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Rendon and Hicks at 1-2 makes me flaccid

Rendon: *clocks in for work*

Just got to let it play out and hope for the best.  But whatever the front office says.  No organization that has any kind of notoriety for functioning well has ever behaved how the Angels behave.  It’s the Arte show.  He’ll get lucky or he won’t.  He probably won’t.  
 
 

Hey, Reid!  Hope you have a great season this year.  I'm sure you'll get your own bobblehead from the Angels soon!

i think anyone who's expecting him to still be catching after age 35 is in for an awakening.
that said, was listening to a talk show this morning and i think it was travis rodgers who said this is a weird deal. the dodgers have two catchers on the farm ranked in the top ten of catching prospects - guys that are going to be really, really good. what does it say about them and the dodgers that they just signed their catcher to a ten year deal with these two about to be major league ready?
likely trade bait, of course. but it's an interesting question to explore.

It's a deal to have a top 3 MLB catcher during the next 6 years very underpriced. Dodgers have zero cares about 2028-2033. They want to win 4 rings in the next 6 years. 

I bet the field against the Dodgers in the NL West. I think their infield defense is horrible, they can't hit leftys, and their rotation is insanely talented but held together by duct tape.

 

With Montgomery signing, does this mean we can finally close this thread tomorrow? 

I expected nothing and I'm still mad. 

A Gary Carter perm got no love? Jerks.
Thaiss in the 7th substituting for O'Hoppe. He has done it a few times this Spring Training and I am kind of wondering of that may be part of Washington's plan, to make a defensive platoon in games where it may be advantageous. 

90 wins (including spring training and exhibition)

O'Hoppe needs to be a team player and get a 70s perm, just in case.
 

That was a vintage Angels inning right there.

MS was one step up the stairs looking at taking the glove and mask and doing it himself. 

Pfft.  Rickey Henderson could decide he wanted to be a SS at 65 ... Just ask Rickey what Rickey thinks.

Mookie is going to remind everyone that MLB shortstops are just different. You can’t simply decide you are going to be a SS at  age 30.  

Why assume anything? Why not wait till the facts come out?

Heck we already seen a diffrence last night we hit a homerun with people on base for a change how many solo meaningless HR did we hit last year. Alot hope to see much more of it 

I'm not buying for an instant that Ippei took $4.5M out of Shohei's bank account without him knowing. In order for that to happen:
1. Ohtani would have had to set up his account so that Ippei was an authorized user, which makes no sense.
2. Alternately, Ippei would have had to somehow get the password for Ohtani's online account. Even presuming that this happened, most banks will alert the account holder through text and/or email of any large transactions involving his or her account. I also can't buy that Ippei took out $500K nine or ten times without Ohtani's knowledge. Possibly after the first transfer and definitely after the second one, the bank would have directly called Ohtani and said hey, we have noticed very large transactions on your account. Were they yours?
Knowing how banks work, those funds would not have been released without direct approval from Ohtani.

Detmers winning the hearts of Angels fans early, I see. 

Detmers winning the hearts of Angels fans early, I see. 

For you degenerates, is the only benefit to using an illegal bookie to avoid tax implications?  Or is the customer service a bonus, too?

Detmers winning the hearts of Angels fans early, I see. 

Full interview on MLB network with no interpreter but had no idea what ippei was telling the team in the clubhouse 😂😂

Full interview on MLB network with no interpreter but had no idea what ippei was telling the team in the clubhouse 😂😂