Get ready for the Ms!

[SoCalDucksFan]

3 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Trout will return and mash just as soon as they're officially out of it.

They should probably just rest him for the remainder of the season, since they're really going to need his output next year, with Shohei gone.

With the Angels fortune, he'll tear an ACL down the stretch, and miss all of 2024.

[Reveille1984]

20 minutes ago, SoCalDucksFan said:

Props to you for the blind optimism.  To reach 91 wins, which might still not be quite enough, they have to go 35-16 the rest of way.  That's .686 baseball.  Not only can't they be splitting series at this point, they can't even be going 2-1 in them.  They have to outperform the best team in the league, Atlanta, which has a .654 record.

A team doesn't just turn around on a dime.  This is the team they've been the past 8 years, and this is the team they're going to be the next 8 weeks.  The only question now, is whether they'll finish above .500 for the season.

It's over, Ohtani is gone, and the Angels are going to be looked at as an embarrassment for years and probably decades to come, for wasting such a generational talent, with NOTHING to show for it.

We're already an embarrassment around the league as long as Arte owns this team, nothing's going to change because of these deadline deals when we had basically a 10% chance at the wild card.

I know this is an Angels fan board and as a long time fan of this team of course I want them to do well.  But there's just not a lot to be optimistic about on the horizon unfortunately, especially after this season is done.  I know a lot of people on this board don't care about farm system rankings or prospects, but we've seen how this has worked out over the last decade.  Sure, guys like Neto and O'Hoppe are nice but let's be honest with ourselves.  These aren't going to be some kind of game changing, franchise altering players.   Every SP we have has regressed this year and with Ohtani gone this rotation and lineup is going to look a lot more bleak.

This is also a super weak free agent year, so it's not like we can just patch everything up with throwing cash around.

 

[Erstad Grit]

We weren't ready. 

[Taylor]

The Angels apparently missed this thread.

[m0nkey]

Sad

[UndertheHalo]

[jsnpritchett]

On 8/2/2023 at 12:39 PM, Torridd said:

We hoped for more against the Braves in Atlanta but we got a win. Let's concentrate on the Ms. This is a much more important series. Up front, I'm hoping for at least 3 of 4 at home.

[Sho Way That Was A Strike]

12 minutes ago, Taylor said:

The Angels apparently missed this thread.

No. They read it as get ready for the enema. 

[bloodbrother]

[Torridd]

Wow! I could never have thought this. All I can do is give kudos to the Ms.

[Taylor]

I didn't know Toridd was AJ's alt.

[LaPalma]

2 hours ago, Torridd said:

Wow! I could never have thought this. All I can do is give kudos to the Ms.

Two 1 run games, and two 2 run games.  That’s baseball.  It could have easily been a split.

[Ender]

All tough games. 

[ukyah]

20 minutes ago, LaPalma said:

Two 1 run games, and two 2 run games.  That’s baseball.  It could have easily been a split.

yay?

[ukyah]

[Mark68]

So are we ready for the M's yet?

[Torridd]

You also wonder how much that first game messed them up mentally.

[Angelsjunky]

18 hours ago, Taylor said:

I didn't know Toridd was AJ's alt.

Torridd has greater powers than I. 

[WicketMaiden]

This thread is magical.

[Jason]

12 hours ago, Mark68 said:

So are we ready for the M's yet?

Halos didn’t even lube up and the M’s dipped their junk in sand first. 

[BTH]

5 hours ago, Torridd said:

You also wonder how much that first game messed them up mentally.

it totally messed them up

and their inability to bounce back in any of the three games after shows how weak-minded this group is, despite whatever Nevin says about their "fight"

every team, even the A's or Royals as we've seen AGAINST THE ANGELS, shows fight from time to time in games.

[Mark68]

6 hours ago, Torridd said:

You also wonder how much that first game messed them up mentally.

If they couldn't recover from that, then they definitely aren't a playoff team, because shit like that happens in the postseason.