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at the rate we are collecting starting pitchers we should at least have a shit ton of trade pieces next winter, right? can i at least cling to that hope?

Didn't realize Sling had FS West. And NBCSN? Wow dreams become reality, really just use cable for Angels and EPL games.

I remember it well, the day was precisely June 19th vs Oakland. He was lights out that day! Insane # fly ball outs. All joking aside, it's telling how many games he was giving up around 1 run per inning. Impressive how he battled through the season, I remember a recent Dan Haren article where he was talking about how exhausting his last few seasons were, just spending hours upon hours preparing for starts with video because it was so difficult for him to get people out.

He fancied himself a real wheeler-and-dealer. It's clear his strategy was to just keep rolling the dice until something clicked.

I lived in Bixby Knolls for a couple years and can verify that this is 100% correct. In fact, the entire city of Long Beach is f*ing 10+ degrees hotter than all the other beach cities for whatever geographical reason. But Bixby in particular, man, my last summer there we could've shot some pretty compelling scenes for Heart of Darkness, lying in pools of sweat in our tiny bungalow with no AC. I still think Long Beach would be a great place to build a stadium, somewhere around Seal Beach, lots of freeway access, tons of people, and you could ride your bike to the stadium from Long Beach or Huntington Beach. Sort of straddle the orange curtain, get South Bay and OC. There were a ton of Angels fans in Long Beach.

WTF Charter could lose FSW as early as this weekend? Can't stand this crap...

But in the sports marketing community, he is viewed as a guy who owes it to his employers to do more to promote the game. "If you're signing this big contract and you're benefiting, you have to try to grow the game," says Bill Sutton, director of the Sports and Entertainment Management MBA program at the University of South Florida. "I feel this way about any sport. It's the athlete's obligation to grow the game. Other people made it better for you coming in. You need to make it better for the people coming after you and the people who are there with you." Probably the most nauseating quote I've ever read in my life. Evidently it isn't Trout's "obligation" to play good baseball, but to do more shitty advertisements or fake more laughs on late night shows so that a bunch of nobody marketing execs can make more money and gatorade can sell more drinks.

Trying to remember last time I saw a pitcher leave holding his arm like that and it wasn't long term bad news. Biceps cramp, wtf? Even if the elbow is fine, I would be surprised if we saw him pitch again for the next few starts. Let's hope, he looked good, though still seems to be overthrowing pretty frequently.

Ban all between-pitch stadium entertainment. No music, no "noise" graphics, nothing. When the pitchers and hitters hear crickets they will realize they are supposed to be playing baseball and not adjusting their batting gloves or helmets or hats gloves, not staring half-awake at the dugout, not walking in circles around the mound.

think economically it's easier to justifier a mlb stadium over an nfl stadium. 81 home games vs 8 (padres and chargers so i'd never expect more than that).

something irked me about this article, and though i can't really argue with it, it seems trout would qualify as the "best player ever" for a number of teams. definitely some weird east coast bias in there, and some ridiculous selectivity of what is a franchise player. plus i'm sick of people acting like the angels being an expansion team has any relevance given that the team has been in the majors for > 50 years. eh, maybe i'm just being sensitive: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/sports/baseball/mike-trout-al-mvp-los-angeles-angels.html

I can't express the rage I feel at the suggestion we make an offer to Wilson. Only thing we should offer him is a one-way ticket to anywhere the fuck else in the world.

Playing 1st takes a toll on the body? Wow... I think this is very telling about the state of Albert's health.

Doesn't everyone think it would be a grave mistake to even think about next year? Even if we "compete" we'd be lucky with a 1-and-done wildcard spot, our quality is nowhere near the top teams (wasn't this our worst record ever?). Anyway, with the Trout contract and our pitching woes, Eppler should be lining everything up starting now for all-in on 2018 and 2019. Trout would be stupid to sign an extension, and this iterative "we are close and missing just a few pieces" approach isn't going to put a team around him to compete now or convince him to extend. I personally hope there are no big free agent signings this offseason, just some risky trades, followed by two season of Arte throwing massive free agent money around again.

The Angels have a lot of problems and holes and replacing Scioscia isn't gonna fix any of them. He keeps the clubhouse mild and on an even keel, this season was a write-off by May April, with some god-awful losing runs, but they still managed to eek out 74 wins. I'm not his biggest fan but I don't even see the point of a change right now.

the only enhancements i'd like to see are (1) removing the god-awful 90s-backyard-pool rock "sculpture" and (2) integrate the big A back into the stadium outfield somehow. Love those old photos of the big A in the 60's!

Was this meant to be read aloud in the voice of Norm MacDonald? Came naturally to me...

i know it's hypothetical but it'll never happen, arte has already put nonrefundable deposits down for the 3000 hit and 700 homerun parties.

my ptsd is flaring up, thanks

got it, thanks. i know it's mostly just a psychological shell game when it gets paid out. maybe arte has it in his bofa account like me, earning 0.01% interest.

i hoped he'd be so good during the first 5 years that the last 5 could be chalked up to the price of doing business. why did they backload the contract like this? does the hit to the luxury tax threshold use the average salary per year, or the actual salary for each year's calculation? $30M in 2021? the problem just compounds every year....

I'll admit I thought he'd have one maybe two explosive years out of the five. I wouldn't say I was in favor of the deal, but I thought it would be worth it if he got hot in a single September heading into the playoffs. Instead he just waved waved waved at breaking balls out of the zone.