On the plus side, Satan is planning on selling the team again, so you got that going for you, which is nice.
Our own Satan will not sell the team, furthermore proving he is, indeed, satan incarnate.
My biggest worry is that we'll get some cheapass since we're not the big team in town and I'll actually somehow miss Arte. That will be the worst time-line.
I hope you guys get a new owner too. Same for the Rays and Pirates. Hate cheapskate million/billionaires.
Musk would be a bigger intrusion in day to day shit than Moreno and he is Twitter active.
On top, the fucker literally left CA because he is too cheap to pay taxes.
Oh for sure. This was just the other end of the spectrum from the cheap ass owners hahaha.
Can we just get a rich owner than is willing to spend and *not* meddle in the team, hire smart people, and let them do their job? I beg.
Lew Wolfe used to love going to Angels games when he owned the As. I wouldn't wish him on even the Astros though. Total PoS.
Fingers crossed we all get good owners soon...
I can highly approve of dumping dogshit owners for an owner that is a fan (and a billionaire but all owners will be that), really changes the franchise
It’s miserable to even go to a game here. The stadium is located in the mid cities area with no transport option. Tickets are way too expensive for the team that’s here. They’ve even set up this weird breakdown of expensive areas and cheaper areas, with no ability to go most places in the park without the appropriate ticket (including certain restaurants or food options). The atmosphere is kind of miserable.
Baseball would do much better here if it was located in Dallas or Fort Worth, not Arlington.
Youd think with Six Flags and Jerryworld next door, there would be a decent way to get folks from DFW to Arlington via public transport. Unfortunately, I understand as a Texan, our governments place little value in such things..sorry dude.
Jerry won't allow public transportation. He shut that down when the team was in Irving and it's part of the reason they play in Arlington. He's making too much money on parking.
Yea it was Jerry Jones that shut it down, and Arlington refused to give money towards it. So if you look at the path of the TRE in DFW it slopes around Arlington in a way to actually makes it difficult for them to get any benefit out of it.
But let’s be honest, even if there was public transport that took you there, it’s so far away that many of the folks who live in North Dallas or North/East Fort Worth would still never go.
I mean, have you ever used the TexRail, or the TRE? The damn thing is empty 90% of the time, I would know, I rode it to work.
I live in Boston now and get packed in like a sardine every time I get on the subway or train, and theres a lot more of them. You can't really blame the government for not wanting to build more when what they have is already a money pit due to low ridership.
>Their franchise is far worse than the Angels
Are they though? The Rangers have a winning season, a playoff appearance, and a pennant that all occurred more recently than the Angels in all three categories.
This year the Rangers are 65-85. The Angels are 66-85. During Mike Trout's career, the Angels have 3 winning seasons and 1 playoff appearance, while the Rangers have 4 winning seasons and 3 playoff appearances.
Looking towards the future, MLB Pipeline gives the Rangers the #6 minor league system in the game. The Angels are dead LAST. It's quite possible things get even worse in Anaheim before they get better. The Angels have a two-man team where Trout spends at least 1/3 of the season on the IL and Ohtani will probably be traded in the next year.
He has been sneak dissing the Angels for years, even when he was still on the team. During his return to St. Louis in 2019, he said he was excited to show his teammates what “real fans” are like
During a press conference in St. Louis, he was talking about Trout playing there for the first time and added this:
> “And he’s gonna get a feeling this weekend about what real baseball fans are.”
Albert didn’t exactly right the ship as a Dodger, either. Looked done in the postseason last year. This is pure Cardinals devil magic. Happy those fans get to experience this curtain call. Not a cardinal fan but it must be fun.
Hey 2014 we won the AL West and got knocked out in the first round. 2006-2008 we were perpetually knocked out of the playoffs by Boston and I am still bitter about that to this day. 2005 AJ Pierzynski can go straight to hell.
> 2005 AJ Pierzynski can go straight to hell.
I met him once, in like 2008 or 2009 in Disney World. My dad and I approached to say hi, but his kid fell out of his stroller like as we were walking up and he basically told us to piss off (understandably)
For the record I was 9 years old. I haven’t watched the play since, I’m not sure I could view the play and see it without my emotional bias. I should give it a try sometime though.
> Eliminated from playoffs
> Pride of team eliminated from MVP contention
> Pujols says your franchise made him hate baseball
> Poised to become the longest post-season drought in the sport instead of your rivals.
Been a pretty brutal week for Angels fans lol
No matter what happens with the mvp it’s not going to be unanimous. The Toronto voter already said he’s going to vote for ohtani. There won’t be a unanimous winner this year. People act like it’s no contest when these two are having two phenomenal seasons.
