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Nice cricket reference, Lou 👲

Nice cricket reference, Lou 👲

Judging on this season he already is!

A little dose of euphoria:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FqaIxaa32c

Might consider changing the thread title to “Angels Call Up Austin Warren” since it’s his first call up. 

With all his money you'd think he could afford a shirt?

With all his money you'd think he could afford a shirt?

With all his money you'd think he could afford a shirt?

And how smart do we think he is - so I can answer if I think he is smarter.

"A lettuce sandwich with cheese"?
 

"A lettuce sandwich with cheese"?
 

It's 'The Open Championship' - called as such because it was the first and only when it began. In Europe it is just called The Open. Some people call it the British Open in the USA because somehow they feel us Brits are maybe a bit big for our boots and need reminding that there are other Opens out there too... just my mere conjecture of course.
 
Ahem, I think you might want to flip that on its head:
WW2 - USA with the Brits - A resounding win 
Korea - USA with no Brits - No win
Vietnam - USA with no Brits - No win
Falklands - Brits no USA - A resounding win
Iraq - USA with the Brits - A resounding win
There is definitely a pattern here... 

*organisation
(Trying to be inclusive of @WicketMaiden.)

All stats are for June 2021:
The Stassi .478  .520  1.520 OPS
J-Up .360 .515 1.515 OPS (2nd in all baseball among qualified hitters)
The Unicorn - .250 .483 1.133 OPS (9th in the AL for OPS, 5th for OBP)
Goose .375 BA
Rendon .303 BA
Fletch - .286 BA
Year to date OPS - Shohei is 3rd and Walsh 9th in the AL
Shohei is 2nd for HR’s in the AL, Upton is now 8th, Walsh 12th
The Angels win streak is up to three! 

This thread is like a bunch of dudes looking up their old girlfriend on Facebook to see if she's still fat. 

He's an Angel now. This is what happens.

To loose? Isn't that a town in France? 

If Mayers is being overused by being asked to get the last two outs of an inning after pitching the night before, the Angels are in deeper trouble than we think.  This is ridiculous.  You know what would help Mayers; throwing strikes in places other than the middle of the plate.

I didn't say I cared, I'm just interested to know. Angels61 said "just wait until he misses that first pay check" so I wondered when that would be.

Brandon Wood, Dallas McPherson, and Casey Kotchman

Probably a British term.  
 

In terms of Trout, Rendon and others who are established guys looking good in ST, no. Same with Pujols. If he hit 10 HR and batted .500 this spring, it wouldn't change my mind on if he should get more starts over Walsh at 1B. 
But when you got someone like say Upton who finished the season strong and has carried that over into ST, that shit matters IMO. 
In the case of Ohtani, we needed to see the velo and secondary pitches that were both absent last season. 
There's also guys like Lagares, Rengifo, Ward, Barreto and other position battles that you like to see good performances from. 
Finally who doesn't like to see our top prospects in ST, especially when we didn't have a minor league season last year. I've loved what I've seen from C-Rod and Detmers thus far. 

I know it's just spring training yada yada, but I've been fairly impressed with all aspects so far. Need to rein in my optimism I think! 

That was a really fun game to watch. For the first time in a long time it felt like old school 'Angels baseball' - good base-running with guys in motion and stolen base attempts, scoring runs on outs, tight defence, hitting to all fields. The pitching was pretty good too (how much are we paying Cobb again?). Loved it. Hopefully a sign of things to come and a fun season ahead.