This is a PATHETIC baseball team!

[BESCFAN]

Absolutely no fight in this team whatsoever.  Massive leadership void!  Complete waste of talent.  MS should retire to spare the players and fans another year of this garbage...

[Taylor]

A+ post. So many intriguing angles that I had never considered. My baseball knowledge and wisdom have increased.

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

Did AO self ban and create another user name?  

[GrittyVeterans]

MS shouldn't need to retire for that to be solved. They should thank him for his services but tell them they are moving on.

Over the past 10 years, this team has made a lot of decisions that just don't make any sense though. So maybe you are right. Best just not to question it at this point.

[BESCFAN]

17 minutes ago, Taylor said:

A+ post. So many intriguing angles that I had never considered. My baseball knowledge and wisdom have increased.

The problem with many Angel fans is that mediocrity has gone from being accepted to expected...There is no excuse for the mediocre product they have provided for years now considering the payroll and resources this team has had available to them.  It's a lack of leadership and direction.  Team is flat and as soft as a roll of Charmin from top to bottom.  

[failos]

what will your brilliant solution be when the new manager starts losing too?

[Adam]

If we had Madden, Akeel Morris would have 27 Saves

[BESCFAN]

9 minutes ago, failos said:

what will your brilliant solution be when the new manager starts losing too?

The Angels haven't won a playoff game in 9+ years so I guess this mediocre baseball is okay with you.  Take a page from the Red Sox upper management who recognized a leadership void (Francona who won titles in 2004 and 2007) and made a manager change only to go on and win a World Series in 2013.  The Angels have been stuck in neutral for quite some time now under Scioscia regardless of who the players/GM are.  During this decade-long drought the Angels have enjoyed a top 4-7 payroll.  I guess the Angels should stick with what is obviously not working...

[Stradling]

3 minutes ago, BESCFAN said:

The Angels haven't won a playoff game in 9+ years so I guess this mediocre baseball is okay with you.  Take a page from the Red Sox upper management who recognized a leadership void (Francona who won titles in 2004 and 2007) and made a manager change only to go on and win a World Series in 2013.  The Angels have been stuck in neutral for quite some time now under Scioscia regardless of who the players/GM are.  During this decade-long drought the Angels have enjoyed a top 4-7 payroll.  I guess the Angels should stick with what is obviously not working...

No we’ve just seen one trick blowhard members for the last 14 years around here and we all know how it ends.  Enjoy this place while it lasts.  

[WeatherWonk]

Since when did our players start wearing jerseys with Marlins, Orioles, White Sox, Mets, Reds, Rangers on them. THOSE are pathetic teams.

We are merely mediocre.

There's really not THAT much PROVEN talent on this team. There's Trout, Simmons and occasionally Upton. There's Maldonado. And then there's Skaggs.

Who else?

Some might say we have actually OVERACHIEVED so far........................

You know what's gonna really suck. If Simmons follows Trout out the door for the same reason. They want a chance at winning baseball. At winning playoff games.

Imagine this team without Trout and Simmons. Why watch?

[Blarg]

43 minutes ago, BESCFAN said:

Absolutely no fight in this team whatsoever.  Massive leadership void!  Complete waste of talent.  MS should retire to spare the players and fans another year of this garbage...

You seem to have only one subject that you want to talk about. That wears thin here very fast. 

[BESCFAN]

When Trout leaves Arte is going to see attendance plummet...  Trout would be an idiot to stay with the Angels if they don't make some serious changes (manager to start) and start playing competitive baseball on a regular basis.  

[Taylor]

[Dick B Back]

[Stradling]

18 minutes ago, artesmustache said:

Trade Trout and Simmons to rejuvenate the organization with high ceiling prospects. 

Kinsler can probably be flipped at some point this year = Fletcher starting 2B

Richards, Maldonado, Parker could bring back more prospects

Get it started this year.

No

[UndertheHalo]

It’s always amusing when some dude fu*cking watching on tv questions the “fight” in the team. 

Definitley the problem.  They’re not trying hard enough.  Maybe you should send the Angels a letter detailing this brilliant psycho analysis that has been unseen by the Angels management. 

[Taylor]

22 minutes ago, artesmustache said:

Trade Trout and Simmons to rejuvenate the organization with high ceiling prospects. 

Kinsler can probably be flipped at some point this year = Fletcher starting 2B

Richards, Maldonado, Parker could bring back more prospects

Get it started this year.

lol

You want the Angels to become the A's.

[ten ocho recon scout]

55 minutes ago, BESCFAN said:

The Angels haven't won a playoff game in 9+ years 

Theyve only appeared in 3.

Sosh will be gone after this year. If the identical roster returns next year, we will still be screwed.

For all the sosh haters, hes coached the best player in baseball his whole career...just as sosh has zero to do with trouts success, sosh also isnt forcing the pen to suck.

[zenmaster]

48 minutes ago, artesmustache said:

Trade Trout and Simmons to rejuvenate the organization with high ceiling prospects. 

Kinsler can probably be flipped at some point this year = Fletcher starting 2B

Richards, Maldonado, Parker could bring back more prospects

Get it started this year.

This is a backthetruckup post if I ever saw one. Has he been banned yet or is he around?

[Mark68]

26 minutes ago, Taylor said:

lol

You want the Angels to become the A's.

We're about to be looking up at the A's.

 

So...yes?

[laagamer]

I see a teenager just got his first laptop and internet access...

[tdawg87]

This forum has made me hate existence and I no longer wish to partake in the human condition. 

Please burn my body and send my ashes directly into the sun.

[tdawg87]

I'm going to sit in the dark and think about how much I hate you shitheads.

[tdawg87]

F*ck

[Stradling]

@tdawg87 this place is a free abortion clinic in the hood when the team under performs.  We have new dudes who are ridiculous.  We have old dudes wanting to trade generational talent so we can turn into the Astros and we have the normal negative trolls liking both posts.  It really is disgusting.  Chuck needs to start caring about people shitting on his couch again.  Until then you get to deal with this crap along with all of the crap we deal with when we are playing well.  Fucking quitters.