LA Angels Thursday News Crash: Hamate Apocalypse

1 month ago

Doyers signed Keston Hirjahuhaaa whatever. Who’s gonna email Friedman to tell him he’s a moron?

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https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/47910837/nick-castellanos-owed-20-million-released-phillies

1 month ago

Sounds like “Beer Me” is ready for his Halo debut!!!

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HalosFanForLife

1 month ago

Reply to Senator_John_Blutarsky

I’d take a shot with him for league minimum in a contract year. Give me Bauer too. LOL

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https://twitter.com/i/status/2021641462564503641

1 month ago

Reply to HalosFanForLife

What about Uriass?!?

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BannedInLA

1 month ago

Reply to Senator_John_Blutarsky

“…..I brought a Presidente into the dugout”

LMFAO. This might be the greatest line ever uttered in MLB.

Dude was in straight up, IDGAF mode.

BTW, .250 with 17 homers and 72 RBI’s would instantly make him one of our best players though I expect him to latch on with a contender to be their 4th OF.

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milehigh

1 month ago

I would have put it on the coffee table.

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https://youtube.com/shorts/ZLVXRDJSvWw?si=Ut8CrREvdL1yhVZY

1 month ago

Reply to milehigh

Should have gone full cannibal with it and used it as a bone ornament for the nose

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ErSTAN

1 month ago

Reply to Senator_John_Blutarsky

How much for 1 rib!?

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BannedInLA

1 month ago

Reply to ErSTAN

Then proceeds to pull out a cash stack thicker than a triple cheeseburger.

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YOUknowulovetheIE

1 month ago

Reply to milehigh

I kept my first ingrown toe nail removal. The clipping was yuge.

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grichmanpoorman

1 month ago

Reply to milehigh

Boil it up… you got the beginnings of a nice stew.

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https://www.ocregister.com/2026/02/12/angels-catcher-logan-ohoppe-brings-fresh-approach-to-2026/

1 month ago

Avi Garcia may be done. And Schwarber may have re-upped with the Phils. But Tootie’s dream of Nick Castellanos in the outfield could come to pass. Imagine him and Soler out there…. hell yeah.

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steelgolf

1 month ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

😲

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Pineapple12

1 month ago

The Angels’ batters led the majors in strikeouts in 2025, so reducing that number is one of the jobs for new hitting coach Brady Anderson. Suzuki said Anderson is already “putting some things together” with regard to an improved approach for the hitters.

“It’s a mindset,” Suzuki said. “When we played, when Brady played and when I played, there was a mindset of not striking out, battling. Taking what the pitcher gives you. These guys are a hundred times more talented than I was. The stuff they do on the field is special. I think Brady’s working with them mentality wise and having the right mentality to go up there and work on those things.”

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ErSTAN

1 month ago

Reply to Pineapple12

I would love to see some slap-happy, run the bases teams of yesteryear.

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ryanfea

1 month ago

Nick Castellanos cut by Phillies. Now I’m fantasizing about him in RF, Soler in LF and Adell in CF to form the worst defensive outfield of all time

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1 month ago

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EHC

1 month ago

Reply to Angels2020Champs

If I’m not mistaken, those Bad News Bears lost in the championship game. So it could work.

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1 month ago

Reply to EHC

If we’re lucky, we might win the Cactus League… but have a better chance of getting the #1 pick.

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1 month ago

Reply to ryanfea

Tootie Too pioneered this idea. CatoSchwarbAvisailGarcia… bricks in the grass baby. 1/3 of that dream +Soler/Adell is just the 2.0 of it. Plus think of the flockz of fanz who will come out to see Nick C.

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1 month ago

Oooooo… Rangers prospect Sabastian Walcott has elbow surgery coming up. That’s rough for those guys…

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RexFregosi

1 month ago

I have been busy this week so I’ll get to camp a few days later

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Jeff Joiner

1 month ago

Reply to RexFregosi

How dare you! Ha ha.

