Angels Never Die

Dumb move, they'll regret it in no time.

Please no

What's the big deal about bunt base hits?

Okay, that's the nail in the coffin for me, it is painfully obvious that DiPoto is just another big part of the problem for the Angels.

This is so laughably, wildly ridiculously riddled with logic fallacies to be declared a truly tragic post.

How is this a fair comparison? They were at different stages in their career.

Wow, good example of how much a good walk year can get teams to forget.

As far as I'm concerned, the dbacks organization egged them on.

As far as I'm concerned, the dbacks organization egged them on.

As far as I'm concerned, the dbacks organization egged them on.

Are you serious?

Are you serious?

Paying 15 million for Blanton is not what I'd call swap meet price.

Paying 15 million for Blanton is not what I'd call swap meet price.

I still don't understand how anyone would judge who the best player is by any metric that wouldn't also make them the most valuable player.  I don't care what team that player is on (that is completely out of their control, and so is the division that that team is in,) the best the player is the most valuable player and vice versa.

If we win on the merits of our young guys, then great. I'm not really rooting for them to lose, but at the end of the season, I hope we have the best draft position possible because that's a greater asset than meaningless wins. Ultimately, what's really important is that our draft pick is at least in the protected range.

The thing is it goes way deeper than the GM.  Look at organizations like the Cards and Braves.  They have excellent scouts and developmental people within the organization when it comes to identifying and maximizing talent.  This org, IMO really falls short in those departments.  I don't know if it is the scouts or the people who translate the scouting reports or both.

WAR, why has thou forsaken Trout?

WAR, why has thou forsaken Trout?

I doubt they would have risked anything else.

I don't think that's a very realistic argument, it's understood how certain things make draft position not that important at times. See Rick Ankiel's eventual draft position and bonus, and realize it didn't cause much players drafted before him to get more money than him, that would be a bargaining tactic that I would think be laughed at because of how naive and ignorant it is the reality of the baseball draft. I've never seen any evidence that what you're saying actually happens, not when everyone knows those players really belonged in the first round.

I have no problem acknowledging general differences between the sexes, assuming these differences are established scientifically, and not based on ideological dogma. Yes, males are generally physically stronger than females, but that doesn't justify socially prescribed gender roles of men automatically being protectors, and women automatically being in need of protection by men. At the basis of chivalry isn't just "men are strong, women are weak," but also "women are valuable, men are disposable." These attitudes harm both men and women, there's no place in a progressive egalitarian society for these antiquated and sexist attitudes to exist.

I can't wait for newspapers to die.

Is he implying that the US military used propaganda and false pretenses to recruit people to join? Wow, that's a crime of epic proportions, a crime that you've only seen since...well, since there's been recruitment offices. Yeah, he's generally right in his criticism of the war, but I don't feel sorry for someone who feels special because he happened to be tricked by 9/11 rather than some other source of emotional manipulation. He signed up to be a perpetual order-taking machine, a four-year indentured servant to the US government, and now he's indignant that his deployment didn't live up to his standards and expectations?  If the US was interested in living up to that, they wouldn't make you sign 4 year commitments. It's sad that he's dying, it's sad that they go to schools to manipulate kids into throwing themselves in front of bullets, but he fell for the oldest trick in the book. Nothing about the way he was recruited, or about the Iraq War were exceptions to how the US goverment typically operates.