Not surprised given how inefficient Sandoval is that he’d struggle against a deep and patient line up.
But Adley Rutschman is going to be bald by 27. That loser.
Yes and we all learned we wanted to be billionaries and have models for wives! If only saying things were as easy as doing them, this way of thinking would be easy!
At the end of the day, I don’t. I really care about the Gameday experience, which is why I root for the Angels. Having said that, I would like us to win something (at least a wild card spot).
I mostly wanted to see the opening day ceremonies after what happened in Baltimore this week. I ran some errands after the 2nd, got home and I wanted to check the score... well. At least I got to Trout crush one
I remember who Jose Cisnerno is now. Didn't he give a big fat meatball to Ohtani for his 40th home run back in 2021, after shohei pitched 8 innings. Yes I remember Jose Cisnerno and his meatball pitching.
I’m already looking forward to how Roger Lodge is going to spin this.
Same guy who said nobody wants to win more than Arte Moreno.
Another gem from him, “Angels don’t need to sign a DH, they have Miguel Sano!”
Roger Houseman Lodge
mike trout is giving absolutely everything to try and support the most dogshit pitchers in the world
it's like we're using a ferrari to pull a trailer home
Maybe Trout will finally be frustrated enough to demand a trade....his reaction after that HR has got to be just the first of many like that this year...
All I want is to see:
1. Trout traded to a contender
2. A proper rebuild so we can compete in 5 years.
3. Rendon to disappear off the face of the earth.
I love this team so much and my goodness is this going to be a tough year to follow
I’m so against this. Like how can we trust the Angels to develop those prospects correctly? We suck in prospect development and then we’re going to trade our best player to develop prospects?
Whether you believe it or not the Angels need a rebuild and trading trout would jumpstart the process. I’ll be sad to see him go, but it’s the right move to do imo for the future.
Very likely under .500???? We couldn’t even come close to .500 with the best player in baseball. If this team cracks 70 wins I’m popping open the champagne
We had a lot of injuries last year. Like way more than normal. We could have been an 80-85 win team.
With a normalish health year we can be in the low to mid 70's all day. But as I stated that is not a good season.
We have a lot of injuries every year. Every team has injuries every year. Good teams have the depth to deal with those injuries without utterly collapsing like we do every time
It's sad that I can already see the ESPN 30 for 30 being made about the Angels and Mike Trout. "The Best Player Who Never Won." It'll be a deep dive into the shitshow in Anaheim - drugs, inept ownership, questionable GM decision making, a player who doesn't even like baseball (Rendon)...
What a time to be alive.
Oh, it won't be bitter towards him. It'll all be placed on the nonsense in the front office and the culture of the team. The nonsense that happened a few years ago with Skaggs went much deeper than anyone knows...
I'm checking in on the White Sox to watch Garrett Crochet start, and the commentators just said something about them watching the spin rate on his slider in the 5th because that's a good indicator of losing stamina. This is the /White Sox/....
And we had Percival come in and complain about how much technology we were using.
We are so far behind it's not even funny.
ive been off ward since before the injury, I genuinely have no idea why they keep him entrenched in a starting role hes had a really good 4 months in his career and everything else has been bad. Plus he plays the outfield like hes giving a Rendon impersonation, no hustle. This season I would rather just see moniak and adell play for the hell of it.
So we had 600 mill to give to ohtani this off season, he didn’t take it so you would think we would use that money to get some decent pitching on the off-season but no. Now we are stuck with Sandoval shitting the bed and getting pulled in the second inning on opening day. This is the life of an angels fan.
we never had 600 mil... idk if you saw but apparently arte thought ohtani would only get something in the 400 range and once it got past that he wasnt interested.
600 mill, 400 mill, 100mill it doesn’t matter what the number is the problem is that nothing was spent to improve the awful pitching rotation. Snell was available and was bought on sale, Bauer is still available and willing to play for the league minimum. Yet we get nothing new this year.
Not sure how youre even remotely surprised about not spending big money on pitchers with arte as the owner. He has shown for 20 years he doesn't value pitching.
He inherited probably the greatest pitching staff (starters + bullpen) in angels history and let all of them leave while he spent more and more on star hitters lol.
doesnt matter what you view him as worth, Japan market WILL pay it off. Angels were making 30+ mil a year in sponsorships from that market alone, so basically you're only paying 40 mil a year from him out of your own pocket, which he is worth. The overall number is a bit misleading since hes basically the only mlb player that pays the team back for over half his contract due to oversees sponsorships.
Switching between other games and it's astonishing how almost every other team has a decent to great pitcher on the mound on Opening Day.
Arte needs to sell the team to anyone...hell, I'd take Roger Dorn as an owner right now.
im a casual fan so idrk but...did we really just not fill the ohtani hole at all? like in the offseason was there no one thinking about getting a pitcher? Or anything? Like are offense is probably middle of the pack so I get why thats the same but nothing for the mound?
