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Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Game 90/162

Game Thread - Devil Rays at Angels - James "Not Scot" Shields vs. Ervin "Black Magic" Santana - 7:05 p.m.

Star-divide

TB's Kazmir got an ache, a pain, a something that forced this rotation juggle. Still no word on whether Josh Paul will be rearing his ugly #8 onto the field.

Intentionally Altered Movie Lyrics:
Brendan Donnelly: You wanta go for a ride?
Ervin Santana: No thanks.
Donnelly: No thanks. What does that mean?
Santana: I don't want to go.
Donnelly: Go where?
Santana: On a ride.
Donnelly: A ride? Hell, that's a good idea. Okay, let's go. Hey, let's go.

A win = .500 record. This game's still crazy after all these years.

Beat My Runs and Hits Picks: LAA: 5, 11 ... TBD: 3, 9

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voodoo + amyl nitrate =
HITS!

LAA: 9/15
TB: 4/8

Well, it's a nigh-night game...
and it's at the Big A.

I'm pulling for another shut out

Angels: 6/13
Aquabats: 0/5

A Win for the Santana Banana
Angels     4,   8
Rays       2,   6
Run for your money
ANGELS: 5 / 10
DEVILRAYS: 1 / 7
predictions
current halos - 3, 8
former halos - 1, 3
Whirrr
Both of my runs were 1 over, both of my hits were 1 under. Joy.

Angels: 6 / 11
D-Rays: 2 / 6

Picks
Halos 4/7
D'Rays 3/8
Anyone else going to the game tonight?
el a 7 11
De ray 2  6
i will be there
section 240, as usual.
Check L or F
Don't want you fighting with my bro...
wisely, i don't fight lawyers
that's why my sis and i get along so well.
i'm in F, so you might want to remind your bro to check his tickets.
Of course.
If I don't pass out from the heat first I will be..
were you at the series in oakland?
earlier this year?  april 23 perhaps?
I thnik the Angels turn around
started when OC stole home... I think that did something to the team and woke them up.  Combine that with Lackey's new intensity and I think the zietgiest around the clubhouse changed.
last night
rev and i were marvelling at lackey's body language as he came off the mound at the end of an inning. his walk was so confident, self-assured, in-control -- he was displaying some of what i like to call "Raw Panther". cue the Iggy Pop!
I know
It's almost dismissive.  It's liked he's pissed the other team doesn't cede the game at the start and he takes out is anger on them.  He's the one pitcher I wouldn't charge the mound on.  You might get a Ryan beating like Robin ventura got that time... Not like Lackey is hitting anybody lately.  His location is pinpoint.
My picks
Angels- 5, 9
those guys nobody knows- 2,5
Pickage...
Black Magic:  5/9
Maddon's: 0/2

S

Black Magic Whoa Man!
Halos: 5/11
Rays: 3/8

Keep going Juan gone!

Pix
Angels: 6/10

them:   2/5

Who did we call up to replace escobar?
Halos 11/13
D-Ray 2/5
Nevermind
Will answer my own question, that's too bad. Is today the official end of AK?
lackey jr. tonight...
angels- 7/15
d-rays- 3/6
Picks
Angels: 5/8
DRays: 4/11
Wow, what a surprise.
no Howie in the starting lineup tonight.
He's getting in a lot of
leaning on the rail practice.... You can hurt yourself if you don't get a lot of rail time in early.  I guess that's why we have Salmon and Erstad still there, to show the rooks... Though can Erstad even lean these days?
It also gets him acclimated to the...
"WTF is Stoneman doing?" attitude you have to learn to accept.
let's do it again, boys
Santanic Angels  5/11
He wishes his name was Scot 2/8
least we don't have this problem
Blue Jays disinfect clubhouse after second player has staph infection
ROB GILLIES, Jul 15, 2006
The Toronto Blue Jays disinfected their clubhouse after being forced to place right-hander Ty Taubenheim on the 15-day disabled list Saturday with an infection in his left foot, the second Toronto player to be placed on the DL because of a staph infection. Right fielder Alex Rios still hasn't rejoined the club since suffering a staph infection in his lower left leg in late June
but you forgot the rest of the article
that says the Health Department came in, tested everything including the showers, saunas and hot tubs and the cultures came back negative. They disinfected as a precaution. Rios' infection also did not come from the usual source, which is an open wound. They are still not sure of the source of the infection.
so good so far
Mariners and Rangers lose, A's look to be a lost cause tonight... our chance to catch up
Blowout
LAA 10/13
TB 0/1

Texas - lost
Seattle - lost
Oakland - lost

This division is there for the taking.

