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He said baseball IS a priority.  Everyone is getting hung up on him saying baseball isn’t a “top priority.”  But then he clearly says the things he considers higher priorities (what do count as his “top” priorities) are his family and his faith.
He could have handled all this better to appease fans thirsty to hate him, but what he ACTUALLY said is pretty hard to criticize.

He said baseball IS a priority.  Everyone is getting hung up on him saying baseball isn’t a “top priority.”  But then he clearly says the things he considers higher priorities (what do count as his “top” priorities) are his family and his faith.
He could have handled all this better to appease fans thirsty to hate him, but what he ACTUALLY said is pretty hard to criticize.

He said baseball IS a priority.  Everyone is getting hung up on him saying baseball isn’t a “top priority.”  But then he clearly says the things he considers higher priorities (what do count as his “top” priorities) are his family and his faith.
He could have handled all this better to appease fans thirsty to hate him, but what he ACTUALLY said is pretty hard to criticize.

Just show me where he said playing baseball and having a family is “too much.”  He didn’t.  You have a wonderful imagination.

No more like an honest attempt to understand what has actually happened that could explain his words/behavior.
And the “entitled millionaire” comment is just weird.  Just sounds like unhealthy money envy to me.
 

No more like an honest attempt to understand what has actually happened that could explain his words/behavior.
And the “entitled millionaire” comment is just weird.  Just sounds like unhealthy money envy to me.
 

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

That’s not enough time to show up to spring training in my best shape ever 

Even in hindsight, I still vote for go for it and try to keep him, knowing the downside is where we sit today.
The opposite hindsight of “we were only a 1/2 game out and all we had to do was improve a little to make the playoffs, and that would really help Ohtani want to stay and instead we chickened out, punted and traded away a legend” would have been cemented as the crowning moment for why it is terrible to be an Angel fan.

Even in hindsight, I still vote for go for it and try to keep him, knowing the downside is where we sit today.
The opposite hindsight of “we were only a 1/2 game out and all we had to do was improve a little to make the playoffs, and that would really help Ohtani want to stay and instead we chickened out, punted and traded away a legend” would have been cemented as the crowning moment for why it is terrible to be an Angel fan.

I have very often defended Moreno against lots of knee-jerk criticisms.  I don’t think he has been a terrible owner forever.  To me, he was doing fine for some time historically.
But his time has passed and he is no longer somebody I want to continue owning the team.  I am very disappointed that he is now saying he is here for the foreseeable future.
I am most puzzled by his current inability to craft and deliver a message/vision for the team that fans paying attention can digest and accept.
If he must stay as owner, I would at least hope he would be self-aware enough to know that he needs to display something to be significantly different going forward.
Instead we basically get “I’m still here and not going anywhere for more of the same.”
Fuck.

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.

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

I agree with you technically.  I don’t think anybody can certainly conclude that he has no plan.  But he is being somewhat foolish if he fails to see how important it is for him to provide to the fans some sense that he is competent and capable of leading the organization.
He doesn’t seem to be doing anything to breed optimism that HE is the right owner going forward.
 

I love how he projects what a good owner should do, but totally fails to see that someone good at his job would get the interview, or at the very least wouldn’t be deliberately avoided.

Portland is drenched in dirty, defiant, anti-capitalist, insatiable, entitled, angry people.  Do we really think they are going to fill a ballpark with people paying mlb retail ticket prices?
That’s a bad bet.
And good luck getting them to spend $14 on Nachos.
First they would protest the price.  How are they expected to afford piercing cleaning solution AND Nachos?
Then it would be the anti-cheese and chicken demonstration. Meat is murder.
And of course there would be the hunger strike demanding the name be changed from Nacho to NachX.

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.

I love how he projects what a good owner should do, but totally fails to see that someone good at his job would get the interview, or at the very least wouldn’t be deliberately avoided.

I love how he projects what a good owner should do, but totally fails to see that someone good at his job would get the interview, or at the very least wouldn’t be deliberately avoided.

Perfect

I love how he projects what a good owner should do, but totally fails to see that someone good at his job would get the interview, or at the very least wouldn’t be deliberately avoided.