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Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Game 153/162

Game Thread - Angels @ Athletics - Jered Weaver Vs. Barry Zito - 7:05 p.m.

Barry Zito's final start in the Coliseum as an A.
Okay, okay, okay, his final regular season start.

Intentionally Altered Movie Dialogue:
Arte Moreno: Is it the frank or the beans?
Bill Stoneman: I don't know, both I guess.
Mike Scioscia:
[from outside] Franks and Beans! Franks and Beans! Thomas and Billy!

Is this the third game of the 12-game winning streak?
Jered Weaver assures us that nothing will be given. It will be earned or it will not be achieved.
How about Gene MAuCH's 1964 Phillies, Ken MACHa?

Beat My Runs and Hits Picks: LAA: 4, 9 ... OAK: 1, 5

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LAA: 3/6
OAK: 2/6

YES WE FUCKING CAN!

predictions
halos - 5, 12
arthritics - 3, 3
Lets go.
Time to get this September into gear.

Angel Power: 4 / 7
Enemy Terr: 2 / 6

we need a sweep dammit
angels 5/9
a's 3/9
fuckin' el
halos 20 and 40
a's 0 and 0
For the sweep
LAA 50/60
OAK 0/0

Weaver pitches a perfect game.  Everybody homers... 3 times.

:)

I like your style.
picks
angels - 4/7
athletics - 3/9
Picks
A's 2/5
Angels 1/7

For the record, I'm not trolling, I'm only doing the picks for games in which the A's are involved. Feel free to participate in our GOG game, as I think Rev and a couple other HHers (YWC?) did earlier this year.

Hey...
we know you're one of the good ones. :P
Still...
Uncool.
Not e the difference
between JLAFF and AXL and then tell me if i am the greatest site administrator on earth.
You...
are the greatest admin on earth
Hmm
So does that make yeswecan the greatest administrative assistant on Earth?
No
that was Monica Lewinsky
You are the greatest admin on earth.
And A's Trolls should worship the ground you walk on.

Because if I was the admin of this site, I would make appropriate use of the source IP information in the site logs and leverage my King Geekdom to take certain counter actions.

They should appreciate your degree of integrity, and fortitude...

aren't we all lucky...
You'd be the Mussolini of blogging.
[IMG]http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f332/rjcicc/images.jpg[/IMG]
hope your arm didn't break
Weaver to the rescue!
Halos 3/7
A's 1/7
Pikz and Panz
Angels: 4/11
Oakland: 3/9

"TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME"
Concessions

If we lose 2, they clinch...
Angels-3/8
Ass-2/8

Let's win dammit!

Actually
if we lose 2, they clinch at least a tie. Their magic # of four is to clinch a share of the division lead, it would take two losses to them by us and one more vicotry by them or a loss by us to end our chances.
If the A's take 2 of 3 from the Angels you will
be 8 out with 7 to play. You will be eliminated.
bad math, you're right.
you are also banned for being a complete asshole. goodbye.
BWAHAHAHA
that was the funniest thing I've ever read!  HHHAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
picks
Halos 5/10
A's   3/10
Yes Virginia... the A's do suck.
Mound Dancing Squad: 6 / 12
Offensively Anemic Asses: 1 / 7
You do know the A's have scored 10 more
runs then the Angels right?

Might want to think about who has the shitty offense.

It was this post
what got him banned.
20 minutes from that tarped out field...
I'm here in lovely Dublin, CA for my sister's wedding... I ride past that giant craphole known as McAfee field, or whatever yesterday.  Freakin' A's fans everywhere.  Too bad I have wedding crap to deal with.. i'd rather represent at the game!

LAA: 8/10
OAK: 4/8

At least i'm hanging out with A's haters!

jeff

You tell 'em, YWC!!
Not only CAN WE; WE WILL!

Young Master Jered  5/9
Zitted One  2/7

Here's the pitch to Thomas...
...high fly ball to centerfield...Figgins says he's got it...Figgins...makes the catch! And the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim sweep the A's in a crucial 3-game series!

That's what you're going to hear on Sunday, Chokeland.

YES WE CAN!!!!!

