Gameday Thread: (9/15/23) Tigers @ Angels: Canning on the mound, no Ohtani, Fletcher at 2B

[jsnpritchett]

Just now, Jay said:

Whoa, Jared...

He took out his frustrations on that one!

[AngelsMetsWS]

Escobar can be the winning pitcher.  Only another 8 runs or so! 

[jsnpritchett]

Just now, eligrba4ever said:

MLBTV is not free. And Spectrum (or whoever) uses your streaming or cable (satellite?) money to pay Sinclair.

It's a sunk cost. 

[fan_since79]

The two absolutely horrible hitters have the two blasts tonight.

Baseball gods rubbing it in.

[Blarg]

15 minutes ago, eligrba4ever said:

Well, I was monitoring this on mute. It was 2-0, 4-0, 4-1 and I thought at least they're trying. Then it was 5-1, 7-1. 9-1 and right now, 11-1. I'm proud of these Angels, eliminating themselves and doing it with exclamation marks!!!!!

I turned off the game and hour ago. Not sure why you guys haven't. 

[Jay]

1 minute ago, jsnpritchett said:

He took out his frustrations on that one!

Hope he didn't strain his obliques.

[AngelsMetsWS]

Well, the ending of the game was entertaining. 

[AngelsMetsWS]

Traffic out of the stadium will be light. There’s that too. 

[fan_since79]

Just now, AngelsMetsWS said:

Traffic out of the stadium will be light. There’s that too. 

Mercifully there's no fireworks show.

[Mark68]

14 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

It's a sunk cost. 

Like Rendon.

[Jason]

14 minutes ago, Blarg said:

I turned off the game and hour ago. 

A month ago for me 

[tomsred]

36 minutes ago, Blarg said:

I turned off the game and hour ago. Not sure why you guys haven't. 

Because we like baseball, especially Angels baseball, win or lose.

[AngelStew43]

51 minutes ago, eligrba4ever said:

Will Phil last until the A's road finale?

No manager could have saved this season

[fan_since79]

Looking ahead at the final 14 games and considering the miserable state of this team, I can foresee us losing a good 10 of them.

I'm hoping for a burst of courage and energy from these players who want to go down fighting. We'll see...

[AngelsMetsWS]

9 minutes ago, tomsred said:

Because we like baseball, especially Angels baseball, win or lose.

This is really true. Always a little something to root for like the returnees hitting homers or a position player holding his own on the mound. Good fun even if the team isn’t where we’d like it to be. 

[AngelsMetsWS]

8 minutes ago, AngelStew43 said:

No manager could have saved this season

True. 
 

I wonder how Arte is feeling about he decision to hang onto the team these days. 

[Angel Oracle]

The Halos new mascot

[FromJapan]

 

[Angelsjunky]

Let's add "No Ohtani" to every gameday thread for the next 10 years.

[fan_since79]

4 minutes ago, FromJapan said:

 

A rather Orwellian feel to it. If you recall from the novel 1984 when Winston Smith's co-worker Syme vanished. All mention of him ceased. He became an unperson.

Have a great life in the real baseball world, Shohei. 

 

 

[Skankhunt42]

20 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

The Halos new mascot

Don't insult Doink like that.

[fan_since79]

Remember when Sean Burnett had a "fantastic" bullpen session, then disappeared? 

I wonder if Rendon will just fade into oblivion. 

Like that Twilight Zone episode where the astronauts disappear, one by one?

 

[SoCalDucksFan]

47 minutes ago, AngelsMetsWS said:

True. 
 

I wonder how Arte is feeling about he decision to hang onto the team these days. 

He's an egotistical narcissist, so he probably doesn't care.  He'll make a fortune selling the team.  In fact, he'll probably make more when he sells than he would have if he had sold months ago.  The Franchise is still worth a bundle, and that's all that matters to him.

[Angel Oracle]

Imagine if there was a radio show hosted by a Jim Healy clone these days.

Imagine the material this team would give them.

[Angel Oracle]

Now sitting in the 7th spot in the draft lottery.

Four teams are assured of worse records.

A’s, Royals, ChiSox, and Rockies.

Cardinals are currently just 2.5 games worse, Nationals just 3 games worse