Revisit 1999 free agency

[Glausfan]

We know that the Angels signed Mo Vaughn but if we go back, whom you would sign? Randy Johnson? Mike Piazza? Someone else? I wasn't too happy about when they signed Mo Vaughn.

For me, I was hoping either Johnson or Piazza. If we got Piazza and keep Edmonds, line-up may like this in 1999 and everyone healthy:

C Molina
1B Erstad
2B Verlarde
SS DiSarcina

3B Glaus
LF Anderson
CF Edmonds
RF Salmon
DH Piazza

 

[nando714]

Didn't randy johnson wanna be an angel but we chose vaughn? I was in 6th grade. Anyone know the details

[Erstad Grit]

I remember us trying to sign both. Mo was calling rj and trying to convince him to come here. We just missed out. It seemed like almost everyone was pretty exited for the new mo-lenium

[Mauch Won]

We tried hard for Randy Johnson and missed.   Back then the Halos had to overpay for the top notch FA's.   IMO, one of the things that helped turn the tide was Bill Stoneman keeping tight lipped about players and contracts.  

[Thomas]

Bench guardrails

[Brandon]

I remember being excited about Mo. We were probably the worst team in baseball in the late 90's and this was also the first star signing I saw the team do.

 

For some reason I remember him either being injured or sucking outside of one season, but people seemed to be ok with his production.

[ten ocho recon scout]

Remember it well. Mo was a huge signing, people were stoked (for good reason at the time). Johnson had killed us for years in seattle, and there were a ton of rumors flying we were in on him. When he went to arizona it was kind of a shock

[NJHalo]

Glad we got Moo.

If we had signed Piazza, he probably would have gotten hurt, and then become a big distraction with his bad attitude.

[Brandon]

and being gay

[HeavenlyHalos]

[Brandon]

I still can't believe a dude called a press conference to say he's not gay. This was probably the start of the bullshit media like the Skip Bayless show and Espns love affair with everything not related to action in the games.

I had a coworker whose sister dated him and I think proposed to her when he was with the Dodgers. She said he's an asshole.

[HeavenlyHalos]

I still can't believe a dude called a press conference to say he's not gay. This was probably the start of the bullshit media like the Skip Bayless show and Espns love affair with everything not related to action in the games.

I had a coworker whose sister dated him and I think proposed to her when he was with the Dodgers. She said he's an asshole.

 

Let's see that article was dated 2002, which does seem to be around the time ESPN started to really go downhill. I used to love watching Sportscenter, you know, when they actually devoted the show to sports highlights rather than Lebron tweets, Johnny Manziel getting kicked out of frat parties, and Tim Tebow's quest to save humanity. I really don't understand how this led to better ratings, I suppose by appealing to casual sports fans and people that care about celebrities' personal lives and opinions. For MLB highlights and news, I go to the MLB Network now and watch Quick Pitch or something at the end of the night; much more time spent on every highlight.

Edited December 13, 2014 by HeavenlyHalos