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Is another lefty the answer?
July 20th, 2009, 9:15 am · 89 Comments · posted by MARK SAXON, OCREGISTER.COM
According to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports.com, the Angels are among the teams going after Baltimore Orioles closer George Sherrill. The 
Dodgers are, too.
The Angels’ two most effective relievers this season, Brian Fuentes and Darren Oliver, are both left-handed, making the Sherrill interest a bit of a mystery. Would they consider putting Oliver back in their rotation?
It’s pretty obvious the Angels have locked in on late-inning relief as their primary target before July 31. Most reports suggest it’s unlikely they’ll part with the pieces the Toronto Blue Jays want for Roy Halladay. Giving up Ervin Santana, Jered Weaver or Joe Saunders would equate with taking a step forward and a half-step back.
Other front-line starters would come at a steep price, too, because some of the best teams are desperate for one more starter.
Here’s a handy list of relievers considered strong trade candidates this month. Already, one guy on the list, Cla Meredith, has been moved. He went from the Padres to the Orioles over the weekend.
If the Angels don’t want to deal a prospect for a rental reliever, they might consider trying to pick up Julian Tavarez, 35, who was designated for assignment by the Washington Nationals. The guy should know the league, since he has pitched for virtually every team in it.
Things are starting to move on the trade front and the Angels could be a matter of days away from doing something.
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No not another lefty. See if you can get Bell out of SD. The Pads are pathetic and it should not take much ( Howie) to do so.
No one is trading an All-Star closer with 24 saves for a middle infielder hitting .239 with a .291 OPS.
Bell was on the NL team on merit, not because the Padres needed a representative. Adrian Gonzalez was also on the NL All-Stars.
If you were the Padres, would you rather pay Bell $1.225 million for what he does, or Kendrick $465,000 for what he does?
Howie won’t get it done for Bell, but would Erick Aybar and maybe a minor league pitcher? With both Izturis & Wood, the Angels would be fine in the middle infield and the Padres would get value in return.
The Padres don’t have much, so why would they deal Heath Bell who is still another year away from UFA? The timing doesn’t make sense.
If the Angels can put together a package (Kendricks..plus,plus) for Bell, they should do. Also, you can throw in Spier, if they will take him.
Keep Speier.
The Angels are only 1 game behind the Red Sox in losses. We have a good team and I don’t think any drastic changes will be made.
Danny sounds like an idiot. It’s not like the Angels haven’t been competitive or haven’t won a series since they won the series in 2002. Their losses have come at the hands of the Red Sox, who have their number. Outside of that, they lost to the world champion White Sox in the ALCS and were dealt some very suspect calls.
Danny sounds like a front runner who has a hard time accepting the fact that the Angels are one of the most consistent, well run franchises in MLB.
While I think the Angels have done exceptional against the AL east teams the last 2 years, in a playoff series, especially a 5 game one, I don’t see any favorable matchup v. NY or Boston.
We’ll see how Lackey and Santana look in a month.
If the offense can continue to pound out 4 singles an inning, they might not need any kind of dominant starting performance, although sooner or later, a pitcher needs to step up and shut down a post season offense.
I think we should go after Joe Beilmel of the Nationals. He doesn’t seem to like it there and I am sure he would love to be that much closer to LA than he is now
Danny, you seem pretty hung up on this four team division thing. Like the Angels have a choice. You do realize that the Angels can’t make MLB expand, right?
Check out the splits, young challeneged one. The Angels are under .500 in their division this year. I WISH they played in the Central or the East. They’d get more games against teams like Baltimore, Kansas City, Cleveland, Toronto and even the Yankees, who are owned by the Angels over the last 13 years. The bottom line is, the Angels win ball games…they don’t play exclusively within their division. Also, the Angels have won a WS within the last seven years…a feat not many can claim (Ask the Yankees how hard it is). Yes, the Angels have struggled against Boston the last several times in postseason. No one is denying this, but if you are going to sit here and adamently say the Angels are going to lose once again, then you are just as delusional as you say I am.
You have neglected to mention your team. Since I know you seem to have a thing against a four-team division, I know you’re not a Dodgers fan. Since you also know a lot of about the Angels and the fireworks thing, I know you’re probably from SoCal. So that makes you either a transplant OR a bandwagon fan rooting for a someone who fails to win AT ALL.
So splill it, Danny. Who’s your team? Please give us a good hearty chuckle.
