Worst Halos decade

[Angel Oracle]

Which one is it?

[T.G.]

1950's when there wasn't any Angels baseball. 

[tdawg87]

The 1630's when the plague wiped out the entire infield.

[Roy Hobbs]

The 1990s. The only light in the end of that tunnel was late in the decade,when the nucleus of the 2002 team was forming.I was not happy when they hired Mike Scioscia, since he was a Dodger but it turned out to be one of the best moves by the front office.He brought a stability to the team it had never had.The Angels would go through managers like Tdawg through tissues.Love him or hate him he was good for the organization,Scioscia that is not Tdawg, although he might have been too.

[eaterfan]

I haven't been alive for all the choices. I became a fan in about '90 or '91 when I was in kindergarten. The 90s was when I was most into baseball but, man, were those teams bad!

Our best team was one that suffered one of the most epic collapses in baseball history. 

[Inside Pitch]

I'm going to go with the 90s -- Eater pretty much nailed it with his comment about the 95 team and then those Terry Collins teams were the most disappointing frustrating teams ever...   Dude ran those teams into the ground early every year and September was always a wasteland.    

1994 had to be the low point too.   Finished dead last in a division where NOBODY was over .500   

Edited April 24, 2019 by Inside Pitch

[m0nkey]

Only been alive for three of these decades and a fan for two of them, but I don't think it can be the 00's or 10's.  The 10's suck but they had that good/really good regular season 2014 and they've had Mike Trout this whole time.  

[failos]

Scioscia saved this franchise.

[Taylor]

1860s when half of the team died fighting the Confederates.

[ten ocho recon scout]

1 hour ago, tdawg87 said:

The 1630's when the plague wiped out the entire infield.

Pujols killed it that year.

[ten ocho recon scout]

Gotta be the 90s. Nice core team. Some angel legends on it..

But at least as bad as this decade has been, we had 2014. Before you laugh, think about it and compare it to the 90s.

[Tank]

no option for 1002?

i think that makes you an era-ist, AO. or maybe a decade-ist.

[Homebrewer]

90's is an easy call. Collins and Bavasi both resign in 1999 near the end of a 90+ loss season to end a mostly bad decade of baseball..

[ScottT]

4 hours ago, failos said:

Scioscia saved this franchise.

Amazing.

[failos]

2 minutes ago, ScottT said:

Amazing.

come at me bro

[m0nkey]

59 minutes ago, Tank said:

no option for 1002?

i think that makes you an era-ist, AO. or maybe a decade-ist.

thought it was 1012

[Tank]

35 minutes ago, m0nkey said:

thought it was 1012

close enough for government work.

[Blarg]

You guys are not old enough to understand just how bad the 70's Angels were. They were bottom feeders except for 1978 (Lyman Bostock murdered) and 1979 when they finally won the Western division.

Tanana and Ryan and 3 three days of cryin wasn't a joke it was years of futility. In 1974 the two of them pitched 81 games. About as many as Skaggs has pitched in his entire career and about 140 more innings. They ended up in last place.

Ever hear of a guy named Ellie Rodriguez? He caught 140 games that year. But nobody really remembers the guy because the team sucked bad even though he was a pretty decent hitting catcher that year. 

And that was the 70's for the most part. A few journeyman would have a good year but it went unrewarded because of how bad the rest of the supporting cast was. The Angels wasted the talents of the most dominant pitcher in the AL then closed out the decade by pissing him off and letting him walk. 

Fuck the 70's. 

[Angel Oracle]

It’s close for me between the 70s and 90s.

At least the 70s produced an AL West champ in 1979, while the 90s produced diddly squat.

Both decades saw the Halos contend only 3 times.

[NrM]

Rebuilding would consist of trading away our assets, which I don't remember us ever doing since Arte Moreno became owner.

[disarcina]

1990's Mo Vaughn/ Terry Collins melt down,

[Slegnaac]

1 hour ago, Blarg said:

You guys are not old enough to understand just how bad the 70's Angels were. They were bottom feeders except for 1978 (Lyman Bostock murdered) and 1979 when they finally won the Western division.

Tanana and Ryan and 3 three days of cryin wasn't a joke it was years of futility. In 1974 the two of them pitched 81 games. About as many as Skaggs has pitched in his entire career and about 140 more innings. They ended up in last place.

Ever hear of a guy named Ellie Rodriguez? He caught 140 games that year. But nobody really remembers the guy because the team sucked bad even though he was a pretty decent hitting catcher that year. 

And that was the 70's for the most part. A few journeyman would have a good year but it went unrewarded because of how bad the rest of the supporting cast was. The Angels wasted the talents of the most dominant pitcher in the AL then closed out the decade by pissing him off and letting him walk. 

F*ck the 70's. 

Chico Ruiz and Alex Johnson.

Lefty Phillips and Dick Walsh.

What a start to the decade. 

[Puget Sound Angel]

I became an Angels fan in '71. They would not make the playoffs till '79.

That's eight years of my childhood destroyed.

[AngelsHilo]

Fan since the 60's.  Knew nothing of the Angels till my fathers work associate in Los Angeles sent my brother and I Angel Jackets for Christmas.  For me EVERY decade has been a struggle.  But there was always hope that a better season was soon to happen.  This has kept me going as an Angel Fan.  Trades for Alex Johnson, Bill Singer, Ken McMullen.  Free Agents like Baylor, Grich, Rudi, and later Carew, DeCinces, Boone, and Reggie.  Yeah we haven't won as much as we should.  But I still love this Team.

[itsKnoppUitsme]

 I have been around since the 60s also. Though there was always  periods of futility and disappointment. To have  arguably the  best baseball player To have played this game  and just  continually trotting out teams  I would have to say this decade has been the most disappointing!