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Who is broadcasting the game tonight 

Cant find it on Ballys and cant find it on Fox Sports 

9 hours ago, ThisismineScios said:

We can argue all day and night about Perry's abilities as a GM. About his spending power. About his autonomy. About who is making the calls. 

The fact of the matter is that he is a coward. I don't care how much each individual believes it's Arte's fault. Of course a lot of it is. Most of it? Sure. But I don't feel bad for Perry at all, because he continues to allow himself to receive all the blame for the moves -- the trades, the non-trades, the offseason spending, the trajectory of 2024 and beyond. He flat out told us in October they were going to try and be competitive. Build a quality team. Spend money. And then he only signed mediocre bullpen guys, or guys that have had exactly 2 good months in their career. Didn't sign a starter. Didn't sign a single lineup addition. AND...didn't offer an explanation about the fact that the team was having a rebuilding year. In fact, pushed back against that notion. Why? We all know why. 

Because Arte won't let him. Which makes him a coward. 

Arte isn't letting him hire an AGM. Perry absolutely would hire one. His decision when asked was complete nonsense; every other team has at least one. It's obvious Arte won't pay for one. 

Arte wouldn't let him trade Ohtani. Perry would have. But he is the GM, so he willingly take the blame. 

Arte clearly cut him off this offseason. His explanation was again nonsense, not logic or reason. 

Arte clearly is focused on financial aspects. What does Perry repeat like a good little boy 3-4 times a year? "Arte and Carol Moreno are great. Arte has set no limits and is competitive and wants to win." 

Arte clearly won't let him sign actual MLB players, instead forcing him to pick the waiver wire. What is Perry saying? Nothing. Hasn't spoken about it at all. In fact, he's been in hiding. 

Arte flat out disrespected the best player in franchise history by NOT making any moves to improve the team in the offseason, despite reports that Mike was more vocal than ever and was asking every day. Who had to answer for it? Perry. Again, not a single word about Arte, just more nonsense. 

Who do you think the directive to draft quick-to-the-majors players came from? We know who would make a suggestion like that -- forget the farm, sell out to win. So 3 straight years under slot with our 1st round pick. Rushing guys to the majors, with bad results. Did Perry put his foot down to restock the system? No. 

Perry has covered for Arte for years. And I get that that is most likely what the job of a GM under Arte looks like. But no self-respecting person is going to work like that AND take every single piece of the blame. This happens because Arte never once explains anything or says, "No that was my call." He is happy to let Perry take all the flak. And if that was my boss, I'd quit. Perry looks like a foolish, incompetent, terrible decision maker. And if a lot of that is out of his control, it's better to save your dignity and a shred of your reputation than get fired, inevitably, for not getting results when it wasn't in your control, and have to work as an AGM for 3-4 more years before you can get another job.  

I am confused.  Are you suggesting Perry is a coward because he doesn't publicky call out his boss who signs his paychecks?

5 hours ago, jsnpritchett said:

Who says it's to their detriment? Angels need to find out sooner rather than later if guys like that can contribute, so I'm fine with "sooner" being now. 

Its not like they are 18 year olds.  Its time to either call them up or move on.

1 hour ago, Vlad27Trout27 said:

Guys that we should trade

   * The one-year Bp arms (package them with the bigger guys)

   * Anderson and Ward (trade them while there values are high)

   * Drury (this M'f needs to start hitting the ball, and than get packaged with Ward) 

Consider trade, if it a nice return or keep

   * Rengifo

Assess trade Value

   * Sandoval

   * Canning 

   

 

Add Adell and Detmer in the "assess trade value"

8 hours ago, wopphil said:

We are more than a few. This team is screwed for the long term. Not only does the major league team suck, the farm is among the worst in baseball. We are in for a long, long drought. 

Then trade everyone.  This includes Detmer, Ohoppe, and Neto

3 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

What I meant by "right off the cliff" was 110-120 losses. I think we can avoid that if we make some moves/trades, soon. What we're putting out there is not working.

Do not....do not make any moves to improve this year.  Make moves for the future only. 

We are a few years away

Trade Anderson, Rengifo, Ward, and should explore Adell.

Then dump every expiring conract

2 hours ago, Angelsjunky said:

Or sell and tank. They should be taking offers now, but don't really have much to sell - except for guys they'd want to keep. So right now the hope is that guys like Ward, Anderson and the relievers play well enough that they can be flipped for prospects in July. I mean, except for maybe 6-8ish guys in the entire org, everyone is expendable. 

