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World Series Matchup in Spring?

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Nick Adenhart @ Sean Marshall pitching for the Chicago Cubs of Mesa

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Agreed

2009 WS Angels vs Cubs

TV

Game is on FSN today

thank god

i needed some baseball today. too bad i have clinical neurology at 1:30. grr..

tivo?
unfortunately

i’m not really up to date on all that technology yet. so i’ll just suck it up and watch what i can before class..

I think he meant to Tivo the class.
Yes!

The cubs finally make it to within one game of winning the WS only to have the halos come back from a 0-3 series deficit and win it all in game 7.

Figgins

reaches on drop third strike

How many runs do you guys think we'll score today?
AK=Walk
i presume you mean

HK? haha.

yea haha

what happened to AK anyway?

I think hes with TB
last i heard

he was with the cardinals.. but now that i look him up, he’s apparently on the Rays now..

Cardinals

released him earlier this offseason

i guess he's

a non-roster invitee to Ray’s camp..

Darn!

I just know he’ll screw us over somehow if he makes the team. If the rays make it to the post-season again they are going to be even more deadly.

Kendrick with the walk, 1st and 2nd

Better get some runs early

Abreu grounds out

moving the runners over on the hit and run

Im calling Vladdy hits a HR today
RBI groundout

1-0 Angels

I like

how there are less commercials during the spring games.

It's on MLB Network if you're out of market like myself.
Heck yes.....

finally get to watch something of the HALOS!!!!!!!

Man the Cubs spring uni's look alot like their reg season ones
Mathis with a pickoff......

nice

for some reason

it seems like we use that play more than any other team

Lee hit that curveball off his shoelaces.....

it had some nice break to it…….

Morales base hit
Kendry is seeing the ball well...

lead off hit

Kendry is seeing the ball well...

lead off hit

he only got one leadoff hit lol
two would have been nice though
Nick shoulda swung at at least one of those.
team instruction

I seem to recall reading somewhere that all angel pitchers are told simply stand there and not swing so as to avoid injury in ST

I thought the pitchers were banned from swinging this spring.
thats weird........
what?

That I posted the same thing as DC? ;)

no.....that they arent allowed to swing
Am i mistaken

or did Saunders get an RBI single a week or two ago?

yeah thats what I thought too.....

maybe its a new rule

I think he did...

But, that might have been a rogue swing.

WOWIE HOWIE......

nice play……backhanded

Howie with a nice play up the middle
Havent seen

any speeds on pitches, anyone know how hard Nicks throwing?

i dunno that last K was on a changeup
Just curious

what his fastball is sitting at

yeah I couldnt tell ya
another K for slick nick......
Figgy with a bunt single....

I thought they got him

Figgy with a steal.....

thought they had him again lol

Who stay's up?

I haven’t been able to follow the ST action as close as I’ve wanted, who do you think stays up, Loux or Adenhart, when Lackey or Escobar gets back?

I think it will depend on their regular season success...

can’t base it off spring training. What they do in the real games is what will determine who gets sent down. Although, Loux is out of options, from what I hear.

He might slot into the bullpen

Instead of throwing him to the waivers.

Slick Nick looks good today.....

I thought i heard one of the announcers saying he was staying……instead of Loux

all 3 of them are staying to start

our rotation has to be Saunders, Weaver, Moseley, Loux, Adenhart… not necessarily in that order

Unless

we can dump HGH for some pitching

yeah I re-read the question and realized I mis-read the first time...

my bad.

Howie fails to get Figgy to third
Cmon Vladdy.......

need a two out ribby

fail.....

bummer

just got under it
Wow...

Marshall wiggled out of that one quite nicely… HK, Abreu, and Vlad, 1-2-3 following the Figgy IF single and SB.

another pickoff

this time by Nick

Nick's curve looks great today.
Torii with a BOMB.........

w000

90210

swinging out of his shoes

*********HOMERUN*******Torii Hunter!**********
torii

my lord save it for the season

Kendry

needs to try harder!

Careful...

You’ll have acuda leaving a horse’s head on your pillow!

