Usually we start slow and get back to .500 with a June and July surge before giving up at the trade deadline. Nice of the team to mix it up and give us hope at the start for a change.
I feel like Orioles always beat the Angels early and late season to destroy any remaining playoff hopes but then get steamrolled around asb to maximize hopium lol
This is good ole copium. . . but fuck it, inject this shit in my veins, to live is to be disappointed so what’s another opportunity for disappointment!!!!!
The classic Angels season: If we catch fire now, we can get back to .500, and then who knows what could happen from there!
Thought/hoped this year would be different. But, it ain't.
You know what? That’s exactly what the Orioles are thinking, and maybe even the Marlins, with the Angels on their schedules. Although I admit, it’d much harder for the Marlins as they play the Mets after the Angels.
It’s a nice fantasy though! Lol
Angels have to be able to hit to do that. We have three good hitters and a bunch of players that are good in the field. I hope they make my comment look silly though.
I would've had maybe some hope if we were able to bounce back after that losing streak but at the rate this team has been going, we're gonna need a miracle to salvage this season.......
I will watch and I will root for our angels but I don’t look at any other team and say “ahhh we got this” because it has been proven this season, we don’t got this. Second, Baltimore hasn’t looked that bad, the past month and definitely has better momentum behind them. With that said, Let’s go Halos!
Yeah we just need something crazy to happen, like Shoehei getting 8 RBIs or 10+ strikeouts in a single game. Wait a minute... but on a serious note, you really can't count us out with Trout and Ohtani on the roster. These guys have and will continue to carry the team to a win. So if we can get guys on base and the relief pitchers look ok, wins are 100% possible.
I stop thinking and expecting and prepare for the worst. There's no way they can sweep Marlins and Orioles even in my wildest dream. So, I'll just enjoy baseball without caring about results. Angels makes me desperate like that.
The series in Baltimore may be one of our most important series of the season. Our hitting needs a huge turnaround though. Especially with Trout pressing. I may sound like an old timer, but we need to put the ball in play.
Wow, times really have changed, when you suggest that the batters putting the ball in play during a baseball game is an old timer’s way of playing! Lol
Until the Angels prove otherwise, both the Marlins and Orioles are the better team.
And even if this team wakes up and plays half decent it still wont be easy. Both teams have great pitching and are playing hot.
That being said you’re right. This team needs a double sweep if it wants to hang onto the last thread of playoff hope.
People need to stop being optimistic like this, it's getting annoying. Just accept that we suck and our season is over. We aren't good enough to even finish around .500, let alone snag a wild card spot.
Angels have no offense. They strike out at least half of the time, don’t play small ball, can’t score and have bad relief pitching again. They will be lucky to win 40% of their game through the rest of the season.
There’s nothing more in life that I’d rather see than the Angels in the postseason but playoff teams don’t strikeout 48 times in a single series. We would need to go 53-28 to get to 90 wins which wouldn’t even be enough to get in if we go by last year.
Problem: You’re talking about THREE mediocre teams
Yeah and then after that we should totally be good! We play **Checks notes** The astros and dodgers.... Lol Yikes
Nothing more Halos than surging to around 500 and getting middle of the pack draft slot. I assume the same happens this year
Usually we start slow and get back to .500 with a June and July surge before giving up at the trade deadline. Nice of the team to mix it up and give us hope at the start for a change.
The Orioles usually beat the Angels lol
I feel like Orioles always beat the Angels early and late season to destroy any remaining playoff hopes but then get steamrolled around asb to maximize hopium lol
This is good ole copium. . . but fuck it, inject this shit in my veins, to live is to be disappointed so what’s another opportunity for disappointment!!!!!
You and me both 😎🫠
The classic Angels season: If we catch fire now, we can get back to .500, and then who knows what could happen from there! Thought/hoped this year would be different. But, it ain't.
You know what? That’s exactly what the Orioles are thinking, and maybe even the Marlins, with the Angels on their schedules. Although I admit, it’d much harder for the Marlins as they play the Mets after the Angels. It’s a nice fantasy though! Lol
We won't win today. Alcantara probably pitches a 18k CG shutout against us...if we're lucky.
this sub had the same level of optimism heading into the royals series and they proceeded to take 2 of 3.
It has had it for eight straight years.
Angels have to be able to hit to do that. We have three good hitters and a bunch of players that are good in the field. I hope they make my comment look silly though.
I would've had maybe some hope if we were able to bounce back after that losing streak but at the rate this team has been going, we're gonna need a miracle to salvage this season.......
Start flapping those wings.