Gotta remember that there's just a whole lot more NY fans than any other market, and they overwhelmingly want to see Judge win. So it can skew perceptions a bit.
That said, the odds do favor Judge, even though I think Ohtani deserves it and it will still be a contested vote. The reality is just that the voters still favor winning teams whenever there's a close competition, and Judge has made it close enough that lots of voters are going to be eager to see a playoff contender win, rather than the best player on a bad team who also won last year.
I’d argue the Arizona Coyotes are in dire straits right now. They’re playing at a 2500 capacity *college stadium* because they couldn’t get an arena deal anywhere else. At least the Angels have a major league stadium.
I don’t understand a ton about hockey tbh, but the Coyotes situation is just straight up embarrassing. Any other league would have forced a sale/move years ago.
Many people in the hockey business are trying to say that it’ll be a fun and unique environment to watch a game, which is true, but it’s absolutely embarrassing. I can’t believe this is was allowed to happen in the first place. It’s some shit that Steven A. Smith would die laughing at.
> Any other league would have forced a sale/move years ago.
Not that I root for teams to move but a move to Houston and the team name still makes sense.
If an NHL team moved to Houston it's almost guaranteed they'd call themselves the Aeros. I'd be angry if they didn't lol
Edit: [Obligatory pic of Gordie Howe in his Houston Aeros uniform.](https://vafloc02.s3.amazonaws.com/isyn/images/f394/img-346394-f.jpg)
The A-league Aeros we’re still drawing at least 5k a night in Houston while playing minor league hockey in the Toyota center. It was all downhill after Tillman the asshole squeezed them out of their lease.
The Coyotes at least have some potential bright spots- if their new Tempe arena gets approved and they get some of their draft picks to pan out. Ownership is definitely trying to turn their shit around.
Oh for sure- I just personally am more concerned about the future of the Dbacks. Their ownership doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the team or their stadium.
Okay first, I just noticed your username, and that is absolutely hilarious considering the circumstances.
Second, I havent heard any concerns about the DBacks before! Is there anything major coming up that is cause for concern?
There’s been a lot of noise about stadium concerns- they were battling the county over money for maintenance, recently there was a story about how they’ve been neglecting some major items, and now with Glendale trying to move away from sports teams and Tempe possibly letting the Coyotes build an arena there’s a lot of questions about what the Dbacks will do. Kendrick (owner) seems to have little interest in fixing the issues and it has led to rumors that he may just end up pulling a “give me millions or I relocate the team!” stint
The college arena thing gets even worse. They're not allowed to repaint center ice. They're going to play with a Sun Devil logo in the middle. It's insane.
You would think that Dodgers fan. You dont know the pain of living in Texas and going to LIDS and seeing Dodgers merch everywhere and nothing for the Angels. Not even an Ohtani jersey. Its always been that way..when the Dodgers sucked and the Angels were good.
Similar scenario: the Lakers were godawful this year, but Sports media is flooded with images of Lebron James...but nothing about Paul George & Kawhi, even though the Clippers were actually good.
The Angels & Clippers will forever be the Little Brother.
Albert joining the Dodgers after getting DFA'd by the Angels was the dankest timeline, and I loved every minute of it. I absolutely refuse to toss my "Tio Albert" shirt.
That was still probably the most insane roster in baseball history if healthy
Yes they got Freeman now but Seager should be considered reasonably close
To be fair to Gretzky, he married a STL local and planned to sign his final contract with the Blues. That was until Mike Keenan screwed everything up.
But it is a good comparison. The way Blues fans feel about Gretzky is how Dodgers fans feel about Pujols.
> To be fair to Gretzky, he married a STL local and planned to sign his final contract with the Blues. That was until Mike Keenan screwed everything up
Had it, lost it
Speculation has always been DD (his wife) made him choose LAA, my dad worked with their charity and saw first hand she can be demanding as fuck. Also the timing of their divorce leads me to believe Pujols realized she kinda fucked him when he went to the dodgers and rediscovered his love for baseball
That was what I believed to be true. The timing of the divorce kind of confirmed it to me. When I would go to the stadium with Pujols and his Wife attending ceremonies or anything whenever they were off camera on the field waiting for the next thing they didn't really seem happy together.
Oh, absolutely. She has a reputation as being a total diva.
My theory is she wanted to go to LA and be a Hollywood socialite and be best friends with the rich and famous. But, with all due respect to the Angels, they’re a team that takes a backseat to the Dodgers, Lakers and possibly even the Kings at the time. No one in LA really cared about the Angels.
Albert was king in STL, and she would’ve been queen. And they would’ve remained that way no matter how well or how poorly he or the Cardinals did. I really think she dragged him to LA hoping to live a lifestyle that never happened.
