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damn overtime, it looks like ive been missing a good game...
It really hasn't been.

Howie hurt. Saunders hurt/bad.

Overtime?

Which horrible northwest team are you following now? There is not one single team that is worth a good God-damn in the world of sports.

Homeplate umpiring has been ridiculous

both ways…no way you should have this many walks in a major league game! Inconsistent on the low end of the zone and absolutely nothing above the belt! Must have forgotten his contact lenses! Paul Schrieber to be exact…horrible!

As I said - 26 LOB

That’s plain terrible.

Time to turn the beat around!
Love to hear the percussion
I hope this thread works!
MORE LIKE OLD THREAD

aNGELS OF OLD

This one will definitely work
The A'sses keep trying to serve us this game on a silver platter...

..and we refusing their generosity.

So gracious…

Maybe we should return to a thread

where we rallied and came back to win?

So

how bad is Howie hurt? Any word yet?

don't know, but i hope it's not bad

how’d it happen?

Going to second on a single.
got it. thanks

sounds like it happened much like his earlier hammy injury

I think he got it running to first. He was scowling when he was standing on first.
That's possible too.
Was on 1st, and ran to 2nd on a single.

He pulled into 2nd and took himself out of the game.

day to day hammy
he could use the break anyways
Much better

than a month-to-month beefy.

You don’t want to know about the year-to-year cocky…

Wasn't that the story last time with Howie

and he missed a month

wait what happened... im just now catching up
the joke is not even funny anymore
he ate too much Moons Over My Hammy at Denny's
Quentin... outfield.. Flied out... You know the drill
That was a good pitch

Fuck you blue

i call shenanigans as well
It enhances your enjoyment of the game.
Bullshit

It’s a lot like tellin a 9 year old fastball he’s too good.

Whatdya mean? The human element... Calling a double a home run is fun!
Come on Ollie
Bull Shit to you Blue!
Ollie out................Dondo in.
This guys strikezone is crap
Give it to him Soxh!
Get 'im Mike

Love the Sosh.

HE’S TOSSED!

See Ya Mike!
and here is your pen
I have NEVER senn a manager gently pickup and hand back ANYTHING to the ump that just tossed him from the game.
Don't hold your hands out Sosh

you wanted to be tossed

Get your $$$$ worth big guy!!!
And the Soth gets tossed.

That stupid ump shoulda gone to Howard’s.

no its probably cuz sosh wanted the lcds

and the ump wanted the plasma

I wouldn't want to be around either
Guess the umpire

Prefers plasmas over LCDs.

So do I
LCDs!!
Or maybe

He was mad Soth wouldn’t give him directions to Howard’s. You could see the ump pointing to his pen and pad…

the Soth is pissed

and still yelling at the umps.

Might as well get his money's worth.
"Who are you kidding, ump ? Listen: I already have to play that clown called Matthews and my Robb Dawg - do you really need to make it harder?"
More like:

“Don’t force me to break Rivera and Willits out on these clowns.”

At least the Soth gets his say.

These damn umps are on such a power trip. Fire them all and bring up the AAA guys.

This game has officially gone beyond wacky
Because we can

That’s all I got

I want to bathe in the blood of beaned A's players...

LET US START THE GLORIOUS BATTLE

Turn out Home Whites into Home REDS!
Who is this short little shit

and why did he just toss the Sosh?

most of the umps

look kinda funny when they take their masks off

I heard this ump likes to toss off managers.
is this the guy who bumped beltran?
Blue has thin skin
and he is tiny skinned as well
That pitch in Thomas

was certainly closer than the one on Aybar in the second.

GMJ snow cones the catch
Matthews you douchebag!!

don’t do that!!!

He looked surprised..

..that he held on to it.

Be more specific

Otherwise he’ll think you mean “get outs.”

he got the message

at the plate

Wow

Gary with a snowcone. Deuche.

is that German or Dutch or douche
All three at once!
That's Pennsylvania Dutch

For Doushe

I wish one of our really bad players was German

so we could call him Deutschland’s finest douche.

With Dutch

you mean a shower ?

