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What a lousy time to show up

Jesus, Ervin.

Or the PERFECT time to show up... >_>
Pinky is on deck
Gonna need a big one

Spier is up in the pen.

Someone else'll get up if we get a lead.
Let's go Angels!
mathis, you gotta swing at that
Yep, watched a mistake.
Reggie, Reggie, Reggie!

Go Angels!

thanks for that Mathole........
wow reggie....way to power up

bleh

2 quick outs.
Yuck.

2 out rally, Figgs.

Come on pinky... wtf is that?

You’re supposed to be a OBP machine!

pretty pathetic inning there
Blah.

That inning was worthless.

Figgy stardust! You're supposed to DRIVE the ball....
*sigh*

Looks like Speier’s gonna have to hold for an inning.

This rally thread sux.
not as much as losing
I want a refund.

man Speiers grin on Gamecast is just creepy
Looks like he knows where the rest of the body is

but he’s not telling without a plea bargain reducing the charges to Man 1 first.

This will make it better

ROLL CALL from Scotland. Let’s win this thing …

Fresno state is stealing our rally
3 run bomb for FSU......

THIS Detwiler KID is KILLING GA….he has all the RBI’s for FSU!!!!!!!!

you thikn he can beat GAs 10 rbi streak?
*game
he has 6.......

hes on his way…...if he sees a pitch again in this game

Fresno State siphons off our water

Nothing else.

That is one hell of an irrigation ditch

from Scotland.

I meant from my old hood next to the Big A

Mate.

bring in oliver

speier needs some time to find his groove

Speier never ha a groove to lose.
OK I am already feeling the need to burn my F-bomb for June

Get Speier the F — out of there! We’re still in striking range!

Justin, if their hitting it to opfield, it's time to start working the outside corner.
Wow wouldn't it be nice if Speier just pitched a nice inning here and gave the offense a chance to come back

but no …

wild pitch/ball 4

o god, why did we use dondo last night?

Speier = uninSpiered
wow walked the bases loaded.......

BUM!

Taking lessons from El Maneo
wow walked the bases loaded.......

BUM!

Speier working the inning for a quadruple play.

Somebody needs to tell him…

Major league first!
I think we did that in little league once.

I know we did the triple play to get the 4th out thing once

Chew him out, Butcher.
Walking Milledge may be the only smart thing Speier does all night.

The guy is killing us.

I know he got a homer early...he get another?
Before that AB, he was

2 for 3, with 2 runs driven in and 2 runs scored.

well the OVER's have the K's
.... finally a stikeout
Wow, Speier gets an out

Alert the AP.

now a DP and get out of it
Come on, Speier, do not make this worse.

Get a DP and get outta this.

He's teasing us

Loads the bases, gets two outs, gives up a single.

Or not

Reverse jinx.

pop out for out 2

we should send butcher out at least twice an inning

we'd go thru alot of pitchers that way then
We'd go through a lot of pitchers
beat ya!
Not on my screen
on mine i did ;)
not on mine

and wed only go through pitchers if scioscia went out twice an inning. butcher just talks to the pitches

You only get 1 visit per pitcher per inning, gotta make a change on the second one.
ahhh

well, might as well make 1 visit per inning then

Come on, one more
that was a big out
That works too.

1 more.

fancy pitching by Justin, now score 3 runs!
whew...

way to pull it together Justin

well that was interesting
I think speier is our next closer.
yes, a very Frankie-esque inning
Wow

what are the odds of that happening?

Way to get out of trouble, Justin.
not exactly the easy way

but what the hell,It worked.

it was a plan

now the nats have the 7-8-9 batters due up next inning

Aybar says it's a trap
The power of Barbapapa is seeping into the game thread.
That was one hell of a houdini by Speier

pretended to be an MLB pitcher after loading the bases on himself.

let's Go Angels!

This is our BIG inning here.

Hell of a try, Erick.
STupid groundscrew

That’s a great bunt in LA of A

Barney Lopas for MV(B)GP

most valuable (bunting) groundscrew personnel

We're better than these guys

Let’s do this.

Aaron Boone takes over at third

Hit it on the ground hard down the line. :-)

Hit it anywhere toward Aaron

Villa Park HS weenie

Boone's playing first, I think.
Speier just barely eeked his way out of that one didn't he?
single for the admiral

and rumour has it vlad might pinch hit

The Admiral sets sail
It's a trap!
Atta boy!

I heart Aybar

wow.......

what a battle….nice Aybar…..

crap call according to gameday

ERROR! runners on 1st and 2nd! so much for that defensive replacement

That's the Nats D we know and love
Erick!

