Halos Heaven

Nice job D-nasty.........

EXHALE MR. FURLEY!!! EXHALE!!!

Fan Since 1981 - August 13, 2008 reply

Raise the beer

Who cares?

SurfCity - August 13, 2008 reply

beer raised

He Made a diving Play and only touched the base once!

GO U-HAUL

Big Easy Halofan - August 13, 2008 reply

End it now, Teix

makin me nervus

end it tex!!!

that was his pitch..

does that count as a homer?

If Kotch were batting?

end it now VLAD

Kotch Would have Hit the ball under ground

that wud have worked better

you know he wants to hit like a 400 ft shot into lft fld upper deck!!!!

He wants to be like Kotch

everybody wants to be kotch

Michael Jordan wants to be like Kotch

Kotch is the Olympic Baseball Team

kotch is raul ibanez

True

so does a-rod

End It Torii!!!

painted the corner of what?!!?!?

orangewood and state college?!?

This ump is quite the tool

Go Big Daddy!

Jack Kerouac - August 13, 2008 reply

Everybody wants to hit it 500 feet

Fan Since 1981 - August 13, 2008 reply

Hunter time for you to do something today for old granny

god damn, stop swinging for home runs

a walk, a SB, and a single is just as good

the HR mentality is crampin' our style

STOP hitting for the fences!

Bunt!

I wanna bunt!

pain the agony

welp...on to the 12th

A record setting closer to slam the door

Wrong timing FSN!

Inspeiering! Schwartzenegger comes in to relieve Ollie

I hope the game comes down to GMJ has to pitch and blow out his arm and we can release him

Brand new 911 turbo cabrio man is up

Let’s hope he’s solid

I'm not getting it. Help me out

look above

he just bought a new car, as did Matthews.

Speier

I was in a dealership earlier this week and they told me that (because they noticed my plates) Speier just bought a brand new 911 Turbo Cab the day before. Also that Matthews bought his Bentley there. I posted this in the other thread 1 sec before everyone went to this one.

speier...game over

sorta like gagne.

speirs on roids too?

facing Ibanez

Yeah. He’ll give up a homer.

Which SF girl was that?

heeeeeere's Speier

looks like the man got a haircut

maybe it did him some good.

Well, Speier sucks.

Did I mention this ump is a tool

crap. was posting on the last thread.

You could at least tell us when everybody is supposed to move.

And Speier does his usual. Crap.

They kinda did... >_>

That’s what the link was for. :-P

Speier + Ibanez

Automatic extra bases

Diving Catch - August 13, 2008 reply

IBB, jesus, we dont learn

Phyz and Hud get unhealthy fixations

once an idea is in their heads, they don’t let it go.

You’d think that they were campaign mangers for Ibanez’s presidential bid or something.

Ibanez HAS been an Angel killer for a while now

Oh, I know

those two guys in the booth have told me now.

Every time he’s been on camera for every game we’ve played them for the last 2 years.

Speier yyour really good

This UMP is a bag of shit

don't insult bags of shit

beltre should be out right now

As should many other Mariners (and Angels)

hit the ump, justin

i can see it now

they pretend like its an IBB then throw a heater at him

Do that thing where Math ducks

rite now petrfect opp!!!

Speier

shoud do this

At least tomorrow's an off day

regardless of the outcome

Speier sets up the double play

Now I’m curious as to how this will play out

Nice pop

2 down.

My, I go away and look what happens

Angels get the lead, M’s get it back, Tex ties it, and now we’re in the 11th.

12th

Apparently

I forgot how to count while I was driving home from work.

Someone tell plasma to go for the DP

u mean lcd

those r the worst commercials ever lol

Whadya mean. Those are the BEST!

I live in Az i dont see to many

"Ooooh, you guys were talking about THAT Howards

i thought you were talking about me. i do like shopping there though”
-Howie Kendrick

Ibanez looked scared

JUANCHO!

Juan with too much mustard out there.

Get this Curacao kid

Just because it’s part of my home country, doesn’t mean I want him to beat us.

FUCK YOU SPEIER

DANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

torii almost got it!!!!

F-bomb time.

FUCK!

EFF JUSTIN!!!!!!!

come on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lame

Funke5ive - August 13, 2008 reply

Speier is the worst human being on the face of the earth.

really?

worse than GMJ?

gdog009 - August 13, 2008 reply

GMJ doesn't play enough anymore.

