Cole was never going to come to the Angels.

[nando714]

And Jacob DeGrom should have waited

137Mil seems cheap 

[ten ocho recon scout]

5 hours ago, Angels_Fan said:

So, barring a collapse on his part, 10/360 is almost guaranteed. Ya, he chose the Yankees because of the years/$. No other team came even close to that. 

Arte is cheap!

Am i reading that correct, by the way? If cole opts out, the yankees can opt out of his opt out?

[Lou]

21 minutes ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

Arte is cheap!

Am i reading that correct, by the way? If cole opts out, the yankees can opt out of his opt out?

[GregAlso]

7 hours ago, Jeff Fletcher said:

When I talked to him at the All-Star Game he was asking me a bunch of questions about the Angels future, their prospects, whether they’d re-sign Simmons. He told me he remembered his days going to Angels games and hoped to see the franchise once again be good.

I never believed it was a slam dunk that he’d sign with the Angels, but I always believed they had a significant chance. 
 

I am sure he had legitimate interest in the Angels, but if the Yankees offer the most money and offer the best chance at the WS, it’s understandable 

I thought I read that the Dodgers weren’t given a chance to counter offer the Yankees winning bid. Does anyone know if that’s true? I wonder if Cole considered the Angels and Dodgers but all things being equal in their offers he preferred the Yankees for reasons beyond the fact they had a better chance to win the WS? It just seems like keeping that sign is a little crazy if you really didn’t like the team a lot. It appears from the outside like he wanted a great contract and once the team he preferred offered it to him it didn’t really matter what the other teams offered that was gonna be good enough. Just my thoughts. 

[arch stanton]

It's not the same sign. Maybe he kept the original but that's not it

[Lou]

4 minutes ago, arch stanton said:

It's not the same sign. Maybe he kept the original but that's not it

we know that

[arch stanton]

8 minutes ago, Lou said:

we know that

Did you read the post above mine?

[Lou]

1 minute ago, arch stanton said:

Did you read the post above mine?

obviously not.

 

damnit!

[GregAlso]

2 hours ago, arch stanton said:

It's not the same sign. Maybe he kept the original but that's not it

Ah, I didn’t watch the presser and just assumed. I assumed the difference in look had to do with age.

[Pancake Bear]

44 minutes ago, GregAlso said:

Ah, I didn’t watch the presser and just assumed. I assumed the difference in look had to do with age.

He’s just screwing with you. It is the same sign. There’s a few conspiracy theorists who think it isn’t, but it is. Not that it matters especially.  

[Bronson]

Gerrit Cole was just about as much of an Angels fan as this guy....

 

 

[wopphil]

Cole will cost the Yankees so much more than his salary, given the luxury tax implications. He is a big gamble for them. I hope he sucks and clogs their payroll for years to come.

[zenmaster]

Maybe his beard was magical and now he will suck?

[failos]

He’s a c*nt. Through and through. I remember guys like him in high school: absolute douche nozzles that would root for the Yankees while giving me a hard time for loving the Angels. Hope he pitches for the Sugarland Skeeters in 5 years.

[Brandon]

On 12/18/2019 at 8:22 AM, halonatic13 said:

 

 

 

[yk9001]

Pretty good, Bill Barnwell.  Pretty, pretty good.

[Betsy Tarr]

Hi guys - sorry to butt in, Yankees fan here.

I just wanted to say a couple of things. One, even though it seems the Angels beat the pants off of us a decade ago, I'm rooting for them - my loathing of the Astros is almost reaching Red Sox proportions, for obvious reasons. Billy Eppler did a fine job  when he was with the Yankees - I hope he does well.

Regarding Cole, that's the real sign. There was actually a controversy in NY right after the press conference - twitter, all over sports radio, etc... - with people claiming that sign wasn't the real thing.  Cole kept the sign for years and then it went in the closet as it was aging and needed to be preserved. He didn't even know his parents still had it, lol.  You can see the faded pinstripes - and, as people have mentioned, if he were going to fake the sign, why would he not use the original blue letters? Those faded into gold with time.

Cole said in his press conference that he instructed Boras to contact Brian Cashman to try and get this done. That doesn't surprise me, he has been a Yankees fan all his life; he told stories of  running home and watching games that were on at 4 pm - and of course we know he went to the 2001 WS.  He did go to Angels games - and I have no doubt he rooted for them to win when he went.  I don't think the Dodgers had a real chance - it is true that they weren't given a chance to match/up the bid, which IMO they would have done.  It seems the Angels bowed out before that.  I think both CA teams had a shot, but I think both were always behind the eight ball. If you saw Cole's press conference, you could truly see how much being a Yankee meant to him. Oh and he's not one of "those" fans - he's up on Yankee history, etc..

I kind of think the Angels made out ok anyway as I'm not sure even Cole would have been enough to make them WS contenders. With the Yankees, they needed him to help get them over the top.