A snowcone's an out

And also a delightful summer treat!

ich bein berliner.
guten tag

i tore down the wall

So he can't hit 3-0, and he can't judge flyballs.
I wish he'd go back on performance enhancing drugs.
I think it was probably something like

“Who is coming in Scioscia?”

“Arrendondo is coming in.” (PAUSE) “Maybe he can find your Goddamn strike zone”

(ejection)

That would be fantastic

I was thinking the same thing—we can hope!

lmfao

oh i hope that’s what happened.
i’m going to go ahead and pretend that’s what it was

I think it was something more like Howard's great selection

low prices…
great selection…
low prices…
you’re outa here!

the ump musta liked the kitchen appliances better than the tv's
Your strike zone is KILLING ME, LARRY!
Think when Soth's gone...

Roenicke will take over??

Of course, they’ve likely cloned Scioscia already so we won’t ever have to worry about not having him around…

This guy is gonna be here forever

Like, Bobby Cox with the Braves territory. I don’t see him NOT being our manager for a long, long time into the future.

I doubt that Soth leaves anytime soon.
he's coming back with the Bobby Valentine moustache
I pray that Soth leaves never!
He's the bench coach

Just hope Roenicke doesn’t green light Magellan Jr

What the hell are you talking about?
I was

Thinking forward into the future…trying to cope with the fact that someday our beloved manager will go into the clubhouse for good.

That’s probably a good 20 years or so into the future, but in moments like ejections, etc., and seeing someone else “manage” the team for a bit makes me think of these things!

Way to go ET.
I'm going to get GMJ a TomTom
Why don't you buy him a bat and a glove?!
Because he doesn't know what to do with those

So I’ll give him a TomTom with a map of the baseball field

Is Figgy available?

Chone Figgins was scratched from Wednesday’s lineup with a sore left big toe.
Officially diagnosed as an “irritation” according to a team spokesman, Figgins was examined by Dr. Ronald Glousman at the Kerlan-Jobe Clinic, where X-rays proved normal.

The Angels third baseman sustained the injury during a rundown in Tuesday’s 5-1 win over the Athletics and is listed as day-to-day.

“It is tough for him to push off, so if Figgy can’t run there is a big part out of what he can bring,” manager Mike Scioscia said. “So we need him to get to a level to where he can do some of the things he needs to do out on the field. We’re going to give him today and see if it doesn’t respond to the level that we anticipate.”

Sergeant Hulka is always gonna be here to be that big toe for us. I think that we owe a big round of applause to our newest, bestest buddy, and big toe… Sergeant Hulka.

Please get GMJ out of the lineup now
you know, despite the 26 LOB, 5 ER in 1.1IP from our most winningest pitcher,

and general pathetic turnouts from Hunter and GMJ…. we’re only 1 Effin’ run behind!! GO HALOS!!!

Odd that a closer/relief pitcher

goes full w/u

w00t

way to go, Q-Suck.
ya douche

RHB vs Street: .202/.240/.265 this year
need some switch batting goodness..
Like Aybar

;-)

or GMJ...

shit. Nevermind.

We'll probably have to wait until the 8th...
c'mon guys...

Houston Street sucks

um, this inning so far has kind of sucked!
Yipes. Street is mowing through us.
Good thing Houston Street sux now huh?
Or is it the hitters?

Hmmmmmm

if youre telling me quinlan, aybar and matthews doesnt strike fear into opposing pitchers...

… im calling you crazy dude.

Yeah, cause Q, Aybar, GMJ is a cracker-jack lineup.
Now batting...............Steve Finley
Sarge > Finley
Nahh, Finley could catch!
Sad Eybar...

Paul Schriebert if gift wrapping walks tonight and you swing at that?

Come on Matthews

Surprise us!

Sarge Jr with a HR...

.. Im calling it now.

what r u smokin’?

Nice cut

dooshbag

Let's go Magellan
If HGH wasn't so damn fun and easy to type I would be all over Magellan as his new name! :)
Ah come on now it works it fits,,,,,,,,go with it my man
ok, maybe if I don't capitalize it...

