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Speier versus the AL leader in HRs...hmmm...
OK Justin, you can do this.
Speier

Please be good

not looking forward to this...
Not first!

Not to be sucking, Speier!

Whaaaaaaaaaaa?
WOW, NICE PITCHING BY SPEIER.

MAYBE I AM GETTING REINSPEIERD.

nice pitch

vintage

Speier's due for a good outing, right?

Trying to be optimistic.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Exactly

Look at the lineup the Tribe is sending out there. Speier is being asked to get out Franklin Gutierrez.

Get double play.
He's an extreme FB pitcher. Not gonna happen.

Anyway, there are already two out.

Or K him looking.
BIG K there

please one more batter… hold the meatballs

Speier used to be good...remember?
Remember when he came back from his virus problem and struck out the side?

That was awesome.

we forget sometimes that this guy was actually a capable pitcher at one point
he does his best to make us forget
not sure what happened to him, he was once competiton for Shields for the set up spot
Nice one, Justin.
FIGGY!

Badass.

Wow, Speier came through when ET couldn't.

I am impressed.

cool, now we need to have non-tex/juan production
I was on the bus...how'd the Angels score the 2nd run?
Juancho's solo blast
NICE dig, Figgy.
Hey just signed on lets get some runs
Due Up

Anderson ,HK47 , Rivera

5 run inning

Put it on the record

*wipes sweat from brow

Thanks for being good Justin, and figgy

19 game hit streak
GA 19 games... wtg... thats how you start a rally
132 pitches for the angels 77 for lee
Looking at the box score

what the fuck does “BB” stand for, and why do the Angels seem to have ‘0’ a lot? And is that a good thing?

GA keepin' it up!
for the love of god, no groudball outs
no worries... Howie's got this
OK Howie, keep this going.
My mom says the Cleveland radio guys were complaining.

Something along the lines of: “These guys are fifteen games up in their division, and he’s making a PITCHING CHANGE?!”

they can suck our homefield
things are tense in their race for 4th with the royals
poop.

that was my fault. i jinxed it

hey, better than a doubple play
Damn

For an amazing contact hitter, Howie seems to K kind of a lot.

You must be new here

The Angels swing a lot.

Yes they do

but Howie is renowned for his bat control, or has been…a great contact hitter. When they K a lot, it surprises me.

Casey swung a lot…never K’d.

he still can't hit the curve consistently

and the high strike fools him often.

ergo: a lot of K for HK.

Teh suck

Thppt. Sorry, Howie.

At least it wasn’t a GIDP.

Ugly.

Gotta get us that run back, Juan.

look at G.A. Go!!!!

way to move old man 1st to third haha

GA with the jets
Alrite Juan, Go Jefff
good wood juan !

1st to 3rd GA

Mathis

Why him? Why now?

RISP King.

Don’t sweat it.

Good thing

I didn’t sweat it.

He's been listening to the board too much.

Needed to swing early.

Juan Juan That a boy
Nice

Go Juancho!

Jeff, need that flyball.

Also, where’s Naps?

rotting away while Mathis GIDPs and hits .200.

i’m a wee bit pissed

Sure you're not in Scotland?

Just a wee bit?

Get tae

fook ya diddy.

censoring myself, really
Wooooo

first and third

show us that RISP prowess mathis
Blue Smoke you should have scored
your lazy
G.A. is so lazy

he probably rubbed off on you and made you forget the apostrophe and the “e.”

Should've

I really Q’d that one

YES!

thank you for adopting that.

I have a Question

Does Q have a special jersey that like has a pad on it for all the time on the bench?

Yeah he does

GMJ recommended a really good tailor to him for that.

I wouldnt take anything from GMJ

hes like a 19yr old at a high school party

From first on a single?

Guess GA was being lazy again.

Booooooooo Jeff
sigh

we need to have a chat about sac flies

That

sucked balls.

way to go Mathis

you idiot.

seriously… why does Soth keep playing him?!

He just took BOTG from 'dondo for me

good lord, what a choke job.

Naps should have been pinch-hitting there.

Congrats Jeff

You just lost your start tommorw

I need to punch something
i have a legit baseball question

if a batter wants to, how hard is it to get a ball in the air? not necessarily a sac fly, but at least a pop up?

