Can any Angels fan explain to me what’s up with that team seriously?

[Saint1]

As an Angels fan I have no explanation Arte Moreno ran the team so well in the 00s but ever since 2010 it's been downhill. Trout and Ohtani have been amazing but every single other move they've made in that timeframe has been terrible.



Angels have a very strong fanbase. From 2003 to 2019 they were top 5 every season in AL attendance with most of those years being top 3. Now this year they're back in the top 3.

It's a nice stadium. Easy to get to drivingwise. The OC fans are always gonna support them.
I don't pay too much attention to the Front Office but it just seems like the Moreno family doesn't really care about winning. Just making money.

 

[MenacingMonk]

Moreno just isn't a good owner.

Team been shyt for years. I still don't know how they dropped the ball when they had Vlady, Pujols, Weaver, Trout and Ohtani on your roster over the years.

 

[10bandz]

It's a nice stadium. Easy to get to drivingwise. The OC fans are always gonna support them.
I don't pay too much attention to the Front Office but it just seems like the Moreno family doesn't really care about winning. Just making money.

Yeah man Moreno changed. When he first bought the team he instantly raised payroll, grabbed vladdy and Colon and made us a consistent division winner. We had a culture that Mike Scoscia created and Arte supported. Somewhere along the line he just stopped caring and tried to sign whatever slugger was available. Mike Scoscia was the lifeblood of this shyt they should’ve never went against his philosophy

 

[10bandz]

Moreno just isn't a good owner.

Team been shyt for years. I still don't know how they dropped the ball when they had Vlady, Pujols, Weaver, Trout and Ohtani on your roster over the years.

They didn’t really drop the ball with Vladdy and Weaver. We won the division damn near every year with them. Couldn’t get to the WS but I wouldn’t say he dropped the ball. We were a consistent winner and the 00s are the best decade in Angels history easily. We were beating the Dodgers in attendance a good number of those year iirc

 

[MenacingMonk]

They didn’t really drop the ball with Vladdy and Weaver. We won the division damn near every year with them. Couldn’t get to the WS but I wouldn’t say he dropped the ball. We were a consistent winner and the 00s are the best decade in Angels history easily. We were beating the Dodgers in attendance a good number of those year iirc

Oh yeah, they did well in the 00s, but the 2010s were mostly a miss. Still, it's always about winning a title and they couldn't do it post '02.

 

[10bandz]

Oh yeah, they did well in the 00s, but the 2010s were mostly a miss. Still, it's always about winning a title and they couldn't do it post '02.

We would’ve won in 09 but Arod ended our chapter

 

[ROFL_GUY]

Are there Angels fans? Like at all?

Lived in LA almost 30yrs.

Only fans they have are fairweather pretentious Cacs in OC.
They less than the clippers in stature.
The ca hat tho!

 

[Th3Birdman]

It's a nice stadium. Easy to get to drivingwise. The OC fans are always gonna support them.
I don't pay too much attention to the Front Office but it just seems like the Moreno family doesn't really care about winning. Just making money.

I mean, yeah and no.

It's easy, in that it's not as awful to get to like Dodger Stadium is, considering where it is.

But once you get past Hester (going East on Katella), you might as well bring reading material, cause the line is cancerous, and the weak ass directing Anaheim PD does is worthless.

 

[Rob's al Ghul]

Yeah...even the Junior-Johnson M's made an ALCS.

At least the Angels' City Connects are fire (right behind Southside and the Cherry Blossoms).

 

[Jcotton1]

I've seen Trout play. I wanna see Ohtani live.

 

[chineebai]

Dumbass owner whom everyone hates
shytty gm
shytty bottom tier farm
Terrible contracts for aging players
Injured players
shytty hitters, damn near ranked last
shytty coach that replaced an already kind of borderline decent maddon
Bottom tier bullpen

Just overall shyt culture, team, hitting, coaching, gm, owner, farm. Only bright spot is that their starting pitching is pretty good especially with ohtani detmers and syndergased

 

[Yessir_Araphat]

Those years they had Pujols, Trout, and the drug addict cac (can’t remember his name) n ain’t do shyt

 

[RubioTheCruel]

Those years they had Pujols, Trout, and the drug addict cac (can’t remember his name) n ain’t do shyt

Josh Hamilton

 

[RubioTheCruel]

Dumbass owner whom everyone hates
shytty gm
shytty bottom tier farm
Terrible contracts for aging players
Injured players
shytty hitters, damn near ranked last
shytty coach that replaced an already kind of borderline decent maddon
Bottom tier bullpen

Just overall shyt culture, team, hitting, coaching, gm, owner, farm. Only bright spot is that their starting pitching is pretty good especially with ohtani detmers and syndergased

They just traded Syndergaard to Philly

I haven’t watched much baseball recently but whenever you see a team that’s consistently bad, it’s usually their defense and pitching that lets them down. Two great players can’t fix that(unless you trade both to shore up your deficiencies, but that’s another story).

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Imagine Jordan and Pippen averaging 32, 5, 4 and 27, 10, 9 and the bulls going 30-52

Closest I can think of is the 1960s Lakers.

1961: Baylor 35-20-5, West 18-8-4, won just 36 games
1964: Baylor 25-12-4, West 29-6-6, won just 42 games
1967: Baylor 27-13-3, West 29-6-7, won just 36 games

Those guys deadass had a claim to the greatest guard and greatest forward in history at that point, both 1st-team All-NBA, and they were putting up win totals like that.

It ain't the same thing though cause in-between those shytty years they made the Finals 4 times.