fk_the_braves | New York Mets

707 | 13 hours ago

This is embarrassing to read even.
Although the line “Who else said that” makes me chuckle.

mrdannyg21

257 | 12 hours ago

Shockingly good journalism from Blum to actually press him on it, and to be prepared with the specifics of Pillar’s comment when Minasian obfuscated. Almost never see reporters press a senior official at all, about anything.

IceBlast24 | Los Angeles Angels

142 | 12 hours ago

to be prepared with the specifics of Pillar’s comment when Minasian obfuscated

piggybacking the top thread so this gets more visibility,

FWIW this is what Kevin Pillar said when Kikuchi’s comment was presented to him on Foul Territory (can’t find the exact episode but I found a clip)

I believe it. I was there, the AC was working there, but the inner workings of like the clubhouse, the weight room, the hot tub always had problems too. Arte definitely needs to spend some money and fix that internal workings of the clubhouse, the weight room, the locker room. I mean, it’s a big selling point to get players and the Angels is very, very far behind from a lot of places I’ve been.

edit: follow-up post from Sam Blum:

[Blum] For full context; here’s the rest of the interaction.

The amenities?

Yes.

No. I think our amenities are fine. I think we have great people. I think the environment in the clubhouse this year was outstanding. I think Yusei would say the same thing.

Well he said what he said.

Did he say the environment wasn’t good?

He said the air conditioning is broken.

So what does that have to do with all the amenities?

That was he came out of his start the last game. It seems like an important question. I guess if you don’t -

That would be a question for him. The air conditioning, we’ve never had an issue with it. That would be something for him. For us, he never complained all year about the amenities or anything like that. I think he’s very happy being here.

That’s a different question.

I think he loves the place.

That may be true. He did say that about the air conditioning.

OK. Great.

DolphinFraud

116 | 12 hours ago

Seems crazy to not invest in state of the art facilities for your players, the cost is negligible compared to one free agent contract.

YasielPuigsWeed

53 | 12 hours ago

Not when you’re the Angels and all you care about is ticket ROI

They want someone to put on a billboard and say “come see this guy.” They don’t care about taking a few years to develop someone into that guy, or if that guy actually wins a championship.

Blank_page95 | Los Angeles Angels

48 | 12 hours ago

Its been this way for year. CJ wilson was on twitter a few years ago talking about how they wouldnt provide breakfast during spring training (told players to go to Chick fila), the weightroom was in the parking lot essentially under pop up tents, and for the $240 million contract they just signed for pujols, refused to buy an anti-gravity treadmill for his plantar fascitis (they later chose to rent the damn machine)

niz_loc

2 | 5 hours ago

In fairness (I was there), CJ wasn’t wrong but he’s CJ….. if that makes sense…. (and that’s not a knock on him)

He put some extras on it, but the meat of it was correct.

As for the Pujols treadmill… meh… that one I’ll side with the Org… Pujols not only signed a massive deal, but also got cash for anything else he wanted… he felt he shouldn’t have to pay for something specific he wanted so the Org felt the same…..

… if we’re being real here it’s not like he was really hustling to stay in shape in the first place….

I’ll add that a few other guys in that tike had the same issue and made a fraction of a percent of what he was… and made it work….

This isn’t defending the Org, but that particular issue was…. meh, complicated…

Blank_page95 | Los Angeles Angels

6 | 4 hours ago

So I completely get what youre saying with Pujols, but for me (and this is in my head) a piece of exercise or rehab equipment that can be used for everyone on a pro sports team for multiple years should be bought. If Pujols is wanting one for just himself than ya he can buy it, but if it was a situation where he was like I will need this, but others can use it especially for their back or LEs then just buy the machine, its a drop in the bucket and and it will likely help players recover now and in the future

niz_loc

0 | 4 hours ago

Couldn’t agree more. And I’ll shit all over the Org for how cheap they are in a lot of cases.

That said this particular one was Albert…. everyone else was getting after it on their own time on their own follar… which was far less than what he was making.

He had a massive pool… can’t run? Cool, swim….

Cards2WS | St. Louis Cardinals

0 | 4 hours ago

When you say you were there, what do you mean? Were you an employee or a player?

Would be curious about some things if you had some inside knowledge

niz_loc

2 | 5 hours ago

I try to not mention it, but was there for a bit… Pillar is spot on here about what that org has become and why it’s hard for them to get people to come there….

It’s crazy because not all that long ago everyone wanted to go there….

