Gameday Thread: 5/20 Rays @ Angels. Pujols off-day. Trout DH

[beatlesrule]

I love 2 players of the game.

[fan_since79]

No sweep today!! Moral victory. 

Crawling back from the abyss. Season not over.

[eligrba4ever]

LIGHT IT UP!!! SHO-TIME!!

[failos]

shohei has the voice of an Angel

[Dick B Back]

Strad!

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

1 minute ago, failos said:

is alex curry going to interview shohei

yes

[Angelsfirst]

Nice to get back in the win column. Another nice start from Shohei. Light it.

[nando714]

hey look 

110 pitches and his arm is still attached 

[eligrba4ever]

The online viewers haven't seen much of Alex in the past week.  

Somebody appreciates Koleman, even if he's not on the message board.

[Angels#1Fan]

If you go back and read the beginning of this thread there's an awful lot of whining about Ohtani's pitching and the fact that the game was over when it was 1-0.

Great game by Ohtani and the Angel offense scored enough to win and that's all that matters.

[aznhockeyguy]

Trout basically said F*ck it and said he was gonna score by himself after he got on base.  He should do that more often.

[Angels#1Fan]

Just a thought.

I really used to enjoy the gameday thread but the excessive whining and the fire Scioscia rants are making it less fun to participate.

[TM3]

Great effort today by the Angels.  This game had a different feel than the others, you could tell everybody really wanted the win. Trout was amazing, Kole made a huge difference with the dive and the walk.  Bullpen came through!

[eligrba4ever]

3 minutes ago, Angels#1Fan said:

If you go back and read the beginning of this thread there's an awful lot of whining about Ohtani's pitching and the fact that the game was over when it was 1-0.

Great game by Ohtani and the Angel offense scored enough to win and that's all that matters.

It was a 5-game losing streak and a bad week. THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS.  It's over, let it go. Like that show in the early 1960s.

[Stradling]

1 minute ago, Angels#1Fan said:

Just a thought.

I really used to enjoy the gameday thread but the excessive whining and the fire Scioscia rants are making it less fun to participate.

Yep, and I wasn’t even here to tell them they were bitches.  

[Angels#1Fan]

Just now, eligrba4ever said:

It was a 5-game losing streak and a bad week. THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS.  It's over, let it go. Like that show in the early 1960s.

Was that hosted by Edward R Murrow?

[eligrba4ever]

Just now, Angels#1Fan said:

Was that hosted by Edward R Murrow?

David Frost and some other comics. Beautiful blonde singer belted out the theme song.. Version of a British show,.

[Angels#1Fan]

Just now, eligrba4ever said:

David Frost and some other comics. Beautiful blonde singer belted out the theme song.. Version of a British show,.

I think some of the members here would be better off booking a ride on the Love Boat. lol

[Angels#1Fan]

2 minutes ago, eligrba4ever said:

David Frost and some other comics. Beautiful blonde singer belted out the theme song.. Version of a British show,.

I think the singer was Millicent Martin.

[eligrba4ever]

8 minutes ago, Angels#1Fan said:

I think the singer was Millicent Martin.

The American show featured the singer Nancy Ames. Martin sang the British version.

[stormngt]

2 hours ago, IheartLA said:

fair point, Ohtani is good no doubt

but his splitter is A+, his fastball has been disappointing

I tend to look more so at fangraphs/analytics and their analysis - I agree that Ohtani is a good pitcher with good stuff but his fastball doesn't rise as much as anticipated so it's not a Kimbrel/Chapman FB where it will eat hitters up. It needs to be located in the corners.

Dont be enslaved to quantitative analysis.

There are more to stars than just raw numbers.

[Angels#1Fan]

4 minutes ago, eligrba4ever said:

The American show featured the singer Nancy Ames. Martin sang the British version.

When I was a kid I had a thing for Ms. Martin. lol

[Glen]

25 minutes ago, Angels#1Fan said:

Just a thought.

I really used to enjoy the gameday thread but the excessive whining and the fire Scioscia rants are making it less fun to participate.

 

[IheartLA]

5 minutes ago, stormngt said:

Dont be enslaved to quantitative analysis.

There are more to stars than just raw numbers.

fair point but my dream job when I was in university was to work for baseball prospectus. I have all the editions dating back to 2004, it's the one book I buy every year. I worked as a CPA for PWC before moving to the finance sector where I currently work today. If an opportunity were to come up where I could work for a baseball analytics department and still make ~ my salary + live in Southern California (the hard part) I would jump all over it.

[Lou]

31 minutes ago, Waybackman said:

Finally. Our long national nightmare is over.

It's just like the Iran Hostage crisis all over again.

Thanks, Reagan!

 

 

and Ohtani.