:)

reminds me of dr scholls...

im gellin ur gellin. dr scholl flys out o left.. dang

lol

magellan needs to be his nickname

its official

HGH is off his list of nicknames. Magellan is in.

"Marco!..."
"polo..."
i cant find you dang the ball doesnt talk

to me as it flies in the air…

I remember this one time when I saw GMJ hit a home run.
Optical illusion.
ONE TIME
103 times. 7 this season
Gary "Broken Clock" Matthews Jr.
Gives him to much credit

your wanting me to admit hes right 2 times a day

Yup

1) When he eventually concedes to Scioscia that he, in fact, does not deserve to be in the day’s starting lineup.

2) When he goes to sleep and rids the world of his presence for several hours.

Save it Northwest...........

don’t be the only one that defends Gary Magellan Jr. pick a more worthy cause

touche.... i think i just felt sorry for the guy because i read his "10 questions" today
useless

why do you we still have quitlin?

LOL
yeah ive had too many drinks watching this game
I've had 2 naps!

Seriously!

i understand, but say it out loud and it is really funny

at least Q had a hit! Nice solid line drive too….

Wow, that was douche.

Pretended to flip the ball to the fans, ended up taking it to the dugout with him.

he knew the fans would throw sarges ball back
yeah how much does a signed GMJ ball go for these days?
It's only worth money if it's signed HGH
Why is Street making our hitters look so bad?

Oh wait.

He’s facing bad hitters.

we make crappy pitchers into the newest Cy Young winners, remember?
This ass clown blew one save against us already this year

I think it had more to do with facing Quinlan and Matthews.

Usually it's just the ones we haven't seen before.
ET with a K

i like that boy

It must be tough

for the team to lug around Gary ‘boat anchor’ Matthews Jr. all the time

It's time for Guerrero to step up in his next at bat.
had a solid single last time

it was the guys behind him that failed

Nice, dondo!
Good effort Quinlan

You dushbag

Ack! Aybar clutching his left hammy.
Lovely...Eybar with a hammy

Looks like we will see Wood and Rodriguez sooner rather than later!

Long distance call.....................hello Toronto?

Where’s Eckstein?

Guess nobody steals bases down in triple A huh S-Rod?
lol
Don't they have to wait until the ball crosses the plate until your allowed to steal
something like that, yeah
Please. Like Napoli is gonna throw anybody out.
too good of a jump by that guy

but he throws guys out…. sometimes

Only when they trip. :-P
Not Nipples fault tonight...

pitchers have not held anyone on all night!

So you don't cover the bag? Come on
Best not to give him a chance to throw it into center.
no no

that’s MATHIS that you’re thinking of.
Mathis…

this guy Napoli can actually throw to a target

Right. Napoli is the one that can't catch (See passed balls). Sorry, I'll keep it straight. :-P
Tell me your not serious and your just once again protecting the team from verbal assault
Dude, I've been joking with every response in this conversation.
Same here ,,,,,,,,,,,sort of.................see above
Nice running catch by Vlad
Yup

Every time he has to both move his feet and try to catch a ball at once, it makes me nervous.

Half expected Vlad to pull up with a hammy making that catch...

been that kind of night! :(

F*ck. Aybar out ?
we don't have anyone else

unless he breaks a leg, i doubt it

Figgins is still on the bench.

And capable of playing second.

my bad

forgot about him

That's it.

Extra stretching for everybody now.

so what happened to Howie? And the Soth? I just got home. And I guess Aybar now.
Hamstring. Ejected. Not sure.
WE WILL WIN THIS GAME

Say it with me

WE WILL WIN THIS GAME
WE WILL WIN THIS GAME
WE WILL WIN THIS GAME
When you hitting?
When you hitting?
I like how I'm the only one you say this to.
No no just happened to work that way
Suuuuuure it did. :P
Serious............i fixed it
WE SHALL WIN THIS GAME
When you hitting?
WE WILL WIN THIS GAME
When you hitting?
WE BETTER WIN THIS GAME

Jeez

When you hitting?
Aybar out?

Sounds like it’s WOOD TIME.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
IT'S TIME

HITS!

Time to get our junk out!