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Pineapple12

1 month ago

Reply to RexFregosi

UNACCEPTABLE

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CAoldskoll

1 month ago

Breaking news of Muncy signing 1yr extension for hometown discount of 10mil. Real story should be ‘ ‘Dodgers turn to plan B after Ramirez signs to stay with Cleveland’. Anyone who follows MLB knows that organization was going to poach him in free agency next year. Add the best 3rd baseman by out bidding everyone else.

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EHC

1 month ago

Reply to CAoldskoll

We are constantly hearing about how GREAT the Dodger farm system is. Loaded with all the best prospects…yet we never seem to see these phenoms. They poach other teams’ best players, pay them the most money, and still claim their farm is the best in baseball. What a bunch of crap.

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1 month ago

Reply to EHC

Friedman > “The Minion”

The Dodger farm serves a purpose: when some of these top rated prospects are traded, they fetch a nice return.

Our top rated prospects get traded and prosper, while we “enjoy” the wit, wisdom and results of studs like Lucas Giolito.

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EHC

1 month ago

Reply to Senator_John_Blutarsky

Yeah? So who are these Dodger gems that have been traded? Gavin Lux? Dustin May? Over rated prospects that other GM’s trade for because they hear how great the Dodger prospects are. And who tells them this? They same people who rate the Angel farm as one of the worst. The point is – no one knows how they will turn out and who will make it and who won’t. Dodger hype has reached a new nauseating level.

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2002heaven

1 month ago

Reply to EHC

I’ve been screaming at the top of my online lungs that the Dodgers have the most overrated farm system in MLB. A lot worse than the Astros, Cubs, Mariners, and Tigers who have way out developed the Dodgers since the 2020 pandemic season.

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https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/47620464/mlb-2026-kyle-tucker-los-angeles-dodgers-free-agency-labor-cba-offseason

1 month ago

Interesting read from Passan

Alabama released their profits or lack thereof recently for ‘24-‘25. I found that interesting as well:

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1 month ago

Reply to Angels2020Champs

Passan notes the fact that the owners unanimously approved the current CBA…which the majority apparently now loathe. It’ll be interesting to see if the owners can stay united, or if they cave on a salary cap.

The owners are historically their own worst enemy.

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milehigh

1 month ago

Reply to Senator_John_Blutarsky

Manfred talked about a cap and floor. I think those are the right words to start but can the owners figure out the mechanics and $ numbers to a cap, floor, revenue sharing and penalties against teams that don’t hit the numbers, a la other sports, during this calendar year. All without full knowledge of their revenue stream from whatever MLB gets or proposes for streaming in a couple years.

If MLB proposes just a cap that will be summarily rejected. Then I think the owners cave. If MLB wants to really divide MLBPA they would offer a realistic proposal of cap/floor, etc. If that happened I think MLBPA would have a stroke. MLBPA has never had to deal with reason before. I don’t think they would know what to do.

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Jeff Joiner

1 month ago

Reply to milehigh

Just like the real world, the solution that works best for the middle majority will face stiff opposition from the two extremes.

Getting guys like Nutting to agree to a floor will be as difficult or more than getting the Dodgers and Yankees to send even more revenue sharing money to the bottom feeders.

What I’d love to see would be a meeting between MLB owners and NFL owners on how a functioning league works.

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1 month ago

PECOTA always makes me laugh because it’s basically a robot that acts exactly like a fairly well read baseball fanguy. At the end of 2024, for example, if it were just SomeDudeTech it would’ve been saying something like “Man, I was right about the Doyers, Braves, Phillies and Astros being stacked. I knew the Orioles looked like they were ready to compete too and the Mets would make it if they were healthy. I keep expecting the Brewers and Guardians to fall apart and they never do. Those Royals and Tigers. Who saw that coming!?! Wowzers!”

Like most of us, it just can’t fathom baseball players working hard and getting better at baseball. It also really like teams with lots of players whose names it knows and doesn’t expect injuries or regression.

PECOTA is Bobby at the bar talkin about how the Doyers have bought another championship in Feb. But if some pitchers I can’t even name explode along with JJ Wetherholt, Jordan Walker and Joshua Baez for the Cardinals this year neither Bobby nor PECOTA can see it coming.

