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So what does everyone think of the new coaching hire? I'm waiting to see how he fills out the staff, but I like it. He was my 1B choice with Daboll being 1A. I'm a little nervous they should have gone with an offensive play caller so Herbert wouldn't need to be constantly going through OCs if they are successful, but since Staley was a college QB I think he has a pretty good grasp of offensive concepts. A best case scenario is a Belichick type who can work with his QB to explain what defenses are going to do to him and how to beat it. I think the two other knocks on him by most of the media are: 1) He' doesn't have enough experience and maybe in a year or two he should get his chance. But the Chargers won't have a head coach opening in a year or two so if they think he's the guy then they had to get him now. 2) He had Aaron Donald and Jalen Ramsey. He can't win without top talent. On the Chargers he'll have 2 of the top guys in Joey Bosa and Derwin James. If they get used properly they will be in that league. It's when the media was questioning if Phil Jackson could win with the Lakers because he could only with with MJ and Pippen. Well, he had Shaq and Kobe. He had the top talent to win. So will Staley. I think he's innovative and from what everyone says, is a great communicator and very detail oriented. Hopefully this is the coach to take the Chargers over the top.

And to win in the future! It's a 1 year deal. It doesn't tie us to a bad contract for half a decade.

I was just about to edit my post to say that moves that aren't for Bauer or Cole can still be good (and are actually necessary).

What are we doing in this thread? This is a good signing. It's cheap, it's short term, and it makes the Angels better. Hopefully the Angels do more, but this is a good move. Why is everyone trying to make this complicated? If he stinks or gets hurt then we can try to find someone else next year. If he works out, then it's awesome.

This and it's AA. He's not making personnel decisions. It's a great place to learn and he seems like a pretty smart guy.

Honestly, I want guys who throw 95+ to have control of the ball. I think it's good for player safety to not have the ball slipping out of pitcher's hands. And yes, this is something everyone does.

Lynn had one thing going for him as a coach, the players played hard for him because he was a good leader. He's lost the team and they have quit on him. He needs to be let go.

I think I like this move. It's all about the playoffs and I think I prefer Gasol against Jokic than Howard. Harrell is also a nice addition for the regular season and I think will be nice when the Lakers play smaller teams.

I just started watching The Crown. Everyone I know loves it, but I can't get into it. The stakes seem so low. Like it's just deciding which of their many houses they are going to live in and if she's going to keep her husband's last name. The general theme of the show seems to be "it's harder to be a rich, ceremonial figure head than you'd think! People are often upset with you but in the end nothing matters because you're super rich and can't get fired."

But Harold Baines was voted in by the Veteran's Committee and the the writers. I know he's in the Hall of Fame, but I don't really think the point of this discussion is whether or not Torii Hunter will get in via the Veteran's Committee. I think we're mainly talking about whether or not Hunter will and should get into the HoF via normal means. Pointing out guys who lowered the standard enough that Hunter could get into the Hall that way doesn't seem really relevant. Any pretty good player could get in that way and there's not really much to add to it because it's subject to the whims of a relatively small group of voters who haven't really had much of a consistent criteria. Yeah, Baines got in, but there have been at least 3 guys who played more recently in Lofton, Edmonds, and Jones who were all better and didn't. Lofton and Edmonds fell off the ballot after one year.

Is there a serious argument one can make that Torii Hunter should be in the HOF when Andruw Jones should not be?

I am happy with the turn this thread took. There's nothing I love more than reading about other people's fantasy teams on the internet. It's really what keeps me going.

Looks like he got another DUI this year. Hopefully he gets the help he needs, but there was 0 reason to have him in this organization. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30288007/chicago-white-sox-manager-tony-la-russa-charged-dui-stemming-february-arrest-court-docs-show?platform=amp&__twitter_impression=true

Chevy me if I'm wrong, but the Giants weren't in victory formation. I thought today one was boneheaded because they should have been in victory formation but chose to go with a straight running play.

I am rarely surprised by the Chargers blowing a lead, but I have to admit, this one got me. As a Chargers fan, I don't watch to see whether they will win or lose, it's to see how they will lose. The third quarter of this game was definitely the most confident I have been in the Chargers winning and then they got me. I'm not even mad, just impressed.

Certainly a weird hire. It's interesting because TLR is best known for constant pitching changes in the way Maddon was known for shifts, MS is known for his and run and the contact play. Pitchers now have to pitch to 3 batters or finish the inning.

Yes. That's definitely what he said. You totally comprehended that one correctly. Or maybe he was saying the average team adds 4-6 and even a tremendous team, like the Dodgers, added 4 pitchers, to give context to the situation.

Is LaRussa a good scout? I honestly have no idea if he's a good talent evaluator. He certainly traded away a lot of superior talent for inferior talent in his time in AZ. But to answer the bolded part: LaRussa has shown through his actions as GM and his comments about moves, that he clearly lacks an understanding of today's game and the markets. He is backwards thinking (and possibly out to prove that his way still works). That combined with Arte's admiration for the old school approach and good ole boys makes LaRussa's presence a constant threat to yield more power and influence in the organization. That part isn't his fault, but Arte isn't going anywhere. I don't know Tony or the steps he has taken to get help. I couldn't find anything about it on the internet, but part of apologizing is doing the work to rectify the situation as best you can and making changes. Tony has not done that publicly, I'm not sure he needs to as a person, but for the Angels to hire him after Nick Adenhart I would like to know that he went to treatment, helped out with MADD, or did something that shows he realizes the gravity of his actions. There were plenty of people on this message board who in 2009 were rightly pissed about how unseriously DUI is taken, and TLR was driving so drunk he was passed out behind the wheel at a stoplight. I don't think it's a big factor here, but it means something to me. I'm not saying he should never work, or not even never work for the Angels, it's just I don't like that the team never acknowledged it.

This is how I feel. This team isn't making the playoffs this year. I'd like them to lose every game by 3 points and then draft Sewell in the 1st. That won't happen. They will Angels it up and go on a nice win streak to finish 8-8 and miss the playoffs by a game and end up with like the 12th pick. I think Sewell is a complete stud. Best OL prospect since Pace or Ogdon?

Also, didn't Steinbrenner basically take a step back from making personnel moves in the 90s? When I think of meddling Steinbrenner I think of the 70s and 80s.

I always say the first step towards fixing the problem is not admitting what the problem is.

I think we might be going a little overboard... Trout is Trout, but everyone else has real questions. Five weeks ago Upton was "toast" and everyone on the board wanted to cut him. Ward has had one good month in MLB. I'm not ready to declare either Marsh or Adell MLB ready. At the moment we have one sure thing a, a guy who could fall off a cliff, and 4 guys who maybe don't ever make it as regulars. Yeah, that's a really negative view of things. But, we're a long way off from close to the best outfield depth in baseball.

I think our outfielders have hit better over that span.

12 of the 85 scholarship players on the team disagreed, 63 agreed, while 9 others had no definitive opinion. No data is available for walk-ons.

Not at all close to the same thing. The Angels are playing meaningless games and Simmons faces the risk of injuring himself and costing himself millions of dollars. Dipoto didn't face any of those risks. This is like Christain McCaffrey skipping the Sun Bowl. Big Whoop!