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AngelsLakersFan reacted to a post in a topic: Rosenthal: Angels aggressively furloughing employees, "raising eyebrows throughout industry"
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AngelsLakersFan reacted to a post in a topic: Rosenthal: Angels aggressively furloughing employees, "raising eyebrows throughout industry"
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AngelsLakersFan reacted to a post in a topic: Rosenthal: Angels aggressively furloughing employees, "raising eyebrows throughout industry"
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Inside Pitch reacted to a post in a topic: Rosenthal: Angels aggressively furloughing employees, "raising eyebrows throughout industry"
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Rally Gorilla reacted to a post in a topic: Rosenthal: Angels aggressively furloughing employees, "raising eyebrows throughout industry"
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Rally Gorilla reacted to a post in a topic: Rosenthal: Angels aggressively furloughing employees, "raising eyebrows throughout industry"
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Rally Gorilla reacted to a post in a topic: Rosenthal: Angels aggressively furloughing employees, "raising eyebrows throughout industry"
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Like you said yourself, salaries are pretty much the same for big market teams. So that leaves the stadium purchase. Even if he had paid up front for the stadium and land...he would have increased his equity by more than he paid. Not exactly a sound argument for pleading hardship. BTW...This LA Times article from May 12th makes it seem like Arte are the city are renegotiating things and that Arte will be on the hook for paying $30M this season. https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-05-12/angels-anaheim-stadium-sale-arte-moreno-deal-city-council Not exactly a huge amount for
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Inside Pitch reacted to a post in a topic: Rosenthal: Angels aggressively furloughing employees, "raising eyebrows throughout industry"
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I don't think there is a convincing argument to be made that Arte is being hit hardest by the timing of all of this. 1) Arte paid $184M for the team in 2003. It is now valued at close to $2Billion. https://www.statista.com/statistics/194619/mlb-franchise-value-of-the-los-angeles-angels-of-anaheim-since-2006/ 2) To keep Arte from moving to another city, Anaheim just let him buy the Big A and 153 acres of surrounding city land for $325M. The land itself is valued at over $300M. https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/angels-arte-moreno-stadium-anaheim-deal 3) Arte and
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At the end of his tenure, I think Sosh was a bit burnt out and held the reins a bit too tight. But there is no question in my mind he was a fantastic, dynamic and innovative manager in his prime. The ring speaks for itself.
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We walk on the beach every morning....and a group of 30 or so young people have started meeting most days to play volleyball....no social distancing worries for these folks and apparently no worries about fines, etc. They seem like a nice enough group, but we're still being careful until more is known, so we just smile and wave as we go by and hope that it works out for them.
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AngelsLakersFan reacted to a post in a topic: Universal DH Happening
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Taylor reacted to a post in a topic: Universal DH Happening
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I can't speak for everyone who doesn't like the DH....but, I'm pretty ok with night games. Some of my best memories are of low scoring extra inning games that go very late. I wonder if those who favor a DH are just stimulation junkies that wouldn't know what to do with themselves if they had to just hang out and talk with friends while a pitcher warmed up. The same type that needs the game to go quickly so they can get home to their video games.
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AngelsLakersFan reacted to a post in a topic: Universal DH Happening
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RendZone reacted to a post in a topic: Universal DH Happening
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I've never liked the DH. To me, baseball isn't about constant stimulation and rushing to get the game over as soon as possible. So, I'm ok with pitching changes, watching a pitcher strike out, low scoring games, extra innings, etc.
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AngelsLakersFan reacted to a post in a topic: Arte and MLB Need to STEP UP
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Arte and MLB Need to STEP UP
Rally Gorilla replied to Brian Ilten's topic in AngelsSpin.com Political Talk
I'm so tired of of the vast majority of Americans being so easily turned on each other. When WE are divided like this, it makes it easier for US to be distracted, controlled, and F'd over by very savvy and amazingly greedy few who don't give a flying F about ANY of US. WE argue over who are the real Americans....WE are all real Americans. And WE better start paying attention to who is benefiting from all this divisiveness....because it's not US. -
I'm fond of the Big A and I think everyone will be fine if we just give the old girl another facelift......but now that the Rangers have a new home, our park will be the fourth best in the AL West....and that's only because the A's play in an f'ing dump. A nice new high tech park with tons of old school style would certainly work for me. I'd even be in favor of a retractable roof....we could leave it open most of the time and close it for those toasty afternoon games that I find myself avoiding as I get older and the climate gets warmer.
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Rally Gorilla reacted to a post in a topic: Corona Virus Poll, Week 7
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My wife uses Zoom for her job and she and her colleagues are really starting to hate it. I've tried asking questions to figure out why it is more tedious on Zoom, but I still don't understand it. You would think all the time saved from not having to travel to a meeting (and being able to interact with others during the lockdown) would make it a positive thing. I'll have to watch from the sidelines sometime to see if I can understand why they aren't liking it.
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Rally Gorilla reacted to a post in a topic: Corona Virus Poll, Week 7
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I don't think I'd be comfortable avoiding the news altogether these days. I usually put it on first thing when I wake up and my daughter and I watch/listen during our morning routines. Then it goes off. I might check the website headlines later in the evening just to see if anything truly new is going on, but that's it. The news networks, of course, would love it if everyone watched 16 hours a day....that's how they make their $$$. And it is very big $$$. So they try to sensationalize every bit of information to make it seem like you don't want to miss a minute of cove