OK, Garret, time for a HR so you can have a nice lazy run around the bases…

pitch 2 to GA, way outside but called a strike
And uh here we come
is vlad out with the flu?
yes, but could be available to pinch hit
Yes he is ill

But available to pinch hit for someone who is not puking his guts out.

That's the Nat's D I remember.
Though to be fair, that was f***ing smoked.
what happened? result of play?
GA to 2B, Error

Men 1st and 2nd, 0 outs.

*hit to 2nd, rather
damn, i keep forgetting that im way ahead. i should just pause the game

and keep watching in a minute

Stay out of the DP 90210
hahaha

listenin to the crowd reactiion during the replays of the nats errors. they all sound the exact same. aaaah

Oh man

Can we have that pitch back?

True Soth Ball would have Torri advance the runners to 2nd and 3rd
not the clean up batter

thas just stupid

An HR would advance them. ;)
or a single technically

but i prefere a HR

Maybe getting the runners over wouldn't have been so bad.

what happened?

Torii popped out

Trying to win the game on one swing

Tori flies out, nobody advances

thanks . no tv today and yahoo is really slow =(

use espn gamecast
Torii isn't very clutch.
Gamewinning grandslams disagree.
Kotch, however, is...
weak....

torrid…..

Nuts. Come on, Kotch, get some runs in.
damn. lets do it kotch
Krotchrocket!

rofl krotchrocket good oen

leave the job to kotch

he gets it done!

KOTCH!

lets hope anderson can score this time. FOR THE RECORD (angels record)!

OMG

Sweetest words in Gameday’s arsenal: “In play, runs”.

Half of the time...
well, a little more than half
the other part, in play out(s) is the sweetest
Here comes Rauch

it would be swell if Anderson wasn’t so damn slow

hmm, maybe a pinch runner would be smart late in the game SOTH!!!
he certainly is slow

but he hustled! boy did he ever hustle! :)

CK...........IS CLUTCH!!!!!!
notice to soth

kotch=#3 batter

YES, YES, YES
KOTCH 2B!

The first ball he was like- “He can’t really be throwing it there.”

Yeah, he stared at the meatball the first time and was like

‘Oh, you did not throw me that pitch again!’

Could GA have scored on that?

I guess we just gotta trust in Ebel

Probably not

Hit it so hard that it ricocheted right back at the fielder after hitting the foot of the wall.

If Ebel wasn't so lazy

he would have sent him

CK = Clutch Kotchman
Yay, Superman to our rescue!

Go Angels, it ain’t over yet.

here comes the guy who is the head ranger where i work...

you guys think we might see vlad bat for GMJ?

is he even available

hmmm, maybe

thank god we have 5 outfields so vlad doesnt have to play the outfield afterwards. we could put juan in RF

theyd make sense. id even prefer juan > gmj

doubt it.....howard is gonna get it done
If there's still 1 out I think you'll see Vladdy come out
looks a bit like Dennis Quaid
Gotta get this one deep, Howie.
Kendrick needs a homer.

But I’d take a hit.

id take a sac

as long as its nots chris naps’s

Nice job HK sac fly

plenty o’ time

hey stirrups

say this rally thread sucks again….IT WORKED!!

You are SO superstitious!

Typical female. :)

WE GOT A SEXIST!
yeah...NONE of the players are superstitious in baseball

NONE AT ALL, no sirreee

I was only kidding ladybug!
I know

otherwise my response would have been my July allotment of bad words! giggle

CONGRATULATIONS GARRET ANDERSON!

ON YOUR NEW ANGELS RECORD!

and im sorry for you mlb.tv peoples

way to go GA
Shit

I was tooooo lazy to notice. Way to go GA!!!

*\o/*

woo GA

There we go Howie, nice
congrats to GA

most career runs scored in halos history!

HK gets it done
There we go!

Way to battle, HK!

let's keep it going
There goes my 'under' 8.5...

Damnit…:)

Deep enough.

Man, just a different part of the park, and that’s three runs. Stupid dead center balls.

well anyone who said OVER on all.....gets 3 points....

like me :)

I guess GA isn't that lazy
Apparently, once in a while he scored a run or two

and after a while, all the sabermatricians added them all up and realised that GA has indeed scored more runs than any Angels player in history. Whaddya know.

If he wasn't so Lazy he would of Broke that record a month ago!
cmon juice.......

another 2 out Rbi

bad juice!

bad bad juice!

Juice,,,,,,,,,no bueno...
Was the 3-2 pitch out of the strike zone?

gamecast shows low

Very much so.
Though

to be fair, everything else was outside, and that was inside, so it would be hard for Juice to gage.

yes according to gameday
The first one or the second one?

