#3 STEVE FINLEY - OF (2005)
When Steve Finley signed with the Angels, some of us were worried. But the team carried him on its back despite his "injury" aka his "birth certificate." The Angels won the West that season he was with them despite his playing in 120+ games with 45 of those games being ones in which he failed to even reach base.
What Steve Finley as an Angel meant to all of us was almost more important than his pathetic bottom feeding stats. Finley was a coming of age story... a realization that a 40-year old who had a consistent presence among baseball's most obvious roiding juicers was in fact a washed-up con man bent on cleaning out Arte's wallet, a man whose publicists made sure to emphasize a workout of agility to deflect attention from the incomprehensible senior citizen accomplishments of a heretofore mediocre outfielder suddenly made an All Star with healing crystals on the neck and rubber balls in the gym instead of weight benches.
Happy April Fools Day everyone!
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Haha
Well played.
442 - April 1, 2009
Not Shea Hillenbrand? Jeeeez.....
…I’m definitely quitting this blog.
The Limey - April 1, 2009
hes #1
Vladd#27 - April 1, 2009
No Mo Vaughn?
Steve Finley was only the 2nd best.
gilbert - April 1, 2009
Mo's already on the list at 67 or so.
Shea’s gonna be #1.
red floyd - April 1, 2009
Why not Gary Mathews Jr?
He’s an April Fool
VladdyG - April 1, 2009
I knew what this was the second I saw it
And I still almost died laughing. I agree though that Hillenbrand could have been funnier.
neochoa - April 1, 2009
That's Hillenbutt to you
This was funny, Shea would have been freakin hilarious.
RallyMonkey5 - April 2, 2009
I admit
I was thinking WTF?
Moondoggy - April 1, 2009
Hahaha!
good one… thanks for the laugh :)
HawaiiHaloFan35 - April 1, 2009
Finally!
The Rev shows his humorous side. Well done.
Only on April fools day though.
vladtheimpaler - April 1, 2009
I was thinking...
this must be some mistake!
haloforlife - April 1, 2009
WOW!!!! Ninja did it!!!!!!! GMJ...out! Sheffield...in!!!!!
Linkie.
sothball - April 1, 2009
That got me...
Good job!
jimmuscomp - April 1, 2009
XD You made my day.
sothball - April 1, 2009
i hate you
Vladd#27 - April 1, 2009
If you just got in line to hate me, you're further back than #27!
sothball - April 1, 2009
Nice.
Zu Long - April 1, 2009
I thought this was possibly a worst 100 Angels countdown
He somewhat resembles Patrick Dempsey
stolenbases - April 1, 2009
Guy has a longer neck than Travis Barker
Only thing missing from that picture is his fake oversized check from Publishers Clearinghouse, or the pressroom backdrop from the California Lottery.
In the spirit of a fallen Nancy Kerrigan ……. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!
PieceOfAase - April 1, 2009
that got me...
I fell off my chair
vlad IS my man - April 1, 2009
Nice April Fools Joke, Rev.
red floyd - April 1, 2009
Had me for about 3 seconds.
Very nice. :)
TheOptimist - April 1, 2009
I don't get it
The Clyde - April 1, 2009
blondie...
sothball - April 1, 2009
dirty blond
just wanted to see which sucker thought they had to explain it me
…but you picked my hook clean
The Clyde - April 1, 2009
I had 3 older brothers...they "cured" me of all possible gullibilities!
sothball - April 1, 2009
well played...........
norcaliangelsfan - April 1, 2009
Classic
Thanks for the laugh on this April Fools…
P237 - April 1, 2009
nice
ihearhowie2.0 - April 1, 2009
awesome
thrill000 - April 1, 2009
Good show, old boy!
Higz - April 1, 2009
hahahaha
i was like.. what the hell?! how’s he gonna spin this one???
…nicely played, Rev.
howiestheman - April 1, 2009
Is it a bad sign
That I’m so cynical I thought “April Fool’s” right away? Pretty funny, though. I agree that Shea would have been a better choice, though.
Brew Angel - April 1, 2009
I thought I misread it
For sure I thought I was reading Chuck Finley when that first game up. Then when I realized it was Steve Finley the first thing I said to myself was, “This is a joke, right?”
turs12 - April 1, 2009
yeah, I thought it was a typo at first!
thrill000 - April 1, 2009
#1 & 2
Shea Hillenbrand and Esteban Yan
Neo8234 - April 1, 2009
#1 has to be Edgardo Alfonzo
He meant more than words to the ’06 squad.
ReggieBullits - April 1, 2009
duped
totally
lilbobdog - April 1, 2009
Hahaha
Perfect.
ReggieBullits - April 1, 2009
Well played.
Match Day 5 - April 1, 2009
LOL
Remember Tom Egan?
Old_Ironside - April 1, 2009
well played sir
that was genius. I was laughing so hard i had a coughing fit
anaheim angels - April 1, 2009
nicely played
you had me till about halfway through
nselbe7 - April 1, 2009
Wow, you really did get me there. I was like, “Okay… what the hell?”
brokenyard - April 1, 2009
Seems about right....
If Darin ‘Worst Bat’ is in the top 10, why can’t Steve Finley be in the top 5?
statlr - April 1, 2009
If Erstad's only seaosn here had been 2000
He would have been in the Top 50. Add in his solid 98 and 99. Then look at the angels flyball-heavy pitching staff in 2002 and corelate to Darin’s year in CF, one of the ten best seasons by a CFer in history. Then throw in a bunch of counting stats and the fact that he is the only player to ever win a gold glove in the OF and IF.
Okay right there he has GOT to be in the Top 20. Than you just have to start picking off reasons why he ranks ahead of ten other guys.
Rev Halofan - April 1, 2009
All I had to do was read the headline.
wumbug - April 1, 2009
Just Wondering
Why you didn’t have Bill Singer in the top 100? In 1973 he pitched 315 innings with 241 K’s and 20 wins. I know he didn’t have longevity. But there’s a lot of guys in the bottom 20 that had even less tenure. JMHO.
Old_Ironside - April 1, 2009
I had him somewhere between
90 – 110… his Kim Ng incident cost him here like 1919 cost Shoeless Joe in Cooperstown. Character counts.
Rev Halofan - April 1, 2009
Hooray!
Perhaps more effective if you’d praised him, but still very well played!
Clutch - April 1, 2009
Besides his lighting a stogie at the division clinching celebration ...
what is there to praise about him in a Halo’s uni? Nada.
Downing Rules - April 2, 2009
Dude, that was the point
Ex., Rev praising Finley in this post would have added to the WTF element and perhaps obscured the joke that much further…and made it that much more glorious. :-D See?
Clutch - April 2, 2009
i agree
it was a last-second idea, i kinda whipped it out, i could have crafted it better had i thought it out more.
Rev Halofan - April 2, 2009
Eh!
It was great as is! But you know some of us readers, never completely satisfied…I kid, I kid. ;-D
Clutch - April 3, 2009
Ah, now I get your vague statement! ;)
Downing Rules - April 3, 2009
;-D
Clutch - April 3, 2009
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