Good luck to the Halos in 2020!

[Claude]

[Lou]

59 minutes ago, Betsy Tarr said:

Hi guys - sorry to butt in, Yankees fan here.

I just wanted to say a couple of things. One, even though it seems the Angels beat the pants off of us a decade ago, I'm rooting for them - my loathing of the Astros is almost reaching Red Sox proportions, for obvious reasons. Billy Eppler did a fine job  when he was with the Yankees - I hope he does well.

Regarding Cole, that's the real sign. There was actually a controversy in NY right after the press conference - twitter, all over sports radio, etc... - with people claiming that sign wasn't the real thing.  Cole kept the sign for years and then it went in the closet as it was aging and needed to be preserved. He didn't even know his parents still had it, lol.  You can see the faded pinstripes - and, as people have mentioned, if he were going to fake the sign, why would he not use the original blue letters? Those faded into gold with time.

Cole said in his press conference that he instructed Boras to contact Brian Cashman to try and get this done. That doesn't surprise me, he has been a Yankees fan all his life; he told stories of  running home and watching games that were on at 4 pm - and of course we know he went to the 2001 WS.  He did go to Angels games - and I have no doubt he rooted for them to win when he went.  I don't think the Dodgers had a real chance - it is true that they weren't given a chance to match/up the bid, which IMO they would have done.  It seems the Angels bowed out before that.  I think both CA teams had a shot, but I think both were always behind the eight ball. If you saw Cole's press conference, you could truly see how much being a Yankee meant to him. Oh and he's not one of "those" fans - he's up on Yankee history, etc..

I kind of think the Angels made out ok anyway as I'm not sure even Cole would have been enough to make them WS contenders. With the Yankees, they needed him to help get them over the top.

Good luck to the Halos in 2020!

blah, blah, blah . . . 

he signed with the yankees because they offered him $324 Million.

That's it. 

[Bronson]

1 hour ago, Betsy Tarr said:

Hi guys - sorry to butt in, Yankees fan here.

I just wanted to say a couple of things. One, even though it seems the Angels beat the pants off of us a decade ago, I'm rooting for them - my loathing of the Astros is almost reaching Red Sox proportions, for obvious reasons. Billy Eppler did a fine job  when he was with the Yankees - I hope he does well.

Regarding Cole, that's the real sign. There was actually a controversy in NY right after the press conference - twitter, all over sports radio, etc... - with people claiming that sign wasn't the real thing.  Cole kept the sign for years and then it went in the closet as it was aging and needed to be preserved. He didn't even know his parents still had it, lol.  You can see the faded pinstripes - and, as people have mentioned, if he were going to fake the sign, why would he not use the original blue letters? Those faded into gold with time.

Cole said in his press conference that he instructed Boras to contact Brian Cashman to try and get this done. That doesn't surprise me, he has been a Yankees fan all his life; he told stories of  running home and watching games that were on at 4 pm - and of course we know he went to the 2001 WS.  He did go to Angels games - and I have no doubt he rooted for them to win when he went.  I don't think the Dodgers had a real chance - it is true that they weren't given a chance to match/up the bid, which IMO they would have done.  It seems the Angels bowed out before that.  I think both CA teams had a shot, but I think both were always behind the eight ball. If you saw Cole's press conference, you could truly see how much being a Yankee meant to him. Oh and he's not one of "those" fans - he's up on Yankee history, etc..

I kind of think the Angels made out ok anyway as I'm not sure even Cole would have been enough to make them WS contenders. With the Yankees, they needed him to help get them over the top.

Good luck to the Halos in 2020!

 

 

Arte was definitely wanted to get Cole and Rendon. Seemed to me Arte loved Rendon and was getting him no matter what. No doubt in my mind Arte would have gotten both of them if he accepted our offer.

[Bronson]

30 minutes ago, calscuf said:

Oh, go stick it up your ass.

Damn. Harsh.

[ten ocho recon scout]

On 12/19/2019 at 1:28 AM, Bronson said:

Gerrit Cole was just about as much of an Angels fan as this guy....

 

 

Dude, yella boy was a huge, huge rob wilfong guy.

[ten ocho recon scout]

On 12/19/2019 at 10:21 AM, Brandon said:

 

 

Took me a second, because im an idiot. 

Bravo.

[Betsy Tarr]

2 hours ago, Bronson said:

Damn. Harsh.

I'm a bit shocked, lol, but...ok, I don't know what his problem is. I was just trying to explain the situation from the other side, but........Merry Christmas anyway.

[Bronson]

22 minutes ago, Betsy Tarr said:

I'm a bit shocked, lol, but...ok, I don't know what his problem is. I was just trying to explain the situation from the other side, but........Merry Christmas anyway.

You don’t have to leave. People here are just kinda on edge from us whiffing on the pitching market.

 

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