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Pussification of Texas 

I think we all know the kind of incentives Tim Lincecum really wants:
 

 
 

I saw all these people from both sides getting crapped on in this thread and thought, "I gotta get in on this crapfest".
As a longtime Kings fan, other than brief windows here and there, I'm used to having playoff hopes die early.  That doesn't make me lose interest in the team, it just shifts from a win now perspective to a draft, young player development, who's showing character perspective.  
As long as the team is reasonably diligent about building the team in line with a coherent philosophy it's easy to root for a team no matter how things go awry.  Not understanding the philosophy or seeing management go against  the purported philosophy makes one feel that we as fans are getting sold a bill of goods.  That's what makes it hard for me to watch the Angels right now, lack of observable direction.   Well, rephrase that to an unclear philosophy of rebuilding the team with a viable longterm plan to fully utilize the gift we've been given in Trout.  I am an optimist and give GM's a chance until they soil the sheets and have high hopes for Eppler.  However, my confidence in Arte has eroded as he has Admiraled the sinking of the fleet.  While he is hopefully learning from his billion dollar mistakes, he should deprioritize attendance in favor or doing what is necessary to rebuild this organization from the ground up, whatever the cost (not free agent cost but the price you have to pay to fully optimize player scouting, drafting and development).  The more I see a coherent direction, the more I can get excited about the team regardless of what the current standings are.
 

There will be a formal announcement at 4:20.

This thread remembers me of taking acid prior to English class.

TRUTH!! The whole social media "Hey, look where I am" is thinning the herd! Which could be a good thing~

are you a fan since 79, or not?

Interesting thoughts on LaRoche from a baseball wife/mom - wife of former 3B Joe Randa.
 
https://twitter.com/DAonCBS/status/711579375796424706/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
 

is it a dominican 14 though?

We will never know, because if we did, it would be gone like the T-Rex.

Are you sick and tired of watching Albert Pujols limp around on his hurt foot? Frustrated with Jered Weaver chucking 74 MPH heaters? Are you fed up with wasting the best years of Michael Nelson Trout? Then you'll love the 2016 Angels season!
 
Hi, Billy Mays here! I'm dead, but the 2016 Angels playoff hopes are not!
 
Remember how difficult it was watching the cluster**** in left field last season? Well fear no more, as GM Billy Eppler has added a platoon that will really fight those hard-to-reach grease stains.

In before somebody says that this analogy is only to catch Scioscia's attention.

Never, ever underestimate the power of the contract year.

Well to be fair, playing Tom Sawyer is a lot harder than nibbling around the strike zone like a little bitch for 5 innings.

At least there will be selfie-stick night.

I don't think the premise of the original post is true. The Angels have plenty of major league assets they can trade. If they are out of it by the deadline Street, Smith, Santiago, Wilson, Skaggs, Heaney, Calhoun, Simmons, Tropeano, Richards will all have some value. Teams in contention may be willing to trade several MLB or AAA ready players. I'm not advocating trading all of them but the right combination of them could bring in enough guys to be very competitive, younger, and cheaper next year or the year after.
The draft and international signings aren't the only ways to build a farm.

Our offseason is like a dude going to a bar to pick up a 10 but instead comes home with ten 1s.

Actually, if you study Russian history, the Soviet Union had a less productive farm system.

I was reading a Patrick O'Brian novel and came across this description of a particular miserly character, "deeply stupid, griping, illiberal, an avid tenacious pinchfist lickpenny, a sordid lickpenny and a shrew".  I immediately said "Arte!".

don't surf.  

cron vs ted. One fought in korea, the forgotten war. The other has a forgetable WAR.

Also, this was in today's LA times.  Might have been posted elsewhere, but whatever.
 
Say it ain't so -- Mike Piazza wants to go into the Hall not as a Dodger but a Met