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Dollar Bill
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18 hours ago, ten ocho recon scout said:
Nail on head.
Morales breaking his leg, and the failure to sign Beltre, were the beginning of the end.
Was just thinking about this earlier this week. Supposedly Beltre really wanted to come here (no idea if true). And if I remember correctly, wel balked at his price tag... which was about 10 mill more than we were willing to spend...
.... which is not only telling for more recent years, but even dumber when you look at the money we wasted afterwards.
Not to mention taking on almost all of Wells' contract.
That's how it all started....
I'll add here that we lost Lackey squabbling over about 10 mill as well, with a "take it or leave it, you have an hour" message from the front office.
Beltre wanted to come. It wasn't Reagins.
- ten ocho recon scout and Jay
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10 hours ago, Jeff Fletcher said:
Manfred didn’t sound like he really thought all that was going to happen soon. It sounds like he thinks the RSNs are going to keep paying for now, despite the bankruptcy.
They might, because the rights to air games are the fundamental asset of an RSN.
But, in bankruptcy court, either you come in with a deal to which all parties have agreed, or the court decides. What the court decides might not be what MLB wants, or what Diamond wants. The court's first priority is to get the creditors paid as much as possible.
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1 hour ago, Trendon said:
It’s probably longer and more complicated than we might think. They’ve already vetted the bidders before allowing them to see the books, but they’d still have to formally agree on purchase price, liabilities, get MLB and ownership approval, etc.
And the Angels laundry list of lawsuits they’re dealing with likely further complicates things.
Maybe @Dollar Bill has a better idea of the timeline?
What has happened in previous sales may or may not be relevant to this one. But, generally speaking, the bidders that emerge as finalists usually get a more thorough round of scrutiny from MLB.
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Ross Stripling: “I think it’s basically me handing you a box of air. And then, in six months, you hand me that box of air back and say it’s double the price.”
https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/la-sp-dodgers-report-20180907-story.html
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21 hours ago, Warfarin said:
So, conceivably, after this step - the prospective buyers would then submit a bid, right? And then after that, are the buyers investigated in terms of financial viability (i.e., avoiding another McCourt), or is that step already "done"?
MLB does an initial background check before letting anyone see the books and then a more thorough financial viability investigation later -- not all parties choose to bid, or make a competitive bid.
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5 hours ago, Dtwncbad said:
To me, the comment about a deal closing by Opening Day indicates a buyer is identified and there is some kind of framework already agreed upon, with final tweaks necessary.
It doesn’t seem all that realistic to still be at the “we are taking bids” stage and be on track to close by Opening Day.
Is it possible? I guess. But why would you make that comment and risk looking stupid if you can’t get it done? The presence of that comment would be a lot more normal if the actual buyer was identified already with some serious progress already made on price/terms.
All he said is that some people have been approved to see some financial data. That is the kind of data you would want to see in order to decide whether to bid. That's where we are.
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It was the Nightmare on Katella Avenue, and not just for one night. For the better part of a decade, the Angels and their fans sweated and dreaded the fear that Mike Trout would take his talents to South Philly. Trout would go home and win big, and the Angels would be stranded in purgatory.
In real life, there was a twist. The Philadelphia Phillies did get a center fielder from the Angels, and they did win big. Trout and the Angels remain in purgatory.
On Monday, as the Phillies play their first World Series home game since Trout’s senior year of high school, their center fielder is expected to be Brandon Marsh.
- failos and AngelsLakersFan
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4 hours ago, Inside Pitch said:
You know what I find interesting about this tweet from Blum, he says the front office does ask him about his opinion on stuff like this. If so, you have to figure they asked him prior to canning Maddon. Makes one wonder ...
Minasian said he did not.
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5 hours ago, TooCool said:
And stop having giveaways that only goes to the first 25000 fans. I guess they knew that was going to happen so they didn't have to spend more money to make 40k of those items.
Sponsors usually pay for those. (Mike Trout T-shirt night, brought to you by ____) etc.
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2 hours ago, Docwaukee said:
price 16m
Kimbrel 16m
Treinen 8m
Hudson 6m
Martin 1.2m
Kahnle 3.725mThey've spent over 50m on their bullpen.
The Price contract was the price (no pun intended) of getting Betts. The Kimbrel contract was the price of moving Pollock. Hudson and Treinen $14 million, well ... that's pretty much what Loup and Tepera are getting this season. If you want a veteran non-closer reliever, that is the market rate.
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Dodgers' top relievers by IP:
Bickford: waiver claim
Kimbrel: trade: bad contract for bad contract
Phillips (337 ERA+): waiver claim
Vesia: trade for another middle reliever
Big trade deadline pickup: Martin (226 ERA+), for a utilityman
Treinen is the only guy they spent millions on ... and specifically not as a closer
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On 8/24/2022 at 8:42 PM, 3pitchwalk said:
arte dipping to enjoy 2-3 billion in the bank for the rest of his life without having to deal with angry tweets reeing about how he wont spend or why minor leaguers have to suffer taco bell. must be nice.
also i don't think digiovanna knows shit. he's probably the furthest of all the reporters associated with the angels to have any kind of contact that's close to arte.
LOL, DiGiovanna has covered the Angels since before Arte bought them. No one in this market knows more about them. You should read this:
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No Buttercup.
- UndertheHalo and Chuck
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On the wild start - and finish - to the 2002 season:
Game 6, in their own words:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-mar-30-sp-gamesix30-story.html
- HanfordGuy and Chuck
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On 5/28/2022 at 2:48 PM, jsnpritchett said:
Bill Shaikin does not love you, though.
He appreciates you and invites you to sign up for $1:
- UndertheHalo and Taylor
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Why is Autry beloved but Moreno isn't?
in LA Angels | MLB Daily
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Gene Autry was one of the most beloved Americans of his era. To the first generations of Angels fans, and the parents of the next generations, he was one of our foremost entertainers, not the owner of a middling baseball team. I think he's still the only person with five stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And, toward the end of the Autry ownership, Gene got older and his wife basically took over, so she was the one that was blamed.
Arte never had the reservoir of goodwill Gene had. No one knew who he was when he bought the team.