The first one was close, good to foul off. The second was a bender in the dirt that Juice couldn’t lay off.

Ugh.

But we tied it, that’s the important thing.

Brand new ball game now.

Gotta get some sunflower seeds and a smoke.

Shields in
Good
yes, let's hope it's still good Shields
Detwiler with another hit.........

4-5…....FSU….6 outs away from winning it all

top 8 in the CWS deciding game

fresno state leading georgia 6-0 with 2 outs in the top 8. detwiler up (6 rbis tonight). just singled, great play by the RF to keep it a single, and runners on the corners with 2 outs for Fresno

I think GMJ will improve over the length of his contract.

Let’s not be so harsh.

Q sighting in RF
does anyone know why?
double switch.......pitcher spot up 2nd next inning
Double switch for next inning.

Juice comes out.

so why didnt vlad pinch hit?

saved for later?

Not gonna pinch hit for a real hitter I guess.

Vlad’s gotta hitting streak to think about after all.

true, i completely forgot about that.

why is juan not in RF?

Q's got a better avg.
so juan would play RF and quinlan could pinch hit

congrats aaron boone, nice play by figgy

That's a waste of bench players though.

We don’t know how long this will go.

double switch

Q will hit in pitcher’s spot, pitcher’s spot now GMJ’s old spot

Basically setting up Shields to go multiple innings

if necessary.

That's the only explanation I can think of

Maybe Vlad isn’t available after all

No

He can hit, just not play RF.

Nor can Quinlan!

:)

He CAN play.

He’s got a noodle arm though.

the cameraman cannot find aaron boone in the on deck circle

another one for shields!
i def should have gone over in that one

Shields is on FIRE
great pitch for strike 3
Burn them down!
Just got home

Listening to the game in traffic was unbearable until that top of the 8th…

sorry Boone......its not 2003 anymore.....you arent on the yankees
It wouldn't matter if he was, technically.

Just make the outcome even more certain.

Glad you made it back buddy
damn what an almost play by figgy
nice try by figgy

nice but not enuf

You've missed some serious double-switchage going on
Stole a double from him at least.
Desmond saves the inning
no harm done, top 9th it is!
Sweet Jesus you are far ahead.
i couldnt bear being a minute behind anymore

FSNW how i will miss you for the dodger series sigh

That was an excellent try by Figgs.

Nice job by Kotch to keep that from being an error.

nice inning Scoty do......
Shields doin' fine.
time for some 9th inning magic
GA hits a HR

ties the HR leader. 6-1 fresnos now

Pinch hit Napoli for Mathis.
nope

even though i said in a previous post that there is not much of a difference in the CERA between mathis and napoli with relievers… (more side salad isthe name of the post)

Catcher ERA is a fake statistic.

It doesn’t tell you anything. It’s just noise. There’s no statistical ability to repeat a CERA from year to year, even with the same pitching staff.

its actually inconclusive

there has to be some merit to it, but as of yet, there is no real way to extrapolate a meaning. but wat might have meaning is average innings per catcher (meaning, how many innings the catcher can get the pitcher to go through). i found out that mathis saves our bullpen 81 innings throughout the course of the year. but those numbers are probably flawed somehow…

Mathis whiffs, screw his CERA
i was saying that according to CERA

there is no diff between naps and mathis with relievers, so napoli should be pinch hitting

FSU starting pitcher...

has 123 pitches…...crazy

Let's not draft that cat
he's dealing though......

a tough kid….

9 k's............3 outs to go....
Scot Shields threw 200+ pitches in college games.

Throwing a lot of pitches isn’t that unheard of in college.

It wasn't back in the day.

But now the concept of pitch counts is recognized throughout baseball at all levels.

Damn.

Nice try Q.

scoty-do for another inn or two?
Seems likely.
Crud, not quite fast enough.
damn

lets do it scottie!

DP takes care of that crap
Dang it scotty.

Get the DP.

Dang so close….

flores-young-pitchers spot

thats the next 3 batters

Chopper to 3rd

No DP chance. 1 out.

OK guys, no singles...
a.........K would be huge
Pitcher is up after Flores

Save your brooms for next time…

Scoty Do Not!
DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN

still, a 5-1 road trip so far is pretty good
damn damn damn damn damn damn damn damn damn

Trade

Shields

Really?

For just that?

No

I just always watch him surrender a lead. I never see him when hes on his game. I should just turn off the TV when he pitches.

Sounds like it.
DFA

right away

I still wanted it…

Congats to Garrett Anderson

well shit
that's what I said

bleh.

great minds think alike!
botg

GA for being too lazy to score more runs than he needed to set the team record

BTW Congrats GA you all-time Angels hero!

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