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Everything posted by VladdyforHOF
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Maybe a 6 man rotation is very stupid. Maybe it's stupid to completely skip some of his starts. Maybe blisters are more likely to form if the fingers are less calloused from throwing less. Maybe a lot of pundits of pitch count and extra days of rest for starting pitchers have it entirely wrong. Maybe Ohtani has two years left tops of being a TWP, and teams suddenly get scared out of giving him 600 million dollars this winter.
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That's such an awful lineup. Can't tell if they're actually trying to put on the field what they think gives them the best chance to win the game or are they punishing Schanuel for last night's errors? What a way to ruin his confidence. He's 21, he can play both games of a DH just as a bunch of the other 8 in the lineup are going to have to. Trout should've been shut down for the rest of the year to not risk further injury. Play Moniak and figure out if he's going to snap out of it. Figure out if he's going to be anything for this team going forward. Now is the time for that as there's nothing to play for. Well, look, since Trout was rushed back for a lost season now Moniak is forced to play. Screw Nevin and his entire coaching staff. They all need to go.
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For the purpose of variety, my team will only consist of players I've watched play. I'm 34 and I didn't get into baseball until 2003. So yeah, unfortunately, I wasn't even interested in baseball yet when the Angels won their only championship. And it is what it is, the steroid era was the thing when I became a fan so this includes cheaters. 1B Miguel Cabrera (sorry Pujols, you tapered off too fast) 2B Robinson Cano 3B Alex Rodriguez SS Derek Jeter LF Barry Bonds RF Vladimir Guerrero (he connected my soul to the Angels) CF Mike Trout C Buster Posey DH David Ortiz (sorry Shohei, you're just not quite as scary as Big Papi was) SP Pedro Martinez, Randy Johnson, Clayton Kershaw, Felix Hernandez, Justin Verlander RP Francisco Rodriguez, Mariano Rivera
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A lot of people care about their brand. It's harder to be a proud fan of a team that is nationally perceived as a joke. If they were actually good, then you could say who cares how they are perceived. But they are not. Two of the greatest baseball players of all time, at the same time, on the same team. You could argue that Trout and Ohtani are two of the top five greatest players that the millennial generation and on has been able to watch play baseball. Anyone currently 42 years old or younger. And with all that said this team can't even establish a winning record let alone make the postseason. It's a total joke on ownership. I bet you if this team made it the postseason, I don't know, twice, in the past 5 seasons, we would more bandwagon fans than any other team in MLB. It's the consecutive seasons of losing over and over consistently that make the Angels brand a joke. We don't even get more than one or two slots on Sunday Night Baseball per season anymore. With two of the best players in the game. Because we're losers. It didn't help when that loser changed the name of the team to LAA of Anaheim. That's when the media really started laughing. Fuck our idiot owner.
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Their record has a lot to do with it... winning breeds respect from outsiders. This topic is about the Angels' brand, which involves how they are perceived by everyone. Hmm, I bet their culture isn't something people thought about when they were winning. ba dum tss