Best analogy I can make here is Hefner and the Playboy mansion once he got old….

sjj342

-17 | 10 hours ago

Not sure I’d say Minasian obfuscated because Pillar said the AC worked so that actually contradicts Kikuchi

It’s like a weird game of telephone, and outsiders wouldn’t really have any way to gauge amenities without going into all the clubhouses…but I think without question there’s some underlying issues in medical or baseball ops where they are well below where they should be given the market

Minasian in a bad position there because there’s not a good answer - they are great seems implausible, they are bad is unhelpful, they are average is uninspiring

Essteethree | Seattle Mariners

30 | 9 hours ago

Pillar said it worked when he was there (2024). Kikuchi said it didn’t work after his last start (2025). That doesn’t seem like a contradiction at all. In fact, Pillar said he believed Kikuchi, adding Anaheim was always having issues, and that they’re “very, very far behind” other teams. There’s no telephone or outsiders.

Minasian is probably in a bad position with cheap ownership, but he had an easy answer right there - just play dumb and say you’ll investigate. “I didn’t hear about that, but I’ll have the clubhouse guys look into it”. Quick, easy response, and you don’t even have to mean it! Has he had zero PR training, or is he just trying to be a dick and dgaf?

parmenides89 | Minnesota Twins

8 | 9 hours ago

This reads like he had his hackles up and was just not happy he was being asked these questions. So probably mostly column A, but a little of column B too.

gymnophobe

11 | 9 hours ago

Pillar played there in 2024. He was a Ranger in 2025 but didn’t play in Anaheim.

Simayi78 | Toronto Blue Jays

8 | 8 hours ago

Minasian in a bad position there because there’s not a good answer

“I had no idea there was an issue with the AC, everything I heard was that it worked great all year. We’ll follow up with Kikuchi and get to the root of what’s going on.”

That’s all you need to say.

sjj342

-11 | 7 hours ago

You’re a GM

You’re being interviewed about offseason plans

You’re asked whether the air conditioning is an issue that needs to be addressed

It’s a bit of a ludicrous question and if the GM were actually monitoring the AC situation he probably ought to be fired on the spot

Michael__Pemulis | Major League Baseball

60 | 12 hours ago

Doesn’t Blum have a reputation for asking the Angels executives hard questions?

I wanna say he was barred from a team event once because Arte hates him.

GareksApprentice | San Diego Padres • Blue Jays Bandwagon

61 | 12 hours ago

He’s banned from the Angels radio station for being “too negative”

Certain_Judgment6646 | Los Angeles Angels

49 | 11 hours ago

Blum has been one of the only media members that doesn’t fawn over Perry and is willing to ask Perry, Arte, or the Players (like many of the infamous Rendon quotes) hard questions with actual follow up.

He is also (rightly) critical of this team and will not sugar coat the state of the team.

This has lead to him, as others said, being locked out of media events or being part of extended media from the team.

But the weirdest part is our fanbase hates this guy because he won’t bend the knee and say this team is great. Like even after this interview or the one last week where he pressed Perry about firing wash (Perry said his performance wasn’t up to standard, so Blum said how would Perry rate his own performance and he cried and said ask someone else lol), a lot of our subreddit still goes out and defends him.

kirbyfaraone | Los Angeles Angels

10 | 9 hours ago

Makes me bat shit crazy.

This organization already has plenty of sycophants, we dont need it from the fanbase too.

Sam does an excellent job, and until the team shows something positive worth reporting Sam is gonna continue to tell the ugly truth.

Certain_Judgment6646 | Los Angeles Angels

1 | 3 hours ago

It’s crazy. I’ve been harping all season long about how bad he is, the bad spot the team is in, and just the dire straights the franchise is in and everyone acts like he is the best in the game and we just don’t understand his genius.

Literally post draft after the whole league and media were baffled at him grabbing Bremner to underslot the 2OA pick and the updated farm rankings moved us back down, there was a “grade Perry” thread and he got a ton of As and Bs and that we just gotta trust in his glorious plan.

I said in a thread today of someone saying this is embarrassing about the AC that no, it’s worse, Perry is so fucking disrespectful to the fanbase he doesn’t even care about giving the canned answers anymore and just rather lie or pretend he doesn’t understand.

Yet people still defend it

mrdannyg21

8 | 12 hours ago

Yes, I think my wording was awkward. I meant the good journalism was ‘shocking’ because you so rarely see that in general these days in any arena, and sports beat writers are particularly terrible to avoid risking their access or friendships.

Blum is consistently one of the best, so getting good journalism from him specifically is not ‘shocking’. If all writers were like Blum, us fans would be much better informed and owners couldn’t get away with as much of their BS.

Panguin9 | Arizona Diamondbacks • Mariner Moose

-19 | 12 hours ago

I mean even in this he comes off as more adversarial than might be necessary, I don’t think they hate him without some reason

bassoonrage | San Francisco Giants

30 | 12 hours ago

A journalist should be adversarial.

KittenExtravaganza | Los Angeles Dodgers

10 | 12 hours ago

I don’t think he comes off adversarial but I do know that unfortunately some ppl consider any criticism as conflict, which is how Minasian reacted.

DrunkensteinsMonster | New York Yankees

2 | 7 hours ago

This is how a journalist is supposed to act. We forget that because the simpering journalism industry has reduced itself to conducting guided press conferences as opposed to doing actual interviews.

