resinman

Josh Hamilton needs another surgery on his left knee and will miss the remainder of the season.

I'm a true angel fan, from the 1960s early 60s, my dad and his dad took me to my first angel game at old Wrigley Field I will never forget that, that old Crackerbox field of a ballpark and to this day I'm still a true fan gone through a lot of ups and downs with this team but all in all I wouldn't change a thing.

I'm a true angel fan, from the 1960s early 60s, my dad and his dad took me to my first angel game at old Wrigley Field I will never forget that, that old Crackerbox field of a ballpark and to this day I'm still a true fan gone through a lot of ups and downs with this team but all in all I wouldn't change a thing.

At the end of the day I would feel much more confident handing the ball to Shoe in a playoff game than I would CJ.

Clearly signing him to begin with was worse, if only because it directly led to trading him. But both were stupid.
 
Notti, there's another choice for Arte: swallow your big-ass ego pride and try to make things work with him. My sense is that Arte felt burned, had a hurt ego, and made Dipoto dump Hamilton in any way possible. But as others have said, a happy and healthy Hamilton would be helping this club right now.
 
The big, glaring problem that this franchise has is the same problem the Yankees had in the 80s, their worst decade in history: a meddling owner. Arte needs to step out of baseball operations and let the people that actually have a clue make decisions.

Both to an extent, but varying degrees.
 
He was already declining and Arte for some reason decided once Greinke was moving on that he had to spend that kind of money.
 
But realistically, dumping him and eating that much money is a cardinal sin in the business world. You can't pay someone to compete against you in any industry. The team wasn't even built for just tossing him.
 
I could deal with taking a chance and him being a bust, but not tossing him for nothing and him being what was expected. He wasn't ever healthy enough in his two seasons to think he was just a failure. At least get some kind of ROI.
 
I'm not gonna lie, I still want him on the team.

This is a very, very nice run, but against two teams who are last in their divisions, and the other second to last.  And this followed 4 wins against Oakland, who were obviously in a nose dive.  The playoffs will be completely different.  We need all hands on deck especially veterans, and including Hamilton.  I think it's great we get someone like Iwakuma on Monday night, let's try to hit like this against quality pitching.  Seattle will be desperate for wins next week, that will be a good test of where we really are.  I see no reason to celebrate Hamilton missing any more playing time.
 
If he does miss much more time I think it will start to become very difficult to get any type of hitting timing down before the playoffs however.
 
We are still very thin on starters, I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that Weaver, Shoemaker and Santiago stay healthy for a few more weeks.

No worse or more distracting than the non-stop drum pounding and cowbells.