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I feel like I remember someone yesterdays saying watch the royals bullpen to see how it’s done.  Their bullpen is a total shit show.  

How is a guy with a career era of over 5 still pitching in this league.  

If you walk valazquez you deserve to potentially cost your team the game.  

Please get the electronic strike zone next year.  This is getting obnoxious.  That applies to calls for both teams. 

Is there a mental problem with the royals manager. Is he asleep?

Royals handing over the game.  That earlier post about watching the royals bullpen certainly didn’t age well. 

Good to know that there are other crappy managers out there.  Not sure what the royals manager was doing after two lead off walks with a 5 run lead.  Thanks very much fellow idiot manager. 

35 minutes ago, PattyD22 said:

Well we propelled the Phillies into a 9 game win streak.

This is like a “we’re the tallest midget” conversation.

In all honesty, this series should be an interesting pillow fight, complete with tons of strikeouts and terrible offense.

But……someone has to win.

Prediction:   After reaching the 23rd inning of a 1-1 angels mariners game, MLB suddenly declares that ties are allowed after the 13th inning.  

I love all the jabs at Suzuki.  His passed  ball last night hurt the rookie pitcher…..

Stupid take.  Especially with guys on expiring contracts when you are losing get what you can.  You can always resign in the off-season.  
 

funny how they don’t mention Houston, Tampa bay, and Oakland.  All teams that lost hard and traded off assets at the deadline for the future that allows them to become consistently successful despite operating with lower payrolls. Hanging in mediocrity is the worst place to be.  
 

Also as someone mentioned the angels get to operate with a huge payroll and still manage to lose.  It is unfair to compare Pittsburgh’s practices with the angels. 

1 minute ago, Angel Oracle said:

Is this ever going to get back to normal?   17 months now!

Not if people don’t get vaccines.  The more it gets passed around the more variants develop and the less likely those variants are stopped by the vaccine.  Thanks non vaxers. 

Did he really call ohtani’s home run while down 10-0 “heroics”?

12 minutes ago, stormngt said:

Why did they make the decision to change the name?

Because of political pressure from activist groups

6 minutes ago, St1ck said:

Business decision 

Yes and yes.  It all starts with politically correct complaining from activist groups.  However, this causes sponsers to stop supporting the team so they aren’t associated with anything perceived to be offensive.  That is the business decision. So they are both correct. 

4 hours ago, mmc said:

Jack Mayfield is somehow still on the team.

4 hours ago, stormngt said:

Ward was having a solid year.  Top bad he had to be sent down.   

They obviously believe Eaton was better and it's better to have Ward get get everyday ABs.

I would have kept him up as 4th OF and release Legares.  Better bat off the bench.  Plus he could play 3b and 1b as well.

Why do we still have Mayfield on the roster?

Great call guys. 

Does Vegas set over/under for numbers of games played before hitting the IL for uptown, trout, and tendon?

If they are going to make a run this is the last ditch.  11 of the next 15 against the twins, Rockies, and rangers.  Three of the worst teams on the league.  In those 11 they need to go at least 8-3 and then split with Oakland.  10-5 or better needs to be done. 

16 minutes ago, ThisismineScios said:

Nice try. 

Last year, they didn’t have Ohtani. Take out his games pitched (14) and his runs (28), and they are up to 5.75 per game. Which is…last. .07 worse than the Diamondbacks. 

I always love the “if you take out” posts.  If you take out all the runs the starters gave up they’d have a 0.00 era. 

I for one am still curious how the discussion really went with the angels.  He is thriving with the dodgers because they are employing him almost strictly has a platoon against lefties.  Playing every other day probably helps keep his hemorrhoids from flaring up too bad.  

So while my math may be a bit off the angels play the Yankees on august 18th.  His streak might be 53 at that time.  Do the Yankees intentionally walk him every at bat to end the streak.  If I were a Yankees pitcher I’d through everything pitch 1 foot away from the zone.  

Congrats to jered kelenic for already holding a top 10 position on an all time mlb list. 

This matchup is borderline lopsided. Angels will take 5/6 from the Mariners. 

56 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Since we only beat bad teams that must mean the Red Sox are a bad team.  That makes me happy. 

I said a few times that the angels are overall better than the Red Sox.  Also predict 90 wins.  Most haven’t been believing me.  Thanks to the schedulers 6 in a row against a bad seattle team.  Lots of easy wins over the next month with Detroit and Baltimore again.  Will be in the thick of the wild card race by mid august. 

Yup.  As I said.  Will take 5/6 from the Mariners and back in it with trout coming back.  Better overall team than Boston. 

The angels are a better overall team than the Red Sox.  They are in first place.  90 wins here we come. 

According to baseball reference the angels are 2-0 on the season when they make a good defensive play.