Trade Deadline Thread

[kevinb]

9 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Dude, twice in this thread you've brought up people meeting to fight it out.  Grow the fuck up.  

The last time Claude and I met, guess what we were grown ups, he introduced me to his son, he met my wife and family, and we had a pleasant evening of watching a cat jump to his death and watching Joe Smith lose a game for us against the Orioles.  

First I only brought up fighting once cause all u seem to do is talk smack on Claude on everyone of his posts. And second that's a nice story. Why does Joe Smith want to lose games for the Angels 

[Doug Van Oort Sr]

49 minutes ago, Taylor said:

10 bucks this guy is white and a Trump supporter.

That's about as stupid as his theory of a curse.

[Stradling]

Just now, Kevinb said:

First I only brought up fighting once cause all u seem to do is talk smack on Claude on everyone of his posts. And second that's a nice story. Why does Joe Smith want to lose games for the Angels 

You brought up meeting up with yourself and Troll.  

[mulwin444]

Sorry to break up the spitting contest:

 

Blue Jays Acquire Melvin Upton

By Jeff Todd | July 26, 2016 at 10:00am CDT

The Blue Jays have officially struck a deal to acquire outfielder Melvin Upton from the Padres. Young righty Hansel Rodriguez constitutes the return to San Diego, which will pay all but $5MM of the approximately $22MM owed to Upton this year and next, Heyman tweets.

Carry on

[tdawg87]

Why do teams keep trading for Melvin Upton

[mulwin444]

Just now, tdawg87 said:

Why do teams keep trading for Melvin Upton

He keeps changing his name...they don't know he used to be B.J.

[Doug Van Oort Sr]

40 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

You play sports to win championships. If you only watch to win then you are going to be miserable. 

The Angels haven't won the WS in the past 14 seasons, which sucks but it hasn't taken away my enjoyment of watching the team. The end result doesn't take away a good, exciting season.

I really hope you did not find enjoyment in watching the Angels play like they did over the weekend in Houston. If you did, you have no idea what sports are all about.

[kevinb]

22 minutes ago, stormngt said:

Unless you are the top of your profession you are unsuccessful.  That by your definition not mine.  And I beg to differ there reply isn't much different in the professional world.  We compete .

 

A lot of hall of fame coaches won not by preaching winning but preaching work ethic and commitment.  My mentor as a coach never talked about winning.  He kept talking about being the hardest working team in the nation and the hardest playing team in the nation.  

My philosophy of success on over achievement.   Does the team do better than expectations.

And again if your not striving to be the best then what's the point. Being the best in a given industry is harder to define then being the best in sports at the end there's a trophy in sports that says you were the best in the professional world there is usually not. Depending what profession you get yourself into. 

[mtangelsfan]

1 hour ago, Kevinb said:

Your funny you love calling him out. You should meet up and just fight it out if you talk as much smack as you do 

seems most of the smack in this thread is coming from you.

[mulwin444]

On that note, do you think the Blue Jays owner said to himself out loud "I could really use a B.J. right now" and the GM just misunderstood him?

[Stradling]

So are you at the top of your profession or a loser?  Asking for a friend.  

[kevinb]

1 minute ago, Stradling said:

So are you at the top of your profession or a loser?  Asking for a friend.  

Top. How bout you?

[kevinb]

9 minutes ago, Stradling said:

You brought up meeting up with yourself and Troll.  

I said if you want to troll in person I know a good place to. 

[Stradling]

Just now, Kevinb said:

I said if you want to troll in person I know a good place to. 

Ok I'll bite, where is that good place?

[mtangelsfan]

4 minutes ago, Doug Van Oort Sr said:

I really hope you did not find enjoyment in watching the Angels play like they did over the weekend in Houston. If you did, you have no idea what sports are all about.

Then you shouldn't watch sports at all because your team's chance to win it all is way below average.  Might as well cut your losses and watch Days of Our Lives.

[tdawg87]

3 minutes ago, Doug Van Oort Sr said:

I really hope you did not find enjoyment in watching the Angels play like they did over the weekend in Houston. If you did, you have no idea what sports are all about.

No, but I found enjoyment in the 6 game winning streak.

Also, what's this nonsense about "what sports are about"? It's a game. It's fun. If you don't have fun watching it then why would you even bother?

[kevinb]

Just now, Stradling said:

Ok I'll bite, where is that good place?

Del Taco Dana Point it's where all those type of shanigans go on especially after 11 at night 

[totdprods]

8 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Why do teams keep trading for Melvin Upton

Melvin has been dramatically better than our LFs the last two seasons

[Stradling]

I'd encourage you to watch the movie Ladybugs.  

[Homebrewer]

Thread hijack alert. Read the damn title.

Trade Deadline Thread

 

That or start a Lets meet and duke it out thread

[Stradling]

1 minute ago, tdawg87 said:

No, but I found enjoyment in the 6 game winning streak.

Also, what's this nonsense about "what sports are about"? It's a game. It's fun. If you don't have fun watching it then why would you even bother?

Claude, you were asked a question....

[Doug Van Oort Sr]

25 minutes ago, stormngt said:

What a dumb ass statement!  

Let me ask you if a team goes undefeated the entire season but gets upset the final game are they losers?

BTW I have 19 years experience coaching and scouting college and professional basketball.  So get off the "everybody" deselves a trophy bullshit 

Sports is all about playing hard and doing your best, if you lose the game you did not achieve your goal and that is to win. Yes, you can have the greatest season ever and lose in the world series, ask the players if they had a successful year. Most will tell you no, they did not reach the goal they set out to achieve, no one plays just to make it to the world series, except losers.

[kevinb]

1 minute ago, Homebrewer said:

Thread hijack alert. Read the damn title.

Trade Deadline Thread

 

That or start a Lets meet and duke it out thread

First rule of Let's meet and duke it out is we do not talk about the Let's meet and duke it out thread 

[mtangelsfan]

90% of all players are failures by your account.  Do you believe Mike Trout feels like a failure?

Oh, I guess that makes him a loser.

LOL

[Stradling]

1 minute ago, Doug Van Oort Sr said:

Sports is all about playing hard and doing your best, if you lose the game you did not achieve your goal and that is to win. Yes, you can have the greatest season ever and lose in the world series, ask the players if they had a successful year. Most will tell you no, they did not reach the goal they set out to achieve, no one plays just to make it to the world series, except losers.

But as a fan that is a ridiculous standard to go by.  You must love the Harlem Globtrotters.