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Shane's a big boy
Second XD
Or first...
you were right before.
Loux falling apart?
why pitch grif like its 1995?
was that walk intentional?

that looked like he was pitching to pujols with a man on third

come on shane get one over on him

GIDP lets do it!

5 balls in a row, cmon Loux
Loux has been commendable...

but how much further can he go?

Yeah, I'm happy with his outing so far.
not very far apparently
im thinking he is getting close to the limit
What happens if you click up?
Hey, loux!

Ya know that there is a strike zone…That’s usually a pretty good target :)

The guy gave up 2 runs thus far

chill tablet.

That was during his 6 balls in a row streak..
Oh come on, Oliver is not a LOOGY
barring this inning ends with no more runs

id say loux was great.

2 ER not bad for our 7th/8th starter

assuming it ends*
Have we determined the correct pronunciation for Mr. Loux?

Looooo or Looooks?

I'm guessing Looooo.
I heard it was

Loooosh.

I take this back. Looo makes it sound frenchy.

And I aint kosher with that.

I was having this convo earlier with my GF
5.1 IP, 2 ER

Not half bad for Loux. He’s responsible for Griffey but Cousin Oliver is coming in.

agreed I'd take that from him every 5th day and be happy
Same

Asking him to keep this up might be asking too much, but he’d be one of the best back-of-the-rotation starters in the league if he did.

hes better than CC and Wang
I wouldn't go that far.
maybe ill make the tongue in my cheek a little more obvious next time
I was with you
Wang got through 2 innings?
wrong martin lawrence coming in

watcha gonna do, watcha gonna do when they come for you. bad boys bad boys.

What is a Branyan Tree?
Oliver could start Saturday
Oliver starting?!?!?!?!
he's been a starter most of his career

but it’d be a bit to ask to have him stretch out for a start right now

Yeah...

But…Every once in a while it seems like he doesn’t have his stuff..

Olly has pitched 3 or 4 innings for us in the past

That’s all he would be asked to do I imagine.

I remember Oliver in the '06 NLCS with the Mets

Hell of a game.

Nice. Pitch...
"Was that a setup pitch?"

Aren’t you supposed to know that, Phys?

Harold Reynolds claims he played on the same team with Darren Oliver

Back during Oliver’s “first tour with the Angels.” Um.

???...1st tour nobody knew about

In related news, Harold Reynolds also played with Babe Ruth

wtf?

Harold is smoking somethin’

When did Harold Reynolds play for the Angels?

I forget the year

'94

Final year. He stank.

Thank you for the info
nice job ollie
Good job for Oliver.

Loux can only get the W or the ND.

i dont think he can get the win can he?
7 pitches, 2 outs.

I love Ollie.

great outing

by Loux!

*applauds Loux *
lets go NAPster!
See, now we need to score runs or Scioscia's gonna bring in Jepsen and/or another crappy reliever

Why did they take Loux out?

Too many pitches, mostly

80 pitches is a problem? For a starter?

Early in the season, with no starting pitchers left, yeah

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, but the matchup probably drove the change.

branyan hits righties hard

lefties not so much

They wanted Oliver to face Branyan since he is a power hitting lefty.
For a lefty-lefty matchup...

Also…His pitch count was getting up there…

Great job by Loux
I love that the catcher throws the ball back to the pitcher at 60

I can’t throw 60, that’s for damn sure.

Loooooooooooooooooo(ux)

If this were a performance review and Loux was my employee he would get “Consistenly exceeds expectations”

Last time Silva got to the 7th inning?

July 8, 2008. According to Ms’ announcers.

Seems a bit early to do that. Oh well, great game for a journeyman 5th starter. Still, bringing in Oliver hurts the ability to use him as a bridge starter.

Meh, just turns into his bullpen session for the day
Maybe a Pedro deal is going down?

Yeah Rex…Because the only place you can see your breath is Alaska……..

how horrible start to the inning

Odds on Wood coming up to replace Aybar, anyone?

I'd say low...
Long, save your money...
woods needs another year or two in AAA

(sarcasm)

Aybar's hitting the ball hard

Just unlucky.

so when does aybar go to AAA
Oh, now that he's up to 143? he's heating up.
its only 15 AB's
Guy's got a double today
Never because of the Soth's man-love for his defense.
ain't nobody man-lovin' his offense!
When the Angels send Him there ;)
Is 4 runs too much to ask for?
Please keep Oliver in.
How hard is it to get banned from Over the Monster

…because I just called Fenway a “cramped, dilapidated, latrine-smelling, sardine can”

I had a weak moment over there

That’s weak to go over there and post something like that. What are you doing that for?

It was stupid

some moron was irritating me (and MidwayCityLivestock)

…on top of that we were arguing over attendance and fans

I’m going to apologize

it may be small

and i hate the sux

but when you are around fenway, you can just feel baseball. its really cool.

it is really cool. Now that I’ve been there, though, I’m ready for them to knock it down and build a new stadium without all the wacky dimensions! :)

Fenway's overrated

There’s like 40 total seats there that have unobstructed views. I was sitting front row on the third base side of the plate last night for a college game and still couldn’t see the whole field.

It’s a fun park, but not the best place to catch a baseball game.

Truth hurts

at least its not rat infested

lets go oliver! sit em down!

I like Aybar a lot and I think he has the potential to be an even better version of Rafael Furcal, but Wood is a very good defensive player and seems to have figured out how to hit MLB pitching.

defensive, since when
He is a solid defender, agreed.

5.05 RF/9 in 2006 says something about his play at the position. Defense basically exists in a vacuum, unlike hitting.

which position?

