Personally, which of these disaster seasons was hardest to watch?
September 4, 2025
Personally, which of these disaster seasons was hardest to watch?
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I tried to sum up each season in our decade of no playoffs with Trout and Ohtani… for me, the worst was 2022. I thought that team was surely a playoff team especially after the hot start. That 14-game losing streak was agonizing.
It’s as if there has been no pitching to back up the bats when there were bats.
Statistically: 2022
Emotionally: 2024
Watching Ohtani instantly win with the Dodgers was hard to see.
2023 was the worst for our future. Refusing to get some of the massive hauls we were offered for ohtani only to find out Arte massively undervalued him in FA and trading a top 100 prospect for two guys who lasted a month.
2022 of course. After that year, I knew it would be a while before the angels would make the playoffs
For me not getting anything for Ohtani when we all knew he wouldn’t stay. Just the biggest f up in the history in our franchise. We could have cashed in big time.
Yes.
I think I watched every game of that 14 loss streak. It was brutal. That Harper grand slam was the nail in the coffin.
It all started the year we didn’t re-sign Torii Hunter
i dont have any issue with 2023 and none of yall should either. Ohtani chose us as a destination when he could have literally went anywhere else (including the Dodgers.) He was already looked at as a generational talent before he came to America. One of the only smart moves Arte Moreno has made is letting Ohtani leave with dignity especially after everything he had done for the franchise his time here. If we shipped him off to the Brewers or Twins or some midwest team for the biggest haul, we would effectively end any chance at signing a major foreign talent again and it would just leave a bad taste in other players mouths whenever they hear they might have to sign with the Angels.
I will always hate Josh Hamilton. Fuck junkies , wont ever feel bad for em.
2022 because we could’ve had caminero
1995.
I surrendered hope for team success under this owner after 2022 and hoped Shohei would leave for a competent franchise other than the dodgers. So it’s not the last few seasons because I was already dead inside.
It’s not the Shohei seasons because he made baseball fun and hopeful.
It’s in the josh Hamilton era when we were wasting the Trout years signing a series of Rangers who were about to be out of warranty or stars who had used up most of their stardom.
they were all equally bad
#YES
Emotionally, I feel the losing streak. I was so excited and optimistic then… WTF is going on?! Losing to the Nats!? HELP! We were tied with the Phillies, a team that was also disappointing, then boom they make the World Series and we suckity suck.
Rebuild the farm system Arte…it’s an indirect investment in the performance of and valuation of the team.
Yes.
Oh man, this is painful.
The 2023 year is the toughest one for me. The Halos were 5 games above 500 when they made the trades, they were in the thick or a playoff chase, with the best player in baseball and decides to buy. I can’t fault them for that, I would have made the same call. And I’m not going to rewrite history and pretend that I wasn’t pumped after Ohtani had that start against the Tigers right when the Giolitto trade was being announced.
Unfortunately it didn’t work out, and the wheels came off immediately. All we could do was stare into an abyss of what a mediocre team with a terrible farm was going to look like next year when they removed a near 10 WAR player. August 2023 was probably my most heartbreaking month as an Angels fan (maybe October of 2014 beats it out, but it’s close), not just because of how bad the Angels were that month, but because of how much worse we knew they were about to get.
The 14 game losing streak in 2022 and being eliminated on the last game of 2015 are probably the runners up for me.
2020 – I haven’t watched much baseball since. I’m numb to their failures anymore.
Its hard to say. I think 2022 was the one that broke me, but that wouldn’t have happened without the previous seasons. Since then, I’ve resigned to mostly only watching the team when they are above .500, and limiting my emotional connection to them as long as Arte owns the team. In the meantime, I’ve gotten a lot more into basketball and soccer.
Every season hard to watch especially with an owner that don’t spend money on pitching and over paying for players that are washed up but letting ohtani go was the biggest mistake ever by the angels
2022 was just painfully bad
having gone to multiple games during that 14 game losing streak (i live in NYC), 2022 was certainly the year i was most frequently viscerally angry as an angels fan lol.
That game 161 against the rangers in 2015 was the last time I felt something with this team
Hilarious you found a way to put the Dodgers into your post
Josh Hamilton literally set this franchise back over a decade. The destruction of his contract and relapse set them on a path of bad/compromised decisions and is not talked about enough.
2023 was a train wreck in slow motion capped by the cruel acquisitions at the trade deadline, but 2024 was worse—no real hope from the start.
