If Ohtani signs with another team today...

[tdawg87]

It will be the worst thing a Japanese person has ever done to us on a 7th of December.

[Taylor]

I wonder if he's been waiting until today to announce his decision.

[Stradling]

5 minutes ago, Taylor said:

I wonder if he's been waiting until today to announce his decision.

If so he’s signing with Toronto. 

[Stradling]

Pay back, bitch!

[Taylor]

Ohtani to the Waikiki Beachboys confirmed.

[Tank]

18 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

It will be the worst thing a Japanese person has ever done to us on a 7th of December.

that's better than anything chris russo has ever said.

[UndertheHalo]

Many have said this 

[REDneck]

INCOMING!!!!

[REDneck]

I see from a few reactions to this post that a couple people need a history lesson or have no sense of humor!

 

[Taylor]

Some of the board members who fought in WWII might want to weigh in here.

[OttoDog]

Tora Tora Tora!

[Angels 1961]

18 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Some of the board members who fought in WWII might want to weigh in here.

Very few WW2 vets around now. 

[Sully151]

Would Moreno be the Sleeping Giant?

[Angelsjunky]

Yet if he signs with the Dodgers and then sucks in a couple years, we can call it kamikaze.

[Pancake Bear]

1 hour ago, Taylor said:

Some of the board members who fought in WWII might want to weigh in here.

Didn't know we had any centenarians on the board. 

[m0nkey]

Blarg and AIR?

[Erstad Grit]

Trent and Rodger right now are talking about how at some point Ohtani is an overpay and not worth it. 

My guess is their bosses told them to say that and Ohtani is signing somewhere else tomorrow

Edited December 8, 2023 by Erstad Grit

[Inside Pitch]

22 minutes ago, Erstad Grit said:

Trent and Rodger right now are talking about how at some point Ohtani is an overpay and not worth it. 

My guess is their bosses told them to say that and Ohtani is signing somewhere else tomorrow

Factually true.  But it would only be considered a mistake, or bad for baseball, or an overpay if the Angels did it.  

To be honest, for a team with as many needs as the Angels, Ohtani is likely a bigger overpay for them than a team actually capable of contending without him.

[Erstad Grit]

35 minutes ago, Inside Pitch said:

Factually true.  But it would only be considered a mistake, or bad for baseball, or an overpay if the Angels did it.  

To be honest, for a team with as many needs as the Angels, Ohtani is likely a bigger overpay for them than a team actually capable of contending without him.

I agree. He could easily be the final piece for a team to get a ring. Obviously we're not an Ohtani away.... At least not yet

[Chuck]

3 minutes ago, Erstad Grit said:

I agree. He could easily be the final piece for a team to get a ring. Obviously we're not an Ohtani away.... At least not yet

Man if the Angels had the position player depth of 2023, the pitching staff of 2022 and their core guys stayed relatively healthy (Trout, Rendon, Ohtani, etc.) that team could have not only made the playoffs. but would have gone deep IMO. 

[cals]

3 hours ago, Pancake Bear said:

Didn't know we had any centenarians on the board. 

My dad was about as young as you could be.  He was a 20 year old MP in Berlin at the end of the war and he’d be 99 this year if he hadn’t died.  You stop counting when they die.

[Dtwncbad]

Just now, cals said:

My dad was about as young as you could be.  He was a 20 year old MP in Berlin at the end of the war and he’d be 99 this year if he hadn’t died.  You stop counting when they die.

My dad has been 76 and my mom 72 for a long time.

[tdawg87]

Dammit stop making me sad. 

[Angels 1961]

1 hour ago, Erstad Grit said:

Trent and Rodger right now are talking about how at some point Ohtani is an overpay and not worth it. 

My guess is their bosses told them to say that and Ohtani is signing somewhere else tomorrow

If Joe Kelly does not give up #17 Dodgers will be out. I wonder if Angels would someday retire #17.

[Jay]

2 hours ago, cals said:

My dad was about as young as you could be.  He was a 20 year old MP in Berlin at the end of the war and he’d be 99 this year if he hadn’t died.  You stop counting when they die.

Same here, my dad would have been 98 right now and he served in the Battle of the Bulge as a teenager.