Nice start
Rex just did his speedball to get all aamped for the game, but we get to  hear a little Cult, AC/DC
Is it the first time
Napoli's hit sixth this month?
We should have an over/under line
for how long it takes Rex to say "gettin' Figgy with it".
I say
within 30 sec of his first at bat
too late
he said before the first pitch, talkng about the defence
slap a "L" on my forehead
OH Duckie
see the Cubbie game???  talk about a blow out!!
Nope
but I did call the frau when I found out.
it was a great game
it was a TERRIFIC
game!!!!!!   was the final 9-2????  mary was here so i missed the last 4 innings....but it was good....
so essentially you missed the entire game!!
i had the tv on
but we were talking...i saw bits and pieces..her phone rang a lot.....all the action was in the final innings?....cubbies, cubbies..goooo cubbies!!!!!
frau
grossartiges deutsches wort

deine frau und ladybug's herr beide mögen der cubbies? sehr viel interessant.

yup
Ich kenne ungefähr die Ehefrau von Duckie nicht, aber mein Ehemann ist von Chicago und der Anhänger eines hartnäckigen Cubbie. Wir sind ein 2 Ligahaushalt.

thanks to freetranslation.com for that one! It's supposed to say:
I do not know about Duckie's wife, but my husband is from Chicago and a diehard Cubbie's fan. We are a 2 league household.

got it
thats cool.  too bad the cubs got DEMOLISHED tonight (well, last night now) by the mets.
OMG that was mass annihilation!!!
one of those "you had to have been theres" but he called his dad in Chicago and sounded like a little kid who was about to cry "but Dad, it's 13-5". My dad was here and we just started laughing at the way he sounded.
KKK
Not such a good social club, but a real nice way to start the game.
Fatball
seems to have more giddy-up than usual
At least GA is DHing tonight
So stupid putting him out there when Juan can play left
Lugo
great play considering Figging was legging that one out.
3
*sigh*
No brains on the basepaths.  
1-0 good team
WAHOOOOO Big Daddy #1000!!
BUT WHY OH WHY do you think you can run???  Geesh......
let vladdy be vladdy
.
Bag O'Bones is ...
caught stretching it out again
Any other hitter
And OC held up at 3rd because the ball was hit so hard, but the LF was playing too deep to get to it fast.
Hey, he caught it!
1 pitch, 1 out.
4-pitch walk
Bad.
The former Pope
Does he have
a popemobile?
No more perks ...
he sold his soul to the devil ... fish
WTF is up with Santana's control?
All of a sudden he can't find the plate.
I was just wondering that myself
he looks frazzled already
Nice!
Good K at the right time.
just sent you some pics duckie
did I send you pics of the first annual internet predators gathering?
Hrm
Hope they weren't too big.  My inbox is size-limited.

NAP-O-LI!!!

was 302KB..nothing bounced yet
Got 'em
Nice!  When did you take them?
today
Angel's youth clinic
How can we see ?
Thats the league your little slugger is involved with, right.

We're there any Big Leaguers there?

Or should I mind me own beeswax

actually that was t-ball
and he refuses to go back...he said he was bored. It was also very unorganized, no practices and chaotic. The pics are from the Angels Youth Clinic today in Riverside. Izzy and Steve Soliz (all I recognized) were there. I will email you the pics and the pics from the first gathering
Sweet ... Thanks
To bad about the league.
yeah, it was a bit of a disappointment
but for $15 we got a t shirt and an Angels cap!! LOL
sent you one more -43k
Did you
Get any Izzy pics, and can you post them?
Hey Kool Aid
Oh Yeah !!!
Lugo
is getting annoying.
Those guys
are fast
Not getting Nappy in hurt
two chances
it's OK -just giving them a false sense
of security.