StrangerVegetable831 | World Series Trophy • Los Angeles Dod…

5 | 9 hours ago

He did better than the White House press corps.

Background-Half-2862 | Toronto Blue Jays

1 | 12 hours ago

I thought you meant it was embarrassing to read because the Angels then I read the Q/A.

7Stringplayer | San Francisco Giants • Oakland Athletics

445 | 13 hours ago

Typical C-suite speak where they just pretend to not understand basic English.

MarcBulldog88 | Los Angeles Dodgers • World Series Tr…

125 | 13 hours ago

I’m always reminded of Bill Clinton asking what the meaning of the word “is” is. It’s fucking lawyer’s prattle, you obfuscate and delay and avoid giving any kind of meaningful answer.

Old_Marzipan891 | Chicago Cubs

49 | 12 hours ago

Because a meaningful answer gets you sued or indicted. I, too, wish we’d get a Colonel Jessup outburst but these weasels know exactly what not to say.

mysterysackerfice | Los Angeles Angels • Dumpster Fire

11 | 12 hours ago

YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

Old_Marzipan891 | Chicago Cubs

5 | 11 hours ago

#YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT I DIIIIIIIIIID

peacebuster

6 | 12 hours ago

Reminds me of Al Pacino’s character from Glengarry Glen Ross.

KimHaSeongsBurner | San Diego Padres

94 | 13 hours ago

“We are currently conducting a thorough review whose goal is to ascertain the likely drivers of employee satisfaction and remain committed to doing everything we can to making this a world class workplace and consistent with our core principles.”

mysterysackerfice | Los Angeles Angels • Dumpster Fire

29 | 12 hours ago

The accuracy of this made me irrationally angry 😡

DaBusDriva2 | Los Angeles Dodgers

371 | 13 hours ago

There is air conditioning in Ba Sing Se

Death_Balloons | Toronto Blue Jays

63 | 13 hours ago

We’ve always been at cold with AC.

orbesomebodysfool | Los Angeles Dodgers • Vin Scully

9 | 11 hours ago

There are 4 lights on the Angels AC unit.

EasyAsAyeBeeSea

26 | 12 hours ago

There is air, and the players are there for conditioning. Do some simple math!

ANGRY_BEARDED_MAN | Baltimore Orioles

323 | 13 hours ago

I think the environment in the clubhouse this year was outstanding. I think Yusei would say the same thing

Mother fucker, he’s the one who said the air conditioning didn’t work

R3AN1M8R | Toronto Blue Jays

132 | 12 hours ago

Who said that?

MetsBBT | New York Mets

42 | 12 hours ago

the fella who plays first base

Suplewich | Toronto Blue Jays

19 | 12 hours ago

Who else said that?

shizbox06 | Los Angeles Dodgers

16 | 11 hours ago

No, who else is on first. He did what is on second.

Big-Raspberry-6151

-1 | 12 hours ago

Who else said that?

Lost-Inevitable42 | More flair options at /r/baseball/w/flair!

1 | 10 hours ago

Who say? You say! (Yusei)

Conscious_Tax_589

0 | 5 hours ago

Yu!

Certain_Judgment6646 | Los Angeles Angels

50 | 11 hours ago

Perry is so far gone and absolutely disrespectful and unaccountable to this fanbase, yet so many people still defend him. The last 2 months in particular have been absolutely embarrassing yet he still has some of the strongest support from fans.

He completely forgot about Moores playing time, using valuable mlb roster days to have him just sit on the bench, then sends him down to the minors so he can use the rest of the season to develop. BUT DUDE MISCOUNTED THE DAYS AND MOORE’S CONTRACT WAS CONVERTED THE DAY BEFORE. Absolutely a fireable offense for any GM but he gets a slide for some reason.
We ended the season at 90 losses, first time since ⁶⁸⁄₆₉ we had back to back 90 loss seasons. This is of course after our infamous trade deadline where we didn’t sell 1 expiring contract because Perry said “we are OBVIOUSLY competitive”
Fired Wash due to performance. When Sam Blum asked him to rank his own performance he cried and said ask someone else.
Wash gave an interview and literally said Perry gave him a roster of chicken shit and expected him to make chicken salad.
Said to the media that they need someone strong as a manager and that this is the most important offseason signing they can make. They then hire his friend and assistant, Kurt Suzuki, who has had no experience as a manager at all (this of course is on the tails of the fact that pretty much all of our front office has been replaced with Perry’s and his brothers friends from around the league who got some humongous promotions under Perry).
And now when confronted about players saying the facilities were broken and never fixed, he calls them liars and pretends to not understand the question.

Just an embarrassing GM for this team. But somehow our subreddit will defend any and all actions he takes.

shizbox06 | Los Angeles Dodgers

20 | 11 hours ago

It’s like you’re just ignoring that they swept the Dodgers to win the championship.

