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Red Sox at Angels: 6:37 PM

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Poll
Is Thursday's Game a "Must-Win" for the Angels?
Yes
371 votes
No
90 votes

461 votes | Poll has closed

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Leaving SD for the game right after school/work gets out

and I can’t freaking wait!

Go Halos!

Every game in the playoffs ...

is a a “must-win” game – especially in a short-series.

When you’re in a race to win 3 games out of 5, it’s VERY important to win Games, 1 2 and 3.

Just asked the ’82 Angels who blew a 2-game lead to the Brewers (blegh); or the 86 Angels, who blew a 3-1 lead to Boston (RIP, Donnie Moore)

They didn't win any Games 1 in 2002

but it sure would be nice to crush the Sux with a sweep.

+1

Still think it is a must win though

Well, it's a personal must-win for me

because otherwise I’m gonna have a stroke.

Me too!

I very well might!…Or a heart attack!

Would you people stop bringing up '86!

That NEVER happened. As far as I’m concerned there was no baseball that year

GO ANGELS!

"Enjoy The Silence..."

Sure hope that’s the theme for Game 3 in Fenway, not Game 1 in Anaheim.

and YES ...

this is a BIG GAME so big, I’d call it a “MUST WIN” game. Set the tone. I expect nothing less than a 15-run margin of victory for the Halos.

I will be there… so yes, it is a must win. I expect us to have a 7 run lead by the 3rd inning.

17 -2. Sounds about right.
Ready, set, GO HALOS!!!!

  Got my Pale, IPA, Double IPA, and the lighter stuff for the girls. Pizza, Guac, Chips Crackers.
   I am Stoked!!! There is no way Lester shuts us down again. This game is going to be awesome!

me too

Torpedo, chips & salsa stocked!

I’m with the must win too-its a mental necessity

What's a torpedo?

Sounds dirty…

Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA 100+ IBUs

deliciously hoppy

As are all Sierra Nevada brews

The brewmaster is a certified hop head!

Which is OK with me.

I love Torpedo...it's my favorite right now

unless something hoppier this way comes!

Oh, nice!

I must try one of these!

oops lied...it's 70 IBUs

I was thinking of Hop Stoopid which is supposed to be 102 IBUs

That's what I'm talking about!

It tastes like when Vlad blasts grand slam!

ladybug! I'll be thinking about you and everyone else who isn't at the game tonight.

Unfortunately, Ed in Northridge threatened to do likewise. Think about you and me, that is. Ew.

ESPN put it best

for us the key is the first batter….if Lackey can get Elsburry out its huge! remember last year he doubled to lead off i know he didnt score but i have to agree with ESPN on this one

Lets do this Halos!

FUCK BOSTON

What a bizarre fanbase.

2 out of 3 of you are calling game 1 of a 5 game series a “must win.” You realize what “must win” means, right? and that if you lose and then win game 2, it will be tied?

But yeah you’re definitely right that the key is the first batter, forget the other 40 AB’s. They don’t matter.

You know the monkey is in his head.

funny

do you know what "beat the shit out of you" means?
because that’s what smart mouths like you deserve.

BUTTLove = troll
He's not even hiding it
Bizarre fanbase?

How about the Boston bandwagon for bizarre? Most of your fanbase couldn’t name 3 guys on the Red Sox. Hell most still think Manny is still there. You believe in curses like a bunch of back woods idiots scared of voodoo. Boston woman look like truck lot lizards or freaks from the circus. Boston fans have no class and they infest stadiums like cockroaches. I could go on forever. But instead I will just say enjoy your cold world series-less winter.

Great point...

however, it is a must win. If the Sox win game 1, the team is thinking (along with the fans) “Here we go again…”

If we win game 1, no matter what happens in game 2, I still think the Halos win the series. Coz then the pressure is on the Sox to win both in Fenway and the Halos are thinking “we only need one of two” and are playing more relaxed.

If the Sox don’t win both in Fenway, we come home for game 5 (and subsequently win).

