Panther of the Game: Garret Anderson
Big Bang Friday came a little bit early tonight in the happiest place on Earth in front of Angel fans and Pink-Hat Nation transplants who know at least three or four of their beloved Red Sawgs, tonight's utter losers.
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GA all the way......
if i could i would give Lt. Panther to Manny….........for being….......Manny
norcaliangelsfan - July 18, 2008
GA as panther
let’s count the hours until Beckett v. Saunders on Saturday afternoon
tanana40 - July 18, 2008
GA ALL DAY
honorable mention to big john… very important win for him tonight
BigBangRobbDawgg - July 18, 2008
BIG GA
I love how right after the show-boat Ramirez homer to tie the game, GA comes back like “This is MY HOUSE, BITCH.”
Zu Long - July 18, 2008
LOL
nice!
Funke5ive - July 18, 2008
GA is so lazy
he could’ve kept going, but already knew he had the Panther locked up.
I’m gonna go drink heavily to GA!
TheTypingFiend - July 18, 2008
If GA wasn't so lazy
He’d have found a way to get a fifth AB and gone 5 for 5 instead :)
Way to go GA! There are those of us who have never doubted you.
red floyd - July 18, 2008
GA
Awesome game for the team.
vladtheimpaler - July 18, 2008
The old man of the team showin' us how to get the second half started right.
Games like this always make me want to keep GA around.
TheOptimist - July 18, 2008
Step 1: Beat the Sawxxx
Step 3. Win the World Series
Northwest - July 18, 2008
20 games over .500 and a 7 game lead..........
life is good for the Angels and the fans….......
norcaliangelsfan - July 18, 2008
This was GA's present to mattwelch for his daughter's birth!
:)
Whooohooo!
K3YEROUT - July 18, 2008
He should have called her GA then
Oh sorry, that’s the sounds she’s making … goo goo ga ga
highlandhalo - July 19, 2008
Hopefully....
This will be a sign of things to come from G.A. in the second half of the season.
Doctor Wu - July 18, 2008
Oh yeah and another thing
Gawd I hate the Red Sox.
Doctor Wu - July 18, 2008
Best, Win. Photo. Ever.
Northwest - July 18, 2008
KOTCH postgame interview
awesome…
BigBangRobbDawgg - July 18, 2008
Yeah, too funny. "yeah, ah....well ah, oh yeh....ah, great pitching tonight......and we gotta W"
44FAN - July 18, 2008
Ha. I saw that to
I’ve noticed from his interviews that Kotch is a man of few words.
Doctor Wu - July 18, 2008
i'll b there tomorrow
go Colonel!!!
SCHalo - July 18, 2008
G friggin A
Heckuva game old man.
ReggieBullits - July 18, 2008
Credit to ESPN sportscenter for giving an interesting stat:
Angels starters lead the majors in wins and innings pitched. Most overrated rotation in baseball, right sox fans?
TheOptimist - July 18, 2008
Nice.
Zu Long - July 18, 2008
you know whats interesting about this
is the guy over at the Red Sox blog that said this….....didnt post anything after the bottom of the 5th inning…..lol
norcaliangelsfan - July 18, 2008
Not meaning to be an ass but,
Manny for POTG…that was comedy GOLD! Good thing I wasn’t in the middle of a drink.
In all seriousness though, I have give POTG to the whole damn team. Great to see them show up the sux almost every single time. See you tomorrow Colonel!
808halojunkie - July 18, 2008
what do you mean show them up
like respond to runs?
because we definitely dont show them up every time we play them.
See: Playoffs
ihearhowie2.0 - July 18, 2008
i think he might mean this year.........atleast I hope so....
so far…......3-1 against them….......with 5 more to go for the season series.
norcaliangelsfan - July 18, 2008
what did Manny do?
lightupthehalo - July 18, 2008
He laid an egg.
Funke5ive - July 19, 2008
Holy shit
that was soooooooo awesome. I did a spit take with my Coors light.
http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200807193152731
The best part was that he was actully laughing. What a huge sack of douche.
Hutch83 - July 19, 2008
My diet for tomorrow, courtesy of our Halos onslaught
Lunch: Claim Jumper Sliders
Dinner: Claim Jumper Sliders
Thanks, Manny, for being Manny tonight. You make Jose Canseco look like Roberto Clemente in the field.
PieceOfAase - July 18, 2008
Hey, that's right!
Was this the first qualifying sliders game?
jjackflash - July 18, 2008
I'm not sure -- have we had the Claim Jumper promo all season?
PieceOfAase - July 19, 2008
No
Doyers on May 18—10-2.
red floyd - July 19, 2008
you know what pisses me off?
any one, if not more of our great defensive plays would’ve been “web gems” or “top plays” if they were made by the Sawx. we turned 3 great DPs (especially the one in the 1st), had a number of great stops (Figgy and Howie) and we get absolutely nothing!
