LA Times: Arte Moreno and his Angels can't take the heat

[Docwaukee]

One of a reporters' jobs is to act as a liazon between the team and fans.  To make an attempt to express joy or frustration and anything in between. 

 

Simers writes to fuel his own end.  His intent is to elicit a potentially negative response.  To squeeze the lemon and see what kind of lemonade comes out.  Sometimes he gets something interesting from someone, but mostly it comes across as petulant and arrogant in nothing more than a shock jock sort of way. 

 

Trying to fish Arte out of the woodwork by insulting him hopefully won't work. 

[mulwin444]

Logged onto the board the was immediately hit with a whiff of manure...

 

found the source

 

Why people still take this guy seriously after all these years is baffling...

[tdawg87]

No, it was either the Angels overpay or they remain with their current teams for a team friendly deal. The Angels overpaid in both cases.

 

You must not have been following when Pujols was signed.

[Earnest Borgnine of 9]

You must not have been following when Pujols was signed.

OK, we'll just take our cues from you, next time, because you follow the story and we don't.

[YouthofToday]

Overpaid? They paid the market rate. The Marlins, allegedly, offered Boohols more yet weren't willing to give him a no trade clause.

[Hollyw00d]

Now we know why

[tomsred]

Sad how this works, we sign big name free agents and they under perform.  We don't sign big name free agents, and we're cheap and don't want to win.  A losing destiny awaits either way.

[HALOS23]

A reporter's job is to portray subjects in the most palatable way possible? 

 

To be fair, it's not just sports, the quality of reporting in the OC Register and LA Times is terrible these days.  Most local "news" is regurgitated press releases...

With the diminishing returns for newspapers and magazines... you can expect it to get worse. The San Diego U-T is awful now. What passes for journalism these days is not much better than Bleacher Report...

[mota_madness]

ouch that was a rough one to read.....  

[disarcina]

another cheap shot article by TJ Simers.

 

Look, Halos have been very disappointing last year and then this year.

 

But Arte still a good guy and great owner.....you can't say he's not spending the money in an effort to field a winning team.

 

Easy to dump on teams when things going poorly........I don't like the personal type shots Simers takes at Arte......oh well, he can write whatever he wants and he does so.

 

Rather than just take pot shots, a more constructive criticism approach as to why sign Hamilton to a huge dollar somewhat long term contract when other options available --and even if Hamilton were hitting .280 with a fair number of HRs, the deal still falls short for the money spent, probably in years 3 to 5.  Oh well.

 

Back to baseball for Anaheim Ducks fans tonight.......wanted to see a Ducks-Kings series. OH well there, too.

[VariousCrap]

The majority of the article is correct.

[tdawg87]

Did I just get transported back to the OMB circa 2003?

[fan_since79]

I won't say anything because I was warned not to.

 

Back to the topic at hand...it's Arte's money and he can do anything he wants with it.

[austin724]

Which type of owner would you prefer, one that spends the money to try and make their team better or one that counts pennies and is unwilling to increase payroll?

[tdawg87]

Which type of owner would you prefer, one that spends the money to try and make their team better or one that counts pennies and is unwilling to increase payroll?