He'll have to get my Car Alarm first.
right after a paintball session.
Mouser......

base knock…

Izzy roll the hole.
Mathis comes through......

double…….w00…….

Easy game for the Halos
Looks like we're havin' a pretty good day.
Nice hit Jeff! 3-0.
Yay free outs for the cubs.
Adenhart

looks like Steve Finley little brother, minus the real tight baseball pants.

good thing he pitched around Adenhart

Nicky was looking to LAUNCH one

Physioc said he is not allowed to run either.
so he's gonna "Benjie" around the bases?
Does Marshall

know that Nick is not allowed to swing?

he must've missed it

the first time around

Considering he watched 3 straight strikes the first time?

I’d be amazed if he doesn’t.

marshall – not a Halosheaven user.

2 more on the single by Figgy
figgy knocks in 2

w0000

Figgy comes through!!

5-0 Halos

what, nick..no 1st to 3rd?
lol

i was just thinking that

Nick is under orders not to do anything strenuous on the bases.
someone needs to pay better attention in the meetings

who does he think he is… Manny??

Howie

should just hit a HR so he can walk in

Nice patience, working the count full.

Basehit! 5-0!

woohoo

Figgy!!!

I find it hard to believe this won't carry over into the regular season
Working the count full, good HK. Watch that low and away pitch...
Aw, no joy for HK. 1 out, 1st and 3rd.
i really want an adenhart play at the plate

where he bulldozes soto

Not gonna happen in spring.
not gonna happen ever
I could see it in the playoffs.
I don't

I drafted Soto in the 8th round yesterday…

The hit parade keeps on going
erstad would've done it
Abreu is clutchy.
very un-GA, no?
Ill take it
that's what i'm sayin'
haha hud's Pinella impression
Vladdy with a bloop.....

1st to 3rd for Abreu

Abreu's got some wheels for a bigger guy

he goes to 3rd on the bloop single

Nice bloop Vladdy! 7-0!
Is this the 2nd go around this inning?
Base hit for Torii...

2 RBI’s in the inning

Hunter with a single! 8-0!
Torii continues to rake!

8-0 on a single

…and the Phyz is off his game. lol

7..... I mean 8
that and

Sean Gallagher.

come kendry HR!
K-mo K's.....

2 down

Aw, Kendry pressing a little, K's.

2 down.

awww sad

the inning’s over.

What is it with us and 7 run innings?
better than 0 run innings
Granted, just seems like we've had quite a few 7 run innings lately.
inning over

good inning though

Im hoping for more of this next week
We can make a statement on that 1st homestand

To the A’sses: We’re still top dog in the west

To the sux: f-you our offense is gonna kick ass this year

I don't think Derek Lee is tall enough.

but that is just me.

Billy Bardy comes to mind when I think of Derrek Lee.

2 down, 1 more Nick.
anybody know how many innings is nick going to pitch today?
I would hope

about 6

welp Im out for bit......

later all

Time to put Nick on the bench

no pride.

Aw, no shutout.

Keep it together Nick, don’t sweat it.

piece of crap!

get this kid off the mound! he sucks!

…nobody crucify me

Anybody know

how many runs we averages last spring vs this year?

Put it this way. Last year in 33 games we scored 178 runs.

This year in 30 games we’ve scored 235.

Thanks
No sweat. To put it another way, since 2003 the best we've done

is 6.45 runs/game. This year we’re averaging 7.83. Put another way, we’ve never come anywhere close to this…and as far as I can tell, neither has anyone else in the last 7 seasons. Will it continue? God I hope so.

Nick wearing down after four innings?

This is not going to cut it.

Walking Soto

after starting 0-2 wasn’t cool

he gets out of it

nice

Groundout will do too

Inning Over

from the looks of it

we are having a great game…. (i just signed on)

GO HALOS!!!

Todays Lineup

I like how the 1 – 6 sets ups in today’s lineup. My assumption on Opening day is that will be the 1-6 with Rivers/Mathis/SS to follow (or Napoli/Rivers/SS)

Has Mike mentioned anything (I haven’t seen anything) about what he is thinking for the lineup?

