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1:05 PM - AUDIO LINK - Jason Marquis and COL face Jered Weaver and LAA

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Napoli slated to resume catching duties on Friday.

Also, while the LA Times said Lackey’s problem was elbow-related, Rory says it a forearm strain.

Inside the park homer makes it 2-0 Rockies.

Torii missed the catch and went down hard.

Torii coming out.

Possible concussion. Crap.

Glad Matthews has been playing well

and we haven’t traded him away yet.

Tyler Johnson replaces Hunter.
Weaver gets out of the first without further problems.

Kinda sucks for Jered, he struck out two guys and gave up a fly ball.

that then turned into an inside the park homer.

Must remember to finish my thought.

I just though

You were being funny. I laughed.

Chone groundout.

Howie flyout.

Abreu grounds out.
wow

cant believe that happened to torii

I was just about to type that.

I hope Torii isn’t hurt too bad… but GMJ is available.

No further trouble in the second.

Let’s try not to get totally shut down by Marquis.

Vladdy 1PS groundout.

Matthews in.

WALKING WOUNDED

Lackey this morning, Torii this afternoon

Looks like we may have a slow start to the season for the Angels.
What happened to Torii? Did anyone see it?
Long fly ball hit him in the kisser.
I don't think the ball hit him.

The way Rory described it, he jumped for it, missed hit the wall HARD and went down not moving.

Well, I was wrong.
Morales and Matthews on base.

1st and 3rd one out.

Rivera doubles!!

TIE GAME!

Rivera ties it up!!!

2-2

one word

depth

Pretty much how we've won every year since '04.

Guys go down, we get roughed up, but we just keep coming.

Mathis walks.

1st and 2nd, one out, Aybar up.

Aybar shoots it down the first base line!

TRIPLE!
4-2 Angels!

Aybar triples! 4-2 Halos!
Aibar triples!!!

2 rbi’s

What's the proper grammar

Isn’t in 2 RBI…

Technically Runs Batted In is already plural

yeah guess so...

I’m ESL though… even spelled aybar wrong…

not that aybar is English..
Brother...

As long as your an Angel fan, your home.

Speaking of proper grammar...

you are an Angel fan and you are home.

Speaking of ESL: Vaminos Serafinas!!!!

:)

Lord Aybar!
That i kid Aybar!!!

first triple of the spring training…

4-2 halos

Basehit Figgs! 5-2!
wow you must have a faster feed
Could be, just got on.
NO!

He’s psychic

haha

that works… what are the winning lotto numbers?

Figgins base hit!

Aybar scores, 5-1.

Er, 5-2.
That would be cool to be able to subtract runs.

:P

Basehit Howie, 1st and 3rd!
Howie single!
wow.

I must be in delay

****Torii update****

ball hit torii in the face (the nose) after the wall

Hunter to the hospital for X-Rays

Here's hoping they're negative, and Torii was just shaken up.
2B for Abreu! Howie and Figgs score, 7-2!
Vlad retired again.

The only man to be retired in the inning…twice.

I was hoping...

that they could have batted around again and Vladdy would have ended the inning. Wonder if anyone has ever accounted for all three offensive outs in a single half-inning before?

Matthews makes the last out. Have to settle for 7 runs in the inning. :P
Freaking Bullshit!

Trade Matthews NOW!

—-please note sarcasm.

Man i hate having to Settle for

ONLY 7 runs in an inning :p

Fowler with a leadoff double on a bloop. Vlad being a little lazy.
I wish GA had given Hunter some lessons in being lazy
7-3

bad throw by figgy

Although the run would've scored even if Figgs had made a good throw.
valid point

but i just want to point out all the reasons for Bwood to be the everyday starter, starting with a bad throw by figgy

Weaver having trouble.
HR 7-5. Weaver getting knocked around.
Homerun.

7-5 Angels.

right as my radio feed cuts out!

AHHHHHH

come on Weaver!

Come one Weaver

Christ

Wind's blowing to OF

Don’t get too excited.

Out of it on a nicely turned 3-6-1 DP.
gotta love a good DP...

…. to end an inning

Well fellas, the offense has been kicking butt for us the last 3 games,

looks like we’re gonna need more today.

Before the DP

Weaver was getting no love from the D. His line looks a lot worse than it’s actually been.

Mathis on first with an error.