We will get that can of whoop ass open soon

SAY IT AINT SO
Jered on the DL??????  WAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
AAAAAAAAGH!
Weaver on the DL with biceps tendinitis... Dustin Moseley gets the callup, not Joe Saunders?
when did saunders/mosely last pitch?
Would have been the ninth
so his next regular turn would be Monday, same as Jered Weaver's next start.
Weaver DL?!
Shoot... that's a surprise to me...
crap
We need Jered
that's why
mike took him out his last game because his upper arm tightened up.....
not getting figgy
 
the d-rays
are getting figgy
DAMN this is too close to .500
for all this crap to happen now
oh come on Big Daddy
GRAND SLAM NOW BIG BOY!!

pics on the way mumsy!!

Third is open
damn...burst my bubble!! LOL
thanks...thought when walked OC it loaded the bases
Hate to break it to you
but you have to have the bases loaded for the grand slam thing to work.
awwwwwwww shadddupppppp :-D
don't want to sound
dumb but soliz???
Soliz is
Steve Soliz, the bullpen catcher.  Never made it to the bigs, but was a minor leaguer for a few years.  All around good guy.  
CAL STATE L.A. ALUM !
He and I were at CSLA at the same time, but I never wrote about Steve in my underground newspaper THE STUDENT INDEPENDENT...
Daddie ... Daddie ... Daddie
how long before Hud says WHEELHOUSE??
I live for BEER!!
LOL  hate those commercials!
Hey Duck ...
I think sumwon iz hitting teh sekrit sauce
not yet...still too full for sushi
just excited we arethisclose to being leaders, not readers!
Must be the ...
toxins in the fugu
LOL I concede...
Was Vladdy
seriously running that slow? The 3B took his time and Vladdy was still only half way to first by the time the throw got there.
yes, he runs
that

slow

YES
there is a baseball god.....yeah Jered!!!
?? not DL ??
Uhh... so what are they doing now? Totally confused with the Weaver situation...
at first they said DL
then they clarified it and just said he will miss his next start and then rotate back in
OMG
Does that bobblehead not look Figgins.
Looks ...
kindda' chronic to me.
pics come thru eyespy??
Yep ... Thanks
Maicie looks like a fan there.

And the other two pics ... W/t-shirt is you? ... beard is Rob? ... And the other wahine is?

the other two
are pattimelt in jersey, Scott (halohotline)and I am the blonde (yeah, I know, 'splains a lot) in the t-shirt
And just when
you thought the Angels were getting over their defensive screwups.
YAY!!
Good deal, Magic!
HR!
NAPOLIIIIII~
Hey, ladybug
have you set up a Flickr account yet?

GOOOOO NAPOLI!

did the photobucket thing
mostly to load myspace pics. What's flickr?
Google's version of the same thing
thanks-I'll check it out
YaaaHoooo's
version.

Pretty easy to use and you can deside who can look at what pics.

thanks
I am uploading as we type
the napo-nator!!!!!!!
Oh Yeah !!!
Getting Nappy with it?
 huh Rex?
Right in his Wheelhouse!
way to go nappy!
 
WoOoOoHoOoOO NAPOLI!!!!
Napoli
is my hero.
they stole our Napoli-an Dynamite thing
stupid fans
Italian catchers in SOcal
Piazz..... Scioscia has gotta love it
Genius quote from Hud
"How about we call him Nappy?"

very original, who would've thought of that?

