kevinb

Me get ready for a 2015 run. Whats another bad year with a sense of direction then a wasted year finishing third or fourth place again

I'm sure you can't wait for that.  Failos are that way.

Go team Go

So you have nothing.  Great.  Where do you come up with this whole 1% theory?

From pretty much all the sports writers, ex using players saying that around 80% of them were using. You don't compete in a world where cheaters prosper by not cheating and doing better then them. Lance Armstrong, Roger Clemens at 44, Barry Bonds etc all want to say thank you because you are naive in thinking that no one cheats.

Anyone who thinks there is going to be a massive fire sale is going to be greatly disappointed. Anyone that thinks Pujols or Hamilton can be traded is delusional. Both have full no trade clauses, as does Weaver. Wilson has a full no trade clause this year and a limited no trade clase next. Howie Kendrick has a limited NTC. 

And if there isn't some sort of fire sale then I am sure I will not be alone in the fact that the Angels will be losing me as a season ticket holder

"I can't wait for one of our players to be bad so I can have an interweb 'I told you so'"

 

awesome

I can't wait to have one of our players be bad and then have the internet told you so , so then someone can rip on the internet told you so for being a failo and wanting one of our players to do poorly

Do you have any evidence of this?  Any inkling? 

Sure I do. Everyone who was great in that time was using performance enhancing drugs. Pujols just happens to be the one guy who was better than the rest but he was completely innocent. I also recall plenty of accusations going around my various news outlets when the steroid testing came in to affect and he looked slimmer so yes. I am sure he was using, is he using now no probably not but I believe most guys who are great in sports are probably using something illegal to get the edge. Do you really believe he is the 1% of players who weren't using during that time he WAS great?

Does anybody realize that if we can replace Blanton, Williams and Hansen this offseason for better starting pitching we should no doubt compete with the A's next year.  

No because everyone will be getting older as well. Things don't just stay the same and then you can upgrade. If you stay the same you get worse. People get injured people get older people decline more. or improve but when your over 30 you don't start to improve more you get worse and worse. Stop with this lets just add a piece here or there and we will be better. We won't be Texas will be better, Houston will be better, Oakland will be better and so will Seattle staying pat is not how you get better.

Trade Howie Callaspo and my shocker out of no where they trade Wilson

Pujols was awful this year because of the foot injury.  I do believe he will make a big comeback next year.

Unless he gets back on the cream and the clear that ain't gonna happen

Right now all this team can do is fill one hole by creating another, aside from Trumbo we don't really have a player waiting in the wings who could come close to what his major league counterpart can do.

 

I will also take exception to the comment that Pujols has been awful for two years.  Last year was a good solid year from him.

 

This year he's been awful.

Thats the point create holes and lets rebuild this team. This team is going no where fast. Pujols will just get worse and worse, he is getting older and older and looks like a fat can of crap out on the field. Get rid of guys and lets start a fresh

Byrnes was fired on July 1, 2010 and Dipoto was named interim General Manager.^[1] On September 22, Kevin Towers was named the new Diamondbacks General Manager. Dipoto was offered the opportunity to remain with the Diamondbacks.^[2]

Oops well I guess I was wrong. My bad I just thought he was the Assistant

I'd like to see how many of the "trade for the future, have a few bad seasons to get on track" people would actually stick to that if the team did it. 

I would. Dude I am thinking of not renewing my season tickets I have had for 10 years if they don't start to rebuild this thing. No way I am paying what I am paying if this team does not start to resemble a plan. If they come back with this same nucleus screw that I am not renewing my tickets I would rather watch on tv or just read the updates on my phone.

Uhh, Dipoto was the GM at that point.

I thought he was the Assistant GM and this was his first GM job?

Trade them both. Get pitching and young guys. Who rebuild for the future. i love Aybar he is my second favorite player behind Trout but this team needs a gut fest and fast.

This team would be better off with a GM who knows what he is doing. Stop saying Dipoto traded for Skaggs and Corbin because he was not the GM, it could have easily been the GM's idea of it and Dipoto was just there. People are giving Dipoto credit for just being in the organization when Skaggs and Corbin were traded to Arizona.

Maybe there isn't a way to trade Pujols and Hamilton but maybe there is. Also what good is it to Keep Weaver and Wilson when this team is doomed for a third place finish in the next couple years with this same roster. Make moves to bolster the farm get younger and rebuild this thing with Trout as the center piece. Get the players around him that will make this team speed heavy and defense heavy. As constructed right now it just seems like Dipoto and Arte are just playing fantasy baseball. I want this guys name on the back of my jersey. Get a plan together and start doing smart things to make this team better in the future who cares if we have 1-3 bad years at least we can get back to competing again after that.

First I just want to say that when I gave up on the season a month or so ago I didn't think the Angels would still be this bad today. 

 

I don't usually rant much but here it goes. I am so frustrated with this team, not even because they are terrible this year its because they have no passion no fire and just seem so lifeless. This is not a Mike team no one other than Trout and Bourjos has any speed and only Trout knows how to use it to steal bases. We no longer go 1st to 3rd we are a station to station team with over the hill aging veterans who fell of the PED cliff once they signed here. I don't know what happened to Pujols and Hamilton, and don't use the excuse the Pujols is hurt guy has looked awful for two years and has been declining for 4 or 5. 

 

This team needs a complete and utter revamp and retool and explosion and if they don't we are doomed for the next 4 plus years of finishing in third or fourth. If Dipoto only trades Downs we are stuck with basically the same line up that is crapping its bed this year. Trade them all anyone and everyone who you can. Look at what Boston did, they basically traded all their crappy contracts to a team and now is back with a great minor league system young players and such. Baseball is no longer a team that wins with 32 plus year old guys. You win with young talent. There is much less steroids and PEDs going around now then before when people would have career years past their 35th birthday.Get rid of people who have value to us but won't be of use when we are rebuilding such as Weaver Wilson etc. Keep Trout and Bourjos and build around that young nucleus. Everyone else can go for all I care. 

 

 

 

 

The Rays have a far superior pitching staff than the Angels so for that reason underperforming is unacceptable and the sole responsibility of Joe Maddon.

He should be fired, after all they failed to make the playoffs last season and can't afford to continue losing like this. I am sure we are all in agreement.

I forgot when this site changed to Rays win but alright then. Mike and his GM are terrible fire them both and get new blood in here preferably ones that have a game plan for the future not just oh shiny old toy lets buy that.

Tip our caps to Jedi for a great game plan this year

The deadlines coming up and I got to thinking who do you think is going to be traded? And who do you want to be traded?

Think:

Downs

Trumbo

Want:

Aybar

Callaspo

Iannetta

Hamilton

Blanton

Pujols

Jerome

Season over? It's been over

Pujols jarring at anyone is laughable. Guy looks like Moo Vaughn

Pujols and Hamilton are crap this year no way to get around that. Pupils has been bad with us for two years and is only getting older. When you get older you don't become more durable I hear that's one of the side effects for, getting older

How did that work out for Jerry Jones in Dallas?

Did you just compare Mike and Jerry D to Jimmy Johnson and his Co which basically won 3 Superbowls ?

I wish we had a GM who knew how to rebuild a farm system and had a plan for the future