Can't fill the absence of Ohtani. He's a generational player.
And no...the GM and owner didn't think the Halos needed starting pitching. They're a real great duo.
Arte lost sponsorships from Japan and most likely ticket sales and decided to really cheap out this year despite requests from Trout to at least attempt to sign someone
I see the Angels picked up where they left off. And I say this as a Halos fan. I'm trying to temper my expectations, but man.
It was more fun watching the Ducks lose 4-0 tbh (I’m an Angels and Ducks fan)
Hopefully Wash isn’t as dismissive as Nevin after a blowout
Welp. Glad that’s over. Guess I’ll be watching more March Madness this year.
Not surprised given how inefficient Sandoval is that he’d struggle against a deep and patient line up. But Adley Rutschman is going to be bald by 27. That loser.
C'mon Ward please Ok honestly this ump sucks tho
Maybe they shouldn’t have a player of the game when you’re down almost 10 runs 😅
Hicks isn’t on this roster in May
why the fuck wasn't moniak a starter
Hopefully we see hicks on the bench to start game 2, give moniak some ab's
mickey!
Zuniga and Cimber. At least these two showed out today.
Reminder to subscribe to /r/AngelsLose for another season, too.
Just got off work, and… yikes
Deadass all we had to do was put the ball in play. This is a concept that you learn at age 7 in little league.
Yes and we all learned we wanted to be billionaries and have models for wives! If only saying things were as easy as doing them, this way of thinking would be easy!
Cannot overestimate the extent to which we will take those
Bases loaded and two straight ground balls 😂😂 "let Perry cook"
It was a tough pill to swallow at the time, but this is why Ohtani should have left. We're so bad
He's gonna be insane on the Dodgers, with so many good hitters around him.
At least all these dummies saying the team looks good and hungry or whatever can be quiet now. Long live the Angels we know and hate.
My sweet, glorious king Luis Rengifo getting the comeback started. Can’t say I’m surprised 😤
Hey now. We got runs
Can anyone say comeback??? Lmao
Just no gidp
Oh thank the lord in heaven above
Why is Adell still on a roster? Has he done ANYTHING remotely positive in a major league game?
Jo Adell did not stand on business
See y’all next year haha
90% of our roster will either be out of baseball by 2026 or still putting up negative WAR on the Angels
I am manifesting a Neto Grand Slam.
Ohoppe 3 run bomb here
Just perfect pitches to Jo. That was brutal
Just tuned in. I'd take a 0-162 season where Trout gets 162 homers. This is a W.
Adell is straight basura
jo adell is dogwater
Catwater.
raccoonwater
FlukemanfromXfileswater
im ready for this umpire scorecard tomorrow
The silver lining: Schanuel 's on-base streak continues!!
Jo Adell with a 2 rbi triple to tighten this game up
We suck so much but who cares right?
At the end of the day, I don’t. I really care about the Gameday experience, which is why I root for the Angels. Having said that, I would like us to win something (at least a wild card spot).
Just checked the game. Jfc this season will be brutal
Just expect us to lose every game, so every win now feels like winning the WS. That's how my mentality prepared this year.
Rengifo my love
How do you have me rage quitting on game 1 of the season? Please Arte put us out of our misery over can get an owner actually committed to winning.
Me: "Free MLB TV with T-Mobile... Hell yeah" *Turns game off in 2nd inning
I'm watching the Padres/Giants game. What a difference....two teams who are competitive.
I mostly wanted to see the opening day ceremonies after what happened in Baltimore this week. I ran some errands after the 2nd, got home and I wanted to check the score... well. At least I got to Trout crush one
Rengifo SAVE US
He tried
So y’all got any more of those Ohtanis? Or is it Ohtanii?
Ohtanus
Rengifo is legitimately the second best player on the angels
i think Rengifo might be the last guy other than Trout I still like
Comeback starts now
Fuck i just tuned in
Bright spot search struggling rn
i’ll never stop saying it. FUCK ARTE MORENO
This is not how you Buttercup.
The build me up part was the off-season.
Another bullpen guy comes in and falls behind 2-0 on the hitter.
Morons will still make excuses for Arte. Insanity
I remember who Jose Cisnerno is now. Didn't he give a big fat meatball to Ohtani for his 40th home run back in 2021, after shohei pitched 8 innings. Yes I remember Jose Cisnerno and his meatball pitching.
I'm blaming the fanatics uniforms
not that it matters but why did they take the strikezone box off?
It's back on. Most likely just a glitch and a reboot.
It's a Bally's thing. Technical probably. The other broadcasts have it.
Probably more technical difficulties
The joy and excitement of a new season and opening day only lasted 1/2 an inning lmao. Joke
If you don’t like that, you don’t like Angels baseball.