So....you voted yes as well

I don’t get it

funny

do you know what “beat the shit out of you” means?
because that’s what smart mouths like you deserve.

"Words are very unnecessary they can only do harm."

I’m waiting for the night to fall
I know that it will save us all
When everything’s dark
Keeps us from the stark reality

I’m waiting for the night to fall
When everything is bearable
And there in the still
All that you feel is tranquility

There is a star in the sky
Guiding my way with its light
And in the glow of the moon
Know my deliverance will come soon

My personal Fave DM song

Go Halos. See ya in the nose bleeds (v521)!!! lets drown out the pink hats tonight!

Twins fan here

I’m rooting for you guys to beat the BSux. If there’s anything worse than them it’s the hated yanquis. I hope both our teams win and prevent either one of them from advancing. Besides, I would love to see Torii play in the Dome one more time!

Good luck Halos!

Thanks. Go Twinkies!
And I'm rooting for you to beat the Shankies
haha, you basically took the words from my mouth.

I really wish the Angels good luck tonight…an East Coast-less ALCS would be fantastic! :)

Gotta have more kowbell.
Good Luck to you too!

Beat those Yanks!

Lineup for tonight's game. No Nipples?

3B Chone Figgins

RF Bobby Abreu

CF Torii Hunter

DH Vladimir Guerrero

LF Juan Rivera

1B Kendry Morales

2B Howie Kendrick

C Jeff Mathis

SS Erick Aybar

Napoli will probably pinch hit for Mathis in the late innings.
That's what I assumed

What about vlad in the clean up spot. Hopfully he’s ready to break out of his playoff slump.

Yeah, hell of a slump

7 for his last 15.

.467 Avg
1.112 OPS

I don't blame Scioscia for starting Mathis

Napoli will pinch hit, if needed, in the late innings. And it’s not like Napoli was on a huge tear for the last two months like last year. He was okay the last week, but the month before that was brutal. He had a .300 batting average at some point in August.

Besides

Napoli WILL get the start against Beckett and hopefully hit another home run.

Naps won't face Beckett...

in an unfortunate turn of events for the Red Sox, Abreu gets his revenge on a line-drive come-backer that hits Beckett and knocks him out of the game. Beckett is fine after the incident but is DONE for the remainder of the 2009 postseason.

i would stand up and applaud

no matter where i am.

Go Angels!

Another Twins fan here – you’ve got a lot of Twins fans cheering you on! Hope to meet you in the ALCS!

Pretty safe to say the feeling is mutual

Go Twinkies, Beat NY!

Enjoy The Silence

Depeche Mode Win!

They are all must win games

otherwise why play them.

F'ing clock isn't moving fast enough today

Let’s get this party started — Halos in 3!!!

Boston's first fail of the day....(more expected).

Pittsburgh, Philly knock Boston out of top sports city spot

Like I always say… thank God these dismal little places have decent sports teams, otherwise the suicide rate would double overnight.

CALIFORNIA LOVE!

This is absolutely a must-win.

Losing Game 1 at home puts the Angels at a huge disadvantage — one that will be hard to overcome. I hope Lackey is on tonight. I’ll be at Game 1 and 2, rooting like hell for two victories. Go Halos!!

Lackey isn't giving the choke sign, is he?
How cool is it to have a .300 hitting in the 9 hole???
FUCK the sux

GO ANGELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

urghhh 3 hours and 45 minutes until game time

Just enough time for me to...

sacrifice some goats.

How about a chicken?

Still way too long until game time.

Every game is must win!

Can’t wait to see how the game threads are for this game … if I can’t be at the game in person, I’m glad I get to be here with the rest of you crazy people!

I have serious butterflies in my stomach for tonight … can’t imagine how the players are feeling!

3 hrs 15 mins to go... this day is going by so slow.
no kidding! at least phillies/rockies is over

so we only have one more game until ours!

I know...I just want it to start.

