notherhalo

No plausible moves or acquisitions out there could make them competitive, therefore their best chance lies with them getting the worst possible record.

Trout and Ren-done are sadly untradable but it's unlikely for us to be competitive until both those contracts are up

This has been the best off-season in recent times.   If they want to take a step backwards we can sign Snell this weekend and finish with 76 wins instead of 71 wins in 2024

Does anyone out there hold the view that both sides have plenty of scumbags?

Gascon leading the polls

Good

It's too bad we can't trade him for an outfielder like Tanaka

also, doesnt Porn King Hideki Matsui have a wife that nobody has ever seen, but there are sketches out there

On 2/29/2024 at 1:29 PM, nothing, Nothing said:

Bobby Valentine just said the girl he married is a 'Orange County gal'. Costa Mesa has a large Japanese population and from my research I think I found out who she is , solid 8/10 if you ask me.

2/10 sharp elbows

RIP Brandon

Does he hold an angels record for position player games played without home run?

Like @Tank my Dad called me son and my mom calls me by my full first name.   Shes said before, "I see you on facebook Matthew, dont add me, Im not your friend, Im your mom".  good good

Parents these days talk to their kids like they are scared of them, or something.

Id be happy if we traded him to Cleveland or whatever the saddest city in America is, just so he can "do his job" somewhere more lame

10 hours ago, Chuck said:

If Trevor Bauer pitched for the Angels and went up against Yamamoto or Kershaw, it would be right up there with the Ramon Ortiz (little Pedro) going up against Pedro Martinez and the Jim Abbott vs. Roger Clemens game if he won that contest. 

The hype would be amazing. 

Weaver vs Kershaw was a good one, although I think we lost (F'n Wells)

Saunders vs Greinke was a really good one (thanks GMJr)

Matt Palmer did well against Tim Lincecum

Doing my own research here as the whether this is something new

How big of a game would Trevor Bauer vs the Dodgers be?

How great of an Angel win that COULD be

Kind of surprised I just now learned about this

lots of small balances owed in my name, in my parents, and like 80% of my friends

https://ucpi.sco.ca.gov/en/Property/SearchIndex

On 2/10/2024 at 5:23 AM, Lhalo said:

You think he was elected? Haha!

I try not to post here too much since forums are filled with armchair COVID/Ukraine/Palestine/Latest Thing "experts"

Ive been to Ukraine probably 15 times, often staying weeks or months.   Ive been to all major cities except Ivano-Franksisk and a ton of small towns and I went there pre Maidan (when it was still close to Russia) and after.  I had a serious relationship with a UA girl from the East and my good friend lost his wife who was bombed in Melitopol.  I had two offices there.

They have election observers, who I have met and had drinks with personally, who go to all the small towns to verify these things.  They are not 100% effective, I think, but they do a good job.   I would have a real hard time thinking it was a "rigged election", read on for more

Now for Putin level "the earths cooling phase was 4 billion years ago" thing

Ukraine to the West is very agricultural, they do tend to speak more Ukrainian there and you could possibly think of it like farmland America, generally pretty proud of their homeland and also kinda racist or protective (they have been at war with Poles, felt a lower class to Jewish people in the past pre WW2, other races nobody here has heard of they fought with) and they are generally happy to be Ukrainian and pass down their memories of the people who kept it from being like the status quo.

On the East side, you hear a lot more Russian, many people of course have family there as it was taken by the USSR and they crushed religion, eliminated history more effectively there in the bigger cities.  Dont forget that in USSR days they moved people around.

Leading up to the so called "coup", Russians had these special police that would shake down people like crazy, beat the hell out of them.  Russians would come in and trash talk UA people, tons of other pressures that caused 90% of Ukrainians to really want to be their own country, not bound or dependent on RU.    Ukraine was the headquarters of the KGB in the Soviet days, RU was upset that the smart people were left to stay in Ukraine after the collapse.

When you go to Ukraine, they all love Americans, including before the so called coup.   Many of them speak English, almost all of them are cool with you and they all complain about the corruption (it was bad, and still is, Soviet legacy).  This is quite opposite to Russia where much of the population is brainwashed, but secretly dreams about getting out of their khrushchevka run down apartments and getting a greencard.  There are still many many good Russian people, but they are generally brainwashed quite effectively, without free press, without election observers, with lots of hate as a result of an effective dictator, who is in turn, the worlds wealthiest person in a very poor country.

The Ukrainians overall, were done with this so called "brotherhood" to Russia.   Its certainly a corrupt country (like Russia), it certainly does have some lost NeoNazi type guys there (not a huge amount, and there are like 0 Jews/etc in their vicinity anyway) and it does have a % of people who pledge allegiance to RU and live on the border sides.

If you subtract that and take the remaining 95% of people - they are smart, the girls are unbelievably hot, they are honest, hardworking and want to be Western.   They take the time to learn English, they learn about our foods, our sports, all that stuff and just wish to be left alone.  Supporting them feels like a sick dog at the vet, you want to keep it alive, but the bills and pressure keep piling up.   It doesnt help that there is probably some DNC corruption mixed in.   Like Russias relation to Ukraine, like our funding to Ukraine, and Ukraines ability to keep themselves alive, its all going to fall apart if they cant keep the corruption down.    The people deserve better.

About Tucker Carlsons supermarket thing

Moscow/St Petersburg is beautiful but like many CIS cities they invest in their capitals and completely ignore their small towns.  Go to the villages and see how they live in a life of despair.   Tucker Carlson gets groceries that is like a weeks worth of salary for a Russian person working as an engineer.    I know a power plant engineer there who makes like $600 a month.   That would be like those groceries costing us $1250 - $2000.   

Last years pre-season poll had all but one vote saying yes 

How's their revenue with no Shohei and bankrupt TV sponsor that hasn't been settled?

Can they support a better payroll?

I wonder how many people fell for Putin's., "well Ukraine wasnt a country 120 years ago, according to me, so they dont deserve to be a country now" schtick

5 hours ago, T.G. said:

 

Curtis Pride!

excellent!  the unforgettable hit against NYY

LaTroy Hawkins honorable mention?

Can we claim asylum and just say we have no ID? Get free health insurance 

Jeff Mathis - the final out of Weaver's career

If we paid politicians 10/20 million dollars a year as salary for congressman/politician

big corruption was the death penalty

small corruption was a one time warning to get fired, or just getting fired/banned

they had to anonymize themselves, no pictures, no names, people voted them in based on their words and performance, no stock trading

would that be a better situation?

I think he would get $1,000,000 raised from OC alone

he monitors the socials when there is a call for a big looting and starts breaking kneecaps on the way out

Guy would beat up looters and not get caught 

Damn its a great place to drink

Im thinking that with Texiera, we we closest to our peak and on the way up at a time when there wasnt tough competition

We already sucked with Pujols, Hamilton, Shohei, etc