Which is to say, he doesnt' play enough to qualify for worst human being

he does, however, play the exact right amount for the Angels…which means never.

Speier does what he always does.

Game over, folks.

cardinalwraith - August 13, 2008 reply

epic fail

Wlad

Dear god.

f-bomb spiers

Trade him to the Comedy Club!

SurfCity - August 13, 2008 reply

I FUCKING HATE SPEIER

Holy crap.... I thought that was pop up.

yeah so did i

i wasn’t worried when he hit it.

so did Torii

he would’ve scaled that wall better if he knew

Why does SPeier always do this ?

totally UninSpeiering.

gdog009 - August 13, 2008 reply

Good night, Gracie.

dickie, I luvs ya and I think you are right this time

Dickie?

OOOPS LMAO what a typo!!!

at least I can say the U and I are next to each other on the keyboard!!

Wow.

What the hell happened Marine layer?

gives up a 3 run to a ROOKIE who's been striking out?? WTF????

just one of those nights...........

in Justin’s defense….there is no way in hell he shoulda been out there…....now or ever

there is no defense for UNINspeierED

He sucks

Balentien had a track record of power IIRC

Strikes out a ton but had pretty good power in the minors.

i applaud Torii Hunter though.

what an amazing effort on his part.

screw you, Speier.

Applaud

Hard to applaud when he is paid for that. Pay me his contract and I would have ran through the thing

Kotch grabs that ball

Has time in the air

lol

oh come on

he cant rob EVERY homer.

i think he gets it if he doesn't think it's a routine fly

looked like it caught him off guard.

10 runs to the mariners?

lord, that’s like giving up 30 to any other team.

Currently Watching

The worst Angel game of 2008

I am forced to agree.

sorry the game where the Halos no hit the dodgers and lost still takes the cake.......

agreed

I thought we agreed that this never happened.

We never played the dodgers

right

Never had the lead

28 times in the game though

He was out of the inning...just don't throw a goddamn meatball

and he gives one up to that assclown.

For a moment I thought Torii had it

For a moment

Torii did too!

Diving Catch - August 13, 2008 reply

He hat the timing and location right.

Any word on Izzy's thumb?

Ya

he is trying to remove it from Speier’s azz

silver lining?

at least we still haven’t lost a series to the AL since May…?

What happened to that being the absolutely wrong attitude, missy?

:-D

Speier came out of his hole

I’m not bitching about the game. It’s focused solely on that butthole

Get up an arm from AAA to replace Speier

He’s been off all season and gives up more longballs than our starters. (OK, I got to check the numbers on that but it feels that way anyway)

i can haz Bulgerz?

:)

I'm all for it.

Per inning he's WAAAAAY ahead.

sorry... but i don't and have never liked speier...

good guy, but an inconsistent pitcher.

game over most likely… thanks justin.

Red - August 13, 2008 reply

ditto

Speier is the least consistent, solid pitcher we have. Why couldn’t Oliver stay in there?

Let's go guys

Make this game even longer ;-)

Lets Do This

C’mon GA

Funke5ive - August 13, 2008 reply

Speier does not REFUSE TO LOSE

He wants to go home in his new Porsche and figured this was the quickest way.

Thank God

He is no longer in the service or we would have another Pat Tillman fiasco. He kills his team/guys

come on u still got this

Right.

Game is NOT over.

said it like yogi

good, break his wrist

did u see it swell up?

Blame of the game

Has to be Howie. If that DP ball is taken care of per usual, the M’s don’t come back and we’re all happy.

yeah yeah

cuz HOWIE gave up that 3 run bomb.

We aren't in extras if HK handles the DP ball

Teix’s solo homer in the ninth is a walkoff shot.

Nah. They were ahead after that.

Frankie.

They were tied after that.

Speier.

But shouldn't have been tied in the first place.

Both Frankie & Shields really sucked tonight. We should’ve never gotten to extra innings.

I'm with Stu-Zu

Can we just give Tex the Panther

Agree

kharma?

Red - August 13, 2008 reply

Nice shot cue shot GA.

Ump wrist in the corner pocket.

BOTG

Goes to Anderson, Kendrick, Shields, Frankie, and Speier. They can all share it together.

