Blame of the Game: Chris Bootcheck
Gotta go with Bootcheck, because he just did not look good.
Although, we lost toady I just want to say thanks for a great season fellas.
Hopefully we will find our offense in Boston. Voodoo had a very nice inning pitching. I am very excited to see the playoff roster. Mike and the rest of the staff have some hard decision to make. Anyone care to guess what the playoff roster would look like? I'd like to see Haynes make it. Between Voodoo and Grimace, I have no idea.
Also, thanks for a great rally rat pack weekend Rev.
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Typo
It should read "...we lost to a toady..."Stirrups - September 30, 2007
I left in the typo
so it would read like a Rev post...cupie - September 30, 2007
If you take it out
my joke won't make any sense.Stirrups - September 30, 2007
ugh!!!!!!!!
Cupie--Would you PLEASE cut my head off??? I didn't have a drop of alcohol to drink but you wouldn't know it if you saw me today.
pattimelt - September 30, 2007
You should see YWC
cupie - October 1, 2007
Heck-of-a-job cupie......
in Rev's absence. Delicious!44FAN - September 30, 2007
Nice
I am just swimming in the Rev's wake.Delicious.
cupie - September 30, 2007
Who was the Yankee pitcher that was
called a big fat toad?cupie - September 30, 2007
Hideki Irabu
44FAN - September 30, 2007
Playoff Roster Guess
Pitchers----------
Bootcheck
Colon
Escobar
Lackey
Oliver
Frankie
Magic
Shields
Speier
Weaver
Position
---------
Mathis
Napoli
Aybar
Cabby
Figy
Izzy
Howie
Casey
Kendry
Quinlan
Anderson
Vlad
Rivera
Matthews*
Willits
*If Matthews can't go then sub Haynes.
BP Scanner - September 30, 2007
No way...
Bootcheck makes the roster in front of Moseley and no way either of them makes it in front of Saunders.Basically, it will probably be:
Pitchers: 10 total
Lackey, Escobar, Weaver, Saunders, Colon, Santana, Oliver, Shields, Speier, K-Rod
(Moseley could sneak in if Scioscia doesn't keep either of Colon or Santana)
--------
Position Players: 15 total
Napoli, Mathis, Kotchman, Kendrick, Cabrera, Figgins, Izturis, Quinlan, Morales, Anderson, Matthews, Rivera, Vlad, Willits, Haynes
If Matthews can't go - I would go with a wild card - Brandon Wood or Terry Evans - but that is just me.
jimmuscomp - September 30, 2007
for the first series
I would go with this line-up. Fatolo pitched his way in out of the pen as far as I'm concerned.Moondoggy - October 1, 2007
you double posted this and
I still don't understand what you be trying to sayeyespy - October 1, 2007
for the first series
I would go with this line-up. Fatolo pitched his way in out of the pen as far as I'm concerned.Moondoggy - October 1, 2007
Tough calls
You plan to leave Saunders and Moseley off in favor of Fat Bart and Head case Ervin? No way Saunders gets left off that roster. This team ran on Moseley and Boot for the entire year...I do not envy MS and BS for that call! Frankly, I think one (or both) of Colon or Ervin gets left off.My only beef with your positional players is Aybar. He cost us more games than he won. There is no place for his kind of rookie (or lack of brain) errors. I would prefer to see Haynes or another pitcher. Bank on the fact that Willits or Haynes is going to have to play CF some in this series. HGH Jr's knee had been bothering him for a month or two already, it isn't going to go away quickly!
There is a DL this year during the playoffs.
Ps...we are a better team with Mice Tits at 3b and Figgy in RF or DH...only trouble with Figgy DH'ing is if he has to go into the game we lose the DH.
K3YEROUT - October 1, 2007
When do they announce the postseason roster?
bc56274 - September 30, 2007
I think
they have to submit the roster by noon on October 1st. They can change it if the first game is rained out.Neo8234 - October 1, 2007
I thought they had until 10am Gameday....
