Anthony Rendon attempts to hit a fan..
 

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Fan probably deserved it.

I disagree, there are plenty of fans that could use a good beating.

He called Rendon a bitch...Rendon literally says did you call me a bitch while holding the guys shirt and tries to smack him...

That's not exactly ok.

LMAO Ohtani gave him a pretty good WTF face

Stupid move to flinch away. Just cost yourself cash!

Ohtani's probably had enough of this shit.

The Angels could fall into a pit full of titties and come out sucking their thumbs. That franchise gets EVERYTHING wrong.

And Rendon is one of those poor decisions.

Its going to cost them Ohtani and waste Trout's career. The entire franchise should just be embarrassed at this point.

Probably best to just ignore heckling

What a thinned skinned little bitch. I guess the fan was right.

Rendon's actions confirmed that he's a bitch.

So weird. Looked for a minute like the guy he's with is trying to push him down into reach, but after rewatching I think Rendon must have called him over to get him within grabbing distance and his buddy was just kinda there for moral support.

Don’t follow baseball, but I’m sure the Raider fan had it coming.

That’s crazy. If he did it’d be the first thing he’s hit in a few seasons.

You're a pro athlete, act like it. I'm not condoning the fan calling him a bitch, but it comes with the territory.

Nubian Nut must be an Angel’s fan or Rendon’s gay lover. He’s downvoting every post calling Rendon a bitch.

If that baseball player would have done that to me I would have ended his career

Oh my. The wild thing about this is that Rendon has to be one of the most laid back, least emotional players I've ever seen. To the point I've been known to question how much he really even cares or tries. Seems like the slightest little soreness puts him on the IL for months at a time, but the thing is, it usually results in a surgery so that's pretty good proof that they are real injuries. Perhaps that rep for being soft is what the fan was pointing out.

Now he's gonna be suspended for a while, and the nominal backup Brandon Drury was already in the starting lineup at 1B due to the starter there, Jared Walsh, starting the season on the IL for a mysterious condition described as "headaches and insomnia". The Angels find a new way each season to become a trainwreck and it comes earlier in the season each year it seems like.

They didn't waste Mike Trout though. Angel fans have been able to watch him his whole career. That's not nothing.

How do you see stuff like that?

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Nubian Nut occasionally goes on downvoting sprees. I have no idea who he is as I don't recall any posts of his, nor can I ever figure any real rhyme or reason to them.

Feels like it's sorta like a cat licking its asshole - he does it because he can and he's bored.

:shrug:

EDIT: Seems he hasn't posted here in literally over a decade (last post in 2010) yet he lurks and downvotes. Gotta be a mult of some sort.

His last post, made in 2010.

He's a bigger bitch than Rendon.

Angel fans call Anthony Rendon "Anthony Tendon" and "Anthony Rendone". He's far more beloved in DC than Anaheim, much as Pujols is far better liked in St Louis than Anaheim.

I don't know what his deal was with this - the Angels were on the road, in Oakland California no less! I would imagine you get called a bitch even by the people working at the hotel you're staying at there. Oakland isn't known for its gentility, and that's a division rival the Angels have been trading blows with since 2002, the season in which the A's had that long winning streak that resulted in a best-selling book and award-winning movie about them....but the year the Angels won the World Series, not them.

People are woke now. They won't care if he gets his D sucked by another dude.

I bite tho

They did lose to the As so....

Yeah that's gonna be a week off.

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It’s hilarious reading all of the comments that the fan just got what he deserved. I love that people act like there was some sort of era that it was OK to just assault people for name calling. If you can’t handle being called a bitch by a random stranger, chances are you’re a bitch.

I wish a player would grab my shirt like that. Smack his stupid melon right then. Punk ass.

WTH? Did they move the George Brett statue to another stadium?

BTW, was Rendon in car A or car B?

Rendon has been trash since he sold out and went to the Angels

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Only thing the Angels may ever win would be a fight with a fan.

Just because the Angels changed their city name to LA doesn't mean they play in LA or anywhere near it. Nobody in Orange County considers themselves to live in LA and just to drive between the two, given the traffic, is a NIGHTMARE. It's an all day thing.

Orange County (Angel Stadium) is the more affluent, less gang-affiliated, family-friendly baseball stadium. I'm actually an Angel fan, Lew, originally from Mission Viejo. My parents took me to Angel games growing up because it was a fun safe family friendly type of outing. They wouldn't even CONSIDER taking me to a Dodger game because of the high chance of fistfights, gang violence, robbery, etc. associated with that.

You're inappropriately conflating the two my friend.

He doesn't mean Angels fans are violent. He meant Angels suck and will never win anything

Oh, well, in that case he's wrong about that too.

Bingo.

Thanks for the lengthy response no one will read though, Vlad!

