Add Buster Olney to a long list of idiotic baseball writers

[Blarg]

Chuck, you should start some Twitter speculation as to where Buster Olney's wife will be in two years. 

[Chuck]

40 minutes ago, Blarg said:

Chuck, you should start some Twitter speculation as to where Buster Olney's wife will be in two years. 

[Ray McKigney]

5 hours ago, wopphil said:

Why "imagine" a Trout/Harper combo when we can actually watch an even better Trout/Ohtani combo?

He's a wop genius. 

[AngelsLakersFan]

5 hours ago, Stradling said:

Adell

Trout

Ohtani

This team is about to get really good. I hope Mike is interested in winning...

[AngelsLakersFan]

6 hours ago, wopphil said:

Why "imagine" a Trout/Harper combo when we can actually watch an even better Trout/Ohtani combo?

Great point. The Angels with Trout are going to continue to be better than the Phillies with Trout are going to be.

[floplag]

The worst part about all this speculation, is that not one of them are even considering any Angels lineups with him.   I didnt see one of these people suggest the Halos do anything to put a pair like that together.  They've given up on us trying to do anything worse than i have.  

[Pancake Bear]

It is a fact universally regarded to be true among national journalists that all superstars belong on a few big name, big market teams. Nothing is more revolting than a superstar on a small market or less storied team. I’m the opposite. If the Yankees, Sox, Dodgers, Cubs, etc. all sucked for decades, I’d be all for it. 

[rottiesworld]

I wish Moreno would open his wallet and get Harper and extend Trout and Philly can kiss our ass and they end up with no big free agents.

[Tank]

10 hours ago, Inside Pitch said:

I couldn't help but think how annoying it had to be for Trout to spend the entire offseason answering those questions or how little privacy he would actually have if he moved back East and then everyone thought they were entitled to even more access to him.  

hopefully that'll be a factor that helps push him towards staying here with the halos.

[Pancake Bear]

4 hours ago, rottiesworld said:

I wish Moreno would open his wallet and get Harper and extend Trout and Philly can kiss our ass and they end up with no big free agents.

[Dtwncbad]

If Olney wants to fantasize about Trout and Harper in the same lineup because one of them may want to play close to home, why isn't he tweeting about how cool it would be if Harper just signed with the Angels right now?

[yk9001]

Has any angelswin poster posted about a soon-to-be free agent player on another team coming to the Angels?  While still under contract with another team?

[red321]

16 hours ago, Jay said:

Please don't add me to the list of AW goofballs who get all spun up over a tweet.

 

The Richter List? 

[Dtwncbad]

11 minutes ago, yk9001 said:

Has any angelswin poster posted about a soon-to-be free agent player on another team coming to the Angels?  While still under contract with another team?

I would hope people would expect a different standard, a different level of objectivity, a different level of sensible speculation, and a different level of unbias from a professional writer than from a random fan on a message board.

I am not bothered by Olneys tweet.  It is just very revealing.

I think it is lazy and sort of weird from someone in his position.

[eligrba]

23 minutes ago, yk9001 said:

Has any angelswin poster posted about a soon-to-be free agent player on another team coming to the Angels?  While still under contract with another team?

Are you excluding all of the posts identifying the free agents the Angels should sign in 2020?

cough....Arenado....cough

[Vegas Halo Fan]

15 hours ago, floplag said:

The worst part about all this speculation, is that not one of them are even considering any Angels lineups with him.  

That's because it isn't as intriguing for readers to speculate about a superstar player staying put, just like everyone is all wound up about where Bryce Harper is going to sign. I would like to see him re-sign with Washington, just to poke a hole in all of the things that have been conjured up by sportswriters in this whole process.

[m0nkey]

I like the tweet because he puts Hoskins in the same category as Trout and Harper

[floplag]

34 minutes ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

That's because it isn't as intriguing for readers to speculate about a superstar player staying put, just like everyone is all wound up about where Bryce Harper is going to sign. I would like to see him re-sign with Washington, just to poke a hole in all of the things that have been conjured up by sportswriters in this whole process.

it would be to me

[Dtwncbad]

"Dodgers are in on Harper now.  With a possible 10 years deal being discussed, imagine that 2027 lineup with Royce Lewis signing with hometown Dodgers."

--Buster Olney