Likely Lads - 14/21
Chokey Chumps - 1/1

Picks
Angels- 16/22
...-2/5
pix
Angels: 7/11

the united colors of puke & piss: 3/7

Oh and go gett'um Halos
LLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAooooooooooooooooooooAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Are you channeling Gloria Estefan?
Game three of twelve:
Angels: 2/8
A's:  1/4
Long Shot
The odds of the Angels beating the Athletics 8 times in a row (including a tiebreaker play-off game on 2 Oct 2006) are roughly 1/256.  If only 7 consecutive wins are required the odds go down to 1/128.  I do not see the Angels turning this trick.  One Oakland win would knock the Angels off of their high-wire act.  Which game will be the first Angel loss to the A's?  How about Sunday afternoon?  Ervin Santana has trouble in day games AND road games.  Sunday is both.  In the meantime the Angels can pick up victories tonight and tomorrow behind Weaver the Younger and John Lackey.  The moral victory for the Angels is preventing the A's from clinching at home.

Angels     3,    8
A's        1,    6

If you are keeping score at home, each Angel victory against the A's will cut the odds in half.  The presumption here is that the Angels and A's will have the same records in their 3 games not against each other (most likely they will each go 2-1).  

Don't you know?
When at the track, one always lay down a bet on the longshot, in the last race of the day...
And strait up odds
don't account for us being a better team, so it's more like 1/4 than 1/256

:)

dont forget Texas in the middle
and the "bend over and give it to us again" for the A's.. its going to be tough

Angels 4/10
A's    3/6    

The Cadillac El Dorado
A's 2/9
Angels 3/8
season is over
but we'll win tonight anyway

angels: 6/10
assholes: 3/7

No Excuses
Win or go home.

Angels: 5/13
Ass: 2/7

My picks for the rest of the weekend, since I may not be able to check in...

Saturday:
Angels: 8/14;
Ass: 3/9

Sunday:
Angels: 4/7
Ass: 1/5

Picks
Angels:  4/9
A's   :  3/8
LOL
You rule, Jack.
Anyone know
if I can get Angels games in San Clemente? Fucking InDemand isn't showing any of the games in this series, but I'm going to be up on south OC on saturday and possibly sunday.
you can listen to the games (most of them)
here.
winning picks....
the golden angels     8/11
the tarnished green..THEM   5/7
win
halos 3/7
a's 1/4
It's now or never...
Halos 4/10
A's: 3/8

This is what we've been waiting for. Let's do what we can to apply at least a little pressure...

LET'S SEE SOME HITS!
Aww...
How nice. They showed our winning moments just now.
followed by another sexy K...
Blech....
C'mon Weaver... don't let it rattle ya.
Jinkies!
2 walks in a row!

... where is everyone?

C'mon Howie
Let's do something with this...
Why the F hasn't
Sosh figured out to put in JOMO?
Because
Weaver really likes Nap behind the plate.
hmm... Many at bats with Napoli
with runners in scoring position lately are..... oh, i know, looking at a fast ball down the middle with only his feet moving forward to the dugout
Napoli
is completely messed up with a bat in his hand.  Swing, don't swing, stare stupidly--it's all mixed up in his head.  Hopefully he can right himself over the winter.
ugh.
just...ugh.

can't they at least play like their backs are against the wall?

Great job nap
two fastball down the pipe.
I sure wish
2 runs didn't seem like a a large lead.
Blowout
is what it feels like lately.. a 2 run lead
You can tell
It really doesn't look like we want it
I said that last
weekend after I saw them play in Texas.. They just looked dead
*sigh*
Here we go again....
Quinny always looks like he has
a quarter stuck between his ass checks. he has to stretching ability
no stretching ability
Why, guys?
Why do the A's want to kill my soul?
because
they foster arrogance
If I had one wish
it would be that Frank THomas retired last year
Physioc really is a moron.
If we make any trades this off-season, please let him be the player to be named later.
Hm...
Oddness. Maybe figgy was just trying to get in the line of sight?

and Nice bunt OC.

Rivera up with the bases-loaded and one out.
Time to hold our collective breaths.
I would much rather have had
OC swinging rather than opening the base for Vlad with DP rivera behind him
WOW!!!
amazing
Nice one Juan
Now only if we can get two in a row.
Good job by Ebel.
WOOOOOO
That's right Rivvy. That's what you're supposed to do with people on!
Rivera,
I swear to god, if you swing at another first pitch with the bases loaded for the rest of your life, i'll fuckin kill you.  thanks for that base hit, by the way.
Lets go wristy
base hit!!
God
do we swing at every first pitch?
Kendrick at 1B for next year?
I know this is weird to post here, but I've been thinking about this.

If the Angels sign Alfonso Soriano, do they play him in LF or 2B? If it's 2B, that would move Kendrick to 1B right?

Can I get anyone's thoughts on whether or not they'd like Soriano at LF or rather at 2B? Thanks.

