AzHaloFan

Ive seen Cahill - on a good day he's solid but not much of an upgrade. I think Skaggs and Shoe are better.

Anyone have a resource to see what starters are "out there" and worthy of consideration? Furthermore, can we even AFFORD, cash/otherwise another starter? I can't see us being able to do anything else without touching the 25 man roster and frankly, I don't think I wanna mess with the chemistry.

does anyonbe know if the Angels are one of the 20 teams he would block a trade to? Not that we even have enough to get him.

Does anybody have any clue when the only Angel to come up with, play his entire career with, and retire with the team will have his number #15 retired!? His greatness as a Halo transcends statistics, even though his stats are more than respectable. I'm sure there will be many who will give reasons Salmon isn't worthy, frankly speaking, spare me

You know, perhaps this is what happens when you become an out of market fan. You aren't buying season tickets any longer, you aren't spending 25% of your income on Halo related materials, you aren't able to watch 162 games and go through each and every single good/bad pitch throughout a 162 game season. This wasn't meant to call anyones fanhood out nor was it a call to accept mediocrity. Of COURSE we can do better and of COURSE that's what I want. 11 good years aren't going to "hold me over" for another 20. I was just trying to put a little perspective on the matter. Someone mentioned how where would this site be if it had started in the 70's or 80's?? Where would this site be if not for the social media environment we find ourselves in today where you can rant and cheer for anything you want to and be noticed by 100's if not 100's of thousands within a few minutes?? Who knows. And Ukyah, you are the first person to call anything I've ever said on this forum "BS", congratulations.

I sometimes read posts and wonder why are we all griping SO much. Don't we have better things to flip out over in April!? As a kid and young adult, being an Angels fan was never about a winning season. It was JUST about going to a ball game, enjoying the surroundings and hoping we won the game I was at. Maybe I was just young, but what I WAS more than anything was "without expectations". Winning the whole thing in 2002 was so far beyond my wildest dreams, I can't even put it into words. Winning back to back western titles and going to the playoffs 3 times in 5 years was unbelievable. Winning back to Back to BACK 07-09 - are you kidding me!? I have to admit that after 2005 (when we SHOULD have made it to the series, thanks Doug Eddings) when we couldn't make it confidently deep into the playoffs, I became fine with getting in and winning a series. Shoot, sweeping Boston in 2009 WAS my WS - I truly didn't even care about passing the Yankees that year because sweeping Boston in the playoffs was probably up there with winning another title - something I never thought would ever happen. Not to get all "history lesson" on everyone but my point is, we as fans, have NEVER had it so good! We went from 1961 to 1979 before we even made the playoffs. From then, we made it only two more times over the next 7 years. That means 3 playoff appearances in FORTY years!! Since 2002 this franchise and it's fans have had, an 11 year stretch where we made the playoffs 6 times, 5 as West Champs (1 repeat and a 3 peat), reached the ALCS 3 times and won a World Championship!! ALL this after a 16 year playoff drought, 2 ownership changes,3 uniform changes, a players strike...need I go on?? If you would have told ME in 2002, opening day, that those were things that were GOING to happen, over the next 11 years I'd have looked at you like you were a drunk Red Sox fan. I still get pissed when we lose dumb games. Angels blood runs thru my veins and has since 1979 (read my signature). At the same time, I'm not going to gripe n b!tch and whine when we are 5 games down in April because ya know what bro, I've BEEN there, DONE that. We have 144 games to go and the baseball season is more like an Ironman, than it is a simple marathon. I'm likely in the vast minority, but I am just happy to be an Angels fan.

Being the lone Angels fan in a family full of DBacks fans I can assure you that my head would be rolling if Trumbomb would have been a bomb. Phoenix loves Trumbo and Trumbo loves Phoenix...it is truly the pitching that has DBacks fans going nuts.

I've been riding this horse for WAY too long to even THINK about the next 5 years. At this point, I am still just happy that baseball is back. It's kind of like dating - I'm just happy to know that after months of being single (the offseason) that I am back to dating again. April is almost like date #1 (maybe even date 2 & 3 as well). I am happy to enjoy "her" company, to the point where I am overlooking her minor flaws that in the grand scheme of things, won't REALLY matter. When date #4 comes along in May, maybe even Mid May if the goodnight kiss is good enough (i.e. we are at or near to .500 AND playing with promise) , is when I will really start to figure out if this is someone I can roll with, happily, for a while. I could go on, and maybe I will at some point, but with it being SUCH a long season that my heart and soul is so deeply invested in, I have learned to pace myself. So sit back, order your beverage of choice and get to know the good and bad of your new gal, before really flipping out. Or don't, maybe you have more fun falling apart at every loss over the span of 7 LONG months. "See ya at the yard meat!"

And where have I heard THAT before?? Just sayin

Comeback Player of the Year2014 - Albert Pujols (you can write that down)

I'm waiting for us to dump Blanton, the A's to pick him up, and for us to get swept in a series that Kazmir & Blanton throw shut outs against us.

I used to loathe Kinsler - now I don't - he's still a tool because, well he just is, but anyone who hates on Texas has at least 1 star by his rating status by me.

I personally have thought for years that their needs to be a ginormous parking structure and that even just half the land surrounding the stadium should be improved upon. Imagine like a AngelsLand surrounding the stadium - it would be a freaking cash COW. The sales tax revenue alone should be incentive enough for Anaheim to let Arte have his way and see what he can make of it.

