LMU

Even an old friend has already weighed in.

Barbie and Ken approve.

Kicking things off.

The 1975 red-hatted Red Sox.

They've in fact returned to prominence on the Dodger Stadium scoreboards.

So, we've now descended to the new low of two separate All-Star Game caps. And for some reason, the Mariners logo on the black hat looks like it took an uppercut in yesterday's brawl with the Angels.

Well, firstly the intent of that ball isn't exactly obvious since it could have just as easily slipped out of the pitcher's hand and Trout was intentionally walked anyway. BUT, if it was intentional, it wasn't what started the whole chain of events but was in fact a retaliatory move for this: There's a discussion in a social media thread that I've been following that makes a good point that this whole melee kind of puts a nice bow on (especially the development that the two beaning attempts [one successful] were orchestrated by an opener who was inserted in the lineup at the last minute). It can truly be argued right now that the Angels are approaching the Astros in being a villain/pariah franchise, as this organization: *Had narcotic and spider tack trafficking rings operating under its roof (not even including the steroid shipments being mailed to Glaus at the stadium years back) *Treated (and continues to treat) minor leaguers in the organization subhumanly *Manipulated the city government to enter into a backroom below-market value stadium deal while blatantly circumventing state housing laws (which has been killed due to a scandal that caused the mayor's resignation and has gotten the Feds involved) *Has an owner who constantly meddles in the front office to the club's detriment due to his own ego (Pujols, Hamilton, Wells, Matthews Jr, Cozart, etc), fires GMs who refuse to be yes-men, and who hasn't sat down for an interview with the media in at least two years *Is wasting the careers of two generational talents *Continues to alienate its fanbase by embracing a larger media market that fans don't identify with *Favors ego-driven splash hires in other aspects of the organization over the actual fan experience (hiring Matt Vasgersian as PBP despite him being forced to call games on delay from monitors in New Jersey)

Yeah, FIFA wasn’t thinking about this one.

And yet the first thing I saw with the hat logo was “44” which I was guessing was there as a Hank Aaron tribute.

Not just annually.

I can't say that I'm liking the concept of random byes. Especially having to explain that to kids.

Nope. Not by league rules. Plus they already blew it with the Super Bowl fashion jerseys on Fanatics.

We’re a car culture here. Nobody wants to spend a few hours after games scraping nonbeliever blood off their tires.

It's amazing the lengths this team is taking to dive back into irrelevancy as the botched stadium deal investigations get into full swing and Arte's ally at City Hall got the hell out of dodge.

Because I'm a map nerd, here's a Google Map with all the current large parking structures in the area. https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1yY9AHlPJM3l5XEoPmGvBVD3B72iWPC0&usp=sharing

Quite frankly, the Angels didn’t get the memo on what City Connect is. This is more taking a page out of the Rays’ book and coming out with a fauxback, as these look like what the team would have looked like if they’d appeared a decade earlier.

I mean, in that vein I could vote to proceed with negotiations with Elon Musk on buying Tesla.

I pointed out way early in the thread that the proposed location, the current site of Long Beach Arena, already has massive parking structures nearby for the Aquarium of the Pacific and the cruise ship terminals. If they can come up with some kind of lease agreement that would solve a lot of the issue.

That and they opted to steer it towards the aerospace companies in El Segundo instead so employees could use it to commute but the industry almost entirely packed up and left by the time the train was built.

Yes to SoFi, no to LAX. It will in 2024 be a people mover train from the airport right to a passenger facility that contains a light rail station.

Give it a year or two. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAX_Automated_People_Mover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Line_(Los_Angeles_Metro)

Alas, it once did back in the days of yesteryear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Electric

Clearly the Jets and Sharks missed the memo on that.