Lets go Erick, power swing time.

RBI Triple for Erick!

Second triple of the game!

Aybar with triple number 2!
Aybar with 2 triples in the game!!!!

and an RBI

Figgs walks, 1st and 3rd for HK.
Figgs with his 6th SB of the spring.
Howie Ks on the breaking ball.

Yurg.

HK swings and misses at a breaking ball, strikes out.

Probably down and away. Gotta stay off that ball, Howie.

Hey remember when trading for Todd Helton was the making the rounds here?

Yeah, glad that didn’t happen.

Yeah, that was another one of those deals that was just bad for any number of reasons.
wow this guy is boring

bring back the guy from SLC!!!!!!!!!!

His dayjob is Asst. GM.

Somehow he keeps finding himself in the radio booth.

perhaps he should be calling other GM's...
About what?
anything...

to keep him out of the radio booth

or a GMJ trade

there are teams looking for outfield help

They just mentioned that.

Ken didn’t volunteer anything. I guess that must not be his department.

yeah i heard that

thats why i mentioned it…. lets hope that there might be something in the works

That or he doesn't want to ruin The Ninja's vibe.

Remember, Reagins does best when nobody knows anything is happening.

good point

i think i might enjoy me some Del here in the next couple of days….

2 out double.

Lets go Jered.

Vlad checks in with a 1 out single.
Vladdy base-hit.
Matthews walks.
Lets get some more runs, Kendry.
Morales singles! 9-5 Halos!
I see a trend.

I predict final score 10-6

11-5. So much for that. :P
It was a typo

I meant 20-6… yeah, that’s the ticket.

Your starting to look more and more right!
20-6 sounds about right at this rate
Is it being played in Colorado?

;)

2nd and 3rd, one out on the Wild Pitch.

Rivera base hit!

Marquis is leaving. 10 ER in 3.1 innings.

Ouch.

I really hope the guys can carry their hot hitting into the regular season
Gonna be tough with the season still a week and a half away.
I'm just talking about generally.

The Angels have hit .310 as a team this spring. They all seem to be taking some good swings right now, and I just hope they keep it up.

Mathis skies one. 2 outs and Juan still on base for

Erick McTriple.

Holy crap, Phys just mentioned Ashley Thompson's blog!
Er, Terry.

I know who our announcers are.

It's enough to make me wonder if people within the org check this site in the morning.
I hope they do

BRING THE GUY FROM SLC BACK TO THE BOOT!!!!

The blog has been mentioned a few places in the last 24 hours

3 days of cryin’, Halos Heaven, my site, 6-4-2, various Twitter accounts, and the OC Register blog.

lol @ terry talking about mrs. thompson's blog
He said it had been making the rounds, does Terry read Halos Heaven?
We know for a fact that Arte checks out fansites every one in a while.

Though whether he’s been to HH or not is up in the air.

GOOGLE ANGELS BLOG

and tell me these people have not been here

I wonder if these guys found out about the blog via HH
I saw it mentioned on Baseball Musings as well, though they got it from here.
Aybar making his case for SS.
BTW, Erick with another basehit, dude is smoking hot.
Figgs walks again. (I LOVE it, Figgs.)

HK up.

Figgy walks, bases juiced for HK47.
HK with a 2RBI single! 13-5!
2 more runs HK!!!

13-5

Howie busts it open!
well.. busts it open...more.
"You just cannot throw that man a fastball."

Best line from Forshe so far.

Abreu doubles! 15-5!
Maybe the hitters are spooked at the idea of not having Lackey, Santana and Escobar in the rotation
That or they figure they'd better demonstrate why they aren't worried.
ABREU!!!!!!!!!!!

with a 2 run double

15-5

Incidentally, Marquis total went up to 11 ER in 3.1 innings. Ouch.
For the mathically challenged

That’s a 29.7 ERA for this game.

An embarassment of riches.
The rockies are gonna forfeit haha
I am praying this is a sign of things to come during the season. These are 02

style hit parades.

Yeah, my favorite part of this is that no one is bothering with the deep ball, they're just getting hits.
"Like a pack of hyenas" - Torii Hunter
Vladdy K's. So we must once again settle for 7 runs. >_>
Vladdy Ks to end it.
At what point

Does the bench come in and just finish this thing out. Most of these guys have hit at least 4 times today

Still need their fielding practice.
Weaver gives up another homer.
15-6. Weaver rusty after waiting 20 min. to pitch again.
oh man Weaver gave up a bomb

15-6

Another reason to be happy is that this game is all starters.

