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Lot of things have broken the wrong way this season. But generally if you're looking for the big problem, we have an owner with marketing as his middle name. If marketing and team performance go together, everything's fine. Vladdy and lowered beer prices. Sometimes it doesn't and it appears the car is detailed and shiny with blingy wheels, but are the radiator hoses 15 years old and when were the bolts torqued? A comparison to the plumbing at Angel stadium is in order. The good: that should keep Mike Trout in an Angel uniform through most of his contract at least. The bad: there's some real gaps up front and behind the scenes and no GM will have the power to change that without a budget infusion.

I can't blame Eppler, Dipoto, or Scioscia- at this point I think it's all on Arte Moreno. Decisions made with PR and marketing in mind, to the detriment of the team. Last minute deals after plan one fails such as GMJ or Vernon Wells. Big splash signings such as Pujols or Hamilton. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Some of it just a bit off. Meanwhile neglect the fundamentals, farm, scouting, etc. What has Eppler been given to work with? At this point I think the best hope for new direction in this team is ownership change. Arte Moreno can make big capital gain on this team when he sells. He's pushing 70. It may be time to cash out for him. Of course we would have to luck out on what's to follow..

Arte Moreno is 69 years old. He's made big capital gains on his ownership of Angels. We know little or nothing about his family, and ability of his three children to take over the team. One thought which crosses my mind is he's trying to get a favorable cash flow situation setup for a sale of the team in the next few years.

It points to disfunction in the front office that these comments can be hours apart. Is Arte flipping from one emotional change of mind to the next? Before the rest of them catch up?

I'm in the spirit of this thread. Felt like the wind went out my sails regarding the Angels. If we weren't fans, we wouldn't care enough to be here. On the off chance Jerry Dipoto may be reading this, a big thanks! I was definitely impressed with what you were trying to do. Also a great guy to the fans. Best wishes!

Voted yes. But sometimes stuff like this can be ignition source and lead to a hot streak. Ride out the hot hand-even if he stays next season. If the club flops around remainder of season -next year new GM/manager/coaches.

Sevais or Klentak. Hired with clear expectations about lines of authority with Scioscia. Hired with authority to put their own manager/coaches in when Scioscia is replaced. Ride out any last bursts of team greatness with Scioscia but don't hesitate to dump him if things do dumpy and flat. If he opts out oh well...

I'm fine with it. It sounds like he wants to work with Klentak and Servais. Perfect as long as Mike is onboard. If for some reason team catches fire the rest of season, it may be difficult to let Mike go (or for him to leave). Then keep the interim GM team in place one more year. If the team fizzles dump Scioscia (encourage him to move on) after season over and install new GM, manager and coaches. Once in a while interim situations work out suprisingly well. Dump it when the winning stops. Including Scioscia.

The house for sale could be completely unrelated but if I had to bet on it, I'd have to bet it is related to departure. What about this? Moreno and Dipoto were already working on his resignation when the incident occurred. It would have been handled like so many other bland professional resignations. Best face for all parties. The date was the day he had cleaned out his office. The leak threw it into a crisis mode, but the wheels were too far along to reverse course. Very possible he would have resigned anyway about the same time without the drama.

Speculation: He already knew he was leaving when he gave his final pep talk in the clubhouse. Possibly a last gasp effort to break up the status quo a bit. The leak made it go terribly wrong. He probably was going to quietly resign to spend more time with his family or attend to an aging parent etc........ Angels have too many cooks in the kitchen, he thought he could leave and there would be more than enough to take over.. this did not go according to plan.

Sosh needs to go. But would he opt out if no one is willing to pay him equally to his contract here? I have my doubts.

New here, long time reader. 1. I think Dipoto's departure was more planned than many think. One example is the real estate listing for his Newport Beach house, posted less than 24 hours after his resignation. Agent, full pictures, house looks staged. 2. I think the SS Scioscia and coaches were only a portion of the problem. Yes probably stubborn, passive resistant, and treated some analytic work as noise. Dipoto probably wished he had his own manager in there. Overall Dipoto could have felt he lacked sufficient power in the organization to implement his ideas. Limited by inconsistent (or worse) Moreno-who knows what really happened in the Hamilton fiasco? Possibly even Stoneman second guessing. The good ship Angels could have been very hard to steer-far beyond what he expected when taking the GM position. 3. Like many here I'm sad to see Dipoto go. I liked the direction he was taking the organization. We sat behind him in Tempe Diablo for two games. He was sitting with scouts in first few rows, one day with his wife. Everything I saw from him was positive, energetic, note taking, friendly interactions with others. Most did not recognize him, but looked happy to interact with fans who did. Moreno was in dugout during games. In both days did not see Dipoto interact with Moreno or Scioscia. 4. Hope for the best for him. Dipoto himself seems to accept (in statement) he may have to start lower on the totem pole somewhere. As posted many places Arte needs to butt out, and Scioscia move on or accept change. Hope one of Jerry's guys in front office eventually get the job.