So we had to face Jacob deGrom.
Texas hit a couple of homers in the first inning to make it 3-0 in the first inning. Jack Lopez doubled and Eric Wagaman singled to score him. 3-1 Rangers. The game is going about as one might expect.
Niko Kavadas hit an almost homer in the second inning but it was caught. In the third Jack Lopez managed a two out double. There was no further scoring this inning.
In the fourth, Carson Kelley homered. 4-1 Texass (No Problem.)
Reid Detmers got removed, some bullpen dude relieved him. Anyway … no good news.
Some guy named Matt Festa came in and the Rangers gained another run.
Then some guy named Carson Kelly hit a homer. 3-2 Texas. In the inning, Matt
Thaiss might have done something, but he struck out.
We made i to to the bottom of the fan experience and I’ve been pretty fun about scoring at this point
In the eighth. It’s still the usual Angels thing. They can’t score. Marcus Semien score. Buy some crysstls Oh Wait. I am not gong any where. Is there anywhere to go?
Nothing of Angels use happened. The Angels Lost 5-2.
The Ranhge45s won 7-2.
Photo credit Rex Fregosi
I think Gene Autry bought the team to have content for his television station to broadcast. Lucky for him, he didn’t have the internet.
Tonight’s Lineups
https://www.mlb.com/gameday/rangers-vs-angels/2024/09/28/746171/preview
Sometimes getting a second chance to redeem yourself works out.
2022 record 66-93 Get over the 2017 Houston Astros PLZ!
it’s 139 days till spring training- looking forward to that….and guess what? Everyone (and yeah everyone one of them except Drury and Moore in the entire organization) is coming back!
2025 Angels 🤝 2024 Angels
Drury has been so bad just replacing him with anyone has to be a solid 2 win improvement. How has a guy on an expiring contract made it this far. He’s not a great defender and is easily one of the worst hitters in the league this year.
We have replaced him with just about anyone for most of the season so….. yeah…
Arte Moreno’s failures.
Through the ’09 season having exciting teams that were the remnants of the work of others was clearly why Arturo Moreno believed he was on to a new way of get rich along with looking good in the eyes of the fans and yet still pulling out a lot of money believing he knew what he was doing. The seams in this baseball were unraveling and so what was he to do, but to sign bigger and better Free Agent(s) is where he turned, after all it worked with Guerriero and Hunter so, next time go bigger.
New Novel by Grandpa Baseball – ‘ARTE’ Riches to Rags at Anaheim Stadium. CTPG best sellers list for the 2024 offseason
It really is a story of a man thinking he knew more than anyone else. Surrounding himself with yes men. Continuing to be stubborn. Arte is getting everything he deserves. I think the biggest mistake you mentioned was feeling like he didn’t even need a competent GM. Everyone knew Tony Reagins was completely over promoted just so he couldn’t complain about Scioscia/Arte making the big decisions. They never embraced technology. Even when Arte finally hired a GM that did, they let Scioscia/Pujols win the power struggle and off he went. His superstar player is probably the worst leader for a superstar that we could have. Arte has not only made a ton of fans move on from the Angels but imagine how many would be fans that are young can only associate Arte’s team with losing and never became fans in the first place. Arte should be ashamed, but again he has his red polo college besties telling him how smart he is and that none of this is his fault. It’s basically like 99% your fault Arte. Congrats on ruining the Angels. I hope you enjoy your wealth knowing literally everyone except your red polo fan club you pay every 2 weeks hates your guts and wished you had never bought the Angels.
CtPG Guy actually reminds me a lot of Arte. Self proclaimed genius with good intentions and bad methods. Though Arte also has shit luck to go with a flawed plan. Oh, and unlike CtPG guy he’s actually successful on a massive scale.
Don’t count on this team still being here by the end of this decade.
By then the owner will be pushing 80 yrs old and expect to see them in either NC or TN. North Carolina already has the NFL Panthers and NBA Bobcats.
I don’t know about the end of the decade. But I am afraid they’ll move eventually.
I think even most of the folks on this site saw Kronke build Sofi (albeit with God knows what kinds of shenanigans taking place in the hallowed Inglewood government) and think “WE NAH HADTAH GIF FAT CAT NAH DEEWL ON LAN AND TAX MONIES FER STERDIUMZ!”
Good luck with that. There’s gonna be a city that wants to build a stadium and have an MLB team in it. I’m not all that confident it will be in Southern California. But who knows? New stadium is likely gonna be Newnicorn Ownerz problem.
At a going rate of $3.5 b, unlikely Angels leaving anytime soon, compedant ownership can make a lot more money in this market than anywhere else in the realm of MLB.
Look everyone. It’s another list of Arte Moreno’s failures….
I swear to gah. We’d get more out of everyone trying to guess what Arte’s favorite ice cream flavor is and why….
It has been a very disappointing season. Except for Neto and Ward, every single position player under performed or performed at a level that fell short of what was hoped for. And with the current roster, I don’t see a lot of room for individual improvement. I agree with Wash, we need better players.
Would be pathetic to end season losing last 6. Go Tigers, true underdogs. Sucks they gave away their 2nd best pitcher at deadline thinking season was done. And of course, Flaherty carrying that blue injured pitching staff.
Too hard to find any early projections I had, except this one tweet bet on March 21 where I said I had them at under 70 wins.
https://x.com/brentschmidt/status/1770864909007380875
Can’t believe they’re really doing it.
