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I think this would hold up in court...

Another thing to mention here. Not sure what the timing of that list is @Angelsjunky. Is that over the whole year, just current when you posted yesterday, etc etc But I honestly think it played a huge role how quickly the injuries stacked up. And how key a few of them were. Neto was a huge one, one that doesn't show up on the surface. But personally I think Drury hurt more than most realized. He's not a super star player, but he had a knack in the first half for some clutch at bats here and there. And more importantly, he stretched the lineup out, because as Trout shuffled a bit, Walsh was MIA and Renfroe went cold, he was quietly doing something cool every other day or so. Not walk offs or anything like that, but insurance runs, things like that. So losing too many guys like that while other guys were shuffling hurt. We were cruising along with depth until it all collapsed. @Blarg put it best, about fielding a decent army, that gets killed by cholera.

Bumping this from 4 months ago. Everybody slept on how @Inside Pitch worked "Castreu" in there because @Taylor is a socialist, but said here his account was a canadian catfisher. Well played, IP

Then they can't lose!

Keep scrolling through this thread, waiting for Lou to pop up out of nowhere and say something hilarious in one perfectly timed sentence. Gonna miss the comedy between him and @tdawg87, "with all due respect". Always liked that bit.

I haven't been watching enough, but I think you have to grade with a curve. None of the guys listed there, aside from Giolito and the RP who came with him were really "go out and upgrade" moves as much as "this is a hell of a lot better than anything else we got" after everyone got hurt. The irony is we traded a C, and our best prospect, after losing our first two catcher options. Escobar has been a total dud for sure. But Cron wasn't very expensive, and the option was him or Walsh... Grichuk isn't a huge get, but it was him or Phillips, or Adams. And Moustakas was because after Urshela went down, and that other guy we have to play 3B is out, it was either him or call up Gonselin and see if he wants to come back. So unfortunately, we weren't in a position to try to add and make a run, but one of "it's this or we have to play over the line"

I'm late to this, and too tired to think right now. I'm sure all the ones I can think of already got mentioned. Are we talking underrated by baseball fans, or by Angel fans? First one that pops in my head is Finley. I think, aside from diegard fans, he's been pretty forgotten. And I think it's because he was pre-2002. And for most fans the history is "I don't know, Ryan?" era to "Autrey, Reggie and Carew and .... Donnie Moore" era to "I stopped paying any attention" era to "World Series!, and then lots of playoffs era" to "Trout and out by July" era. More or less. Finley was part of the "I really wasn't paying attention" era, and it's too bad, because he was a very good pitcher on a very mediocre team(s). And as an Angel fan, that picture of him, Abbot and Langston all doing their delivery at different stages is still really cool.

Was just thinking the other day that we need "a Lou" to go back and bump all of Lou's greatest hits.

This was perfectly said.

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Funny enough, I saw a guy on Reddit a few weeks back who was going on and on about Trout using steroids. And I said "OK, anything is possible. None of these guys would surprise me, but why him specific" And the guy said "oh, he's just randomly playing 150 games a year, in CF, and hitting 40 home runs for a decade, but no he's completely natural, right" And I was baffled... I don't remember the numbers, but I think like 2016(?) was the last time he played 140 games? In trouts defense, aside from having to carry a whole org on his back for years, a few of those I don't judge. He broke something one year, and he took time off another year when his BIL passed. And that was after the Angels were way out of it. Then the Covid year, and last years freak injury (that he still was an MVP candidate). It just stands out because there's been so many back to back years. Rendon on the other hand...

And I know a lot of people don't want to hear this. But as brutal as the Angels collapse the last week has been, this should remind everyone this is just baseball. It's not real. Have fun and enjoy it, but don't let it bother you too much. Focus on the good of it.

The Angels did it for you tonight, @Lou I'm dealing with another tragedy closer to home right now, so I'm too exhausted to really say what I'd like to from the heart right now. But Lou, you were the board. Your humor, your wit, and for a few of us personally, a great friend. You won't be forgotten brother, I promise

He still drops movie quotes... Even with all his has going on, he still has a sharper brain and better sense of humor than 90 percent of us

A lot of us peaked in High School. And that was only like 2 years of it. And like 20 years ago. So 2 months is kind of cool.

Balanced approach is Trout coming back soon from his injury, and then like Ohtani having the same injury. It would be the most Angel thing we could Angel.

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised to see us put up another 25 runs like Colorado, only to see a volcano erupt in the outfield and render the game moot.

It was a decent idea, but damn did that one turn out a massive turd.

Hang in there @Dave Saltzer. You're one of the ones on here we all appreciate your posts. Hang tough and beat this, my friend

"Swing without hesitation" I also heard Terry Smith say recently we're like top 5 in strikeouts in the league.

Are we earing pizza, or watching "In the mouth of madness"?

Same boat... I think I'm more of an Angelswin.com fan than an Angels fan the past several years.... hard to come on here and really care about baseball right now. I'd gladly trade a trophy the next decade for another 20 years of sucking to have Lou around with some asshole comments.

Hang in there, bud. I've lost too many people to it. Like @Inside Pitch said, I can't think of anything I hate worse than it.

For whatever reason it keeps popping into my head that maybe 2 months ago or so, someone poster a thread here asking "who's excited for tonight" when we were play8ng like shit. Which we can all understand. And I remember Lou posting "I am". Maybe it's because he had so much more going on, and knew just watching baseball is simple and fun. But then when you think back, he's always backed the team. Win or lose. There's a lesson there... not to blindly cheerlead, but to accept its just a game, that there's bigger things in life to sweat. And none of us are going anywhere, so you should focus more on the good than the bad.

Somebody else made a great point above that answers it perfectly. Autry was a celebrity when he bought the Angels. Movie and radio star. Imagine today like Tom Hanks buying a team, and consistently bringing in guys like Pujols (a la Arte) that in fairness means you're really trying to win. (Even if it's bad from a smart baseball standpoint). That was the Cowboy. Arte basically did the same thing. But all anyone really knows is he's a guy that owns the team.