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BannedInLA

1 month ago

This team was always going to be bad, but avoiding the temptation of signing of few big ticket guys should be considered a win IMO.

It’s all about the young core making marked improvements and if they do, it makes targeted FA spending in 27’ or 28’ that much easier. Or at least in theory.

This is last place team on paper, but, I’ll be satisfied if players like Schannuel, Moore, Rodriguez, Detmers, Rada, etc establish themselves as solid starters – regardless of the final W-L record.

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https://x.com/i/status/2021985154487791716

1 month ago

Reply to BannedInLA

I know. I keep seeing a lot of “smart” baseball writers” kind of giving the Angels dead off season a sneering back hand. I’m like “You’re so fking smart, you can’t see that the team clearly isn’t gonna compete and is looking at kids and trying to build up trade bait? You actually think it would have been a better idea to pump an extra 50M into THIS roster? Why do you have your job?”

This off season is twenty shades of meh. But flopping around signing guys to make this current roster look a little better for two or three years is just stupid. We’ve bitched about those types of moves for years. Well, here’s an off season where we didn’t do that. It’s actually progress in my book.

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YOUknowulovetheIE

1 month ago

Reply to BannedInLA

How about neto?

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BannedInLA

1 month ago

Reply to YOUknowulovetheIE

I’d say that Neto has established himself to be an above average starter with All-Star potential. Some would argue that Schanny has already proven himself to be a “solid starter” given his OBP, OK batting average and solid K/BB rate. As for the others, much room for improvement.

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Pineapple12

1 month ago

Big Papa and the Jo Show have arrived! @Rex need pics ASAP.

Zach Neto has arrived at #Angels camp. He’s one of several position players here early. Nolan Schanuel, Jo Adell and Bryce Teodosio are among the others here before official workouts start on Monday.

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Pineapple12

1 month ago

Getting his first pro reps at the Angels’ prospect minicamp in January, Bremner threw in front of Angels brass, which included new manager Kurt Suzuki and new pitching coach Mike Maddux.

“Tyler has put himself in a really good spot with the work that he’s done over the winter,” Angels assistant GM Joey Prebynski said. “The big thing for Tyler is to come into camp and continue building off the work that he’s put in and just try to come in and continue to learn as much as he can.”

Despite the Angels’ tendency to promote prospect aggressively, Bremner isn’t guaranteed a spot on the Opening Day pitching staff. But once he arrives, he will provide needed strike-throwing that the Angels’ rotation struggled with in 2025. They finished last in MLB with a 9.6% walk rate.

“He’s elite at getting ahead with all three pitches,” Prebynski said. “He was 65% on first-pitch strikes last year. He had a 6% walk rate, and for us it’s just continued development of the repertoire and pitch usage and how he continues to sequence pitches.”

“He has elite stuff and he shows feel for pitching and utilizing (his three pitch-arsenal). He can get outs to multiple quadrants of the zone, so we’re excited to see him come to spring training and come in here and pitch.”

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/tyler-bremner-looks-like-another-quick-moving-angels-prospect/

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Pineapple12

1 month ago

Reply to Pineapple12

Please don’t rush Bremmy. His right arm is too freaking important.

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HalosFanForLife

1 month ago

Reply to Pineapple12

I agree – but also don’t delay him because that’s what you’re supposed to do. When he’s ready – give him his shot.

My son is supposed to play on Friday a potential top 10 pick next draft out of HS that is hitting 100 MPH and 103 in bullpens. I asked a buddy of mine – former 10 year MLB guy – whose son just faced him (possible 1st rounder too) if he saw any tips or tendencies.

He said. “Nothing to tell. He’s a big leaguer. Nothing to hit. Hope for a walk. Throws 100 and excellent breaking stuff. Hit the next arm that comes in.” The kid struck out 10 in 3 innings. (Two dropped third strikes reached base).

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CAoldskoll

1 month ago

Reply to HalosFanForLife

Interesting, my son played HS ball and is curious about him. No names but could you list what high school he plays for if it is in So Cal CIF area?