This game could easily be the opening day lineup.

We can hope that Torii isn't kept out that long.

Also, while I find Mathis’ spring encouraging, I’d still prefer a healthy Napoli behind the dish.

Weaver done after 4.1.
You're a poet and didn't know it!

;)

I approve these messages.
15-8.

Rockies not going quietly.

15-8. Herndon not doing a good job of getting things under control.
come on guys!

WOW the rockies have hit for the cycle in this inning 15-8

15-9, finally got a second out.
Aybar with another wild throw from short.

Morales apparently only barely got back down on the bag.

Herndon out of it.
wow 4 of the 7 sent to the plate scored

but were out of the inning

K's the last man. Keep piling them on, fellas, the other guys aren't finished yet.
Touchdown and a field goal

just might put this one out of reach.

They say Ferragamo is warming up on the sidelines.
He could always grip the ball better than Haden.

AND 13 > 11.

Naps in to PH for Rivers

I smell a homer.

or a ground out.
what does either smell like?

success and failure?

donuts and dirt.
nice pitch scot

1 K

Lets go Scotty.
3 up 3 down

1-2-3 inning

Shields with a 1-2-3 inning. Nice to know there are some guys

you can always count on.

Apparently you haven't met Evil Shields
I have, but he doesn't show up much, and Scots as dependable as anyone in the league.
outside of Fenway...

just kidding though, I’m actually a big fan of his.

1-2-3

good inning for Shields

Q with a leadoff double!
im going to have to call Jinx
Quinlan DOUBLE.
Q with a leadoff double!
The Q

leads off with a double!

Erick finally retired, and he still got Q to 3rd. Lucky sevens up to bat.
Should be working on bunting.

;)

willits out at 2nd

1 run scored tho 16-9 us

16-9, on a Reggie single that he tried to stretch.

2 out.

Willits brings in Q

but gets caught at second..

Willits with a single

He scores Q, but is out trying to stretch it to a double.

Sean Rodriguez with the first Angels longball today. 17-9.
S-Rod with a no-doubter.
"that was a Gwen Stefani blast... there was No Doubt about it"
17-6
Why do I keep knocking down the Rockies run totals?
S-ROD goes DEEP!
S-Rod CRUSH

17-9!

*****HOMERUN SROD*******

17-9

Forsch is really annoying...

“…yes (mumbles some words)…Reggie will have a hard …(incoherence).. it will be tough to break in… (unintelligible)…competition is ahhhhh…(more mumbling)…”

I have to strain to understand what he is trying to say. Speak UP man!!!

Wow

Man, from the sound on the radio broadcast, S-Rod crushed that one.

Wilson with a walk.

And Morillo’s had enough, pitching change.

Nice play by Izzy and Q, 1 down for ET.
ET nailed with a HR. 17-11.

Come on Jose.

WOW

This game has been dominated by bad pitching.

or good offense?

;)

Terry jinxed Jose--talking about his 0.00 ERA
1 k for ET

2 down

oh geez

bloop single- runners at 1st and 2nd 2 outs

Dondo having issues still. 2 on 2 out, come on man.
wild pitch

2nd and 3rd… come on ET get out of this!

PHEW ended the inning with a K
Just one of those days.

Unfortunately I’m gonna have to miss the rest, here’s hoping we hold out. Go Angels!

Is Fuentes schedules to pitch today?

He needs the work. Fastball has been clocked at only 88-89 mph.

that's just about all his fastball is ever clocked

He succeeds based on his funky, deceptive, short arm delivery

The deception is crucial

But the last few years his fastball usually averaged around 91 mph, topping out at 93, 94. I just hope he can be up to speed at the start of the regular season.

Yeah, it's pretty deceiving ...

whilst he sits on the bench. Hope he gets well soon.

oh man STOP talking about all the injuries from the past..

its making me nervous!!!

Aybar Double!!!!!! Just needs a HR for the cycle
S-Rod Double.......Aybar Scores! 18-11 Angels.......End of inning
Any updates on Hunter?
Possible concussion, sent to the hospital for precautionary x-rays
Inching towards another coveted Cactus League crown...

light up that cacti!

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