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Maybe the thought to bringing him in was depth and just maybe teach Adell some defense while both at at Salt Lake

Maybe they were just reading tweets from Angels fans after a bad inning 
Sorry couldn’t resist. 😄

No Walsh

Kurt Suzuki who would have thought 

Kurt Suzuki who would have thought 

I saw the A’s traded Chris Bassitt to the Mets.  Wasn’t he on the Angels radar as a potential trade target?  It sounds like the Mets gave the A’s 3 prospects, not sure how high they were in the Mets organization.

Merry Christmas everyone 

Merry Christmas everyone 

Merry Christmas everyone 

Merry Christmas everyone 

Merry Christmas everyone 

Merry Christmas everyone 

Seriously though, I've felt the Angels haves been on the cusp of being a really good team since 2018....
And it all follows the same general timeline.
April - Wow, they look good! 
May - Pitching is decent and that's good enough. 
June - They've got some work to do but they're right there. Anything is possible. 
July - We need pitching! Trade deadline is coming up! 
August - Well that sucks. Another losing season, and another unfruitful deadline. Our pitching sucks. 
September - The kids coming up from AAA are showing some flashes. 
October - Look at all that money coming off the books! And look at all those free agents!
November - We are going to sign every front of the rotation starter!!!!
December - We'll get a TOR starter and a mid rotation starter. That's more reasonable.
January - We'll get two mid rotation starters. 
February - It's ok we only got a couple back end inning eaters we overpaid for. Really, all we need is stability. It'll be fine. 
March - Baseball is back! I predict we'll go 162-0 because of our awesome pitching!
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Wash, rinse, repeat.

These 2 will never be quoting bWAR

We can argue all day long if his comment was offensive to some or not.  I am certain many were not offended and couldn’t care less.  It probably was offensive to somebody.
I see no reason to believe that he intended to offend anyone or that there is anything “hateful” in what he said.
So we are reduced to punishing people because somebody felt justified in feeling offended, regardless of intent or actual malice.
Man, this just seems so unhealthy to me and very problematic when you try to figure out the end game.
If we already severely punish people with zero evidence of intent or malice, then how can anyone EVER feel free to openly communicate even with no intent or actual negative feelings or motives?
Where does this end?
This is a train wreck.
I don’t care about what he said.  I give him the benefit of the doubt that he was just trying to be funny.
I also don’t care if he apologizes to be careful in hindsight to make his intentions clear.  Fine whatever.
But now he is canned?
Again what is the end game here?  Everyone has to magically and accidentally pick only words where nobody can find a way to feel justified in being offended?
That is what is happening now.  People literally addicted to being offended feel so smart in explaining to everyone why what they said can justifiably be viewed as offensive.
I mean I am Irish.  If I were a bad ass hitter and they talked about what to do when I came up to hit, and Jack Morris said in a lame ass Irish accent that the pitcher needs to “Try to get LUCKY”  would anybody give a crap or be bothered?
I wouldn’t.  And if you are offended, great.  That’s up to you.  So spend a moment annoyed and then grow your ass out of it and move on.
Anyone that thinks their ears should only get exposed to words they would have chosen, with the expectation that someone saying words you don’t like be punished, is absolutely bat shit crazy.
Yes you draw a reasonable line somewhere.  To me, that would be “policing” against universally known slurs, and vulgar profanity, etc.
I can tell you line realistically cannot be where somebody could find a way to be offended.
If you are THAT sensitive, then maybe the next step is you go do some healing to be less sensitive before you re-enter the normal world the rest of us want to live in without being burdened with your sensitivity.
Its not that I am happy with what Morris said.  He is a dumb ass talking face like so many others.
What I do know is Ohtani is probably not a tender baby that needs me to jump off my couch to defend him in the possibility that he didn’t like Morris’s comments.
We would all be a little better off if we intentionally didn’t let this stuff bother us.
There was once a day when parents taught their kids that sticks and stones can break your bones but names (words) can never hurt you.
Now we teach everyone to look hard for a way that you get to be hurt by words.  It makes you full of dignity to find indignity.
We need to grow out of this.  It doesn’t end well for ANYONE.