If you want to satisfy your Anaheim vs Boston urge, the Ducks start playing the Bruins at 4. Though if you want to see Anaheim defeat Boston you will probably have to wait for the Angels game.

GO DUCKS!

but today is a Red day

btw, Anaheim 6 Boston 1.

Wouldn’t mind another one of those tonight.

Dude! You were so close!
From Mazatlan, paying $0.75/minute...

GOOOOOO ANGELS!

Good luck today boys!

I admit to being nervous. I want this game started and there's 3 hours to go.
I am about to head out the Big A....

 and I am extremely nervous… anybody know if you can drink at the lots off of Gene Autry Way?? aka the carpool exit?

have a great time.
You can drink anywhere...

…if you are smart! Bring a Big Gulp cup or something. On playoff night, I doubt any of the good folks with the Anaheim PD will be bothering anyone before the game. Put one down for us unfortunate fans who live too far away to attend a Thursday night game. I’ll be glued to TBS at 6pm, though, living and dying with every pitch!!! LETS GO LACKEY!!!

The closer this comes, the more nervous I get

I may be a total basket-case by the time we get to game time…

I'm so nervous, I can't stand it.
My nerves

Are shot!! Go Angels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wasn't nervous

in the morning, but I started getting extremely nervous around 3, for whatever reason. This game needs to start before I lose my freakin’ mind.

I'm with you on that.
Me too.
I'm wearing my new Halos Heaven T-shirt and waiting
And the wait is taking FOREVER!
Helps to remember that we have no control over the outcome, no matter how much we root or worry about it

But then that’s part of the problem!

It's a BIG part

That’s why we fret about the officiating and such.

About to leave for the stadium. We're in Club 347 Row E.

Not sure when they open the front gates, but I’m guessing at 4:30pm. Anybody know for sure?

dang, sitting here in Idaho, I envy you
Hope you're bringin' a sign. Have fun!

And yeah, tanana, us out of staters have it rough.

I hadn't even thought of a sign. I have my Angels/Willitts t-shirt on, and the Mr has an Angels shirt, and we both have caps.

Sorry you guys can’t make it. That would be two less Boston fans in the stadium.

But I am bringing my camera.
Already open. I'm in the lot. Came in on Douglass
Is anyone else as psyched as I am? I'm already in the parking lot!

Let’s goooooooooo!!!!!!

any chance you could send some photos with a cell phone?

just would like to be part of it all

We should make an "upload thread"

Tonight and tomorrow….

I don’t have a good camera with Internet to use during the game. iPhone really needs to improve the camera…

thanks, an upload thread would be great
yeah they do

only thing about the Iphone that sucks

I'm so nervous about this game, it's scary
Leaving work for the stadium in a couple minutes

Section 518 represent!

the crowd needs to get into this thing right from the beginning, tell Boston this is our house, our year
Seriously.

I’m going to do my part, and I hope all other Angels fans at the Stadium represent. F*CK Boston!

It's good to know

There are others out there with nerves like me. Hell, we’ve got 2.5 hours until the first pitch! Represent us well all you Halo fans going to the game, drown out those sorry B chowder heads!!!

We should drown em out

The thundersticks are back!!!

REALLY????

I hope they pass out things that make noise and not a rally towel.

Thundersticks?!

Hell yeah!!!

OhgeezohgeezohgeezohgeezOhgeezohgeezohgeezohgeezvOhgeezohgeezohgeezohgeezOhgeezohgeezohgeezohgeez

I’m with you Boys, but I’m afraid to watch! Time to man up! :-D

Great, now my iPod is playing "I Dreamed a Dream"

“When hope was high and life worth living…”

Don’t ask me why it’s on there. It just is. Deal with it.

Is that the Patty LuPone recording? That one is my favorite version.
They just mentioned the Boston/LA game on TBS

Nervous time…

Of course they had to mention the “Curse”

OhgeezohgeezohgeezohgeezOhgeezohgeezohgeezohgeez
Perfect tailgate weather...