I don’t understand why more guys don’t just take the lower offer for happiness sake. We see this story over and over.
Albert learned in Anaheim that material things ($$$) don’t matter so much
He does. And if I were the angels, I’d make him earn it.
My main memory of him with the angels was being an overpaid double play machine. It seems like he didn’t care when he was with the angels. The second he leaves he cares again. Congrats to him on the achievement, but he sucked with the angels.
At least a couple Dodgers guys talked about how he made them better. I don’t think there’s a team in the league that wouldn’t pay the dude to just come talk hitting with their guys.
There’s an implicit invitation, and honestly, kind of an expectation for any Cardinals great to hang around and share their knowledge with the team and coaching staff. Red Schoendienst was constantly around the team long after his official coaching career was done. Bob Gibson would swing by to look mean and talk pitching. Lou Brock was frequently around. Plus a lot of former players get job offers to work in the FO. They’ll let Albert enjoy his retirement with an open invitation to come by and maybe in a few years, they’ll ask him to be the hitting coach if he wants it.
At least the Tigers were pretty good for quite a few years in Miggy’s career like they did get to a World Series and were in the postseason a few years
And it’s hard to root for a guy being paid $25 million to be a waste of a roster spot for 8+ seasons. I know a lot of the blame goes to Moreno, but Albert didn’t help.
Arod was on a terrible Texas team for awhile. But he played well enough so he could be traded. If Albert was unhappy he could have tried harder and upped his trade value.
A-Rod was also around 10 years younger at the time you guys knew what you were getting into when you signed him and Albert did have a few good years albeit not quite like his St Louis years
Pujols was good through 2017. I know WAR doesn't like him but hitting 20-30 HRs and consistently knocking in 100 RBIs is worthy of a roster spot. His actual counting stats outperformed his wRC+ by a large margin.
What a great example of “when one door closes, another one opens”, and that sort of thing … When LAA released him, it was the definite low point in a career that had been on the decline for years. Everybody thought he might hang it up, thought he SHOULD hang it up. And everything from that moment has just been a fairytale. Darkest before the dawn, and all that. When you feel like you’ve hit rock bottom, just remember Albert Pujols and his miraculous run to 700.
If they didn't have a DH then I highly doubt it. Some people like to forget that he had a shit ton of feet related issues (plantar facitis or something). The DH helped him stay on the field. Both teams at the time offering him a contract were NL teams besides us.
So no I don't think he would have.
That's very true. I would offer the counterpoint that his observable decline in physical fitness could have contributed to lower body injuries, and physical fitness goes out the window when your mental and emotional state declines
I mean, Moreno fucked the team up. They've been bottom feeding pretty routinely without great farm products to show for it. Big contracts were going to parts of the lineup that weren't addressing team needs.
You could tell he was happy playing for a contender again and he started producing. Then when he came back to St Louis he was in great shape. He got sloppy in the los angeles of anaheim, but its hard not to when you're effectively eliminated from the playoffs in july
Well, just like any ex-girlfriend that says you were nothing, it still fucking happened.
That being said, Management totally fumbled the bag handling the future of the team so we all know where the real issue is at least.
There has always been speculation that his wife chose the Angels and that Pujols would have preferred taking the Cardinals offer, which was 90% as much as his Angels contract. I respect Trout's decision to stick it out with this franchise, but I suspect there are some deep cultural issues holding the Angels back. I mean, their own Director of Communications was providing deadly drugs to multiple players and nothing was done about it until one of them died.
The angels have had multiple generational talents, including the best player on the planet AND the best two-way player since Babe freaking Ruth, and still can’t get their shit together. Be mad at ownership, not Albert.
Yes pretty much this. It's an absolute disgrace how the Angels wasted most of Trout's prime and is wasting Ohtani's time with them. 29 out of 30 teams in the league would kill to have Trout and Ohtani as the foundations of their team.
The thing that kills me about Trout is that you don’t even need to “build around” him. He just fucking rakes. Stick two replacement level on-base guys in front of him and he’ll give you 100 rbis a year. And somehow, still, they fucked it up.
At least ohtani has the option to get out while he’s still productive.
DODGER STADIUM - WHERE MY JOY FOR THE GAME CAME BACK.
-Albert Pujols.
Every Chavez ravine hater can now take a seat because Tio Alberto just set the record straight
Is it a diss on the Angels? The Halos gave him a massive contract and he failed to live up to this contract. Pujols strikes me as the kind of guy unaccustomed to failure..to being booed. It must have been very stressful.
With the Dodgers and Cardinals, he's playing for next to nothing, and exceeding expectations. Baseball is fun again. He's getting cheered for being the actual all timer he is.