Certain_Judgment6646 | Los Angeles Angels

15 | 11 hours ago

The sad part is i think we went like .300 since that series and most game threads after losses will be like “we still swept the dodgers so hard to judge these losses”.

thekidfromyesterday | Atlanta Braves

0 | 10 hours ago

Can you explain #1 a bit Moore? I couldn’t resist but was genuinely curious

Certain_Judgment6646 | Los Angeles Angels

15 | 10 hours ago

So very roughly (I probably am getting some days and years wrong but the gist is still the same):

When you draft a player, a team gets a certain time from to convert their contract to a “professional” contract (I believe 5 years after being drafted).

To convert a rookie contract to a professional contract, a player must be in the 26 man MLB roster for 45 (or somewhere around that time) days over the course of a season.

Once that threshold is hit, their contract is converted to a 5 year professional contract where I think 2 years are pre arb salaries and 3 years are arb salaries and at the end of that contract a player becomes an FA.

Teams with rookies tend to use as much time as they can in those rookie deals to develop their players, and once they feel like they are everyday players with a sustainable role in the team, they will let the contract convert.

This incentivizes a team to let a prospect take time to develop (with new rules in place to also incentivize a team to not mess with playing time and having rookies ready to play not wallow in the minors to hold them for a long time)

So what happened was Moore (our top 2024 pick) was called up a bit into the season. Had an ok couple of games and injured himself. After he rehabbed he then was placed back on the MLB roster.

He was sitting on the bench a lot, coming in every couple of days as a bench bat or a rest day for another player.

Because he had no solid everyday role on the team, the smart move was to just send him down, let him get everyday reps at AAA, and check in again next season preserving his rookie contact for another year because why wouldn’t you with struggling young guy.

The issue was Perry completely forgot how long he was on the MLB roster for and sent him down the DAY AFTER his contract was converted.

So what’s the issue? We threw away valuable and insanely cheap rookie scale contract time (the 5 years a team gets before they need to give a player a professional contact) because Perry forgot his playing time (thus converting a rookie that still needs developmental time into an everyday player).

So we lost YEARS of control because our GM can’t count

thekidfromyesterday | Atlanta Braves

1 | 10 hours ago

Oof I see what you mean now

Certain_Judgment6646 | Los Angeles Angels

11 | 10 hours ago

It’s one of those things that a lot of the fan base will blame Perry’s failure on Artie rightly wrongly. But this is something that just proves that Perry is in over his head as a GM that he cannot even competently manage our top prospects and count days of their playing time.

mat2019 | Seattle Mariners

1 | 3 hours ago

Just curious, what was the last season they had that you actually had confidence going into the year that it was going to be a good season?

Certain_Judgment6646 | Los Angeles Angels

1 | 3 hours ago

Honestly? 2021. We thought we had a healthy trout, Rendon was coming off a great yet shortened Covid season, and Ohtani was looking to come into his own.

We just got Perry and he said everything the fanbase wanted to hear about analytics.

We had Joe Maddon, who always wanted to manage the Angels.

It really seemed like we were turning a corner. But literally we have not been close to that level since.

The key difference between Perry’s tenure and others is clear: other GMs had the team hover around .500 and you can literally point out the issues from Arte’s interference (basically using any and all free payroll on aging bats instead of signing any pitching).

With Perry, there are so many issues that directly stem from his drafting choices, his trades, his FA signing work, and even his non roster work like filling his front office with his highly unqualified friends to lead major scouting departments or even this Kurt Suzuki hiring which is giving his friend a shot to be an mlb manager

JayDeeLA | Los Angeles Angels

0 | 7 hours ago

I fear most team subreddits are astroturfed with bots and the mods being told by PR/marketing reps to squash certain threads with downvote brigades.

Patrick2701 | Chicago Cubs

1 | 12 hours ago

Some might say angels have best culture

https://youtu.be/g6JjqKsizBo?si=re_JI5WWF1cTirUh

SomebodyLied | Seattle Mariners

178 | 13 hours ago

The what? The air conditioning?

It works great. It’s very cold when we turn it on.

What?

What a stupid question. Yes, we can turn on the AC.

Do we what? Do we turn on the AC?

We have absolutely turned on the AC in the past. Yes.

When they’re weight training?

Oh yeah. We have the ability to turn on the air conditioning when they’re weight training.

milkshakemountebank | Los Angeles Dodgers

38 | 12 hours ago

You may have a future in the current administration’s new Office of Propaganda LOL

isummonyouhere | San Francisco Giants

30 | 12 hours ago

an HVAC system that works perfectly fine but was locked down at 79 degrees by some random facilities exec who never comes into the office. sounds 100% accurate

Blank_page95 | Los Angeles Angels

134 | 13 hours ago

Help us. If we (this sub) all could each donate $20,500 we could buy the Angels and help this landfill fire of a team

elementofpee | Seattle Mariners

60 | 13 hours ago

Maybe you guys should start with a modest GoFundMe goal and replace the AC first.

