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Offense looks pretty much like it has since 2014, pretty so so....Pujols is a drag and will be until his last AB next year....Want to see how Upton looks but you have to wonder how much he has left in the tank....That’s a lot of money and outs down the drain...

Sooner or later, Trout's gonna have to back up his MVP's with some playoff wins.  Has there ever been anyone in MLB history with multiple MVP awards and 0 playoff wins?
 

Systemic racism - teachers' unions
Solution - School vouchers for black people

Just when baseball had a chance to unite people struggling through a pandemic & civil unrest this shit happened.
I won't go into it much, most of you know my politics & where I stand, but I disagree with anyone who kneels during the anthem and I wholeheartedly am opposed to BLM the organization.
All Lives Matter. Period! Including the Black Police & Black Men & Children who were gunned down by Black thugs in the streets. Until BLM stands against crimes against their own and against creating more racial divide and hate toward law enforcement, they're nothing but angry political activists more defined as a Marxist hate group who have explicit stated goals of dismantling America as we know it and replacing it with a socialist doctrine. BLM wasn't even for Black senator Tim Scott's police reform bill. These cities are run by Democratic mayors & state Governors! The same politicians who are silent about the high crime rates in their streets and do nothing, yet they want to defund law enforcement.
I digress..
I'm with you @tchula.
Keep this stuff out of sports. There's enough protests in the streets and on local and national news networks. We don't need this in the game! 

I appreciate all you do Jeff, but yesterday you made more tweets about the kneeling than about the game itself.  I completely support Middleton's right to kneel, but many of us go to sports to get away from the struggles of society.  It's our escapism from the hardships of real life.  I know some of it will overlap to some degree, and maybe that's appropriate, but I sure hope that this doesn't become the new norm or our Angels coverage isn't dominated by social commentary.  I know I may get criticized for this point of view, but I believe many folks feel the same way.  

DFAth

I wouldn't

Doesn't eat nails. 

You’re the dumb

Get your ass out there and play

And no divisions.  Just one 10-team league.

It's the equivalent of when politicians say, "Think of the children."

Weaver is so underrated.  In a do or die situation, I'd take him over ANY other Angel pitcher (except perhaps pre-injury Tanana).
Up until the last 3 years of his career, his winning percentage was close to .666.  When bored at work, I'd search baseball reference, and I could find only Pedro and Whitey Ford with that percentage (in modern times).

Nope, its youth sports that's killing it (not to mention video games).  Every kid now needs two triple-walled bats (they look like deadpool when they carry it around in their backpack), their own helmet, two batting gloves, shoes, backpack to carry it all, AND AN ADULT TO TELL THEM WHAT TO DO!!!  When's the last time you saw a pickup game in your area?  Kids nowadays don't even know that "over-the-line" is. Inner city kids are priced out.
Back in the '60s and '70s we had 4 helmets for the team, about a dozen baseballs for the season (we kept one "game ball" for the whole season), nobody had their own bat, and only the rich-spoiled brat kid had a batting glove (we were all jealous of it).  I rode to the park with my shoes and glove slung over the handlebars.  We usually had only about one or two parents in the stands (usually a couple of dads who'd been drinking and loved to harass the ump).  The coach was the guy who drew the short straw.  It was like Adam Carolla says, "Who do you want taking your kids camping?  The guy who immediately raises his hand?  No!!!  The guy who is trying to sneak out the back door....that's who you want taking your kids camping!!! (in our case, that was the guy who had to coach little league)"
However, after our little league game, we would play pickup games, (over the line if not enough players) until dark, and, I would argue, we developed our skills just through shear repetition and had WAAAY more fun.
The same is happening in basketball.  Summer camps used to be for skill development.  Now they are for playing games.  When your kid is on a team of twelve, just what percent of the time does he/she have the ball in their hands?   

