Anthony Rendon removed from the game after re-aggravating right wrist injury

[gurn67]

11 hours ago, cals said:

Didn’t he fall into the railless visitors dugout on the first play of his first game with the Angels, injuring his ankle and never returning to top form?

He actually put up monster numbers from September 1999 through August 2000. 46 HR's and 129 RBI's

5 out of those 6 months, his OPS was over .900. I think that's more months over .900 OPS than Albert had in 55 months here.

Then, he ruptured a tendon in his arm in early September 2000 and never told anyone about it. He didn't want to have surgery, do rehab, and ruin his planned off season of banging strippers, and hos. He was pretty much known for leading the league in strip club visits.

He didn't notify the Angels of the injury until a month before he was supposed to show up for Spring Training. If he'd had the surgery in September 2000, he would have been ready for the 2001 season. Instead, he missed the 2001 season. Was a total pariah in the clubhouse because of his selfishness, and the Angels traded him to the first team that would take him off their hands.

[cals]

4 minutes ago, gurn67 said:

He actually put up monster numbers from September 1999 through August 2000. 46 HR's and 129 RBI's

5 out of those 6 months, his OPS was over .900. I think that's more months over .900 OPS than Albert had in 55 months here.

Then, he ruptured a tendon in his arm in early September 2000 and never told anyone about it. He didn't want to have surgery, do rehab, and ruin his planned off season of banging strippers, and hos. He was pretty much known for leading the league in strip club visits.

He didn't notify the Angels of the injury until a month before he was supposed to show up for Spring Training. If he'd had the surgery in September 2000, he would have been ready for the 2001 season. Instead, he missed the 2001 season. Was a total pariah in the clubhouse because of his selfishness, and the Angels traded him to the first team that would take him off their hands.

I also remember this to some extent.  Him blaming the Angels for “ruining his arm” and when Percival questioned both his leadership and the issue with the arm he responded by saying “who the f*ck is Troy Percival” and “I don’t see no flags flying over Anaheim”.  I think Percy had said that they didn’t need Vaughn and Erstad was the leader of the team.

[cals]

30 minutes ago, True Grich said:

It's classified 

You have a partner named Schlemmer?

[m0nkey]

10 hours ago, True Grich said:

The pitcher that Fred Lynn hit the grand slam off was Atlee Hammaker.  His daughter is married to Yan Gomes.

I feel like AO for posting that bit of trivia...

World series hero Yan Gomes?

[gurn67]

19 minutes ago, cals said:

I also remember this to some extent.  Him blaming the Angels for “ruining his arm” and when Percival questioned both his leadership and the issue with the arm he responded by saying “who the f*ck is Troy Percival” and “I don’t see no flags flying over Anaheim”.  I think Percy had said that they didn’t need Vaughn and Erstad was the leader of the team.

After the 2002 World Series, there were several Angels who took some verbal jabs at Vaughn (who never even played in a World Series) over that comment.

[Docwaukee]

7 hours ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

Who was supposed to be playing this much?

I'm just gonna go back to pretending that they could win 90 games 

[Angel Oracle]

3 hours ago, gurn67 said:

He actually put up monster numbers from September 1999 through August 2000. 46 HR's and 129 RBI's

5 out of those 6 months, his OPS was over .900. I think that's more months over .900 OPS than Albert had in 55 months here.

Then, he ruptured a tendon in his arm in early September 2000 and never told anyone about it. He didn't want to have surgery, do rehab, and ruin his planned off season of banging strippers, and hos. He was pretty much known for leading the league in strip club visits.

He didn't notify the Angels of the injury until a month before he was supposed to show up for Spring Training. If he'd had the surgery in September 2000, he would have been ready for the 2001 season. Instead, he missed the 2001 season. Was a total pariah in the clubhouse because of his selfishness, and the Angels traded him to the first team that would take him off their hands.

They did get a solid season out of Appier in 2002.