This team is bad

[jshep]

Hoping to maybe SPLIT a series with the Mariners who just got crushed by the Astros.

[tdawg87]

At this point I really don't give a shit anymore. I'm done caring more about this team than the players themselves do.

[martinpa25]

IMO...splitting is the same as losing this series

[jsnpritchett]

I'm still trying to figure out what happened in that Tigers series. 

[bdavis621]

This is the way Scioscia wants it now. He hates the Angels and wants them to lose. He wants to go back to his precious Dodgers.

[HeavenlyHalos]

This guy again huh^

[HeavenlyHalos]

But yes this team isn't very good. Scioscia screwed up pretty badly this game too and the pitching is atrocious. This will be a long season.

[bdavis621]

I'm back. You just better hope the Angels start winning because that will be the only thing to keep me away.

[bloodbrother]

Basically the 2012 team all over again, best case scenario

 

another bunch of overhyped pretenders. They have some serious fixing to do when it comes to the pitching. Team is in bad shape going forward there. Very worrisome

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

I really expect this team to be without Pujols/Hamilton by 2015.  The only thing that will fix this team in the long run is doing what Boston did last year.  

Where do you think they're going?

[jshep]

Even if the team wanted to dump Pujols and Hamilton(and I don't think that's the case...at least not yet), they both have absurd contracts and no-trade clauses. And I certainly don't think they would be willing to eat those contracts to move them.

 

For better or worse, we're stuck with them.

[bloodbrother]

That was so unique and rare and fortunate for Boston. No chance in hell the Halos ship Pujols out. They are stuck with that contract till the bitter end.

 

I'm not even really worried about the money committed to them as they inevitably get worse and worse. It's the pitching. Where are the good power arms in the pen? Where's the good young SP prospects? Richards has the upside and they desperately need him to reach it. Blanton is pure crap and is unfortunately signed through next season, Vargas is a FA after the year and looks like a guy you don't want to invest long term in, Hanson is an injury waiting to happen, CJ is only getting worse as he gets older and their one stud in Weaver is now on the wrong side of 30 and was showing some scary velocity drop to start the year

 

Halos scouting has to hit it big in these next few drafts on some good arms, starters and relievers.

[jshep]

That was so unique and rare and fortunate for Boston. No chance in hell the Halos ship Pujols out. They are stuck with that contract till the bitter end.

 

I'm not even really worried about the money committed to them as they inevitably get worse and worse. It's the pitching. Where are the good power arms in the pen? Where's the good young SP prospects? Richards has the upside and they desperately need him to reach it. Blanton is pure crap and is unfortunately signed through next season, Vargas is a FA after the year and looks like a guy you don't want to invest long term in, Hanson is an injury waiting to happen, CJ is only getting worse as he gets older and their one stud in Weaver is now on the wrong side of 30 and was showing some scary velocity drop to start the year

 

Ya, there are a few college arms to cross your fingers on, particularly on the bullpen side of things, but other than that?

 

Our "hope" for the rotation is AJ Schugel and arms with good stuff, limited strong track records, and various reasons to question their ability to stick in the rotation. And Schugel's "upside" is back of the rotation starter probably.

 

And if the team was balking at the prices of starting pitching this offseason, I can't imagine their reactions going forward... and even then. the best arm on the market next year is...Josh Johnson, I guess?

[FabulousFabregas]

I had the game on tonight, but working on my Mexican government research paper for school was more enjoyable than when I looked at what was going on with the game.

[mp170.6]

I had the game on tonight, but working on my Mexican government research paper for school was more enjoyable than when I looked at what was going on with the game.

 

Mexico has a government?  Who knew...

[tomsred]

I'm back. You just better hope the Angels start winning because that will be the only thing to keep me away.

No, not the only thing.

[Tank]

This is the way Scioscia wants it now. He hates the Angels and wants them to lose. He wants to go back to his precious Dodgers.

A lot of sound, well thought out logic here.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Mexico has a government?  Who knew...

 

It's an unsubstantiated rumor at this point.

[Sam Sanchez]

I hate losing, I also hate not having anything fun to go with our losing. This team is just boring to watch right now. Not that I would be any happier, but if the team lost while Trout was being Trout-like, and the team actually showcasing some of it's "power" that it's supposed to have, at the very least, I would be able to enjoy some of the offense at least. Eliminate the Tigers series, and I don't think I've really enjoyed watching this team at all this season.

[SmallSampleSize]

Yap, I've not spent $1 on the team in almost 3 years.  In the past it would be unthinkable but no one I know cares to go to a game, including my own family.

 

I guess they get my support via the radio and sometimes TV, but that is it.

 

Give me an Ersty or Willits or hell even Spiezio - players that made me so love watching baseball because they did so much more with so much less [yeah, Spiezio didn't do that much I just liked rooting for those types].

 

All I think I see most of the time the last few years is a manager and players using their smartphone banking apps to check for the best interest rate% to keep moving their money around.

[tomsred]

This is the way Scioscia wants it now. He hates the Angels and wants them to lose. He wants to go back to his precious Dodgers.

Wow, you really believe this stuff?

[SmallSampleSize]

Wow, you really believe this stuff?

 

I have to assume he's venting and couldn't think straight with the bloodrush to his head - or he must also be followed by Shadowpeople.

[EDinTUSTIN]

Yap, I've not spent $1 on the team in almost 3 years.  In the past it would be unthinkable but no one I know cares to go to a game, including my own family.

 

I guess they get my support via the radio and sometimes TV, but that is it.

 

Give me an Ersty or Willits or hell even Spiezio - players that made me so love watching baseball because they did so much more with so much less [yeah, Spiezio didn't do that much I just liked rooting for those types].

 

All I think I see most of the time the last few years is a manager and players using their smartphone banking apps to check for the best interest rate% to keep moving their money around.

So much more with less applies to Willits or Spiezio, but not Erstad. Erstad was hard nosed, to be sure, but he was also very talented.

[SmallSampleSize]

So much more with less applies to Willits or Spiezio, but not Erstad. Erstad was hard nosed, to be sure, but he was also very talented.

 

Of course.  Well, the spirit of my message is that there are certain players who play to earn a living but genuinely love playing the game.  Trout showed us that last year.

 

What I'd give for a losing team but with some of the players that entertain me day in and day out.  That is, actually, why I follow baseball.  It entertains me.  Winning is icing on the cake.

 

I'm getting neither this year nor last nor...

 

No cake.

[Stradling]

Wow, you really believe this stuff?

Yes he actually does. Very sad.