningDude
Member
18 days ago
Brought a tear to my eyes!
Super Member
19 days ago
Congrats to the Angels for being the best at something. The Angels currently have the lowest “last 10 games” record in the MLB: 1-9.
Way to tank!
Last edited 19 days ago by angelslogic
Legend
19 days ago
How did they win 1?
Trusted Member
19 days ago
Ours is not to wonder why,
ours is just to do and die
Super Member
19 days ago
Can’t go chasing wins every night.
Trusted Member
18 days ago
I don’t remember a win.
Better double check those stats.
Legend
18 days ago
They meant Wind. We had one Santa Ana WIND during that stretch
Trusted Member
19 days ago
It seems like Moustakas would make a good coach after his playing days are over.
Legend
18 days ago
I felt the same way about Voldy. And he was, but he did it for KC instead of us (to be fair, that made sense).
Member
19 days ago
Rengifo’s last 42 games .342/.393/.603 with 21 xtra base hits 🤯
Trusted Member
19 days ago
Dude couldn’t of done that in the beginning of the season when they needed it?
Member
19 days ago
That would have been too nice for us
Legend
19 days ago
Hey – you get the premise of all the Renhate, I see
Member
19 days ago
As stated tix are dirt cheap. Thinking on getting some for Fri game. Would be awesome if Ohtani came back that day, the tickets would jump 3x in value. Current prices reflecting he not coming back. If he does return guarantee last home game will be sell out. A big thank you and send off by fans.
Legend
19 days ago
I don’t really get this… Tickets have been cheap. I haven’t really paid over $7 for a ticket all season.
Member
19 days ago
Club level or the mvp seats, can get pricey especially if like me you need 4. Or going to the Ohtani bobble head nights.
Legend
19 days ago
i see… regular weekday games with no promo are like $3 right now – cheapest seat. Then you can play “dodge the usher” game and sit wherever you want.
Legend
19 days ago
He means good tickets
Legend
19 days ago
I’ll make sure to raise my pinky finger as I sip my box wine from F107 after having paid $3 to enter.
Super Member
19 days ago
Yep. I figured it out a couple months ago — buy the cheapest ticket and move my ass over to Section 520 in the shade right behind home.
Legend
18 days ago
My problem is that I literally CAN NOT sit in the 500s (400s are pretty bad too) due to acrophobia.
Legend
18 days ago
I don’t go to the stadium because of Atychiphobia…..that is an extreme fear of failure. My therapist told me it’s a “no go zone”.
Trusted Member
18 days ago
I have L-Phobia.
Fear of a loss.
(Not to make fun of you, I myself am actually claustrophobic)
Legend
18 days ago
Quit trying to climb on the light towers Red! Duh!
Legend
18 days ago
😲
Legend
18 days ago
There you go. And sushi as well!
Legend
18 days ago
and a few Whores Devores! or whatever them Frenchies call that stuff!! It’s a PARTAY!!!!
Trusted Member
19 days ago
The Angels scored 10 runs in their three-game set with the Orioles. Here is the list of how many runs each Angel Actually Produced:
3.00 Drury
2.00 Rengifo
1.25 Moniak
1.00 Grichuck
0.75 Escobar
0.75 Moustakas
0.50 Schanuel
0.25 Stefanic
0.25 Cabbage
0.25 Phillips
This is the fourth time Drury has led the team in Actual Runs Produced. Drury is the kind of player who tips a solid team into a championship-level team. He raises the floor on a solid team so high that it is hard to lose games. It’s sad that he has to spend one more year with the Angels.
Here’s the updated Actual Runs Allowed per Batters Faced for our Halo hurlers:
0.09 Bachman (77)
0.10 Silseth (205)
0.10 Joyce (21)
0.11 Canning (437)
0.11 Estevez (249)
0.12 Sandoval (591)
0.12 Detmers (570)
0.12 Soriano (155)
0.12 Rosenberg (63)
0.13 Anderson (575)
0.13 Marte (4)
0.14 Loup (204)
0.16 Devenski (140)
0.16 Wantz (104)
0.16 Escobar (11)
0.17 Barria (349)
0.18 Herget (86)
0.18 Reyes (49)
0.18 Mederos (17)
0.19 Suarez (123)
0.19 Ingram (17)
The more rope the Angels give Barria, the more he hangs himself.
