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Baseball: The Angels are in HellHas your team ever had the second-worst farm system in baseball, sat in last place, trailed 7-0 at home against a team that lost 119 games a year ago, and then gone down more when your right fielder missed a fly ball with his glove and volleyed it over the wall with his head for a home run, helping to clinch a series loss against said 119-loss team right before your team drives up the interstate to face its biggest rival, which recently signed away your longtime superstar, the best player ever, and then won back-to-back World Series, with your former star winning consecutive MVPs (don’t worry; he’s now on his way to a third) while your fans begged on their hands and knees for the owner to sell the team?What? That’s never happened to you? Here’s that GIF again:However bad you think the Angels are, they’re worse. This is now the bleakest team outlook in the major North American professional sports. Just add it all up:
The team is tied for the worst record in baseball, matching those Rockies at 24-40. They lost to the Dodgers last night on a Freddie Freeman walk-off homer.