And the Angels never “appeared” in a WS until they became a four team division is a rather lame excuse. I can we can take away the Boston wins too…they were shut out for years too until they switched a five team division.
Let’s discount St. Louis’ win too…and the Phillies while were at it. The fact is, the Angels have had better talent and better coaching, that’s why they’ve had the run that they currently enjoy.
I thought they maybe going after Sherrill to flip him in another trade maybe?? I like our team now except for the bullpen, but i am baffled on why they really don’t go after Halladay.He has another year left on his contract where as Lackey is a free agent and is he going to play hardball and be hard to sign next year?? I think sometimes the Angels pump up their young talent better than it really is aka Wood, Mathis etc.Whatever happened to Mack Brown who tore up spring training nobody seems to ask for him?? Conger is another one??
Matt, not Mack, Brown is hitting .216 at Triple-A Salt Lake, with 10 homers and 44 RBIs in 68 games.
That’s .216, not .316.
Matt Brown is on rehab assignment at Tempe (left elbow inflammation).
Why would you be baffled on why the don’t really go after Halladay? That trade makes no sense. Why trade for a very good 32 year old starting pitcher when you’d have to give up AT LEAST one of your good young startng pitchers if not two, plus a slew of other talented young prospects. How does weakening your rotation and your farm system make you better? It doesn’t. It makes you worse. Atlanta will be years recovering from their trade for Texeira. Trading a slew of young players for “the piece that is going to put you over the top” never works and it wouldn’t work in this case either.
The Angels have a thing for Sherrill. I know he was a name in the trade discussions last year at this time too.
Halladay is going to come with a HUGE price tag. Unfortunately, I’m not sure the Angels have enough talent to return to Toronto for his services. Minor league talent, that is.
With Lackey’s impending departure, the Angels need to get another shut down ace.
Just a reminder … Don’t feed the troll, boys and girls.
When you don’t respond, it just reminds him of what a loser he is because no one will play with him any more. He’s only out for attention, and when you don’t respond he doesn’t get any.
Bottom LIne Red Sox have our number and one main reason is their top two starters in playoffs are dominant and while ours are good, they are not shut down playoff type pitchers. Halliday, Lee or Haren would be great because they would give you that match up to offset Beckett and company. Late relief also a need, no doubt. Finally, does anyone really think that current Angel batting lineup hitting against weak pitching will really light it up against Red Sox in playoffs? No power other than Rivera and Nap with Hunter and Guerrero out until late August not good going into playoffs. We are a team made for the season due to depth, but not dominant during a 7-game playoff run.
It’s been the offense in the playoffs, no question. Like you pointed out, singles don’t get it done in the playoffs when it takes 3 hits to get a run. That is just unacceptable. Unfortunately I doubt any move will be made.
Don’t look now, but the Red Sox and Angels both have to get into the playoffs. Boston is three-and-a-half ahead of Texas (yes, those non-competing Rangers) and Tampa Bay for the wild-card. They’re also trailing the Yankees even though they’re 8-0 against them.
Well, that’s a 5-team division, so it will be much harder for them… huh?
I think they should all be 5-team divisions. And there should be a sweeping realignment that gets rid of the leagues, and the wild-cards. Dodgers, Padres, Angels, A’s and Giants in the same division, for instance. But it’s a long way from happening.
And the AL West did produce the wild card in ‘00 and ‘02.
Feh on divisions.
I hate divisional play. Unbalanced schedules, mediocre teams win titles.
I’d go with one of two scenarios:
(1) Three ten-team leagues. Have the winner of each league enter the playoffs. Who the fourth team would be, well, that’s a hard one. So the easier way to go is …
(2) Expand to add two more teams, then have four eight-team leagues.
And if it were me, I’d abolish interleague play, but that genie is out of the bottle along with the DH abomination.
Mark, maybe you should start a new thread on the subject of divisional play …
I would prefer they move an NL Central team to the AL West and go with the 6 even divisions. For schedueling there would have to be one AL team playing one NL team throughout the season. So instead of having a three week interleague stretch it’s ongoing one series at a time and in the end there are fewer actual interleague games.
It would take 30 series to have each team play 2 interleague series a season. Because there are 27 series being played in a season by each team you have three teams in each league that play only one interleague series each year.
I’ll work on that, including my realignment plan which I wrote about last year. Unfortunately Bud didn’t respond.
