Heyman: Angels have decided to keep Shohei Ohtani

[Inside Pitch]

10 hours ago, Chuckster70 said:

I put a bee in Heyman's bonnet. 

 

Has he blocked you yet?

He's the biggest lightweight on Twitter.

[Chuck]

1 hour ago, Inside Pitch said:

Has he blocked you yet?

He's the biggest lightweight on Twitter.

Shockingly not yet. lol

Your Mike Trout post in this thread inspired me to take it to another level and RT with a list of items that I'm sure Jon has broke news on in the past. lol

[Dtwncbad]

12 hours ago, Chuckster70 said:

I put a bee in Heyman's bonnet. 

 

At least you have your own material.

[Dtwncbad]

14 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

Shockingly not yet. lol

Your Mike Trout post in this thread inspired me to take it to another level and RT with a list of items that I'm sure Jon has broke news on in the past. lol

Chuckster70 has determined he will keep his own material.

[Taylor]

Hindsight is always 20/20 I guess. There was plenty of discussion here about the Angels possibly trading Ohtani, but now we're all acting like we knew all along it wasn't going to happen.

Of course Jeff Fletcher was right from the beginning. He always is.

[Dtwncbad]

2 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Hindsight is always 20/20 I guess. There was plenty of discussion here about the Angels possibly trading Ohtani, but now we're all acting like we knew all along it wasn't going to happen.

Of course Jeff Fletcher was right from the beginning. He always is.

Not exactly.  Many said from the beginning they should not trade him and exactly why, hoping the Angels saw it the same way. There is nothing wrong with people saying, “see, what I said.”

[Lou]

17 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Hindsight is always 20/20 I guess. There was plenty of discussion here about the Angels possibly trading Ohtani, but now we're all acting like we knew all along it wasn't going to happen.

Of course Jeff Fletcher was right from the beginning. He always is.

I never wanted him to be traded. I enjoy watching the Angels play every 6 days.

[Dtwncbad]

1 minute ago, Lou said:

I never wanted him to be traded. I enjoy watching the Angels play every 6 days.

Speaking of hindsight, I believed Ohtani would pitch every six games but I was adamant that the Angels would not likely fully employ a straight 6 man rotation.

I kept saying, “I will believe it when I see it.”

 

[Angel Oracle]

Paul Heyman >>>> Jon Labia Heyman

[Vlad27Trout27]

I for one think that this is the right choice. Retool and rool the dice and put all the pieces in and go for it for the next few years. 

and for this to happen, its going to be on Arte and his paychecks. If our payroll by the start of next season isn't intthe 215ish range, than its going to be diastrous, if it it around the 215ish range than we should be putttin gup a good team on the field. 

[floplag]

15 minutes ago, Vlad27Trout27 said:

I for one think that this is the right choice. Retool and rool the dice and put all the pieces in and go for it for the next few years. 

and for this to happen, its going to be on Arte and his paychecks. If our payroll by the start of next season isn't intthe 215ish range, than its going to be diastrous, if it it around the 215ish range than we should be putttin gup a good team on the field. 

This is what we all want, but its just not going to happen.  Its dependent on Arte going into lux tax payroll levels and hes just not going to do that.
How do you retool this team without spending on FA right now to be remotely competitive over the next 2-3 years?
counting on kids hasnt exactly worked for us so i hope thats not the answer. 

[Taylor]

2 hours ago, Dtwncbad said:

Speaking of hindsight, I believed Ohtani would pitch every six games but I was adamant that the Angels would not likely fully employ a straight 6 man rotation.

I kept saying, “I will believe it when I see it.”

 

I also wanted him to stay and didn't think the Angels would trade him.

My point is that it wasn't a foregone conclusion, so Heyman's report doesn't fit the Captain Obvious category.

[Dtwncbad]

1 minute ago, Taylor said:

I also wanted him to stay and didn't think the Angels would trade him.

My point is that it wasn't a foregone conclusion, so Heyman's report doesn't fit the Captain Obvious category.

I think the chances were always extremely remote at best for the reasons already stated.  So the Angels keeping Ohtani is, to me anyway, pretty darn close to Captain Obvious. . . . at least for people that have no need to put out content during a trade deadline.

 

[T.G.]

@Taylor and @Dtwncbad you two need to settle this via the Thunder Dome...

Two men enter, one man leaves

[Dtwncbad]

Just now, T.G. said:

@Taylor and @Dtwncbad you two need to settle this via the Thunder Dome...

Two men enter, one man leaves

I have no beef with Taylor.  

[cals]

4 minutes ago, T.G. said:

@Taylor and @Dtwncbad you two need to settle this via the Thunder Dome...

Two men enter, one man leaves

Two men enter?

[Taylor]

27 minutes ago, T.G. said:

@Taylor and @Dtwncbad you two need to settle this via the Thunder Dome...

Two men enter, one man leaves

 

26 minutes ago, Dtwncbad said:

I have no beef with Taylor.  

 

Yeah, this actually seems like a pretty civil conversation.

[ten ocho recon scout]

28 minutes ago, T.G. said:

@Taylor and @Dtwncbad you two need to settle this via the Thunder Dome...

Two men enter, one man leaves

Great... now the song is stuck in my head.

[Tank]

On 8/1/2022 at 10:08 AM, Inside Pitch said:

The time to not be okay with it will be next Spring if they ignore everything they need to do..  AGAIN....

*an angry matt duffy, tyler wade, and kurt suzuki have entered the chat

[Tank]

23 minutes ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

Great... now the song is stuck in my head.

we don't need another hero.

[gotbeer]

MLB trade rumors: Shohei Ohtani to remain with Angels at deadline, but Yankees, Padres made 'serious' offers

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It's easy to understand why Moreno would push back. He's spent a lot of money on the Angels over the years without getting much in return. The Angels have changed players, managers, and general managers without much success. Moreno has been the constant. At some point, being the steady face of failure has to impact one's ego. Trading Ohtani would be an admission that he and his brain trust could never figure out a way to build a winner despite being gifted two generational talents.