That's the one difference between the us and them.
We swing at EVERYTHING.
Need GA
to come through here...be the Panther.
C'monnnn
GA... WORK IT!
GA in the 6 hole!!
2b
and hope kendry or kotch come back and do something. . or dmac at 1b
Make
Soriano our new first baseman.  He's already proven he can't play second, whereas Howie appears to be a pretty good second baseman.
Oh fuckin' bullshit!
Come on Guerrero, you gotta fuckin' slide right there!

God Damnit!

WHY
Really. Send Vladdy? :(
Wahhh
might
wanna slide into home, away from the tag
Vlad is the worst baserunner....
In the history of baseball.
SLIDE SLIDE SLIDE
fundamentals.. lacking all year
GA!!!!
whooo-hoo!!...what was Vladdy doing?
AHHHHH
VLAD.  SLIDE!
watching on the web, not many replays
he's safe if he slides que no?
Tagged him at his waste
worth a try
Although maybe
he thinks if he plops down it may start another quake like 1989!
Story of our season right there:
We just don't do the little things well.
IZZY was giving the stand up SIGN
These knucklehead broadcasters.
Don't say anything about it.

They're too busy giving Garrett Anderson credit for a nice hit.

Idiots.

did jeter cut that
off and flip it to the catcher?
Terry says
that Izzy was not giving any sign to Vlad
hmm..
two hands up either to sign or up in disgust.. you decide
A's fans
are obnoxious NorCal factory rats
Horrible Camerawork
Batter's heads are cut off by the bar showing the score, shots from the blimp might be closer. Totally bush league.
you at a bar
with a laptop or what?
Oh sexy.
Stamp him out!!!
Weaver says...
hit this shit, Frank!
that's a big inning there
for WTY
momentum is shifting i can
feel the ice in their veins.. Lets go halos
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
HK!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooowie
What a jack!
HK baby.. as I say the ice in the veins
Nap wants to try
the foul bunt then homer technique
more like
see how fast i can get to two strikes so i can strikeout and put the catchers gear on
gotta love
the "big bat" drag bunting after the dinger
i don't get why MLB.tv doesn't
show the actual broadcast
got the a's guys
a nice break from hud and phys

a lot of the guys are terrible on the broadcasts for like KC and some others

Kevin Gregg is up
Yow......
Noooo. Not good weaver.....
Batters his caliber look dead red with that count
this ain't CSULB anymore Weaver
Don't think so
Even at Blair Field, they can hit belt-high fastballs.
VLADDY!
WTF!!!!!!!!
There's your ballgame
Vlad, you're a damn idiot.
FUNDAMENTALS GUERRERO
HE WOULD BE BOOED OUT OF
NYC for that..
Weaver keeping his composure
means a bright bright future
Yeah
Definitely liked his non-reaction to all that crap.
only reacted to his missed location
or his missed judgement
great job weaver.. minus the fat CHEESE
down the middle
Look at it this way
He's matching a Cy Young pitcher pitch-for-pitch. :-)
Awesome.
Way to come back from a HR and an unforgiveable "my-grammy-could-catch" error!!
Weaver
keeps his cool like a vet.
Vlad better come up big for his mental prowess
As long as
the vet isn't brother Jeff.
vlad will get a chance to atone
here
Replay showed Izzy
telling Vlad to slide.
did izzy
tell him to drop the ball?
Always swinging at the perfect pitch
come on boys
take advantage
C'mon AK...
work that PH magic.
Bah...
Another inning drained.
Shields
has a 4.76 ERA in 5.2 innings against Oakland this year.  Good news is he is averaging almost 2 K's per inning.
its the WEAV
interesting. . weaver still in
and chris young has a no-no in the 8th in SD
I'll take Weav
here and Frankie in the 9th with a lead, thanks.
oh boy another no no
NOooooo.....
dammmnitttt
OH MY GOD
Those flyball outs
turning into home runs.
Pushin' too much....
like i said
interesting
And...
the no-no dissolves as well. (Now a yes-yes)
and no no
shutout and all that come to an end on joe randa HR
I just don't understand it
inconsistent coaching all year.. Sheilds up and throwing in the 7th and doesn't come in
They have pulled Weaver before the eigth all year
long.. wtf..
Who pinch hits
for napoli in the 9th?

And then who for Figgins?

Pride
Figgy stays in for speed
i'd go
salmon
lookin' lefty for Street
any
of the young guys get up and get out on first pitch, get someone who will take a look at something
seen Salmon look at all the pitches in
several key PH at bats
umm.. why wasn't street out there
to start the inning.. maybe a little tight still?
hm
salmon for napoli, if he gets on then aybar to pinch run, willits to pinch-bunt for figgins
yeah, if someone on
you'll see a bunt
I'm glad they left Weaver in there
Some of you might disagree, but they had to see if he had it. He was pitching well all night long, just three mistakes (all HRs) are what did him in.

