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5 hours ago, Tank said:

when you go in to buy a new computer, ask for one that includes punctuation symbols on the keyboard. 

It's not '61s fault, he learned to key directly from Samuel Morse, before he added punctuation to the signal set.

I'm not above using the same lame idea twice.

Gotta say, these Bauer tweets of him looking through knotholes at spring training are giving off this kind of vibe...

3 hours ago, Blarg said:

Trevor is now party crashing. 

Yep.  I have no idea what to use the new "thread fly" reaction on, but I think it probably has something to do with Bauer.

14 minutes ago, 3pitchwalk said:

maybe arte will finally move the team somewhere else.

4 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

"I’m not going to spend money just to show that we’re going to spend money unless it’s going to substantially change the team.”

Ah, good thing losing Ohtani didn't substantially change the team.

Just now, Dtwncbad said:

“Unknown reasons” by Sam Blum has the potential to be a permanent running joke.

Kate Beckinsale is not returning my phone calls for "unknown reasons".

Honestly, if he's gonna spend a pile of money, I'd rather a bunch of it goes into player development, minor leagues, amateur scouting, etc.  Get us out of the perpetual bottom of the organizational rankings.  Please.

53 minutes ago, Stradling said:

I wonder if Arte is about to spend some money.  

Has anyone pulled Arte aside, and quietly told him "you can't take it with you"?

Sorry, The Athletic, but my responses are behind a paywall.  If you want my responses, I offer plans for monthly or yearly access to my answers, and your subscription to my answers will renew automatically.

3 hours ago, AngelStew43 said:

No.  Guillermo (Willie) Montanez.  

But are you really a Guillermo if you're not Guillermo 100% of the time?

I think this is the first Guillermo the Angels have ever had, no?

1 hour ago, Taylor said:

Is it this guy?

That's Sam Elliott's less-talented brother.  He works down at the marina.  Keeps Arte's yacht topped up with marine diesel.  They let him in to the ballpark for free, but he doesn't have a place to sit.  So he stands there for the entire game, 81 times a year.

19 hours ago, Taylor said:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dammit

Merriam-Webster now contributing to the overall societal decline.

5 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Dammit

What word are you trying to spell there?

2 hours ago, Chuck said:

@Angels 1961 is atop the leaderboard in this thread.

And he did it without even one post about Tyler Danish!

5 hours ago, Inside Pitch said:

This is the most current RDA allows teams to come close to depreciating 100% of the purchase price over the span of 15 years...  It's a huge tax win.

Oh no, not the moronic "depreciation is a benefit to business owners" nonsense again.

Does the "Award-Winning Attorney" in his article explain what depreciating purchase price does to your capital gains tax when it comes time to sell the team?  Oh he didn't did he?  So he lied by omission to push a stupid myth about depreciating nontangible assets are some special carve-out that benefits sports team owners.

And he even implies that player salaries can be double deducted as operating expense and depreciable asset, with no offset.  This is an outright lie.  The player contract depreciation has an offset in the capital gains tax the owner will pay when he sells the team.  The capital asset gets written down to zero by year 15.  When the owner sells the team, the cost basis is reduced by that same amount.

Note to self: Do not hire Martin J. Greenberg to do any work for me.  Not even to mow my lawn.

And obviously we have other History Months upcoming, no?

And don't call him George, he's Red Witt...

And before TG beats me to it, here's my favorite player for White History Month...

2 hours ago, T.G. said:

Buddy Black!

Ah yes, of course.  It's obvious, now that you say it.  Can somebody start the "Blue History Month" thread, please?

My personal favorite.  5 Gold Gloves.  And a terror on the basepaths back when chicks used to dig the stolen base.

These independent rankers who also do draft rankings *always* end up slotting the guys in top 100 lists in roughly same order as their draft rankings, at least for the first year after the draft.  BA also does this.  I can't blame them, it's pumping your own book until the players sort themselves out with a full year or two of minor league performance.

Callis had Schanuel 26 overall in his draft rankings.  Angels took him 11 overall.  The next three picks were:

12. ARI Tommy Troy (Callis: 17) (2024 Top 100: 74)

13. CHC Matt Shaw  (Callis: 16) (2024 Top 100: 54)

14. BOS Kyle Teel  (Callis: 7) (2024 Top 100: 40)

All those guys Callis had ahead of Schanuel in his draft rankings.  And guess what?  They're all ahead of Schanuel in the top 100.

Basically, it's Callis sticking with his own draft rankings until it becomes obvious who he was wrong on.

Considering he thought there were 25 players in the draft better than Schanuel, it's at least a *little bit* of an admission of being too low on him on Callis' part by even having him in the top 100.  There are a fair number of guys who Callis had ahead in his draft ranking that aren't in the top 100, so again, that's bit of a tacit admission that Schanuel is already looking better than he thought at draft time.

3 hours ago, Make Angels Great Again said:

Looks like more of a man than most baseball players.

4 hours ago, Angels 1961 said:

Angels waiting to sign Slim Pickens. 

Finally, a free agent name that I could get excited about....

Meanwhile over on the DodgersWin.com board, they're probably saying, "Holy crap, the Angels basically bought themselves a 41st roster spot for only 900k!  What a genius move.  We doesn't our GM do stuff like that?"