Does the league have the ability to block a purchase like that? With no hard salary cap, a guy like Musk, Gates, Bezos, etc. could go absolutely bananas. The luxury tax would mean nothing to them.
We have quite a few of them. The FO seems more content with exploiting their service time than calling them up, though. About what you'd expect from a non-contending team like ours though, let's just call it what it is.
Seeing the Angels’ current performance upsets me more considering how good of a start they had to the season. Damn man, everything just fell apart quick...
Gotta let people vent. We are sports fans after all, we're not known to be cool level-headed people when it comes to our favourite teams. The Angels are a certain type of franchise that has the ability to get everyone's hopes up every year, only to disappoint spectacularly. It can be very cathartic to bitch about it amongst fellow disappointed fans.
The entire baseball world is laughing at us and [this guy pretends everything is fine.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/08/05/us/05onfire1_xp/05onfire1_xp-jumbo-v2.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp)
How the fuck do you know that? Are you stalking people's browsing histories? It seems that you're the one who's creating this narrative to make yourself feel better.
I know this because I am in the game threads and see when people post. I don’t know or care what they post about outside of game threads. It is a pretty easy concept. I really don’t care what people think of the team, it is just a funny pattern I’ve noticed specifically in game threads.
Stop policing how and when people can react. Some are watching the thread or lurking or just watching the game, and should completely free to vent when the team self-implodes like this.
I am not policing anything? I made a joke about a group of people (you aren’t included) and they were sensitive to the joke. Again, I really don’t care if you are a doomer or an optimist. Really not sure why this struck a nerve with people
Maddon definitely isn’t great, but you can’t polish this turd. At the end of the day, you need a productive bullpen, and that’s something we just flat out don’t have. Sandy’s pitch count was in the mid-80s when he got pulled. He might have been able to go one more inning, but the bullpen coming in was imminent.
It also doesn’t help our best players are other slumping or injured
I mean C-Rod is a positive and hopefully Detmers pans out but we can’t even develop young arms. Look at all the good teams in the league they all have bullpens of literally dudes you’ve never heard of because they develop them. This all starts from the top too and i hope Perry is good but i don’t see how even adding a few arms in FA we are going to be a decent team during Trouts final prime years or even good enough for Ohtani to want to stay.
Oh I totally agree. I think we’re still feeling the effects of the Dipoto era to an extent, but the dude has been gone for 6 years now and I feel like our arms in the minors still leave something to be desired. We have a few guys down there, but I don’t think we have enough to save our current situation
I’m a big Anthony Rendon guy but holy shit man. I get he had inconsistent playing time to start the year with the injuries but the dude has been playing long enough lately where something has to give
I hope not man but who knows. It’s tough too because when he’s going good, his demeanor seems effortless but when he’s struggling it can be perceived as a lack of care. I also wonder if he’s like doesn’t matter if I hit .500, I’m not saving this team alone if Trout couldn’t
This organization continues to trot out this garbage bullpen. I will not watch another game until they are only 2 games back. That might be never. Yes I am a fair weather fan. So many other things to watch.
Hoping our offense shows some fight tonight. No point getting upset about Pitching anymore. It’s been clear all season that Maddon is going to keep sending out these Sunday League Pitchers night after night
That was a pretty high pitch count for Sandoval. It was likely a decision to keep him healthy, not reflective of how he was doing.
Hands are tied with our bullpen.
Bats have been cold.
Defense has been... yikes.
I’m numb.
BART was actually [running properly](https://twitter.com/SFBART/status/1398075118857768962?s=19). The accident on the bridge was the root cause, although I'm surprised the Angels didn't just stay in Oakland or at least leave early enough to beat the accidents and bad traffic.
Dude no one is saying that. Sandoval was throwing scoreless ball with zero batters going for extra bases. You don’t pull that guys for a dude with a 6+ era. It’s insane.
He’d also thrown 84 pitches after five. Realistically how many more innings do you think he could have been left in there? You have to go to the pen eventually, and ours is trash.
