AlwaysAnAngelsFan

Game 6 trolling is funny

But what above pineapplele?
Oh, and you couldn't be more wrong.

Wake up sheeplele

Thaiss only has like ~400 innings caught since returning behind the plate if I remember. Given how often Stassi gets hurt, it would be extremely risky rolling into 2022 with Thaiss as the second guy in line and pressed into full-time service for a “win-now” team with pitching concerns.
Doesn’t mean they had to sign Suzuki, but they absolutely needed another backstop or two. 
Even if he’s ready developmentally that would be a huge ask and risk. 
But Suzuki? Ugh.

To be honest, this makes me a lot happier than I expected.
I was sort of bunkered in, prepared for a long, stupid lockout.
Suddenly, I miss baseball again and am looking forward to the season!

Are the owners required to spend the advertising money on the team?

Draft lottery
• Top 6 selections will be awarded via lottery.
• Odds would be based on the reverse order of winning percentage, with the bottom three clubs each at 16.5%.
• The 18 non-postseason clubs would be eligible, though revenue sharing payees would be ineligible to receive lottery selections in three consecutive years, while non-payees would be ineligible to receive lottery selections in consecutive years.

No more stupid runner on 2nd rule in extra innings. This always seemed (predictably) to hurt the Angels more than it ever helped them.

You have been saying that for weeks and you are still here.

Ted Williams did not like shift

I think the “all on the dirt” solution is much more feasible than the “two on each side” solution. 
 
Personally the shift doesn’t bother me at all. 

Quiet, the grown-ups are talking. 

60 games is not a season. Holding piece of metal over your head in a bubble does not count.

Playoffs are a lottery ticket - the hot team wins - unless you think an 88-win team was the best team in the league last year.
Dodgers have 9 straight playoff appearances, while only the Mariners and the Phillies have gone longer than the Angels without a playoff appearance, despite our spend.  
We live in the glassiest of houses ...
 

The Dodgers have spent as much (some say mush) money as any team in baseball without a WS title since 1988. How many dodger dogs eaten since 1988?

Someone didn't read the article.
 

Net worth of Arte Moreno compared to net worth of players on 40 man halo roster?  

I don’t really think the amount of offense is an issue. The number of runs in a game is still totally within the normal range that it’s always been. 
 
The problem is that guys strike out too much, which means the offense comes from walks and homers. I’m not sure moving around the fielders will have any impact on the number of strikeouts, walks or homers. 
 
You can say that “guys strike out because they’re trying to hit homers because they can’t get a single through the shift,” but I don’t buy it. I think even if they could get a single they’d still just be trying to hit homers. I also think a lot of the strikeouts are because the pitchers stuff is too good, not because hitters have bad approaches. 

That still oversimplifies the issue at hand, though. Homegrown players are still the way of creating a sustainably winning culture. And right now, tanking is the most efficient way of stockpiling those assets. But if you remove the incentive, you force teams to win in different ways, namely excellent scouting, or spending the money allotted more wisely than the next team. It also encourages teams to lock up homegrown talent early, leading to more lucrative rookie deals. 
Think about it, a small market team needs their payroll above a certain level. They can either invest more money on a lesser player or more money on a young homegrown player that figures to only increase in productivity. They'll choose the latter every single time and you'll begin to see quality players spends more time on teams that aren't the Yankees, Red Sox or Dodgers.
Conversely, a large market team needs their payroll under a certain amount and they've got a stud prospect blocked by quality but well compensated veteran. Lower market teams would suddenly be in position to afford quality talent they otherwise wouldn't because the large market team would need to eat a portion of the contract. And furthermore, the large market team needs to seriously consider whether they can retain the services of the stud prospect after his first couple years in the league, leading to a much wiser approach to spending and team building. 
The system as it stands, means the Dodgers can afford 30 million on dead weight on the roster (Angels game can relate) while teams like the Pirates either can't afford this, or simply refuse to spend. 
The biggest issue in baseball right now is tanking. There's a lot of noise about other stuff, but the reality is, in the current system, you've got 10 teams legitimately pushing for a championship, 10 more teams in the middle hoping they might get lucky, and 10 teams that have no chance and aren't even trying to compete, and won't, for at least another five years. It lasts to severely uninteresting baseball being played largely by two teams with no chance at the playoffs or winning. There's no buy-in from fans. Most divisional races are decided before the 4th of July, leading to three months of games they're just trying to get out of the way before more interesting games occur in October. 
A cap and floor with severe penalties goes a long way in fixing that. 

Because revenue has increased.
26 owners have okd an increase 

Honestly, so do i, although i suspect for very different reasons than Arte.
It benefits nobody but the teams with endless resources and does nothing to encourage any sort of competitive integrity.
Now you want to talk about the floor instead of the ceiling, im all about that.
3 teams spent over 200M, 11 were under 100... which is the greater problem?
How does giving the Yanks, Dodgers, and Mets even more buying power help anything?
Id include us on that list but its clear Moreno will never go over it so that dream is dead. 

Our first clue that Moreno wasn't necessarily the best of owners came in an article by Scott Miller of CBS Sports in 2013 about the 2012 season
Excerpt:
Since his first full year as owner of the Angels in 2004, Moreno has fired close to 40 members of the front office, baseball operations department and scouting and medical staffs. The Angels maintain a skeletal front-office staff in many areas, and one of the leanest game-day staffs in all of baseball. If someone is let go, there often is no replacement hired. Moreno is said to gouge hours from his low-paid employees.
As for the club being on-deck to miss the playoffs for a fourth consecutive year, many in the organization thought the team needed more pitching help rather than Pujols during the winter of 2011-2012 when Moreno decided on the Cardinals free agent. After all, the Angels at that point already had a slugging first baseman in Kendrys Morales.
Last winter, many key members of the baseball operations department wanted to make more of an effort to re-sign Zack Greinke, but it was Moreno who steered them to free agent Josh Hamilton.
Though he has spent millions on players, including a record $153 million on this year’s payroll, many people both inside and outside of the Angels organization agree that Moreno’s reign of terror has created obstacles not only impossible for the club to overcome, but ones that have shifted the Angels into reverse.
When the decision was made to pursue Vernon Wells from Toronto before the 2011 season, a move Scioscia is said to have endorsed, it was Moreno, one source says, who threatened then-GM Tony Reagins with a firing if Reagins didn’t consummate the deal within 24 hours. Moreno is described as being chapped at having lost free agent Adrian Beltre to the Rangers roughly two weeks earlier, and that helps explain why, in an agreement that utterly stunned almost everybody in the game, the Angels agreed to pay all but $5 million of the $86 million to a player that Toronto was so eager to offload that the Jays surely could have been persuaded to pay millions more.
“Arte needs to stay out of the baseball business,” one baseball person says. “Arte thinks he knows the game. He doesn’t know the game. He only knows the money, the business side.”
 
The whole article is pretty interesting... and this was written in 2013.  Nine years later... well, things haven't gotten any better.