FlyByKnight - August 13, 2008 reply

G.A. is excused

for hitting the umpire and scoring the go-ahead run in the 8th.

No, not really

GIDP with the bases loaded and one out in the first inning was a huge moment in the game. I don’t care about his hit streak. That was a major epic fail on his part.

FlyByKnight - August 13, 2008 reply

Well, it BECAME huge

There were a billion huge moments in the game with players that didn’t come through…at least G.A. did something that really helped later to try to make up for it.

But rather than go over all of them, I’d suggest you go back and read my comment for the joke it was…like the part where I said he doesn’t get BOTG for hitting a foul off the ump.

If woody had gone to the police this would never have happened

So many people to blame for the game

Gotta go with Frankie, for the blow-job, and for the attitude.

especially the attitude

i think i agree with that one

me 3

Funke5ive - August 13, 2008 reply

Yes, because telling the umpire he's wrong when he was is such a POS move.

He was wrong all night

Frankie was just being an ass.

Then it's about time someone told his ass that.

he was already coming out of the game

what good does it do?

that’s right.. NONE

What does it cost?

Nothing. He’s done for the night.

it was a douchebag move.

plain and simple

But only when he does it.

When Tex argues with the ump about the guy being in the baseline, that’s cool right?

he didn't do it 10 minutes later

when nothing could be done about it, did he?

not only that, Soth came out to argue that play as well.
he didn’t come out to argue balls and strikes, which is what Frankie was crying about.

Like I said. When Tex does it, hey that's cool. Mike had to hold Tex back as I recall.

Frankie didn’t even get all up in the ump’s face.

Hell, I’m pretty sure Oliver got tossed with some choice words for the ump earlier this year. No one said anything about how “childish” it was.

If I were in the thread

I would have. I hate all tantrums, of any type, in this game. And that’s what this was. A tantrum.

Frankie's a grown man

cussing out an umpire when you’re coming out of the game is just childish. Don’t bother defending it…it’s childish, and he should be above it, or at least know how to address it without swearing and bitching.

Yeah, when other people do it, it's team spirit.

But oh boy, when Frankie does it, it’s being childish. God, I can’t stand it.

That's a weird statement

I don’t care who does it.

Frankie did NOT look good. EVERYBODY, both mariners and Angels pitchers, had to deal with the same ump, with the same zone and with the same problems.

Nobody bitched about it. Frankie did a bad job and blamed the ump. If I do a bad job tomorrow, I cannot go scream at my customer or client – and neither should Frankie. We’re all grown ups.

It’s fine if your passionate (please be!) but that was childish.

On the other hand, I’m sure he’s as upset with himself as with the ump. Which is good.

I'm pretty sure John's pulled that stunt before

I don’t believe anyone here yelled at him for it.

I would've if I had seen it

I didn’t like the ump either. But Frankie was off and the ump was not to blame. If Santana and ET can get people out with that ump, Frankie should be able to do the same. He couldn’t. His fault, not the ump’s.

No, as I recall, everyone blamed Howie when ET couldn't get outs.

Home Plate Ump

did nothing to make HK go dumb on D

Frankie hadn't done anything to make the ump go blind.

Sad excuse

Excuse! Ump doesn’t give 2 shits about who wins! He was behind the plate for every pitch both sides.

Want credit for the Save

Then stand up and take the blame when you spit the win up

2 career panthers.

I’m not seeing a whole lot of credit for saves around here.

Speak Clearly

What does that mean? Not so sure I understand your defense for the awful performance of Fing-Rod tonight.

Guy spit the win up. Regardless of everything that took place this evening…....in spite of everything when in your words” the best closer in baseball” took the mound in the top of the 9th they had a 2 run lead. When he left they were losing.

Really? That went over your head?

Check Stirrups’ sig sometime. You said that if he wants credit for the save he should man up about it when he gives it up, right?

My reply is that people AREN’T GIVING HIM ANY CREDIT round these parts. If that’s too hard to understand, I can’t help you.

Credit?

He will get enough $$$ he wont need credit Zu!

He gets mass credit each and every time he comes into a game. He gets national exposure as well. Guy will break the record more then likely.

I am guessing what really makes you mad about tonight is you will have to crunch the numbers to see what his XPLZS is, or what ever it is that makes him the best

Strike zone seemed fine to Oliver

Frankie COULDN’T FUCKING PITCH TONIGHT.

