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Slegnaac
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Slegnaac reacted to Spirit in Axl Rose is rock's Pujols
He's cashing checks today based on the awesome things he did years ago?
Wait ... that's probably right.
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Slegnaac reacted to the dude abides in Axl Rose is rock's Pujols
Marine layer impacts Axl's performance?
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Slegnaac reacted to bloodbrother in Gameday Thread: 4/8 vs. Rangers - No Gia, No Cron
Pennington>Featherston
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Slegnaac reacted to laagamer in Point Counterpoint Quick Hit – Is It Time To Fire Scioscia?
You know what makes a great manager?
Good players.
I fail to see how our lack of talent is Sciosca's problem.
You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit.
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Slegnaac reacted to Blarg in Gott sent down to AAA
Tot if Giavotella breaks down Pennington will take his position, the Angels are not shifting Escobar to 2nd base.
Giavotella is not going to have trouble keeping his job, you guys need to see how he is playing now and come to grips he us a much improved defender.
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Slegnaac reacted to Docwaukee in Angels @ Dodgers 4/1 7:10
hector is a good pitcher. He's actually got really good stuff. Not to the point that he can lose his focus though and that's his biggest problem. Guys with lesser stuff have been more successful. Hes actually a prime candidate for a big year.
He's pretty new to be a starter. He was a reliever in the minors up until 2011 and then got about 125ip that year. Then he pitched almost exclusively in relief for the CWS in 2012. Then became a starter in the majors in 2013 and has been since although he's been one of those guys who's always gotten the occasional relief appearance. Last year, even though he had one relief appearance, was really the first season where he truly functioned as a full time starter without much consternation about ever being relegated to the pen.
So essentially all of his development as a starter has come at the major league level. You have to have pretty good stuff to make that work. And even though he's 28, you look at the number of innings as a starter compared to that of someone like an Andrew Heaney, and it's actually pretty close. So now, he entering his prime seasons and he's gotten to the point where he can really start to understand the nature of being a starter vs. a reliever. Things like sequencing, seeing guys multiple times in one game, seeing teams multiple times in one season, and the regimen necessary to sustain success over the marathon that is a baseball season. He didn't get to do any of that in the minors like most starters and it's much easier to do down on the farm.
He's gotten a bad rap because of this in that he was so far from being a finished product when he came up. In fact, he was probably less polished that even the most untested rookie. Which is a testament to his actual stuff.
He's a very solid pitcher and is going to have a very good year.
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Slegnaac reacted to Tank in What have you watched recently? (Please use the hide function for spoilers or plot lines)
we practiced air raid drills in elementary school. we learned that we could safely hide under out desks in case of a nuclear attack!
went to school in torrance, right next door to redondo beach/hawthorne where trw and hughes aircraft were located. we'd have been vaporized pretty quickly. oh, and we also had a cia facility there as well. remember the movie The Falcon and the Snowman? yep, that was within two miles of us.
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Slegnaac got a reaction from ten ocho recon scout in Daylight Saving Time: who else hates it?
Fall back 1/2 an hour and stay there.
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Slegnaac got a reaction from Ray McKigney in Daylight Saving Time: who else hates it?
Fall back 1/2 an hour and stay there.
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Slegnaac reacted to Blarg in Well, He can take a hit!
Giavotella is doing fine, in fact I think this is the start of a three year productive run for him.
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Slegnaac got a reaction from Tank in Daylight Saving Time: who else hates it?
Fall back 1/2 an hour and stay there.
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Slegnaac reacted to Redondo in What have you watched recently? (Please use the hide function for spoilers or plot lines)
Just got done watching The Sting for I don't know how many times.
Classic movie for sure
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Slegnaac got a reaction from Ohtaniland in Clark calls out Arte
The threshold may not go up but who is to say that the penalties may not increase instead?
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Slegnaac reacted to arch stanton in Freese Signs With Pirates 1 Year 3 Million
If you sign Freese, even at $3 mil, you've committed to the Him at 3rd and Escobar at 2nd with Pennington as the late inning defensive caddy. Doing that and blocking Cowart and Kubitza and making Gia a non-factor paints you into another 30 something unathletic box packed full of RH bats that are nothing special. If this is truly the lost season so many assume it is it makes no sense to bring Freese back and not give anyone a chance to prove himself for 2017 and beyond.
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Slegnaac reacted to Stradling in Angels to juice farm system
It's not about being runny and bunty it's about whether or not players can do those things.
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Slegnaac reacted to ukyah in Found: a fairly decent left fielder for the Angels
do you know what slows down the progress of man?
the nature of man.
we go over the same ground over and over again.
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Slegnaac reacted to bloodbrother in Andrelton Simmons is "saving the hits for later"
Andrelton treating ST like he's a kid at the arcade. Just collecting those tickets and gonna cash in on that big prize
