Ron Washington dropped in to let everybody know he is OK. He had quadruple bypass surgery.
The Athletics just designated Luis Urias for assignment to make room for the returning Zack Gelof. Reed Garrett of the Mets is on the injured list with elbow inflammation.
The White Sox released Josh Rojas. The Dodgers designated infielder Buddy Kennedy for assignment. Right-hander Jose Urena cleared waivers and elected free agency.
Photo credit: Rex Fregosi
I hope they lock up Neto soon and follow the playbook of other teams with their young stars.
I hope they have the brains to create a RSN to have a revenue stream that doesn’t have to be shared with the rest of the league. Kind of dumb this hasn’t already happened.
Always nice to get a win, but sadly, even a sweep of the Rangers + Astros will leave the Angels below .500. I think the Reds and Cubs killed whatever slim, nearly non-existent hope was left for the team getting a wild card.
2026 Schedule is out!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DN037GwUv9a/?img_index=1&igsh=OHdxbmYzczA4dnl4
2025 is done and it wasn’t fun.
When is the Halo’s Max Muncy bobblehead night?
The complaint about always opening on the road? A big f u from MLB – how about starting @Houston then @Cubs?
the universe now mandates those two teams are destined for the 2025 World Series.
I’ve never checked, but I suspect the reason the Angels always start on the road is so the favored child the Dodgers can start at home.
edit: Dodgers did in fact start at home in ’23, ’24, and ’25 when the Angels were away and on the road in ’22 when the Angels were home.
March games in Chicago are the new trAdition –
at Wrigley in 2026.
the first 8 series are brutal Hou, Cubs, Sea, Atl, NYY, SD, TOR
If we ever have two playoff seasons in a row, then — and ONLY then — will we get favorable scheduling.
I don’t see any reason to not let Wash manage next year.
I’ve made it clear that I think a lot of the strategy bitching is stupid because I have yet to see the “good” manager with a roster and pitching staff like ours who is celebrated for all his great strategy. We will have that same roster strength next season give or take. If they over perform… poof! Wash is likely magically a strategist.
More likely we still suck. But we will hopefully be developing players we can then watch leave in free agency. It would be good to have Wash around since Neto, Adell, Nolan, O’Hoppe seem to really like him and respond to him. Hopefully Moore and some yet to be found kids will do the same.
I’d worry more about getting that “genius” manager when our A grade roster has to go head to head with other A grades to see who can eek out two extra wins in a season and then win in the play offs. Till then, I’ll take the guy that creates a good developmental atmosphere.
It’s not like we have to extend him.
I’d worry more about who is coaching and managing our farm teams.
Snicker is going to step down, Atlanta has an opening and consensus is they miss Wash a lot. Wash is loved in Texas too and I bet Bochy is finished also.
Perry needs to get it done. I think they will before the season ends.
Crazy that Washington still wants to manage at the age of 74.
I know that type. Spinning around a nursing home with RenDone is not for everyone.
Unless we get rid of Minasian, no reason to change the losing culture. Whoever he hires as a replacement will be fired when a new regime takes over anyway, in an ideal world, he would remain as an advisor, and leave the day to day for someone with more energy and a more modern outlook.
Nice to see the Halos smash the STRangers in their own park. Neto is EL FUEGO!
Neto’s slash line in the last 7 games is: .200 / .259 / .360. That only looks “en fuego” if the point of comparison is Teodosio’s last seven games: .100 / .143 / .150
😂
I meant Neto has been El Fuego on the season.
.854 OPS in August
Wash said he is healthy enough and wants to be back in 2026. And he will be at the ballpark every day in September. Welcome back Skip!
The Angels not to bring him back after Wash’s statement would be appalling, one of the worst things it’s ever done.
those running the front office better come out publicly and say it now too, sooner rather than later. Perry’s ‘no comment’ answer I hope changes quickly.
Perhaps bring him back as a Special Assistant to the Assistant Manager.
Or bench coach or third base coach.
Asking the players if they would accept Wash back as manager would be a way of being him back for one final year would be the right move as the majority would accept him with open arms maybe. As for Montgomery, he went over as well as a lead ballon, but he I’m sure would then return to bench coach with a promise of returning in ’27, as he is PTP’s handpicked successor. While not being a fan of our GM, I will concede that working for Arturo is no day at the beach. If he were replaced, it would maybe be an Eppler all over again and at least Minasian has a plan of sorts and we may not agree with it, we all hope that it works out.
All of MLB wants him back
Crazy wash was still smoking at that age
He is older than I am and grew up with people smoking on TV shows and film, TV, AND professional athletes did advertisements for cigarette companies! Winston, Kent, Chesterfield, Lucky Strike, Benson and Hedges, Tareyton (whose smokers would rather fight than switch), and of course, Marlboro and Pall Mall. I myself, never smoked.
What about Kool? No menthol for you?
Damn, forgot to mention that one. In the 60s there were so many, that I only touched the surface with the above list.
Salem also.
Virginia Slims? LOL
I still trip out on the fact the liquor store across the street from my house would sell me Virginia Slims for my mom when I was 7 years old. I remember when we first moved in she walked over there with me and my sister and told them she’d be sending us to buy her cigarettes, and they were cool with it. This was 1987.
