published an article<\/a> in which general manager Perry Minisian said the Angels are \u201cvery competitive\u201d and \u201cour best baseball is in front of us.\u201d He then cited run differential and team ERA as examples. After getting swept by the Dodgers by a combined 31-3 the Angels had the worst run differential, worst won\/loss record and are at or near the bottom in all pitching and hitting categories in MLB.<\/p>\nSince owner Arte Moreno believes that \u201cwinning is not a top priority,\u201d he must be very pleased with both the work of his GM and the team\u2019s performance so far this season. That the three games against the Dodgers were sold out was not because of fans\u2019 desire to see this \u201cvery competitive\u201d Angels team.<\/p>\n
Rob Nelson
Dana Point<\/p>\n
The Angels\u2019 ultimate indignity is its own hometown newspaper doesn\u2019t regard it highly enough to staff its games with a full-time writer. The Angels are irrelevant in Southern California and the owner isn\u2019t self aware enough to realize it.<\/p>\n
Ron Yukelson
San Luis Obispo<\/p>\n
I just wanted to give praise to the Angels TV and radio broadcast teams. Even with the Angels having the worst record in baseball, and having suffered 10 straight losing seasons, the broadcast teams approach the games professionally and always with a positive attitude. As a lifelong Angels fan, it always reminds me of that saying \u201chope springs eternal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Steve Shaevel
Woodland Hills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> Three weeks ago The Times published an article in which general manager Perry Minisian said the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[17598,64,63,4034,5138,69844,36393,1862,13800,71305,10213,591,6342,15624,342773,588,85,128064,24080],"class_list":["post-704391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-angels","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-dodgers","tag-fan","tag-foot","tag-game","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-mlb","tag-performance","tag-player","tag-radio-broadcast-team","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-team-era","tag-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}