I applaud the effort by Weaver, because this offense should score more than 3 runs per game. This game goes to show you why it might be better to miss the playoffs rather than make the playoffs this season.

not the time
to see if he has it. . .
touche
Why isn't it the right time?
Tied game, bottom of the 8th, your team with its back against the wall.

That's the pefect time.

probably
He has gotten a lot of work these last few days...
man what a day to wake up from the slump
way to go HK
Aybar hitting right now?
street has
wicked movement
aybar has wicked hair
OH THAT'S FUCKIN BULLSHIT
HE WAS SAFE!
oh fuck that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
the ball bounced right to paytons hand
unfreakin believable
over
managing. . . that's what scioscia's book will be called
Wow.
Just wow...
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's over
hate, hate
GOd I hate the coliseum!!!!!!!!1111
FUCKIN' CRAZY!
THIS IS FUCKIN NUTS!
WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TIE GAMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMFG
LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOAAOAOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAA OOOOOOOOOOO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
HOLY SHIT!@!!!!
I am pissing my pants over here.. AYBAR almost fell on his face.. woooohooooooooooo
nuckin
futs
YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!1
Ump, get out of the f'n way!!!!
the baseball god has given us
another chance
that was reminecent of
bonds during game 6, payton i mean.. fumbling
HAHAHAHA
this is cuckin frazy.
come on O-Cab...
be first half clutch here.
or feabily swing at 1st pitch...
why not
come on oc
the emotions of jay payton. . .
hero to goat. . . play it as a single and it's first an second still
Gotta love Cabrera
Swings at a horrible first pitch out of the zone and takes a great pitch down the pipe for the second strike.

Good job.

Let's do it
O.C.  We need you.
Some morale boooosting
From Independence Day:

"And should we win the day...[we will have] declared in one voice: 'We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight!' We're going to live on! We're going to survive!"

that was the first break for the halos all year
from what i can recall
isn't that street's 41st blown save of the season?
suicide squeeze
do it
Hm.
Haven't seen one of those in a while. IT'd actually be a surprise if we actually did it.
oh my my love the thought
OMFG
Get out of there Cabrera. You're fuckin shitty.
... wtf......
clearly ball 4....... gahhhh...
Same pitch he swung at on 0-0
Well, ball 3 anyway.
he would have swung at ball 4, though.
Arr...
... Right.
dont you guys play MLB on playstation or XBOX
3-2 count is tough when you bat with OC.. or any any angel for that matter..
clearly to us...
when it starts outer half and slides out that far with 2 strikes, tough to lay off.
Orlando
GO HOME.
oh, I'm sick to my stomach nervous right now
keep it down sheilds
well
i'm pretty happy right now, after dancing around my room in anger the first two outs, now knowing krod is going to come in and keep us in the game for 2 innings... or not.. cmon scoscia... bring in krod
let's go Halos!!!
what can you expect
when your hitting coach had a career OPS of 690 in the bigs
in fact
going forward, i shall refer to him as the mighty 690
ugh
payton always makes me nervous
Does anyone else think
that the sleeves on the A's makes them look like lizards from the Tv show V... Vlad caught it?
he caught it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Swisher makes me nervous as well.
Nice catch, Vladdy!
Heck, as long as he actually catches it, it's a nice catch/
funny how a guy batting .250
can make you nervous
might have to do with the 33 homers
payton sucks,
platoon OF
YES!
And we go to extras.

This could define the final 9 games of the year.

WOO ha!
LETS GO!
Nice DP
Kendrick starting to look comfy at 1B.
fundamentals at their best
that with kendrick moving all over the diamond
nice friggin
play
HK, nice work
Let's win this puppy!
its like little league for Vlad
if they can't beat a guy named kiko
they dont deserve to be in the playoffs
Never seen a guy get to 0-2
faster than Vlad.  It's like the speed of light or something.
kiko the kid loving clown
AK
always looks like he forgot what the count is with a swinging strike, walking away from the box
who do you bring in
if your Mike?  keep shields or donnelly?
Frankie
You bring in your best.
Adam Kennedy
is finished.