Whaaaahat ...
Big Diaper ... no way
well now that's
original!!!!!   why doesn't the dog write a book about his years of playing and if we wanted to know about his playing days we could read it......
Book?
More like a couple paragraphs.
see hud run
run, run, run.....see hud bat...swing, hud, swing...
So, you're saying
it would be a Sturdy Golden Book?
Can't wait to go ...
to the dentist again. Come on abscess
wow
2nd pickoff of the game
forgot about jimmy reese!!
As if the Angels weren't doing everything
else to beat themselves tonight.
yeah
I am getting a weird vibe about this game.....
i FORBID you
to get a weird vibe!!!!!!
On the other hand
Think about how mediocre John Lackey was in his second year in the Show.
Spider sense is tingling
I feel some good vibes from the Duck-man
HAH!
Good throw by Napoli!
Frickin Carl is ...
running Magic in to the ground
GETTING FIGGY W/IT!!!!
Yellow card
Thats the way Figgy .
Show them Devils speed kills
Jeebus...
those pickoffs are excruciatingly close...
yahoooo
glad josh paul is on OUR side!!!!!   LOL
That is one impressive piece of baserunning
He is
gettin' Figgy with it.
Yellow card
Yay!
Consecutive steals and a sac fly.  Fan-tastic.
Gimmie some of ...
what you be on
OMG
are they reading this site????
Info please ...
I'm streaming
phys said
"speed kills"
and
just kidding!!!
Guess they use ...
a laptop as a teleprompter
To...
the smelly fishermen, the choakland boys, and the texnecks... go suck it!
ROMERO???
With Santana only at 91 pitches, if they get Romero in there... I might have an aneurism.
Road Warrior is ...
on the history channel. Didn't know that really happened
I thought
that was supposed to be the dystopian future?
That's overthinking it
THREE straight pitchouts?  C'mon, Joe.
Lets goooooooooo O.C.
hey blondie.....
now THIS would be a S A L A M I!!!!!!!
I'm trying to
put a curse on the pitcher!!!
WALK HIM WALK HIM WALK HIM
Thppt
At least he didn't GIDP.
Time for Vladdy
to get a pitch in his wheelhouse and hit a grand slam.
*\o/* *\o/* *\o/* *\o/* *\o/* *\o/*
SALAMI!!!!
Suh-weet.
Now THERE'S your salami!
Woot!
Allllllll Right DaDDIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
a S A L A M E E!!!!!!!
vlaaaaaddyyyyy!
 
BIG DADDY ROCKS!!!!!
hit right where Rev & YWC are!!
Think they caught the ball?!?!?!?! lol
dunno
they are row L & F..so whoever is in F was close
.500 HERE WE COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, Naps
Time for a two-homer game.
Napoli
Hasn't struck out.
poor Joe...gotta feel for him....
just a WEE bit!  
Oh, this is just fun
Unless you're Joe Maddon.
I think
the number on Joe's back tells you how old he feels.
Gah!
Edwin Jackson?
poos PhyZZZZ
it's BIG DADDY VLADI not Big Vladi Daddy
He has some ...
sort of dislexia
me LIKEY this new pitcher
I feel bad for him
He had one hell of a AA run, shot up the Dodgers' prospect list, beat Randy Johnson in his first major league appearance (back when that meant something) ... and turned into a pumpkin.  Lost his command, started walking guys, became terribly hittable, and eventually got traded to the Devil Rays for a couple pieces of junk -- Danys Baez, their erratic closer, and Lance Carter, a bad reliever.

Looks like he got an out, though.

Thats why Mikey ...
sits our young'uns so much. So they don't get all excited like, and think they can rule the world.

Nice and slow. Slow and easy. Let them get used to the surroundings a bit first.

