Our manager doesn't know rules regarding mound visits

[FabulousFabregas]

Nice to see the Fat Man's head is in the game.

[Angel Oracle]

Time for a change

F'n Reagins and Moreno!

[jshep]

That was kind of embarrassing.

[AngelsLakersFan]

I'm not sure he knew what the count was...

[jshep]

Also, who the hell gives an IBB to Adam Rosales to load the bases...to then have a righty face the left handed Seth Smith

[mancini79]

C'mon, this isn't Sosh's fault...

[HaloMagic]

Also, who the hell gives an IBB to Adam Rosales to load the bases...to then have a righty face the left handed Seth Smith

Did you really want to see Maronde throw another pitch?

[AngelsLakersFan]

Also, who the hell gives an IBB to Adam Rosales to load the bases...to then have a righty face the left handed Seth Smith

 

This is why I think he didn't know what the count was. He was so upset with Maronde that he wasn't going to let him throw another pitch. The umpire made him throw another pitch, so Scioscia made Maronde throw a wide one.

[Tyler]

Our GM doesn't know how to build a pitching staff.

[bdavis621]

Scioscia has lost this team. When that happens the time has come.

[AZMike]

Our GM doesn't know how the build a pitching staff.

He knows how NOT to build a pitching staff:

 

free agent relief pitches. Apparently that's the baseball equivalent of dropping a stack of C-notes down on 33 black. 

 

Apparently the way to build a pitching staff is to hire overrated sluggers to 9 figure deals followed by trading good offensive players for mediocre flyball pitchers, then going dumpster diving for releivers cut from other teams.

[Angel Oracle]

It sure seems like that.

And to think he was the same guy as D-Backs interim GM who pawned off a 30 year-old on us for two very good pitching prospects in Skaggs and Corbin plus Saunders.

[AZMike]

It sure seems like that.

And to think he was the same guy as D-Backs interim GM who pawned off a 30 year-old on us for two very good pitching prospects in Skaggs and Corbin plus Saunders.

In retrospect I'm beginning see that trade more as reinforcing just how bad Reagins was, not evidence of Dipoto's "JeDi" mind tricks

[AngelsLakersFan]

I'm on the fence about DiPoto's pitching moves. I would not have made the same moves and I would've invested more money in the pitching. 

That said, DiPoto does not have a lot to work with. He can't pull a pitching staff out of his ass. He added like 6 pitchers to the staff this offseason. 6 pitchers was clearly not enough, but who is available, and what do we have to trade? 

At some point we have to get around to placing the blame on the decision to push forward and go for it back in 2010, rather than try and rebuild.

[Tyler]

Please. He had a whole offseason to put together something better than this clusterphuq.

[Streetkid]

I've missed most of the game. Can someone explain what happened and if the score was affected because of it?

[Angel Oracle]

Trading for Haren, when we had little hitting, was pretty stupid.

Can't win in the 2010's with a 1960s Raviners offense.

Should have rebuilt from there.

But asking Reagins to oversee a rebuild would be tantamount to Jimmy Bob Buss trying to run the Lakers.

[bdavis621]

Another one of these lovely 2013 pitching performances is what happened.

[SmallSampleSize]

I've missed most of the game. Can someone explain what happened and if the score was affected because of it?

 

Yes.

 

The Angels took the field.  The score was affected because of it.

 

I'll be here all week and try the veal.

[AZMike]

Trading for Haren, when we had little hitting, was pretty stupid.

This was the turning point. After we lost Morales we should have gone into rebuild mode. Chance of making a playoff run on 2010 or 2011 was very slim, especially when that trade emptied our already thin shelves of our best pitching prospects. This was readily apparent considering our plan A for offensive savior was Carl Crawford and our plan B was Vernon wells. 

 

Pujols and Hamilton was pushing all in on a bluff. Oakland and everyone else in the division is calling. We lose.

[Docwaukee]

Our GM doesn't know how to build a pitching staff.

you mean 'rebuild' in a single offseason.  with no farm system. 

[Angel Oracle]

Dipoto was just the last piece in a puzzle that goes back to really Reagins' hiring. That was the day that the franchise retreat was truly planted.

[AngelsLakersFan]

Please. He had a whole offseason to put together something better than this clusterphuq.

Which players should he have brought in? 

What should he have given up to get it?

[Tyler]

But enough assets (money + ML talent) to get it done.

[Eric]

I've missed most of the game. Can someone explain what happened and if the score was affected because of it?

 

Meronde crapped the field from the mound allowing baserunners on the corner.  Butcher comes out to settle him down and he goes 3-1 against the next hitter.  Then Scioscia wanders onto the diamond like a drooling drunken late-stage Alzheimer patient off his meds.  Scioscia gets pulled aside by the ump, turns around, wanders off the field, then Meronde throws an Intentional Ball to load the bases up. 

 

The next batter then cleared the bases.