The Official Gerrit Cole (Please sign with the Angels) Thread

[kevinb]

5 hours ago, Stradling said:

No

Maybe

[jordan]

I missed this little exchange. Hmmm. Fletcher isn’t one to buttercup us. But I can’t imagine that Phil Hughes wouldn’t be saying more if he knew. This is probably a nothingburger. 

Edited December 9, 2019 by jordan

[failos]

[zenmaster]

I ate my pancakes, where's the news?

[CanadianHalo]

38 minutes ago, jordan said:

I missed this little exchange. Hmmm. Fletcher isn’t one to buttercup us. But I can’t imagine that Phil Hughes wouldn’t be saying more if he knew. This is probably a nothingburger. 

I think Hughes was having fun with it and Fletcher is playing along with Hughes with this particular exchange.

Even if Hughes knows he also knows it’s not his place to say anything and take this moment away from Cole

[Jason]

I think Jeff is correct. It comes down to were he wants to play. Thankfully we’ve seen players pass up larger contracts to play for certain teams. Hopefully that is what happens with Cole. Maybe Cole believes he can get the team out of their mediocrity hole? Maybe he doesn’t want to be responsible for that? Only he knows 

[Bronson]

[Jason]

 

Lol at this guy. Also, who is Coles?

[Bronson]

5 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Lol at this guy. Also, who is Coles?

Him and his wife I guess.

[Bronson]

So Gerrit Cole is moving to New York??

[Jason]

5 minutes ago, Bronson said:

Him and his wife I guess.

Haha! I missed “the”

[zenmaster]

12 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Lol at this guy. Also, who is Coles?

I thought we confirmed his account was hacked? Or he's just insane, one of the two.

[Jason]

Just now, zenmaster said:

I thought we confirmed his account was hacked? Or he's just insane, one of the two.

Drugs??

[Bronson]

Just now, zenmaster said:

I thought we confirmed his account was hacked? Or he's just insane, one of the two.

Probably just insane.... that or he’s in the early stages of a stroke... 

[totdprods]

It could just mean that Gerrit Cole isn't against living in NY and signing with the Yankees, and he's expressed that. Doesn't mean they have any more advantage, it just means he hasn't closed the door.

[T.G.]

This is some messed up crap, Fletch.

Edited December 9, 2019 by True Grich

[RallyMo]

Honest question: was there ever a time anybody on this board truly had a clue a decent amount of time ahead of the Angels dumping a shit ton of money on any particular player?

If you answer in the affirmative: F#%k Yu. You're lying.

[Stradling]

11 minutes ago, junkorama said:

Honest question: was there ever a time anybody on this board truly had a clue a decent amount of time ahead of the Angels dumping a shit ton of money on any particular player?

If you answer in the affirmative: F#%k Yu. You're lying.

Yes, one person on here let some of us know that Trout was going to sign an extension

[RallyMo]

22 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Yes, one person on here let some of us know that Trout was going to sign an extension

That is the absolute exception to the rule and I guess that I should have added the caveat that it didn't include Trout, especially after we'd all already seen him sign an extension with the Angels once before.

[Jay]

27 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Yes, one person on here let some of us know that Trout was going to sign an extension

That person had a 50-50 chance of being correct .

[Taylor]

15 hours ago, Jeff Fletcher said:

If he cares about other things (lifestyle, etc), the Angels have a shot. 

We do have plenty of alternative lifestyle options in SoCal.

[RallyMo]

7 minutes ago, calscuf said:

I’m sure this has made its way here, I’m not going to read through 30 pages to verify.

https://www.nj.com/yankees/2008/06/posada_set_to_go_today.html

”Cole is a lifelong Yankees fan. He was photographed at the 2001 World Series holding a sign that read, "Yankee Fan Today Tomorrow Forever."  He explained that his father grew up in Syracuse, N.Y., a Yankees fan "and he kind of passed it down." 

 

 

I'm not saying that they won't sign him, but this is the kind of idiocy that made it so hard for some Phillies fans to even comprehend the Trout extension. These guys get paaaaid. They can make whatever kind of life they want to for themselves,  anywhere, with the exception of proximity to family (and friends). Furthermore,  it's not like they usually aren't relatively immune to the feelings associated with distance from family by the time they are able to sign a big ass contract such as the one Cole will get.

[Taylor]

15 minutes ago, calscuf said:

I’m sure this has made its way here, I’m not going to read through 30 pages to verify.

https://www.nj.com/yankees/2008/06/posada_set_to_go_today.html

”Cole is a lifelong Yankees fan. He was photographed at the 2001 World Series holding a sign that read, "Yankee Fan Today Tomorrow Forever."  He explained that his father grew up in Syracuse, N.Y., a Yankees fan "and he kind of passed it down." 

This is an article from April 2. I believe Claude found it and got a three-quarter chub.

Thanks for sharing, craigscuf!

[bloodbrother]

39 minutes ago, calscuf said:

I’m sure this has made its way here, I’m not going to read through 30 pages to verify.

https://www.nj.com/yankees/2008/06/posada_set_to_go_today.html

”Cole is a lifelong Yankees fan. He was photographed at the 2001 World Series holding a sign that read, "Yankee Fan Today Tomorrow Forever."  He explained that his father grew up in Syracuse, N.Y., a Yankees fan "and he kind of passed it down." 

 

 

[Second Base]

Because allegiances at age 11 never shift. In high school I was wearing backward baby blue North Carolina Tar Heels hats. Now I mostly root for San Diego State or a Pac-12 squad, or any mid major entering the tournament. 

And as a child, while I was firmly an Angels fan first and foremost, there are pictures of me wearing a Yankees hat, as I was raised in a family that rooted for the Yankees.

Gerrit Cole's decision will have a lot more to do with 2020 than it does 2000.