Ariamus

I often feel like I'm suffocating whenever I watch the Angels lose to the Astros.

It’s almost like Anderson sucks or something

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You don't need to know anything more about Taylor Anderson than the following. It took Anderson 15 pitches to get out Seby Zavala... A guy with an OPS in the low-400s. Not OBP... OPS.

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Angels have never had a 100-loss season. Eternal optimist that I am, I'm holding out hope they avoid that ignominious distinction. So I chose 97-99 losses...

See, that's where you're wrong... Thor's a god, not a superhero

Epstein says he's taking some time off but that he's not done with baseball. I believe the latter and am unconvinced as to the former. I gotta believe the Mets job has to have a lot of people licking their lips.

Obviously not going to happen but it would never happen even if we didn't have a GM already. Maddon and he don't get along and that's why we got Joe to come to the Angels.

Dipoto with the Halos? Or with Seattle???

Mike Port. "He was two hundred and fifty feet away and shooting at a moving target. Oswald got off three rounds with an old Italian bolt action rifle in only six seconds and scored two hits, including a head shot!"

This is a narrative that isn’t all that accurate. I don't agree...eventually, that standoff came down to "me or the other guy" and the only person who could make that decision was the owner. His choice was iffy at best at the time and has been shown to be disastrous in retrospect. Moreover, it was Moreno that gave Scioscia so much power that the person who should be his direct boss (Dipoto) couldn't act the part because the employee had more power than the supervisor.

Siding with Scioscia over Dipoto. EDIT - Actually, the correct answer here is the fact that he picked a side in that standoff. It can be argued that neither side was very much in the right but the fact that Arte ultimately picked the field manager over the GM was a huge mistake.

It is a fact that owners who are more meddlesome are usually less successful. Jerry Jones is one of the most involved owners in all of North American sports and the 'Pokes haven't won shit in forever. Not since the dynasty built by Jimmy Johnson and Minnesota Vikings' ineptitude that was so strong, any yahoo (yeah, I'm looking at you Barry Switzer) could win with it, petered out. James Dolan of the Cablevision family empire is the principal owner of both the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers. He fancies himself a basketball aficionado and for him, hockey is an afterthought. He's constantly involved in the affairs of the Knicks but he lets the professionals run the the Rags. It's no mistake that the NHL club is a model franchise with loads of success in the decade and a half Dolan's been in charge and the Knicks are an embarrassment over the same period. Other meddlesome owners are the bosses at some of my other favorite teams. Robert Sarver fancies himself a genius who must have input on all the basketball decisions his Phoenix Suns make and that franchise has been rudderless since he's owned them. American businessman Malcolm Glazer doesn't know shit about proper football (soccer) but he insists he rules the roost at Manchester United and that his buddy, Ed Woodward, another American that doesn't know jack all, run the operations of the club. Finally. no-one's more interfering and overbearing than Daniel Snyder who may in fact be the worst person in professional sports ownership today. In short, my point is that Arte is indeed "free to have input whenever he wants in any decision he wants." He's also free to realize he doesn't know thing one about running a professional baseball club and should be smart enough to refrain from being intrusive. After all, I doubt he'd want Jerry Dipoto, Billy Eppler, Tony Regins, etc. telling him how to make and sell concrete.

Let's wait and see how things pan out before just assuming the worst. If he hires Minasian, that's a positive sign. A new voice outside the organization, one that has a strong pedigree working with teams that built strong farm systems. Sure, Minasian is a relative unknown, but that isn't necessarily a strike, as these guys do have to come from somewhere. Let's see what happens today, as we will likely hear an announcement. Look, I'm willing to be as optimistic about the new guy as anyone. But I think we can all agree that Arte's meddling is a negative thing, not a positive one. And does anyone really believe he's going to change? Especially with yet another "wet behind the ears" GM?

Picking the better person between the likes of Arte Moreno and Steve Cohen is like picking which of the hogs in the pen is prettiest. You don't choose pigs for how they look. You choose them for how you expect they'll taste. And you don't choose between sports franchise owners for how much of a dick they are. You choose them for how you expect they'll improve their respective clubs. So I couldn't give a spit whether or not Arte voted for Cohen and why?

Is there any room left on that train...? Because nothing about this whole process and how it's winding down is blowing air up my skirt, so to speak. Minasian or Hollander just sound like yet another guy for Arte to lord over. Reagins... Dipoto... Eppler... On the bright side, after this one, one more and Arte'll have enough for a full starting pitching rotation. And when has ever shown himself able to build that in his time as the owner of the club???