Let’s go Halos!

is GMJ gellin like Magellan over there?
he's probably quitlin
I thought we had decided "The Massacre" was an appropriate nickname for Gary
S Rod can't pick up the slider. At all.
see, HE is overmatched

Wood/Brown were just pressing

lets give the bronze medalist another shot
When Wood/Brown are called up

And go 0-37 and Naps is starting every day and STILL can’t throw anyone out what are you going to complain about?

GMJ, Quinlan, Speier

don’t worry, i’ve got tons ;)

Lots of answers

But no solutions. You must be a republican.

BA-ZZZZZZZINNNNNNNNNG!
How everyone wanted Wood to be called up and how stupid it is that people think that the Bees can beat the A's or O's or anyone else
I dunno.

The A’s are like, 3/4ths of a AAA team themselves.

The Auto-Out called S-Rod...
Hello Toronto? JP? Send Eck.
ttie it up tex

Come on get pantha #2!

and also tex, read my sig
lets go S-ROD
Starting to look like Tex has to do it all by himself...
Nice, the .40 ERA kid is in
what makes this zigler guy so unhitable
Doesn't face Vlad enough.
i dont like this relgiz guy.... lol
Rookie.

Batters haven’t gotten used to his ball movement/pitch release yet.

Give it time.

Let's go DALV
VLLAAAAAADDDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
wow Zeiglers gameday photo makes him look like a hobbit.

hometown? the shire.

C'mon Vlad put your golden Nikes on
Vladdypus with a big double.
Come on Torii please get a single!

Instead of ending with 4 K’s!

3 Ks and a groundout
Torii sighting? NOT....
Torii needs to sit for a while!
90210 just got cancelled
the people who run gameday must love the angels
Nah.

Too many off the wall plays. The pitches are easy to track. It’d probably be nice for the GD guys if they took a few more.

Thanks for the early-count swings, assholes

Why not just not show up for the game tomorrow instead?

Nothing pisses me off more than a 2 out double…it almost always seems to get wasted.

Torii - 6 LOB, 3K's and a Groundout...

Terrible.

yet you focus your hate on Gary Massacre and Quitlin.

Hunter is the BOTG here

speier comes out of the bullpen waving a white flag
WE WILL.... ahh forget it
JFC

Angels playing like a team just good enough to lose.

Ah the Speier is in

Just so that IF we score a HR in the bottom of the 9th, we won’t tie the game.

Ummm...JR at 2nd. Whatever.
Juan Riverea Playing Second Base!!
Johnny Rivers at 2b

WTF?

RIVERA AT 2ND???

WHAT???!

lol

lol lol lol lol lol lol

Juan Rivera in the game at second base.
JUAN RIVERA AT 2nd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ITS OFFICIAL

Angels are a fucking mess!!

right now, yes we are
JR at 2nd ?

WTF.

Aybar out. Wood called up tomorrow ?

i would expect it
aybar maybe injured no good
shit... Rivera at 2nd and Speirieieiririe pitching
does he qualify for my fantasy team at 2b now?

checking league rules

at least five starts
Whos's on second?
Night of the Strained Hamstrings
What we don't have a lefthander to play 2nd?
Wasn't Arre a shortstop?

Or do we lose the DH if he gets put in the field?

dang

he didnt get a groundball

Too many injuries!
Juan's gonna make a diving stop and do the glove exchange for the double play
HAHAHAHA! Epic!
is there a dart board in the clubhouse that mike uses to make lineups
Injuries - shit happens
Well he wouldn't have let Saunders throw he wouldn't have hit the board
i think the Rev will be coaching 3rd in the bottom half
catapults and boling them in oil
Man, is Figgy hurt or something?
Stubbed toe I think.
sore toe

whatever that means…

Chone Figgins was scratched from Wednesday’s lineup with a sore left big toe.
Officially diagnosed as an “irritation” according to a team spokesman, Figgins was examined by Dr. Ronald Glousman at the Kerlan-Jobe Clinic, where X-rays proved normal.

The Angels third baseman sustained the injury during a rundown in Tuesday’s 5-1 win over the Athletics and is listed as day-to-day.

