Erstad Grit

THERE IS NOTHING GOOD ABOUT BLANTON. Outside of his rookie year, (in which he was average before the league caught on) he has always been terrible. Wishing him to be anything but that is homer glasses. Good glove? Did you watch tonight? Dude is not even a bust because he is not good. Blanton exemplifies our organization. Who wouldn't rather have Chatwood, Santana, Haren or anybody with at least potential?

Blaming Scioscia for Pujols looking 45, Hamilton looking like a rookie, Blanton looking like Blanton, our bullpen looking like it did last year, our catchers only able to throw out runners when they overslide the base, and Wells raking and Santana what he has always done is just silly. TR/Dipota have made the worst decisions I have ever seen as an Angel fan. At least the lame contracts we gave out in the 90's (Fielder, Murray, Bo, etc) were small. Low risk high reward. Our franchise is in the toilet.

Maybe he mentally feels like he only needs to live up to a 6 million contract and that finally relaxed him. I don't know. Looks like we got royally screwed twice on V Wells trades.

Trout in 2 hole has been solid. Another case of unfair criticism on Scioscia. Try again.

23 is pretty old for A ball. He is basically ripping off bags off of high school pitchers/catchers. Until success in at least AA I would not pronounce him our future leadoff hitter. Not getting excited about prospects is lame but so is creating unrealistic expectations.

I prayed during the 7th inning stretch at game 6 in 2002. I told God if he hooked it up I would never bother Him with baseball prayers again. Sorry I'm tapped out.

Let's get Lee and Mauer and have more monster truck rallys in the off-season

6.1 innings, 2 earned runs, and 12 k's is pretty bad ass considering he had to throw a ton of extra pitches because of piss poor defense.

LOL When you want to change the way MLB records stats to prove your point you should realize you are on thin ice. CJ pitched at minimun a good game, realistically a great game considering Conger going little league on us. CJ has been our best SP. CJ is not the problem on this team.

He looked great today to me.

Scioscia is the best manager at getting umpires to discuss calls and consider changing them. Last year I had criticism on Scioscia this year I have virtually none. Pujols/Hamilton hitting low .200's and a crappy pitching staff is why we suck. Not Scioscia's fault for not arguing more.

I would have been fine with a rebuild. When you rebuild you don't sign two older players for 15 years 365 million and trade away our best prospects for Greinke

Should we go Manny Ramirez and Barry Bonds too? Vlad Guerrero is out there. Age catches up with everybody. The job of a GM is to pay players for what they WILL do not what they HAVE done

First off I would have kept Walden. Trading a young, inexpensive, allstar closer for a SP who was terrible was perplexing. I loved the Burnett signing. He is someone i wanted. Soriano I was hoping but at that price I understand passing. Oliver Perez looked great down the stretch and could have been grabbed cheap. (yes I said this during the off-season-it's on the old board) Joe Nathan who looked good down the stretch I also would have given an invitation to Krod Bottom line is our BP was TERRIBLE last year and we traded Walden and signed someone who hadn't pitched in a year.

I hated the Pujols deal and while I was in the minority there were others of us. I disliked the Hamilton deal. I never saw him being this bad but I did not like the deal. I wanted Angels to keep Haren and Santana for one more year. Haren has not been great but > than Blanton. Santana would be our ace. I would have put Trumbo in RF and Morales/Pujols and 1b/dh. I would have spent the $ on assembling and upgrading a real bullpen. He has not done his job.

That a way AJ! I'm with you. It is not looking good but to say season over is crazy. You brought up some solid points and a healthy Madson could be icing.

Hamilton is drooling to have those numbers

He looked good today. Base hit up the middle not hit too hard. Sure double play ball Harris booted. Lazy grounder on a hit and run. Bloopish single.

I'm just curios how much that may be a factor in Hamilton. How long do you not feel right after quitting? Is that a possibility? If so any guesses on how long the detox takes?

feels like everything is starting to click except Hamilton

Yeah and the pitcher would have gone all 19 innings too.

Catching 19 innings cannot be defended unless it's pre-1960's.

I didn't say pull him at 9. A's weren't dumb enough to have their catcher go that long.

Scioscia playing Chris that entire 19 inning game not very smart

not as good as Santana