Blank_page95 | Los Angeles Angels

87 | 13 hours ago

The AC? Its very cold. Works great

stevencastle | San Diego Padres

19 | 12 hours ago

Coldliest AC in history some may say.

ashimbo | Los Angeles Angels

15 | 12 hours ago

Big strong players come up to me with tears in their eyes saying “Perry, the air conditioning is great. It’s too cold! It blows so cold!”

Blank_page95 | Los Angeles Angels

2 | 12 hours ago

👌Even Antarctica doesnt get colder than the AC the Angels have👌

kindredfan | Toronto Blue Jays

15 | 13 hours ago

Can you imagine a redditor owned team lmao

Sandrockwing04

22 | 12 hours ago

So many upvotes and down votes for decisions and then bans for trade suggestions.

GareksApprentice | San Diego Padres • Blue Jays Bandwagon

9 | 12 hours ago

Everyone on the opening day roster would be DFA’d within a week

Blank_page95 | Los Angeles Angels

7 | 12 hours ago

Twitch runs an MLB team

Scuza10 | Los Angeles Angels

6 | 11 hours ago

Its better than what we currently have

LucasDudacris | New York Mets

0 | 12 hours ago

Probably better than the Rockies.

asparagusbruh | New York Yankees

11 | 13 hours ago

It be cheaper to pay somebody to eat arte

tohon75 | Los Angeles Angels • Sell

3 | 9 hours ago

anyone got the contact info for the etsy witch?

WetGrundle | Los Angeles Dodgers

0 | 12 hours ago

Long con, but this guy comes with a troubled past. Maybe some Chicago fan can hold onto him until they’re the right size lol

https://www.buybears.org/muffin.php

sukizka | Chicago Cubs

2 | 12 hours ago

Thank god for 2002

288isclosed | Houston Astros

130 | 13 hours ago

His responses are strikingly similar to other leaders of today…

Salvalicious252 | Major League Baseball

90 | 13 hours ago

No wonder they hired Kurt Suzuki as manager

Jason82929 | Chicago White Sox

50 | 13 hours ago

He’s gonna Make the Angels Great Again

EnsignObvious | Los Angeles Dodgers

30 | 12 hours ago

They already have the red hats…

saltface14 | Toronto Blue Jays

10 | 12 hours ago

Man I was just about to say he’d fit right in with the Cheeto administration

Nondescriptsitch | Los Angeles Dodgers

1 | 6 hours ago

At this point business schools would be committing malpractice if they’re not training their students to lie. It obviously gets you places.

Hollywood42cards | Minnesota Twins

112 | 13 hours ago

WE HAVE THE BEST AMMENITIES

Jason82929 | Chicago White Sox

74 | 13 hours ago

Perry: “Big strong, tough guys come up to me. Tears in their eyes…they say, Perry…sir, you have the best amenities I’ve ever seen”

Alxndr27 | World Series Trophy • Los Angeles Dod…

17 | 12 hours ago

I heard they have the coldest AC and hottest hot tubs. Its so very true i’ve seen them.

No-Series-3997 | Minnesota Twins

12 | 11 hours ago

MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING THIS

appealtoprobability | Boston Red Sox

6 | 10 hours ago

THE AC UNIT IS THE BIGLIEST AC UNIT MONEY CAN BUY

Thromnomnomok | Seattle Mariners

2 | 30 minutes ago

THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA WILL TELL YOU WE DON’T HAVE AC. INCORRECT! WE HAVE THE COLDEST AC YOU’VE EVER SEEN, SO COLD YOU’LL GET TIRED OF COLD!

ThQp | Toronto Blue Jays

55 | 13 hours ago

Great reminder that Arte is not the only problem

breakfast_cats | Los Angeles Angels • Dumpster Fire

29 | 12 hours ago

I mean if he’s not the only problem he’s certainly responsible for those that are

booitsjwu | Los Angeles Angels • Los Angeles Dodgers

14 | 9 hours ago

It’s like people don’t understand that everyone else has been hired by Arte specifically because they’re like this. These decisions come from the top:

Kieran Lovegrove, an active pitcher for the Double-A Rocket City Trash Pandas, said he is living with six other teammates in a three-bedroom apartment, sleeping on a twin mattress, with one person sleeping in the kitchen and two others in the living room. Others like Shane Kelso – who spent part of the 2021 season with the low-A Inland Empire 66ers, another Angels affiliate, before retiring due to the living conditions for players – said four teammates bunked in a camper van in a trailer park while others lived out of cars.

Patrick2701 | Chicago Cubs

15 | 12 hours ago

He is the main one

Pandorama626 | Los Angeles Dodgers

10 | 11 hours ago

When you’re rotten at the top, the rest of the organization will reflect that.

kmarx | New York Yankees

6 | 12 hours ago

When the owner of the team is a problem they are the only problem that matters.