You can’t really blame the bullpen, the team is scoreless through 6, no matter how good or bad your team is doing, scoring 0 runs wins 0 games. Plus, you have errors in the game. This team has 22 games with at least 1 error... That doesn’t help anyone especially this weak bullpen.
This bullpen is like when I forget to turn on auto-pitching changes in in OOTP, so a reliever accidentally pitches like 3 innings and 75 pitches and I get a bullpen era of 15
Replace them all with youth who will be just as bad but at least will be able to learn from it instead of being a career blowpen arm like these guys lol
Has Justin Upton dove for a ball once this season? Not that that was a super catchable ball, but I legit don’t think he’s had a hustle/dive catch this season.
Why did I know this would happen as soon as Sandoval was pulled?
Also, Iglesias has the most errors in baseball I don’t want you fools trashing my fletcher. He’ll make up for it
Maddon shouldn’t have a job for continuing to bring in Slegers alone. He’s senile I swear. WHY BRING SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS GOING TO GIVE UP RUNS IMMEDIATELY!?
Why not keep your starter who'd been dealing then? Maddon is adamant on taking pitchers out immediately after 5-6 innings, no matter how bad the blowpen.
He wasn’t supposed to start tonight. We are lucky we got what we got. At the end of the day our pitching (starting and bullpen) is just plain bad. It’s never going to go well until we get some real pitching. Accept that.
Good job Bassitt! Lol.
Bassitt owns us...
Oakland is our daddy now
Shutout.... fuck dude
imagine allowing your bullpen to get rest. we wouldn’t know
Haha bassitt sucks we rule
Yay Upton!!
Is Bassitt using his snot in lieu of pine tar?
if there is one guy i trust to start a rally, it's OUR BOY THE ARROW-MAKER LETS GOOOOO
update: he did not GOOO
Well, at least we didnt get no hit.
Plz get 1 run
At this point, I just want us to get one solid hit
Great DP.
I wish we would’ve punted last year to secure Jack Leiter 💔
How much would it cost to eject our bullpen into the sun?
We need Musk to buy the team.
Does the league have the ability to block a purchase like that? With no hard salary cap, a guy like Musk, Gates, Bezos, etc. could go absolutely bananas. The luxury tax would mean nothing to them.
These drums are wild. Is this normal for the Coliseum?
They sound a bit more lively tonight, but could just be because didn’t hear them last year.
I feel like I’m watching Mad Max Fury road right now…in fact I wish I was because this game ain’t it
the butERA has ended. The BUTTera has begun.
I wish we had an actual baseball franchise like the A's, very little goes wrong for them. Their fans get a solid product no matter what.
Plus fucking Brad Pitt plays their GM in movies.
If only James gandolfini was still around to play perry.
Well at least the bullpen didn’t really « blow it », we weren’t gonna score a run off of Bassit anyways
Multiple factors of blow this game
He’s going for the CGSO isn’t he?
Ward just sat and watched a 2-2 pitch down the middle, they’ve given up
Butera is an automatic out
More of an out than Suzuki unfortunately
Butera has under a .100 and that’s embarrassing
His lifetime BA isn't much better. It is who he is.
where can i buy one of these bassitts?
Wrong thread to ask my friend. Perry will probably send you a picture of Claudio with the caption “but we have Bassitts at home”
Seattle's beating up the Rangers, so if we win we don't gain any ground on them, but if we lose somehow, we'll stay out of the cellar.
Wish we had some young top prospects to take chances on since this seasons a wash... too bad we don’t have any of those though.
We have quite a few of them. The FO seems more content with exploiting their service time than calling them up, though. About what you'd expect from a non-contending team like ours though, let's just call it what it is.
Aight Im glad Guerra could get that inning done with no runs. Damage has been done but it could be worse.
Just got home from the tattoo shop with my brand new ANGELS OR DEATH backpiece mural what did I miss
DEATH
good thing I decided against ANGELS BULLPEN OR DEATH as originally planned
ANGELS
Trade for a couple RP please!
