Marsaka

asche is the angels version of howie.

Bo Porterq

porter is pretty bad but i dont think it's fair to compare the two when borter has a 20m payroll and scioscia has an 180m payroll.

plus porter had a winning record against scioscia last year.  with all that considered scioscia is the worst manager in baseball.

stop blaming umps and start blaming scioscia.

grant green is a handsome little devil since he shaved his head.

He wasn't that bad that inning.  HK should have fielded the ground ball, and the that triple should have been an out at 3b.

a good team fields that ground ball.  and the utley play was too close to call.

certainly not the worst

he certainly is.   who is worst than him?

lol rojas "if you're going to use the shift you have to pitch to the shift"

nice managing there sosh, best manager in baseball.

Another one past Howie

it wont show as an error, just like the 3 balls hit right at him in toronto that he also fumbled and cost us like 7 runs.

that's why his defensive stats dont mean squat.  

Are now tied with us three games back. Does that mean their season is over like ours?

texas can beat teams in their own division.

/thread

lol r u guys really surprised?

and thanks to this game, navarro will be named the starter for the rest of the season.

he starts hitting cleanup tomorrow.

terrible pitch selection with runner on 3rd.

this team is so dumb.

Lineup:

 

Aybar SS

Trout CF

Pujols 1B

Ibanez DH

Kendrick 2B

Stewart 3B

Conger C

Navarro LF

Cowgill RF

 

Richards SP

aybar at leadoff?  ibanez at cleanup?  u gotta like your chances when your manager puts your team at a huge disadvantage before the game even starts.

scioscia is the epitome of stupidity.

Why is anybody getting in the way of Trout catching a ball?

ive seen cowgill nearly collide with trout several times while calling him off for balls that clearly belong to trout.  you would think it's the manager's job to step in and stop him from doing that before something bad happens, oh like an error or even worse - trout gets hurt.

what does scioscia do around here besides putting out the most ridiculous looking lineups, mismanaging the bullpen, and micromanaging the lefty/righty matchups to death?

im sure he's going to be a huge upgrade offensively.

No, but only contributing the "Howie sucks, and Scioscia is a liar" basically makes you a troll that in my opinion is unworthy of being here.

a lot of people say howie sucks, im sure ive said it as well, but very rarely, but ofcourse you only remember when i say it.

and scioscia is a liar.  http://article.wn.com/view/2012/08/03/Howie_Kendrick_could_have_run_in_a_pinch_for_Angels/

i discuss angels baseball and my discussions dont entirely consist of the comments you're claiming.  and if you dont like my comments just ban me then?

 You're insane if you think Scioscia lied about Smith throwing up in the bullpen. I just do not understand you coming here and never contributing anything positive.

can you give me an example of contributing something positive?  saying LTBU after each win?  is that what i need to do?

Been said a few times -- that would mean carrying a third catcher.  We don't really have a competent third catcher in the system.  

what about torrealba?  if he's still a free agent, he could be the backup for conger, and release/bench ibanez.

id really like a defensive specialist behind the plate to backup conger's weakness.

One game showed it how?

pitchers will use his aggressiveness against him when runners are on base.  make him chase pitcher pitches.

Classic. Somewhere in the back of your mind you could probably see Mike poisoning Smith just so Frieri could close last night, can't you?

no, poisoning smith would mean smith was actually sick which he probably wasnt.  come on just yesterday it was in the papers about frieri possibly getting his closer job back, then today he gets sick and is vomiting in the bullpen.   so frieri has to fill in - you really think it's a coincidence?

this coming from a man who claimed he didnt pinch run for kendrick against the rangers because kendrick was dealing with a sore foot.  then a reporter asked kendrick what was wrong with him and kendrick said he was perfectly fine.  remember that game back in 2012? 

how convenient.  yesterday there was talks of scioscia wanting to put frieri back in the closers role and today smith coincidentally gets sick.

please stop believing a liar like scioscia. 

#Angels manager Mike Scioscia apparently doesn't mind that Ernesto Frieri has a 7.79 ERA against the Rangers. They have a 1.059 OPS vs him.

lol 

frieri in a one run game?  havent we learned from that situation.

they called up luis jimenez just for platooning reasons?

2013 pujols is back.