Now Maybin is out...

[DropOfAnaheim]

2 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Let me guess @DropOfAnaheim, you are one of those guys that remembers Scioscia batting Hamilton 4th in the playoffs in 2014.  

I remember him resting the team after clinching, and them being ice cold facing the Royals. 

[Lou]

still smells pretty sweet

 

 

Edited June 2, 2017 by Lou

[Inside Pitch]

3 minutes ago, DropOfAnaheim said:

I remember him resting the team after clinching, and them being ice cold facing the Royals. 

And if he had not rested them the criticism from arm chair types would have been that he didn't rest them before the playoffs and they were spent after chasing down the A's all year and using the bullpen in the 5 spot of the rotation.

Monday morning QBing is easy.

[Inside Pitch]

 

I think Lou has a theme going in his recent posts...    

[Inside Pitch]

2 hours ago, Tank said:

you'd think they would have learned their lesson after hiring buzzie jr. to be GM (or was it mike port?).

Bavasi -- Port went to Boston...

[DropOfAnaheim]

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Quinlan was available. Willits?

[Blarg]

3 hours ago, Tank said:

you can't put much stock in anything ANAHEIMEEYORE says here.

#onetrickdonkey

Fify

[Stradling]

12 minutes ago, DropOfAnaheim said:

Quinlan was available. Willits?

In left field?  No thanks.  

[Ohtaniland]

52 minutes ago, Inside Pitch said:

God you are dense..  

You want to use the fact that 5 GMs traded him away to validate your ignorant narrative  Meanwhile you ignore the fact that 5 GMs traded for him.   Your own process renders your argument null ... a fact made even more clear when you consider three of the GMs that traded him away -- also traded FOR him. 

 

 

Well if you feel that strongly about Maybin that you would personally attack another poster which is something I never do just vote for him and be done with it. There's nothing here stopping you.

 

[Inside Pitch]

 

22 minutes ago, DropOfAnaheim said:

Quinlan was available. Willits?

The only time Willits came into the game batting fourth before the 8th inning was in the 7th inning of a 0-14 blowout.    I don't know of anyone stupid enough to opt for Quinlan over Willits as a defensive replacement.

 

[Inside Pitch]

9 minutes ago, CALZONE said:

Well if you feel that strong about Maybin don't forget to vote for him.

You first.

 

[DropOfAnaheim]

9 minutes ago, Inside Pitch said:

 

The only time Willits came into the game batting fourth before the 8th inning was in the 7th inning of a 0-14 blowout.    I don't know of anyone stupid enough to opt for Quinlan over Willits as a defensive replacement.

 

So defense mattered more than power, when the team could not get any offense going? Let's agree to disagree.

[nando714]

Maybin farted and strained an oblique 

[Lou]

22 minutes ago, CALZONE said:

Well if you feel that strongly about Maybin that you would personally attack another poster which is something I never do just vote for him and be done with it. 

Did CALZONE just go to the "if you love him so much why don't you marry him?" card? 

[IEAngelsfan]

57 minutes ago, Inside Pitch said:

 

I think Lou has a theme going in his recent posts...    

That Lou enjoys smelling farts?

[Inside Pitch]

8 minutes ago, IEAngelsfan said:

That Lou enjoys smelling farts?

Everyone likes their own brand..    

[Inside Pitch]

42 minutes ago, DropOfAnaheim said:

So defense mattered more than power, when the team could not get any offense going? Let's agree to disagree.

if you looked at the game logs -- you'd realize how truly moronic your entire argument is.    

Basically, you said MS batted him fourth..    He never did..  Not once.   Never in his entire life as a MLB player did Willits get a start as the cleanup hitter like you claimed.  He did get into 26 games where he would have batted fourth, but failed to get at bats in most of them because he came in as a defensive replacement when the team ahead.   The one time he entered the game before the 8th inning, the team was getting blown out 14-0.

You can move the goalposts all you want, you can cling to your beliefs all you want...  but to continue to argue your original point had merit is a fools errand.

[DropOfAnaheim]

Quin for the Win. 

[stormngt]

1 hour ago, Stradling said:

The whole big payroll thing is stupid.  It isn't Scioscia spending the money on the wrong players.  If you have very little pitching, very little depth and very one dimensional players, I am not sure what a manager is supposed to do, regardless of what the GM and owner spent.  I have no idea if he is stale in the playoffs, he hasn't had a good enough team to make the playoffs consistently in 5 years.  

Big payroll is a stupid argument.  25 million of that payroll went to Hamilton....who the owner dumped.

[DropOfAnaheim]

A lead off double by Morales in the 2008 ALDS. 3 outs to play with. Sacrifice him over. You then ask Aybar to pull off what he has never done before. Aybar and Willits failed to execute. You can also argue that Mike gift wrapped the Red Sox a series win. 

[Blarg]

Aybar led the Angels team in sacrifice bunts in 2008. 

[DropOfAnaheim]

6 minutes ago, Blarg said:

Aybar led the Angels team in sacrifice bunts in 2008. 

From the left side of the plate? On a 2-0 count? After Aybar won game three on a single? 

[Tank]

5 hours ago, DropOfAnaheim said:

Batting Willits clean up. 

wow, talk about cherry-picking a stat to serve an erroneous position. you forgot all about GA having an eye infection and willits being a replacement, didn't you?

[DropOfAnaheim]

Starting Marte and leaving Alvarez in.

[Tank]

you know, at some point the players have to perform. i know that doesn't fit your narrative, but it's still a reality.