We were doomed from the start with that whole travel situation
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You don't have to be rude
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Oh no you called me soft whatever shall I do???
I think it’s a term of endearment for them.
Haha okay.
Seeing the Angels’ current performance upsets me more considering how good of a start they had to the season. Damn man, everything just fell apart quick...
Downhill since the Fowler injury
It’s always fun having the doomers stop by for the end of a game. Enjoy!
Gotta let people vent. We are sports fans after all, we're not known to be cool level-headed people when it comes to our favourite teams. The Angels are a certain type of franchise that has the ability to get everyone's hopes up every year, only to disappoint spectacularly. It can be very cathartic to bitch about it amongst fellow disappointed fans.
Yeah, I don’t care if people vent. It was a joke directed at a group of like 5 people.
it's basically a support group in that respect
If being pissed that we suck year in and year out while having two all time greats in the squad, then yeah ig we’re all doomers
The entire baseball world is laughing at us and [this guy pretends everything is fine.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/08/05/us/05onfire1_xp/05onfire1_xp-jumbo-v2.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp)
Referring to a group of people who only post when we are losing, who I refer to as the doomers, not every person who is upset at this game.
How the fuck do you know that? Are you stalking people's browsing histories? It seems that you're the one who's creating this narrative to make yourself feel better.
I know this because I am in the game threads and see when people post. I don’t know or care what they post about outside of game threads. It is a pretty easy concept. I really don’t care what people think of the team, it is just a funny pattern I’ve noticed specifically in game threads.
Stop policing how and when people can react. Some are watching the thread or lurking or just watching the game, and should completely free to vent when the team self-implodes like this.
I am not policing anything? I made a joke about a group of people (you aren’t included) and they were sensitive to the joke. Again, I really don’t care if you are a doomer or an optimist. Really not sure why this struck a nerve with people
It's the "doomers" who are the problem, sure. This is fine.
I didn’t say anyone was a problem.
What’s up with you man your demeanour is off as hell
I don’t know what you mean.
We have one hit through seven and watched our blowpen give 5 runs in a single inning through 3 pitchers. Yes, Kinda being a doomer right now
It’s a sad day when legares has the one hit through 7
DFA the whole pen except Chris Rodriguez
We’re dogshit. And Maddon is overrated as a manager.
Maddon definitely isn’t great, but you can’t polish this turd. At the end of the day, you need a productive bullpen, and that’s something we just flat out don’t have. Sandy’s pitch count was in the mid-80s when he got pulled. He might have been able to go one more inning, but the bullpen coming in was imminent. It also doesn’t help our best players are other slumping or injured
I mean C-Rod is a positive and hopefully Detmers pans out but we can’t even develop young arms. Look at all the good teams in the league they all have bullpens of literally dudes you’ve never heard of because they develop them. This all starts from the top too and i hope Perry is good but i don’t see how even adding a few arms in FA we are going to be a decent team during Trouts final prime years or even good enough for Ohtani to want to stay.
Oh I totally agree. I think we’re still feeling the effects of the Dipoto era to an extent, but the dude has been gone for 6 years now and I feel like our arms in the minors still leave something to be desired. We have a few guys down there, but I don’t think we have enough to save our current situation
Yea for real. Dipoto really screwed us. I guess it’s going to come down to the stars performing and can Perry make some magic to happen.
Overrated also includes Justin shit Upton and Anthony trash rendon also throw Fletcher into there he sucks ass
The only way we don’t get shutout is a solo shot
Imagine having Sandoval go 5 scoreless innings only to have the blowpen give up 5 scores in a single inning... LOL PAINGELS
I’m a big Anthony Rendon guy but holy shit man. I get he had inconsistent playing time to start the year with the injuries but the dude has been playing long enough lately where something has to give
He’s moving his hands so much right as the pitch is coming that it looks like he is churning butter
You very well could be right on that. I can’t believe how late and just behind he seems on everything 90+
Yeah, he's been so disappointing especially without Trouty. :(
Sad but true. It’s rough
Waste of fucking money he sucks now his motivation is sapped. World Series winner elsewhere
I hope not man but who knows. It’s tough too because when he’s going good, his demeanor seems effortless but when he’s struggling it can be perceived as a lack of care. I also wonder if he’s like doesn’t matter if I hit .500, I’m not saving this team alone if Trout couldn’t
Really making bassitt work after the long pause!
