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Rowdy Sunday Game Thread Part 2

Angels leading, Chumps Threatening

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I was just sitting here, waiting to see who would be the idjit to do that.

You win!

Glad to never disappoint!
there's something to be said for reliability!
I'm surprised we haven't beaned a sox batter
soth ball
He's not even in there though.
But yeah,

You’re still right.

the only other reason i could think of

is that speier has already been tossed, so we have no garbage to waste on the retaliation pitch..

I see what you did there.
its still his team..
Not the Angels style

no retaliations

If it weren't Mosley pitching we might have.
Given the last week or so

I’d hope the Angels would have the class to not try to harm other people.

Too bad I can’t say the same for the class of the Red Sox organization.

Had I made it that far in my career,

I would have long since established a solid reputation for losing the bat in my swing and letting it fly all over the field. No gloves. No pine tar.

That the bat would tend to fly directly at the pitcher after he tried to bean me would be one of those statistical curiosities. In fact, I would bet that such a reputation would preclude too many shots at my head, and I could hide behind the “small sample size” argument for number of times my bat went at a pitchers head.

one more strike dondo!
Seriously, what kind of name is Jacoby?

Is this dude a mormon or something?

c'mon 'dondo

lets get out of this..

WTF was that blue?!?!
Wow.

No inside corner today huh?

Nope. Ump has not given that black to either side all day.
Dp right now lets go
High inside fastball now
ump screwed that 2-2 pitch
DP!

suck that pedroia!

just what the doctor ordered
DOUBLE PLAY!!!!!!
MVP MY ASS
only because of what's written on his jersey
And the DP ball
Niiiiiiiiccceeee....
I was first to report it :)
must've been that high, inside fastball

looks like that video game really is realistic.. hahahahaha..

Pedroia showing some vintage Angels hitting

first pitch GIDP.

He’s got our hitters down solid.

He Spied on Hatcher's BP instructions yesterday

took notes and everything… thought he was being so clever…

I know a guy....

Who has an interesting theory.

When you’re gonna face a really good pitcher have two hitting coaches. Have one teach half the guys, and the other teach the other half. They should teach different ways to beat the ace.

The idea is to keep the entire lineup from being unable to hit. (It feels like nobody is able to hit a LOT for the Angels)

Seems like Moseley did better today. :-P
To his credit, he hung in there when he was being squeezed into hitters wheel houses.
And apparently also through a pair of errors.
He did

still giving up hits, but there were more mistakes by the defense than by him, and he held his own against Beckett.

And if me being wrong comes with the Angels doing well, I’m more than happy to take it.

That's always the best attitude to take. ;-)
Now, Halo hitters....

This is the part where you take that momentum and score runs…

Thank god for delcarmen...
Time for a hit Figgy
Figgy = OBP machine
Nice.

Figgy BB.

nice ab figgy
Great at bats today Figgy.

I can’t imagine trading you and trying another leadoff hitter.

And yet...

He’s the one guy who’s talked about in trade negotians, because EVERY team wants him…

Well….maybe not Detroit or NYM or PHI

If Garret Anderson wasn't so lazy

We would have picked up his option and traded him!

Figgy an OBP machine

I think thats 7 walks already this year to go with his 5 sb.

He's no Jose Reyes

but if the dude can get on base a lot, I don’t give a crap how he does it.

I think he has 9 now. He has at least 8 for sure.
unreal

Talk about patience.

Yeah.

And he’s really working pitch counts in the process, even when he gets hits.

and some of HH want him traded!?!?!?!

WTF are you thinking?

who???
before the season started, a ton of people!
I'll fess up

Before the season started, I voted to trade him to open up a spot for B-Wood

Boy

Howie really needs to hit those flat, plate-eating fastball.s.

The insanely long waits between pitches may be breaking his concentration.
Lets get a hit howard
I think only is Mother calls him Howard:)
Annnnnd

Safe by a mile.

Ouch

Bad call by Joe West at 2nd – CS

wtf?

he was safe!!!

exact same as the one before
geeze

will the horrific calls ever end?

That was safe dammit
First Caught Stealing this year

And it was a bad call.

Bullshit, Joe West!
he was safe!
HE'S F'ING SAFE
And now HOWIE gets the big hit.

Oh well.

Howie wit a triple
HOWIE TRIPLE!!
robbed again
Damn that should have scored Figgy.
without anyone on base

lame well chupa is comin

and howie triples

go figure

3B!

Nice job Howie!

We'll take the series DESPITE THE UMPS

Yeesh. Can’t take away a solid triple.

Makes that CS look particularly poor...
Running is Angels Baseball.

The CS is Red Sox Umpiring.

It's all Howie today...
Great hit Howie

Too bad about that blown call/Figgy getting caught

we own Delcarmen
Figgy was more safe on that one than the steal in the first
I'd say it was close at 2nd

I’d err on the side of safe, but on DVR replay, frame by frame, the glove is RIGHT there (on the reverse angle) when the base first is impacted, as evidenced by the base moving when his foot hits it. It was close enough to go either way.

