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Hows Trout's % last year before and after he got here?

damn..flash back to elementary school when I was picked last for all the sports. BUAHHAHAHAH

Well...this contest didn't even last 2 days. Hahaha

I hope he doesn't pitch another game in the sequence...
Never again would be even better.

LF Victorino/Murphy
CF Trout
RF Calhoun
Backup Dejesus
Already an improvement from Joyce hitting 1.80.
What's not to like?

I enjoyed any show talking about the Angels in the morning (Lodge or Rodgers), but it looks like there is a new station called The Beast 980.  Now they are the only local show at the 7-9 time slot.  They were talking about Hamilton today...they are essentially the Clippers version of KLAA.
 
guess that's gonna be my new station.

Just record Lodge's show from the previous afternoon and replay it for your morning drive.
 
You're welcome.

11.  When a new model comes out, people will drive it into the ocean thinking it can turn into a boat per internet fake internet posts.

Top 10 ways that life would be different if Apple sold cars.
 
10. Cars would be priced higher than they are worth and come from a single source just like they do now. But Apple would continuously advertise that buying one of their cars is an escape from that kind of old style paradigm.
 
9. Apple would be continually lobbying the government to subsidize the donation of cars to schools for driver education.
 
8. Cars would need excessive horsepower to operate more than one accessory at a time.
 
7. Many accessories would operate differently but owners would ignore this and boast to their friends that all of their accessories have an identical look and feel.
 
6. Help regarding the operation of their accessories would be only marginally better than those who drove UNIX cars but the owners would boast that this is of no concern because all of their accessories have an identical look and feel.
 
5. Owners manuals would be very small. Maintenance manuals, needed to add an accessory yourself, would come in seven large volumes.
 
4. Owners would make fun of how complex it is to add an accessory on other cars. Owners would not have a clue just how difficult it was for them to add an accessory to their own car themselves. Very few owners of Apple cars would add their own accessories.
 
3. Periodically a little picture of a bomb would appear on the dashboard and the car would come to a stop. Loyal owners would rarely, if ever, admit this and would convince themselves that this sort of thing happens to owners of other cars all the time.
 
2. People who could never drive before would begin driving, join auto clubs, tell everyone else how to drive, and generally become insufferable bores.
 
1. Using the fruits of a larger company's focused research and development effort cars would be introduced that were 10 years ahead of their time. After release, they wouldn't change for over 10 years...

With Hamilton out, I think its gonna be:
 
RF  Calhoun
CF  Trout
1B  Pujols
LF  Joyce
3B  Freese
DH  Cron
SS  Aybar
2B  Rutledge
C    Iannetta

Totally agree.  LeBlanc, Wolf and Roth are not going to give us solid innings. 

fixed

freese = 2014 World Series MVP.  book it!

the A's traded their spark plug.
 
of the three new rotation guys, two are pitching well while I don't think Hammel has won a game for the A's yet and his starts have been anything but quality start.
 
Cespedes was the offensive spark for the A's ---- they miss his presence in the line up and in the outfield.........

I panicked this morning on the way to work until I saw it was for Cespedes. I don't think they're better or worse but the chemistry is gonna have an impact. Hopefully it's beneficial to us but I'm done panicking till we see how it plays out

just to help floplag cool his jets. i said somewhere lost in the beginning of this thread that i see the trade as a net negative for the A's. they improved an already dominant starting staff, but at the cost of their moto bat, their 2nd best hitter next to donaldson. if they can replace that with a platoon, then i'll be wrong about the trade. either way, beane has dramatically altered the team composition of a team that had the best record in baseball. i'm hesitant to call that wise. beane should get the benefit of the doubt because he's earned it, but it's hardly a trade without some legitimate questions being raised.

OK well i guess we might as well give up then right... is that the consensus? 
Any attempt at all to spin this as anything other than doom results in personal attacks so.. does that sum it up? 

 

If our offense is not on fire, i just hope they dont have an arm in left field that gets our players out at home every single time....oh wait.  they don't anymore.

I bet we'd be top of the MLB Standings without Cespedes's outfield assists.

Hows that Hammel guy doing?  Just cuz Billy planned it, doesn't mean it's always gonna work. 

If our offense is not on fire, i just hope they dont have an arm in left field that gets our players out at home every single time....oh wait.  they don't anymore.

I bet we'd be top of the MLB Standings without Cespedes's outfield assists.

The A's losing Cespedes and gaining Lester is better for The Angels. This is a win on our part if anything.

Thought I would try something different today.