Spiritual_Ad337 | Los Angeles Dodgers

-8 | 13 hours ago

The person who funds the amenities isn’t the source of the problem?

ThQp | Toronto Blue Jays

22 | 13 hours ago

Arte is not the only problem

BKoala59 | Baltimore Orioles

-8 | 12 hours ago

What the fuck is Perry supposed to do? Say yea the AC sucks and our amenities are lacking compared to most teams but Arte won’t spend money on fixing them?

ThQp | Toronto Blue Jays

43 | 12 hours ago

There’s a much more artful way to not call Kikuchi a liar while also standing by your facilities, without acting like you don’t understand English

bringbackpologrounds

-8 | 12 hours ago

I’m interested to hear this lol.

VitalMusician | Los Angeles Dodgers

15 | 12 hours ago

Q: “do you guys feel like this is an issue in terms of your amenities?”
A: “Any time a player feels the need to express something like this publicly, I’d call that an issue, yes. We’re a major-league ball club, and as such we hope to provide the best player experience possible because we want the best on-field product possible. I am not sure if he raised this issue with us specifically before; I need to do some additional investigation. But regardless, if a player is saying that, it’s a problem one way or the other. Part of my role is to address feedback we are receiving from players, and fans, and other stakeholders, so I take this as negative feedback, and I see it as at least partially my responsibility. Because of that, I take it very seriously, and I am hoping to address it in the following ways: *lists the ways*”

That’s something closer to what he should have said.

BKoala59 | Baltimore Orioles

2 | 11 hours ago

In Moreno’s eyes this makes him and the org look bad. It’s not an answer Minasian could have given

bringbackpologrounds

-3 | 10 hours ago

This reads fine, but now speak it out loud and pretend a reporter is filming you.

My point is, there’s no good answer Minasian could give, beyond “we’re always looking to get better.” Of course, this being the Angels, he couldn’t manage even that.

Atraktape | Los Angeles Dodgers

54 | 12 hours ago

Tremendous AC. The best, you’ve never seen any AC like it let me tell you. We’re ACing very strongly.

beefytrout | Texas Rangers

10 | 12 hours ago

grown men with tears in their eyes

cabinetbanana | Washington Nationals

4 | 12 hours ago

😄 That’s exactly the way it read to me, too.

Sandviscerate | Adelaide Giants

2 | 12 hours ago

One of the coldest we’ve ever seen, from a standpoint of cold.

OnlyForBaseball | Pittsburgh Pirates

42 | 13 hours ago

This is hilarious

Fun-Raise-3120

35 | 13 hours ago

So the truth is that AC was never turned on

UnchartedFields | MLB Pride

19 | 12 hours ago

Yeah it works just fine but they don’t like to run it low in the summer because my dad is in charge of the AC and you can always just wear a t-shirt!

Correct_Valuable4058

30 | 12 hours ago

And some people were chastising Ohtani for not staying loyal

ProfessionalBalker | Atlanta Braves

28 | 13 hours ago

Air conditioning? Never heard of him.

GuyOnTheMike | Kansas City Royals

26 | 13 hours ago

I imagine these comments will endear themselves to players, prospective free agents in particular

GareksApprentice | San Diego Padres • Blue Jays Bandwagon

7 | 12 hours ago

I thought all you had to do was throw more money and free agents would be tripping over themselves to sign

IceBlast24 | Los Angeles Angels

27 | 12 hours ago

FWIW this is what Kevin Pillar said when Kikuchi’s comment was presented to him on Foul Territory (can’t find the exact episode but I found a clip)

I believe it. I was there, the AC was working there, but the inner workings of like the clubhouse, the weight room, the hot tub always had problems too. Arte definitely needs to spend some money and fix that internal workings of the clubhouse, the weight room, the locker room. I mean, it’s a big selling point to get players and the Angels is very, very far behind from a lot of places I’ve been.

edit: follow-up post from Sam Blum:

[Blum] For full context; here’s the rest of the interaction.

The amenities?

Yes.

No. I think our amenities are fine. I think we have great people. I think the environment in the clubhouse this year was outstanding. I think Yusei would say the same thing.

Well he said what he said.

Did he say the environment wasn’t good?

He said the air conditioning is broken.

So what does that have to do with all the amenities?

That was he came out of his start the last game. It seems like an important question. I guess if you don’t -

That would be a question for him. The air conditioning, we’ve never had an issue with it. That would be something for him. For us, he never complained all year about the amenities or anything like that. I think he’s very happy being here.

That’s a different question.

I think he loves the place.

That may be true. He did say that about the air conditioning.

OK. Great.

N0penguinsinAlaska | Los Angeles Angels

19 | 13 hours ago

Man the Angels are the worst sports team I follow by far

DFWTrojanTuba | Texas Rangers

17 | 13 hours ago

What happened in this instance?

