Frieri Meatball

3 AL West teams having better rosters than us does not improve our odds of making the playoffs.

There is absolutely no value in Betts for the Angels. He is a one year rental when they definetely don't need another outfielder. Price is rediculously over priced so Boston would have to split the costs. I just don't see any reason to further beat this to death, pairing of the two is simply a waste of the Angels money and prospects. 

Seriously? I would trade Adell for Clevinger straight up if the Indians wanted to make that trade. One guy hasn't proven anything at the big league level while the other guy has been an outstanding starting pitcher at the highest level for a few seasons now. 

If we’re done and don’t add a significant quality pitcher. We don’t sniff the post season.
We very well could be done. We’ve sat here for 4 off seasons already telling ourselves “there’s no way Eppler is done, he for sure has something up his sleeve” only for him to do nothing. 

If we don't get Ryu then I'm very concerned.

I truly hope Gerrit Cole finds nothing but misery on and off the field in that shithole they call New York City.

I'll say it again:
I hope Cole never wins a World Series ring. In fact, the Halos knocking the Yanks out of the playoffs on their way to a World Series win would give me a permanent erection.

MOTO next year:
Trout 
Rendon
Ohtani
Upton
Adell
 
oh boy 

seriously!! this is what you bring up.  what a c***

I hope Cole never wins a championship. 

The dude trusted us to build a contender and we are slowly failing him.
 
This is just fucking bullshit.

You don't trade a 1st round draft pick for a shitty PTBNL and cash. Something is brewing folks.

This is so stupid I'm not even going to bother. 

I'm guessing the same people who are saying Cole is going to cost too much are the same people who think Mike Trout's career is being wasted.
This is the price of doing business in baseball today.  It's not for the feint of heart. 
How badly does Arte want to win?  "Whatever it takes" is not a statement to be taken lightly.
Sign Cole.  Just do it.

If the Angels can't land Cole then I don't see how they could be a legit competitor next season.
I fear that this team will be stricken for mediocrity for years to come.

This is it for me. Obviously Arte spends a lot of money on the team. I don’t begrudge him wanting to make money. It’s his, he can do whatever he wants with it. What does bug me is when he talks about the importance or winning and legacy and isn’t willing to go all in. He cheaps out or spends on the wrong guy (Wells, Hamilton, etc). 
The team has a huge chance to make up for the last 7 years this offseason. It requires Arte to go bigger than he’s ever gone. It’s a big ask. I get that. And if Arte cares more about his bottom line than those other things, so be it. But this is his chance. This is the time to make a move. It’ll take a couple of years of big money if he has the sand for that, but he can afford it, and if he really means what he says in public and doesn’t just care about putting a .500 team out there, he needs to go big. Otherwise, don’t fire Ausmus and go get Maddon. Don’t re-sign Trout and tell him we’re committed to winning. It’s pointless if all we care about is 85 wins. 

Also I saw him on the 5, at a Del Taco, and at a Jewelry Store in South Coast Plaza, he was with Matt Clement.

The most frustrated I've been in an offseason was before the 2007 season, when Arte promised a "big bat" and the team ended up with GMJ. 
The talk this offseason about the Angels having money to spend, and almost every credible source assuming the Angels were going to land Cole... I'm getting depressed just thinking about the possibility of not ending up with any of the top-tier free agent pitchers. If that happens, I would definitely support your plan of building from within and not overpaying for Ryu or MadBum. Those strike me as the pitching equivalent of GMJ. 
BUT... that means yet another season watching Trout's prime go by while we all pray things break the right way. Which is also depressing. 

At some point, the “hope we don’t pay x amount for so and so” has to stop, in my opinion. 
We have committed to Trout. Now it’s time to commit to winning, we’ve put ourselves in a great position to spend cash; Cole is the type of player you break the bank for and Strasburg is right behind him. If the Angels aren’t willing to commit the money, then be prepared for more .500 seasons and terrible starting pitching.  Maybe they shouldn’t go 10 years for Cole, but they better be willing to match the Yankees average salary. 

I don't think Eppler is looking for clean peanuts right now. He has his eyes on the gold nugget.

It’s evidence they’re getting signs but there’s no evidence what was done with the information ... maybe the player ignored it.
You do realize the Angels are under investigation too ... are the canaries singing left and right? Btw this does involve all the players since five of them were exposed already.
This is getting stupid no need to reply. 
 
 

Idk about all that but I'm fucking sick of hearing about it from uneducated ESPN watching casuals. Trout, the greatest player we've possibly EVER seen play the game is being undermined by "bUt nO pLaYofF WiNs" bullshit that literally plagues any and every discussion about him. It's fucking horseshit and it's time for Arte to nut the fuck up and surround this God of a Man with enough talent to get him a ring.