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Water cannon vid is from summer riots in south america, one comment said Venezuela. Impressive non the less.

Now 3-7 against Padres. Ending to this game was epic...in so many ways... sweep.mp4

Dogs doing what the Angels should have done a few years ago, sit his now 44yr old fat ass on the pine against RHP and pinch run for him in tight games. That said, will be at Petco tonight cheering for a Pods sweep.

The encouraging march back to 500.

Awesomsias

Cobb deserved better

Really doesn't make up for his crap throws

Albert Pujols (R) has not appeared on an Angel's lineup card after 4 May and won't appear on another one forever.

Found it a good read and, yea, there is one of our guys on his list. https://sports.yahoo.com/5-toughest-hitters-baseball-125703303.html

He hit .234 in April, but to be fair was hitting .290 over 8 games before he hurt his groin. Hit .200 in May and was out 11 days with the knee contusion. He is hitting .159 since returning from the contusion (18 games). Defensively he appears fine, but is obviously struggling at the plate and doesn't appear to be getting better. Might consider giving him a week or so away from the daily grind to heal up the left leg and hitting stroke. If that qualifies as bench him, then yes.

Playing more games, he could be worse...

Gotta hope Rendon turns it around soon. Right now he's a pretty big hole in the 3rd slot, no doubt magnified by the absence that is Trout.

Interesting you should bring up Callapso, not a terrible 3B, but perhaps best known for being traded/pulled in the middle of a game at Texas.

This silver lining stuff, I don't get it. Angels just lost the best player in MLB for a couple months. There is no silver lining, none, anywhere.

Was listening to sox broadcast, even with their homeritis preferable to 3hrs of goober. They were snickering about the Trout doink when the audio suddenly went silent as Ohtani blast sailed into RF. Arigato Ohtanisan. Winning streak underway!

Not new, returning from the inactive list after a couple years off. Just got so frustrated with the Angels struggle, sometimes finding myself rooting for a loss in hopes it would force the FO to deal with Pujols. Of course there is a lot more to the mediocrity the Angels have suffered the past decade, but to me Pujols seemed like the tip of the mediocrity spear. For the first time in a couple years I was ROOTING for the Angels to pull one out today, enter the Thank-God-He's-Gone era with some spark and energy. Arigato Ohtani. That the albertross has landed with the hated Dogs seems like divine intervention.

Since you asked, this poster comes from the basket of deplorables who cling to their guns or religion, and from those who served this country and fought for the freedom to trash the flag/anthem and the freedom to criticize those who trash the flag/anthem.

Here's a few during the US national anthem at Wembley, after which they stood up for "God Save the Queen".

Someone explain plz...why the Angels are risking the Ohtani elbow at this point in a dreadful season? Nothing much to gain, a hell of a lot to lose it would seem.

Actually, neither. Especially not interested in the anti-American "athletes playing at high speeds and showcasing their athletic ability".

There it is, the Pujols catch22. The team has purposely avoided keeping anyone (Trumbo, Cron, etc) or acquiring anyone who could potentially replace him in the lineup. Hence the worn out defense that as bad as he is, there is no one to replace him. I believe Scioscia is the driver, perhaps in tandem with Moreno. Regardless it's time to move on from the bad feet, bad knee, bad player, bad contract that is Pujols.

This. The Pujols catch22. Don't get anyone better because he's there. Play him because no one is better. Rinse. Repeat. While we're entertained by the AW aristocracy arguing he must play because there is no one better.

With Scioscia, Pujols is guaranteed a MOTO slot. Scioscia won't even sub him out late in close games when he gets on base. I'm optimistic a new manager won't be nearly as committed to Pujols and begin the process to transition him to part time DH. At that point, his personal services job might look more attractive. Until this happens, adding pieces to the offense seems like building a house around a weak load bearing wall.

Screw the NFL. Rather watch Pujols ground out to 3rd, then shuffle down the first base line.

He knows, perhaps better than anyone, he can no longer do things on the baseball field he's taken for granted since high school. I think of that play he made at first base in the 6th inning the last game, which was extraordinary given his physical limitations. During the 10-15min it took to recover, he was likely thinking a bit about how hard playing baseball has become.