Well, the front fell off.

vegetablecompound | Toronto Blue Jays

18 | 12 hours ago

I assume that the next step is for the Angels to tell Kikuchi to hold a press conference in which he publicly retracts his comments, claims that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia, and that he loves Big Brother.

Aravinda82 | Major League Baseball

13 | 13 hours ago

Good luck signing any quality free agents. What an embarrassment and joke of a franchise. How long before Kikuchi is traded? Lol

Bman4k1 | Toronto Blue Jays

8 | 12 hours ago

You can sign free agents?

Angels GM probably.

Certain_Judgment6646 | Los Angeles Angels

10 | 11 hours ago

Funny part is, Angels are still top 10 in FA spending under Perry. The issue is he drops a ton of money into bullpen or 1 year flyer deals (Literally in 2022 he signed Thor, Loup, and Tepera and spent a combined $40M+ on those contracts plus gave up a 2nd round pick).

As another angels redditor here said, Arte Moreno is not the only issue with this team. Perry has been such a terrible GM going into his 6th season and he lacks any accountability at all

VinScullysMyHomeboy

14 | 11 hours ago

It’s teams like these that are ruining baseball. Of course players are going to want to go where they get paid, but they also want to go where they know they’ll be taken care of. This is embarrassing on every front from a professional sports team.

cabinetbanana | Washington Nationals

12 | 12 hours ago

No wonder Rendon is always hurt. Probably keeps slipping on all the sweat on the weigh room floor.

Zariman-10-0 | Philadelphia Phillies • Phanatic

13 | 12 hours ago

We have air conditioning. The best. I’m told our air conditioning is great, they say “Perry, this is the bestest most coldest air conditioning we’ve ever seen.”

Steakholder__ | Toronto Blue Jays

10 | 12 hours ago

Pathetic. You can give Kikuchi back if you’re going to treat him like that.

rusinga_island | Toronto Blue Jays

9 | 13 hours ago

I know you are, but what am I?

Zigglyjiggly | Los Angeles Dodgers

2 | 6 hours ago

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?! I AM!

MobiusOne_FoxTwo | Toronto Blue Jays

9 | 12 hours ago

I can’t believe they swindled Trout into signing his career away to this org.

thrillhou5e | Seattle Mariners

9 | 12 hours ago

IM 100% CONFIDENT THE AC IS WORKING RIGHT NOW BUT I ALSO HAVE NOT HEARD ANY RECENT COMMENTS ABOUT THE AC.

Im so tired of this fucking act. These fat rich pricks make me sick.

Youngster_Joey14 | Tampa Bay Rays

8 | 12 hours ago

Yusei: it’s broken

I say: it’s fine

omniscientbeet | Detroit Tigers • Los Angeles Angels

7 | 12 hours ago

“The ceiling appears to be leaking.”

“No. It’s not. We’ve looked into it, and it’s not.”

eekbarbaderkle | Boston Red Sox

7 | 10 hours ago

Damn Perry. You don’t even need to address this directly and admit to the world that you guys never got the AC fixed. Just offer a blanket response about listening to and responding to player feedback in all areas of their experience in the organization. Shows you’re responsive without directly admitting that your organization has either been cheap or negligent or both.

Baseball-Fan-10

7 | 13 hours ago

Reminds me of the Martin Short character from SNL in the mid-80s named Nathan Thurm. Would take questions like this in a 60 Minutes type setting and answer “I didn’t say that. You said that. I don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s so funny he would say that.”

bananaslug178 | Anaheim Angels

6 | 12 hours ago

When you think the organization can’t get any worse, these fuckheads prove us wrong every time.

VirginiaVagina

8 | 8 hours ago

On the same day Mike Trout testified in court about the drug dealing staff member who may have supplied Tyler Skaggs with the fatal drugs.

What an organization.

Disused_Yeti | Cleveland Guardians

7 | 12 hours ago

“you say kikuchi said that? i say kikuchi didn’t”

ZeroMomentum | Toronto Blue Jays

5 | 11 hours ago

So basically even the angles management team hates the angles

yick04 | Toronto Blue Jays

5 | 10 hours ago

Come back, Yusei.

fishofmutton

5 | 12 hours ago

Ahahahahaha if you don’t believe the players here you’re a corporate shill or have half a brain. What a fucked up org.

rajuabju | Los Angeles Dodgers

4 | 11 hours ago

It would be amazing if the Angels players (or the union) filed a formal complaint with the CA Labor Commissioner and they open an investigation into the working conditions… I would very much enjoy that show!

