Anthony Rendon attempts to hit a fan..

[Mecca]

Wow! Uncool! pic.twitter.com/FNRFWL46A0

— PetrosAndMoneyShow (@PetrosAndMoney) March 31, 2023

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Originally Posted by Rams Fan

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. Number 1 is Naked Gun

[Vladimir_Kyrilytch]

Nah, 2002 was it. That was the year every A's fan told me how great the A's were. That was the year that in September, I told my summer job that I won't be able to work next week cause I'm going to Oakland to watch the Angels play the A's. My boss said she would fire me if I didn't come back into work, but she didn't realize I was only there to make beer money for my next term at Oregon State University. Beer isn't free.

That lady thought I was trying to make a career out of Subway sandwich making and that she'd put my career to a stop if I went to Oakland. Poor lady.

So there I was, in a car with my buddies, headed to Oakland. We had good seats. There were Raiders fans all around us. Near the end of the game, an Angel victory over the A's that Troy Percival closed out with 100 mph fastballs that Eric Chavez had no chance against, some A's fan that was also a Raiders fan called me out.

"HEY ANGELS FAN, WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WON A WORLD SERIES?", he said.

"THIS ****ING YEAR, BITCH" was my response. It was 2002. The Angels did win the World Series that year. The A's would have to settle for their Michael Lewis book and Bradd Pitt. I was right all along.

As I always am.

[mdchiefsfan]

Originally Posted by Vladimir_Kyrilytch

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.

Originally Posted by Superturtle

[Vladimir_Kyrilytch]

Originally Posted by Rams Fan

If costs were equal, would you rather be attending an Angels victory over the A’s in May or an Angels Game 7 WS win in October?

Given traffic, give me the regular season game.

[Eureka]

Originally Posted by Vladimir_Kyrilytch

Nah, 2002 was it. That was the year every A's fan told me how great the A's were. That was the year that in September, I told my summer job that I won't be able to work next week cause I'm going to Oakland to watch the Angels play the A's. My boss said she would fire me if I didn't come back into work, but she didn't realize I was only there to make beer money for my next term at Oregon State University. Beer isn't free.

That lady thought I was trying to make a career out of Subway sandwich making and that she'd put my career to a stop if I went to Oakland. Poor lady.

So there I was, in a car with my buddies, headed to Oakland. We had good seats. There were Raiders fans all around us. Near the end of the game, an Angel victory over the A's that Troy Percival closed out with 100 mph fastballs that Eric Chavez had no chance against, some A's fan that was also a Raiders fan called me out.

"HEY ANGELS FAN, WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WON A WORLD SERIES?", he said.

"THIS ****ING YEAR, BITCH" was my response. It was 2002. The Angels did win the World Series that year. The A's would have to settle for their Michael Lewis book and Bradd Pitt. I was right all along.

As I always am.

Probably the best Baseball movie ever made?

[Vladimir_Kyrilytch]

Originally Posted by Eureka

Probably the best Baseball movie ever made?

I liked it. I wont tell you it was a bad movie. It did make sabermetrics seem really dumb.

But best ever? Rookie of the Year about the kid that becomes a star pitcher for the Cubs after his broken arm heals weird, that's number one.

Number two is an independent film called Sugar, about a Cuban trying to make the pros.

Number three is Field of Dreams.

So Moneyball is four at best. That's high praise cause we can't forget The Natural.

In fact, Moneyball is 5 bro. You cant rank it higher than the Natural. A strong 5 though for sure.

[Eureka]

Originally Posted by Vladimir_Kyrilytch

I liked it. I wont tell you it was a bad movie. It did make sabermetrics seem really dumb.

But best ever? Rookie of the Year about the kid that becomes a star pitcher for the Cubs after his broken arm heals weird, that's number one.

Number two is an independent film called Sugar, about a Cuban trying to make the pros.

Number three is Field of Dreams.

So Moneyball is four at best. That's high praise cause we can't forget The Natural.

In fact, Moneyball is 5 bro. You cant rank it higher than the Natural. A strong 5 though for sure.

Those are all great movies as well. I'd add The Natural, For Love of the Game, and The Rookie. Now that I think about it seems there was a lot of great Baseball films.

But obviously your opinion is bias when it comes to rating Moneyball .

