[Pharieswheel]

with the aquisition of Puhols and wilson, we've won it all. THe angels needed one big bat to solidify dominance, and they got it. Take whatever you can get, and bet your life.

[Goat Milk]

i was reading one post by someone a couple weeks ago- i can't remember who- but he said that angels won't be winning anytime soon and they probably won't even make it to the world series for at least a few years

[5teamparlay]

JEFF PASSAN
EXPERT
Angels close to squandering Mike Trout's dream season and owner's $160M investment
10 hours ago
ANAHEIM, Calif. – The clubhouse had cleared out, most of the Los Angeles Angels dressing themselves and leaving before the stench of their latest loss clung to their street clothes, too. Mike Trout was still there, thumbing through his phone until he stumbled upon a video he had to show Torii Hunter. He walked over to Hunter's locker and hit play. Trout grinned.
"Walkoff," he said, a tinge of wistfulness in his voice, as if he wished he were talking about the Angels. Instead it was the Baltimore Orioles mobbing Nate McLouth at second base, and Buck Showalter standing on the top step of the dugout sponging it in, and this team nobody gave a chance celebrating like maniacs. And the 21-year-old Trout, newly minted as the best player there is, had to watch it, even as his team nursed its latest hangover.
Oakland's Yoenis Cespedes went deep against Los Angeles in a victory Wednesday. (AP)
Whether he knew it or not, Trout's willingness to brush off Los Angeles' third consecutive loss to the surging Oakland Athletics personified the Angels' attitude following Wednesday's 4-1 defeat. No panic. No concern. No fear. Not with the second wild-card leaders 3 ½ games ahead, the A's 5 ½ games up and a torture chamber of 19 games to bridge at least one of the gaps.
At least nothing publicly, which makes sense, because any alarmism at this juncture would draw greater attention to a simple truth: Trout is having one of the best seasons in history, Albert Pujols has spent the last four months as his prime self, Hunter is fountain-of-youthing, plenty more have cobbled together great individual seasons and somehow the Angels stand only 11 games over .500 and need a great surge to save themselves from wasting it all.
Three days ago, the Angels were the hottest team in baseball, primed to vault the A's after sweeping them in Oakland to start a six-game winning streak. Since then, a trio of rookie starters has limited them to four runs in 21 2/3 innings, including eight shutout Wednesday from A.J. Griffin, who as recently as two weeks ago was pitching in Triple-A because Oakland's rotation options were better. The $55 million A's have gone into the house of the $160 million Angels, ransacked the living room, robbed the jewelry from the safe and left the water running to add injury to insult.