“It is tough for him to push off, so if Figgy can’t run there is a big part out of what he can bring,” manager Mike Scioscia said. “So we need him to get to a level to where he can do some of the things he needs to do out on the field. We’re going to give him today and see if it doesn’t respond to the level that we anticipate.”

Someone hit Rivers a grounder...I need to see it happen!

:)

I miss the Boy King
Angels have been sluggish ever since he went down.
I was just thinking the same thing.

And YES, I have clothes on.

totally, the guy is a stud
Stupid Speier. Now we won't get to see Rivera turn a DP!!!!
hey guys

who’s this guy pitching?
did he just get called up or something? he’s been here for like 2 days…

Aybar and Howie

Pissed off because they didn’t get two days off. Oh wait..

Could this be the turning point game for us this season?
Is Soxh losing his mind with Roenicke going Fantasy Baseball
So Aybar, GA, Izturis and Kendrick are all hurt

And Torii needs rest.

NOT good.

Add Figgins.

Better now than right before the playoffs like last year though.

Better in May

now is way to close to be having guys go DL

It already happened in May.
and HGH (magellan) needs a DFA
better now than 30 games from now
My thoughts exactly.
GA is up to bat
wow... Speier pwned the n00bs tonight
LET'S DO THIS

MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY!!!

2 K;s for Speier

This game is weird. The only regular thing is Tex’ OBP

Man, the A's suck.

Come on, we CAN’T lose to these jokers after that.

Sure they can ,,,,,,,,,,,,Angels not so good right now
Still better than they are.
I guess if you Spire to focus you gotta put in some outfielders in the infield
no grounders for Rivera

Damn! :)

lol

that would have made my day

Have to root hard for the tie so you can have the 10th for Rivers
this thing can still go extra innings
LET'S GO HALOS!
GA/Side Salad/Quinlan/Rivera

due up.

we need this win since the salt lake bees will be playing the rest of the season
Seek medical attention if you erection lasts > 4 hours!

I still chuckle every time I hear that commercial! :D

Me too...makes me think of 40 year old virgin
So... You do your thing, right

And then you got 3 hours and 55 minutes to do WHAT with your erection ? Take it downtown ? Go shopping ? Out to dinner ?

I’ve always wondered that after that commercial.

i wanna be there when i guy comes into the hospital for that

“ummm… yeah it’s up for like 6 hours…. uhhhh…. how do we get rid of it?”

Between those commercials and the Carl's Jr. ones...

I’m usually laughing or wanting to hurl during the commercial breaks.

HR rite now called it
Time for the Halos to bring out the brick bats, baseball bats, saturday night specials
Jimmy sticks, blackjacks and bike chains.
juuuust a bit outside
Juan Rivera= the next super-utility guy!

What’s this? His 4th position played this year?

does he know any position?
hey you guys remember that time when GA got a triple

that was crazy

Ga is on Yeah!
if anything he is high on the ganja. Thats why he's so lazzzzy
YES... Crosby air mail
Thanks Crosby

dirtbag

GA=Boil them in Oil
Allright

Outta here, NAPS!

Well, GA didn't hit it in the air

but Crosby sure threw it way the hell up there.

you need to win the game, and you PH Willits for Napoli???

man, i hate whoever is managing right now

Don't think Sosh didn't make this call as he watches it on the monitor
If GA was'nt so lazy that would have been a double.
Notice how GA didn't veer to his left like upton.
Great pinch hit for a sac bunt..........

here is the out for ya

dude i love ga's expression (hey i got on base)
do we hate walk-off homers?

is that what it is?

How many walk-offs does Napoli have again?
it's not just tonight

we’ve done it to Rivera too

and they’ll never get any if they never get the chance, huh?

more walk off HR's then Willits
No really, how many?
I am watching the game..........you look it up
seen Naps drop the bunt before
Willits is the specialist.
hard to do when the pitcher hasn't given up a homerun in two years
This also.
This is your solid pinch bunter
Yeah. What about it?
I pinch run him before I bunt him for Naps..........seen Naps move guys over with a bunt before
Tell you what would make my day...

