Vegas Halo Fan

4 hours ago, AngelsWin.com said:

BALTIMORE — In the third game of the season, the Angels finally showed what their pitchers can do.

I beg to differ. In the first two games of the season, the Angels also showed what their pitchers can do. Be shelled early and often.

On 3/29/2024 at 10:00 PM, ettin said:

Hey don't bang on Tarpy, he is the one true A's icon.

One of the conditions for public funding for the new stadium was that Tarpy be part of the deal.

18 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

He took away a special privilege that should have never been there. Sorry your drag queen mouse lost. 

Last that I checked, I don't own Disney.

DeSantis retaliated against his state's largest employer for pushing back against his intolerance. The state made the judgement years ago to grant the special district to Disney to persuade them not to build elsewhere. The state has benefited many times over in terms of revenue, investment and population growth. I am old enough to remember Orlando before Disney, when it was essentially a place to stop for gas between Tampa and Miami.

17 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

Well by all means, prove me wrong. Disney is about to experience the biggest front office shakeup since Walt died and it is all due to their idiocy by willing to put wokeness over profit. They’ve shit the bed constantly with their movie releases and Disney+ subscriptions are in the toilet. Their shareholders are about to throw Iger and Kennedy off a Burbank high rise. 

DeSantis uses government to retaliate against anyone with a contrary opinion. That much isn't even debatable.

1 minute ago, Lhalo said:

That community will be fine. Also it looks like Disney has a chance to turn away from the faggot shell of its former self.

I can't possibly top such an informed and intellectual response as that.

On 3/11/2024 at 3:26 PM, angelsfan100 said:

Interesting. I'm curious as someone from Vegas would you be against the As building a new stadium?

I don't know how you might draw that conclusion from what I said.

The Tropicana closes for good at noon on April 2.

On 3/28/2024 at 6:25 PM, Lhalo said:

Disney had a special deal allowing them to run a government entity. Desantis ended that. Not sure how you can justify that as government overreach. 

The state extended that to Disney in order to get them to build there. DeSantis ended it because they dared to have an opinion contrary to his. It was grandstanding over a personal feud that has now dumped costs that Disney had been covering onto a community that is not fiscally prepared to cover them. But hey, at least Ron got to own the libs and woke Disney.

10 hours ago, Spirit said:

Wait ... DeSantis Approves Social Media Ban For Kids Under 14? 

Why does he want to restrict parent's rights?  Why does the GOP think Big Government is the answer to our problems?

 

They love criticizing others for what they are doing. DeSantis cares only about making his opinion the law of the land. It rings a little hollow when a graduate of Harvard and Yale moans about the "liberal elites".

7 hours ago, Jay said:

Regarding Vegas, if it's a home market for 6 teams, doesn't that mean you can watch all those teams on the local cable/satellite service?

Obviously you can't watch them on MLB.tv.

That would require me to either retain DirecTV or switch to Cox Cable, neither of which is happening. It also requires an extra cost sports package above and beyond the base subscription.

9 minutes ago, Stradling said:

So if Ippei isn’t arrested in the coming days should we assume that it is Ohtani that is doing the betting and that will take longer to prove? 

I also notice that Ohtani's legal team says that this matter was turned over "to the authorities", but no law enforcement agency that would possibly have jurisdiction in the matter has received any complaint. My guess is that nobody is investigating this at all, because Ohtani's hands would be found to be all over it if it were thoroughly investigated.

8 hours ago, Taylor said:

No, it's died off a little. I forget what grievance the rightoids are focused on now. 

It went into hiding a bit when Ron DeSantis and his nonsensical culture war exited the presidential race.

I have to chuckle when I see someone throw out the label Marxist. Odds are that the person using it equates socialism with communism, and makes no distinction between the two.

Ironic that it is Republicans who throw it around, while their would-be king can't keep his hand out of Vladimir Putin's pants.

On 3/21/2024 at 1:16 PM, DMVol said:

I’m not sure Ohtani was ever seriously interested in staying either…

I doubt that he was. The trade should have happened. Maybe he would have wound up extending wherever he was sent, somewhere other than the Dodgers.

2 hours ago, Lhalo said:

Yep. @Vegas Halo Fan you need to get a VPN and watch on MLB.tv.

I appreciate the tip. I will look into it.

53 minutes ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

I think they will need to negotiate between the teams. The Nats had to give a percentage of television revenue to the Orioles when they moved. That said there may be some difference between tv market and actual market.

I just want to know how every team within 500 miles got to claim Las Vegas as a home market.

Just now, gotbeer said:

Hopefully not for long.  Or do they keep the area?

I haven't heard. I just dropped DirecTV, so with it goes the Angels broadcasts, as well as the Dodgers, Giants, A's, Padres and D-Backs.

On 3/23/2024 at 8:10 AM, gotbeer said:

T-Mobile Bringing Back Free MLB.tv Perk on March 26

 

Which would be great news if I wasn't in a six team blackout area.

13 minutes ago, Blarg said:

He was a co-conspirator by knowing the fix was placed and didn't report it. 

Which was a totally different situation than Rose, who was banned because of bets that he himself placed. My point is that if you let Rose in, Jackson should go in also. If they want to put that on their plaques, fine.

On 3/20/2024 at 9:22 PM, BTH said:

If he was smart, maybe he’d realize he should stop suggesting which players to sign and leave it up to his baseball people.

Ted Turner used to pay big money to players who he personally liked, with the belief that it would cause them to produce more. The Braves were generally terrible, wasting the most productive years of Dale Murphy (who I firmly believe would be in the HOF if he wasn't continually being pitched around because of a lack of talent around him). He turned things over to his baseball people and quit meddling. Within four years they won the first of 14 consecutive division titles.

6 hours ago, ettin said:

I don't know about just a one season suspension, since Pete Rose was banned for life. Now MLB is going to have to make a decision and they should do what they should have done a long time ago and reinstate Pete Rose, he has served his damn time. They need to make a serious rule like a 3-5 year ban, but this lifetime bullsh*t is a bridge too far in my opinion. There has to be some middle ground or just stick with the lifetime ban. Just be consistent, because now their backs are to the wall with Shohei potentially violating the same rule.

Just like Shoeless Joe Jackson should be in the Hall. His production in the 1919 World Series was not that of a guy who was deliberately tanking.

On 3/21/2024 at 3:34 PM, Tank said:

As the world turns, these are the days of our lives.

Dude, you're combining two soap operas. As The World Turns goes back to the 1960s. My grandmother used to watch it.

The line you are looking for is "Like sands through the hourglass, so are the Days of Our Lives."

Yes, I was subjected to too much daytime television back in the day. 

5 hours ago, cals said:

$100 says it's Ohtani and they're throwing Ippei under the bus as a scapegoat. 

How would an interpreter get his hands directly on the cash from Ohtani's paycheck to divert it in the first place? I assume that he gets a paycheck just like everyone else who provides a service. I can't imagine how this is even possible. Something just seems really off here.