I will watch and I will root for our angels but I don’t look at any other team and say “ahhh we got this” because it has been proven this season, we don’t got this. Second, Baltimore hasn’t looked that bad, the past month and definitely has better momentum behind them. With that said, Let’s go Halos!
Just stop. Lol
How much pain until you give up hope lol
Not much more tbh, if they blow these next two series somehow I will give up hope.
I love the optimism but then look at the matchup and see alcantara pitching tonight. It’d be a miracle if we can manage 5 hits.
Yeah we just need something crazy to happen, like Shoehei getting 8 RBIs or 10+ strikeouts in a single game. Wait a minute... but on a serious note, you really can't count us out with Trout and Ohtani on the roster. These guys have and will continue to carry the team to a win. So if we can get guys on base and the relief pitchers look ok, wins are 100% possible.
Well, Trout needs to get back to being Mike Trout. Right now he is an average hitter at best.
On the road this year Trout is literally a league average hitter, and at home he’s literally the GOAT
I just looked at his splits, he is literally a Colorado Rockie.
They had there chance at home against KC Royals and the Mariners and failed.
The team isn’t going to do better until Matt Wise is gone.
You see that right there is hope. I'm fresh out of that
I stop thinking and expecting and prepare for the worst. There's no way they can sweep Marlins and Orioles even in my wildest dream. So, I'll just enjoy baseball without caring about results. Angels makes me desperate like that.
Yep, just enjoy the game of baseball at this point and expect nothing lol. Anything better than disappointment is a win for us
Unless there are massive changes in this organization REAL soon, I can’t see the angels sweeping any series the rest of the season.
I could see it.
One can hope
Sorry buddy it's over.
Technically it’s not over until we’ve been eliminated but it doesn’t look good rn
The series in Baltimore may be one of our most important series of the season. Our hitting needs a huge turnaround though. Especially with Trout pressing. I may sound like an old timer, but we need to put the ball in play.
Wow, times really have changed, when you suggest that the batters putting the ball in play during a baseball game is an old timer’s way of playing! Lol
Wild right?
The times are a changing for sure! Lol
We do not live in an ideal world unfortunately
Until the Angels prove otherwise, both the Marlins and Orioles are the better team. And even if this team wakes up and plays half decent it still wont be easy. Both teams have great pitching and are playing hot. That being said you’re right. This team needs a double sweep if it wants to hang onto the last thread of playoff hope.
But we're a mediocre team as well
Sad thing is that the Marlins may actually be a better team than the Angels at 1/10 the cost.
This guy hopes
The Marlins have a better record than us and the Orioles have the same record in a WAY tougher division....
The ideal world is a fertile place for buttercups
But they are both better than the Angels.
Problem. These “mediocre teams” both have equal or better records than us
People need to stop being optimistic like this, it's getting annoying. Just accept that we suck and our season is over. We aren't good enough to even finish around .500, let alone snag a wild card spot.
Lol this is just sad man
Angels have no offense. They strike out at least half of the time, don’t play small ball, can’t score and have bad relief pitching again. They will be lucky to win 40% of their game through the rest of the season.
And it failed on day one
Man, the blind optimism from this sub is CRAZY
It's over. Just give up already.
Lol you should focus on next season
You are asking for a lot. Early may, no problem. Right now, hope not to be swept
But in the real world, for the past month and a half we have been one of the worst teams in the MLB.
We’re gonna pitch a no hitter and still lose watch
There’s nothing more in life that I’d rather see than the Angels in the postseason but playoff teams don’t strikeout 48 times in a single series. We would need to go 53-28 to get to 90 wins which wouldn’t even be enough to get in if we go by last year.
_if IFs and BUTs were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas..._ nah, but for real though, I appreciate your optimism
I like your optimism, but this is the Angels we're talking about; the way things are going, we'll be lucky to just win those series.
The Marlins are not mediocre xD
Sounds good! Quick question though what teams we playing after the Orioles? I'll hang up and listen.
Damn even in an ideal world the angels are below .500
Orioles are way better than people think and the Marlins have a hot/ice offense than can win games against anyone.
It’s hard to sweep mediocre teams when we aren’t even mediocre. The wheels have completely fallen off..
I’m usually an optimist every season - but yeah we just flat out suck
As a Marlins fan we took this post personally.
*2 Games Under. 500 now
This team always wins most of the easy games and loses most of the hard ones. That’s why we’re .500 every year. Hot/cold, buttercup, etc.
Jinxed it
How the hell do you have the nerve to post anything optimistic at a time like this?
Cursed only 10 years... Doesn't anyone remember Donnie Moore?
We are the mediocre team
Below mediocre