Ohtani's Career Crossroads

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

The part about being the closer and still playing a position DH or 1B, sounds like "Back the Truck Up" reincarnated...

[WeatherWonk]

This guy's gotta be from the Bay Area. He's come across Bear's long-lost, secret stash! 

FAR OUT, MAN !!!!

[Tank]

38 minutes ago, IEAngelsfan said:

this gif sucks.

[tdawg87]

18 minutes ago, Tank said:

this gif sucks.

He didn't really kermit to his post.

[Lou]

1 minute ago, tdawg87 said:

He didn't really kermit to his post.

[IEAngelsfan]

52 minutes ago, Tank said:

this gif sucks.

Amphibianist.

[Lou]

One of the ways you can tell a male frog from a female is by looking at their ears.

A frog’s ear is called tympanum and it is located just behind the eye. If the tympanum is larger than the frog’s eye, it is male; if it is smaller, it is female.

[tdawg87]

1 hour ago, Lou said:

One of the ways you can tell a male frog from a female is by looking at their ears.

A frog’s ear is called tympanum and it is located just behind the eye. If the tympanum is larger than the frog’s eye, it is male; if it is smaller, it is female.

Shut the F*ck up.

[Lou]

A frog sheds its skin once a week, and after it takes off the old, dead skin, the frog will typically eat it.

[Angel Oracle]

I think the OP lost everyone at Blash.

[Angel Oracle]

1 hour ago, Lou said:

A frog sheds its skin once a week, and after it takes off the old, dead skin, the frog will typically eat it.

Isn’t that like a Blash swing?

[GrittyVeterans]

Why has this guy not been banned lol

[zenmaster]

Well aren't you a ray of sunshine?

[Dick B Back]

17 hours ago, Memories of 02 said:

If the Angels insist on making a starter out of Ohtani, he will go the way of Richards. In and out ot the DL. In and out of hospitals. He will be on the DL. He will have multiple surgeries and he will eventually likely opt for career threatening Tommy John surgery in the end. If he does this, he will end up like Richards. He will be largely ineffective, and lose literally years of playing time. Pitchers who rely on their FB,  as their main pitch, like Richards and Ohtani, lose an average of 5 to 7 mph off of their heaters, after TJ, and become quite ordinary.

 Even if the Angels decide to go to a 6 man rotation, Ohtani, with his delivery could not handle a 140 inning workload, and will eventually succumb to endless injuries, on his way to the last resort of TJS.

There is an answer to all this. A way to save the Ohtani arm and shoot a bolt of lightning into the Angel attack.

1, Ohtani becomes the Angel closer. This gives him a max of 70 IP's a year, and that 98 to 100 mph heater insuring Angel late inning V's. It's like money in the bank.

2. Ohtani also becomes the Angels every day first baseman.

This leaves a future thunderbolt of a first 7 in the batting order, (if they are played every day, and given patience, patience, patience), plus the best closer in the bigs.

1. Simmons SS

2. Ward 3B

3. Trout CF

4. Ohtani 1B

5. Upton LF

6. Blash RF

7. Fletcher 2B

This lineup, if not deviated from in any way, will have the Angels in the playoffs in 2019. Yes, even with the Astros and A's in your same division.

It's a win win.The beautiful, part of it is that no more deals are at all necessary. What is necessary is what Astro management had, when they put a team of young players that they believed sincerely in, on their way to a World Championship, on the field, that was the laughing stock and worst team in baseball for three years running. The A's did an Astro replay, right out of their playbook.

Patience, Patience, Patience is the necessary ingredient. The ability to lose, in order to win.

 

Blash...

[Blarg]

1 hour ago, GrittyVeterans said:

Why has this guy not been banned lol

Well, we kind of like Lou so we put up with his frog obsession.

[fanfromday1]

11 hours ago, Lou said:

One of the ways you can tell a male frog from a female is by looking at their ears.

A frog’s ear is called tympanum and it is located just behind the eye. If the tympanum is larger than the frog’s eye, it is male; if it is smaller, it is female.

Lou, it's kind of the same way with humans. If the breasts are larger, then it's probably female. Just an FYI.

[tdawg87]

4 hours ago, Blarg said:

Well, we kind of like Lou so we put up with his frog obsession.

Why is he obsessed with the French?

[Blarg]

He likes armpit hair?

[Blarg]

2 hours ago, fanfromday1 said:

Lou, it's kind of the same way with humans. If the breasts are larger, then it's probably female. Just an FYI.

Never been to an Angelswin softball tournament. 

[tdawg87]

1 hour ago, Blarg said:

He likes armpit hair?

Didn't know he was a lib.

[Slegnaac]

5 hours ago, fanfromday1 said:

Lou, it's kind of the same way with humans. If the breasts are larger, then it's probably female. Just an FYI.

Mammaries, light the corners of my mind. 

Misty water-colored Mammaries of 2002.

[Stradling]

12 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

I think the OP lost everyone at Blash.

He lost me WAY before any mention of Blash.  I didn’t even get to the Blash part.