cals

1 minute ago, Jason said:

I'm the guy standing to the right of Johnny. I never told you I was black? 

2 minutes ago, Jason said:

I totally forgot about that movie. 

Which is particularly sad since you were an extra.

57 minutes ago, Jason said:

Should normal people that identify as special needs be allowed to complete against people who are physically and biologically impaired?  

Jason doesn't have to pretend to be special needs. 

Dude you're old bro. 

Just now, Tank said:

seditious conspiracy? isn't that something they used to execute people for? can one of the aw lawyers weight in on this? @cals @wopphil

I have to clean my musket and then I can assist. 

21 hours ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

The incubation period is seven days.

I believe with omicron, or as @gotbeerlikes to call it “omega”, that period has been shortened to 2-4 days.

2 hours ago, Blarg said:

One for @cals

I read something over the past couple of days that referenced this "very offensive meme".  F'ing women man, can't they just let us have this one little victory?  I mean they destroy all of our hopes and dreams, just give us this one little thing. 

6 minutes ago, Lou said:

That guy should be the AW mascot.

6 minutes ago, Make Angels Great Again said:

 

Nobody cares about participation trophies but you missed the point brother. There's maybe 10-20 players in baseball where you know what you're going to get. And there are very few relievers in that category.

All you can do is try to get dudes who the the most likely to work out well. Iglesias Loup and Tepera seemed like good bets to anyone with any baseball sense. But being the Angels, it hasn't worked out so far this season because reasons.

And I have failed despite effort, yeah, just like i'm sure you haven't won every case you've tried.

Fine, but he still assembled a bullpen that sucks major ass.  I don’t know what else to tell you.  He failed at his job.  

Just now, Lou said:

Perhaps Perry is the Little Engine That Could and we'll eventually make it to the playoffs.

Frankly with his BMI he better get it done sooner rather than later, if you catch my drift.

1 minute ago, Make Angels Great Again said:

 

The guys he picked up were good decisions.

You can't honestly look at Loup, Iglesias, Tepera etc and say "Yeah, obviously those guys weren't going to work out." They're dudes who have been near the top of their class.

The flip side is that he does either nothing or trys some creative shit with converting starters to relivers from our system. But then that doesn't work out and he'll catch shit for not trying for guys with track records.

Sometimes you can try really, really hard and fail.  To me it doesn’t mean you’re entitled to a participation trophy.  

I’m sure you’ve tried hard and failed many, many, many times.

2 hours ago, Taylor said:

Arizona went blue in the last election, no? Seems like it's become a purple state.

If you believe that then you believe Biden won the election.  I know you ain’t that dumb.

47 minutes ago, Make Angels Great Again said:

 

I've seen a few people say this and i think it's fucking stupid as shit.

Like, you can't change GMs and managers every year or two and expect to construct a winning franchise. Fucking stupid.

He is the one who constructed this bullpen.  Plus he’s fat.

32 minutes ago, stormngt said:

At times a firing often puts a spark up a teams ass that is underachieving.  Look at the Phillies!

In Girardi’s defense, the Phillies got to play the Angels right after he was fired.  In fact he probably saw the schedule and was like “dammit, they’ll probably sweep that shit team and I’ll look like a dumbass.”

He was also probably thinking “all I’ve got to do is get to the Angels series and I’m ok.”

54 minutes ago, katie said:

I went in April 3 years ago. It was so freaking cold. It was the first time I’d ever been somewhere where it was actively snowing. 

So I guess you aren’t a skier or snowboarder?

7 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

Last summer my bandmate flew out at the end of my family trip and my usually solo drive home and he drove home with me.  Before we hit the road we stayed in Chicago for 2 more nights.  Best and cheapest place I could find was in Wrigleyville which is basically Boystown.  One of the nights we walked into a bar and and it was total Police Academy “de de de dum dum dum”.  So we bailed and then at the next place we were all sketched out that people thought we were homos I punched him to prove I was straight.  Almost a true story.

3 hours ago, Taylor said:

He has the same bad juju that the rest of the team has. Before this horrid losing streak he was dominating like his best self.

Why are you blaming the jujus?  You been hanging with tdawg?

1 minute ago, Blarg said:

Wrong.

You guys really should spend some time in Chicago.  I’ve spent a ton of time there and it’s lovely in the summertime.  And I used to live in Los Angeles and I’d say it has a much higher percentage of square mileage that isn’t no-go areas compared to LA (which is about 80% shithole).  Chicago is about 50/50.

59 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

What’s the common denominator since 2010?

Trout.

20 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

Blame starts at the top, Arte Moreno and his total lack of how to truly oversee a MLB franchise.   It’s all about the big splash.

Well Weekend at Arte’s, a big just splashed in your pool.

Moreno isn’t the one with the ball or bat in his hands.  He hasn’t been perfect but there are much worse owners than Moreno.

2 hours ago, Sully151 said:

It's tough to win when the team's 4 top offensive players are either injured or shitting the bed. Pretty easy to pitch around the others. Perry built the bullpen that has lost how many of these games. Starting pitching has blown a few too.

This team just sucks right now. Is that all Maddon's fault? not entirely, but he should take some of the blame, as should Perry, Trout, Ohtani, Thor, Iglesias and everyone else.

The clubhouse supposedly had this great chemistry that pulled everyone together. Where is that chemistry now?

Not that anyone asked but I’d place blame like this:

(1) Bullpen failure 

(2) Offensive 

(3) Bullpen management 

(4) Minassian

(5) Not everyone changing profile pic to baby Grinch

I also wonder how much we saw at the beginning was smoke and mirrors.  Is Thor REALLY back?  Is Ward REALLY the next Bonds?  Is Lorenzen good?

Just now, m0nkey said:

Just based it on tdawg's post. I've been on team cals the whole time, even had a nba style protest when you were banned a couple years ago

I do appreciate it.  I am often unfairly singled out and am the real victim here, quite frankly.

We were talking about whether this is a talented team.  I thought they were to be honest.  

But just as they went 24-13 perhaps in spite of Maddon, can a manager really make a talented team lose 11 in a row without purposely trying to throw the games?  And if no, then maybe this team isn’t anywhere near as good as we thought.