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Mike Trout 2013: Batting #1 .278/.333/.417/.750 Batting #2 .303/.377/.571/.948 Personally, I think Trout is going to be a future #3 hitter. An RBI and Runs threat, with some speed on the bases like Barroid.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/06/sports/la-sp-0407-angels-notes-20130407

Yeah, I'm behind on my buildings since I can't afford them yet. Have Skinners house and the hospital that need to get built. Only bright thing is I'm to the point that I don't check the game every hour of 15 minutes. Now it's 8-12 hour tasks.

That's just wrong. Like the Angels getting our hopes up, only to drop a deuce in our cereal.

I've never watched it. But I hear people rave over Doctor Who.

Lifetime pimps himself out for Applebees gift cards? I say D) Leave your wife at home, and pick up chicks at Applebees.

Bedard vs Blanton. This should be like a 15-12 game. So expect a pitching duel of 3-2.

Hate is too strong of a word and should be saved for tea kettles. But he is making it very hard to root for him.

Affordable Care Act's challenge: getting young adults enrolled But that aside. Here is a question that I was wondering about. Say a person doesn't get insurance, and pays the fine from the government or whatever it is. Now, he gets hurt, and goes to the ER. He has no insurance, and can't pay any of it. So what happens? Does the government reimburse the hospital? Or does the hospital have to eat it like they do now?

Shield was on there tied for 71.

While I haven't seen it since I was a kid, so it might have been a horrible show, just I didn't know better. (Probably still don't know better) But Little House on the Prairie?

The guy in the fourth row in the hat is wondering which of those girls he's going to hit on.

Also Star Trek is way too high at 33. It has a lot of nostalgia and stuff, but writing? Horrible. And come to think of it, part of the nostalgia and lore was because it was so horribly written and acted.

Part of the problem with him, and probably unfairly, is that he will always be compared to his minor league number potential. His number by itself for a secondbaseman is probably top 10 throughout this career. But it's disappointing because his minor league numbers made it look like he should be a top 3 secondbaseman if not top. Now saying all that, I don't think realistically Kendrick or Aybar get traded. First their contracts are really reasonable. But more importantly you go back to the last few years. If the Angels weren't going with them as their plan for the future, you wouldn't have traded all your middle infielders that you had a glut of. From Segura, to Rodriguez, to Amarista, and so forth.

IMO, Twilight Zone should be on top.

Writers Guild of America Lists the 101 Best Written TV Shows of All Time 1. The Sopranos 2. Seinfeld 3. The Twilight Zone 4. All in the Family 5. M*A*S*H 6. The Mary Tyler Moore Show 7. Mad Men 8. Cheers 9. The Wire 10. The West Wing 11. The Simpsons 12. I Love Lucy 13. Breaking Bad 14. The Dick Van Dyke Show 15. Hill Street Blues 16. Arrested Development 17. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart 18. Six Feet Under 19. Taxi 20. The Larry Sanders Show 21. 30 Rock 22. Friday Night Lights 23. Frasier 24. Friends 25. Saturday Night Live 26. The X-Files 27. Lost 28. ER 29. The Cosby Show 30. Curb Your Enthusiasm 31. The Honeymooners 32. Deadwood 33. Star Trek 34. Modern Family 35. Twin Peaks 36. NYPD Blue 37. The Carol Burnett Show 38. Battlestar Galactica (2005) 39. Sex & The City 40. Game of Thrones 41. The Bob Newhart Show and Your Show of Shows (tie) 43. Downton Abbey, Law & Order and Thirtysomething (tie) 46. Homicide: Life on the Street and St. Elsewhere (tie) 48. Homeland 49. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 50. The Colbert Report, The Good Wife and the UK Office (tie) 53. Northern Exposure 54. The Wonder Years 55. L.A. Law 56. Sesame Street 57. Columbo 58. Fawlty Towers and The Rockford Files (tie) 60. Freaks and Geeks and Moonlighting (tie) 62. Roots 63. Everybody Loves Raymond and South Park (tie) 65. Playhouse 90 66. Dexter and the US Office (tie) 68. My So-Called Life 69. Golden Girls 70. The Andy Griffith Show 71. 24, Roseanne and The Shield 74. House and Murphy Brown (tie) 76. Barney Miller and I, Claudius (tie) 78. The Odd Couple 79. Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Upstairs, Downstairs (tie) 83. Get Smart 84. The Defenders and Gunsmoke (tie) 86. Justified, Sgt. Bilko/The Phil Silvers Show (tie) 88. Band of Brothers 89. Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In 90. The Prisoner 91. Absolutely Fabulous and The Muppet Show (tie) 93. Boardwalk Empire 94. Will & Grace 95. Family Ties 96. Lonesome Dove and Soap 98. The Fugitive, Late Night with David Letterman and Louie 101. Oz

Problem with fire sales and or trading our best players for prospects. You are still stuck with Hamilton for 4 more years and Pujols for 8 more years. No matter how much rebuilding you do, you will still have older versions of them, and probably not be as good players as you are have right now. Because all prospects, no matter how good, don't always equate to anything in the MLB.