What do you mean?

It’s all happenstance.

surely the batters have some control over their swing...
Upper-cut the swing

keep your bat down in the zone, and always tend towards swinging under it rather than trying to get on it.

yeah, but like, how hard is that to actively do?
It depends.

Napoli does it naturally. Guys like Kendrick probably have to concentrate.

i just feel like with less than 2 out and a runner at third, why not try more for a strikeout/flyout swing than a standard one?
because Mathis doesn't know how to hit
Being up against a Cy Young pitcher might have had something to do with it.
you act like this is a new development
With a guy like Mathis, you really have enough problems making contact as it is.

PH Napoli might have been a better move, though part of Jeff’s problem was that he hit it hard.

keep your back elbow down
Another round of Speier Roulette.
Oh, vagina

That was lame.

Well thats why speier doesnt play 1b
What in the hell

was THAT throw, Vlad?

ANS: That's how you teach your Little Leaguers how to throw from the outfield
This home plate ump

really is a HOME plate ump. Ridiculous.

The next time Mathis gets so much as an infield single, trade him

his value will never be higher.

Shoppach

closed his eyes and offered at the ball, apparently.

nice pitching speier
Speier is neat.
Good job Speier
paging the rally monkey
Good Justin

Damm it is weird to type that

Boys don't cry

or something like that.

Seriously, nice job, Speier.
LET's GO Halos!
Ralley Time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow did the 11 hr push speier over the bad edge into the good end
Seems like Speier is only bad when we're ahead or tied.

Top of the lineup coming up. Time to go to work Angels.

Everytime this year that I've seen Speier implode

I couldn’t help but recall Rev’s thread title for when we signed him: “Just-Inspiried.”

Thank God I can finally associate that with something good again.

Best record in baseball

comes from different guys stepping up when you need them. Tonight, it was Speier. Maybe the rest of the guys can come through now.

Good job Figgy
Figgy on base.
let's run, we are the Angels
Nice Figgs. Dude was playing the line, but whatever.
My rally beer is opened
my rally beer is in the freezer

i hope i dont forget…again

aybar...swing upwards
All ships move to attack formation.
jesus almighty

in the AIR

The Admiral puts his anchor down.
Nearly got doubled up

Teh suck.

Well at least it was'nt a DP
That's what she said.
Cliff Lee

gets SO MANY ground balls.

Too fast for the DP.
start a runner, please
Whats a game without a tex hr
omfg

thats 5 double plays if aybar isnt fast

I hate to be pessimistic...but the Injuns aren't beating us.

This team is defeating itself.

4 DP's in a game will kill a lot of scoring opps.
Damn

Good for my fantasy team
bad for my heart

Four double plays.

That’s a killer.

why wasnt aybar bunting ....?

just curious

guerrero-torii-ga in the 9th

one more pretty decent shot

I know we are the best team in baseball, but this gidp and no running game is driving me nuts
Seriously

why not start the runner sometimes?

Loux sighting.
Bout time

He is a family friend and the first time he pitched i was not able to watch

So Figgins hits a leadoff single

and Scioscia neither steals, puts on the hit or run, or has Aybar bunt.

What.
The.
Hell.

we've decided homefield doesnt matter anymore

you know, since all those other AL teams are amazing on the road

Shane Loux?

White flag.

Give the dude a chance.
Sorry, just frustrated.
Never know

He could be the next Brendan Donnelly.

That's true. I'd love to be wrong.
loux's not terrible
1 up 1down for Loux
Cardinalwraith, meet crow.
First Big League K

save it

he's been in the bigs before
pitched for Detroit
16th big league K
Im telling you what the cleveland Indians annoucers are sayin
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUX
Now if only we could find a way

to integrate his last name into a new set of lyrics for “Sweet Caroline,” we could fend off the Red Sox Nation forever.

Loux, I am your father

OK, my bad

You get an A for effort anyway.
Panther

That was awesome

Cliff Lee

Had 15 GDP induced coming into this game.

Most teams don't get this many people on base against him. ;-P
Nice play, Figgs.
Come ON Admiral.

Shit.