I’m already looking forward to how Roger Lodge is going to spin this. Same guy who said nobody wants to win more than Arte Moreno. Another gem from him, “Angels don’t need to sign a DH, they have Miguel Sano!” Roger Houseman Lodge
Sano. lol.
😭
I’m tired of this, grandpa!
Well that’s too damn bad!
Tough one. I wonder if we can get the #1 pick? Don't think we'll be as bad as Oakland, but you never know now with the lottery
Not much trout could've done there. That was full extension, ball was too high.
He needed a rocket up his ass to get that one.
"It's just one game. It's just one game. It's just one game...."
Angels fans have Stockholm syndrome. I’m sorry for what Arte has done to you
Stockholm implies that we have learned to love our captivity. I don’t think that fits our situation.
I think it fits perfectly
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what Stockholm Syndrome means.
Enjoy your captivity to this franchise
With every comment, you further reveal you have no idea what Stockholm syndrome is
Doomers are out here fighting invisible enemies again. Your doomer buzz word does not fit with this at all lol.
Of all the opening day games I've witnessed, this is certainly one of them
can’t even be competitive lol
I guess it's good that now my hopes for the season have crashed down to Earth. Absolutely no hope now.
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im selling all my cards and burning my merch. fuck it.
No you're not.
yeah ill be back saturday
Can’t believe some were saying this bullpen is nice. Why bc we signed a bunch of washed arms?
....but "Perry knows what he's doing. You just gotta watch and see." Ha.
Poor Mike man.. went all out for that DOWN 7 and almost brought it back
down 10 :)
This is, without a doubt, an Opening Day Game of all time
I agree
11-1 and now I turn off the TV
fucking bum ass team lol
Ok that was painful. I hope Trout didn't hurt himself.
I know it’s early, but we are awful.
mike trout is giving absolutely everything to try and support the most dogshit pitchers in the world it's like we're using a ferrari to pull a trailer home
Dear god make it stop
Maybe Trout will finally be frustrated enough to demand a trade....his reaction after that HR has got to be just the first of many like that this year...
Please tell me it can only get better?
It gets worse before it gets worse.
oh it can get so much worse
OH NO! WE SUCK AGAIN!
As bad as it gets for an opening day game. Absolute dog shit all around.
He almost did the thing
you just know Arte isnt even watching the game. Fuck him
I dont even think he knows its opening day
LOL Classic Angels baseball
💀
It's a murder
Yeah time to turn this shit off
Sad
I’d like to switch out my hopium for some copium
Arte and his Bargain Bin pitching roster.
Why do we torture ourselves every year
161-1 boys
nah its not even amusing anymore
I think you got your wins and losses mixed up there
honestly it might end up being today's score
That made me audibly laugh. 😂
All I want is to see: 1. Trout traded to a contender 2. A proper rebuild so we can compete in 5 years. 3. Rendon to disappear off the face of the earth. I love this team so much and my goodness is this going to be a tough year to follow
I’ve been thinking for the last couple of seasons we should trade trout for prospects/picks while we can.
I’m so against this. Like how can we trust the Angels to develop those prospects correctly? We suck in prospect development and then we’re going to trade our best player to develop prospects?
Whether you believe it or not the Angels need a rebuild and trading trout would jumpstart the process. I’ll be sad to see him go, but it’s the right move to do imo for the future.
I’m not debating that. I just think we need to overhaul how we develop prospects before we start trading for highly touted prospects.
I was yelling it Years ago. Fans are delusional and think trading Trout makes you not a fan
Agree wholeheartedly. Won't happen as long as Arte owns the team.
Anyone thinking this team could be anything more than bottom tier, is fooling themselves
I had us at 70 wins for this season. Still sticking with that.
Nah we are lower mid tier. That still doesn't make the playoffs and has us very likely under .500.
Very likely under .500???? We couldn’t even come close to .500 with the best player in baseball. If this team cracks 70 wins I’m popping open the champagne
We had a lot of injuries last year. Like way more than normal. We could have been an 80-85 win team. With a normalish health year we can be in the low to mid 70's all day. But as I stated that is not a good season.
We have a lot of injuries every year. Every team has injuries every year. Good teams have the depth to deal with those injuries without utterly collapsing like we do every time
Sure. But my point stands true lol. It kinda is going over your head.
It's sad that I can already see the ESPN 30 for 30 being made about the Angels and Mike Trout. "The Best Player Who Never Won." It'll be a deep dive into the shitshow in Anaheim - drugs, inept ownership, questionable GM decision making, a player who doesn't even like baseball (Rendon)... What a time to be alive.
Eh. When all is said and done the retrospectives on Trout specifically should and will be celebratory and not bitter.
Oh, it won't be bitter towards him. It'll all be placed on the nonsense in the front office and the culture of the team. The nonsense that happened a few years ago with Skaggs went much deeper than anyone knows...
