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Babe Ruth's swing. I guess players back then didn't use cups.

Mixed feelings here. Deep down I was hoping that he would regain some of his old magic. Obviously, if he is ever going to make a comeback, he's got a long way to go. In his prime he was one of my favorite  pitchers to watch. However, now it is just too painful to watch him pitch.

Mixed feelings here. Deep down I was hoping that he would regain some of his old magic. Obviously, if he is ever going to make a comeback, he's got a long way to go. In his prime he was one of my favorite  pitchers to watch. However, now it is just too painful to watch him pitch.

Awesome. I hope someday Torii senior comes back to the Angels in some capacity.

Awesome. I hope someday Torii senior comes back to the Angels in some capacity.

Awesome. I hope someday Torii senior comes back to the Angels in some capacity.

The Albert Pujols of today is not the Albert Pujols of the first ten years of his career. He is not close to that guy.  There is an excellent chance that when Trout becomes 36 he will not be anywhere close to where he was in the first ten years of his career either.  And Trout at 36 will probably make a lot more money than Albert does at this age.  I really don't think it's fair to continually criticize a 36 year old player because he is not the player he once was.  Pujols is a warrior, and a really tough guy who has left about everything he has had on the table especially considering that bodily injuries have taken a serious toll on him.  The only fair criticism is of the owner and GM who signed him expecting that he would be that younger player in performance.  Until the salary structure in baseball changes to pay for current instead of past performance it will be this way.  It's pretty hard to criticize players for pay vs. performance when this kind of structure exists.
You don't have to dig very deep to find all kind of free agents who aren't performing to past levels or to their rate of pay.  Yet every off season fans clamor for their teams to sign big name free agents, only to meet disappointment in many cases.
Until the Angels bite the bullet, and learn to take advantage of the golden years of a players performance curve, we will have to live with this structure.  Although I could argue that every seriously contending team needs at least a couple of veteran leader types on their roster to help stabilize the clubhouse, and pass on game and season knowledge to the younger guys.  That's a lot of what we are paying for Street and Pujols to do right now.  These guys are not the problem, the problem is the lack of talent available to this team to make a compelling argument for replacing these older players.  
 
 
 

The offensive stats worry me more than just a bit. We don't seem to be able to get more than two players hot at a time. First week or so it was Escobar & Calhoun. Now it seems to be only Pujols & Trout. Can't score many runs with 7 out of 9 of your players floundering. Luckily, so far, no one in our division is running away with anything.
 
Really proud of our pitchers, especially the starters. They are keeping us in games. The bull-pen has had its ups & downs, but so far they have been a little over-worked by being forced to come into many games early. As soon as we can establish a 'long man' to eat up some of those middle innings, then, I think the bull-pen will settle down & not be a blow-pen.
 
Watching Pujols move up the all time HR list reminds me a lot of the 70's & early 80's when Nolan Ryan, Don Sutton, Rod Carew, & Reggie Jackson were with the Angels, & they were moving up strike-out, win, & all time hits & HR lists. Great memories.

I would like to see them bring back 'Double Headers'. And the give away would be everything you buy during the games would be '2 for the price of 1'.

I would like to see them bring back 'Double Headers'. And the give away would be everything you buy during the games would be '2 for the price of 1'.

I'm a refugee from the now disbanded MLB message board as well. But I'm also a longtime lurker of this board. I joined the old MLB board back in 2001 in its infancy. Most of the old members began to leave after the 2002 World Series Season because of all the 'Bandwagoners' that joined & ruined it for for the rest of us. I think many of the old posters may have gravitated over to this board. Anyone remember Beerman, Hot Corner Hotti, Furture Angels, Vern Reese, Smoke on the water, Angel Oracle, greg in psca, Archangel, Vernster, Jodys mom, Ryan express, Upstream, Always wear red to the Ed, or Just another Halo?

I would like to see them bring back 'Double Headers'. And the give away would be everything you buy during the games would be '2 for the price of 1'.

I would like to see them bring back 'Double Headers'. And the give away would be everything you buy during the games would be '2 for the price of 1'.