****, I thought they won 1 game in 2014.

I was wrong. LMAO

Who the **** are you? Why are you here?

ANSWER ME

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Yeah, it's actually pretty impressive how badly they still suck despite having had TWO transcendent talents for a while.

Three depending on how you view Pujols’ tenure.

I think there's really only one way to view AP's time in Anaheim.

Disastrous.

Eh, he was still a productive and good hitter (though not at the same level he was in St. Louis) from 2012-2016.

Eh, he was pretty much washed by the end of '15 and fought injuries even in one of those seasons.

Guy signed a 10 year deal that made him among the highest paid players in baseball every season of the deal and gave the Angels 3 truly good seasons over that span.

For him to do what he did in 2022 in a part-time role in STL after 6-7 years of truly awful baseball tells me that it wasn't just an age issue - it was an Anaheim issue as well.

There's really nothing positive to say about that contract if you're an Angels fan.

I think his production in Anaheim turns out differently if he had switched to DH sooner full-time (his foot problems in Anaheim started in 2013- he didn't start DHing pretty much full-time until 2017). I think he would've had a similar decline in St. Louis if he had played the field extensively.

I also forgot Josh Hamilton was an Angel before relapsing.

He had feet problems as far back as 2004, IIRC.

I was actually surprised the Cardinals were as aggressive as they were in trying to sign him in 2012. I just didn't see any way he could stay in the field into his mid 30s. His lower half was a problem for years.

You are on thin ice, DJLN. Thin ice. You're a Cardinals fan bro.

Not as impressive as your complete ignorance about how the sport of baseball works, Mr. Turtle.

Hot take:

The 2014 Royals' greatest accomplishment was snuffing out the best hope Mike Trout ever had at winning anything worth a shit in the postseason. :rockon:

hotter take: real baseball fans don't care as much about a contrived postseason tournament as you think. It doesn't crown a champion at all. The course of a 162 game regular season does that. The baseball playoffs are meaningless to me as an Angels fan and a fan of baseball as its played in the US. I don't care about the donkament. The donkament has different rules that don't apply to regular games of baseball, such as in the donkament, you get so many off-days, you only need two starting pitchers. That's not baseball. In baseball, you need a 5-man rotation at minimum (the Angels, to accommodate Ohtani, use a 6-man rotation).

You're the one that focuses so much on donkaments. It's fine for football but it doesn't fit baseball at all. I don't even watch the baseball postseason. When the fantasy baseball season ends, so does baseball to your boy VK.

Hottest take: you should kill yourself today