LA Angels Tuesday News Crash: Trading Places

THIS is exactly the mind set I want to have. These wins are fun. I know that the team’s got some serious holes in it and those will show up. We’ll lose some games. But I really am enjoying the way the Angels win when they do win. Lot’s of the grit everyone seems to say they love. Lot’s of tight games, games where they show weaknesses like the pen but gut it out. And we’re seeing Neto, Adell, Nolan, Soriano, Detmers, Lugo, O’Hoppe etc play big parts in the wins. They all (accept Rengifo) seem to like Washington a lot too and he’s the first manager I’ve seen in a while where the Angels players all seem to get up off the bench and get engaged for him.

It’s like owning an old Honda CRX. It’s got some serious limitations, but there are ways to drive it that can make it really fun to own. Or, like when you’re building a car. Step by step you work on areas of the build. Sometimes a bunch of stuff works well together and you get a sense of how the car will be when you take it to Pikes Peak. BUT parts fail, other parts are still wrong, other problems are still there, so over all that Datsun 510 is still half junk…. but it’s coming together, blown radiator, wheels that scrape the fenders and all.

Something needing more work, and doing that work, doesn’t always have to be miserable.

Just buying a completed rally car with fake sponsorship stickers all over it and “winning” is also kinda boring.