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18 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Why does Adell have to "earn" playing time while Hicks and Sano just get it automatically? Both those guys' glory days are long in the past. Sano didn't play at all last season and the Yankees dumped Hicks.

You never have any problem imagining things, so try imagining this.

MAYBE Washington wants something more out of the development in Adell and Moniak and wants them to work harder, be more hungry, be more disciplined, and more committed to elevating their game, and he is putting a reachable target in front of them in Hicks who maybe carries himself the way Washington wants Adell to carry himself?  Maybe?

I really wonder if you are capable of accepting that what I wrote above is JUST AS LIKELY as you imaging that Wash has something personal against Adell?

6 hours ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

I think Arte should probably consider killing himself, but I don't have the Ben Franklin chart ready and my ven diagrams arent handy at the moment.

Does anyone have a good way to analyze the pros and cons of Ben Franklin charts versus Ven diagrams?

Washington has a heavy hand in coaching infielders.  It is also very possible Neto is just trying to apply something that Washington is trying to get him to do.

5 hours ago, Taylor said:

Small sample size, but he looks totally lost, especially in the field. Just nerves? Hopefully he isn't the second coming of David Fletcher.

David Fletcher?  That’s a really bad comparison.  Fletcher was a blue collar worker who would just grind to overcome the fact that he really didn’t have the high end baseball skills. Kind of a “getter dun” somehow guy.

Thats pretty much the exact opposite of Neto, who has all the actual skills.

If Thaiss were a drummer, he would be one of those super annoying drummers that never stops spinning the drumsticks.

Ball six in that at bat.

Walk now 3-1 count.

1 minute ago, CaliAngel said:

Tie the game so what do we do?

Immediately walk the first batter of the next inning.

I mean, that's just good baseball fundamentals.

Blake Snell walks too many hitters. 

Not thrilled with Suarez on the mound in a tie game.

1 minute ago, AvsBroncosAngels05 said:

The old Mike Trout is back!! 

You mean the young Mike Trout is back.

Sweet.  I dig this guy.

Rendon’s arm scares the crap out of me every time he touches the ball, and especially if he is charging the ball and going full sidearm.  I have no confidence in it.

I guess his horrible swing has come full circle?

The consensus has seemed to be that we should be excited about the present and future of Silseth.  I have almost felt guilty being not excited at all about him.  A 11th rounder getting to the bigs very quickly is absolutely a pretty cool story.

But I have never quite seen why THAT cool story means I am supposed to think he is going to be anything more than a back of the rotation starter.

I really really don’t get Hicks starting.  He should be happy to be a 4/5th OF on a big league roster.

2 minutes ago, No Roles said:

I'm not gonna waste my time arguing with you...but when you have a 3-1 count and don't move the runners up it's actually worse that a k

Dunning-Kruger

Adell had a good at bat

Good for him but I was one million percent done with him here.

I would like to officially request that the phrase “face adversity” be taken away from announcers and writers.

The irony is it would force them to, for once, come up with something original.  How would they respond to such a challenge?

MLB wants to shorten games.  I would vote for mercy rule.  10 runs at the end of 7.  Over.

2 minutes ago, Blarg said:

Orioles are putting in their subs now. 

Angels started theirs.

Put Rendon on the mound. I heard he doesn’t care about his era.

9-1 now with nobody out in the 6th.

But Ian Snell sucks because he typically gives up like 2 runs in averaging 5 and 2/3 a start.

I love Mike Trout as much as anybody but it’s time to put to bed the “five tool” label.  I have no confidence whatsoever that he is going to throw anybody out.  The throw to the plate was poor and the throw he just made from the gap to the cutoff was weak.

2 minutes ago, Erstad Grit said:

Oneal "Get the feeling Rendon is due" lol

To be precise he is due $114m.