76 degrees. Slight cool breeze. Not too hot not too cold.

Crack one for us BruinHalo

Hoist it high! Put a picture of Pedroia on the ground and step on it! Do vocal exercises to get yourself ready for the yelling you’ll be doing when Kendrick gets the big hit. Hoist another one. We’re living it through you man!

Just saw the first Boston fans...

All wearing the same douchebag pedroia t shirt, distressed Boston cap and cargo shorts. I had to hold my tongue…. I don’t want to be thrown out this early.

Please key a few cars with Roid Sox flags for us before you take your seat
Bye guys. I'll be the noisy one. :-D
bye opie!

Re-pre-sent!!!

Have fun, opie!
Gonna have to follow on GameDay.... I'll be in class. And it'll be iffy if I can even get a connection today.
Thess damn pop up adds that drag across the home page

are really frickin’ anoying.

*kinda like my spelling
Nice. I just got banned over at "Over the Monster"

And all I said was:

“Angels are GOING to win. The Red Sox had a good run. But it ends this series.

Enjoy your winter."

They come over here slinging there shit, but can’t handle it when we do the same to them. What a bunch of douchebag babies. The good thing is it’s the first comment on that post. I couldn’t help myself. Had to leave those arrogant, pricks something.

Well, just don't troll before you have a legitimate basis to do so.

I don’t see a win for the Halos yet…so let’s keep our fingers crossed and hope it happens then rib them later, mmkay?

They banned you for using proper English!
They aren't used to it. It doesn't make sense to them.
are we there yet?
TIRED OF WAITING
me too

are we there yet?

less than 2 hours
I'm sick of watching other teams play

LET’S GO!

Before we go,

I just want to congratulate all of you guys. WE made it! WE’RE in the damn playoffs, and we worked hard! so let’s show’ em what we got! This is for you Nick! LETS GO ANGELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

they worked hard and overcame HELL

YES WE CAN!!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

LET’S DO IT! NOW LET’S GO WIN!!!!!!!

DO YOU BELIEVE?

I BELIEVE!

No TBS on my cruise ship

But they look like they’ll have the game en español on ESPN2 in the Sports Bar… So I may not have to pay $200 to follow gameday on my phone…. But that’s only if I can stand to stick around with all the pink hats in here with me…

GO ANGELS!!!!

Is there an open life boat?

And nearby civilization?

The game starts in 1 hour and 20 minutes...

and so does my class :(

skip it, baseball is more important :)
How long is your class?

Maybe you’ll only miss the first 3 innings.

fucken ends around 9 30 :(
I assume that's Pac time. Yikes.
yup 9 30 PT

and the professor doesn’t take attendance until the end of class so I cant leave early, attendance is part of the grade :/

that's a drag.

tell him you are still waiting for your doc to call with your H1N1 test results

i'm a professor and I had a Twins' fan show up for the last 30 minutes of my Tuesday night class

what could I say, it’s baseball

your probably a chill professor.
You're stuck, my friend. Have the Radio pre-dialed in to the station

broadcasting the game in your car, with luck you’ll catch the last inning.

710 ESPN is what it comes down too.
810 klaa
Wow cant believe I forgot about KLAA

Does anyone know if Chris Berman already call a game today?

Called the phillies/rockies

Thank god.

hes one of the few ESPN people I like.

along with Tony from PTI and Scott Van Pelt.

are you allowed laptops? got a cell phone?

technology is here for a reason!!

Well...

the College is right next to a High School, so if my class was at the College then I would get Internet. But since Calis budget cuts my class is at the high school and there have no free internet.

Wow, a 630-930 class and there were no rooms available at the college?

Screw. Job.

I had a 545-1000 class :-(
its bullshit but what can you do.
I have no class

Just ask my friends. Wait, I have no friends.

I wonder if it’s related?

I'm a bit infuriated

dont know there names, but the boston tv play-by-play and the radio color are calling the game tonite. ON TBs. what the heck

...Are you ****ing SERIOUS?!