 

If we are nore than 5 years from competing, then throw Adell, and Detmer into that mix

2 hours ago, Swordsman78 said:

Couldn't even get through April before we lose $700,000,000 + of payroll for the season.

The wheels have officially fallen off the wagon.

700 million?

You mean 70 million, right?

34 minutes ago, ScottM said:

Super depressing to watch this guy's career fall apart. 5th straight season with under 120 games played. 

That is the saddest part.  A guy who has been dominant for a decade and loyal can't stay on the field. 

This is a gut punch.

They guy only played 70 games with the Angels.  Was it so wrong that they inserted him in the lineup slowly.  It wasnt like he was platooned for three years.

54 minutes ago, HeavenlyHalos said:

Nobody is trading for Trout's contract and, frankly, I'd rather him be an Angel for life. Ward has two more Arb years so I wouldn't want to deal him either really.

If we are 2+ years away from competing we should trade.  Two years of club control should be vakuable trade piece.

1 hour ago, Stradling said:

This might be Suarez last game. 

I think you are right.

15 minutes ago, Waybackman said:

Another lost season 

Just figuring that out?

10 minutes ago, Ariamus said:

It’s actually worse than you suggest.

A really good team, one that wins in the mid-90s, averages 1 game over .500 per week of the season. That means, if they lose today, the Angels would theoretically need A WHOLE MONTH to get back to .500. And that’d only be if they were a really good team, which we know they most certainly are not.

I’d love to be as optimistic as you but I simply can’t. So I’ll just remind you the Halos are 2-4 at home so far this season playing mid-range clubs like Boston and Tampa.

People over analyze things

56 minutes ago, Halo in Chicago said:

Dude, there are no “must-win” games this year. No effort was made to compete. This is a rebuild year whether anyone associated w the Angels will say it out loud or not. 
 

This team is built to lose 90 games. As long as the kids get experience, it isn’t a lost season. Hopefully Anderson keeps dealing and gets dealt for prospects. 

I have no problem with that, but if that is the case, let the kids (Adell-Moniak) play

1 hour ago, Swordsman78 said:

This team has no fire, no passion for winning.  Culture needs an overhaul. 

Almost all the criticism has been fair.  But this.  This is BS

38 minutes ago, Swordsman78 said:

And the only series won was vs. a Tier 6 team off to a horrendous start.

Dear God you guys are pathetic with your negatism.

Our elimination number is 142

41 minutes ago, Blarg said:

It's just another game. It's hard to win in Boston so only taking 1 of 3 isn't season changing and they don't have to go back.

The entire month of April is a difficult schedule and will test the young guys and I'm guessing they are 2 games under .500 before May. 

This is going to be a bumpy ride all season long, only a couple easy opponents scattered between division and wild card teams from last year. Unless the starting pitching improves from Canning, Sandoval and Silseth there won't be any important series, just games to complete. 

Teams goes through hot streaks and cold streaks.  It seemed like each of last 3 years we started off with a great record and yet it meant little.  We can point out a lot of examples of teams starting poorly yet still make the playoffs.  

500 or one game under 500 against the East and last years playoff teans is far from a disaster.

11 minutes ago, samwum said:

Can we extend the "why are we playing Hicks over Adell discussion" to Cisnero, Strickland, Fulmer, and Wantz?

Once again bullpen is killing us.

5 minutes ago, HanfordGuy said:

I think the Angels know what they have with Adell and are looking to Hicks to be a lottery ticket. I give it a few more weeks before Washington starts sitting Hicks due to lack of bat.

Are you saying Adells upside is lower than Hicks?

4 hours ago, jsnpritchett said:

Tiny crowd tonight.  Maybe it'll fill in a bit over the first couple innings.

Competing with NCAA championship game 

3 hours ago, Dtwncbad said:

I guess I do expect some basic amount of competence in communication.  Sure, this is casual so the bar is low.  But that doesn’t mean somebody can’t notice a major trend like the one I talked about.

I think it’s perfectly fine to (what amounts to here as) rarely bring something random up and offer an opinion on it.  It’s not like I chase people around correcting them.

Fair enough point.  

8 minutes ago, Dtwncbad said:

Where did I say that I can’t deal with typos?  The conversation moved into another direction where somebody else corrected grammar and I said the misuse (not a typo) of the word “myself” is annoying.

You should be able to follow the meanings of these posts.

Ok, my bad on the typo.  

My point still exist.  We are not tring to get published and these are not graded.

Or do you suggest that we run our commebts through AI first.

45 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

@Angels 1961 should be happy...

And no Adell on his bday.

Sorry but Adell is getting F*****