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HalosFanForLife

1 month ago

Reply to CAoldskoll

The kid plays for Prestonwood in Texas. He’s legit. Threw 100 at Area Code Games last year too. My son plays for Ryan Johnson’s former homeschool team.

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CAoldskoll

1 month ago

Reply to HalosFanForLife

My son says giant kid _ims.

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BannedInLA

1 month ago

Reply to HalosFanForLife

I don’t know what constitutes “too soon”? If the player is performing well or is at least league average, why not let him compete? Does “too soon” mean stamina in relation to workload?

Assuming that it’s primarily performance driven, I would be happy to see him pitch meaningful innings this year.

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tanana40

1 month ago

Reply to Pineapple12

We have an Assistant GM?

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steelgolf

1 month ago

Reply to tanana40

Correction. Assistant “to” the GM.

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EHC

1 month ago

Reply to Pineapple12

Uh oh. If this guy pans out, many will owe Perry an apology. Maybe?

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Roy Hobbs

1 month ago

PECOTA says we’re 10 games worse than the next worst team in our division, the worst in the AL, and one of the four worst in MLB. I’d say that’s pretty bad. And Perry is optimistic. Got it. F students are the happiest I hear.

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1 month ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

If we get some injuries we could be REAL BAD. Like 100 losses bad. Hold onto yer hat. Man am I glad we held onto Ohtani. Why would we have wanted some young prospects coming up right now when we can sign guys like Drury and Stephenson, reload, and go for it? Generational talent, you just don’t trade Bade Root, am I right?

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Jeff Joiner

1 month ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

Keep in mind the Angels play in a much tougher division than the White Sox. On paper, I think we could argue which team is worse but when we’re getting smoked by the Mariners and Astros the Sox will be splitting series with KC and the Twins.

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GrandpaBaseball

1 month ago

I’m in a can’t win position with politics. If I’m on the Left I’m said to be Socialist, if I’m on the Right I’m accused of being a Trumper, and if I’m in the MOR(middle of the road) I’m told to get off the fence before I fall and break my hip.

It’s similar to being an Angels fan, if I like the Angels I’m referred to being on the losing side, If I criticize the Angels I’m told to suck down some hopeium and if I’m in the MOR I’m at my age thrown out in the middle at second. 😂

Jeez

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Jim Atkins

1 month ago

Reply to GrandpaBaseball

Given recent trends, I’d say you are more likely to break your hamate.

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Jeff Joiner

1 month ago

Reply to GrandpaBaseball

I was once told that if you are getting criticism from both sides you are probably in a good place. I’ve lived by that.

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PedroCerrano

1 month ago

Reply to GrandpaBaseball

Can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a fricken Socialist-Trumpers lately 🙂 I had a brother a with stroke and a best friend go through multiple brain surgeries in December. Neither of them seem to worry about the small stuff nearly as much. My season goal is to enjoy the game of baseball more and perhaps care about the Angels less. Might be a long season otherwise.

Disclaimer: No cats were hurt in the recording of this comment.

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AngelsFanInHell

1 month ago

I generally stay away from politics, but we do need a president like this again.

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1 month ago

Reply to AngelsFanInHell

Bill & Ted… reminds me of playing toe jam and earl on the ol’ sega genesis around the same time. Mmmm member berries.

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milehigh

1 month ago

Reply to AngelsFanInHell

“We could really use a prez like Herbert Hoover again”

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1 month ago

Reply to AngelsFanInHell

Abe was great. Maybe Jed if Abe is not available?

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https://www.mlb.com/angels/news/angels-firm-in-commitment-to-young-core-following-free-agency

1 month ago

Reply to AngelsFanInHell

I love me some Abe. If you haven’t watched Manhunt on Apple.TV it’s really cool because you see Lincoln as “just a guy”. He toys with a newfangled baseball, jokes and talks social life stuff with cabinet members, and can’t talk anyone into going to the theater with him because he’s kept them all at work winning the Civil War and they all want to go see their families… it’s cool, and it reminds me of how friggin hard Abe’s life was.

He was mas macho.