He bitched about at least one call that he was WRONG about. And to top it off, he got himself ejected…and for what? To make himself look like a jackass and accomplish absolutely nothing?

The fact that we’re even having a debate about his attitude tonight is all the proof you need that he should know to keep his emotions in check to SOME degree.

Sure, he couldn't pitch.

But some of these guys… they can barely contain their glee. Lackey has something bad happen, and it’s “Oh no!” “Too bad, everybody has one of those.”

K-Rod has a bad night and it’s “HAHA! You don’t deserve $15 million!” The double-standard gets to me after a while.

Fair Enough

but he was not good tonight! The thing that gets me is if you think you got hosed then act on it then, not when you get done allowing 3 runs and have been takin out. Kind of makes one think he is trying to let people know it isn’t his fault he was not good tonight. Take blame and move on….....

Yup

we blamed the person responsible.

Just like we blame the guy who got smacked around in the 9th inning, while Oliver came in and did just fine with him.

Just like half the people blamed Frankie when Tex made the error.

Who then

Who is and why is it the way it is tonight Zu?

I already gave it to Speier.

Tie game, got two out, three run jack. But hey, whatever. Most of you guys want to see him leave anyway, and have since the season started.

What about the other innings

Those don’t count? They had a lead in the top of the 9th. 2 run lead and lost!

Then he gets taken out and thrown out! Not such a wonderful night

Again

I can’t speak for others. I know I didn’t post anything about that in the game thread, because I was AT that game. I blamed Tex the whole time.

Deep breath Yeah.

Maybe you’re right. I get so used to having to defend him from the bullshit criticism, maybe I’m going to far here. This one is probably on him.

Outstanding

Good job…thats seeing the light.

In all honesty I am not a big believer in pointing a loss at any one guy, but there is a theme here on HH.

I have always played and coached that you win as a team and lose as one. This club does not count on just one guy night after night and thats a sign of a great team.

Actually

I’ve had a ton of debates in the past on this board where I’ve defended Frankie…perhaps too much. I even argued, back before the $15 million days, that I wanted to extend him.

So I’m on your side in a sense, but I just don’t take poor attitudes well.

Which makes me a bigger hypocrite than anyone you can name.

I just... don't get it.

All that guy has ever given us is his all. 90% of the time it’s enough. Why do they hate him so much?

Because it's not 100%

1) I think some of it has to do with his contract demands and SEEMINGLY selfish attitude

2) It’s the nature of a closer…when he saves a game, he did his job…good for him, whatever, let’s move on. When he messes up, he’s in the high profile HOLY FUCKING SHIT WE JUST LOST THE GAME BECAUSE OF THAT position. Even though the 3 he gave up are no more significant than the 3 given up by Santana, he was the one in the position to be most noticed during a failure…much like a loss in April screws you as much as one on September 30th, but you sure the hell don’t say “man, if only we had won that April 18th contest in New York” if you lose a division by one game.

Not saying it's right or fair...just the way it is.

Then why doesn't Percy get any hate?

He blows saves, did it the same way K-Rod does, and yet he’s a god.

K-Rod’s contract demands are exactly in line with what everybody else at his position is getting. Lidge, Nathan, Rivera, Ryan have all gotten big contracts, and K-Rod is better than they are.

Maybe it’s part K-Rod’s fault though. He never seems to blow the one-run leads, the one’s where you could say “okay, that’s not all his fault.” He always finds more spectacular ways to blow up.

Still, when the guy who leads our team in fangraphs win% has 4 blames and 1 panther, you start to think that something’s broken. God help whoever saves games next year.

Again. It's obviously not fair.

But it is such a fact of life at this point, that I just don’t care enough.

Not with me, man

you won’t find a post of me legitimately defending anyone for cussing out an umpire for no real reason.

Or for a reason, for that matter.

Kotch would never do anything like that

GA is too lazy.

Kotch Would have thanked the umpire

and then make him pay

kotch would have ranand caught that homer

after he threw the pitch to give it up

Except he had a very legitimate reason.

See my reply to myself.

well this isn't pleasant...

hello all.

scottnak - August 13, 2008 reply

i have disliked spier

since he yelled at me at Fan Fest.

ugh!

lightupthehalo - August 13, 2008 reply

what did he say?