The 2015 MLB Random Thoughts Thread

[SoulController]

Oakland brehs, can we get Ty Ty back

no! we only have him and Scribner as decent righties, Ryan Cook is a bipolar weirdo i cant depend on him

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2...ing-session-after-ditching-agent-scott-boras/

 

[Disgustya Stallone]

Don't believe the A's won't turn things around before the all star break.

they just gotta get to .500 by the break... then it all restarts

 

[SoulController]

Don't believe the A's won't turn things around before the all star break.

heres the keys to getting to .500 by ASB

-pray that Doo comes back for real soon, let Pom be the top lefty out of the pen setting up and let Clippard and Scribs do the 8th and 7th

-put Billy in left when Coco returns, play Zobrist @ 2nd and keep Sogard the fukk off the field

the team scores runs, and the rotation ERA has been in the top 5 since the season started. if the pen can be consistent they could content for a WC. the AL is not exactly stacked

 

[Disgustya Stallone]

heres the keys to getting to .500 by ASB

-pray that Doo comes back for real soon, let Pom be the top lefty out of the pen setting up and let Clippard and Scribs do the 8th and 7th

-put Billy in left when Coco returns, play Zobrist @ 2nd and keep Sogard the fukk off the field

the team scores runs, and the rotation ERA has been in the top 5 since the season started. if the pen can be consistent they could content for a WC. the AL is not exactly stacked

yeah nah

coco (coco's career may be done) and doolittle are out until at least after the break

 

[Captain Crunch]

On a side note, Mike Pelfrey sixth in the league in ERA

He was pretty good for the 1st half of 2010.

 

[TrillaMonsoon]

He was pretty good for the 1st half of 2010.

this is the first half he's been good in since

 

[mastermind]

no! we only have him and Scribner as decent righties, Ryan Cook is a bipolar weirdo i cant depend on him

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2...ing-session-after-ditching-agent-scott-boras/

nah, we good on Soriano


Oakland is sorry. Let us eat

 

[SoulController]

wow, Otero almost blew that every single reliever that put in work last year is total dogshyt this season

put AJ Griffin in the pen when hes ready, and DFA O'Flaherty and Dan. shyts ridiculous

 

[tremonthustler1]

Greene is ass. You can have him back @tremonthustler1

Ain't like Didi tearing the cover off the ball either

 

[Kyle Barker]

Anthony Rendon finally in the lineup first time this season. We're about to go on a tear brehs.

 

[Disgustya Stallone]

wow, Otero almost blew that every single reliever that put in work last year is total dogshyt this season

put AJ Griffin in the pen when hes ready, and DFA O'Flaherty and Dan. shyts ridiculous

oflaherty can still be good... abad and otero need to bounce tho

i dont understand why melvin didnt keep pomeranz in there to stretch him out a bit

 

[FakeNews]

yeah nah

coco (coco's career may be done) and doolittle are out until at least after the break

Don't expect them dudes anytime soon. I remember telling people them extending Coco was dumb because he's old and injury prone

 

[Disgustya Stallone]

Don't expect them dudes anytime soon. I remember telling people them extending Coco was dumb because he's old and injury prone

coco is bb's sons fav player

 

[FloorGeneral]

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2015/06/anaheim_angels_poor_fans.php

Orange County Register Anaheim Angels of Anaheim beat reporter Pedro Moura has been on fire all season, and really since he began a couple of years ago at the paper. He has broken stories, pilloried owner Arte Moreno for his increasingly tyrannical ways, and done this in an environment where he has to deal with some of the most thin-skinned fans in sports. But Moura published a jaw-dropper of a piece yesterday in a most-interesting vein: social inequality.

Moura and other Halos writers have recently focused on the Angels' dramatic drop in attendance this season--they're on track to attract less than 3 million fans this year, which would be the first time since 2003 that that's happened, and the largest season-over-season drop in at least 15 years. But rather than bemoan that point, Angels vice president of marketing and ticket sales Robert Alvarado told Moura that ticket revenue for 2015 so far is higher than 2014 because they're making more money off higher-priced tickets and the people who buy them. So it's not a matter of bringing out as many fans to the ballpark as possible; it's a matter of squeezing out as much money as possible from those who can attend.

Alvarado goes on to prove his class elitism with this telling quote:

"We may not be reaching as many of the people on the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder, but those people, they may enjoy the game, but they pay less, and we're not seeing the conversion on the per-caps [Gustavo note: spend more money like other, wealthier fans, in Halospeak]," Alvarado said. "In doing so, the ticket price that we're offering those people, it's not like I can segregate them, because I'm offering it up to the public, and I'm basically downselling everybody else in order to accommodate them."

To review: Alvarado doesn't really want poor people at the Angels Stadium because they don't spend that much money. By trying to attract them, he worsens the experience for wealthier fans. And if he could, he'd segregate the poors from everyone else.

[Quick aside: wasn't that the point of the left-field Family Section from so long ago?]

WOW. You rarely see such contempt for poor people from sports franchises, who always try to put on the facade of the benevolent neighborhood institution, the better to gouge fans (best local example, of course, is the Los Angeles Dodgers). Are the Angels going to stop giving tickets away to kids in SanTana and Anacrime 'cause they're not from Coto de Caza and Mission Viejo? Pathetic.

Read Moura's great piece here. And lest chavala Angels fans start piling on me for my interpretation of Alvarado's quote, Moura highlighted the passage in his tweets promoting the piece. And the Angels fan who brought the story to my attention (who's requesting anonymity lest his fellow fans rag on him for daring to say nice things about this infernal rag) had this to say: "As a lifelong Angel fan it saddens me to see the direction El Jefe is taking the Angels. Its [sic] all about the pesos for him and to have his pendejo, Alvarado say [his quote]."

Congrats, Pedro, on another great scoop. Who knows? Maybe Arte will hate you as much as he did the great TJ Simers...HA!

Seriously, with everything that's happened this year in Anaheim, how could you knowingly put money into their pockets? Of course the rich ppl that Alvarado is talking about probably feel the exact same way he does, so I guess that answers my own question, but damn. What a disgrace they're becoming over there.

 

[mastermind]

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2015/06/anaheim_angels_poor_fans.php



Seriously, with everything that's happened this year in Anaheim, how could you knowingly put money into their pockets? Of course the rich ppl that Alvarado is talking about probably feel the exact same way he does, so I guess that answers my own question, but damn. What a disgrace they're becoming over there.

its Orange County, one of the most richest and conservative in the country. Those people probably agree with dude.