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Pineapple12

1 month ago

It’s not the “take a wrecking ball to the roster” approach many want, but I interpret Perry’s quote as a clear admission we are in a rebuild.

But general manager Perry Minasian, speaking on Wednesday with pitchers and catchers holding their first official workouts of the spring, said he believes in his current group and that he thinks it’s important to continue to develop the club’s youthful core.

“One of the things we wanted to commit to was our young players,” Minasian said. “It’s something I’ve talked about the last couple of years. So making that commitment with some of our internal guys, we wanted to give them some opportunities.”.

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1 month ago

Reply to Pineapple12

Blame Arte, blame Kuhlpino, blame the weather, or blame the stars, it still seems that Perry has no idea what he’s doing from day to day.

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AngelsFanInHell

1 month ago

Reply to Senator_John_Blutarsky

I blame Canada. Seriously, is there actually a plan beyond dumpster diving?

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Pineapple12

1 month ago

Reply to AngelsFanInHell

Pray the young players figure it out and some of the reclamation projects Benjamin Button their way to success. Good plan? No, but it is a plan lol

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1 month ago

Reply to Pineapple12

You had it right earlier. This is a teardown/rebuild team. Play some kids. Play some restoration players. Hope for trade bait. Maybe even trade some young players. Try not to have a silly draft. Horrible team gets a top pick in next years draft.

They don’t have to come out and say it. They just have to go out and do it. All this “DYE DOH TINK PERREH HASTH A PLAN” bullshit is only valid if they suddenly start signing guys. It’s more likely they will look at HOW BAD things are system wide and then decide if they need to trade Nolan, Neto, Soriano, Detmers, Adell…. depending on if they suck or get hurt. Guys like Manoah will be gone in July if their ERA is under 4.00. That’s a plan. It just sucks. I wish we had done this in 2022.

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Eric_in_Portland

1 month ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

you (and others) have mentioned trading at the deadline. The idea is maybe some vets we’ve signed, like Manoah, or maybe Jo, will get us good prospects but if we look at Perry’s history he just hasn’t done that. We probably could have gotten more for Ward last July/August but instead we traded minor leaguers for Chafin, Garcia, and Peraza. No prospects in sight. It’s nice to talk about the idea of scoring big on trades but that’s not Perry’s MO.

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Roy Hobbs

1 month ago

Reply to Eric_in_Portland

I agree. This would be the year to have a fire sale since we won’t even be able to pretend we’re competing.

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1 month ago

Reply to AngelsFanInHell

It’s always a safe bet to blame the French. Or the Dutch. As you note, blaming the Canucks is also a good fallback option.

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Roy Hobbs

1 month ago

Reply to Senator_John_Blutarsky

I feel the same way every time he speaks.

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milehigh

1 month ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

I feel that Perry is a good soldier but not a very good creator. He is not actively blaming his boss or his boss’s cronies. In public anyway.

If he was in an org that was decent or good like Twins, A’s, M’s, Blue Jays, Rays, Dodgers, etc. (and yes, you can argue I didn’t list best orgs) would he do as well as those GMs have. I suspect not but we will never know.

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1 month ago

Reply to Pineapple12

He has to say that stuff. Don’t believe me? Find me the GMPOBOEIEIO that comes out at the strart of ST and says “We are gonna be strait up ass. We have a bunch of kids, and I hope they learn and do well, but even if they do, this roster is full on GoBots shitty. We’re in a hole so deep that we decided not to spend money on players because everyone’s gonna need more money for booze. I’m just glad our owner finally stopped making me sign shiny trash to add to the pile so we can maybe start rebuilding.”

Perry is the mother of the guy who just shot five bystanders and one gangster in a drive by crying out “He a good boy!” and holding up his school photo from freshman year before he dropped out. He loves these players cause he has to.

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2GA2Join

1 month ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

I usually keep my mouth shut, but this time you’ve gone too far.
Why throw shade at GoBots? They were great! Not usually as intricate as Transformers but there was actually a lot more variety and they were well made.
😄

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1 month ago

Reply to 2GA2Join

GoBots were first. But they were trash.

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