Biergott

Just now, Erstad Grit said:

Whaaaaat

Yep, I mentioned him hahaha

4 minutes ago, Erstad Grit said:

I lost a bet. I bet my wife Bauer would get mentioned in this thread by the 5th inning. 

He was mentioned before the 5th….so you actually won

You’re welcome

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Just now, Ariamus said:

MLB.tv for the win! 

Dramamine not included... 

guess I need to look at that with a vpn so I can watch home games?

actually no I don’t lol.  I’m not a glutton for punishment

1 minute ago, nando714 said:

I’m watching on my Directv app from work. Zero issues. 

Wish it worked for me, but I have constant problems with their streaming service at my house

So glad I didn’t pay for a new streaming service to watch games.  DIRECTV and Fubo suck.  Staying with YouTubeTv.  Previous years I would pay more for the crappy signal and UI so I could watch games.  No reason to do that with this dogshit rotation and lack of motivation in our geriatric owner that doesn’t care about winning.   Saving me money…..and the pain of actually watching.  

Make it stop!  Please!

Why is he still pitching?

17 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Ervin Heaney Sandoval

How dare you insult Ervin and Heaney like that lol

Man Sandoval is awful.  So glad we didn’t pick up Snell or Montgomery or (especially) Bauer.  I mean then we might’ve won some games early in the season.  That wouldn’t be on brand for the Angels.  We need to blow leads and lose.  

Great attitude Arte.  Wonderful.  That means as long as he is an owner he won’t take a risk on a top player because of Rendon?  Wow

Didn’t think I could hate him any more than I already did.  
 

such a tool.

Salami!  

Sandoval is not inspiring much confidence.  If only there was a pitcher that could be had for cheap….

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3jgDINOJmh/?igsh=ZWI2YzEzYmMxYg==
 

I’d be down.  Low risk, high potential reward.  If he sucks, cut him.  If he ends up being a cancer, cut him.

but the dude has purpose now.  Focus.  Intention.  Give him an incentive laden deal and I’d bet he buckles down and handles business.  He’s trying to repair his reputation after getting dragged, and convicted by mannered who hated him for exposing the sticky stuff issue.   

after watching his blogs about Japan, I do think he has been humbled a bit.  And he knows so much about baseball and pitching.  

add all of this together and the potential is great, and the risk is league minimum

and for all the PC Nightmare worries, we are already the laughing stock of the league, have been for years now.  Wasting one generational talent and letting the other walk to the other side of town.   There is no reputation to trash.

Id love to see us pick him up.

but alas, our owner is garbage  

7 minutes ago, mmc said:

 

Terrific

31 minutes ago, Chuck said:

Yep. I used to love traveling for work. Now that I'm in my 50's I hate it and thankfully I don't have to travel much (1-2 times a year) and I work from home. I love it. 

Totally.  Traveling is a young man’s game.  I used to travel 25-40 weeks a year for 15 years.  Most internationally.  I loved it.

but once I became a father it started to destroy me.

Once I got into a new job with minimal travel, I realized how brutal it is.  Just those 5-6 trip a year domestically would ruin me lol.

and I’m not 50 yet lol…couple more months before AARP gets their mitts on me

I bet the guys are just fine working remotely

Not sure who I pissed off but today licks balls.  Catch Covid, a bad case, now I’ll be alone for the holidays and miss my son who’s home from college, plus yourmommamoto goes to the freaking Doyers and I’ll have to hear it all year from my dad and brother.

bah humbug

At least with the shorter pitch count the misery will be shorter

6 hours ago, jsnpritchett said:

No, the present value counts for the next 10 years.  Once they start paying him the $68M/year in deferred money, it's just a real cash expense and doesn't count against the luxury tax (if there even is one at that point).

Man.  Maybe baseball needs a salary cap after all .  What’s the point in a luxury tax if you can skirt it and only get dinged for 65% of what you pay someone?

3 hours ago, Dtwncbad said:

Does deferred money count against future luxury tax thresholds those years that it is paid?

or do they skirt it with deferred money

I haven’t found anything about that, just the luxury tax while he’s under contract.

anyone know how that works?

That’s ridiculous is they don’t have to deal with luxury tax issues. 

Shitballs

Dyoji

10 minutes ago, Make Angels Great Again said:

I really hope not. Since the rumor is coming from Bob Nightengale it could be bullshit. Dude is very unlikeable (apparently Jose Ramirez thinks the same), and he was garbage last year.

 

Have we not learned that picking up trash and hoping they rebound just isn't working out here?

 

Shhhh, he’s very sleepy

I’d prefer Neto, Gifo and Drury.  Thanks.