Of yours, I like (1), with a wild-card. Two rounds of playoffs is fine. Three might be one of the things that is killing pitchers.
The beauty of a ten-team league is a perfectly balanced schedule, as we had in 1961-68 — 162 games, 18 games against each of the other nine teams, three three-game series at home, three three-game series on the road. They can have two three-game series a week, with one day off.
The wild card could be the team with the second-best winning percentage, but if there’s no interleague play then that’s fairly subjective. The other option is to rotate the wild card between the three leagues, i.e. once every three years a league gets to send a second team to the playoffs.
Here’s a radical idea — put all thirty teams into one league. Each team plays the other for one home three-game series, one road three-game series. Adds up to 174 games. Top two teams play in the World Series.
Never fly, of course, because divisional play creates many more possibilities for teams to go to the post-season, increasing the gate money and TV ratings.
Divisional play went downhill for me after the 82-79 Mets in 1973 almost won the World Series.
I was spoofing old danny boy and his 4-team is weak schtick.
Why should it matter if another lefty was added to the pen if you consider Mike’s long stated philosophy going back to when the pen was nothing but righties… it’s not which arm they throw with, it’s what they throw. It’s not like Mike has ever worried much about match-ups coming out of the pen.
That strategy, and explanation, is what you must resort to if you do not have left-handed relievers who can get left-handed hitters out.
If you have LH reliever who gets LH hitters out consistently, it can be a huge advantage in forcing the other manager’s hand.
I know why Scioscia said what he said, and when his pen was all RH, what he had to do. The only other course in that situation is to just do nothing, which is not acceptable.
Back then Scioscia had guys like Shields and Donnely and K-Rod who consistently got left-handers out at a pace that was better than most left-handed pitchers in the game. No longer the case.
Andrew: bingo.
Me starting trouble? Take a look at the threads Danny! It has been ALL YOU!!! Also, the only “liar” here is YOU also. Yeah,you calling out Mark Whicker for being a racist (which had NOTHING to do with this page at all - nor did anything on this page allude to any such accusations) and then saying it was Jeff Miller, is TOO a LIE!
Well, I am out. I am going to stop feeding the hater troll now. Not because I don’t like taking him down like the 3rd grader he is, but because I’ll be out of town next week running my baseball camp that people like Danny spend $1,500 to attend. You see, I am actually IN the game. While he throws out gibberish from his couch while downing a 6-pack with a stomach the size of his TV set, I’ll be on the field instructing 50 people on how to actually PLAY the game.
I am a liar now? Sigh. Please explain that one. Are you saying I didn’t work for the Angels, Ducks and other professional teams in my career? Good one.
And the term is biased, not biassed.
We’ll decide what we are proud of and not proud of if that’s ok .
I outlined clearly who votes on the division alignment, and that is the ball clubs. There are 30 teams and when the league went from two 14 team leagues, it could not go to two 15 team leagues without always having two teams idle. It’s purely a mathematical function.
As a result, one league got 14 and one got 16. Very simple. Because there are 14 teams, it’s impossible to have equal distribution of teams. The AL West got 4 teams and all (every single one) of the teams approved this lineup.
Anyone with any common sense would also see that the AL West is one of the toughest divisions in baseball this year. In fact, the power ratings that the MLB puts out has it ranked as the 2nd toughest division in baseball. But that wouldn’t jive with your theories so why bother going there.
But I applaud you for going down the path of this, it’s really cute. Next you should probably petition 49ers fans to give up their Super Bowl victories of years past because the played in the worst division in football in the NFC West. It’s a cross you bear, and you carry it well.
Best of luck to you in your campaign, truly one of the most ridiculous I have ever heard in my life in sports….and I’ve had a career in college and professional sports for 22 years now. This argument by you clearly takes the cake. Congratulations.
so Danny who are you picking to win it all? or do You need to wait and see who is in front next week? I am proud of the ANGELS win or lose and at least I pick a team…
The AL West is the weakest in baseball? Really? 3 of the 4 teams above .500 last I checked.
The Angels have been knocked out of the playoffs by the World Series champion 4 times this decade….so a lot of it has to do with who they’re playing. Unfortunately for the Angels, they’re stuck in the AL and not the NL where they would feast.
Red Sox were the wild-card in ‘04. Marlins were the wild card in ‘03.