Sean who??

Nope haven't given up on him at all - He DOES need to suck it up and get his foot fixed. He isn't going to be the one to bring us out of this nightmare of a season, much less wtih a peg leg. "You give yourself up for the greater good of the team..." Darin Erstad, circa 2002

I beg to differ. The Cards KNEW this was coming and did little, if anything to offer him what he legitimately deserved. I truly believe he WANTED to stay in STL but when they didn't show up, he listened to other offers and Arte WANTED him. A guy like Pujols DOES have pride in his ability to be one of the best the game has ever seen. I 100% believe that he has way too much pride and integrity to ride the pine or bat .187 into June and collect $20+MM.

Just to qualify myself I am not a Scioscia supporter or detractor - we suck right now and I'd really like it if we would stop sucking

Ok, Sooooo for Ghits and Siggles, lets pretend that Arte & Jedi hear the fanbases cries and they tell Scioscia to pack it up. Who comes into this mess?? Who handles the big names and even bigger contracts? Tito is in Cleveland and the chance to get him was really this winter before the Tribe got him - didn't happen. LaRussa is 100% done managing and has said so many times in no such nice terms more often than not - NOT happening. Torre has a cushy job with the MLB Front Office and did not fair very well the last time he was outside of New York - WONT happen. Erstad, frankly, is likely nowhere near ready I imagine this has already become enough of a circus for Arte and we do NOT want a Bobby Valentine West situation soooo what happens next? Or do we just need to keep Weaver, Kendrick, Pujols, Trout & Trumbo host a Fire Sale sooner than later, get what we can and move forward??

Arte to blame?! Really!? That's a clown statement Bro. Dude has bankrolled the glory years of this franchise and like it or not, the LA of A thing brought in a boatload of cash - directly and indirectly. The blame comes SOLEY on underperforming players. In that case, it CAN become the problem of the staff members whose JOB it is to make sure those players are preparred and able to make in game adjustments when needed. This team doesn't have a lack of talent, it has a lack of direction (other than the downward spiral) and a lack of an identity (other than being paid a quarter of a billion dollars worth of suckage).

IF I remember correctly, when asked early on in ST, who he was most surprised by/who looked good, Sosh immediately responded with "Vernon". Dude is a great charitable guy, hung out with Trouty to show him some ropes AND is responsible for hooking me up with tickets to take my son to his first baseball game...the same ST game Albert Pujols made his Angels debut in - I'll never be mad at Vernon (albeit he made it really easy to not cheer for him when he was here)

You forgot to use red ink

This entire season to date can be realistically boiled down to a few points... 1. The pitching S U C K S!! 2. The hitters are pressing. 3. Sosh does neither of hitting or pitching (he obviously does little of anything but have that emotionless face, but thats irregardless) 4. The last name out there as a replacement went to Cleveland this winter. 5. We do not have the resources to trade for arms that would help us. At best we fire Butcher (it is HIS job to make sure the pitchers are as prep's as possible and to instruct, WITH RESULTS, in game adjustments - he has FAILED) , and do the best we can with what we have. I have not read a single line anywhere on the entire internet that has come up with a plausable managerial fix to this mess. I remember the days when we would bring in free agents that should "put us over the edge" and as much as we hoped, we were the same old Angels. The difference these days is you have the "Golden Glory Days" of 2002-2009 where the fan base 1, got spoiled and 2, exploded tenfold. That "tenfold" knows no better. Those who came to this team as a fan (and I'm not trying to diss those who fit into this category) during those years, frankly have a silver spoon in their mouths. Now that we have had a few down years everybody and their mother is breathing fire. At the end of the day we have a owner and front office who are 100% commited to putting the best team on the field they can - they have done just that. The unfortunate reality is that what things look like on paper and what actually plays out, are all too often, far apart (current example - 2012-2013 Lakers) I am going to fist pump and "hell yeah" when we turn a sweet double play or when Trouty walks something off or whenever anything else awesome occurs. I am going to want to throw my phone/tv/radio through the window when we lose a game we should have won over a dump call, play, decision, or whiff at a bad pitch with RISP. I am a FAN. I live and die with this team. Those of us who have been here long enough, I'm sure, have sworn this team off one day, only to be 3 pages deep into the OCR two days later. It's kind of like how when Crash Davis goes off..."I QUIT...F*vk this!!! F*ck this Fv*king game!!" - storms out of the office, manager lights a smoke and pops open a beer and low and behold, Crash is back "who do we play tomorrow??". That is how Crash was as a player and that's how I am as a fan - it's just who I am. #AzHaloFanOUT

That list is clown bro - any top 10 baseball movie list that does NOT include 8 men out, Angels in the Outfield and has Bull Durham NOT #1 is a waste of time. Who here would rather watch Mr. 3000, than Angels in the Outfield, seriously. Here is mine, wait for the shocker at the end.... 1 Bull Durham 2. The Natural 3. Baseball - the PBS series by Ken Burns 4. Eight Men Out 5. Angels in the Outfield 6. The Bad News Bears - 1976 7. The Sandlot 8. Fever Pitch - ONLY because it explains our crazy fandom to laypeople 9. Major League 10. The Fan Honorable Mention - Moneyball - but they got the ending wrong because the story was about the team who won the WS that year right? Oh...wait. Shocker...I OWN Field of Dreams but have never actually sat down and watched it.

At the very least get him in as a BP coach. I can't imagine anyone better suited for the gig. He would steer that ship well!