29 comments
I tried to sum up each season in our decade of no playoffs with Trout and Ohtani… for me, the worst was 2022. I thought that team was surely a playoff team especially after the hot start. That 14-game losing streak was agonizing.
It’s as if there has been no pitching to back up the bats when there were bats.
Statistically: 2022
Emotionally: 2024
Watching Ohtani instantly win with the Dodgers was hard to see.
2023 was the worst for our future. Refusing to get some of the massive hauls we were offered for ohtani only to find out Arte massively undervalued him in FA and trading a top 100 prospect for two guys who lasted a month.
2022 of course. After that year, I knew it would be a while before the angels would make the playoffs
For me not getting anything for Ohtani when we all knew he wouldn’t stay. Just the biggest f up in the history in our franchise. We could have cashed in big time.
Yes.
I think I watched every game of that 14 loss streak. It was brutal. That Harper grand slam was the nail in the coffin.
It all started the year we didn’t re-sign Torii Hunter
i dont have any issue with 2023 and none of yall should either. Ohtani chose us as a destination when he could have literally went anywhere else (including the Dodgers.) He was already looked at as a generational talent before he came to America. One of the only smart moves Arte Moreno has made is letting Ohtani leave with dignity especially after everything he had done for the franchise his time here. If we shipped him off to the Brewers or Twins or some midwest team for the biggest haul, we would effectively end any chance at signing a major foreign talent again and it would just leave a bad taste in other players mouths whenever they hear they might have to sign with the Angels.
I will always hate Josh Hamilton. Fuck junkies , wont ever feel bad for em.
2022 because we could’ve had caminero
1995.
I surrendered hope for team success under this owner after 2022 and hoped Shohei would leave for a competent franchise other than the dodgers. So it’s not the last few seasons because I was already dead inside.
It’s not the Shohei seasons because he made baseball fun and hopeful.
It’s in the josh Hamilton era when we were wasting the Trout years signing a series of Rangers who were about to be out of warranty or stars who had used up most of their stardom.
they were all equally bad
#YES
Emotionally, I feel the losing streak. I was so excited and optimistic then… WTF is going on?! Losing to the Nats!? HELP! We were tied with the Phillies, a team that was also disappointing, then boom they make the World Series and we suckity suck.
Rebuild the farm system Arte…it’s an indirect investment in the performance of and valuation of the team.
Yes.
Oh man, this is painful.
The 2023 year is the toughest one for me. The Halos were 5 games above 500 when they made the trades, they were in the thick or a playoff chase, with the best player in baseball and decides to buy. I can’t fault them for that, I would have made the same call. And I’m not going to rewrite history and pretend that I wasn’t pumped after Ohtani had that start against the Tigers right when the Giolitto trade was being announced.
Unfortunately it didn’t work out, and the wheels came off immediately. All we could do was stare into an abyss of what a mediocre team with a terrible farm was going to look like next year when they removed a near 10 WAR player. August 2023 was probably my most heartbreaking month as an Angels fan (maybe October of 2014 beats it out, but it’s close), not just because of how bad the Angels were that month, but because of how much worse we knew they were about to get.
The 14 game losing streak in 2022 and being eliminated on the last game of 2015 are probably the runners up for me.
2020 – I haven’t watched much baseball since. I’m numb to their failures anymore.
Its hard to say. I think 2022 was the one that broke me, but that wouldn’t have happened without the previous seasons. Since then, I’ve resigned to mostly only watching the team when they are above .500, and limiting my emotional connection to them as long as Arte owns the team. In the meantime, I’ve gotten a lot more into basketball and soccer.
Every season hard to watch especially with an owner that don’t spend money on pitching and over paying for players that are washed up but letting ohtani go was the biggest mistake ever by the angels
2022 was just painfully bad
having gone to multiple games during that 14 game losing streak (i live in NYC), 2022 was certainly the year i was most frequently viscerally angry as an angels fan lol.
That game 161 against the rangers in 2015 was the last time I felt something with this team
Hilarious you found a way to put the Dodgers into your post
Josh Hamilton literally set this franchise back over a decade. The destruction of his contract and relapse set them on a path of bad/compromised decisions and is not talked about enough.
2023 was a train wreck in slow motion capped by the cruel acquisitions at the trade deadline, but 2024 was worse—no real hope from the start.