LA Angels Tuesday News Crash:

Arte’s not even close to the A’s or Pirates owners. Hell, I’d take him over Cleveland and the Rays owners too even though they manage to win in spite of those guys. The Rockies owners are no picnic either and just because Sidler started spending because he felt death’s cold hand on his shoulder doesn’t mean the Padres aren’t gonna have a money mess soon. The Twins… I’d put Arte about where the Twins owners are.

Gotta remember. CtPG mistakes declaring that EVERY move won’t work when it happens for being right all the time about how bad ownership/FO is. Arte had a plan. He spent close to a billion dollars on it. It failed. It failed mostly because of bad luck, which, again, CtPG thinks you are supposed to be able to plan for even when you lose 60% of your line ups WAR to injury.

But there’s a lot more hope having an owner who you know will at least spend money when ever he stumbles into a situation that works rather than let it slide and collect revenue sharing. If I were the Dolans the last few years I’d have gambled hundreds of millions on making the Indians a strangle hold lock on the AL Central for the next decade and filling their stadium again. Instead they just got a lame new name and a really good prospect pipeline while the Twins, Royals and Tigers have all caught up to them.

Hell, they fixed it this year, but generally speaking the Cubs should be winning the NL Central every year. Their income dwarfs even St Louis. Only the Yankees, Dodgers and Red Sox make more money. But Ricketts sucks ass usually and the Brewers are a “threat”.

My next “arte test” is to see if he spends his money pile on locking up Neto and O’Hoppe and maybe some other kids over the next couple seasons rather than blowing a ton of cash on 30 year olds.