I think fans should be held to a different standard than players. Players should be loyal to a team as long as they’re on the team, but it’s a job for them. Even outside of baseball, when anyone switches jobs, they are no longer loyal to their prior company. I would expect an ex-employee who left on good terms to say pleasant things about his experience with his former company, but at the same time, develop a new loyalty to his new company. Fans, however, have a different connection to the team, an inexplicable passion.

Torii is gonna need a few DH turns soon enough, we might resign GA. We need to get morales bat in.
i was wrong, we dont have as many aging veterans as i thought, but we still have players that will need some time there

Whats so hard to understand about that. Bottom line, players have zero loyalty to anything but the all mighty dollar sign. Why would anyone stay loyal to someone that is just going to jump ship in free agency for more money? There is no loyalty what so ever in sports anymore. I think people are really mistaking loyalty for respect around here. And since we’re on the subject, not only do I feel CC Sabathia is a better pitcher than John Lackey……. and once AGAIN this is just MY opinion that I am good goddamn well entitled to, but PART of the reason I feel this way is because I DONT LIKE JOHN LACKEY. Do I respect his skill and feel very gracious for what his skills have brought to the franchise that I love: absolutely 100% yes. However, and I didnt want to really bring this up but I will because its part of the reason I feel this way but, John Lackey is a grade A 100% fucking tool! I’ve met him before and seen him numerous times out in bars in my neighborhood . The guy is an absolute DONKEY and I have zero respect for the guy based on the way he’s treated a number of my friends and the way I’ve seen him act. He’s a self entitled bastard that couldn’t get laid if his life depended on it if he wasn’t a pro athlete. He’s a prick and I dont like him, could CC’s personality be just as bad, maybe, are other angels that bad, maybe. Should my opinion on the subject go to personal character, probably not, but, I’ve seen it first hand and I am not going to let it not effect the way I feel. Yeah, I probably shouldnt be a GM. That why they get paid to judge skill and talent level for whats best for the franchise they work for and not ones personal character. I will always respect Lackey for being apart of the angels first world championship and being a great pitcher, but. It all ends there for me. And by the way everyone, don’t get your panties in a bunch over what one fans opinion of a player is, who cares……. now go ahead and destroy me because my opinion differs from yours.

I was rooting for these guys long before I had ever heard of Lackey, and will continue to do so regardless of who is wearing that uniform. I love these guys, but I’ll boo the shit out of each and every one them if I ever see them at the Big A without halos on their hats. I have nothing but respect for their business decisions and doing what’s best for them, but as far as the game is concerned, I see two teams: the Angels, and Not the Angels, and I despise the latter.