OMG. I’m going to be sick.

it's OK....for the jinx believers... hope it's a HUGE jinx!!
It's NOT OK. It was gonna be hard enough listening to a team

that knows next to nothing about baseball and is pre-disposed to pull for the Sox. But having THEIR announcers call the game? Disgusting. I HATE the media. >:(

I do too...I'm just saying I hope they jinxed it that way

they have to announce the ANGELS WON!!!

Well 1-2-3 inning for the LAD.
Ducks are up 3-1 against Boston

Come onnn Ducks!

Two goals for Selanne

Look’s like there’s some great Anaheim over Bwahston mojo at work tonight!

we'll take all the mojo we can.
A sign of things to come?
He needs a hat trick.
but who will throw the hats if he gets it?
Hey Furcal, can i haz hit?
you want the Dodgers to win?
yeah I dont like STL.

bases loaded for the Doyers bot 8th.

sorry - fail
Kemp just choked with the bases juiced!
man he had shitty D in game 1.

well its time for class, see you guys later.

there goes their best chance of winning this game.
klaa 810 pregame show is on (online or radio) for those of us who are waiting and nervous
830, tanana, 830.
ah, sorry old 710 habit

taped press conference with Soth on now

I remember it well.
Glaus with a long out to right center
Manny Vs. Franklin.

This oughta be interesting.

about as interesting as a fly ball to center
Manny does nothing - again
postseason.tv advice

I’m about to suck it up and buy one of these packages to watch games on teh interwebs. Any advice about which one I should get? As annoying as the commentators are, I want to hear the play-by-play in case I happen to walk away… I can’t figure out whether the $10 package has audio.

Advice?

Gracias in advance.

I don't know for a fact

but in my experience all TV packages have included gameday audio as well.

I just got that email. It's 9.95 for all post season games.

do you have the number to call? you can ask before you pay..866-800-1275

thanks!

calling right now.

let inquiring minds know

I may do it too

on hold now

but i’ll definitely share my findings… i’m just skeptical because it’s not spelled out explicitly in the postseason.tv description.

damn, i wish i had a tv right now.

ok

guy who sounds like he’s 12 says that the postseason.tv package includes tbs audio.

here goes!

I think it does

It tried to tell me I was blackout restricted last night and then said it was going to redirect to Gameday Audio…but that was when I inadvertently clicked on “Mlb.tv” instead of “Postseason.tv,” which wasn’t blackout restricted so who knows…I also had a GameDay Audio package to begin with from the regular season…so let me know, too, what you find out!

weird

The first time I clicked on postseason.tv, after the window loaded I got a message that said game was blacked out (wtf?). Closed window, clicked same, loaded fine. Remains to be seen about the audio tho.

I’m so excited!!!

this is a SIGN!!!

I am home alone. Beer in mug. Hubby took the kids hiking.

Peace. Tranquility.

ANGELS!!!

Hubby & kids aren't there to cheer on your team?

don’t you ever work the Mom guilt angle?

are you kidding?

them leaving IS cheering mom!!!

you can’t see me doing the happy dance!

Can I imagine it?

The happy dance, that is.

Wait!

I read that back and it sounds creepy. Not meant not be.

Okay, maybe a little.

from anyone else....creepy. From you....expected!
Nice! Congrats on tranquility!

Gotta get the kids in there rooting for the Halos too, though!

oh hell

the 4 yr old’s latest quote:

“Mom, take me to baseball Angel”

awww

sweet!

definitely spring training next year

I think he’s finally OLD enough!

My desire for Matt Holliday in the offseason just dropped 20 points.
His sack just dropped 20 points too.
30 more minutes...

I’m so excited

About what?

Is there a game tonight??

I think so...

some team from back east an a team from anaheim called the ANGELS are playing. Might be good

Anaheim. . .

isn’t that near Knott’s Berry Farm?

yeah I think so.
No, it's near a good Mexican joint called Fresca's
really?