So for us it would be wednesday at 10am. I also remember hearing that you can change the roster up until 2Hrs before the game.acuda27 - October 1, 2007
Actually
I believe I read a quote from BS or MS that said they changed the rules this year and the final playoff roster is not set til lineup cards are exchanged or a few minutes before game 1.The other change was the allowance of use of the DL with doctor's orders or some such dribble.
K3YEROUT - October 1, 2007
Does ANYONE think that we're going to win?
Mostly everyone on talk radio after the game sounded pessimistic. Eight out of the ten "experts" on ESPN picked the Sox to win. Scareduck thinks we're going to get swept. Even the tone in the LA Times' non-opinion, straight-up reporting articles make the Halos' situation seem bleak.Seriously, was everyone this morose in 2002? What about 2004 or 2005?
cardinalwraith - October 1, 2007
This guy does...
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/gennaro_filice/09/28/fiveup.fivedown/index.htmlThe Limey - October 1, 2007
He also picked the Mets in the NL
:PMoondoggy - October 1, 2007
we have the better starting pitching
we'll win because of it.rbrianc - October 1, 2007
According to one betting line
Red Sox pays -175 vs Halos +135.If you assume that betting lines result in zero net cash flow, then 60% of the money thinks that the Red Sox will win.
In 2002 the Angels were the wild card playing the Yankees in the first round. No one gave them a chance.
Incidentally, the correlation between GA catching the last out in the playoff clinching game and the Angels winning a world series is 1.000
melvintoast - October 1, 2007
And all that pessimism means
most of those people are wrong most of the time while the more of them are incorrect more of the time.What happens outside the lines don't change what happens between them. Play Ball
Leeeetttttttssssssss Gooooooooooooo Haaalllloooooooooosssssssssss
two
eyespy - October 1, 2007
Now even the Chronicler is giving up.
It's like the Angels have to circle the wagons here to keep from being completely overtaken by pessimism.cardinalwraith - October 1, 2007
Scareduck
Goes into everygame thinking we are going to losehauldog - October 1, 2007
Scareduck does have a point...
It's impossible for an optimist to be pleasantly surprised :-)red floyd - October 1, 2007
Ignore the LA Times
If it isn't Dodger Blue, they don't really care about it.red floyd - October 1, 2007
I was in Seattle this past weekend
i didn't know where to fit this post in and it has no need for its own diary. ANYWAY, i was up in Seattle for the SC/UW football game and i have a buddy who's also an SC alum but born and raised in Seattle. he ended up with tickets to Friday night's game against Texas and my first trip to Safeco. "WOW!!" is all i can say about that ball park...food, open space to see the game while you walk the concourse including behind the bullpens and then the retractable roof covered the place in the 6th inning.we had to leave in the 8th but i stood up and thanked the Mariner fans for a great season...of course my friend said "he's an Angel fan!"..i got some ribbing and one person offered to trade Safeco Field for Vlad straight up.
amazing place but i like our team better! :)
SCHalo - October 1, 2007
Did you remember
to bring your DS ?eyespy - October 1, 2007
DS?
i was classy of course. funny part was we were in the scond row behind the right field wall and when a double was smacked to the wall i got up a nice close up of jose guillen. they LOVE him there. LOL.SCHalo - October 1, 2007
Nintendo GameBoy DS
so you could make use of the HighTech at the parkeyespy - October 1, 2007
AAAHHHH
i KNEW it would be something crafty like that.:)
SCHalo - October 1, 2007
I live up here
...and the Safe is a FABULOUS ballpark! If you haven't been there you need to see a game there! If you can get into the Club level...do it! The food / bar there is incredible. Skybridge from the parking lot right into the Club level. Nooks/crannies are awesome. If you buy a $7 bleacher seat in CF, nothing stops you from standing behind the plate in the equivalent of the Terrace level for the entire game except for a yellow line behind the seats there.Awesome bullpen views...BS with the players at ground level. Stand 5 feet from the Visitor pitcher warming up!
Bring your wallet though cuz this place is EXPENSIVE unless you sit in the CF bleachers...
K3YEROUT - October 1, 2007
yep
i loved that bullpen concourse setup. i remember getting into a little barb with someone on here about building a new stadium and after seeing safeco...WOW, it would be nice.SCHalo - October 1, 2007
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