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MLB.com broke all 30 teams into 9 different tiers based on how they'll contend this season. The Angels and Red Sox are in the 8th tier:
https://www.mlb.com/news/tiers-of-2024-mlb-contenders
"Tier 8: Direction unclear
Angels Red Sox For most teams, even if they’re not expected to be successful this year, you can at least see the direction things are headed. Maybe that’s “win the World Series,” or just “get back to .500,” or even “see what our young players are even if we lose a lot of games.” But every year, there’s a team or two where it’s not entirely clear what the present or future hold. This year, that’s Boston and Los Angeles, two veteran clubs that had somewhat indifferent offseasons and are projected to be under .500 again. They won’t be bad, necessarily, because there are too many good players and well-respected managers for that. We just might not have more answers in six months than we do now.
The Angels, famously, no longer employ Shohei Ohtani, and of course never made the playoffs even when they had him; their hopes rest mainly on the wealth of knowledge possessed by new manager Ron Washington, and the hopes of one more healthy peak-level Mike Trout season. Those are pretty appealing dreams to have, of course; it’s just been eight consecutive losing seasons and counting. Boston hired a new front office boss in Craig Breslow and should have a better defensive unit after last season’s poor group, but they’ve already lost new addition Lucas Giolito to season-ending elbow surgery, meaning the staff will look a lot like the 4.52 ERA group from last season."

Watch Ippei turn out to be Chinese or Korean.

Pete Rosetani is done!
 

Betting on baseball instead? We can only hope 

Betting on baseball instead? We can only hope 

Who else will be following this story more than the Angels the upcoming days/weeks/months

Who else will be following this story more than the Angels the upcoming days/weeks/months

I want Ohtani kicked out of the league and the Dodgers to be on the hook for the contract, but I also want him to be completely oblivious and innocent in this so Blarg can look like Blarg again

Who else will be following this story more than the Angels the upcoming days/weeks/months

Who else will be following this story more than the Angels the upcoming days/weeks/months

Damn. Had this ready! 

There will be plenty of opportunities for Blarg to Blarg us again. 

"I want everyone to know Shohei had zero involvement in betting. I want people to know I did not know this was illegal. I learned my lesson the hard way. I will never do sports betting ever again."
 
Yeah sure Ippei, rack up at least $4.5 million in losses and that's the point where you learn your lesson

I want Ohtani kicked out of the league and the Dodgers to be on the hook for the contract, but I also want him to be completely oblivious and innocent in this so Blarg can look like Blarg again

I want Ohtani kicked out of the league and the Dodgers to be on the hook for the contract, but I also want him to be completely oblivious and innocent in this so Blarg can look like Blarg again

It's a fun story to see from the outside but I doubt anything will come of it punishment wise to Ohtani unfortunately 

It's a fun story to see from the outside but I doubt anything will come of it punishment wise to Ohtani unfortunately 

In best The Rock…
Finally, Long Beach State has come back to the NCAAT!

This is what as known as blarging.

I am chatting with my friend who is at the game in South Korea. She said Ohtani got some boos

I also have always listened to the wisdom you share here.

"I want everyone to know Shohei had zero involvement in betting. I want people to know I did not know this was illegal. I learned my lesson the hard way. I will never do sports betting ever again."
 
Yeah sure Ippei, rack up at least $4.5 million in losses and that's the point where you learn your lesson