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You're doing yeoman's work here, @Stradling.

It'll fall on mostly deaf ears here, because, well, fuck 'em. They knew what they were getting into. 

If you can legally get away with not doing well for their employees, then by-god, why not?

5 hours ago, happybat4 said:

Baseball has way to many minor league affiliates. Cut more teams so players can actually make a living.

That reads as Baseball knowing how to get to many minor league affiliates.  A road map, if you will.

#grammarcounts

Do they serve Taco Bell to the minor leaguers? /crossthread

These are only terrible conditions that hamper the development of champion athletes.

At least this story isn't about an employee supplying deadly drugs to our partying pitcher.

So the organization is making progress.

https://www.latimes.com/sports/angels/story/2021-07-23/angels-minor-leaguers-housing-advocacy-group

Angels general manager Perry Minasian released a statement Friday afternoon vowing to address the situation.

“What is being reported is unacceptable, and we will look into it and address it,” Minasian said.

Just now, eligrba said:

How do you know?

I lived it 35 years ago, and see what my young adult kids face today.

Look at your rent/mortgage as a percent of your income from 1987, and look at it today.  That's as good a starting point as any.  Then get back to me.

15 hours ago, VariousCrap said:

Mexican Trump 

 

 

17 minutes ago, eligrba said:

I think we all agree to this idea.

 

How old were you when you lived independently without any financial help?  I think those are the stories you hear about what people needed to do to make ends meet.  If this does not represent your narrative or life experience, consider yourself fortunate.

I have a bootstraps story that rivals any here.  I consider it poor form to use this board as a bragging point.  And it was so much easier 35 years ago to be financially independent than it is for young people today.

NONE of the bootstrap stories here are relevant.  This whole thread should be about what the Angels are not doing to put their players in a position to succeed.  It's pathetic.

11 minutes ago, eligrba said:

No.  What has it been?

MAYBE one percent. Rates 'caught fire' a couple years ago, and got up to 2%-ish

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DTB3

Current savings rate at Bank of America for something called a Platinum Rate is .03%

https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/bank-of-america-savings-rates/

You can compound any way you like, $400,000 (and he never ever had $400,000 - after taxes and agents, he probably had closer to $275k) - anyway, even at the mythical $400,000, he will earn $120 this year.  Before taxes.

14 hours ago, Lou said:

My mom cooked every day and there were 7 of us in our house. 

I doubt any of those guys are sleeping in the oven.

Oh for fuck's sake.

14 hours ago, Dtwncbad said:

Sold flowers on the street corner.

Worked as a dishwasher.

Waited tables.

Did janitorial work at night.

Worked as a painter.

Sanded boat bottoms by hand (fuck that was hard).

Drove a shuttle to the airport for $1 tips.

Shoveled rocks and dirt for cash.

Delivered pizza.

I could go on.

None of these jobs paid a “living wage” but I certainly lived.

And it all works out if you decide to take care of yourself and work hard and quit whining that somebody else owes you something.

Oh for fuck's sake.

14 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

We all lived like that in college.

The difference is we weren’t trying to excel in a sport, where conditioning is important.

The guy even said that the other 4 orgs he’s been in were a lot better at it.

It doesn’t matter what bonus the player gets, if the conditioning, nutrition, and living conditions aren’t sufficient.   College athletes don’t sleep 6 to a room.

Jesus man, when @Angel Oracle needs to come in here and be the voice of reason, it shows how ridiculous some of you are.

Nobody cares about how some of you walked uphill in the snow to and from school, and you had two jobs, grandpas.

Its about (as AO is the first to point out) this organization doesn't set up its players to succeed. Training, nutrition, sleep.  Good organizations set their players up to succeed by providing the right things.

14 hours ago, eligrba said:

Compounding interest over 9 yrs would be pretty sweet…I wish I had that kind of a problem.

 

I swear i feel like some board members are stuck in a 1987 time warp.

Do you know what savings interest rates - compounded - have been in the last 10 years?

1 hour ago, rafibomb said:

Her knee looks like a baby's face on an ultrasound

3 hours ago, Stradling said:

For a dude who likes to complain a ton you sure do like to call people out for complaining.  

Our team wore this for years.

3 hours ago, Stradling said:

Yea because we all loved our name change.  

I was on a frigging island arguing here about the name change.  Me on the board and Chad out on some corner on Katella.

There was practically universal approval on this board. 

Guardians is a local thing, right?

Fans of the team with the hands-down, worst, most bastardized, red-headed stepchild name in North America are complaining about the Indian's new logo.  You can't make this crap up.

Just now, Don said:

Those videos are really the gift that keeps on giving.

never gets old

2 minutes ago, failos said:

What a shame. This is the worst shit ever.

Personal, I'd go with 'kids with terminal cancer' but to each his own.

I like the "and idaho" part

I wonder who the Indianswin.com's version of Light The Halo is to tell the board that the controversy will last a month or two, then you'll never hear about it again.

I'm not much for the name, but the logo is sweet

A bunch of Los Angeles/California/Anaheim/of Anaheim/Los Angeles fans commenting about a name change.

Oh, that is rich!