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Got to catch the Angels workout at Tempe Diablo stadium yesterday. We walked up just as Mike Trout and the other outfielders were starting long toss. Trout was standing about 20 feet away from us and my 5 year old (who has a baseball knowledge limited to Mike Trout, "Go Angels" and me telling him to stop playing in the dirt at T-Ball games) says loudly "where's Mike Trout?" Mike turns around and waves to him. Then he runs over after warming up and gives my son the ball he was using. He also later signed the ball too. Quality guy. Friendly and down to earth. The Angels and us fans are extremely lucky.

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Riverside? Has this ever been mentioned as a possible relocation site? This article is the first time I've seen it.

What Wallyworld said. Maybe if we really lay into Hamilton in this thread his wife will cry about it on Housewives and get AW some free publicity? There's no such thing as bad publicity right Chuck?

Jack McDowell - talk about dumpster diving.

Junior Felix. I ran out and bought his rookie card when we traded Devo for him and Luis Sojo. My first lesson in the value of Rondons.

I think he'll be just good enough to be a drag on the overall offense. A few hot streaks here and there so that he keeps getting trotted out in the middle of the lineup but his overall production warrants the bench. Something along the lines of .255/.310/.400 I sure hope I'm wrong.

Signing Lester makes a lot of sense for the Angels. No loss of their pick, shores up the rotation until Richards comes back, makes the rotation line up well for the post season with a healthy GRich, Lester's a lefty who has a shot at aging well, etc. All it takes is Arte being willing to go over the luxury cap. My bet is they make a huge push for him. Doesn't mean they sign him, but I'd think less of Arte if money prevents him from at least trying to make a move that makes this much sense.

This. And when he starts hot next year everybody here will bitch and moan about how we gave up on a local and homegrown talent. It will be Scioscia's fault. Then Hank will finish with a line very similar to the one he had this year.

Disappointing. That is for sure.

Only bright side I can see right now is that maybe Trout comes back next year determined to be better.

6 runs off of Holland shouldn't be an issue for this offense!

I wore the same clothes, down to the socks and underwear (red ones), to every home playoff and World Series game. I even wore the same get-up to the road games but watched those on TV. I washed them in between games though, I'm not that hard core. I let the deadline to buy post season seats expire that year without buying tickets, because even though that was a fantastic team I was sure the whole season was going to be wasted by a strike. If I remember correctly they ended up extending the window for season seat holders to buy post season tickets because a lot of people were thinking the same thing.

I thought the 66ers park favored pitchers? I know the league overall favors hitters but I thought San Berdoo was very pitcher friendly?

Let's play some ball!

I'm expecting less from DDLR and Smith than Fangraphs is, but for Jepsen and Salas to be solid to compensate. I think the pen could even end up being a strength if Kohn, Lyon, Rasmus, etc can provide quality innings. It could be a strong group if some guys step up like the A's and Rays seem to have every year. I'm feeling like this might be the year we get that. Bullpens are just so volatile and unpredictable, why can't this be an up year? One can hope.

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I've done LAX to Heathrow and LAX to Frankfurt, both weren't too bad. The longest single trip I've taken was when I was an airline employee and was trying to non-rev to Honolulu. I couldn't get on out of LAX so I flew non-stop LAX to Newark, slept for 3 hours, and then flew Newark to Honolulu nonstop. That made for a long trip. I was only in Hawaii for 2 nights too. And then had to fly back to LA via Houston. Good times.

Here in my neck of the woods we have two crappy choices for an ISP: DSL from Centurylink (which is awful) or cable from Suddenlink (which is a lot faster, but their hardware is terrible). After considerable research online I've decided I want to go with an ac router. My first choice was the Apple 2TB Time Capsule but after talking with a tech from Suddenlink I was told they have compatibility problems with Suddenlink data packets (whatever that means) and that Apple's Airport Extreme is not a good choice for their system. So I've been looking at a bunch of other set ups. For those of you that may have experience with Suddenlink or just have knowledge regarding this stuff in general please give me your input. The major questions I have are: Is the Suddenlink guy full of shit regarding the Apple Router? Is it better to go with buying my own cable modem and a separate router rather than a combo piece like the Motorola Surfboard Extreme SBG6782? Should I just use Suddenlink's standard Arris modem and buy my own router? (Requires rental monthly from Suddenlink) I've had a lot of issues with Suddenlink's wireless hardware, so I'd really like to upgrade to something that will at least allow me to stream video without constant loading From what I can find online, the solution is to upgrade your hardware on your own. I've read the other threads here and about a million on other sites and I'm still not sure which is the way to go. I appreciate any feedback you guys have. Thanks!

I'm with the "I just have a good feeling" group. Something feels right to me even though logic says I shouldn't be confident. I feel like the pitching is going to be better than expected. As long as the offense performs close to expectation I think we win 90+ games.

Read the Sweetspot article on ESPN. Tanaka's stats relative to other NPB imports are pretty impressive.

AW has been my go to for Angels news and discussion since 2008. Thanks for all the hard work Chuck and Co.

Anybody know anything about Salas? Is there at least quality stuff there maybe without results? I'm trying to find a silver lining here. Wasn't he the closer for St Louis for a brief time?

Right now this looks awful. Trading young, high upside guys for mediocre older players reeks of the first 4 decades of this franchise. That being said, trades are best evaluated at a later date so I'm trying not to get too worked up about it.

I'd be thrilled to get Joe Kelly. David Freese however would be a really bad idea. He's never been that great, he's a stiff on D, and now there are injury concerns. Pass, unless he's just a throw in. Freese for Bourjos or Calhoun would really piss me off.