CKoD being objective with an umps call?

wth is this world coming to?

you of all people ;)
The funny thing is

I actually used to ump in intramural sports in college, and in pony and little leagues during the summer. You think I’d be a LITTLE more understanding.

But nope.

Your DVR is missing the frame that has the foot on bag, glove 6 inches above leg.

Mine has that frame.

let's go chupa

and did you notice the sublinimal messenging?

that was the most obvious subliminal messaging i’ve ever seen

what came up?

i just noticed the game was interrupted, but wasn’t paying enough attention to see what is was..

it was Ray Ramano’s face

damn

unlucky Chupa

Damn.

Hopefully Shields and En Fuego can hold the Sux down.

Damn

Sox fans just BEG for a reason to do their in-your-face YOUK bullshit, don’t they?

I mean, they fucking cheer the guy’s name if he catches an infield pop-up for Christ’s sake.

I believe that if they witness him wiping his rear end, they might even say “YOOOOUK!”

Umps

Cheater, Cheater, chowder eaters.

Alright, Scott.

Show the world why you’re the Holds King.

That's SCOT

Bro is too badass for the second “T.”

How much do you want to bet

Those fair weather fans yelling yoouuk have never been east of the Mississippi, let alone NY’s cross dressing little bitch of a sister Bawstun

Shields vs. Ortiz

Not a matchup that has historically gone well for us

like I said
this is sorta late....

But Ellsbury is gonna have some sore ribs tomorrow :-)

And also, I'm off...

Happy Easter everyone! And go Angels!

Alrightu

Happy Easter to you as well

interesting

SB – C Figgins (5, 2nd base off J Beckett/J Varitek).
CS – C Figgins (1, 2nd base by M Delcarmen/J Varitek/Joe West).

okay fine

so i added that myself. but thats what it SHOULD say at this point..

Full count to Ortiz

wonderful.

Shields is doing his best K-Rod impression.
Its ok he'll try to steal again lol
c'mon scoty!

throw some leredo!!!

Man

you can just tell by watching that Shields was AFRAID to pitch to him after 0-2.

Yeah, with 4 breaking balls in a row

Should have busted him with an inside fastball

Okay Scot

Just bite your lower lip, were gonna get through this!!

Christ, Scot

get some balls and PITCH here!

Youk stands for YOU K
So I guess he just got a legal name change

To YOUBB?

Uh oh.

Shields not locating

this is not good
Great range Johnny
Way to Keep after it Juan.
If G.A wasn't so lazy

Rivera would have caught that sooner.

Now gimme that DP.
"Drew goes after the first pitch and fouls it away."

nice call in the booth there.

I was thinking the same thing

watching the whole way and saying “um…that ball is still in play, buddy.”

And he was left speechless over his own stupidity.

Which was, briefly, a good thing.

its been pretty bad all year so far.

always making the wrong calls and having to correct themselves..

wow

talk about digging your own grave

Bases loaded with 3 walks
Walked the bases loaded

unfuckingreal, Scot. Just throw fucking strikes.

Walked the bases loaded.

Yeee.

Thank God we can't bring in Speier right here
Come to think of it

maybe this is the spirit of Speier possessing Scot from the clubhouse.

Uh-oh

I think i’m gonna need some oxy contin and depends after the game.

Too bad for you there is a national emergency on oxy contin shortage.
Really?

I guess the Obama election must have really gotten to Rush Limbaugh.

Actually, really. Yeah.

The Feds shut down one supplier when they hit their manufacturing quota. That was teh #3 producer in the country. Then teh same Feds forced supplier #1 off the larket due to quality control issues, and #2 off the market for reasons I Forget. So the only company capable of making painkilling meds is the #3, that has to ramp back up. Thre are serious health problems going on right now, escpecially in places like Florida where there is a high concentraion of pain centers. And recently, this has started to threaten our military. The black market for oxycadone, the base, makes this med more valuable than diamonds.

Which really aren't all that valuable

so much as they are extremely common and well controlled by the diamond companies.

not unlike pharma
Abrew needs the shades
c'mon lowell, hit a DP right here
Get Shields out of the game now
Naps just saved a run
Dear Scot.

Grow a pair. Fast.

geezus 19 pitches, 13 balls
where was that blue?
WHERE THE FUCK DID THAT MISS???
Where did that miss
WTF???

STRAIGHT DOWN THE FUCKING MIDDLE!?!?!?!?

Where did that miss?!?!
IT DIDN"T!

:((

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU UMP?
1 more scoty!!!
STFD

GO REST YOUR SURGICALLY REPAIRED HIP YOU OLD MAN

HGH makes the play
GMJ!!!!

thank you!!

Who's the ump behind the plate

Stevie Wonder?

OUT OF IT!!!

not even the umps can save the sox!

HELL YES !!

danger averted

We went from the Nervous Save to the Nervous Hold.
YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!

got out of it

ZOMGGGG

what an out

WOW ,that was one hell of a tightrope act
Now for the Geico
they should

pay you to make that post!!!

Sheeez Shields...we reeaaally miss the Frankie heart palpitations...

…way to make our pacemaker batteries work overtime!