The way I'm looking at Arte is, he is a typical AW.com Poster. And this is taking nothing away from Arte or AW.com posters. They are both passionate, and want the best for the team. But IMO, the results are what happens when a fan of the game takes over a team. In his first 5 years, he was learning. Now he may think that knowledge makes him a expert. But the reality is. There are may be a handful of GM's that run their team from top to bottom well. But more of the GM's fail than succeed.

History can teach us a lot of things that we can use to judge the present. And one of the biggest that the Angels will face is how to deal with Trout. Many people say give him a lifetime or a 10 year contract. But history shows that for the player and the team, this would not be a prudent course of action. Right now, Trout is in his second year at 21 years old. The Angels will have control over him for 4 more years. As Phenoms go, there are 2 future hall of famers, and 1 tainted player, along with a very good player and the triple crown champ we can look back to. Pujols, Junior, Arod, Jones, and Cabrera. There may be others that I have forgotten about, and those players stats should be looked at, and I didn't include people from a different ERA like a Musial. I also didn't include Bonds and McGwire, because well, *. And I didn't include pitchers, because they only play every 5 days. One of the criterias also used, is, they had to have started in the MLB young, like Trout. Pujols. Started when he was 21 years old. OPS out of the gate 1.013. He continued this till he was 30 years old. 9 Years in the MLB, and the decline started. Junior. Started when he was 19. At 21, he had a .926 OPS. He had a positive OPS slope till he was 27. Still had a OPS over .900 till 29, but at 27 you can see it declining. So 8 years in the MLB, and 8 years of OPS over .900, 6 years rise. Arod. I included him, because it looks like you could see where he might have started using. Started when he was 18. At 20, he had a 1.045 OPS. Blip down to .846 at 21, but then on a tear till 26. This is where it gets fuzzy. He started his decline, and at 28 hit a .888 with his first year on the Yankees. Then his numbers jumped back up again till he was 31, when his numbers started declining again. So 6 years. Or a questionable 11 years. Cabrera. Started when he was 20. Hit a .947 OPS at 22. Hit a blip at 25 with an OPS of .887. He's in his 10th year now, 8th at his peak. He's a bit better in his 27-30 year levels than his 22-26 year levels. Jones. While he isn't in the class as the previous 3. He was still a pretty good phenom. He started his MLB career at 19. He hit his first over .800 OPS season at 21 (.836). He continued this till he was 29, with a blip at 24 when he hit .772. Then it went downhill. So about 8 years of productivity. So for Trout. Hopefully the run is about 6-9 years. He's in his second year, so he probably has 4-7 years of his current production left. Of which we still control 4 of them. IMO, if the Angels try and work out a deal with him right now, they should look to buy out 2-3 years of his free agency for a 6-7 year contract. Unless he decides to take a drop in pay for years after that, which I doubt. And in his case, this would work out for the Angels, because we would have him for all his prime years, and for him, because he may still be in his "prime" when he hits free agency, which could net him a lucrative 5-10 year deal in his declining years. A wild card may also be to see if Cabrera continues past 9 years. But with 2/3 of the season left, it would not surprise me if he ends up the season with an OPS of less than .999 which would mean his decline has started. And it doesn't mean the Angels wouldn't sign Trout to that 5-10 year deal when he hits FA'cy, and it also doesn't mean his numbers will be crap in his declining years. They will probably still be among the leagues best, but not like his prime numbers. Look at how the Cardinals handled Pujols, and they properly took emotion out of their decision and milked Pujols for all of his prime years. Same with Atlanta and Jones and Seattle and Junior. It's something in history that the Angels shouldn't dismiss.

That sucks. I remember when he was the Angels next ace.

My question is how the heck do you pronounce it? Pig Pug Pwee Pooge Pwig Poowee poo-ig pudge

Hamilton showing something other than indifference after striking out.

He's streaky. Just wait He'll be due sometime in 2016, in time for his new contract.