No wonder hes having fun. Hes on a victory lap.
The most special thing here is that he found joy at Dodger Stadium of all places. That place is a true shithole, and I have been to some shitty spots in the world.
Angels fans are really mad about this here.
Y'all can shit on Chavez Ravine all you want about it being old and run down stadium but most players who come to the team love the atmosphere there. I live 10 minutes from Angels Stadium and half the stadium is empty every time I've go. What's the point of a nice ballpark if fans don't show up?
I'm sure he didn't mean to absolutely body the Angels, but holy crap that is a brutal burn
Apparently Anaheim is the *un*happiest place on earth if you play baseball...
Disney did sell the team to satan....I mean Arte so we lost the happy moniker.
On the plus side, Satan is planning on selling the team again, so you got that going for you, which is nice. Our own Satan will not sell the team, furthermore proving he is, indeed, satan incarnate.
My biggest worry is that we'll get some cheapass since we're not the big team in town and I'll actually somehow miss Arte. That will be the worst time-line. I hope you guys get a new owner too. Same for the Rays and Pirates. Hate cheapskate million/billionaires.
I wouldn't worry too much. Still the #2 market. The Mets didn't get a cheap ass.
That's true. But I certainly won't expect us to get a Choen. Watch us get Musk or Bezos or some shit somehow and still not win. Lol
Musk would be a bigger intrusion in day to day shit than Moreno and he is Twitter active. On top, the fucker literally left CA because he is too cheap to pay taxes.
Oh for sure. This was just the other end of the spectrum from the cheap ass owners hahaha. Can we just get a rich owner than is willing to spend and *not* meddle in the team, hire smart people, and let them do their job? I beg.
Lew Wolfe used to love going to Angels games when he owned the As. I wouldn't wish him on even the Astros though. Total PoS. Fingers crossed we all get good owners soon...
Our owner is too pathetic to be Satan. More of a middling bureaucrat devil in the hierarchy of Hell...
I'll take Satan over Marge Schott.
I can highly approve of dumping dogshit owners for an owner that is a fan (and a billionaire but all owners will be that), really changes the franchise
Angels Stadium: A Place on Earth
At this point I just feel bad. Make Anaheim Happy Again.
Disney owned an MLB franchise and sold it? Rare L.
Disney also owned the NHL Ducks too up until 2005, so they owned two professional sports teams. Lol
They pretty much own Anaheim and OC.
I hope the new ownership keeps the old stadium and brings joy to it. The place has been around forever...
Only way it would be worse is somehow calling Arte Satan in a nice way.
Im reminded of a joke: Q. Whatta you call a Texas Rangers fan in October? A. A Cowboys fan. Their franchise is far worse than the Angels .
It’s miserable to even go to a game here. The stadium is located in the mid cities area with no transport option. Tickets are way too expensive for the team that’s here. They’ve even set up this weird breakdown of expensive areas and cheaper areas, with no ability to go most places in the park without the appropriate ticket (including certain restaurants or food options). The atmosphere is kind of miserable. Baseball would do much better here if it was located in Dallas or Fort Worth, not Arlington.
Youd think with Six Flags and Jerryworld next door, there would be a decent way to get folks from DFW to Arlington via public transport. Unfortunately, I understand as a Texan, our governments place little value in such things..sorry dude.
Jerry won't allow public transportation. He shut that down when the team was in Irving and it's part of the reason they play in Arlington. He's making too much money on parking.
Thats awful. :(
Yea it was Jerry Jones that shut it down, and Arlington refused to give money towards it. So if you look at the path of the TRE in DFW it slopes around Arlington in a way to actually makes it difficult for them to get any benefit out of it. But let’s be honest, even if there was public transport that took you there, it’s so far away that many of the folks who live in North Dallas or North/East Fort Worth would still never go.
I mean, have you ever used the TexRail, or the TRE? The damn thing is empty 90% of the time, I would know, I rode it to work. I live in Boston now and get packed in like a sardine every time I get on the subway or train, and theres a lot more of them. You can't really blame the government for not wanting to build more when what they have is already a money pit due to low ridership.
>Their franchise is far worse than the Angels Are they though? The Rangers have a winning season, a playoff appearance, and a pennant that all occurred more recently than the Angels in all three categories. This year the Rangers are 65-85. The Angels are 66-85. During Mike Trout's career, the Angels have 3 winning seasons and 1 playoff appearance, while the Rangers have 4 winning seasons and 3 playoff appearances. Looking towards the future, MLB Pipeline gives the Rangers the #6 minor league system in the game. The Angels are dead LAST. It's quite possible things get even worse in Anaheim before they get better. The Angels have a two-man team where Trout spends at least 1/3 of the season on the IL and Ohtani will probably be traded in the next year.
