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00:03 The Los Angeles Angels have now lost six consecutive games
00:06 after falling three to two yesterday
00:08 to Seattle in extra innings.
00:09 They're 56 and 57 on the season,
00:13 seven games back of the final
00:16 American League wildcard spot.
00:18 Joe Ranieri, let's start right here with this on the Angels.
00:22 We can't say we told you so, even though we did.
00:25 The first thought process here,
00:27 and I had the same thing for the entire first half
00:30 of the season, it hasn't worked.
00:32 Rebuild your organization.
00:34 You're in Los Angeles, you have plenty of money.
00:36 You trade Otani, you trade Trout,
00:38 you get whatever you can for Anthony Rendon
00:40 and any other rental piece that you have
00:43 and say, you know what, let's retool this thing.
00:45 Let's stock our farm system with a talent.
00:47 We'll add the free agency and we'll try this again.
00:50 The Angels get on a little bit of a win streak here
00:52 and what do they decide to do?
00:54 Keep everybody in Joe and we all said the same thing.
00:58 You know the Angels aren't making the playoffs.
01:01 I don't think anybody, even the worst doubters though,
01:04 thought they'd be all in six Joe, since the deadline.
01:07 - Yeah, I mean, just, and when it's gone from bad
01:11 for worse too, because they, you know,
01:13 let's not forget one of those guys they traded for
01:15 was a Reynaldo Lopez to help solidify that bullpen.
01:19 Now he's on the bereavement list.
01:22 There was a death in a family.
01:23 So he's back in a Dominican.
01:24 Nobody knows how long it'll be before he can get back.
01:28 So, you know, when it rains, it pours, Donnie.
01:32 At the time it seemed like, all right,
01:34 we appreciate the effort by them trying to, you know,
01:38 show Ohtani that, hey, we're here, right?
01:42 We're doing everything we can to try and,
01:45 to try and get this thing going.
01:46 We got a shot at this, but ultimately it's, yeah, no.
01:51 The angels are doing exactly what the angels do.
01:54 And look again here, Donnie,
01:55 we're at the point in the season here where,
01:58 right when they needed him the most,
02:00 he's nowhere to be found.
02:02 And that being of course, Mike Trout,
02:04 unavailable at the time of the season,
02:07 where they need a superstar to turn it around for them.
02:11 And once again, he's not here to help his team.
02:14 So it's rinse and repeat with this team
02:16 year in and year out.
02:18 But, you know, hindsight's 20/20.
02:20 At the time it seemed like, you know,
02:22 you appreciated the effort, but boy, oh boy,
02:24 it's just history will show that maybe one of the worst
02:28 non-moves that we have seen in baseball history.
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