notherhalo

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
 

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

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
 

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
 

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
 

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

How big of a game would Trevor Bauer vs the Dodgers be?
How great of an Angel win that COULD be

How big of a game would Trevor Bauer vs the Dodgers be?
How great of an Angel win that COULD be

How big of a game would Trevor Bauer vs the Dodgers be?
How great of an Angel win that COULD be

It's possible to hold this view but not simultaneously suck Putin's dick.

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.   

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.   

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.   

Way to get out of that bases loaded no outs jam, Weaver! 

Curtis Pride!

Jeff Mathis - the final out of Weaver's career

Jeff Mathis - the final out of Weaver's career

play as good as the last out, until also something good happens to you

i doubt you could convince them to take this kind of pay cut.

nother, has anyone ever taken an ice pick to your orbital lobe?

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/google-lays-off-hundreds-of-employees-overnight/amp/
News of the layoff broke overnight when hundreds of Google’s employees lost corporate access and then received notice that their roles had been eliminated completely. 
This shit has become more of the normal now, no advance notice but employees find out by their card key not working on the doors. Warner Bros fired an entire casting crew by moving to a new building but not giving the employees an access card. They all showed up for work only to be told they were locked out and contact HR. Their termination wasn't even emailed to them over the weekend. 
No advance notice is a dick move. It gives employees no reason to have any loyalty and bail without notice since it is now an established protocol. The silent quitting is simply reaction to corporations that do silent layoffs.
I don't blame anyone these days for simply quitting without notice when they've reached their break point. I almost did it last season when my working hours to do a show completion was cut 60% by some entity at Warner Bros that thought they could arbitrarily cut post costs at the end delivery point with no regard to processing time. They ended up paying more by fracturing the post timeline. 

Guy would beat up looters and not get caught 

In my mind, there will never be a better time to make make sweeping changes to the Angels organization.  Some of the things that pop into my mind are changing the name back to California Angels (just get rid of Los Angeles), changing the uniforms, redesigning the look of the stadium (inside and outside), put emergency emphasis on player development and the associated latest development tools, and hiring the best training staff possible.  With Ohtani gone for life, it's kind of a great time to step back and make calculated changes throughout.  I'm encouraged by the Arizona and Texas models, we can do that in short order.  Baseball is not about only one superstar on a team, if there was ever a total team game this is it.  I don't necessarily want any of the remaining high priced free agents, unless they are committed to this organization plan and are willing to be reasonable in cost.  I want the the overlooked and highly motivated young players.  High priced free agents are generally inefficient.  We have a great start with Washington and his staff for the time period we are currently in that includes important young players.
Tear down the hype in the stadium of individual players especially including the pictures on the stadium front.  I would use photos of team achievement over the years, especially 2002.  There are many great historical team photos as well besides 2002.  We will always have an affinity for the uniforms that were used in our first World Series win, but those could be used for many special occasions during the year, not the everyday ones.  I would incorporate some that had ocean blue and beach sand colors on a theme like the city connects.  I know you guys have some great ideas in your head, I would like to hear them voiced.  There will probably never be a better moment to make sweeping changes than now.   Done correctly, what a great way to bring back some of the excitement following the loss of the the greatest player to play this game to date.  It's time to bury grief and move on folks!
For those of you who want a new owner, I get it.  A lot of the above is what I would hope a new owner would do.  Embrace change, big change.  We have to ditch doing the same ineffective things.
 
 

this is a funny post