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19 hours ago, T.G. said:

This is one of those things people only think about when the team is losing.

When the Angels were winning, I bet no one even thought about this.

Your Halo Honkism is tired and boring. The club has a negative W-L the past decade. I bet you get all giddy when they replay highlights from 2002. 

I was on the old MLB Angels board too between like 2005-2010. Same username. Haha Lee. Used to get a kick out of reading Angel_Graffiti. Place was way more fun than this board ngl.

Only started posting here because there's a lot to complain about with this org. And boredom. I recognize a lot of names here from that board.

5 minutes ago, Angels 1961 said:

Who said O'Hoppe would hit dinger tonight?

That's great but you picked three different players. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Good call, though.

3 minutes ago, Stradling said:

It’s being 3 outs into the game and coming to the conclusion that they are mailing it in. When you ACTUALLY talk baseball you bring actual value. When you say emotional shit, well….

I wasn't aware you actually thought that.

Egregious strike three call on Drury.

Just now, Stradling said:

Haha. 

Great input. I'm not sure what's funny! Giolito won't make it past 6 innings pitched yet again because of pitch count and there's a double header tomorrow. None of these starting pitchers on this team understand the importance of going deep into games! Nothing ever changes on this team!

The 2 runs scored so far are from solo HRs? Shocking.

Renfroe grounded out with a runner on 2nd? Shocking.

1. Giolito sucks

2. What the heck was that walk up song for Trout

3. These guys look ready to mail it in the last 37 games or whatever

39 minutes ago, Jeff Fletcher said:

Although I understand that some form of automated strike zone is coming, I just want to make sure you guys understand that umpires today are actually the best they’ve ever been. 
 

It seems like they are worse because before we didn’t have the technology to evaluate them at all. 
 

But go on YouTube and watch a game from the 20th century sometime. 

This is true indeed. But it's time for change. We don't cross-compare different eras of baseball much. Nothing from the steroid era or dead ball era or any other area applies to today's era of MLB. Everything is OPS+ now as it should be. Comparing today's game to only today.

Every fan at home is an umpire now with the virtual strike zone box on the telecast. So having that available for everyone to see while still using a human behind the plate to make calls just based on their subjective eyesight is almost like merging different eras.

Ten years ago I would have said I'd like to see umpires stick around. Keep the game feeling classic. Like how could you have a baseball game without umpires, it would just feel too weird.

Now I'm all for losing them. I follow a lot of feeds on Instagram that show the terrible calls made my umpires around the league daily. It's actually insane. I just watched a guy strike out looking on 3 straight blatant balls. Almost like the umpire was blatantly trying to screw over the hitter. And why can't some of these calls be challenged like base plays? It was Angel Hernandez.

You could say the good calls and bad calls even out over time. Well... maybe. It depends. Imagine a bad call in a big situation in the 9th inning that contributes to a loss more than any umpiring call should. That could affect not only that game for the team, but the next week of play, or how things go for the next month... you can't measure the negative carryover affect.

Why did Carrlyn Bathe replace Erica Weston?

Just now, jsnpritchett said:

Oh was that what Carrlyn Bathe was prattling on about?  I've started muting the broadcasts the second they cut to her.

Yeah. I couldn't believe the timing on that.

Wow while the broadcast is talking about what a special moment Adams' first hit was he completely fucks up another play. You can't write that shit.

1 minute ago, AngelsFaninGA said:

Which position player do we get to see pitch in this one? 

Rengifo and I hope he blows his elbow out.

1 minute ago, jsnpritchett said:

It might be time to finally cut bait on Barria after this season.  I've generally been ok with him as sort of a "Swiss army knife" kind of guy who can fill different roles, but he has been terrible lately.  He's given up multiple runs in 5 of his last 9 appearances--and in four of those 5 times, it's been three or more runs.

Yep, get rid of him along with Rengifo.

Oh, 11-1 now.

Have Rengifo come into the game to pitch. Then if he blows his elbow out, THAT would be funny.

Rengifo is just one guy that better not be on the team next year.

Dude's smiling while he chews gum on the field right now while we're about to give up a bunch more runs. And he does this shit all the time.

Rengifo needs to be scalded by Nevin again, it's been too long and he's gotten his head out of the game again.

I hate this Rays team. A bunch of scummy players from the DR. Siri knew he didn't catch that ball but wanted a replay. Players that do stuff like that should get fined by MLB.

Oh, yay, a solo HR from Renfroe, go figure. But can he ever hit with a runner on base? No.

Not watching. So Adams just straight dropped a fly ball? That's embarrassing but maybe he doesn't belong here.

This team lacks fundamentals and has the entire season. Once again needs to be said that every coach needs to be replaced this offseason.

Vasgersian makes the broadcast nearly unlistenable.

Trout won't play today - he stayed awake all night nerding out over the storm.