Get pumped. Win 1 game in the next 3 and the Los Angeles Angels have 100 wins and Home Field Advantage for the entire postseason.
Get pumped. Vladimir Guerrero is heating up. Mark Teixeira is heating up. Torii Hunter’s bat may be thawing. Mike Napoli knows when to at least put it in the air.
Get pumped. Scot Shields pitched a 1-2-3 inning. Jose Arredondo was shaky but managed, getting his 10th win, the SIXTH Angels pitcher to go double digits in victories this season.
In what might have been his final appearance as an Angel in 2008, Dustin Moseley pitched a serviceable 5 innings, giving up 2 in a difficult first inning and then kicking ass the rest of the way. A tip of the HALO to Dustin, who kept us in a few games this season with 2 wins to show for it. Not a bad return for Ramon Ortiz at the end of his line.
Get pumped. Howie Kendrick is getting his stroke back. Erick Aybar has his back and the glove is divine as well. With Chone Figgins as the weakest link offensively at least his glove at the hot corner is indisputably stellar.
Get pumped, because the mainstream media in Southern California will be too busy stroking Joe Torre, Frank McCourt and Manny Ramirez on a mediocre job undone to notice that the best team in baseball isn’t the one who backed into the playoffs after selling their farm.
Panther of the Game: Vladimir Guerrero
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props to moseley for not sucking
NoDakHalo - September 25, 2008
Moseley definitely did not suck
Maybe he wants a playoff spot?
teopeht - September 25, 2008
Laughing.
hauldog - September 26, 2008
Vladdy was Panther tonight
1 win against the Rangers, and we’ve got the first 100 win Halos team!
howiestheman - September 25, 2008
go vladdy!!!
99…sweet
adirondackangelfan - September 25, 2008
hahahaha
Torii, on base stealing: “I’m like a hyena! I always take advantage of chances like that!”
howiestheman - September 25, 2008
Am I the only one who noticed that Arredondo made off with his 10th W tonight?
TheOptimist - September 25, 2008
Do'H
mjhsieh - September 25, 2008
Ninja'd. :P
TheOptimist - September 25, 2008
agreed.
teopeht - September 25, 2008
Notable José Arredondo
His tenth win…
mjhsieh - September 25, 2008
and his 7th blown save.
Downing Rules - September 25, 2008
itchy and scratchy
In what might have been his final appearance as an Angel in 2008, Dustin Moseley itched a serviceable 5 innings
Downing Rules - September 25, 2008
I do appreciate the relatively unseen way our team has gotten itself into the post-season.
Now if only opposing teams also underestimated our ability we’d be set for a great postseason.
teopeht - September 25, 2008
Juan Rivera… will be playing, but GMJ is hitting pretty well the past couple of weeks 300+ avg; hud says JRivera will play this weekend.
Hud is ENTIRELY too happy … about Smashmouth being at Rally Monkay (misspell intended).
Downing Rules - September 25, 2008
seems like i just read this same comment somewhere else...
44FAN - September 25, 2008
cranial flatulence.
losiento, senor quarenta y quatro fanatico.
Downing Rules - September 26, 2008
He gets goin' so fast sometimes...
One of these days he’s going to swallow his tongue.
; )
Funke5ive - September 25, 2008
Pantha
Big daddy Vladdy !!!!!
Mickey Hacker - September 25, 2008
big props to moseley... a lot of us bash him early and deservedly so...
but the last 3 starts he’s started slow and finished strong… with bulger and jepsen sort of floundering why not give moseley a spot on the postseason roster… long relief is probably going to be his best opportunity to succeed long term in the MLB
BigBangRobbDawgg - September 25, 2008
oh and of course BIG VLADDY is panther
please PLEASE stay hot in october !!
BigBangRobbDawgg - September 25, 2008
Dodgers didn't sell the farm for Manny, or even really close
but I am still PUMPED for much of the above mentioned items, particularly Howie.
Caseys Kiss of Death - September 25, 2008
Nor did they back in
Caseys Kiss of Death - September 26, 2008
They certainly did not get him and Blake for free.
I thought they gave up a couple of nice prospects.
hauldog - September 26, 2008
They gave up solid, non-spectacular prospects from a relatively strong farm system
this wasn’t like A.J. for Liriano, Nathan, and Bosner, or Colon for Lee and Sizemore and Phillips.
Caseys Kiss of Death - September 26, 2008
Just to make it clear though
I hate the Dodgers…but they got a pretty sweet hitter for relatively cheap. LaRoche is good, but he’ll never be great enough to justify him not being traded when Manny came along.
Caseys Kiss of Death - September 26, 2008
Vladdy was pantheresque
and Napoli is on FIRE!
PieceOfAase - September 25, 2008
a microcosm of the Dodgers' season...
they just celebrated clinching the division after LOSING to the Padres.
howiestheman - September 25, 2008
The Dodgers are 16 games back from being the best team in "LA"
Chone's Chonies - September 25, 2008
I dislike divisional formats
Dodgers shouldn’t even be in the playoffs as far as I’m concerned. Someone explain to me why it is that there are 4 teams that go to the playoffs in each league, and there are 7 teams in the National League alone that might finish with a better record than the Dodgers, and yet they get to go to the playoffs?
Caseys Kiss of Death - September 25, 2008
Because you play so many games against teams in your division...
If every team played an equal number of games against every other team, I’m with you.
Divisions with parity will produce teams with less wins from more talent, whereas a mediocre team in a crappy division could have a great record.
I’m ok with scrapping the divisions. They’d just have to even out all the games and lose the division rivalries. It would work, but I’m not sure if it would be as much fun.
thetooth - September 26, 2008
As they should
Caseys Kiss of Death - September 26, 2008
CKOD, are you
channeling Hank Steinbrenner?
red floyd - September 26, 2008
That's what I thought...
Hank just likes to hear himself talk. Earth to Hank – there’s something to be said for change, but it’s worked this way for 108 years now.
Gorbachav5 - September 26, 2008
Hank is a douchebag who brought it up when divisions cost his teams the playoffs
and who sat back and loved it when it helped him get in.
I’m just a fan who doesn’t see why your geographical locale should dictate playoff eligibility when there are teams that aren’t going to the playoffs who are better, and whose only flaw is playing at a physical point further to the east or west than their opponent
Caseys Kiss of Death - September 26, 2008
Yeah...
I forget who it was (I think it might have been on 710), was wondering if Good old Hank was going to offer to give back the 2000 WS title, since the YankMe’s sucked that year.
red floyd - September 26, 2008
Did you dislike it in the 70's? and still dislike it now?
hauldog - September 26, 2008
Negative 15 year old me didn't have much of an opinion back then
Caseys Kiss of Death - September 26, 2008
Vlad is definitely POTG
And our line-up has been more than decent enough. Napoli, Tex, even HGH has been better of late. As for the Doyer talk, let it go. First round sweep, most likely, one first round win is probably there best case scenario.
halofolife - September 26, 2008
Typo
Meant to say " THEIR best case scenario".
halofolife - September 26, 2008
Putz for Panther????
stuck in Romania - September 26, 2008
Vlad
vladtheimpaler - September 26, 2008
Let's hope Vladdy keeps it going
He’s been A-Rod-esque (Yankee version) in the playoffs.
Gorbachav5 - September 26, 2008
Jose Canseco Homer?
Vlads homer last night was almost like the homer off of cansecos head
devildogamp - September 26, 2008
I thought of that when I saw it, too.
hilarity.
Downing Rules - September 26, 2008
scottnak - September 27, 2008
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