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I pretty much only go now when we just want to have something to do together as a family. Gone are the days when I would go to the game because I specifically want to see the Angels play in person. Ohtani was an energizing factor though, as my kids would be more interested in going if Ohtani was pitching. . . I doubt I am my going to increase my kids interest in going to the game by telling them that Tyler Anderson is pitching tonight. Maybe I should try, “Hey you guys wanna go see the team that Moreno is saving an additional $40m in payroll on this year?” That will probably fire them up.

The alarming part is I don’t trust him to know what would and what would not “substantially change the team.” So if he is going to now be more of a miser, it seems like we should just expect to be terrible, but at a lower budget. I am jacked to buy some tickets now!

With some of the details coming out, I feel like I have been kicked in the nuts but like if I had four nuts.

“Unknown reasons” by Sam Blum has the potential to be a permanent running joke.

Not putting up with him aggressively negotiating the best deals possible for his clients? OK.

He isn’t going to panic. He is waiting to see if a team does. Boras is normally pretty successful on his strategies.

Jeez dude. Look it up. You are arguing against a position I never took. Nobody defends wife beating. I said I like how he treats the nasty agenda based media.

Strawman 101. Couldn’t be more obvious. And boring.

I like how he treats agenda-driven media types directly with no BS. That wasn’t that hard to figure out, but you pretended to not get the point dishonestly. Dana White would call you out on this. And rightly so. Yeah I will take more Dana Whites.

Fixed. She is 66 right now 1961. Definitely still a very pretty lady, but let’s just say we are in max one-year contract territory.

Does it make any sense that the Angels “remain in contact with” pitchers that Arte has not given approval to pursue?

Man we live in different worlds if you think I have the embarrassing stance here.

No Taylor. Only stupid people will assume that. And only stupid people will automatically take every accusation as truthful. People with brains will be acutely interested in finding the actual truth in every individual case, wherever that leads them, including ultimately considering the accused as the victim.

OMG you can’t help yourself. Dude, literally nobody on earth ever had any problem with anyone legitimately coming forward to talk about their honest history especially in the context of sticking up for individual rights and making progress as a society. But with that comes a responsibility for everyone to watch out for opportunists that would hijack it dishonestly and for their own fraudulent agendas. People with a stitch of common sense will instant reject “believe all women” and will EQUALLY stick up for victims of liars and extortionists. #metoobutwithabrain

What decade was baseball best for you as a fan? I am not asking when it was best as an Angel fan. I am asking when you thought baseball itself was the most fun to follow. My answer is the 1980s. When I watch clips of baseball from the 80’s it brings me back to what I now consider the height of my love of following the game. I am aware that this could be age related. I was in my late teens and early twenties at that time. I was old enough to know enough about the game and players to really enjoy the game analytically, and still young enough to be a little naively enamored with it emotionally. The algorithm on Instagram has somehow figured this out and is feeding me lots of clips from that era. It has made me realize that there was something different about my relationship with mlb overall during that time, and I wondered if others feel the same way about that time. . . Or if THEIR best decade with the game maybe corresponds with THEIR age?

We need more Dana Whites.

Man I loved Devon White! Yeah that trade was a gut punch.

I believe there were directives to you Taylor about your default mode?

From unicorn to unihorni

It should at least be mentioned that teams not wanting to deal with the negative PR of signing Bauer does prevent him from getting a big contract he would normally get, and that only helps to encourage others in the future to fraudulently extort players. MLB is gonna do what it’s gonna do. But I hope somebody is at least taking this into consideration and is hopefully working with the union to try to get some processes in place to protect players from being fraudulently extorted.

Wouldn’t this be evidence that the Angels system of development is more the problem than the actual level of raw talent?

But when has he typically been used as a DH? When he is fatigued or not fully healthy? Isn’t it fair to say that historically when he is 100% healthy with zero issues, he is in CF not DH’ing?

What are the playoffs?

We’ll Thaiss sucks too. I have no confidence that he will amount to anything. And for the record, I hope I am wrong.