It’s also wrong to say they were humiliated in ‘05. They were the only team that even won a postseason game over the White Sox, who swept the Red Sox before that and the Astros thereafter. Before that, the Angels eliminated the Yankees.
And it’s interesting that you have observed the Angels get no respect around the league. Which managers, players, general managers, etc. have you heard express disrespect about the Angels? I know you would never say anything that isn’t substantiated.
Danny sounds like a very bitter Dodgers fan that hasn’t won a World Series since 1988. Either that, or just a bitter person period. The Angels have been knocked out by four World Series Champions in this decade in the playoffs. They also won a title themselves. They’ve taken down the Yankees, the league’s highest and most talented team several times in that time frame. And yes, they’ve also lost as well. The playoffs are a crapshoot. I’ll take the consistency that they’ve shown this decade just fine. Three of the four AL West teams are above .500, it is no slouch of a division. The Angels DESTROYED the NL again this year, going 14-4 and have a winning record again against the AL East.
Playoffs come down to basically facing the top 3 pitchers from one team’s rotation and that’s an entirely different ball game.
Go Halos.
Danny, you should really learn to take your own advice. You said correctly that this is story is about the ANGELS. So, why are you posting random crap that isn’t about the Angels and picking on Angels fans? Then you get all up in arms when people call you out! Gimme a break!
No, Danny, the idiot is clearly yourself. Matt is giving you facts. You’re spewing garbage.
You are really hard up to pick fights with other teams fans aren’t you? “Big choke?” You mean, like winning Game 7 of a World Series kind of choke? Wake up and smell the BS that you are shoveling. Lackey is more of an ace than anybody in LA is. Not to mention that EVERYBODY thought Hamels was a “choke artist” until he went 5-0 in the playoffs last year.
Why does it matter how you got into the postseason, so as long as you got there and won a ring?
Care to elaborate on that?
Uh, the Angels have a MUCH BETTER record against the East this season. They are under 500 against the AL West. Your statement is a generalization based on solely last year.
Spoken like a fan of the 82-79 1973 Mets, who won the parity-parody NL East, upset the Reds in the NLCS, and then took the A’s to seven games. A true example of how a pitching staff can carry a team through the playoffs.
The Angels should win the division running away. The goal now needs to be having everyone healthy going into October. An additional bullpen arm would help. They could get by without a fifth starter if the other four pitch to their capabiilities, but all four have been wobbly at one time or another.
Don’t feed the troll.
He’s probably confusing you with Jeff Miller. Either way, don’t feed the troll.
You brought it up. You tell us.
Someone needs to learn how to read and actually look up the stats of what Lackey’s done the past few seasons now. How do you know the Red Sox and Yankees won’t go after Lackey? He isn’t a free agent yet so they can’t even talk to his agent about his availability. Or are you advocating collusion? Get real! THIS is EXACTLY the kind of nonsense I was referring to!!!
or injured. GREAT post!
Also, whose coaches are routinely interviewed year after year for other coaching vacancies??? That’s right, the ANGELS. The only person who has no respect for the Angels is Y-O-U!
As in Danny, not Mark.
Stephen, all us sports writers look alike.
Ink-stained wretches, the lot of ya. :-)
Seriously, GROW UP! Stop with the immature personal attacks!
If he really made a “racist” comment, don’t you think he would have been FIRED??? Or at least put up all over MSNBC or something? Get real!
You are missing the point, you said:
The differencce (sp) is, the Red Sox spend a lot more time playing REAL teams than the Angels do. The Angels record is misleading because they spend a lot of time playing lame teams like the As, Mariners, and Rangers.
Well, “record” implies regular season. You are not very smart are you?
“You cannot compare them since they play weaker teams”
“The Angels play the east well during the regular season”
Got a pair of flip flops?
Where’s the “flag” option?
I wish I knew. I’ve had this post deleted several times for no good reason. I guess Danny found a sympathetic moderator who lets him say anything but anything said in defense is off limits.
Where exactly have you seen or heard Angel fans being against adding a fifth team to the division? In your mind? Just like in your mind the AL West is a weak division simply because there are only four teams? Just because your A’s suck it doesn’t make the whole division weak. Every division has a team or even two that suck as bad as your A’s.
I agree with you that the AL West needs a fifth team.
However, we are arguing with you because you are an ass.
Does having only four teams aid the Angels? Yes and no. The Mariners were pretty feared a few years back and the A’s won 20+ games in a row.