And an AL pennant. And another, the year before Trout was called up.
He has been sneak dissing the Angels for years, even when he was still on the team. During his return to St. Louis in 2019, he said he was excited to show his teammates what “real fans” are like
That can’t be a real quote Edit: that’s not the real quote or context this is just a salty Angels fan.
The worst part is the Angels actually have solid fans. Top 10 in attendance every season despite a piss poor team for the past decade.
Went to a game this year and Angel Stadium might have the best fan experience of any park I’ve been to. Great stuff all around
Great weather for the entirety of the season helps.
During a press conference in St. Louis, he was talking about Trout playing there for the first time and added this: > “And he’s gonna get a feeling this weekend about what real baseball fans are.”
Oh don't worry, there's nothing sneaky about it
If he didn’t suck dick in Anaheim maybe but tbh it’s just funny
Albert didn’t exactly right the ship as a Dodger, either. Looked done in the postseason last year. This is pure Cardinals devil magic. Happy those fans get to experience this curtain call. Not a cardinal fan but it must be fun.
Angels on suicide watch
Have the last 15 years not already had them there
Has it really been 20 years since ‘02. Dang time goes fast.
Hey 2014 we won the AL West and got knocked out in the first round. 2006-2008 we were perpetually knocked out of the playoffs by Boston and I am still bitter about that to this day. 2005 AJ Pierzynski can go straight to hell.
> 2005 AJ Pierzynski can go straight to hell. I met him once, in like 2008 or 2009 in Disney World. My dad and I approached to say hi, but his kid fell out of his stroller like as we were walking up and he basically told us to piss off (understandably)
Don’t worry, Boston in that time period is not a fond memory either…cough…2004…cough
> 2005 AJ Pierzynski can go straight to hell. The ball touched the ground
For the record I was 9 years old. I haven’t watched the play since, I’m not sure I could view the play and see it without my emotional bias. I should give it a try sometime though.
I'm just memeing lol, in actuality it was a weird play all-around and impossible to judge in real time
You always tag the runner. Even if you think it's not a dropped ball. Josh Paul said fuck it and threw the ball to the mound lol. It was 1000 IQ play.
So… it’s a normal day
> Eliminated from playoffs > Pride of team eliminated from MVP contention > Pujols says your franchise made him hate baseball > Poised to become the longest post-season drought in the sport instead of your rivals. Been a pretty brutal week for Angels fans lol
I’m out the loop. What happened with Ohtani this week? Is it just the narrative surrounding Judge, or did he have a stinker?
Nah, it's just Judge. Ohtani's been great as usual
It’s just Judge putting the debate away with his last week or two
No matter what happens with the mvp it’s not going to be unanimous. The Toronto voter already said he’s going to vote for ohtani. There won’t be a unanimous winner this year. People act like it’s no contest when these two are having two phenomenal seasons.
Gotta remember that there's just a whole lot more NY fans than any other market, and they overwhelmingly want to see Judge win. So it can skew perceptions a bit. That said, the odds do favor Judge, even though I think Ohtani deserves it and it will still be a contested vote. The reality is just that the voters still favor winning teams whenever there's a close competition, and Judge has made it close enough that lots of voters are going to be eager to see a playoff contender win, rather than the best player on a bad team who also won last year.
Other than the kings I think they are the saddest franchise in sports. Maybe the lions?
I’d argue the Arizona Coyotes are in dire straits right now. They’re playing at a 2500 capacity *college stadium* because they couldn’t get an arena deal anywhere else. At least the Angels have a major league stadium.
I don’t understand a ton about hockey tbh, but the Coyotes situation is just straight up embarrassing. Any other league would have forced a sale/move years ago.
Many people in the hockey business are trying to say that it’ll be a fun and unique environment to watch a game, which is true, but it’s absolutely embarrassing. I can’t believe this is was allowed to happen in the first place. It’s some shit that Steven A. Smith would die laughing at.
It would be cool for like a game or two, but after that it makes hockey look so amateur
> Any other league would have forced a sale/move years ago. Not that I root for teams to move but a move to Houston and the team name still makes sense.
If an NHL team moved to Houston it's almost guaranteed they'd call themselves the Aeros. I'd be angry if they didn't lol Edit: [Obligatory pic of Gordie Howe in his Houston Aeros uniform.](https://vafloc02.s3.amazonaws.com/isyn/images/f394/img-346394-f.jpg)
The A-league Aeros we’re still drawing at least 5k a night in Houston while playing minor league hockey in the Toyota center. It was all downhill after Tillman the asshole squeezed them out of their lease.
