The April 17th, 2015 edition of Los Angeles Angels news including Angels ask employees to keep working during anthem, MLB backs Angels in Hamilton contract debate and much more…
The Story: The Angels have instructed ticket takes to keep working during the national anthem.
The Monkey Says: I can’t tell if this is more of the Angels being tone deaf or people looking for reasons to pile on Angel management or both. Probably both. The Halos issued this mandate out of the desire to keep crowds moving and get people into the park, which is now slower with the installation of metal detectors at the gates, but it does seem a bit disrespectful. Whoever issued this policy clearly didn’t think it all the way through, but I also understand that Angel Stadium isn’t the first venue to have such a mandate.
The Story: MLB supports the idea that the Angels can use the clauses in Josh Hamilton’s contract to release him or make the deal non-guaranteed.
The Monkey Says: Of course they do. It is the Commissioner’s office’s job to back up the owners. More than anything this is posturing in advance of what is sure to be another legal showdown.
The Story: Josh Hamilton is not without blame for his current situation.
The Monkey Says: This doesn’t demonize Josh for the drug use, but rather it calls into question Hamilton choosing to leave Texas where he had an established support network. That’s not an unfair criticism, but if I recall correctly, Josh had been monkeying with that network even before he signed. Also, it isn’t as if that network prevented the two other relapses he had in Texas, so maybe it wouldn’t have mattered.
The Story: Brewers reliever Jeremy Jeffress hopes that the Angels support Josh Hamilton.
The Monkey Says: Jeffress has had his own struggles with narcotics and believes a big reason he got his life back on track was because the Brewers supported him and he thinks the Angels should do the same for Hamilton.
The Story: Angels teammates are eagerly awaiting the return of Garrett Richards.
The Monkey Says: First off, let’s not promote this whole “Bullet” nickname thing. There are only so many pro athletes named “Garrett” and we can’t let that be minimized by a nickname, especially one that isn’t even that good.
The Story: Former Angels Scott Spiezio was Tased and arrested following a domestic dispute.
The Monkey Says: Ugh.
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