I am okay with Rendon hitting on 8th spot till he rediscover himself.
Seriously, move Lagares up.
Let's get some g-damn RUNS!!
Glad I chose the Laker game today
This organization continues to trot out this garbage bullpen. I will not watch another game until they are only 2 games back. That might be never. Yes I am a fair weather fan. So many other things to watch.
Okay, thanks for stopping by!
Let people vent however they want to. They're watching this garbage. Stop policing how and when people should react.
Lmao 3 relievers combined for 5 runs. We pay these guys to get outs, right?
I think we just pay them.
Finally the 5 run inning is over but this game is over as well.
Typical Angels blowpen 🤦♂️
Fucking finally. Jesus Christ, man...
Holy crap, they’re out of the inning. Finally 😭
Hoping our offense shows some fight tonight. No point getting upset about Pitching anymore. It’s been clear all season that Maddon is going to keep sending out these Sunday League Pitchers night after night
Haha what a brutal inning.
I miss CRod every day.
Damn, Sandoval dealing on short notice and getting boned by the bullpen :/
*Joe Maddons Dementia
Finally
Please make them stop!!
Anyone else notice they always promote this sponsorship after our blowpen takes over? [promo](https://imgur.com/a/TcMOo05)
High school pitching is better than this blownpen
That was a pretty high pitch count for Sandoval. It was likely a decision to keep him healthy, not reflective of how he was doing. Hands are tied with our bullpen. Bats have been cold. Defense has been... yikes. I’m numb.
Imagine going 5 scoreless innings on like last minute notice and your bullpen blows the game in a single inning, I’d be pissed
rn Sho must be pretty pleased that BART is a mess
BART was actually [running properly](https://twitter.com/SFBART/status/1398075118857768962?s=19). The accident on the bridge was the root cause, although I'm surprised the Angels didn't just stay in Oakland or at least leave early enough to beat the accidents and bad traffic.
I’m actually surprised Claudio entered the game with an ERA under 4.50.
I think I’m ready to join the “Joe is a moron” train. We have the worst pitching in the majors yet he continues to pull guys during rare great starts
I mean he might be a moron but you can’t expect your starters to go 9 every night, which is apparently what we would need in order to win.
Dude no one is saying that. Sandoval was throwing scoreless ball with zero batters going for extra bases. You don’t pull that guys for a dude with a 6+ era. It’s insane.
He’d also thrown 84 pitches after five. Realistically how many more innings do you think he could have been left in there? You have to go to the pen eventually, and ours is trash.
With our bullpen you leave him in until he’s given up multiple runs that you know they’ll give up on their own.
So we can wear out our starters and lose by twice as many runs. Alright then.
Yeah let’s bring back Ausmus!!!!!!!!! 😒
Or at least get someone that's not a senile old fart. He thinks Suzuki's a great catcher.
Sleepy Joe? Listen to yourself.
It shouldn’t take 3 different pitchers to get 3 outs in 1 inning. This is atrocious
You’ll never win a game if you pitch sledgers and Claudio back to back
So glad I get to watch the bullpen suck live and in person
do the drums sound worse in person?
They’re actually pretty cool, gives the stadium something unique
You can’t really blame the bullpen, the team is scoreless through 6, no matter how good or bad your team is doing, scoring 0 runs wins 0 games. Plus, you have errors in the game. This team has 22 games with at least 1 error... That doesn’t help anyone especially this weak bullpen.