Blank_page95 | Los Angeles Angels

5 | 9 hours ago

Add it to the list of things we are under investigation or on trial for since 2019

16BitBoulevard | Boston Red Sox

5 | 10 hours ago

Speaking like JD Vance did pretending he had no idea Homan got caught taking a $50k bribe…

masterninjab52 | Los Angeles Dodgers

5 | 9 hours ago

He was so defensive that you know he was lying. Why would Kikuchi lie about the AC.

snorlaxatives_69 | St. Louis Cardinals

5 | 9 hours ago

Remember when we had the dignity to converse in complete coherent sentences? I hate this blatant rich guy bs way of speaking

BlueberryNo6811

4 | 9 hours ago

The dodgers are ruining baseball let’s not forget that

Drinkable_Pig | Toronto Blue Jays

4 | 8 hours ago

He wouldn’t say the same thing

Literally didn’t say the same thing

FingerpistolPete | Arizona Diamondbacks

3 | 13 hours ago

You tryin to tell me Jesus can’t fix an AC?

Loose-Organization82 | Los Angeles Angels

3 | 12 hours ago

The way I read this is that the air conditioning probably produced air, not cold at the time, so wouldn’t that mean that it does work? The mental gymnastics of Perry is crazy, but I think this was his way of saying it’s not broken.

_HGCenty | Seattle Mariners

3 | 12 hours ago

I doubt Perry Minasian has ever seen the inside of a weight room.

Spinmove55 | Dumpster Fire • Los Angeles Angels

3 | 12 hours ago

“Hey Siri, how do I change my flair on mobile?”

HotTakesBeyond | Seattle Mariners

3 | 12 hours ago

I see why Dipoto jumped ship for the Mariners

Blank_page95 | Los Angeles Angels

1 | 10 hours ago

I mean his actions as a GM put this team in a hole as well. He just lost the battle between him and Scoscia and realized he didnt have as much power as he thought.

ritzdeez | New York Mets

2 | 11 hours ago

Real big “the front fell off” vibes.

Esclamare | Los Angeles Dodgers

2 | 11 hours ago

Air Conditioning Gate

Mundane-News9720 | Los Angeles Dodgers

2 | 11 hours ago

He’s a general manager…?

curtmandu | Cowlitz Black Bears • Texas …

4 | 10 hours ago

Arte allows Perry to call himself a GM, yes. Makes him feel like he’s got a big boy job and then he has to answer these questions instead of Arte lol.

collectaBK7 | Los Angeles Angels

2 | 11 hours ago

I hate everything

sunriseizumo

2 | 9 hours ago

I’m quitting being an Angels fan.

No-Economics4128 | Los Angeles Dodgers

2 | 8 hours ago

You just know Yusei is counting the day when he can bail out of Anaheim and go anywhere but there.

Zigglyjiggly | Los Angeles Dodgers

2 | 6 hours ago

Damn, I’m sorry, Angels fans. Your team should be so much better than this.

Baseball-man2025

2 | 5 hours ago

This convo reminds me of the scene in Glengarry Glen Ross when Ricky Roma (Al Pacino) was trying to convince his client Lingk (Jonathan Pryce), that the check hasn’t been cashed yet and everything is going to be okay. Perry is Ricky Roma in this convo.

BigTall81 | Toronto Blue Jays

2 | 3 hours ago

This read like an updated version of “The Front Fell Off”

GareksApprentice | San Diego Padres • Blue Jays Bandwagon

1 | 13 hours ago

Damn, I was seconds away from posting this lol

IceBlast24 | Los Angeles Angels

17 | 13 hours ago

just wanted to spread the word of our cheap ass org after I saw the post about Suzuki’s 1 year contract getting traction

Canadian__Ninja | Toronto Blue Jays

1 | 12 hours ago

the phrase “back and forth” has never been more accurate. That was like pulling teeth trying to get him to say something.

s3ren1tyn0w | Seattle Mariners

1 | 12 hours ago

There is no war in ba sing sei

questionyou100 | San Francisco Giants • Toronto Blue Jays

1 | 12 hours ago

very cold

iill_communication

1 | 12 hours ago

Head meets hole in the sand, decides to stay for awhile.

Tashre | Seattle Mariners

1 | 12 hours ago

I hate that this guy let the corpo speak successfully divert him off the line of attack he should’ve stuck to. Keep hammering about the AC and don’t let them weasel out of getting caught directly addressing it with a lie.

sameth1 | Toronto Blue Jays

1 | 10 hours ago

“The air conditioning is great. Very cold.” feels like such a Trump-like response. He’s not addressing the claim at all, just claiming superiority through denial.

War-Dragonite | Los Angeles Dodgers • World Series …

1 | 6 hours ago

Mfw the Rockies are better run than the Angels.

douchebaggery5000 | Los Angeles Dodgers

1 | 6 hours ago

The fact that this redact makes millions is a disgrace to humanity

HumanRuse

1 | 5 hours ago

Who’s on first?

EDosed

0 | 5 hours ago

Yo who actually who gives a shit? What is this thread

[Blum] I had a long back-and-forth with Perry Minasian today about comments Yusei Kikuchi made at the end of the season. Kikuchi said the Angels air conditioning had been broken in the weight room all year. And was never fixed, despite him asking. Here’s a part of it that Q&A: