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Jerome and Sarah:
 
It was a great little run and we all hope this provides the opportunity to take the next positive step.  You've been gracious and tenacious.
 
We will miss you and those adorable children of yours!
 
A sincere thanks from the Angels Win family!

Well I would hope to get them on two year deals. Yes this team is old, that is why you do both, you sign veterans and trade for youth. I think you will get higher end talent that way.

It better than last years.

Kazmir is the Lane Kiffin of pitchers.

A famous author (E.E Cummings) had the exact same problem with his writing.  At the end of one essay, E.E. Cummings simply included a long line of commas, periods, semi colons and full colons to appease an editor.  You may want to consider, as a signature,  including all of the punctuations available with a friendly note to any disgruntled reader that they can stick these anywhere they like. 
 
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/e-e-Cummings

He's good but he needs to stop making himself look like an asshole. The dude rejected a contract worth more than his native country's GDP. 

http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=0&type=2&season=2013&month=0&season1=2009&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=4235,7450
 
weaver vs. hughes.  batted ball. 

3/24 with an option year.  I am telling you, this is the guy that would succeed with the halos.  He's young and his GB, FB, LD, SO, BB rates are scarily similar to Weaver according to Fangraphs over the last five years.   The main divergence is his HR rate.  HMMMM, I wonder why that is.  He's not Weaver of course, but at 8mil per and the age of 28, he's a really good candidate to outperform that contract. 

I really think you brought up an important point, which was that Jerry sees less offense vs defense and more net value.  I think a perfect example of this is last season.  The Angels were coming off an 87 win season in which they tanked at the very end so they were reasonably a 90 win team.  Haren and Santana weren't very good at all.  He signed Josh Hamilton which he figured would help on the offensive end and signed Blanton and traded for Hanson because he assumed they couldn't be much worse that Haren and Santana in 2012.  Combining those moves, along with Burnett and Madson in the bullpen, it really seemed like a sure thing this ball club would win 90+ games. 
 
Things went south in a big way and everyone faulted Dipoto for it, which is fair, but I think most would've agreed that before the season started, the Angels team he designed had to be a favorite to win the AL West.  Pujols' foot fell off, Hamilton forgot how to swing the bat, Madson's arm was never reattahed, Burnett's arm detached, Joe Blanton was a pile of awful (as many predicted), Weaver broke his arm and Tommy Hanson suffered a terrible family tragedy.  
 
It's really hard to plan for that kind of stuff.  So when Jerry's planning the 2014 ball club and uses net value, I hope he plans for Pujols and Hamilton being awful and Weaver's continued regression and over-compensates in a manner that creates a 100-win ball club.  

Sale is pretty solid and the last two years has turned in more quality starts than Price plus he under control until 2019 I think.

I like it. My concern is garza sighing before the posting gets figured out.
On twitter I read an article about a possible trade for Sale invoking HK and Trumbo. Im sure it would cost more than that though.

Good post tdawg, don't let the turkeys get you down.  We may disagree but at least you are throwing out ideas.

Your ideas seem completely realistic compared to other proposals here.  Just stick around and you'll figure that out

You can post whatever proposals you want. Honestly no one here knows any better than you do about what the Angels will do and what is best for the team.
 
I've seen much, much worse. The good thing is that you are perfectly ok with people critiquing your ideas and don't lash out, unlike others.

Someone posted on Twitter that he sucks

To soon, mancini, to soon.

I read on Twitter that Trumbo went to Colorado.

Give the guy a break he is just repeating a rumor that he read on Twitter.

It must be true. Everything on twitter is true. 

My concern is we hold out for Tanaka and we lose the posting to the Yanks or another team and Garza signs somewhere while we wait on Tanaka. It was just a thought.

We sign Tanaka and Hughes. We also go hard after Tanaka. If we are fortunate to get Tanaka we sign him and trade either Aybar or HK for prospects. We might be over on the luxury tax for the first year but our pitching rotation would be awesome! Thoughts?

How about "The Prophet"?   I mean, the guy only founded the Church of Latter Day Saints and is viewed as a prophet on the level of Moses for Mormons...

If we don't get Tanaka, we should try to sign Tanaka or trade for Tanaka. 

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Happy Thanksgiving to the AngelsWin members. I also wanted to say a special Happy Thanksgiving and thank you to the Men and Women of our Armed Services for keeping our great country safe!