Man, we are DOING it. Finally, we get to experience the REAL bad. That line up tonight, amazing! Like mid-tank Astros bad baby. Talk about taking the load from “reload”.
Can we rebuild now? I know we can’t fire the owner. I’m not clown enough to whine for that. But can we get CarpKuhl out of there now? I’ll take a 99 loss season if, in return they get gone. Square deal to me.
We can’t sign 17 solid free agents. We have got to start building the farm now right?
Tell me CtPG Guy. Is this shit show everything you bitched it would be? We did it guys. If we post the “trAdition” thing a few more times maybe Neto, who is basically Reds era Cozart, will also have had a career ending shoulder injury sustained on the field and you can piss all over him till he finally fades away. Who says we can’t still have goals?
Keep that JuJu strong for just two more games baby!
Bruh, I’m 1000% on board with the caustic humor but, I draw the line at invoking that ish’ on Zachary Neto, our best player.
What’s next? You gonna puss out and start looking for a few things you liked in 2024? Maybe even try to find a few things that you can see maybe being better in 2025?
What an asshole. Then Arte may think he’s a good owner and it will all be your fault!
No, because the difference is the owner and the front office brain trust.
Jerry Jones keeps hiring bad head coaches and not Pete Carroll or Jim Harbaugh because he’s a stubborn egotistical old rich guy. So stubborn old baseball team owner who has a 8 yr long consecutive season of losing (BTW he doesn’t like the fans anymore because his image was booed on the jumbotron recently) can pine for a more ideal buyer. That means out of state and a bigger payday.
💪 💪 💪 …..BOOYAH!!
The theater of the absurd
https://youtu.be/JTZYqODo7o0
It was a grand ol’ ship, somebody save me. Perry? Are you watching?
Ladies and Gentlemen, it has been a privilege watching this shitty baseball team with you this season.
It’s likely UP from here…. how slowly? Don’t know….
Arte Moreno’s accomplishments. Giving the OK to bring in Hunter. Lower beer prices. Keeping parking at decent prices. Re-signing Trout (can’t blame Arte for Trout injuries.)
GPB was at under of 73. Will this team injuries always play big. I never bought into Wash 13 WAR, and I was non-committal as to hiring Washington, but now I’m a believer. Continue with rebuild and we’ll be ok, Arte can’t own this team forever.
Detmers has hope. Turning out to be a good strikeout pitcher but continuously makes mistake pitches that hurt. Clean that up and he may be a legit starter next year.
How much can a weak defensive Catcher come into play?
That is one of the wildest pitching lines I’ve seen in a while from Detmers tonight. 12K in 5 innings. One walk. Three home runs? WTF?
Andrew Heaney 2.0?
I’m now assuming 63-99. Downing Dude’s 66-96 is out of play and my 65-97 is unlikely. Time to revisit our predictions to see if anyone had 63 or 64 wins
sheesh – I think I was the most negative on that thread. Your post did say 65 but then went on to include a wide range in the same or next sentence iirc. So I’m not quite congratulating you at this point. Gotta choose a number, not a range. Tsk Tsk.
Heheheheh
I agree about ranges. “65 to 70” can’t count.
Lolz at this one:
— Detmers wins the AL Cy Young
and Gitcho’s predictions … holy moly Molly!!!! bwahahahahahahah. That was some funny shizzzz.
Gitcho-sez: “I am gonna jam some hopium up yer snoots!”
Wait. He’s not winning the Cy Young?
Wait. None of you guys are wizards?
Wait. You guys aren’t magic creatures at all? What?
Next you’ll tell me we aren’t gonna win the division!
Home, home on the range…
EiP: “I’m predicting 65-97 with our win ceiling being 70 and our floor 52.”
You could win. The wild card is my appearance at the park tomorrow and Sunday – we could win out. 😀
I thought Detmers would be our ace and , figuring it would be he, he’d win 12 games. I was a little off there. I haven’t looked it up but I think TA has 8
I had 59-103, so I was far too pessimistic about this crap team.
https://crashingthepearlygates.com/2024/03/27/angels-2024-prediction-thread/
55yearsangelsfan said 63-99
81-81 for me. What was I smokin? Oh yeah, it was the hopium
“No more than 70 wins. Not with this pitching staff.”
Nailed it-ish.
I think I won with
“This team will lose some games.”
Thanks, nice job.
I did not pick a specific number but was fairly accurate in my assessment of the roster limitations making it difficult to win 70 games. But, like many, I was closer to 70 than 60 because I wasn’t able to be that pessimistic. It’s really been the last few weeks that have put us closer to 60 than 70 and I certainly didn’t count on all the young players bailing out with injuries like the veterans. As mentioned yesterday, Ward, Drury, and O’Hoppe are all that’s left from the beginning of the year regulars and even most of our planned on bench is no longer available. My guess is right now the roster is pretty discouraged, much like we are.
I had 68 wins. I think that is where they would have ended up with a healthier season from a couple players. This team was not going to win 70 games.
Damn, I predicted 74 to 78 wins. I must have been high in hopium. And I called for Silseth to become a special pitcher ace. Hmmm.
I did not see how they possibly could get there after two straight 73 wins seasons and losing their most productive player and not replacing him.
Can’t argue with that logic.
You were correct. I was hoping for a magic turn around in the pitching staff.
You guys were very close though. Most of us were a bit more optimistic.
Wash sitting Schanuel and Neto really hinders our post-season push.