....grrrrrrrrrr
but, that chip on our shoulder is getting bigger and we flexed our muscles tonight. great win, boys.
howiestheman - July 18, 2008
i think i saw howies 1st inning DP on web gems dude... yeah there were plenty of others
yeah espnnews highlights shows manny’s homer, then GA’s homer… aaaand thats about it… guess they dont want to wound the RSN’s ego too much
BigBangRobbDawgg - July 19, 2008
didn't watch BBTN
i just figured it wouldn’t be on there because of the short Sportscenter highlight.
in any case, good for Howie.
but still… had Boston won 11-3, there would’ve been at least 10 minutes of coverage rom the game, plus in-depth analysis on everything they dominated us in.
on the other hand, we blow them out and it’s like an afterthought. they barely mention it, then quickly move to something else.
just venting. nothing more, nothing less
howiestheman - July 19, 2008
GONNA BE THERE SUNDAY
Panther has to go to G.A., a good day in the Halosphere since all other AL West teams lost. Did anybody else notice how ESPN went through great pains to minimize Manny’s error in LF? Or the fact that we beat the chowder out of the bosux. Oh well, I guess it’s just a simple case of ESPN being ESPN.
halofolife - July 19, 2008
scottnak - July 19, 2008
Dear scottnak,
According to Fangraphs Playlog, they record only three DP’s in the game which would make the answer to the question: Over/Under 3.5 total number of DP’s in the game by both teams, as “Under” for the correct answer. Your have it as “Over” on your results which should be incorrect if Fangraphs Playlog is accurate.
Fangraphs lists Drew grounding into DP in the 1st, Ellsbury grounding into DP in the 3rd, and Pedroia grounding into DP in the 8th inning. No Angel players hit into any DP’s. You may want to check that result. Thanks again for all the great work you do at the HH!
44FAN - July 19, 2008
My man 44fan ...
In the official boxscore, they list the Angels hitting into a double play. It was on the play in the third inning when Vlad was on first and then Torii flied out to Ellsbury in CF. Vlad got doubled off first on the play, so according to MLB records it goes down as DP for Boston’s defence, but not a GIDP for Hunter.
If I recall, I think Rev’s question was: “over/under total double plays both teams” not “total GIDPs”. So technically I think scottnak is correct (and not just cuz I got 3 out of 3!) :)
(And why wouldn’t he be correct? When he gets out of Berserkely and start making zillions of dollars as a rocket scientist or whatever he’s doing, hopefully scottnak will invite us all to his palatial mansion on the Dana Point coast for annual HH parties)
highlandhalo - July 19, 2008
C O N F I R M E D
DP not GIDP
Rev Halofan - July 19, 2008
Thanks for the clarification highlandhalo. (And Rev.)
I remember that now from watching the game last night as soon as I read your comment. I apologize to scottnak if I gave him a start.
44FAN - July 19, 2008
I'm sure he'll still give you an invite the HH sessions
with naked strippers at his palatial Dana Point seaside mansion once it’s built. You go scottnak, we’re all counting on you.
highlandhalo - July 19, 2008
That's odd
Its the second time this month my pregame picks have disappeared from the thread!
red floyd - July 19, 2008
It's a good day to be a non-stop G.A. supporter
and ESPN showed really short highlights of the game on Sportscenter, but I stuck around and watched the rest of the show, and they were all pretty damn short today…but the Angels/Sox game led off the baseball highlights, so we win out I guess. They just had to save up enough time to discuss what color shorts Brett Favre wore to get the paper this morning, and what it means to the Packers’ G.M.
Caseys Kiss of Death - July 19, 2008
When they talked about GA's homerun and multiple hits they called him "Mr. Anderson,"
and they called the team Los Angeles of Anaheim once that I heard.
44FAN - July 19, 2008
Were they wearing
Shades and earpieces when they said that?
red floyd - July 19, 2008
We love if you GA
If we weren’t so lazy we’d worship you.
Sorry folks, I fell asleep in the the middle of the game thread once we had the big lead. With mrs highlandhalo and son away, it was just to easy to stretch out on that spare bed in the study with the game on MLB.TV and zzzzzzzzz. Won’t happen again, I promise. Earlier starts!
highlandhalo - July 19, 2008
Hey Rev...
I am obsessed with picking up on all the references (it’s probably an OCD like disorder), and I’m confused on this thread’s title. I see a Neil Young thing happening, but I’m not quite making the connection. No disrespect intended, but can you explain this one to me? I realize this may be a strange request, but keep in mind I am a huge proponent of Guinness Stout, and am currently under said influence. This would probably explain some of my other lame posts, and for that I apologize. But rest assured, I am a die-hard, and my shit-talking is not to be taken seriously.
Having said that, please explain the Neil Young reference. Man, I am drunk.
Red114 - July 19, 2008
Me thinks it's
A simple play on the lyrics in the song Old Man. Don’t think too hard on this one Red.
Or maybe it’s deeper than that and Rev is pointing out that GA is not the stonefaced machine most of us think of him as and indeed does have needs. Most notably, just to be loooooved by folks here on a consistent basis.
Old man take a look at my life
I’m a lot like you
I need someone to love me
the whole day through
Ah, one look in my eyes
and you can tell that’s true.
ReggieBullits - July 19, 2008
G.A. is "Old Man"
Anytime you see “Old Man” on this blog ti is a reference to one of two people: G.A. or Me.
Rev Halofan - July 19, 2008
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