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It's Halloween, so good time to make one of the first jokes I learned as a kid. What do rednecks do for Halloween? Pumpkin. Get it? (Sorry @REDneck)

That Blind Side movie has been in the news lately. I only saw it once, like 10 years ago, but I picture Ippei this winter jamming all the GMs trying to sign Ohtani by asking eats in it for him, like the little kid in the movie.

The other 28 GMs at the winter meetings.

To be fair, Urshela was brought in as insurance for Rendon. And a broken leg guy who hits singles is.... pretty much mission accomplished. Credit Minasian for recognizing Urshela could be that guy. It's almost uncanny.

Sadly enough that was the first thing that popped into my head. And not with just the usual suspects. I'd also caution anyone (from AJs post here) to expect anything from Ward and and Walsh. And that's not me hating on either. But Ward is a giant question mark until we see otherwise, and Walsh is an even bigger one. Let's hope for good luck for a change.

Man, funny enough, about a month give or take before he passed I had a beer with him after a show too. Told him this long winded story I'll spare everyone here from reading (mainly because I'm too lazy to write it all out), and made plans to get together a month or so later when he was back in SoCal for another show. Obviously it never happened. He was as funny of a comedian as I've ever seen. Was crushed when he passed. But so glad I got to meet him and tell him my story of how I first heard him and stole his jokes when I was a kid.

Just to clarify here, but are you putting Ohtani the Angels at 30 percent, with the other 29 teams collectively making up the other 70 percent? So like 2.4 percent chance he ends up a Dodger? I like those odds.

It's like we made a frankenstein out of David Fletcher and Rendon.

New guy injured. It's like our version of the cold shoulder for the first home run. "Welcome to the bigs, kid!"

They dropped the lawsuit. They said "on second thought, we're glad we didn't sign there."

Dammit. Beat me to it. Exact thing that popped into my head, too

Was thinking this exact same thing. Was gonna go with Fred Rated (shadow stevens) but thought it would go over too many heads. The other thing that instantly popped into my head was from You don't mess with the Zohan, where the Israelis have a store named "going out of business". "This watch gets hbo.."

That's a good point. I also think in Minasians defense that he didn't have a lot of choice... this team has been starved for talent not named Trout or Ohtani for years now. I'm sure the team would prefer the youngsters spending more time in the minors, but the option was the Duffy and Goselin types. And as painful as it is to see some of these young guys struggle, I really couldn't take hearing "goose" or "captain jack" one more time when we lose 5-1 again.

Someone was passed out from fentanyl?

Even the show Thirty Something only lasted 4 seasons. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirtysomething

My favorite comedian of all time was Robert Schimmel. He had a joke once about how his daughter went to a "rainbow party", and he asked "what the hell is that?" And his daughter explained that's when a bunch of girls wear different shades of lipstick, and take turns giving BJs to guys at the party, and whoever has the most colors (the guys) at the end wins. And he asked "is there a loser to this game?"

@Inside Pitch had a line above, reference Adams, saying "everyone else was dead". This is nail on head. We can blame Perry. Nevin. We can blame lots of people. But this team in 2023 was absolutely destroyed by injuries. And while we're here... In the past 5 years Trout has averaged 84 games a year. Past 4 years Rendon has averaged 50. (He actually played more in the civid year than the past 2... which is impressive). (We've gotten a little over a seasons worth of ABs from the guy... spread over 4 years. Again, impressive). That's about 70 million a year from 2 guys who combined averaged just under 70 games a year.... If anyone has forgotten how bad Pujols/Hamilton handcuffed us, it's playing out all over again. And the "the Angels failed to build a team around trout and ohtani!" crowd needs to recognize that. And for comparisons sake, we got 62 games out of Urshela this year. Lastly, we have 4 guys this year who have played more than 100 games. Shohei leads the team with 135 (he's hurt, and the games reflect that as a total). Then renfroe... the sole healthy guy, who's gone. (126 games). Next is Drury with 113... obviously hurt. Then Rengifo. The utility guy. 126 games (and done for the year). So perhaps you can sack Perry and Nevin. But nobody was going to take the amount of injuries this year and do much with it. I had to roll my eyes when the tailspin started when people were talking about how we made moves for the playoff run. Giolito counts there (and holy shit did that blow up in our face). But Escobar and moustakas and cron and grichuk? Thata just because, as IP said, everyone died. (And then funny enough, hilarious enough, cron and moustakas get hurt too) Those weren't moves to win a ring. Those were moves after everyone died, and so did the reserves behind them.

Arte Modelo, you're saying?

So out of curiosity, when that happens, do teams just photoshop their face in afterwards?

So I missed the picture day thing, but saw something on here about it. Did they put someone else in his jersey for the picture, or something like that?

I wonder if that samurai helmet ends up in the trash.

And the Angels fail to score the guy from second with no outs right afterwards.

It's gonna be funny if we find out it had something to do with Finley or Salmon in the locker room.