ANAHEIM, Calif. – So, Arte Moreno may or may not be back to picking sides: top step or windowed office, conventional wisdom or tiny little numbers, my way or highway.

Mike Scioscia or Jerry Dipoto. Again. Around and around.

One might argue there is benefit to the cranky discourse that oozes from a roster that is so lean and, really, on too many nights just two or three hitters deep. The Angels aren't winning enough. Whether that's because they're light on talent or slow on scouting report delivery systems sounds again like a matter for Moreno's patience, which is not famously deliberate except apparently in matters of Scioscia vs. Dipoto.

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One might also argue you can have only so many of those arguments before somebody's gotta go, by white flag or jousting stick. That appeared to be sorting itself out as the Angels prepared to host the New York Yankees on Tuesday night.

Hours after a Fox report detailed yet another skirmish between the front office and the uniformed, this having to do with how players were receiving and then employing – or not employing – scouting reports, the mood at Angel Stadium was somewhat edgy.

"A lot of closed doors," one club official said.

Said another: "Something's going to give this time. Looks irreparable."

Is Dipoto hoping for Moreno's support? If so, is it coming? Would Dipoto walk? Would Moreno turn on Scioscia?

And what's any of it mean for a season that is not yet disastrous for the Angels but is undeniably not what they'd had in mind three months ago?

The Josh Hamilton dust-up came and went, and what remains is a bottom-third offense (a year after it was the most productive in baseball) along with a terribly unproductive batch of left fielders. This was at least part of the plan, to borrow from the offense in order to stockpile some pitching. At the end of the day, Mike Trout and Albert Pujols and the occasional bit player carry the lineup that was left behind. Presumably this is what Pujols was getting at when he allegedly defended the coaching staff against Dipoto's criticisms and pointed out it was the roster that had changed, not the coaches. Pujols denied saying anything derogatory about the lineup.

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He did, however, say it was "embarrassing" that the contents of a team meeting would go public.

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