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2 minutes ago, Mark68 said:

Well, it would be funny if Jays fans are getting Buttercupped...

 

it'd be just as funny watching ohtani buttercup himself by locking himself to toronto for the next 12 years too. either way, i'm good.

toronto's actually best case scenario at this point.

man, his medicals must be absolutely fucked. sucks cause the dude had the stuff for sure.

22 hours ago, mmc said:

I wouldn't count on him to be, no

so do you just not trust his stats or npb pitchers in general?

i wouldn't do anything extra to try and replace him at all. whether or not he's re-signed, the team still needs a tor pitcher an ofer so i don't think much changes.

this might just be copium but i think the team would actually be lucky to not have to deal with the long term consequences and even the immediate question marks of ohtani if he chooses to play elsewhere, unicorn or not.

targets would be yamamoto and ofer lee jung ho from the kbo. idk how smooth or rough their transition would be but if the goal is to try and compete while also building for something that might be more sustainable then these kind of players from different leagues are the easiest and quickest way to try and do that. i'd much rather that than going after snell or bellinger.

problem is how bad the team has been during ohtani's tenure and how international that exposure's been. idk if the angels can attract players with that degree of self-inflicted negative pr.

i didn't really care who they hired as manager since i don't think they do much anymore but i like that the people crying about this are the same who slobbed all over maddon's knob.

2 hours ago, Blarg said:

Your intentions are correct, the path not. Think upon your actions of cruelty. Would you slap a child for words spoken that were not adult? The child can't understand anything of the message than violence. Be not violent. 

yes.

huff sounds pretty based. a lot of you guys, not so much.

the only fa i'd want them to go after is yamamoto.

1 hour ago, Tank said:

 stop it. 

i hope the diamond representing the asterisk is extra shiny.

On 10/10/2023 at 4:13 PM, Tank said:

this is such a tired, whiny, pointless argument.

if the angels had won in 2020, we'd be treating it exactly the same as dodger fans are treating it.

that's exactly the point, tho. we'd be the only ones treating it that way while the rest of baseball treats it like the * it is.

1 hour ago, Kendo36 said:

I think us diehards need to take a step back. Arte clearly caters towards the casual fan. Which I think is totally fair. It’s near Disneyland and it’s the conservative family environment that is the antithesis of the Dodgers. That’s the business model. If they win, it’s a bonus and he’s put stars on the field.Nothing about this move is shocking. And if you listened to AM830 it’s not a place for riveting debate. They read you stat lines and sunshine pump and to me that’s fine. The diehards can seek out the stories and subscribe to Blum and Fletcher on their own. It’s not the Angels responsibility to advance Sam’s investigative journalism career. It’s bad PR but Sam Blum probably wants the attention. It’s good for him. Enjoy the product Perry put on the field this year because it’s going to a fun one.

exactly. nobody that's listening to the fucking radio pregame show or whenever this shit was being aired cares that blum's been banned and probably wouldn't have noticed that he was gone.

7 minutes ago, Revad said:

It’s not good for the fan experience.

who cares about a's fans, tho.

some of you defend blum like he's your wife's boyfriend.

dang, this makes me like rendon even more now.

it's probably a good thing he didn't make hard contact with that dude, tho. judging by how scared he looked when he actually got called on his shit, that dude would 100% press assault charges.

getting worked up over radio broadcasts that'll probably die out in like 5 years lmao.

1 hour ago, Revad said:

... Of course you can count on the Mets being in the playoffs most years with no end in sight.

i don't think you can count on that at all.

great news.

he can teach the team how not to stay in shape, how to hit into the most double plays that you possibly can, how great st. louis is, and how the league will ignore you're juiced if you're a legend in your last year.

rendon seems like a chill dude. i wouldn't wanna hang out with the majority of this fanbase either.

the only person that liked maddon was arte lmao.

the first thought i had seeing these huge deals was i'm glad it wasn't the angels.

11 years for turner is nutso.

i don't like blum cause his twitter pic makes him look like a predator and i think that's a weirdo ass thing to choose as your profile pic but, that aside, this is pretty stupid.

why would arte owe fans any kind of explanation in what's most likely his last year of ownership? why would anybody care when they all know new ownership is coming. dude just kinda seems bent over not being able to interrogate arte or whatever.

baldoquin was signed in 2015 which means the angels were still capped out at 300k.

julio signed for 1.75mil.

dipoto's basically saying that julio was gonna sign with the angels for 300k but he decided to swoop in last minute at ~6 times that. yeah ok.

On 8/26/2022 at 1:24 PM, Dollar Bill said:

LOL, DiGiovanna has covered the Angels since before Arte bought them. No one in this market knows more about them. You should read this:

https://www.latimes.com/sports/angels/story/2022-08-23/angels-lost-decade-mike-trout-arte-moreno-shohei-ohtani

what does that have to do with him having contacts that are close to arte.

12 hours ago, ukyah said:

wow, that's interesting. seems inverted to my "common sense", but that just illustrates even more so how the angels should be a sterling franchise opportunity for a new owner. i'm surprised then that ballmer, cuban and some of the other "names" said they were out so quickly and decisively.

the only name that decisively said they were out is cuban which is a good thing.

12 year extension and a full ntc and people still talking about trading trout.