The Rays are 4-9

[jshep]

He would go down in history as the inventor of several "notable" stats like ERA stats for every position player and Bunts Above Replacement Player

[FabulousFabregas]

Total troll thread.  Angels have massive payroll and have missed playoffs 3 years straight.

 

Rays have low payroll and missed playoffs last year.  Apples and oranges.

[dimitrig]

Under Scioscia as GM, players would be picked based on bunting ability.

 

This is a guy who kept starting Mathis and then shipped Napoli off.

[Brandon Wing]

How are posts like yours allowed as a poster?  Eric makes some great points, and we are talking about Maddon's performance this year.  It's a baseball subject, and it's always good to learn from the good and bad of other baseball situations.

 

Both Maddon and Scioscia are extremely hands on, control types of managers.  They are very similar in many ways, but Joe takes it to a much deeper level.  At times his cute little games and tricks backfire, don't you think?

I you think the mod was being serious, and actually making good points, then I think you missed the entire point his thread. 

[Quinlanforthewin]

This is the one of the worst threads of the year, especially embarrassing from a mod on this site. 

 

The Rays have constantly overachieved for years and made the playoffs recently.  Their payroll is miniscule compared to ours.

 

The Angels have constantly underachieved for years and not made the playoffs recently.  Our payroll is massive.

 

There's a reason it's legit to call for one Manager to be fired and not the other.

[tdawg87]

How are posts like yours allowed as a poster?  Eric makes some great points, and we are talking about Maddon's performance this year.  It's a baseball subject, and it's always good to learn from the good and bad of other baseball situations.

 

Both Maddon and Scioscia are extremely hands on, control types of managers.  They are very similar in many ways, but Joe takes it to a much deeper level.  At times his cute little games and tricks backfire, don't you think?

 

I honestly can't tell if you are serious.

[JAHV76]

The halos could hire Barry from storage wars as their next manager since he kinda looks like maddon.

[Blarg]

Yuuuuuuuup!

[tennischmp]

Nice thread

[bloodbrother]

Lol

[nate]

Classic Blarg.

 

Also, with a much worse roster, Cleveland is 54-48.  They of course have a much better manager in Terry Francona.

[Bashbrothers]

Cleveland has a good offense.   Nothing bad with their roster except their back end rotation.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Good I hope Madden becomes available.

 

It wouldn't matter, and I can give you 20 million reasons why.

[tomsred]

Maybe Maddon needs to go, too, if he can't get his team to perform. Maybe we can swap MS for him and both teams will benefit.

Maddon would drive this board crazy. If you can't understand Scioscia's moves you would never understand Maddon's.

[robblin17]

Maddon would drive this board crazy. If you can't understand Scioscia's moves you would never understand Maddon's.

Maddon gets good results though.

[Season Over]

Maddon would drive this board crazy. If you can't understand Scioscia's moves you would never understand Maddon's.

 

At least they would work.

[gurn67]

I don't know what's more disappointing. An idiotic thread like this coming from a moderator, or the fact that he keeps trolling it like a 12 year old girl.

[SmallSampleSize]

This thread delivers...

WTB some humility, PST.

[Blarg]

I don't know what's more disappointing. An idiotic thread like this coming from a moderator, or the fact that he keeps trolling it like a 12 year old girl.

I am disappointed it took you over 3 months to respond to the OP.

[HaloMagic]

Maybe he was too busy laughing at how silly you look in this thread.

[kevinb]

The Rays have a far superior pitching staff than the Angels so for that reason underperforming is unacceptable and the sole responsibility of Joe Maddon.

He should be fired, after all they failed to make the playoffs last season and can't afford to continue losing like this. I am sure we are all in agreement.

I forgot when this site changed to Rays win but alright then. Mike and his GM are terrible fire them both and get new blood in here preferably ones that have a game plan for the future not just oh shiny old toy lets buy that.

[stormngt]

Difference being that the Rays have been a better franchise since 2010 on less than half of the Halos payroll.

I see the point you are making Eric, but the situations surrounding the 2 teams are totally different.

I have never liked the logic of blaming the manager for under performing on basis that the payroll is large.  All  your point proves is that the Angels GM (not manager) made some poor payroll decisions.  

 

 

The Angels have one of the highest payrolls in baseball, but anyone with a clue can tell you their pitching staff isn't good enough to win.  That isn't Scioscia's fault. That is either Dipoto or Reagins fault.

[Corona]

Lol at this thread.

Classic Blarg.

 

Also, with a much worse roster, Cleveland is 54-48.  They of course have a much better manager in Terry Francona.

I really wanted Francona, great manager. Cleveland was my sleeper this year.

[full circle]

I think Francona would've been a really nice fit for this team and said so in the offseason, too bad.

[AngelArcher]

Outside of Price who was a 1st overall pick, their other young stud pitchers are all 4th round or later.

 

Hellickson 4th rd

Moore 8th rd

Cobb 4th rd

Archer 5th rd