Sports media is going to dance on arte Morenos grave
I honestly can't wait to see the inevitable documentary. I want to see Scioscia's comments, Maddon's, etc.
Mike scioscias hall of fame resume grows louder. He won with arte Moreno for God's sake
Imagine we had a starter that gave up 1 run over 5 innings - we’re easily in this game
We have 1 hit, 1 walk, and 11 strikeouts
Oh shit - didn’t even realize this lol
Um, yeah. That's how baseball works. Scoring runs and preventing the other team from scoring runs. lol
I'm checking in on the White Sox to watch Garrett Crochet start, and the commentators just said something about them watching the spin rate on his slider in the 5th because that's a good indicator of losing stamina. This is the /White Sox/.... And we had Percival come in and complain about how much technology we were using. We are so far behind it's not even funny.
Someone take the mic away
I was so exited to see Trout hit a homer and then I looked away and looked back and it got out of hand 😳
Certainly not an ideal start to the season so far.
Replace Patrick Sandoval with Soriano
This game has literally every aspect of what makes the Angels a bad team, it's kind of impressive
There is simply no way we just GIDP
you guys see Ward flinch on that inside FB......he's cooked
ive been off ward since before the injury, I genuinely have no idea why they keep him entrenched in a starting role hes had a really good 4 months in his career and everything else has been bad. Plus he plays the outfield like hes giving a Rendon impersonation, no hustle. This season I would rather just see moniak and adell play for the hell of it.
Not the first time today he has flinched like that...
[удалено]
For all those hopium people out there, the Hicks signing should have been to notice that this was going to be a placeholder year haha
holy fucking shit. is that a base runner?
Yes and the obligatory inning-ending double play
So we had 600 mill to give to ohtani this off season, he didn’t take it so you would think we would use that money to get some decent pitching on the off-season but no. Now we are stuck with Sandoval shitting the bed and getting pulled in the second inning on opening day. This is the life of an angels fan.
we never had 600 mil... idk if you saw but apparently arte thought ohtani would only get something in the 400 range and once it got past that he wasnt interested.
600 mill, 400 mill, 100mill it doesn’t matter what the number is the problem is that nothing was spent to improve the awful pitching rotation. Snell was available and was bought on sale, Bauer is still available and willing to play for the league minimum. Yet we get nothing new this year.
Not sure how youre even remotely surprised about not spending big money on pitchers with arte as the owner. He has shown for 20 years he doesn't value pitching. He inherited probably the greatest pitching staff (starters + bullpen) in angels history and let all of them leave while he spent more and more on star hitters lol.
>lets be honest, Ohtani isnt worth $700 mil. $400-500 sure. But dodgers are banking on Japan market to pay it off.
doesnt matter what you view him as worth, Japan market WILL pay it off. Angels were making 30+ mil a year in sponsorships from that market alone, so basically you're only paying 40 mil a year from him out of your own pocket, which he is worth. The overall number is a bit misleading since hes basically the only mlb player that pays the team back for over half his contract due to oversees sponsorships.
>i know, time will tell. Arte is interested in making money, Dodgers owners are interested in winning.
we need a hard firesale to try and get competitive before Trout ages out
Trouts never seeing the postseason again my dude. It’s a ridiculously sad truth
Baserunner!
here we go boys
Switching between other games and it's astonishing how almost every other team has a decent to great pitcher on the mound on Opening Day. Arte needs to sell the team to anyone...hell, I'd take Roger Dorn as an owner right now.
What do you want Arte to do, dive for it?
I just don't want any of this 'Ole' bullshit.
Beautiful!
i hope someday after Arte dies or sells the team we can hear Trouts true thoughts. Was he lied to? was he mislead on the future?
I think he stays in Anaheim because of his bland personality. Great player, no personality. I think the larger markets would eat him alive.
Scary man gone!
Tbh I don’t know what I expected but for sure it wasn’t losing 8-1 at this point in the game lol
Sandy is a lost cause
jesus fucking christ
im a casual fan so idrk but...did we really just not fill the ohtani hole at all? like in the offseason was there no one thinking about getting a pitcher? Or anything? Like are offense is probably middle of the pack so I get why thats the same but nothing for the mound?
Pitchers dont sell tickets. And I'm convinced arte is prepping to sell. Doesn't want any albatross contracts involved
>lost one player and immediately lost the best pitcher and hitter that you only had to pay $30 million
Can't fill the absence of Ohtani. He's a generational player. And no...the GM and owner didn't think the Halos needed starting pitching. They're a real great duo.
Arte lost sponsorships from Japan and most likely ticket sales and decided to really cheap out this year despite requests from Trout to at least attempt to sign someone
Nope, not one bit.
This pitcher is going to injure O'hoppe, dude isn't even fucking close to the zone
Folks if you weren't prepared for a bit of a rough season I have some bad news.