HGH/magellan gets the gwrbi and I have to eat every single unkind word I have said about him tonight!

don't know about this

lets move GA over so Q can do what

Stroke a double down the left field line

Right?

or strike out while flailing.

that too.

Reggie! Reggie! Reggie!
Wouldn't it be better if Willits was pinch running
C'mon Pink Bat!

Move GA over

sometimes i think our managers are too smart for their own good...

… but then i hear about how Ziegler hasnt allowed a HR in 3 years

reggie chants

anyone else ever seen him with a double sided helmet?

Will Reggie get hit in the head or will he get the bunt in play?
boy, that PH is looking great now, huh?

FAIL.

nvm.

good job, Reggie

miss the bunt dang no!!
phew

nice bunt reggie

Oh no

Abort! Abort! Abort!

Whatcha you talkin' about Willits?
Hey!

There’s our bunting expert…he fucking MISSED!

bite your tongue! ;)

Uhoh

Come on Reggie

We cannot pinch-bunt to save our lives.
Oh yeah....bullits with the sac...
I love the 2 strike bunt!

Way to go Willits!

It was a tough curve. He's bunting anyway
Reggie, Reggie, Reggie!
Reggie with getting it down...

and now GA is inexplicably on 2nd instead of Willits in the first place.

that kind of felt like a wasted effort with Q coming up
Well done Reggie
NICE WhatChooTalkinBoutWillits!!!

Got the pink bat down with 2 strikes!

why is there not a pinch hit for Q!
we're running out of players! Who's left??
They just said "And that will bring Quinlan to the plate..."

and my entire house just heard my scream “HORSE SHIT!”

as if there was an option…

Not just that

I wasn’t thinking about who was next at the time.

C'mon Huey!!!!!
let's do this, Quitlan!
quinlan needs to step into those.
Quinlan----

let it hit you!! stop moving!!!

I thought I'd never say this

C’mon ROBB DAWG!

Q's going long ball!
i think he did that on purpose
are these intentional or what ?
wow.

That was a heckuva close ball4

9 walks and 9 hits…good grief…that is some quality pitching/umpiring right there!

if Juan pops up in the infield on the first pitch im going to kill him
Johnny Ringo, FTW!!

BTW, hearing “Second baseman, Juan Rivera!” made me giggle

"2nd baseman, Juan Rivera!"
Cool eh?!

I love it!

BIG RIVERS

in to GIDP and lose the game!

oh wait… :(

RIVERA

Hit it out. Do it.

cumon 2B, come through!
"Second baseman... Juan Rivera!"

Did that sound weird to anyone else?

His fielding percentage is perfect!
gold glove

caliber player

Double steal... GO GO GA
told ya...that would make my night...

eating magellan crow…

they're walking them loaded to get to Magellan...
Oh Magellan .....Megellan.......Meggellan
Greatest 2nd basemen in the MLB.
Maybe Rivers can play 3b?
Bet ya JR never thought he would hear his name over the PA being announced as the 2B
i ber it sounded wierd to him too
I hope he's not rattled.
ziegler's rattled.

CAPITALIZE!

...and Dino Ebel is in the On-Deck circle
If Matthews ends the game

I’m gonna go have to DFA him myself

(ends the game in a negative way, that is)
swung at ball 3
Rivera GMJ'd it

FAIL.

faaaaaaaaaaail
YOU STUPID FAT SLOW FUCK
Love the sac bunt solid
Failure.

Rivers is the worst player in the universe.

juan is not very clutch
Dang no non ono non non no non no!!!!!!!!!!!!!

not what we needed!!!!!

Johnny Rivers is dry
I'm sorry, Rivera lovers

he just does that kind of stuff WAY WAY WAY too much.

UGH! SHIT! Boohooooooo!

That is F’Ugly! Save some electricity on the Halo tonight….

the angels have been going green lately
hey juan have fun playing for the marlins next year
There are no words to describe this...
I know sac so they work around the next guy to set up the double play
13 LOB

After your bullpen gives you 7 shutout. That’s unfortunate.

No.

That’s bad.

We just lost a series to the A's.
That's worse.

and blew our bullpen in the process

Angels lose another series and the line up
So the A's had dropped 12 straight series

what’s the cure? Facing us, of course.