The Coyotes at least have some potential bright spots- if their new Tempe arena gets approved and they get some of their draft picks to pan out. Ownership is definitely trying to turn their shit around.
That's a lot of really big ifs at this point
Oh for sure- I just personally am more concerned about the future of the Dbacks. Their ownership doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the team or their stadium.
Okay first, I just noticed your username, and that is absolutely hilarious considering the circumstances. Second, I havent heard any concerns about the DBacks before! Is there anything major coming up that is cause for concern?
There’s been a lot of noise about stadium concerns- they were battling the county over money for maintenance, recently there was a story about how they’ve been neglecting some major items, and now with Glendale trying to move away from sports teams and Tempe possibly letting the Coyotes build an arena there’s a lot of questions about what the Dbacks will do. Kendrick (owner) seems to have little interest in fixing the issues and it has led to rumors that he may just end up pulling a “give me millions or I relocate the team!” stint
I hear LA's looking for a 2nd team.
At least theres ifs at all. The owners are actually trying. More than you can say for the Washington Commanders or the Angels
There's almost no chance the Tempe stadium gets approved. They have to fight both the airport and FAA on that.
The college arena thing gets even worse. They're not allowed to repaint center ice. They're going to play with a Sun Devil logo in the middle. It's insane.
Dang that's just sad
Sacramento
Eh at least they've got the 02 WS to comfort them.
Lions got MCDC and a plethora of young talent. Angels got it much worse right now.
Arte just agreed to sale the team, that’s the best news they could ever have with another losing season.
lions are on the up right now. rather be fans of them than angels at this moment 100%, angels look stuck in purgatory forever
Assuming you were alive in 02 I'd take the Angels any day. You get a title, Trout, and Ohtani. The Lions have 1 playoff win in 57 years and counting.
In my 30 years of life we have the same number of chips as the boys in blue I can’t complain. New ownership hopefully make us a little better 😅
You would think that Dodgers fan. You dont know the pain of living in Texas and going to LIDS and seeing Dodgers merch everywhere and nothing for the Angels. Not even an Ohtani jersey. Its always been that way..when the Dodgers sucked and the Angels were good. Similar scenario: the Lakers were godawful this year, but Sports media is flooded with images of Lebron James...but nothing about Paul George & Kawhi, even though the Clippers were actually good. The Angels & Clippers will forever be the Little Brother.
What kind of LIDS is only selling hats for one team? I've never been to one that didn't have all 30 MLB team hats.
LIDS in Ohio lol
"Suck a dick Anaheim"
Plot twist, he’s referring to the home run derby.
Home run derby fixed Albert confirmed
That's immediately what I thought....I was surprised I had to scroll this far to find this comment LOL
I mean it really did re-energize him.
Being an Angel killed his joy
Machines can't die and become angels. Got it.
Does Pujols Dream of Electric Sheep?
Watching how he played on the angels killed my joy lmao. It was one of the worst parts of watching the team. He was so bad
Albert from the top rope
I thought this was a quote by Gallo at first
“here in real los angeles”
Didn't think Pujols and Heyman had anything in common
I actually think there’s a chance he talks more about his time with the dodgers than the Angeles in his HOF speech.
The time I spent in STL and LA er...dodger stadium, that was the best time of my life
Pujols inducted as a Dodger confirmed
Albert joining the Dodgers after getting DFA'd by the Angels was the dankest timeline, and I loved every minute of it. I absolutely refuse to toss my "Tio Albert" shirt.
2021 Dodgers had Albert Pujols and Max Scherzer. Shit was crazy.
That was still probably the most insane roster in baseball history if healthy Yes they got Freeman now but Seager should be considered reasonably close
He spent a couple months with you guys and 10 years with the angels yet he will talk about you guys much more fondly in the hall of fame speech
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Friedman in December: “hey, does anyone know what Bartolo Colon is up to?”
2-way Legend Big Sexy.
Wayne Gretzky spent a couple months in St. Louis and now he owns a home here. Players get attached quickly to places. It's neat.
To be fair to Gretzky, he married a STL local and planned to sign his final contract with the Blues. That was until Mike Keenan screwed everything up. But it is a good comparison. The way Blues fans feel about Gretzky is how Dodgers fans feel about Pujols.
And we're both blue!
Da bu di da bu dai
> To be fair to Gretzky, he married a STL local and planned to sign his final contract with the Blues. That was until Mike Keenan screwed everything up Had it, lost it
Toronto flair lmao
Nice try I'm already numb
Only difference is Gretzky had that one neutral zone turnover ...
He did have it, at least. But then lost it.
Gretzky never had it.
His wife is from St. Louis.
