Take a Look Back to When Scioscia Was Hired

[Dick B Back]

https://www.mlb.com/cut4/remembering-when-angels-hired-mike-scioscia/c-288954884

Trout in third grade...

 

[failos]

What a beautiful man

[GrittyVeterans]

He was still a big lasagna fan...not much has changed

[Dick B Back]

6 minutes ago, failos said:

What a beautiful man

What a beautiful hat!

[ten ocho recon scout]

7 hours ago, Dick B Back said:

https://www.mlb.com/cut4/remembering-when-angels-hired-mike-scioscia/c-288954884

Trout in third grade...

 

Ill end up summoning Vladdy with this, but thats back when people accused clinton of "wag the dog", suggesting that bin laden wasnt a real threat, and we only tried to kill him to distract everyone from lewinsky...

Think about how long ago that was.

Tim Salmon was somewhere around where trout is now, in terms of peak and youth.

I think Franky was the last guy of the 02 team to still play....hadnt even debuted yet.

[ten ocho recon scout]

Will this guy outlast Sosh?

[tdawg87]

1 minute ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

Will this guy outlast Sosh?

In what, a pie eating contest, or life?

[tdawg87]

That opening day lineup though

[ten ocho recon scout]

1 hour ago, tdawg87 said:

In what, a pie eating contest, or life?

Question. Did bartolo have to pay to get in to the contest?

[Kevin]

1 hour ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

Ill end up summoning Vladdy with this, but thats back when people accused clinton of "wag the dog", suggesting that bin laden wasnt a real threat, and we only tried to kill him to distract everyone from lewinsky...

Think about how long ago that was.

Tim Salmon was somewhere around where trout is now, in terms of peak and youth.

I think Franky was the last guy of the 02 team to still play....hadnt even debuted yet.

Seriously. They had just started to line the inside of the towers with explosives when this picture was taken. 

[tdawg87]

12 minutes ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

Question. Did bartolo have to pay to get in to the contest?

....no, Ocho. They just let him in.

[Puget Sound Angel]

Damn, he was even fat back then.

[ten ocho recon scout]

10 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

....no, Ocho. They just let him in.

Great! Great story!

[Blarg]

19 hours ago, failos said:

What a beautiful man

Wearing a terrible hat.

[Pujols4MVP]

If Scioscia leaves to go manage the Phillies (if they fired their manager knowing Scioscia wants to go to them) would people be even more worried about Trout leaving ?

Scioscia is from PA, a town only 2.8 miles from Philly, he'd be managing his home team.

[mulwin444]

2 hours ago, Scioscia4MVP said:

If Scioscia leaves to go manage the Phillies (if they fired their manager knowing Scioscia wants to go to them) would people be even more worried about Trout leaving ?

Scioscia is from PA, a town only 2.8 miles from Philly, he'd be managing his home team.

Gabe Kappler has them in 1st place in his first season as manager...they are not firing him for Scioscia even if he really wanted the job.

If he doesn't retire for good after this season, he'll likely take some time off.

[Pujols4MVP]

1 hour ago, mulwin444 said:

Gabe Kappler has them in 1st place in his first season as manager...they are not firing him for Scioscia even if he really wanted the job.

If he doesn't retire for good after this season, he'll likely take some time off.

Thats a relief. Unless of course Gabe Kappler gets struck by lightning or something lol.

[Billy_Ball]

[Pujols4MVP]

10 hours ago, Billy_Ball said:

The training staff did a better job back then. Players weren't dropping like flys onto the DL.

[Taylor]

11 hours ago, Billy_Ball said:

I have a lot of new players to add to the "Random Angel Players" thread.

[Dick B Back]

3 hours ago, Scioscia4MVP said:

The training staff did a better job back then. Players weren't dropping like flys onto the DL.

The roids could keep them on the field.

[Pujols4MVP]

6 hours ago, Dick B Back said:

The roids could keep them on the field.

Oh yeah the roids, completely forgot about it.

Was so obvious when guys like Eckstein were hitting Grand Slams in back to back games in 2002 or how AK hit 3 HRs in a ALCS game despite hitting only like 3 in the regular season, maybe AK started roids during the season & it didn't kick in until the ALCS.

Erstad's 2000 season was one hell of a spike in performance.

Fullmer was Roid Rage in that epic photo of him charging out of the dugout with scioscia trying to stop him.

[GrittyVeterans]

8 hours ago, Scioscia4MVP said:

Oh yeah the roids, completely forgot about it.

Was so obvious when guys like Eckstein were hitting Grand Slams in back to back games in 2002 or how AK hit 3 HRs in a ALCS game despite hitting only like 3 in the regular season, maybe AK started roids during the season & it didn't kick in until the ALCS.

Erstad's 2000 season was one hell of a spike in performance.

Fullmer was Roid Rage in that epic photo of him charging out of the dugout with scioscia trying to stop him.

Eckstein wasn’t on Roids lol, he was just a solid player who came up in the clutch

Fullmer, Glaus and Donnelly for sure were

[Kevin]

On 8/7/2018 at 3:51 AM, Billy_Ball said:

Coincidentally, that was the same look on GA's face when he was stopped in the parking lot of the golf pro shop by one of our very own fan boys looking for an autograph. 

[Pujols4MVP]

2 hours ago, Kevin said:

Coincidentally, that was the same look on GA's face when he was stopped in the parking lot of the golf pro shop by one of our very own fan boys looking for an autograph. 

They need to make a movie about the 2002 Angels.

GA to be played by Denzel Washington, Dean Cain as Tim Salmon, Jake Busey as Erstad, Tony Cox from Bad Santa as Figgins, Anthony LaPaglia as Scioscia, Luis Guzman as Bengie Molina, Peter Dinklage as Eckstein, the monkey from Outbreak as the Rally Monkey, Vince Vaughn as Fullmer, Ryan Eggold(is from OC) as Glaus, Matthew Lilliard(another OC actor) as Washburn, Will Ferrell(from Irvine) as Mickey Hatcher, Normal Reedus as Spiezio, michael mando as K-Rod, Kevin Costner as Percival, Jim Carey with lisp as AK. Diedrich Bader as Rex Hudler & David Spade as Steve Physioc.

For the Giants, Ving Rhames as Barry Bonds, Edward Norton as Rich Aurilla, Danny Trejo as Benito Santiago, Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Jeff Kent.