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Nice dub. 

So let’s just have Trout not ever run then.  Maybe they should’ve asked for a wheelchair exemption so he could wheel around the bags.  

11 minutes ago, Swordsman78 said:

In retrospect, maybe it wasn't such a good idea to green light Trout steal those bases and risk injury.    The staff playing with fire regarding their #1 asset.

 

Trout was getting hurt when he wasn’t stealing bags too.  

45 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Margaritas are too masculine for cals.

You two should get a room already.  

7 hours ago, CaliAngel said:

"May not have the best personnel in the world"

What does that even mean?

“Our roster is dogshit.  But come out and see us play anyway!”  

Sounds to me like the biggest problem was just a lack of communication, again.  
 

I may be wrong but I don’t think this is the first time we’ve heard about players just being left in the dark about their place on the team.  It shouldn’t be hard to sit a player down and say look, you’re not an established player yet and so we’re going to put you in spots we feel you can succeed in to start and how we see you handle it will determine how much you play moving forward.

 Then tell them some things they’re doing well, some things that need improvement, and say you can always come talk to me if you have a question.  I do this with youth and teen ball players and their parents, it’s called coaching.  The Angels didn’t do anything wrong except for perhaps not having open lines of communication. 

Don’t really care about his status.  The guy has turned into David Fletcher with worse defense.  Any replacement is just fine. 

2 hours ago, Stradling said:

Don’t forget you think you’d hit .200 in the bigs when there’s about 100% chance you wouldn’t. 

Don’t forget you thought Pujols would retire well before his contract was up when there was about 100% chance he wouldn’t.  

3 hours ago, CaliAngel said:

Your lack of baseball knowledge repeatedly astounds me.

Why are you even on this board?

Because he’d have nothing else to do otherwise?  The “guy” spends all day everyday living on this board.  

2 hours ago, m0nkey said:

Yes his one strikeout on a fastball in a clip of 9 pitches was 93 mph. I don’t know what the rest of his velocity readings were the rest of the game 

Let’s call em punchies for Bauer, not strikeouts.  

3 hours ago, Blarg said:

Fastest pitch he threw was 93. The rest was all in the mid to lower 80's. 

In the exhibition against the Dodgers minor leaguers he was in the upper 90s when he wanted to be.  The stuff is there. 

1 hour ago, cals said:

Anyways, there is politics involved in this situation despite anyone’s protest to the contrary.

17 hours ago, mmc said:

Brandon Belt is a hitter that can help 30 MLB teams.  Are you upset that he remains unsigned?

I am.  He could help the Angels immensely.  

Crackhead blew this game.  Was a very winnable game.  Terrible lineup.  Terrible bullpen management. 

Cannings career is in jeopardy

12 hours ago, TroutField said:

Washington with all the “we are going to rundown the west” bullshit pre game and the goes onto mismanage the game and lose. 
 

squeeze bunt with Moniak up to put him in the hole 0-2 was so stupid with a hitter with so much swing and miss. Forcing the issue with Soriano and leaving him out for THREE innings in which he gave up runs in each inning and had no feel for his breaking stuff. 
 

that was probably the worst managed game since Maddon walked in a run. 

Squeeze bunt didn’t put him down 0-2 but 0-1.  Moniak swung and missed twice at outside sinkers that he’s gotta be able to put a bat on.  I didn’t mind Wash’s call there.  Micks gotta get better if he wants to play.  

I see Trout has done absolutely nothing to try and close the giant gaping hole in his swing.  He looks like washed up garbage.  

1 hour ago, Swiss Angel Fan said:

Sano playing over Rengifo, Moniak and Adell is wild.

It’s retarded.  Like something a Coke head would do. 

1 hour ago, cals said:

Sometimes I ponder how much better all of our lives would be here on AW had you had an older brother that would have whooped your ass occasionally growing up.

Let’s introduce “him” to Bauer.  Would love to see the look on his face the next morning. 

Sandoval is Hector Santiago

Has Trout not noticed the track record this team has with free agents?  

20 hours ago, Taylor said:

So you're defending a wife beater as a person to admire. Good look.

Is someone defending the wife beating?
 

Just take the L “guy”.  You were ready to convict Bauer and ran your trap and you were wrong, as per usual, and now you just vomit up retarded bullshit.  Pretending to stick up for women when your real agenda is to “get” people you hate politically.  

35 minutes ago, Dtwncbad said:

Man we live in different worlds if you think I have the embarrassing stance here.

I mean, it’s pretty Captain Obvious at this point dontcha think?  

13 hours ago, mmc said:

 

5 hours ago, Docwaukee said:

I think he'd have been signed by now if it were only dealing with backlash from the past.  

It's what he's going to say going forward about what happened.  Teams would likely want him to maintain a certain narrative.  

Even if it's 'that's all in the past.  I just want to move forward and help the (insert team name here) win a championship'.  

Right or wrong, team don't want him to talk about what happened and whether it was fair or unfair or legal or illegal or appropriate or inappropriate.  

Bauer would likely never sign anything that forces him to keep his mouth shut and another team can't just trust that he wouldn't without some sort of written document.  Or even with one.  

No one wants to be his soapbox.  

And let's call a spade a spade.  Regardless of his past or future, most of the baseball world just doesn't like him.  

Oh so the guy gets wronged, and then because a team won’t be able to force him to keep his mouth shut about him being treated poorly they’ll just force him out of the game.  Seems pretty shitty.

 And let’s call a spade a spade,   most people are fucking idiots and spineless cowards who are willing to go along with a shitty situation just so as not to be inconvenienced or be made to feel “on the outside.”  Ya, it might take a bit of balls for a team to sign Bauer and then get up in front of a bunch of people and say, if you don’t like this then fuck you.  Because Bauer did nothing wrong and your opinions of him aren’t based on illegal acts, you just don’t like his personality and that’s not a reason to not sign a talented pitcher that can help a team. Will that happen?  Probably not. Should it?  Absolutely.