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Remember when the Angels got nothing out of Rendon because he wasn’t playing?

9 minutes ago, Blarg said:

Then I have to listen to Gubiza which is not much better. 

I’m sure Gubi is a nice guy but seriously when was the last time he said something actually insightful, educational, or genuinely interesting?  He is a livestream library of “duh.”  And that’s fine it fills time whatever.  But at best it is tolerable because it is so vanilla that it is easily ignorable.

The good news so far is Rendon and Trout are tied for the league lead in games played.

8 minutes ago, Blarg said:

Moniak is a left handed hitter and plays right field. Hicks should sit over developing Moniak to take that position as a platoon with Adell when a left hander is on the mound. Hicks should be the backup for when Trout is out and Moniak slides over to center and the Angels want a left handed bat. 

I don’t think playing a young right handed hitter in a platoon is really developing him.  Right handed hitters have to be able to hit right handed pitching to stick in the big leagues.  If you want to “develop” Adell he needs at bats against right handlers more than he needs at bats against left handers.

17 hours ago, yvangelfan said:

Nice parents.

Harry and Anita were a nice couple.

40 minutes ago, Blarg said:

What do you mean no? They fucking shut him out without any legal charges against him. That's collusion from the commisioners office. They are being snakes not coming forward and just saying he is banned from professional baseball because they know they can't support it. 

I am not saying I agree with the owners, but consensus is not collusion.

None of us want to sleep with Rosanne Barr.  That’s consensus not collusion.

8 minutes ago, Taylor said:

I was just thinking, "Saurez is actually looking pretty good today."

Maybe in a “fat guy in a little coat” kinda way

8 minutes ago, Taylor said:

I don't know about that.

Yeah, they don’t talk about this stuff on The View.

One thing I know for sure is Ron Washington is in, by far, THE best position in all of baseball to win manager of the year.

20 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Not as rare as a solar eclipse, but Trout and Rendon are together in the same lineup. It only happened 19 times last year.

Jinx.  Somehow Rendon will now be diagnosed with a molar eclipse.

What a cluster.  I evidently have the vpn installed on my phone and all attempts to sign up for Mlbtv end up with “404 not found” error code.  I stuck at stuff like this.

Any way to do a vpn on your phone and pull the games in on mlbtv on your phone (to either watch on phone or cast up to your tv in your house)?

Just now, Erstad Grit said:

Locked!

Thanks!

13 hours ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

Free MLBtv and $9/mo VPN is what I'm going with...

I am dumb on the vpn thing.  I know conceptually what it is to mask you location, but I don’t know how to actually do it.

Anybody want to shoot me a link or tell me the easiest way to set up a vpn?

Let’s play message board king of the hill.  Who will have the last post in this thread before it’s locked?

Speaking of human memories being weird, in 20 years I will be baffled why I have a specific memory of David Brinkley in a white bikini leaning against a palm tree.

3 minutes ago, T.G. said:

Checkmate 

This is not what I thought I would be talking about on opening day.

3 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

I'm continually fascinated by faulty memories (including my own!). What I love about them is that, like you, most people are 100% that their recall is accurate. Emotions and nostalgia mess with us all! 

So true.  Until recently I was 100% sure that I hooked up with Christie Brinkley in the Virgin Islands twice a day for about a month in 1980.  But then I found this in a bin in my garage.

1 minute ago, Stradling said:

 

This goes to show how my memory has turned to shit. I would have bet anything it was a leadoff homer to start the game. And my memory had it as Jason Kendal getting the hit off Lackey. 

Yeah my memory had it as a two-hitter, and I was at the game.

Just now, jsnpritchett said:

 

His name was Willie, not Willy, and the hit he gave up was at the start the 7th inning, not the 1st--so not a true "leadoff" HR in the sense that that word is normally used.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CAL/CAL198808100.shtml

 

Fun note:  I was out drinking beer with Jay Buhner until way too late the night before that game.

I am still furious over the club’s obvious disrespect for Willy Fraser’s two-hitter.

Anybody have a compelling reason to pick one over the other to get access to Angel games?