I remember my mom sending me into the 7-11 to pick up her cigs. More Reds(as opposed to More Menthols).
First cig I ever tried as a kid was my friend’s mom’s virginia slim 100.
Didn’t you know those were for women only? /s
I smoked Kools for years. Luckiest thing ever, I never got past smoking a pack a day and I generally had a pack last about three days. Then in about 2016 I just was tired of them a quit. I just didn’t get hooked on em as bad as some thankfully.
I do miss it though. And sometimes I hit a vape pen for some chemicals. Kools were great on a hot night at a bar and I liked the ritual stop, go out, light the thing etc etc etc talk to other smokers. But I DO NOT miss the smell etc.
HH and then CtPG clearly became your new addiction.
Sounds kind of like my dad. He used to smoke Kools. He was home with us kids (we were little at the time) one night, and ran out. He decided that if he could do without them for one night, he could do without them period. Quit cold turkey.
Winston’s taste good like a cigarette should. mom died of lung cancer at 61 over 30 years ago.
That was my grandmother’s brand. We used to have (a lot of) packs of Kool playing cards, although I’m not sure where she got them.
Tried a few kools in the military and those things are harsh. Newport was the go to cig while in and they were alot more smooth.
I too am 73 yrs old and smoked for 40 years until the “Big One” hit and I am paying for it currently. 15 years have passed and have lost my best friend to lung cancer and many friends in addition; it’s the dumbest thing that we could all have done, but we all made that choice and it was a bad one for sure. Marlboro and Winston (Taste good like a cigarette should) were the 2 big names. Heck I even switched to Marlboro lights thinking that would work, sheesh what a dope I was. Now very few still smoke, but vaping is still around, and it’s said that vaping is even worse. Good news is smoking related deaths are falling quickly.
My bro-in-law smoked or about 30 years, no more of course, due to the lung cancer he farmed for those three decades.
My Dad smoked 3 packs a day of Pall Mall non-filters from the time he was 16 years old until when he was 33. In 1960 he quit cold turkey because smoking was killing his “wind” when he had to chase down bad guys (he was a cop LA Sheriff working at that time in East LA). He substituted coffee for cigarettes and always had a cup of coffee in his hand from the time he quit until when he passed away in 2003.
Remember the good old days of smoking sections in restaurants, even on Airplanes (for what good it would do), if you worked in an office people where smoking, back in the 60’s and 70’s it was pretty common no matter where you where that people would be smoking even in hospitals. It seems pretty crazy now, but I don’t think the cigarette companies where even required to put the “health warning” on packs of cigarettes until 1969.
Doctors smoked in the 50s and early 60s, including some pediatricians!!! “Let me check out your kid while I burn this Camel, don’t worry, it’s filtered! “ 😆😆😆😆😆
Doctors smoke more than normal people now. Always have.
if you worked in an office people where smoking
My academic advisor in 1980 smoked a pipe. Hell, in the late ’80s I worked in an office where people smoked cigars.
They still haven’t been able to clarify to me how vaping is as bad or worse. I keep looking for it too cause I’m paranoid.
All I ever find are people who have problems because they either vape 1000 times more than a human should, vape weird ass home made THC sludge that hurts them…. and that’s it.
Oh. And the kids. They just say “the kids” and that’s supposed to stop all the questions and make me es scared.
It’s funny, when I quit smoking my doctor told me to vape some if I needed it cause it’s basically harmless unless I just OD on nicotine itself. I ask my doctors every year if there’s any new news of it killing people. Nope. Not really.
Just, you know, don’t replace breathing with vape.
The American Heart Association will give you some specifics:
In addition to being addictive, nicotine affects the development of the brain in teens, kids and fetuses. E-cigarette vapor may contain diacetyl (causes lunge disease), carcinogens, volatile organic compounds, and heavy metals. The liquid in e-cigarettes is dangerous if swallowed, breathed, or absorbed through the skin or eyes.
If vaping helps you resist cigarettes, it might be a net benefit for you (that’s your own judgment call based on your personal circumstances), but we know enough to understand that vaping is not harmless and that people will be healthier if they never start vaping or smoking.
Perry’s contract runs thru 2026 and Wash has a club option for 2026.
I would run it back next year with both guys. Give all the younger players and prospects a long runway and evaluate who will be a part of the future. Plus, it’ll be the last season of Rendone’s contract.
The Neto-Wash relationship has been my favorite storyline of the last 2 seasons.
“He’s like a father figure to me,” Neto said. “He’s one of my best friends. And it’s just cool to see him out here and be able to see him where it all started.”
I would prefer Washington just act as a “special assistant” to the GM. And jettison Monty. Let Perry ride out his contract and be ready for the hiring of the exact same thing with a different name, because nothing will change as long as the “Three Horseman of the Baseball Apocalypse”, Moreno, Carpino, and Kuhl, are in charge.
Does Perry try and swing some big trades or signings for next season in an attempt to field a better team so he gets an extension? Thats my worry with a GM on a short contract, the long-term plans (lol) can go out the window.
