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I know everyone on this team besides Fletcher, Ohtani and Ward sucks but for fuck's sake can we one day just release Jose Rojas and call it a day on this guy sometime?

Good to see this team starting to play well. This series was a huge blow to the Twins-especially last night as they fall I think 2.5 behind Cleveland for the AL Central. Certainly I'm feeling better about the pitching staff going forward-if Davidson can be a formidable pitcher like he was today they could have a strong starting staff next year. I'll always wonder where the 2022 team would have been had they not lost 14 straight and nosedived. If they would have just treaded water and done anything but went in a complete freefall, they might be right in the mix. But pretty cool to see them take 2 of 3 from MN. Now hopefully they can take 2 of 3 from Seattle and start knocking them out. I want that Seattle playoff drought to go on forever lol

It is but that was like 3 or 4 batters in a row that popped out in the same spot which was kind of funny lol. I think even Patrick got a kick out of it. Thankfully Oakland's offense is even worse than ours. This is truly a battle for 4th place today if I've ever seen one.

I know it's Oakland but are they trying to set a record for foul outs today? What's like like 5 or 6? This offense is so bad lol

Seeing Fletcher hit is making me realize what we missed all year. Having Velasquez or Wade in over Fletcher all year really killed this team.

I hate being spoiler but I think Seattle's lead over the 7th team would be just 1 game if the Angels hang on? If the Angels can help push Seattle out of the playoffs that would be a huge victory in my book lol

First series win since the White Sox series in late June and first 2 game winning streak since June 26-27th lol.

Your first sentence is what I'm thinking completely. I'm getting 2013 vibes when the team starting playing really well in September when the season was gone and we got to see young guys get playing time and guys like Kole Calhoun and Matt Shoemaker got looks. Reminds me a lot of it.

I really wonder if things had gone any different if they hadn't lost that Phillies game with 2 outs in the 9th. It seemed to me that when they lost that Sunday slugfest to Toronto to get swept in 4 games it was the start of something bad but one hoped it was just gonna be a temporary bad stretch. Then the game where the Phillies came back and won on that Sunday game (I think we all know which one) it just felt like this season was completely lost. To me as a fan that Phillies game was the one that really sunk the season.

I mean not to twist the data in their favor or anything... But the Angels have won 2 of their last 3 games

2013 was a bummer for me. I was licking my chops at the thought of Trout, Pujols, Hamilton and Trumbo in the same lineup and well... We know how that worked out. Bit that season was a big bummer for me as this one is.

The 2019 team was my least favorite Angels team in recent memory of mine but this year is catching up. The first month and half were looking promising and I had hopes Minasian knew what he was doing. But right now he looks like a chicken with his head cut and not knowing how to stop the bleeding. Bringing in Jonathan Villar is just a slap in the face. He got released by the Cub and he's a flat out loser. Teams like the Orioles put Villar out there everyday so they could tank for a high draft pick like they did with this piece of shit 3 years ago. If anything thinks he's going to help this shitshow I have some ocean property here in Denver to sell you. I've checked out of this team probably since the Phillies loss a month ago, but I appreciate this board gives me a sympathy group of sorts. I haven't worn any Angels gear in months and I'm just flat out embarrassed by the team right now and don't even have a clue where this goes from here after this nightmare of 2022 ends.

Lol just fuck Loup

Are the Angels leading the league in stolen bases allowed too because it seems like neither Stassi or Suzuki can throw anyone out? I thought Ianetta was bad at throwing baserunners out but I can't recall anyone being thrown out at 2nd this year.

I don't live in Orange County but I really hope people stop showing up. At this point these guys look like they don't care at all and don't deserve any support. This will be the 3rd time they've been shut out in a week or 4th? Don't feel like looking it up right now. But I hope the fans stop showing up to support these asshats.

The band Slayer was right. God hates us all if you're an Angels fan.

Aren't they leading the league in strikeouts now? How about a new goddamn hitting coach?

I may just be me but whenever I see Phil Nevin on screen I initially think I'm looking at a younger Scioscia lol

The Dbacks are my 2nd favorite team and even with their disaster of a year they had last year they never lost 14 in a row that I can remember. I feel like 13 was their highest losing streak and they were awful. This losing streak was a bitch but thankfully dead now.

That lineup is basically the Bees with Max Stassi, Walsh and Ohtani rehabbing lol

Didn't know that about Stefanic. Must have been recently as I checked Sunday night and he was active. At this point no one is unbenchable to me. I just want to see guys who want to play. All Walsh and Ohtani do is swing and miss on every pitch anyway. Who knew in 3 weeks I would grow to hate this team so much. Just fuck this team.

For God's sakes call up Stefanic and Mackinnon and DFA Velasquez and Rengifo. Get some new blood in there the season is toast. I took down my Mike Trout posters just now that I've had up for years because I'm sick of looking at posters of a player who is already a shadow of what he used to be (at least as far as health goes). Blow it up and move on to a serious rebuild so we don't have the "make the playoffs for Mike Trout" albatross around our necks anymore. Honestly I'm not sure we would be worse off with not having that hanging over our heads to make the playoffs for Trout.

Call me crazy but I still have more confidence in Minasian as a GM than I ever did with Eppler. While the bullpen has been awful the last 3 weeks the signings of Tepera, Loup and Bradley on paper should have improved this bullpen. Key word should. None of them are executing at all but statistically it should have improved our 7th and 8th innings a lot from last year. Will they get it going again? Who knows. I hope so. But throw in also that Minasian got Iglesias for Noe Ramirez basically I can't fault Perry for trying. Eppler didn't even try on the bullpen. It seems like the last 2 years all he did was pick up guys on the waiver wire and call it good (i.e. Noe Ramirez, Mike Mayers, Hansel Robles, Felix Pena among many others). I know this isn't a Minasian vs Eppler thread but if Eppler got 5 years for the horrible job he did then Minasian shouldn't get fired after 2 seasons in my opinion.

And if this was us in one of these games leading by 1 on the road, we would lose on an excruciating walk off with 2 outs. Are we going to do that? Nah.

These guys are such losers lol