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I'm a piece of space station debri falling through the atmosphere...

Protect yourself from NASA...

First thing that came to my mind.

Hello, this is my first new topic since signing up.
I was thinking about when Taylor Ward faceplanted into the wall.  Obviously everybody knows that he wasn't the same after that.
But then I started thinking about how he got hit in the face with the ball last year and whether he'd ever be the same again, being traumatized twice in 2 years like that.  Strangely, it would almost appear like getting hit in the face has reverse-concussed him, if that's even a thing!  Like it somehow knocked him back into his old self.

Btw, fun random fact:  Taylor Ward's wife's name......is Taylor.

Sandoval please go at least 4 innings 

I miss Vladdy so much. Can you imagine had he and Trout been playing together during that stretch instead of Erstad in center. 

ftfy

I am being an optimist, 162 games....
 
combined

So then what was with all those BS trades at the end of the season? Who were they trying to impress? 

Then trade Ohtani
 
Dumbass not to do so 

So then what was with all those BS trades at the end of the season? Who were they trying to impress? 

I didn't know Kelvim Escobar had a cat.

Plot twist. Trout didn't know because there never was a girlfriend.
 
Last week when this story was breaking, Shohei was watching Shawshank Redemption, and the part where Andy tells the asshole guard "do you trust your wife" and on and on about the IRS.
So he's faking being married because he thinks wives protect you from the IRS 
(Remember that he watched this without Ippei, so he didn't understand the whole scene exactly how Andy said it)

Rendon broke Arte.  
 

So, if Arte knew he wasn't going to re-sign Ohtani, then WTF did he not allow Perry to trade him?
 
Fucking Arte...

In 2012 I was setting up the location for the Angelswin Fanfest. I was looking for an upgrade from the defunct Hail Mary's sports bar and found a nice place with a patio that could hold up to 50 people. That would have been a record showing for an Angels win Fanfest, and I had it locked down at a fan friendly price which included bar food. 
Then Arte Moreno screwed that all up by signing Albert Pujols to a 10 year contract.
All of a sudden we started getting more and more people wanting to come and quickly it blew past the 50 person limit. Suddenly it had become a major event and how to house all of those old and new fans was going to be a challenge. So I told Chuck the days of grungy sports bars were over, we had to dress up this event and become more, lots more. And we ended up being just that.
 I found the Fiesta Resort and Conference Center, right down the road from Tempe Diablo stadium, and started wheeling and dealing for a conference room. I reserved a room that could seat 125 people with an attached patio, bar service with a real catered meal and to top it off got special room rates. At the time we had only 75 or so reservations and by the night of the event every single table was full. Somehow @Brian Ilten kept track of all partygoers and checked them in, no party crashers at this event. 
But that was only part of the surprise for the fans. Chuck with his connection to Tim Mead, put together and amazing list of players, including Jerome Williams and Cole Calhoun that attended a couple of Fanfests over those years. But the surprise guest was Arte Moreno himself. I almost didn't know what to say when I greeted him at the entrance to the conference room. He wasn't even sure what he was walking into so I explained this was a gathering of fans, both casual and season ticket holders, through a website dedicated to Angels baseball. He looked at me like, what? A handshake later, him and Carol, along with some of his staff, entered the room and the crowd went crazy.
Arte gave a speech to the fans that is on the Angelswin website, I'm sure @Chuck can drop a link to the video. It was the first Fanfest of it's kind and from then it kept growing to the point we hosted over 230 people at the Fiesta Resort in even larger banquet rooms which featured Don Baylor and Tim Salmon as guest speakers. It was a ton of work but to see fans just reveling in being fans of the team made it worth the effort. 

To be fair, we didn’t have Stassi last year and the rest of those guys minus Shohei were below or well below offensive players last year.