If the teams are good, then a four-team division will actually HURT you as you have more games against good teams. If they are weak, as they have been in the last two years, then, yes it aids the Angels.
You obviously have no idea how to create answers to the problem without just throwing out the vague solution of “making the divisions even.” “We Angels fans” don’t really care how many teams are in each division, because it really doesn’t matter or effect anything. Only jealous no-knowledge casual observers such as yourself really think they can just solve the problem with “move a team to the Angels division.”
Yeah, Bud Selig and the other teams in the AL and NL love the Angels so much that they want to give the Halos an advantage so they can compete in a 4 team division. That must be it.
Or maybe, just maybe, there is not advantage which is why the othr 25+ teams don’t raise an incredible stink like you are.
If there was a real advantage, the other 25+ teams was scream at the top of their lungs to move a team over, but they haven’t….have they? Why? Simple….there is no advantage. Everyone plays 162 games.
If there was an advantage, the other teams would put an end to it.
I love how you just had to admit that you made a mistake and just called someone a racist who in fact made no comments to such. How about you stop name calling and posting random lies about EVERYTHING and start dealing in these illusive “facts” you keep claiming?
“Flailing?” You mean like calling people “racist” who aren’t? No, I am hitting the nail on the head and you keep backtracking and flip-flopping. You’re the definition of HATER, and a said one at that.
Well, TRUTHFULLY, most of the bitter haters that come on here with your exact comments are Dodgers homers. And how long did it take the Dodgers to win their FIRST championship? How many teams existed back then? How many rounds of playoffs? How many times did they lose to ONE team over and over before finally winning and then bolting to the West Coast?
The Angels can only play and accomplish what is in front of them. That is their ONLY responsibility. If you don’t want to respect that, fine! But realize you are on an island and there is NOBODY in baseball who doesn’t respect the Angels organization, the way they play, their players, and their accomplishments. #1 Fan Experience in ALL sports!
Oh please. It isn’t about that. It is that ANY formula, using only currently existing teams, doesn’t work (you do realize that the NL West only has to travel as far North as San Francisco and as far East as Colorado right, whereas the AL West has Seattle and Texas.) Expansion is really the only answer, unless a team relocates and nobody is rumored to be looking to do that right now, and any BASEBALL fan can tell you that baseball is just now recovering from the past couple of expansions.
Once again, this is an ANGELS story that you purposely sought out to troll and to pick fights with Angels fans.
I love how you will just throw that out there without any proposal on how to do that! So much easier to just say that without having to back it up with any facts. Oh wait, that’s all you do anyway.
Why don’t you propose a way to make that happen? You can’t just throw out that comment without backing it up with way to make it happen!
Just admit it, that you are an OBVIOUS hater and that the Angels organization, and their fans get plenty of respect. It is ONLY YOU that has such an insane hate hate for the franchise that you purposely troll that teams threads. Terrible, not to mention VERY immature!
Please keep proving your immaturity! You are doing a FANTASTIC job winning us over! LOL!
You think they DON’T??? You should really stop digging. You are only further embarrassing yourself.
I didn’t know records determined ace status! LOL!!! ONE season doesn’t prove ace status either, nor does 1/2 of one, which is where Lackey is right now. How many times do I have to prove your lack of knowledge before you finally give up? You are only embarrassing yourself!
LOL! No, you’re not.You are doing the EXACT opposite. You know NOTHING about Angels baseball, let alone BASEBALL at all, and are only further proving it with each post.
Show ONE post that was on topic of this story. Just ONE!!!
It was a THEORY, not a plan, and we all know that baseball is not going to get rid of the current league format and go the way of the NBA. Just not going to happen. Now, try harder to come up with a REAL plan.
The Rockies and D-Backs have NO interest in moving to the AL. They were created as NL teams, and won’t be the ones to change. Nice try, but again FAIL!
And you would gloss over the rivalries that Houston has in the central with the Cubs and Cardinals? There is a reason teams are NOT complaining about the current format and alignment.
Dear Lord, you are hopeless. Putting forth ideas that will NEVER be accepted isn’t putting forth ideas. It is just throwing junk out to try and sound smart, which, quite frankly, is ALL that you’ve been doing on this page from your first post.
Dude, I have never seen anyone work so hard to show how proud they are of having a single-digit IQ.