Can you spell bruce H I N E S?!?!?!?!
We're having an ...
Ex-Lax inning people
LMAO--LOTS o'runs?????
ROFLMAO
Remember Darin Erstad
I hate to say it, but he would have caught that.
gold glover
i agree with you....
Two consecutive outs
and the Rays haven't been able to move anybody over.
Here we go again!!!
we are going to travel 'round the world.....
Tim Salmon? Facing a righty?
come on timmy
hit a homey!!!!
Looks like yeswecan came closest
so far.
There's your weekly Tim Salmon appearance
sure am glad he's taking up a roster spot.
At least
you managed to spell his name right.
Assuming Erstad ever comes back
I don't see how we can afford to keep Salmon.  Would we actually send down a guy who plays in the field on occassion?
what the hell you gonna do
DFA Salmon for 2 1/2 months?? get real-he's freakin retiring after this season.
He's gone after this year
So put him in when he's useful--which he is--and help him try to reach 300. He's not worthless and never will be.
for pete's sake......BE NICE
it's Timmy night, complete with jerseys, he's a sentimental favorite and it's his last year...give him a break. At least he knows when he is done. Mikey always lets some of the 'underlings' play when there is a big lead.
yeah...
leave our Timmy alone!!!!!
Oooooh Double team'in
well shit
it's a stupid ass argument. He stays til he retires.
He was done last year
Sorry, like to guy too, but time moves on, with a 25 man roster, can't afford sentimental dead weight IMO.
He wasn't here last year
And you should realise that the front office also thought he was done after all the surgery, missing an entire season, etc., which is why they gave him a minor league contract and only guaranteed him a spot through spring training. He wowed everybody, so they let him stay. He knows it's his last year and is remaining adamant about that, even though some feel he's playing well enough to stay on.
I think he's done and he knows it
bring him on as coaching staff.
I have No Manners When It Comes To Salmon
So shut the fuck up. He's not done and can still be productive. Just like your asshole, apparently.

On any other subject, I'm civil. Here, I'm not, and won't apologize for it.

As moderator, I must step in at this point
to say that I got your back, beercub, go go go ! Thanks for balls-out standing up for the Kingfish. Toss that measured response out anytime.
Thanks
Normally, I don't do stuff like that and really don't like it, but since Salmon is my wife's favorite player and he has gone out of his way in the past to be nice to her with signed baseballs, a jersey, pictures, etc., plus the fact he's been a very solid player and citizen for the Angels, I waived my own rules.
*Tear*
That was beautiful. I wish I had those sort of balls...
i'd let timmy
sign my balls
I hope you know
I am behind Timmy 100%. As he has said, he knows this is his last year and ready to go out in style. He is everything a ballplayer should be and what every rookie needs to aspire to be
Without Lugo and crawford
would we have 2 no hitters?  Haven't seen anybody else do anything.
I worry about Shields and K-Rod
They're usually better the more action they get.  At this pace, they're just going to atrophy.
"Now, this is a team on the rise"
as Gregg throws ball 4.
didn't say which team, now did he??
just got in about 20 minutes ago and finally...
have read everything.  So, what's the latest on Weaver?  Any new news on Escobar?  I might barf.

I really enjoy this winning stuff and would like to see it keep going.

Well...
Weaver's going to miss his next start, but not on the DL. Nothing new on Escobar I think.
He is a good
3rd baseman...i like Mi-sir
yup, I like him too
I hope they don't trade for some mediocre bastard and sit Maicer just because they feel they need to make a move.  
K!
Nice finish. Wooha!
Gregg looks pretty good
when you put him up against 4-A players.
LIGHT UP THAT HALO........
JUUUUUUUUSSSSSSTTTTTTTTT another hAlo victory!!
no feeling sorry for Maddon...
let's broom this shit tomorrow.
LLAAAAAAAAAAAoooooooooooooAAAAAAAAAAA
Our season begins today.

Great pitching, excellent hitting, and optimisim from the Duck-man.

Panther goes to Mikey and the team as a whole.

Panther should be Vladi
1000th hit, grand slam.....he was hot tonite!  But yes, they were ALL PANTHERS. Vladi is Big Daddy Panther tonite!!
*RBI, not hit
the whole team
are panthers....what a game!!!!   what a night!!!!  what a show!!!!!!!
But as you said Ms. Ladybug ...
the Angels are now at .500

Do you remember how they looked in the dugout but 2 or 3 weeks ago.

Or how all the pitchers looked on the mound with all them holes in the defense.

I didn't have video tonight, but know how the team looked. Probably better than last night. But I know they got one load off of their backs.

Battles are won with tiny steps.

So now it is keep focused and play well, we can't do anything about the opposition.

wow Speil Czech said none

LMAO!!!
yes, they have come a far way!! And wow, what a recovery they have made! Hopefully WTY will get well soon and we can get on the road to championships!! (notice I said championshipSSSSSS)

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