Jesus

another bad call by the announcers. The way they called the flyout to Matthews, I thought it was a quick-sinking flare single.

Don't worry folks, it was all part of Scot's plan

he just wanted to bypass all the good Sox hitters so Fuentes could face the garbage.

Ah, the old “pretend to suck” trick.

lets get insurance
Okajima is in

And Vlad crushes him

I love the way he tapped the 34 patch

like “I know you were with me there Nick”

Did Vlad do that too?

Or you mean Shields? I thought that was great by Shields, missed it if Vladdie did it too.

VLADDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
VLAD!!!!!!!!!!!
BOOM!!

VLADDY!

VLADDY!!!!

yay!

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'bout

time Vlad checks in.

nice!

Way to be Vladdy!

we needed that

BIG DADDY VLADDDIIIIII
VLAD!!!!!!

IT’S BOUT F***ING TIME

Vlad with a shot!!!!!!
i LOVE when he hits lasers like that
great to see that
one more would be nice here Mike
Anyone think we can move Wood to First instead on Kow
Wood's defense at third

too valuable

you must not have noticed

that even after going 0-4 today, KMo is still hitting over .300, and its not easy to have an 0-fer this early and still have that high of a batting avg. nobody is going to get a hit EVERY DAY.

Yeah, but earlier in the game

his GIDP was a big inning killer. At the time, it was huge.

sometimes players have bad games

but that doesn’t mean they need to be replaced..

I don't think he should be replaced

but he has had a particularly bad game.

so i have 3 of 4 RHP picks right..
that was the pitch naps!
Not so much for Naps today.
Come on Fuentes
Fuentes time!

that doesn’t sound right but here we go.

3 pitch inning...

cmonnnnnnnnnnn

Kenny Perry misses by about 2 inches to win the Masters...

…playoff coming

Oh, golf talkzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Sounds like he has the same ump we do.
Times like this I wish I had kept Vladdy in my fantasy keeper league

Oh well.

Dammit he plunks him
Whoops.

HBP.

Damn dude

if you’re gonna hit someone, try not to make it the career .660 OPSer.

and i'm assuming thats minor leagues?

cause i’ve never heard of this kid in my life..

Fuentes

living up to the high, heart attack standards left by K-Rod

Our bullpen does not want to come through.
That's much more like it
lets go fuentes and ur funky delivery
why is papi always up

in this situation against the Angels?

LOL

just typed those words

Fuentes just wanted to go head to head with Papi to end the series.
hit the corner lets go
damnit, throw strikes fuentes
Cmon Brian Fantana
1 more, 1 more!!!
en fuego!

hitting 92 mph on the fastball!

cmonnnnn fuentes
good hitting

damnit

fuentes is not good
2 blown saves in 3 chances?

ladies and gentlemen, the new justin speier!

Hasn't blown it yet.
nah

speier will never have a chance to blow a save..

Lets not get crazy
wow this is a bad sign for this year
had a feeling we were going to need vlad's HR
Damn!!!

I think Fuentes confidence is shot.

i disagree

with letting the runner steal 2nd without a throw, when you’re only up by 3 runs..

2 runs.
grr

thats what i meant.. my bad. i still disagree with it tho..

NOW we are allowed to conclude the game.

NOW. This batter.

There you go.

Now GET HIM.

LIGHT HER UP!!!
way to take series boys!!!
JUST LOOKING!!

that was outside

LIGHT IT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ugly, but they all count... Light it.
LIGHT IT UP!!!

eat it JD

Light it up

Fuentes with the redemption K

good god

fuentes hurts my heart

i got heartburn from fuentes
AN excellent conclusion to the series.
yessssssssss!!!!

i love that drew didnt even lift the bat off his shoulder

probably got hurt doing a practice swing
phew

just another heart-attack victory

give Fuentes time

that was a great pitch!

and the win despite the umpiring!!!

light it up for Nick!

Light it up

Great way to end a terrible week

dustin moseley beats josh beckett

thanks nick :)

Fuentes watching tape of frankie and decides it would be fun to do that too
not a good idea on his part for the sake of us
Light it up for #34!
2 out of 3 against the Sux.

Great win.

No question: The National League IS "AAAA"

No more frickin’ players from that shit-ass league.

Agreed on shit ass league

Not sure about Fuentes yet, still too early.

btw

i was SO close to getting all 4 RHP.

my picks:
5R, 10H
3R, 9H

actual:
5R, 10H
4R, 9H

SO CLOSE!!!

Mine was 5 runs on 11 hits, against 4 runs on 9 hits.

All I needed was one more hit from the Halos to ace the picks.

POTG

Gotta be Vladdy, without his HR, its a completely different game.

way to come back

Way to take the series

despite all the help

that the sux got from the umps this weekend..

agreed
should have been a friggin' sweep

I hate the Red Sux!!!!!!!

Wow

Kruk actually saying Beckett shoulda been ejected.
I said wow.

point counter

less talky talky, more county county :D

already done ;)
and nvm the results are already up

damn you are fast

the new system helps :P
Wow, indeed

In the past, Kruk has come off as having a mancrush on Beckett…

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