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I think that's about 90% of it right there. The org is trying to reduce a severely bloated payroll, and most likely isn't going to contend in the next year or two anyway. Why pay Mike Scioscia millions of dollars to NOT manage the team? Might as well wait it out another 2 years and hope Arte is smart enough to never give another manager that kind of contract again.
I'll add that with the way things are going this year, the situation is ripe for players to revolt and for things to get truly ugly. That hasn't happened and we haven't heard or seen of anything, so I have to think the players are still OK with Mike. Again, no point in changing now.

I think you are limiting yourself by suggesting he can only play crappy defense at 3B. I think he's very capable of playing crappy defense at 2B and maybe even LF. He can also DH.

he and Carlos Perez are pretty comparable at this point, and remember that Dipoto got Nick Tropeano on top of that. A steal of a trade.

I think a big part of what's fueling the anti-CJ sentiment - aside from him generally coming off as a douchebag - is the report from last year that some within the Angels organization (I forget if it was players or the FO) didn't believe he was really hurt. Maybe Fletcher can shed some light on the validity of that report.
But combine that with this year's lost season and CJ's style of pitching (get two outs and then throw 37 pitches trying to get the third out) and it's not hard to see why fans are quick to jump on him.

I think a big part of what's fueling the anti-CJ sentiment - aside from him generally coming off as a douchebag - is the report from last year that some within the Angels organization (I forget if it was players or the FO) didn't believe he was really hurt. Maybe Fletcher can shed some light on the validity of that report.
But combine that with this year's lost season and CJ's style of pitching (get two outs and then throw 37 pitches trying to get the third out) and it's not hard to see why fans are quick to jump on him.

I think that pretty much holds true for the fans here also.
I'll miss the vaginal bruising jokes.
 

Napoli was a good player for the Angels and I've gotten over the decision the organization made. It's not 2013 anymore and it's about time some people get over it. 
Focus on Pujols being fat.

Fuck Napoli.

His signing reminds of the Angels teams of the '90s when we we'd have Jack McDowell, Joe Megrane, Tim Belcher, etc on the roster getting their last shot before retirement.  Some ugly, ugly starts back then...

Jim Abbott could knock one over the monster with his knub.

Meh, I've never put much stock in what GMs tell reporters, particularly Angels GMs. His actions over the next couple months will speak much louder than anything he says in an interview.

Meh, I've never put much stock in what GMs tell reporters, particularly Angels GMs. His actions over the next couple months will speak much louder than anything he says in an interview.

Meh, I've never put much stock in what GMs tell reporters, particularly Angels GMs. His actions over the next couple months will speak much louder than anything he says in an interview.

Meh, I've never put much stock in what GMs tell reporters, particularly Angels GMs. His actions over the next couple months will speak much louder than anything he says in an interview.

Meh, I've never put much stock in what GMs tell reporters, particularly Angels GMs. His actions over the next couple months will speak much louder than anything he says in an interview.

Meh, I've never put much stock in what GMs tell reporters, particularly Angels GMs. His actions over the next couple months will speak much louder than anything he says in an interview.

I love how upset people are getting over a trader that
 
A) hasn't happened
B )   likely won't have much effect on the team if it does happen

The continual signing of free agents to deny us draft picks plus the regular trading away of prospects is a big part of why we are in such a bad place now. We can't go down either of those paths this offseason. Plus I would argue signing free agents now as a pretty optimistic push to get us to the playoffs is delaying the practically inevitable pain. This is going to hurt for awhile and signing mid tier free agents at this point is only likely to extend that.

That attitude is precisely what got us into this mess.

Strad

Skaggs staying healthy the rest of the year and pitching well would be one of the  best things to happen in 2016.

I'll distract him, you call the cops

you know what doesn't get talked about, the fact that this new Yankee Stadium is basically now Fenway for the Angels. Total house of horrors. Our players magically turn to shit as soon as they walk in the door.

But maybe if we keep trying Alvarez over and over again he will magically stop being shit.

This is 1000x more important to the org than anything Tim Lincecum does today.