Schools out for the summer, otherwise the short bus would be picking him up every day and we wouldn’t have to hear this garbage.
Just as I figured, you have no answer. The other 25+ teams are just going to sit there and let the AL West teams have an advantage that they don’t have. Yeah, right.
You simply don’t know what you are talking about and it shows.
Aw, now your mad because I’ve called you out. You’re the whiny loser hater. Well, I’ll stop feeding the troll now. If you haven’t figured it out yet, that’s YOU.
No, you just have no idea what it is like to be an athlete on any any level, let alone pro. And yes, I’ve played pro baseball. Just like the Yankees in 1955, you don’t want to underestimate your opponent or look too far ahead. Anything can happen and the Red Sox know this, especially after what happened against the Rays last October. Once again, I will reiterate, YOU are the only one who doesn’t respect the Angels.
Wow, AND you’re blind too?!?! Sad, very sad.
Putting forth a “plan” that has a ZERO percent chance of actually being implemented is worthless and not worth even discussing or arguing about.The Angels moving to the NL East has just as much likelihood of happening.
Face the facts that YOU are the only one complaining about the Angels have some sort of supposed advantage. NO ONE else feels this way. After MLB made radical realignment in 1995, including moving Milwaukee to the NL, do you really think they will do it again so soon? Of course they won’t! Talking about stuff like this is a complete waste of time because it is not going to happen. Not to mention it still has ZERO to do with this story. All it proves is that you are an Angels basher
Because it’s not up to the Angels or their fans to do that Danny. That’s why. Baseball makes the schedule and the division alignments. All of them…EVERY ONE OF THEM, has to be voted on and passed by all the teams at the yearly meetings.
I am a former employee of the Angels back in the Disney days on the Broadcasting side of the operation. I know a lot more about this than you do. I’m sorry you are unable to process this concept that all of baseball agreed to the current alignment but that’s the reality of it. Go through the meeting minutes of the baseball meetings when this was decided if you don’t believe me.
In the meantime, the AL West, this year at least, is one of the better divisions in baseball. 75% of the division above .500. No other division can make that claim.
If you understood how scheduling works and looked at the current make up is the way it is. With two 15 team leagues, one team in each league would sit idle all the time unless you had year long interleague play. That’s the only way to do it. That’s why we are in the situation we are in….a situation APPROVED by ALL (all…EVERY ONE) of the teams in Major League baseball.
Sigh
I am a liar now? Sigh. Please explain that one. Are you saying I didn’t work for the Angels, Ducks and other professional teams in my career? Good one.
And the term is biased, not biassed.
We’ll decide what we are proud of and not proud of if that’s ok .
I outlined clearly who votes on the division alignment, and that is the ball clubs. There are 30 teams and when the league went from two 14 team leagues, it could not go to two 15 team leagues without always having two teams idle. It’s purely a mathematical function.
As a result, one league got 14 and one got 16. Very simple. Because there are 14 teams, it’s impossible to have equal distribution of teams. The AL West got 4 teams and all (every single one) of the teams approved this lineup.
Anyone with any common sense would also see that the AL West is one of the toughest divisions in baseball this year. In fact, the power ratings that the MLB puts out has it ranked as the 2nd toughest division in baseball. But that wouldn’t jive with your theories so why bother going there.
But I applaud you for going down the path of this, it’s really cute. Next you should probably petition 49ers fans to give up their Super Bowl victories of years past because the played in the worst division in football in the NFC West. It’s a cross you bear, and you carry it well.
Best of luck to you in your campaign, truly one of the most ridiculous I have ever heard in my life in sports….and I’ve had a career in college and professional sports for 22 years now. This argument by you clearly takes the cake. Congratulations.
Yes, we “fear” a 5 team division. So much so, we go to bed each night praying that the other teams in the 5 remaining divisions don’t finally wake up and realize what a huge advantage we have. I just hope our luck holds true.
Meanwhile, there are 4 other divisions that don’t play in a SIX TEAM division like the NL Central. It’s true that the only REAL teams in baseball are those in the NL Central since they play in a 6 team division, the remaining 24 teams in the MLB are all crybabies and can’t handle the true manliness of the 6 team division.
I’ll start writing Commissioner Selig immediately so he can make this right. Perhaps by adding 6 more teams to the MLB he can have everyone at 6 team divisions….yeah, that’s the Danny ticket.
[rolling his eyes at the stupidity of Danny]