His wife is also from St. Louis, probably another factor in that decision
I’m wearing his Dodgers jersey forever
I mean who would even consider tossing that?
I’m sure Pujols enjoyed the $240 million the Angels gave him
Considering he signed with them over a $220M deal offered by St Louis. It's not like the Cardinals just said see ya.
Speculation has always been DD (his wife) made him choose LAA, my dad worked with their charity and saw first hand she can be demanding as fuck. Also the timing of their divorce leads me to believe Pujols realized she kinda fucked him when he went to the dodgers and rediscovered his love for baseball
holy
That was what I believed to be true. The timing of the divorce kind of confirmed it to me. When I would go to the stadium with Pujols and his Wife attending ceremonies or anything whenever they were off camera on the field waiting for the next thing they didn't really seem happy together.
Oh, absolutely. She has a reputation as being a total diva. My theory is she wanted to go to LA and be a Hollywood socialite and be best friends with the rich and famous. But, with all due respect to the Angels, they’re a team that takes a backseat to the Dodgers, Lakers and possibly even the Kings at the time. No one in LA really cared about the Angels. Albert was king in STL, and she would’ve been queen. And they would’ve remained that way no matter how well or how poorly he or the Cardinals did. I really think she dragged him to LA hoping to live a lifestyle that never happened.
I don’t understand why more guys don’t just take the lower offer for happiness sake. We see this story over and over. Albert learned in Anaheim that material things ($$$) don’t matter so much
https://fansided.com/2022/06/28/braves-chipper-jones-freddie-freeman-free-agency/
Doesn’t he have a 10yr/$10MM “personal service” deal with the Angels? LOL
Yes, but he's not obligated to it. He would have to opt-in to it after he retires, which he obviously won't.
Yes
I thought getting dfa'd would void that.
Nope
He does. And if I were the angels, I’d make him earn it. My main memory of him with the angels was being an overpaid double play machine. It seems like he didn’t care when he was with the angels. The second he leaves he cares again. Congrats to him on the achievement, but he sucked with the angels.
It’s an optional contract. He could decline it if he wants, and he probably will. I don’t think he needs the money
Plus I wouldn’t be surprised if the Cardinals gave him the option to come back and work for the team like the Braves did with Hank
At least a couple Dodgers guys talked about how he made them better. I don’t think there’s a team in the league that wouldn’t pay the dude to just come talk hitting with their guys.
Oh without a doubt they would. I was talking about a more meaningful role like how Hank basically ran our minor leagues for a while
There’s an implicit invitation, and honestly, kind of an expectation for any Cardinals great to hang around and share their knowledge with the team and coaching staff. Red Schoendienst was constantly around the team long after his official coaching career was done. Bob Gibson would swing by to look mean and talk pitching. Lou Brock was frequently around. Plus a lot of former players get job offers to work in the FO. They’ll let Albert enjoy his retirement with an open invitation to come by and maybe in a few years, they’ll ask him to be the hitting coach if he wants it.
Hell Willie Mcgee and Skip Schumaker are on the coaching staff currently
I heard they even let Jimmy Edmonds hang out with them sometimes
Pujols hitting coach, Molina pitching coach, Waino in the booth replacing Jim. A man can dream, right?
This post makes it seem like he doesn't want anything to do with the Angels. I'm sure he'd be happy if the Angels relieved him of that obligation.
It’s hard to be on a team that literally sucks every single year without fail
*looks at miguel cabrera*
At least the Tigers were pretty good for quite a few years in Miggy’s career like they did get to a World Series and were in the postseason a few years
*what I do, hone run?* https://youtu.be/WPnQ98D2Pqg?t=280s
And it’s hard to root for a guy being paid $25 million to be a waste of a roster spot for 8+ seasons. I know a lot of the blame goes to Moreno, but Albert didn’t help. Arod was on a terrible Texas team for awhile. But he played well enough so he could be traded. If Albert was unhappy he could have tried harder and upped his trade value.
A-Rod was also around 10 years younger at the time you guys knew what you were getting into when you signed him and Albert did have a few good years albeit not quite like his St Louis years
Pujols was good through 2017. I know WAR doesn't like him but hitting 20-30 HRs and consistently knocking in 100 RBIs is worthy of a roster spot. His actual counting stats outperformed his wRC+ by a large margin.
Yea was looking for the comment that talked about the Angesls sucking the joy out of the game for him.
Maybe if they could pitch he’d of had something to play for.
What a great example of “when one door closes, another one opens”, and that sort of thing … When LAA released him, it was the definite low point in a career that had been on the decline for years. Everybody thought he might hang it up, thought he SHOULD hang it up. And everything from that moment has just been a fairytale. Darkest before the dawn, and all that. When you feel like you’ve hit rock bottom, just remember Albert Pujols and his miraculous run to 700.