Definitely looks like Rendon was at least responding to the right heckler. Obviously Rendon needs to be smarter, but the fan did have it coming.

They’ve won one playoff game with Trout.

Hopefully Rendon gets a career ending injury next time.

No they haven’t

ROFL

He is not.

The Angels suck and despite two truly generational ballplayers (and a giant payroll) they can't even manage to play .500 ball.

That franchise should be contracted.

They haven't led a single inning with Mike Trout.

****, 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

Again, so what? You assume that the point of baseball is to win the contrived, everybody gets in stupid donkament they put on after the season ends. You assumed wrong. Not all baseball fans care about that. The beauty of baseball is in the game itself. When I go to an Angels game, and the Angels win cause Mike Trout hit a 3 run homer, I don't make a point to tell my kids that this was all meaningless cause come fall, there is a good chance that the Angels won't fare well in the tournament.

Me and my kids enjoy the win that we saw, and we enjoy the homer that Mike Trout hit. You're easily pursuaded to nonsense if you think that was a "waste of time" because come the fall, when the donkament started, the Angels didn't win the donkament. My kids on that night when I took them to an Angel game to see Mike Trout and Ohtani play? They weren't sweating 5 months in the future about the donkament. That's shit that football fans that have only a passing familiarity with baseball would say. Such as yourself, DJLN.

You can’t be serious. Just admit the Angels are a loser organization that have wasted Ohtani and Trout.

I'm about to if the Royals keep getting shut out. I'm in 11 fantasy leagues Mr. Rabbi and only 2 of them are for fun. The rest are for investment purposes. I have players like Salvy and Witt Jr. and MJ and Massey and they are doing ****ing nothing and some of them have already been benched and replaced by garbage.

What optimism does a Royal bettor like me even have anymore?

Of course they won’t fare well in the tournament. They rarely make it in!

Your definition of "waste" is spurious and stupid. Did the Chiefs "waste" Tony Gonzalez? Did the Chiefs "waste" Jamaal Charles? Did the Chiefs "waste" Will Shields? If the Chiefs had had a complete scrub in their positions, they wouldn't have won any fewer Super Bowls. So the Chiefs were wasteful and we Chiefs fans got zero out of them being Chiefs at all?

Did the Cubs "waste" Ernie Banks?

You're obsessed with a postseason donkament that doesn't mean anything.

No championships are awarded for regular season success or individual player performances.

The Angels are an abomination and sorry ass excuse of a Mickey Mouse franchise.

That’s like me as a Timberwolves fan saying the postseason doesn’t matter because I was in attendance when Kevin Love went 30-for-30

Yes to every question in this post.

The answer to every single one of your questions is yes.

I promise if you asked all of those players if they’d trade a title for their individual records they would.

It’s not a “donkament”.

What a waste of oxygen.

It's hilarious that VK denigrates the tournament because "everybody gets in" when the Angels have managed to get in once in 10 years. Lawl.

The Chiefs certainly wasted Jamaal Charles

As a DC guy and Nats fan, I’ll say that Rendon was known here as a pretty cool guy, a calm character, nice guy. To me it looked like he was just swiping at the guy’s cap. I’ll give Rendon the benefit of the doubt.

The Angels have a 0-3 playoff record since Trout staked his claim as one of the greatest players to ever play the game. And now they have Ohtani and the only reason he isn't MVP every year is because the Angels ****ing suck and dont make the playoffs. Imagine thinking those 2 players aren't being wasted on that team.

The three greatest accomplishments in Angels history are:
1. 2002 WS
2. Having a historic collapse in 1995 before losing a play-in tiebreaker to the Mariners in the AL West
3. Being featured in a movie by their then Disney owners in Angels in the Outfield

What a poverty franchise.

Wrong. And a weak attempt at debate on your part if I'm being honest. Look up how the EPL, the most popular regular season sport in the world, determines champions. You won't find a donkament there, will you?

I fundamentally disagree with this. The value in having Jamaal Charles on the Chiefs was in seeing Jamaal Charles do Jamaal Charles things wearing a Chiefs uniform. It didn't end up with him getting a Super Bowl bonus but I don't root for people's incomes, I root for sporting event outcomes. I did find that Jamaal Charles provided value, pure entertainment value which is what sports are for, and I disagree that since he never got a Super Bowl payout that his presence in the organization was a "waste of time".

Fans should be able to say whatever they want, within reason to opposing professional players. They paid the ticket and it is for entertainment purposes. Racial slurs or going after players family is where the line gets drawn.

You bring up the one exception to the rule, which isn't in America, BTW, while also failing to mention that Champions League use a tournament to determine a champion.

What a loser mentality from you.

Tournament format is the worst way to crown any champion. Its just exciting.