Los Angeles Angels vs Seattle Mariners Postgame Thread 4/2/14

[bloodbrother]

The team is the butt of jokes again

 

High payroll team who play terrible

[mp170.6]

I have a prediction to make.  Should they fall 5 or more games out of first place by Sunday, then it's season over. 

 

Hopefully I'm wrong but I doubt it. 

[Lhalo]

Oh and don't forget, there are fireworks on Sat night this year

I hope they didn't move them from Fridays. I don't roll on Saturdays. Shomer Shabbos!

[FabulousFabregas]

Most boring game I've been to in awhile.  Made Monday's game look like the 2002 World Series.  Always nice to go to the stadium, but I was field level tonight and sensed the same lacadacical vibe from last year.  Scioscia needed to go last year, and Dipoto has done an awful job with the pitching staff.

[FabulousFabregas]

By the way for those who consider me a 'Failo,' I heard some real negative talk at the game today.  I overheard some guy when I was in line for food saying, "I don't know which game was shittier, Monday's or Tuesday's."  These guys were heckling Hamilton, I do some sarcastic stuff but these guys were saying 'Hamilton for President, we love drugs too!'  Lots of talk from fans around about how bad the team has been underperforming last few years.  Somebody yelled 'Overpay and underplay.'  When this one guy was ranting on Hamilton I said to him he's sure getting a lot of money to shove his finger up his butt.  He said he's probably shoving it up his wife's butt.

 

[Homebrewer]

I thought Santiago did a damn nice job. In all fairness, if we didn't have the shlubs we have in the heart of the oder, it should have been 6-2 Angels when he was taken out. Kole and Trout set the table every time they came up, but Pujols and Hamilton and everyone else are f'n expensive sugar coated turds at the plate. Howie, the f'n king of ST every f'n year is a f'n joke too.

The offense is a f'n joke after Kole and Trout.

Not f'n funny anymore.

[mp170.6]

I'm disappointed as anyone else and frustrated by the same crap as last year but I think anyone who calls season over before 1 month of play needs a demerit. Anyone advocating we keep Butcher: demerit. Anyone posting Aybar dance: demerit. Anyone who advocates for more than 4 different reasons for demerits in 1 posts: demerit.

 

I'm only going on the basis of the last two seasons.  And I'm no baseball genius either, but I said season over in April both years and it turned out true.  There were things in the first week of 2012 and 2013 that screamed "disaster" that unfortunately still hold true in 2014. 

[SoWhat]

[Tyler]

At what point does pride kick in? How many seasons is it going to take?

[Angels_Make_Me_Drink]

I noticed a lot of negativity @ Tuesday's game as well. Every time Pujols or Hamilton made an out it was laughter and boos in the section around me. Very disappointing.

By the way for those who consider me a 'Failo,' I heard some real negative talk at the game today.  I overheard some guy when I was in line for food saying, "I don't know which game was shittier, Monday's or Tuesday's."  These guys were heckling Hamilton, I do some sarcastic stuff but these guys were saying 'Hamilton for President, we love drugs too!'  Lots of talk from fans around about how bad the team has been underperforming last few years.  Somebody yelled 'Overpay and underplay.'  When this one guy was ranting on Hamilton I said to him he's sure getting a lot of money to shove his finger up his butt.  He said he's probably shoving it up his wife's butt.

 

 

[Homebrewer]

The attendance already looked very light tonight, did you guys who were there see the same thing I saw on TV?

[martinpa25]

The attendance already looked very light tonight, did you guys who were there see the same thing I saw on TV?

 

To be honest i thought it was a decent crowd..i think the attendance was mid 30's...

[70runner]

I can't imagine a more epic meltdown of a series.  Honestly, the only thing you can do is hope that the team can move on and not let it dictate the rest of the season. 

 

It truly is only three games and it was so so awful that you have to just sweep it under the rug and hope it was an aberration.  The only thing to glean from such an awful series as this is the fact that they literally need to do something about the pen in the next 5-7 games at most. 

 

If I see Jepsen vs. a lefty or Kohn in the 7th inning or Salas much at all, I am literally going to flip my shit.  I know it's a small sample and all, but I actually think it would go a long way and send a message to the team if over the next few games, those guys were displaced.  It will help once DDLR and Burnett come back but I would call up Lyon, Berg, and Rasmus and either send those guys down, DL them or just park them on the bench. 

 

While the relief pitching was horrible, lets not forget the offense, lack thereof.  3, 3, and 2 runs scored, mostly caused by Trout.  Freese hitting 4th won't cause too many pitchers to retire.  Iannetta and HK look like absolute dogshit.  Hamilton against LHP qualifies as a Sat Night comedy routine.  Pujols is old, slow, healthy, wealthy, and hitting .167.  So we'll tip the cap and move on to Houston, who busted us up last year.   Ugh. 

Edited April 3, 2014 by 70runner

[Homebrewer]

While the relief pitching was horrible, lets not forget the offense, lack thereof.  3, 3, and 2 runs scored, mostly caused by Trout.  Freese hitting 4th won't cause too many pitchers to retire.  Iannetta and HK look like absolute dogshit.  Hamilton against LHP qualifies as a Sat Night comedy routine.  Pujols is old, slow, healthy, wealthy, and hitting .167.  So we'll tip the cap and move on to Houston, who busted us up last year.   Ugh. 

Not ignoring that fact at all. Calhoun and Trout got it done tonight. There should have been 5 or 6 runs on the board by the time Scioscia took Santiago out. Would have been if ANYONE could hit the f'n ball other that Kole and Mike.

[FabulousFabregas]

The attendance already looked very light tonight, did you guys who were there see the same thing I saw on TV?

Crowd looked like 30,000 or so, definitely noticeable empty seats.  People left in droves in the 7th, then the 8th.

[fan_since79]

First two nights were sellouts. That's in the 43,000 range.

 

It was also really cold tonight. I think that kept some people home, as well as the lousy play.

[FabulousFabregas]

First two nights were sellouts. That's in the 43,000 range.

 

It was also really cold tonight. I think that kept some people home, as well as the lousy play.

Official announced attendance was 38,000 but there weren't that many there.

 

The lousy play is keeping people home.  The stadium was packed most nights in the 2000's regardless of weather.

[ten ocho recon scout]

Its a combo. Its a cold, the team sucks, and its a wednesday.

[FabulousFabregas]

On a positive note I really enjoyed my oreo shake at the game.

[Troll Daddy]

Not ignoring that fact at all. Calhoun and Trout got it done tonight. There should have been 5 or 6 runs on the board by the time Scioscia took Santiago out. Would have been if ANYONE could hit the f'n ball other that Kole and Mike.

Yes they did ... but they were nowhere to be found Tuesday night.

[martinpa25]

$12.75 for a beer is B.S!!!!!

[CaliAngel]

Dude just get two small domestics at 4.50 a piece and honestly you get a good amount of beer. 4.50 is about as much a pint of draft costs anywhere.

[MacPark]

$12.75 for a beer is B.S!!!!!

 

Thats out of control and to have to sit through that performance as well AGGGHH

[jshep]

Just occurred to me that Seattle still kicked our almost completely healthy asses despite being without their 2nd best pitcher and a pretty damn exciting rookie starter.

That's not making me feel any better.

[yk9001]

$12.75 for a beer is B.S!!!!!

 

That isn't for a 12 ounce beer, that's for like a 24 ounce can.