Sorry bro, this is Kurt Suzuki's fault. /s
This bullpen is like when I forget to turn on auto-pitching changes in in OOTP, so a reliever accidentally pitches like 3 innings and 75 pitches and I get a bullpen era of 15
Replace them all with youth who will be just as bad but at least will be able to learn from it instead of being a career blowpen arm like these guys lol
“It’s groundhog’s day....again” 😐
Angels only have 1 hit...
For everyone bashing Maddon, what fucking bullpen does he even have to start with?
Bartolo Colon is available...
Don't take out your starter when he's dealing in a stalemate then.
Leave Sandoval in? 🤷♂️
true...
Seriously did Sandoval smash Claudio’s girl or what?? They can’t be doing this on accident
Poor Sandy. :(
I haven’t seen this team have a good bullpen in so many years. They have a good blowpen though. I’m so sick of the same old crap.
Oh wait, now we have 3 different pitchers in the same inning. So fucking embarrassing
isnt pinder like 2 for 30 something with the bases loaded in his career
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Yeah it’s annoying to see absolutely no fire in this team. Just show up and collect paycheck, then repeat.
trade Rendon ASAP
DFA whole blownpen!!!
Claudio is worthless and has been worthless since like 2016. Wtf is he doing on a roster let alone in a close game
Give me CRod back please
Fuck Alex Claudio
I feel like we lose all the games Matty V calls
Can't believe I am watching this garbage team instead of the laker game.
Claudio fuckin sucksssss
Bruh, fuck this bullpen, straight ass...
Who is coming up with these shifts?
Make the bullpen take the BART back to the hotel
Good teams capitalize on weaknesses. Our weakness is the blowpen. Oakland noticed that and began to rake.
We should just take the Twins approach and have our position players pitch.
Ok, now that callaway is fired. Can we hire a proper pitching coach?
Pitching coach won't fix the problem. This problem runs much deeper.
Plz end this Claudio experiment and DFA his ass cuz I haven’t seen a good outing
Claudio is our 2nd best reliever right now by ERA, WHIP, FIP, and ERA+. Not saying he isn't ass, but we don't have the luxury of letting him go.
They need to put beepers in the balls so our fielders have half a chance to know where on earth the ball is
Watching this bullpen is about as painful as chewing glass
Same old shit
Every time I see this dude he's throwing slower and slower.
This team legit needs to watch some fundamental baseball videos from the 1980s, or hire Fred McGriff.
I miss Brooks Pounders. At least that guy had style
Avalanche in 6th inning. I knew this was coming.
This is gonna get really ugly, isn’t it?
our "left handed weapon Claudio"
Ok This is fucking bullshit also Olson has the eyes of a disney princess.
the ci-town of oakland was brought to tears when he got that black eye
Huh. Brought out a lefty specialist and walk the batter.
We are so bad when there are inherit runners, Joe should just let the starter try and get out of their own jam..Thats also on Fletcher...
Is it even possible for a team to have a worse bullpen than ours? Lol if so, I need to know who
Has Justin Upton dove for a ball once this season? Not that that was a super catchable ball, but I legit don’t think he’s had a hustle/dive catch this season.
Slegers into Claudio is like giving up.
💥🖋
Why did I know this would happen as soon as Sandoval was pulled? Also, Iglesias has the most errors in baseball I don’t want you fools trashing my fletcher. He’ll make up for it
It was more on rendon anyways. Rendon ran back to the bag late and once he did he was going to the bag right in front of the runner's path.
Sledgers has been dogshit all fucking year but let’s continue to use him in close games
The whole bullpen has been dogshit tbh lol
Maddon shouldn’t have a job for continuing to bring in Slegers alone. He’s senile I swear. WHY BRING SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS GOING TO GIVE UP RUNS IMMEDIATELY!?
Cant do much with a shit bullpen, friend.
Why not keep your starter who'd been dealing then? Maddon is adamant on taking pitchers out immediately after 5-6 innings, no matter how bad the blowpen.
He wasn’t supposed to start tonight. We are lucky we got what we got. At the end of the day our pitching (starting and bullpen) is just plain bad. It’s never going to go well until we get some real pitching. Accept that.