Baseball blows. We blew this game so damn badly. 14 LOB.

Yeah but someone is sure to mention how the team is XXX amount of games in first

WHO CARES…………There are issues with the team. There are 15 teams in MLB I think that would be in 1st place in the AL West

If we're still in it, then there are only two.
HUH???
If we're in still in the division, there are only two other teams in baseball taht would be in first place.
Point is the division stinks and if 15 other teams took their record into the AL West they would be in 1st also
My point is for that to be true, we'd have to leave first.

We’re shy of the best record in our league by all of a half game right now.

No shit

but my statement is true. Sad sack AL West spots us those type wins as well. Think TB would fall if they played the AL West 19 times a season?

Given our records against the other AL East teams,

I’d welcome the switch if they wanted it.

We NEED home field advantage with the way other teams play on the road

we’ve looked GODAWFUL for more than 2 weeks now, our first-half ace is getting shelled, our players are dropping like flies…it’s insane how far we’ve gone in two weeks. And, among other things, we’ve lost our 100 win pace significantly (more trivial than the other things, but still annoying since the pace went from 104 to 97 games in TWELVE DAYS).

Well nuts, I guess there's nothing to do but shit our pants and panic.
Or you can just allow us to act as frustrated and upset as we have been

since, you know, it’s fairly well warranted at this point. No one here is concerned about the division. No one has been for a while. But the team is listless as fuck, and we’re acting accordingly. What’s not to get?

What's not to get is that it's two bad weeks in August

and we’re still only a half game back of the league lead in wins. Further, it’s not exactly like we’ve been getting dominated:

10-7, 3-2 ,4-3, 6-4, 4-2, 2-1, 9-0, 2-1, 6-5. These are the scores of our losses in that time. With one exception, they were close games that we had a chance at winning.

Personally, I take heart from the fact that even with us scuffling as badly as we have been, we’re still only losing squeakers. If we were losing by 3-4 runs every game, or getting blown out constantly, then yeah, we might be in trouble. But we aren’t. Instead, even during one of our lowest ebbs this season, other teams can only BARELY beat us.

Personally, I welcome the injuries now. Let us find out who’s tired and weary and breaking down, and if necessary, we can damn well shut them down for the first two weeks of September and let the AAA guys play. It’s way better than having everything collapse on us with a week to go like last year.

I want home field advantage as badly as anybody (in fact I’m pretty sure I pointed out the incentive of playing for HFA to you two days ago) but health takes priority. It has been health, more than anything else these past three playoff gambits, that has killed us.

Lemme break it down

Team plays well: we all are happy.
Team plays poorly: we are not, and act accordingly, especially with important factors (health AND home field on the line)

That’s all that’s going on. I’m not saying the sky is falling (and I’ve told the “1995ers” to shut up plenty). I just don’t know how else you want someone to act when their team plays poorly. That simple.

29 men LOB

that’s… just awful.

Mota: "Reggie Willits comes through with a big sack....."
glad I'm not the only one that heard that
so thats why he was on the dl
gonna need a Reggie-sized cup for that sack...
how many freaking series have we lost these last two weeks
19738728938

i think

We're catching up

We didn’t lose any series in quite a while so we’re making up right now.

I just hope everyone turns out alright.

Last thing we need is to be back on the SL middle infield train.

AKA the Black Hole!
Those are definately traps
im gonna laugh when Wood comes up and rakes
That'll be awesome

But S-Rod is a hole in the lineup.

That's what she said!!!
that doesn't make any sense
You have no sense of humor

infant obviously mentioned a sort of Hole in the lineup…

sarcasm

but still… not a very good “that’s what she said”.
you gotta work on that, man. :P

I can only work with what I'm given

If no one here can laugh at a joke, maybe I won’t make any!
I’ll find another Angels site where bad jokes are appreciated.

horseshoes and hand grenades

turn the page…

thermo-nuclear weapons, too
Yeah Texas Rangers next

They don’t score runs or nothin

I suspect Soth pulled a hammy getting tossed by Paul Schriebertdickheadassholeblindasabatclueless ump

everyone else did!

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