E-Bar

i miss my mice tits

Maicer makes that play. Though he'd probably have hurt himself doing so.
Tits of any kind

= good.

This is as close to a universal truth as I can think of.
Kathy Bates in About Schmidt would like to have a word with you.
LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.
The older I get

I can see the day coming when that jacuzzi scene will work fine for me.

I'm not sure how I feel about this, Rev
You sure

that you’re not headed down the “dirty old man” path?

You didd'nt have to remind us of that
DAMNIT, UNIVERSAL TRUTH DESTROYED!
LOL

Oh, God, that’s hi-larious.

hey, at least our defense has been awesome
I wish

he would have hit Grady.

LOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUXXXXX
Alright, I'm eating crow about Loux. He did a good job. Sorry, Shane.
nice pitching loux

one more inning… lee at 104P

Alright offense, time to smash the ball.
I want Shane Loux as the 6th inning guy

give speier and break

Kendrick

I love how he held on to the bal for an extra two beats… sort of like aw sheet i cannot f— this up

He was

looking for the extra ‘L’

and he went for the wayyy faster runner in grady

instead of the force at 2nd

Ralley Time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It has got to work some time

Cubs 6-5

on a pinch-hit home run off Kevin Gregg in the 9th.

Former angel Sighting of the day
I'm down with that

as long as the Missus is happy with the outcome.

Watch Vladdy hit into a DP right here.

somehow.

YES WE CAN!
Funny how that has political connotations this year.
I thought this was stolen from the 1979 Angels when I heard it first used this campaign season
Let's Go Angels!

Do it now, do it now, do it now.

One more shot against Lee.

We have to stop swinging at the high fastball.

Lame

Can’t even get a nice little bloop single.

after the first inning i was really excited about this game
Didn't get enough on that.
Inning ending DP theme

With the flow of the game it is questionable as to why Aybar was not bunting. Don’t play for the "don’t play for a tie on the road.

Kotch would have already hit for the cycle in this game
Kotch would have pitched a complete game shutout.

Silly, silly Weaver.

on 90 pitches

9 each inning

Even better, super-perfect game.

27 K’s on three pitches each.

that was the point of the 9 pitchs :}
well this is stupid
I hate Baseball.
But what about tits?
Of the non-Kathy Bates variety?

I live for them.

In my universe

Kathy Bates does not HAVE tits.

Not that she does in this universe.

Actually, you're right

Jessica Alba has tits.

Kathy Bates has pendulums.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha !
Tits are good (except for that Kathy Bates thing)
Up to you GA.
DAMMMMMMMMMM!
Well

Maybe its a good humbling experience for the halos.

Well hell.

Cliff Lee can eat my turd.

BOTG: ET, sadly.
nay. Jeff Mathis
Agree

@ stright games the pen has picked up a BOTG. Not a good stat

Slow down GA. Save yourself for tomorrow.
ugly

just ugly. 4 DP’s and a FC

Well, see you all tomorrow.
that game was dumb.

stupid cliff lee

So we've lost two in a row

to two godawful, abortions of a team.

That's what makes me nuts.

HATE it.

Well, as tendencies go.

It’s better that we scuffle against the bad teams and destroy the good ones than the other way around, I think.

Bad Team

Indians bad, Cliff Lee GOOD

I change my vote: BOTG, Kathy Bates in "About Schmidt."
Seconded.

Good a vote as any.

I think that's the most replies to a single comment I've ever had

and all I had to do was provoke an entire blog into what would be labeled as ‘justifiable homicide.’

BOTG

Johnny Mathis and his Tri-Sexual Ways

i swear...

if Napoli continues to get on-base and Mathis keeps getting starts, i’m going to kill myself.

I'll be

AT the ballpark tomorrow. Here’s hoping for a better performance.

Let's hope you're a good luck charm.
I'll wear my HH t shirt

Think that’ll help?

DOOOOO IT! Take a picture of yourself in front of the drum or something and put it up as a fanpost!
You got it.

Consider it done.

If the rally monkey guy shows up

in Sec 424 Row A , Seat 8 – or so… we will win!
He is an Asian guy who brings the RM to every game and pounds it on the rail
Great Fan! and he is good luck!

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