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by CapsLockKey

4. Enrico Palatzo preventing Reggie Jackson from killing the queen of England.

Worst decision? Naming the team “The the angels angels”

[Vladimir_Kyrilytch]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

Worst decision? Naming the team “The the angels angels”

I think the Angels Angels is a cool name. Los Angeles means of the Angels, literally paying homage to Angelic biblical Angels which are Godly things that are 25 feet tall and sound like thunder when they talk and their feet are like burnished bronze. They arent women with wings like the cartoons. The biblical version of an Angel is a scary thing indeed.

Of the Angels Dodgers is a worse name by far. A dodger refers to a Trolley Dodger, which refers to trolleys, a form of public transportation that replaced horses in New York. Evidently when trolleys were first introduced in Brooklyn, people were so unused to these things being in the streets cause they were huge machines, not horses. A horse won't run into you if it can help it cause it has eyes and a brain, so it will walk around you. A trolley has no eyes and thus will run you over. A lot of deaths ensued from dumb New Yorkers in this manner. So it was common practice to step out onto the street and then remember these new trolley things dont move, and then have to "dodge" the trolley to avoid getting run over by it. I don't care what year it was, that proves how stupid New yorkers are. Theres your history of the Dodgers, a very local New York reference that makes no sense in sprawling LA whatsoever.

Aint no trollies in LA at all. Very few lakes for that matter also.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by Vladimir_Kyrilytch

Given traffic, give me the regular season game.

How about if you watch the ****ing games on a ****ing TV? You ever heard of that, dipshit?

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by Vladimir_Kyrilytch

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.

Oh you've got some kids do you?

Do you need to take your lithium?

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by Vladimir_Kyrilytch

Nah, 2002 was it. That was the year every A's fan told me how great the A's were. That was the year that in September, I told my summer job that I won't be able to work next week cause I'm going to Oakland to watch the Angels play the A's. My boss said she would fire me if I didn't come back into work, but she didn't realize I was only there to make beer money for my next term at Oregon State University. Beer isn't free.

That lady thought I was trying to make a career out of Subway sandwich making and that she'd put my career to a stop if I went to Oakland. Poor lady.

So there I was, in a car with my buddies, headed to Oakland. We had good seats. There were Raiders fans all around us. Near the end of the game, an Angel victory over the A's that Troy Percival closed out with 100 mph fastballs that Eric Chavez had no chance against, some A's fan that was also a Raiders fan called me out.

"HEY ANGELS FAN, WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WON A WORLD SERIES?", he said.

"THIS ****ING YEAR, BITCH" was my response. It was 2002. The Angels did win the World Series that year. The A's would have to settle for their Michael Lewis book and Bradd Pitt. I was right all along.

As I always am.

Garrett Anderson was a bad man.

[BWillie]

Well at least he didnt kill anybody. Josh Hamilton killed a fan.

[Vladimir_Kyrilytch]

Originally Posted by Pepe Silvia

Garrett Anderson was a bad man.

He was so money, pepe. Nice to see a fellow baseball connoisseur knows about the best of em. GA. He won the home run derby and all-star MVP in the same weekend.

Sabermoocians claim that clutch hitting isnt a thing. But GA was clutch. I was never more confident in a run when he was at bat with a man on second and two outs. Even Mike Trout would work a walk there. GA would gap a double and look bored doing it.

[Vladimir_Kyrilytch]

Originally Posted by Pablo

Oh you've got some kids do you?

Do you need to take your lithium?

I say a lot of things Mr. Howard the Duck. I'm on record here as both being an astronaut and a burger flipper at McD's. Of course I have kids and it wasn't that hard to find a sexual partner when internet dating became a thing. Nobody knows what I'm really all about. Bearcat might but thats a post of yesteryear and he didnt call me out and I dont think anyone really noticed. Maybe I teach history at a community college but out of the boredom of that life I make up things online like I'm crazy, just to cosplay as a wild person. I would do that. If anybody would do that, it would be me. I'm prescibed lithium after all. 1500mg a day, 900mg in the morning, 600mg at night. That's an aggressive but plausible dosage for the truly insane. As it goes.

You're a duck. A Eugene Oregon Phil Knight Duck. Our kind has never gotten along.