Got to the thread a late – sorry if this was already talked about earlier

nothing official yet

but this is my guess for Opening Day:

Figgins 3B
Kendrick 2B
Abreu LF
Guerrero RF
Hunter CF
Morales 1B
Rivera DH
Napoli C
Aybar SS

i heard that

gmj will be detailing our cars while we watch the game… i think its only $25

I like it

I think Rivera and Naps are interchangable as well. Pretty decent balance of R/L

S
R
L
R
R
L
R
R
S

i think they're interchangeable as well

im actually hoping Nappy moves into the 5 or 6 slot as the year progresses

Just cant have too many

Right handers in a row if you can avoid it

we had lineups last year with GA as the lone lefty

i dont think they care too much

true

but we always had switch hitters too – Fig, Iz, Ay, Tex, GMJ – somewhere in the lineup

Morales is actually a switch hitter too,
My bad

you are right

Nick

backing out of the box on the pitch

Rookie Of The Year, anyone?

pitcher’s got a big butt….

HGH in for Figgy
Gary Massacre

making an apperance

Showcasing

his skills!? – as a leadoff hitter

Not with s SO
Aw, quiet inning. Boo.
did the radio guys take off?

all i am hearing is the stadium background noises

they're following the lead of the O's people
hahahah

wow i just realized that the link that rev posted was for yesterdays game, so i am listening to the stadium background noises from… i have no clue…

hahahaha

Come on Gary, look valuable.
2 down

good play by k-mo

If Tony R.

can trade GMJ for ANYTHING of value, I will be amazed.

8-2, stay sharp Nick.
8-2

end of 5

How many Innings

Are we expecting from our SLC guys? 6?

If we can get 6, I'll take it every time.
How many innings...

Before we get a decision?

i think its assumed that he is making the big league rotation
What I meant was...

In the game. How many innings do you have to pitch to get a win? Is it 5 or 6?

5.

Less in spring.

Yeah, and all a reliever has to do is throw one pitch.

Not particularly fair to a starter.

They're all gonna be up to start the year.
starting rotation:

That would seem to line things up this way for the first week of the season — Saunders on Opening Day (assuming his "dead arm" is actually just comatose) followed by Moseley, Loux and Weaver against the Oakland A’s with Adenhart on track to face the Boston Red Sox Friday.

Scioscia confirmed that those five will open the season as the Angels’ starting rotation.

LINK

That Rotation

Will be the most feared in all of Baseball.

id like to think he is done for the day
Jay Cal

did you see that the tigers made some room for your GA trade… :p

lol

I swear I saw Anderson traded to Detroit and it blew my mind.

I’m still a little shocked that they flat out released Sheff.

yeah same here

i thought sheff was a good fit there

That does seem...odd. You'd think there wouldn't be much to choose between sheffield and GA.
1 thing Aybar's gonna want to do is watch that power swing. Here in Arizona, yeah

it’ll get you HR’s. In Anaheim those are all just fly outs.

Like Adam Kennedy
Exactly. And yeah, we all know AK had 3 HR's in a playoff game.

And games like that are frickin’ awesome. But for the most part, you should be going for contact.

i am reminded of major league 2 when willy mays hayes thinks he is a home run threat
so hopefully

he will figure it out eventually that he isnt

that he isn't Willie Mays Hayes?
wait didnt Aybar make an action movie with jessie the body ventura?
Hopefully

he does not get nailed for not paying taxes like Willie Mays Hayes

well according to sir. charles

prison is for poor people

His golf swing should be put behind bars for a very very long time
weren't they going to make a "reality" show

based on fixing his swing?

Yes

The Haney Project. Kind of cool. It is on the Golf Channel.

well is it working for him?
It was...

until he started dropping his head down and then went back to his quadruple clutch. It is a fascinating show if you are golfer.

i like to pretend im a golfer

i normally go once every 6 months or so… no one to golf with

Took me a while to figure out who you were talking about...

