LA Angels Thursday News Crash: Moore!

’68 wasn’t a very good year and neither is 68 wins, but that is the current pace and below the expected preseason total of 73, so what happened?  👉  Where did it all go wrong?  👈 

While receiving nothing for Ohtani’s services can’t be at blame, or could it? If it was prospects in return then the blame does not lay here, at least not for the ’24 season as the prospects could still be earning wages in A or AA or even AAA.

How about with PTP? Nah, not really as he is not as bad a GM as perceived by some. Despite being under the thumb of a POBO who the smartest baseball mind in the Major Leagues, Perry has done as good a job as can be expected. (Although I did issue an opinion that we should have acquired the services of Lorenzen that went unheeded 😁 ), I will be forever grateful that Neyo was drafted while a first rd pick as requested. Pillar was genius as a pickup.

How about the manager Washington? Nope-no blame here. Washington has been the best choice as a manager in the last four to try their hand at working this mess of an organization, imho. Washington can’t control anything more that\n what he is given. Too much credit is given to managers at times, but this guy knows how to play the game and knows what he is doing with this cast of at best journeyman. Rengifo had his usual amount od At Bats and did well, even his fielding improved somewhat, and his ten-cent head still can give change. Ward who imho should have been traded, has been, well, Ward this year, after all what did we expect? O’Hoppe has proven to be a decent bat and hopefully improves his “D” down the road. So, Washington has not been an issue at all.

Our pitching is not to entirely to blame now, is it? When all else fails blame it on the pitching, but not this season. Working on a patched together daily who’s who of unfamiliar names as starters and getting hit with the usual expected injuries, trAdition, the starting staff can’t come to bat any more, which is too bad as they might have been better at the plate than what was supposed to get runs for them. And the Bullpen has really been better than advertised all season, if the season started on May 15th, but come together it did for the most part.

You and I know Shirley what happened (I know-don’t call me Shirley 😂 ), a weak organization from top to bottom with a few decent spots all by accident. We a not left victims of being the team’s fans here, as we have made our choice to hang out together and watch the follies and condone, despairing complain, root for, suffer the pain of losing, and the little bit of joy of winning and rooting for our favorite players, because we are fans after all of the Angels. We may not know where we will be playing in a few years, whether it is in SoCal, or in North Carolina or even Canada, be we will always have a soft spot and yes, even HOPEIUM, for this sad sack of a team

It could be worse, instead of being the second-best team in SoCal, we could be the worest team in Chicago. (Oh shit no, please).