These must be hard times for baseball fans in the greater Los Angeles area.

The Dodgers have a chance to be good, but they cannot be seen by most fans. (Because of that ridiculous Time Warner Cable mess.)

The Angels can be seen by almost all fans, but no one should have to watch them.

The Angels just got spanked twice by the Chicago Cubs — and, yes, the Cubs are pretty good — but the Angels’ shaky pitching (Garrett Richards and Andrew Heaney are their top two starters, and were battered) is alarming, and we already knew that the lineup is quite weak.

This doesn’t look good at all, not even when we take into account the “marathon, not a sprint” thing.

Do Angels fans actually believe that the half of their lineup that has no punch, and never has … suddenly will discover it? Do they imagine the club is going to come up with five MLB-caliber starting pitchers at any point this season, especially now that Heaney is down with a scary arm injury?

What is particularly depressing about this team is the amount of money being lavished on it, for no foreseeable benefit.

Let’s look at how that $166.8 million Opening Day salary bill, the seventh-biggest in baseball, is being apportioned.

Hold on!

(All individual contract figures courtesy of baseballprospectus.com.)

Albert Pujols: $25 million this year, Year 5 on that 10-year, $240 million contract owner Artie Moreno lavished on Pujols ahead of the 2012 season, the one we all knew was a mistake, when Pujols already was 32. Now 36, Pujols is showing signs of decline, relegated to DH’ing and an on-base percentage that has declined seven consecutive seasons (to .307), and the Angels have to pay him through the 2021 season. They must be hoping he can somehow discover his inner David Ortiz and be useful into his fast-approaching dotage.

Next up, two pitchers who very likely could have little (or no) value to the club.

Jered Weaver, at $20 million in the final year of a five-year deal.

C.J. Wilson, at $20 million in the final year of a five-year deal.

Weaver and his incredibly melting fastball will be on display Sunday, and children are advised not to watch.

Anyway, a tiny bit of good news: The contracts of both Weaver and Wilson expire after this season, freeing up $40 million.

Then we come to the one player who is worth what he is being paid, Mike Trout, who gets $15.25 million this year after four sensational seasons, and we can only hope he is not scarred by the garbage around him in this lineup.

The fifth-most-expensive Angel is closer Huston Street, at $8 million, and even the Angels ought to be able to find someone much cheaper than that to throw the ninth inning, when Street’s 2017 option is not picked up, this fall.

No. 6 on the salary list is Yunel Escobar, who had a flicker of life last year but is far more likely to have a sub-replacement season. The man is 33 and never hit enough to play anything but shortstop, but the Angels have him manning third.

Garrett Richard is seventh, at $6.47 million after averting arbitration, and he might be worth the money. Someone vaguely ace-like needs to lead the rotation, and no one else is stepping up.

Andrelton Simmons can pick it, at shortstop, and a strong fielder there is nice, which is why the Angels are paying him $6 million, but the man seems unlikely to hit. Which would not be a problem if he had hitters around him. Looking at Johnny Giavotella, C.J. Cron and Escobar, as well as catcher Carlos Perez, Simmons is getting very little help, with the sticks, in the infield.

No. 9 on the salary list is Joe Smith, set-up man, and he gets $5.25 million to pitch the eighth inning on those rare occasions this year when the Angels have a lead.

And No. 10 is Hector Santiago, the club’s No. 3 starter (or No. 2, with Heaney down), who gets $5 million.

So, that is where $117.7 million of the $168 million goes.

But before you begin to think that the Angels are spreading $50 million among the other guys on the Opening Day roster …

Remember that the Angels are paying $26.4 million of Josh Hamilton’s salary, after Moreno demanded he be banished last season, after the guy he had given a five-year, $125 million deal to, failed a drug test. Plus, the Angels are paying the Atlanta Braves $2.5 million of Erick Aybar’s $4 million deal.

Yes. It’s ugly. That’s nearly $30 million the Angels have paid for guys to go away.

What should new general manager Billy Eppler do, after whatever counsel he takes from manager Mike Scioscia?

Eppler apparently is a bright guy, and he has to know that this team competing for the playoffs is highly unlikely, and the way to go is to let them stumble to 50-70 at the trading deadline, then see if he can foist off on someone else semi-useful pieces who are making any kind of money — Street, Escobar, Wilson or Weaver, if they show any life.

Eppler can’t trade Trout, because he is the only reason anyone goes to see the Angels. And he can’t trade his other most useful player, Pujols, because he makes too damn much money.

This team looked bad before the Cubs outscored them 15-1 over two days, and only the reddest of Angels fans can have any hope for this team in 2016.

The sliver of good news is this: Wilson and Weaver come off the payroll after this season, and Hamilton’s enormous welfare payments from Anaheim end after 2017.

The bad news is … the 2016 Milwaukee Brewers look as good as do the Angels, with one star (Ryan Braun), a couple of decent pitchers and a lot of Triple A players.

The issue being … the Brewers are paying $63 million for their train wreck — more than $100 million less than the Angels are pouring down a drain this year.