Oh, CHUNKLEY.

yep

the round mound of rebound

Adenhart's last 2 starts have been tremendously encouraging.
FYI

i am not digging the Boy King’s facial hair.

atta boy

Izturis with the double

Izzy with a 1 out 2B!
Pharoah!!!!!!!
that was a "hustle double" for izzy
Nick for the 4th AB?.....interesting
Walks Jeff.

Nick in to take 3 strikes again.

maybe he will walk again
Why not bunt?

even if you dont want him to swing, he may need to bunt at some point in interleague or WS.

or maybe an audition for a possible trade to the national league?
Don't want him getting hit on the hand or something similar.

Can’t afford another pitching injury.

also a good point
Lil' Steve Finley is up to bat
These Cubs guys are weird. After 3 ABs

You’d think it would register: HE’S TAKING EVERYTHING.

they might have just figured that out...
Adenhart goes DEEP

just kidding.

he hits a home run

then Soth gets mad at him

and they cut him for not following orders
Nick

is working the count.

Matthews BB

bases juiced

Nice walk Gary.

Bases Chucked for Juan.

Holy crap.....that was the longest AB ever.....

good job working the count GMJ

Grand Salami time
Does Rivers have a jack this spring?
I dont think so
This is Great

I’ve watched 3 Angels games in less than 24 hours.

WOOOHOOOO!!!!

getting ready

for the regular season!!!!!!!

Hell of a take by Juan.
well that was unfourtanate
Robberation. Great try, Juan. >_<
I see that once again, the Angels lineup seems to have been absurdly effective, even with Adenhart

sitting in the middle of the lineup, not even swinging.

Well, most of the time that's a hit. >_>;
well that's a hit...

GBV

Ok, now I am officially impatient

Can we start the season already!

Way to paint that inside corner
Oh that was BEAUTIFUL.

Nick with a great outing for the 3rd game in a row.

Nick coming out, nice outing kid
quick out for Rodriguez
what are we going to call him when/if he makes the club?
K-Rod: Part Duex
K-rod: the impostor?
(Golf clap)

Nice game young Nick

Wow, that ball seemed to hang for a while, nice try Q.

Against a lot of CF’s that’s a knock.

go Q

See what you can do!

Just felt like rhyming.

later gents

Light Up the Halo

Even is spring, it's not over till it's over.
Way to work the count, Erick.
Gotta keep that BA up, Matt...
way to draw the walk
Gonna head out, good luck Halos.
You RAISE me UUPPPPPPP
Does Scot with one "T" scare anyone else this year?
yes
answered with giving up a bomb
Just now he scared me giving up that two run homer.
nah.........

he’ll be fine

really...

because all the guys with the little league helmets are lighting him up

Unless you think Matt Brown really CAN hit .500, I'm inclined to not care.
yeah Im with you on this Stu
are you and Jeff Spicoli talking to Stu Nahan?
lol I was just thinking about those helmets......

He was gone pitching for USA……so he still needs some time…

does he know when opening day is?
yeah but if he's pitching like this in April........im not gonna be too suprised....

but if he is in Sept/Oct…….then I’ll be concerned.

a loss in April counts just as much as a loss in September
easier to overcome a loss in April........

than it is in Sept.

if you don't lose in April

then you don’t have to make up games in September.

but yes i get it. Scot is getting a lil’ bit scary these days.

LOL yes we could go back and forth on that I suppose.....

but Im not scared…………..yet

LOL

what about the games in March?

they count......to see who is gonna fill up the AAA roster....
wow good thing its just spring training bc terry just got confused as to who made that play
Shields is like a box of chocolates........
You think the Soth was "Twittering" just now in the dugout
Does one twitter in that region below the belt?
Nice K there......

kinda funky location though

Long time no see

Mr. Gregg

Derrick Turnbow was listed as a "key addition"for the Rangers?

alrighty then.

Gregg kinda looks like Donnelly with those glasses. IMO
hey that guy looks really familiar

feels like i’ve seen that keving gregg character before

for some reason

his delivery always bugged me

its almost like a delievery you would see from a Knuckleballer
k'd lookin.......

lite up the cacti

Light up that Halo
light up the HALO!
Light up the tumbleweeds and roadrunners!

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