But i have had egg on my face for saying that before.

i think if he
just swung with a little bit more of an uppercut. . .
Don't like watching the Bay area feed
Ditto
I've said it before, I'll say it again.
I miss Phys and Hud...
Shields=panther
Howie
for panther
RALLY THREAD ON HALOS HEAVEN MAIN PAGE
See!
Anderson can take a pitch. Spread the wealthy news! Arrr
next year, that AK AB will be
Arod though
more like the 3b slot
soriano will be in rf with vlad dhing after this
shotty defensive season
anderson must have a two step lead.. seriously
quit throwing over
You can do it JoMo
lets see your gapper figgy
let's bet how many pitches he sees
3
wow, this ump is brutal
Argh...
Dammit. Donde esta the figgy from last time?
We want to see that smile again!
nice dirt ball figgy
you ALMOST had it
Frank Thomas coming up..
don't like that
milton is an asshole
Meltdown Bradley
is at it again
lol @ milton
strong macha
Wow.
Seriously. Macha's got some strength...
A's anncouncers
complaining about the ump Wanting to throw him out
Hi-larious.
"Just put your mask back on and go back to your spot"

Hah.

wow frankie
HELLS YEAH!
There be the K-rod.
A's announcers
are complaining that the ump "watched" Milton walk away (wanted to throw him out) -- call the whaaaaambulance
glad
i'm not the only listening to that bull crap... you act like a little kid and came people names, you get treated like one
Frank
meet Frankie.
K-rod, you are a stud
we need to stop this now for
the day game tomorrow.. we all know whats its like for the halos during the day
I love Izturis at leadoff
many more walks
here we go
wow, they almost handed him 3rd
great bunt
if OC was out of the box asap he would have beat it
He seemed surprised
it stayed fair
nice bunt
that was close
wusses
won't pitch to vlad
that was THE BEST bunt
i have seen by an angel all year!
willits
two times in one game against, idon't remember who.. but they were clutch
alright Rivera make us all shut up about the DP
Ugh....
There it is... :(
New Nickname for Rivera = GIDP
Rivera is a choker.

If we lose now the Blame of Game = Rivera.

Vlad gets honorable mention.

I can't believe people argue so vehemently to keep Rivera. He has just KILLED us with these DP's the last couple of weeks.

Forget it.
It's vlad's fault this game isn't over by now.
i want to hurl
i am seriously on the verge of a break down
Jeebus.
How can that happen so many times...
ridiculous!!
you gotta be kidding me
are we sure the sac bunt is actually the higher percentage play there?  F N A.
rivera
He's done. Trade him.
tough to trade when other teams
know he's.. not clutch
Agree -- trade the choker !!
Rivera couldn't hit the ball the other
way if his life depended on it.
shitshitshit
what's happened to the July monster?
i like kelty as much as
bozo the clown
goodness gracious
walk up loaded
bring in figgens for 5 infielders
please no.
Frankie can get the Ks.
It seems strange to do that
all it takes is a bloop single -- we have no OF now
a bloop single would win it anyways
But it's so much harder to prevent
a bloop now
It's called desperation.
its has worked before
Yeah, i remember we did it last week
I just don't like it
load themm... what the fuck
force out at home
oh wow
barf
blaaaaaah,,,puke flowing our of mouth
**sigh**
That was a frickin' tough game...
Tough game to lose....... Ugh...
THAT is why that defenseive move is stupid
you're better of going for the DP
nope..
that ball would have scored kielty... see they should have loaded them.. makes more sense force out everywhere get out number 2 then back to center
All they had to do
was induce a grounder for the DP -- besides we can throw a guy out at home
well guys
It was fun.
i can officially get good sleep now
where's the slider?
Blame of the game is a no brainer....Vlad
It's official
We no longer control our destiny
Arte controls our destiny now
Pray to the baseball god
that Arte will be the bringer of big bats (as he promised earlier this week)
let's hope we do it in free agency and not...
a dumb, desparate trade.
sounds to me
that he is on a mission....  Steinbrener might have competition finally
lets hope that A-Rod blows it in the post season
0 fer's all around.. i'd take him
Well,
I'm gonna go slit my wrists.
nah.. just root for the Tigers his postseason
and we will maintain our sanity until next season
I hope we have enough heart
to win the next two games.  I'd rather not see them clinch against us.
Man I think their heart was ripped out
tonight.. i have been in situations likes this one, not quite as meaningful but they drain you.. i might think twice if it were a night game tomorrow or an off day
yeah, and we have to blow them out
Shields and K-Rod are worn to the bone.

Those guys have been panthers all year.  Only two reliable relievers and pitch seemingly every night.

Yeah...
Need to give props to those two. AMAZING work. Despite the fact K-rod had a little chink today... they did what they could...

(It's still all on Vladdy tonite)

Runz and Hitz Resultz

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