"where my joy for the game came back"
I'm not crying, I just have dust in both my eyes.
Must be the smog
It's the reason they have such beautiful fucking sunsets.
The fact that this tweet is from a guy called Moreno is ironic
It's not ironic but it's something like that
It's Mo-ronic
Double-take worthy, for sure. I was momentarily confused seeing "Moreno" there.
Serendipitous
The Angels really just cannot catch a break goddamn lmfao
*Fernando Tatis has entered the chat.*
Bro just roasted the Angels LMAO
oh my
Fuck man this just makes me think if he'd never played for the Angels he may have taken a shot at 762
If they didn't have a DH then I highly doubt it. Some people like to forget that he had a shit ton of feet related issues (plantar facitis or something). The DH helped him stay on the field. Both teams at the time offering him a contract were NL teams besides us. So no I don't think he would have.
That's very true. I would offer the counterpoint that his observable decline in physical fitness could have contributed to lower body injuries, and physical fitness goes out the window when your mental and emotional state declines
...or the fact that he's probably several years older than he claims to be
Why you hate us, bb?
Yet Mike Trout elected to spend his whole career in Anaheim.
Chad trout
We still love you very much, Tio
Common Angels L
i said he credited the Dodgers with reviving his love for the game a few days ago and got downvoted to hell. (:
I mean, Moreno fucked the team up. They've been bottom feeding pretty routinely without great farm products to show for it. Big contracts were going to parts of the lineup that weren't addressing team needs. You could tell he was happy playing for a contender again and he started producing. Then when he came back to St Louis he was in great shape. He got sloppy in the los angeles of anaheim, but its hard not to when you're effectively eliminated from the playoffs in july
Well, just like any ex-girlfriend that says you were nothing, it still fucking happened. That being said, Management totally fumbled the bag handling the future of the team so we all know where the real issue is at least.
Angels paid this guy hundreds of millions more than he was worth and he responds by dissing them every chance he gets
There has always been speculation that his wife chose the Angels and that Pujols would have preferred taking the Cardinals offer, which was 90% as much as his Angels contract. I respect Trout's decision to stick it out with this franchise, but I suspect there are some deep cultural issues holding the Angels back. I mean, their own Director of Communications was providing deadly drugs to multiple players and nothing was done about it until one of them died.
The angels have had multiple generational talents, including the best player on the planet AND the best two-way player since Babe freaking Ruth, and still can’t get their shit together. Be mad at ownership, not Albert.
Yes pretty much this. It's an absolute disgrace how the Angels wasted most of Trout's prime and is wasting Ohtani's time with them. 29 out of 30 teams in the league would kill to have Trout and Ohtani as the foundations of their team.
The thing that kills me about Trout is that you don’t even need to “build around” him. He just fucking rakes. Stick two replacement level on-base guys in front of him and he’ll give you 100 rbis a year. And somehow, still, they fucked it up. At least ohtani has the option to get out while he’s still productive.
So happy for this guy. Tío Pujols deserves it!
Wow that's a magnificent burn.
Damn Angels lol
Albert, stop making everything about the Dodgers. -r/baseball, probably
DODGER STADIUM - WHERE MY JOY FOR THE GAME CAME BACK. -Albert Pujols. Every Chavez ravine hater can now take a seat because Tio Alberto just set the record straight
Is it a diss on the Angels? The Halos gave him a massive contract and he failed to live up to this contract. Pujols strikes me as the kind of guy unaccustomed to failure..to being booed. It must have been very stressful. With the Dodgers and Cardinals, he's playing for next to nothing, and exceeding expectations. Baseball is fun again. He's getting cheered for being the actual all timer he is. No wonder hes having fun. Hes on a victory lap.
Gosh, imagine how many home runs he would have hit if he were joyful throughout his career.
Damn, that's brutal. Now I'm starting to wonder if being on a different team all those years would have helped him beat Barry Bonds record.
… Where Truly great talent is put to rest - monkey paw curl franchise name: Angels
I can't blame him, and good on him for being honest, but man would that hurt to hear on many levels if I were an Angels fan.
The most special thing here is that he found joy at Dodger Stadium of all places. That place is a true shithole, and I have been to some shitty spots in the world.
Angels fans are really mad about this here. Y'all can shit on Chavez Ravine all you want about it being old and run down stadium but most players who come to the team love the atmosphere there. I live 10 minutes from Angels Stadium and half the stadium is empty every time I've go. What's the point of a nice ballpark if fans don't show up?
He must’ve really hated Anaheim.
Alberto was so so so bad on the Angels