Frieri Meatball

Most of those roles start with a number like 15 day or 60 day

i've just learned that the angels have gone ahead and sent him a package of promotional pictures so he knows what he can expect upon his arrival here. 

Please go manage hometown buffet and stuff yourself til you blow up

Listen here you little shit. This has been explained to you multiple times, and you choose to ignore it every. Single. Time.
The Angels do not have to make up the amount of games they are behind this year. Let me repeat that you deaf Facking twatwaffle.
THE ANGELS DO NOT HAVE TO MAKE UP THE AMOUNT OF GAMES THEY ARE BEHIND THIS YEAR.
Why? Because next year is a completely different year with different schedules and situations. Do you think the A's can stand Pat and still win 95+ games? No, because every season is completely different. 
God I want to bitchslap you through my monitor. 
Are you trolling me right now? I feel like I'm going insane. 
Remember when you ignored the reference to 2002 where the Angels made no significant improvements and went from a 75 win team to a World Series? That was really fuckin neat. 
Go ahead and troll vote me you ass tickling cumbeast. You know I'm right and your opinion is stupid and everything about your opinion is HIV Positively Facking gay.
I hate you 

I'm more partial to this design
 
 

Credibility lost.

Sosh has been the manager for pretty much my entire tenure as a fan. Technically I started "following" during the early nineties but was too young to really remember much. I do clearly remember 1995 bringing the suck. But 2000 was when I started getting truly invested in how well the team was doing and knowing all the players and all that. 
When 2002 happened, I was definitely blessed. I certainly hadn't carried the burden of disappointment on my shoulders the way my dad had, and the way so many of you had, but it was still an incredibly special moment that I'll remember and cherish for the rest of my life. Scioscia was right there in the middle of it all.
In a sense, Mike Scioscia is more synonymous with the Angels than anyone, at least from my perspective. Not Percival, not Erstad, not GA, or K-Rod or Weaver. Not Salmon. Mike has been in the dugout since I was an annoying, bratty kid. He was there through the good and the bad. Though we tend to forget just how much good there truly was.
His decisions have caused so many emotions over the years. Mostly frustration. Sometimes anger. Other times complete confusion. But another one has consistently hidden in the back of my mind, and it's shame. No, not shame for Mike or for the team, but for myself. It's natural to completely overlook decisions a manager makes that ultimately help the team. In fact, we often see something good happening IN SPITE of his decisions. But the shame I've felt has been through all my years of complaining over every little decision, every lineup, every pitching change, and never did I think to correct myself when his decisions worked out. Considering his career record, I'd say he made the right decision more often than not. After all, he was the manager. Not me. There's a good reason for that.
Anyway, while I am fully on board with getting a new manager and moving on from Scioscia, I can't shake this bittersweet feeling that tightens around my chest. It's time to move on. It's time. But I will always respect Scioscia as the greatest manager in Angels history and the only manager to lead this team to a World Series ring. 
For better or worse, the dugout won't be the same without him. And neither will the Angels.

Season can’t end soon enough. But in reality they should cut five dudes tonight to send a message. It’s Facking bullshit how little accountability there is in this organization. 

Results don’t matter to the Angels.. we all know that. Mike Scisocia has been to the playoffs 1 time since 2009 and leads us year after year to mediocre results. Yet he stays. 
 
Albert Pujols, Luis Valbuena, etc make it to clear to me that winning just isn’t at the forefront. Moreno is chasing money and couldn’t care less about winning a World Series, or even making the playoffs for that matter. They get the best player in baseball and F*ck it up big time, can only get him to the playoffs once. Fire the entire coaching staff, release valbuena, force pujols to the bench. Thats what the RED SOX/YANKEES/CARDS etc. would do... because losing isn’t acceptable. 

Tip the cap.  Turn the page.  yawn.  you can only give the other team so much credit and blame injuries.  
At some point someone has to acknowledge the lack of performance.  
It's kinda ground hog day.  Starters leave early.  Pen gives up runs.  Offense can't hit with RISP.  
We might not be a playoff team, but give us something.  anything.  
 

I am going to be extremely pissed if we sign 34 year old Josh Donaldson and his fucked up shoulder and calf muscle. 
 

Paxton is pitching?

And we decide to sit our second best hitter. Boy, I’m so ready for Mike Scioscia to go away. 

When leadership goes through the motions then the players go through the motions.

Getting a little sick of your fat shaming. 
My body is a temple. 

Hansel Robles, Eduardo Paredes, Deck McGuire, Akeel Morris, Oliver Drake and a slew of others pitching meaningful innings for a team that's supposed to contend for a playoff spot?  
At least we didn't blow a save today.  
How can he justify this?  
I would like some thoughts on how this is ok?  

Strad, when our pitchers started dropping like flies a couple of years ago we got virtually nothing in the way of replacements or help.
Shoemaker went down twice..who did we get?
Heaney went down..who did we get?
Trop went down..who did we get?
Skaggs went down..who did we get?
Street went down and was replaced by Bedrock and then he went down and was replaced by Bud Norris a blowout patch that actually pitched ok for a short time and when he became ineffective there was nothing!
Even the most casual fan knew that our bullpen was suspect during the off season, so what did the organization do to address this glaring problem? Answer..nothing. The Angels did just what they've been doing..they stood pat with a crappy bullpen that is burying us with many late inning blown games so far!
Richards went down a couple of times, who did the front office go out and get to take his place?
Ohtani went down what has the front office done to address this? Answer, the same thing they've been doing for several years when players go down..nothing! 
Etc Etc Etc.
Chone Figgins left..who replaced him at third base? Answer..several years have passed and we're still waiting for a third baseman.
Howie Kendrick was traded for Heaney who did we get to play second base? Answer no one! We've tried to replace injured players or players that left with minor leaguers that were a part of one of the worst systems in the league at the time that were of little or no help at all.
During the off season the starting rotation had many question marks because of so many players returning from TJ surgery..what help did we get? Answer none the Angels stood pat with an injury plagued starting rotation.
And on and on it goes.
OK, you're right we did sign Upton.
 
 

This should be good

Love it. Need more stuff like this in my life.
Meow.

At least Disney ownership got a World Series win out of the deal.  From a management/coaching standpoint it is safe to say that the World Series victory had a lot more to do with Maddon, Black and Roenicke than Scioscia.  Scioscia has not won anything significant for a decade now and had one of the highest payroll teams most of those years.  Whatever leadership/message he had has apparently fallen on deaf ears for quite some time.  Time to try a different direction.  His teams seem to lack anything that remotely resembles the fight to win.  Scioscia looks puzzled most of the time.

ESPN reporting is to sports what Fox news is to politics...

I am beyond tired of hearing Gubicza talk about Valbueana having great swings on foul balls. Just shut the F*ck up