The Angels (52-49) still are four games out of a wild-card berth, but owner Arte Moreno mandated the front office go for it, believing this is their best shot at ending the longest postseason drought in baseball

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1. > Moreno refused to simply sit back and let the season go by and wasn’t about to trade Ohtani for unproven prospects while losing tens of millions of dollars and watching attendance plummet.

   > He ordered GM Perry Minasian to deliver him a starting pitcher and a reliever, even if it meant going over the luxury tax threshold.

2. arte locked gmpm in the kitchen and demanded results

3. I appreciate the aggressiveness from arte I suppose, but it feels a little late in the game like a kid procrastinating on his big school project and being surprised at the results being less good than he wants.

   Saying these statements and making these moves now doesn’t just instantly fix a decade of organizational malaise and mismanagement.

4. And what happened then? well in whoville they say that the grinche’s small grew 3 sizes that day