Nope, its youth sports that's killing it (not to mention video games).  Every kid now needs two triple-walled bats (they look like deadpool when they carry it around in their backpack), their own helmet, two batting gloves, shoes, backpack to carry it all, AND AN ADULT TO TELL THEM WHAT TO DO!!!  When's the last time you saw a pickup game in your area?  Kids nowadays don't even know that "over-the-line" is. Inner city kids are priced out.
Back in the '60s and '70s we had 4 helmets for the team, about a dozen baseballs for the season (we kept one "game ball" for the whole season), nobody had their own bat, and only the rich-spoiled brat kid had a batting glove (we were all jealous of it).  I rode to the park with my shoes and glove slung over the handlebars.  We usually had only about one or two parents in the stands (usually a couple of dads who'd been drinking and loved to harass the ump).  The coach was the guy who drew the short straw.  It was like Adam Carolla says, "Who do you want taking your kids camping?  The guy who immediately raises his hand?  No!!!  The guy who is trying to sneak out the back door....that's who you want taking your kids camping!!! (in our case, that was the guy who had to coach little league)"
However, after our little league game, we would play pickup games, (over the line if not enough players) until dark, and, I would argue, we developed our skills just through shear repetition and had WAAAY more fun.
The same is happening in basketball.  Summer camps used to be for skill development.  Now they are for playing games.  When your kid is on a team of twelve, just what percent of the time does he/she have the ball in their hands?   

I hated when we traded Ed Figueroa and Mickey Rivers to the Yankees for Bobby Bonds back in '75.
I hated when we sold Rudy May (Autry must have needed the cash, I remember the year the Angels drew only 750,000)
I hated trading Fregosi for Ryan and Stanton, loved it afterwards.
I hated trading Dave Collins, Jason Thompson, Aurelio Rodriguez
Never understood why we didn't want Leon Wagner.
The Vernon Wells trade was the worst.  Scioscia just hated Napoli, Rivera was better than Wells.

Weaver is so underrated.  In a do or die situation, I'd take him over ANY other Angel pitcher (except perhaps pre-injury Tanana).
Up until the last 3 years of his career, his winning percentage was close to .666.  When bored at work, I'd search baseball reference, and I could find only Pedro and Whitey Ford with that percentage (in modern times).

I want to say Tanana, but, while he would have had a HOF career, the ramifications of Kendrys getting hurt are much deeper.  We never would have signed Pujols.  This was a move I never quite understood.  Morales was due to come off the injured list and Trumbo just came off a decent season.  The Pujols signing left us with 3 first basemen,  which was awkward and the team has been awkwardly constructed ever since.  
Non-Angel, I would have to go with Bo Jackson.
 
P.S.  One of the great Tanana quotes from the early 70's... "Next year we've got everybody coming back......and that's the problem!"

Agree.  Back then, a lot more importance was placed on BA.

Everbody forgets about game 4 in '86.  We scored 3 in the ninth to tie, then this...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ-Pak397ec
 
Don't know why I wasn't home, but I was listening on the radio...
 
Baseball was made for radio anyways.

Everbody forgets about game 4 in '86.  We scored 3 in the ninth to tie, then this...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ-Pak397ec
 
Don't know why I wasn't home, but I was listening on the radio...
 
Baseball was made for radio anyways.

Everbody forgets about game 4 in '86.  We scored 3 in the ninth to tie, then this...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ-Pak397ec
 
Don't know why I wasn't home, but I was listening on the radio...
 
Baseball was made for radio anyways.

Such a painful experience in '86.  I remember the Anaheim PD lining the field to hold back the celebration...
When Buckner botched that dribbler up the first base line I shouted, "Yes!!!  Now you feel our pain!!".
Although, I think that Buckner represented everything good about baseball.  I still remember when he came up with the Dodgers, quite a AAA team they had in 1970 (Garvey, Lopes, Russell, Charlie Hough, Valentine, Rau, Zahn, Paciorek, Doyle Alexander, with Cey, Ferguson, and Yeager waiting at AA).  Talk about a home grown team!