(are we there yet??)

do you ever think how strange it is, that a game is so important to us?
sometimes.. but NOT today.
beat me to it!

hell no!!

yeah, I know, the Angels are in my DNA and blood somehow
I'm just kidding.

I’m about to climb the walls waiting for this to start!

Anaheim 4-1 over Boston in the 3rd period
matt holliday will have to walk back to st. louis
They'll be calling him Billie

‘cause he’ll be singing the blues.

crap

doyer fans are screaming

Wow.

Matt Holliday’s name just became mud with St. Louis fans.

Anyone know...

are they passing out rally towels at all the games this year? I hope not at ours I want Thundersticks…. gotta make noise.

I heard Thunderstix--though I can't be sure!
I hope so - going tomorrow.
see if you can blog from the stadium, that would be great for those of us out of state
I wish we could get a report from somebody at the stadium
23 minutes
what if LAD game goes extra innings --then its......never mind
Holy crap!

Whatta game for the Dodgers!

kit if articles talking about franklin not being reliable

but that game should have been ovah

lots of ... not kit if

the hell am i typing

Holliday got handcuffed but it wasn't that tough of a play
Dodgers win.

Boy, what a blow to St. Louis. 2 outs, about to even the series and your star acquisition drops a routine flyball.

their two cy young candidate starters

dont lead them to victory.
series over

To be fair, you can't pitch much better than Wainwright did.
That must be how Lackey felt like last year
oh i know

but i dont think too many ppl predicted dodgers taking both of these

WHAT A CHOKE!!!

  Wow, Holliday drops the ball! The choke energy has now been used up for the day. No more HK errors will be necessary to satisfy the choke Gods. WE WILL WIN!!!!!

wow.

Franklin is that game’s BOTG

I gotta say Holliday. Game over flyball drop and suddenly everyone's got life again.
loretta was career 0/15 against franklin

so of course he wins it lol

well,

even w/ what Holliday did, he also hit a HR. In addition, Franklin should of closed the door…

well it's time to get everything ready. you have 20 minutes.

They have saved the BEST game for last so.. GO ANGELS

so holliday

drops the game winning out, and has left how many on base?

yikes

He did hit a HR to give them their inital lead, but yeah. Ouch.
lol

holliday took that fly ball off the nuts

almost gamethread time
I love baseball.

Let’s go, Angels! I have my jersey on, and my cap. I am ready for this thing.

QUBE!! long time no see

how’s the world of astrophysicism?

Good.

Tomorrow night I have to watch the game while I’m also running the Keck telescopes remotely. Using the world’s largest optical telescopes? Not as important as watching the Angels play.

Priorities.

You got ’em.

sounds very cool yet so geeky and yet so halo-esque!

LOL

good to see ya!

I just blasted two Home Runs and won 6 to 4 in a hoe whiffle ball game, wearing my Angel's Jersey.

    Unequivacally predicting a Halo Victory. And I am going to Light it Up!!!

Hoe whiffle ball?

Where do I sign up?

you were watching me play whiffle ball?
No comment.

(must concentrate on baseball…must concentrate one baseball)

AHHH! Not working!

Live in Southern Oregon?
Meant to write Home, but you knew that eh?
national Anthem being sung....

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

ackkkk is there a game thread yet?
FINALLY!

LET’S GET IT ON!

postseason.tv

just start a feed already!!!!

gawd I love Cal's eyes!
8 Minutes to Go! T-8!

LET’S DO THIS! GOOD LUCK BOYS AND OFF I GO!

Let me know how it all goes, guys!

Bye for now!

Anaheim is DESTROYING Boston tonight!

6-1 Ducks!

PLAY BALL! Come on Angels

Man that little montage in the beginning was so depressing.

Boy, that intro wasn't one sided at all. -_-
:/

still not sure about the audio, but i see red people! woooo!

Let the slobbering begin!

The Boston Scumsuckers

WE OWN THEIR ASSES NOW

GO HALOS!!!

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