PattyD22

My new “light up the halo.”

If we ever win a ballgame again.

Best part of the game. 

1 minute ago, Erstad Grit said:

Is Trout going to end yet another game? 

Yes

Time to be a hero Mike.

Seriously

So fucking typical.  Holy shit

2 minutes ago, PattyD22 said:

Dear AW guys, don’t kill the messenger but Suarez is warming up in the pen right now.

Suarez just sat down.

Matt Moore is up now

Dear AW guys, don’t kill the messenger but Suarez is warming up in the pen right now.

Hey we’re down 4-1, have 2 hits in this game and have really played like shit.

But the wave is in full effect.  Thank God for Star Wars fans

A rocket by Rengifo breaks up the no no

3 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

Believe it or not, that Trout lineout to the SS only had an 86.8 MPH exit velocity.

Compared to every other contact, it was a laser shot

We’re being no hit through 5 by a guy with a 4.91 ERA (before the game).

Trout with the only hard hit ball all game and that was the first AB.

Yawn

My son has a Pujols jersey, a Calhoun jersey, a Kendrick jersey, a Fletcher jersey and an Ohtani jersey.  No lie.

I begged him to get a Rendon jersey today.  I may just buy it for him.

55 minutes ago, Angels 1961 said:

No, unless he has head he is not walking away from the money.

Uhh @calscan I get a ruling on this post?

6 hours ago, Inside Pitch said:

There's math but there's also gibberish built upon the subjective analysis of a random dude on the internet -- it's about as scientific and analytical as an ESPN power ranking.  

If you wanted to create a tier list based on purely on math and focusing on wins and who has played who then you may as well start by using RPI as the the baseline -- RPI basic formula being, 25% team winning percentage, 50% opponents' average winning percentage, and 25% opponents' opponents' average winning percentage.

Using RPI and going for 6 tiers you'd get the following.

Tier 1: Milwaukee .577, Baltimore .574 , Cleveland .568, NYM .556, and Boston .547.
Tier 2: Seattle .535, Cinci .526, Pittsburgh.523, LAD .521, NYY .517.
Tier 3: Atlanta .516, Philly .510, Minnesota .503, Oakland .499, Toronto .498
Tier 4: KC .497, CHC .494, SDP .494, Detroit .488, LAA .483
Tier 5: Texas .479, STL .477, TBR .475, Washington .473, SFG .473
Tier 6: Arizona .463, Houston .455, Miami .441, Colorado .426, CWS .415

So how does Oakland end up in Tier 3 while the D-Backs (You didn't even include them in yours), end up in Tier 6?  It's called the unbalanced schedule.  Even using something that attempts to incorporate real math/analysis and not "trust me bro" math it's pointless until everyone in MLB has played more than 5 or 6 of the 30 teams in MLB.  

Using RPI, 12 of the Angels 25 games (48%) have come against TIER 1 teams and 15 of their 25 games (60%) have come against the top 2 tiers .vs the 3 games they have played against the Marlins. Considering how many winnable games they have lost some might see that as a reason to believe they could do better... but reality is we don't know if they will find ways to lose against bad teams too.  It's just too early. 

Props for making an effort to substantiate your rankings but you may want to ease up on BS a bit.

 

Have you seen Shark Week and what can happen with that shit?

Hell no.

20 hours ago, PattyD22 said:

Great job @gotbeer.  I can’t tell you how many morons we had to fly out of there on our Air Squads because they thought they could do that hike to Switzer Falls in flip flops and a 16 oz water in the summertime.

20 hours ago, cals said:

I read a story today about another Asian person dying while hiking in SoCal.  They really need to pass a law.

18 hours ago, gotbeer said:

Yeah, actually pretty tragic.  It was 2 canyons over from me when I did my hike.  Was wondering what the helicopters were for.  I even commented to one of my hiking partners, that it was a sheriffs helicopter, so definitely a rescue somewhere.  By the "died of blunt force trauma", that's either she fell off the trail, or more likely, tripped and hit her head on a rock.  And that trail she was on was a more moderate one too according to alltrails.

This could be one of the people I was mentioning in my response regarding hiking in flip flops and a small 16.9 oz Arrowhead water.

Then again, she may have been wearing Crocs also.  Very popular hiking shoes in the Asian community.  With all due respect.

I absolutely loathe Edmonton as we’ve been their bitch the last two post seasons.  Evander Kane and Corey Perry are so hateable.

Glad to see we got the equalizer last night in great fashion, with Kopi getting the game winner.

On to LA and hopefully a lot of momentum.

On 4/22/2024 at 9:58 AM, gotbeer said:

Personal best.  20 miles on the Mt. Wilson hike yesterday.  A bit hot, but found a group of people to hopefully do a bunch of hikes with.  Someone pass me the drugs.

Not sure what kind of snake this was.  Looks like a rattler, but it didn't have a rattle on him.  

 

Great job @gotbeer.  I can’t tell you how many morons we had to fly out of there on our Air Squads because they thought they could do that hike to Switzer Falls in flip flops and a 16 oz water in the summertime.

4 hours ago, James said:

Thats a great venue. Saw TATE there with the San Diego Symphony backing them. Was an amazing evening. Seeing Avett there in October. 

We had pretty awesome seats, then found out later you could just sit on the boardwalk behind a small fence and watch/listen to the same show I am for about $560 less.  Now I know

On 4/24/2024 at 9:30 AM, Blarg said:

Lou is not going to be happy about this.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/40014492/reggie-bush-heisman-trophy-returned

 

I was thinking the same thing @Blarg.

It appears that cheaters do prosper.

1 minute ago, The Ghost of Bob Starr said:

That’s brutal. 

It really is.  It means that Mike Trout has been really unclutch when runners get on base in front of him, OR it means no one gets on base in front of him.

Both can be true.

Mike Trout now leads the AL in home runs with 10.

He has 13 RBI’s.  Drink that in for a second.  That is an insane stat.  

Angels making it respectable right now.  Hope they can keep it up

13 minutes ago, T.G. said:

@PattyD22 - please alert your buddies in the OC. We have an arsonist on the mound.

He’s not even 91 octane gasoline.

He's freaking rocket fuel.

Brutal

Saw this show last Friday at The Rady Shell in San Diego.  Great show and great venue.