I think he can play 3B or SS just fine without a fancy rating.

I don't know about that last part.....
Aybar has the potential to be better than Furcal?

I think he can be a serviceable MLB player but let’s not get carried away.

i think aybars bat plays in the NL

not so much here

Hope that's the last we see of CY Silva today

Can’t believe I am actually saying that

it will be funnier when he comes out for the 8th and gets shelled
Silva will win the Carlos Silva award.

They will rename the Cy Young award after him.

Ok...

I need Figzter and HK to come up big for me!!!!

Aybar’s bat will play anywhere if he develops a modicum of plate discipline.

LETS GO OLIVER!

BTW, is Kendrick now officially Howard and not Howie?

His wife and the TV commercials call him Howard...

his fans call him Howie.

It's always been Howard.

Something about a baseball card and him being a nice guy.

No...

Sometimes the announcers call him Howie…Sometimes Howard…

Oliver gives up a single to Joe Jima.
What? I thought Seattle was too good

to have to resort to small ball

What's this??? A bunt? What on earth is that???
New manager is longtime Angels organization dude
come on oliver

give our wet noodle bats a chance to win this puppy

Wet noodle bats are only league legal in blernsball

you heard it here first.

I dont like these 340 starts
You don't live on the East Coast!
or further east than that...
eh i dont like following gametracker on my phone in class

but i guess seattle is on the east coast, thats right. hahaha

Good throw Aybar
Hoorah!

Aybar did something good!

...and that's why Aybar is staying in Anaheim, folks
What was that?

Did someone say aybar had not that great defense?

nope
he just can't hit a lick, that's all
how cold is it there in seattle? -10?
according to Hud, yes
rex said 48 or something

ALASKA COLD!

LOL...

To Rex…There’s only one place where you dan see your own breath…..ALASKA!!!!!

God, it's 35 in Boston right now

FML

Gameday says 53

but they’re acting like its much freezing … close the dang roof, then?

thats not what its for
Yahoo sports says:

Weather: 48 degrees, partly cloudy

Come on bats...
way to go olly
d-nasty...........w000
OFF-FENSE

stomp stomp

dont suck

stomp stomp

Nice job Oliver!

Let’s score some runs so we don’t have to see Jepson

Nice job, Cousin
walk - single - Homerun

do it

Or Silva goes 7 pitches en route to shutting down the top of the order...

I’d gladly pay you Thursday for some crow TODAY.

aardvark, not silva.
top of the order

Blueprint for success

1. Figgy walks
2. Figgy steals 2nd
3. Howie at worst ground out to right side
4. Abreu sac fly at worst

crap I have Aardsma on my fantasy team

…let’s throw in a reached on an error or two

Troy Percival said it best....
We are 5th best in the league with rotation R/G

Link.

Loux makes that number lower.

strong start with our starting rotation injuries and other things
BALDY LOL...
Confusing when he was on the Red Sox with baldy Masterson
never thought id say

boy am i glad silva is gone

Yeah, like two folks in the pregame said...

“we always hit Silva hard…” Which Silva were they talking about????

cedeno looked like he was gonna punch that fan

and then-woops!-i just didnt catch it

that was too close
Figgy on my fantasy team...

and I need hits or BB

Ugh, why do I talk to some Red Sox fans....

GO ANGELS!!!!!!

I'm with you man

I jumped in the fray over there too

…waste of time now that I think about it

The on-field umps made a call...

the MLB main office fixed it. End of story. What’s there to argue?

The quality of our fan base

I refuse to follow that link...

I saw some comments in the Boston Globe from Red Sox fans as a result of this Abreu-Beckett situation. I had enough of that conversation after reading 15 or so comments.

Yeah, we fought hard...

It always is a waste of time. It is a waste of time here, there, that’s why I love it… lol

FIGGGGGGY

NICE

Figgy single, ill take it
I wish more people on this team would have AB's like Chone.
Abreu has some pretty good AB
Thanks, Bartman!
He's relocated to Seattle???

;)

WHOOOO!!!!!!!!

2 PTs so far!!!!

For all the shit I give Figgy, he's a solid leadoff man thus far
Yeah, since like 2004.
so havent seen it yet, but did they bring nick's away jersey or home jersey on the road?
they did bring his stuff
i mean is the away jersey or home one hanging up in the dugout?
fantastic bunt
Needs to sit down and have a chat with the Admiral
Good bunt by Howie.

Figgy in scoring position with the big guns coming up.

A great sacrifice bunt
hk with the bunt.

well done.

I need howie up again...
SUCK SUCK SUCK
chupa chupa chupa
Angels Baseball

Not pretty sometimes, but effective

it doesn't have to be pretty

just have to win.

My employer bought Safeco

Hahah, suck it Seattle

GAG...
angels offense

FML.

well it'll be fine as long as Torii smashes one...
2004 Vlad or 2008 Vlad?
hopefully, the surgically repaired knee will allow him ...

to once again, be the “bee’s knees”

pansies
tbh with the look of vladi's at bats

I’ll take it

Okay vladdy...

Make sure you don’t swing at the pitches ;)

they have to throw

it way out even if it’s intentional cause he can hit those.

I know...

it’s hilarious….

Come on wild pitch
Why didn't we send Figgy before bunting?
vlady wouldve grounded out
Come on Hula Dula. Get a knock right here.
they want some of the hula dula eh?
IMA RUIN YO INTENTIONAL WALK MOTHA F***AAAAAA
Come on huladula
oh throw that away
i don't get it

Walk the guy with the terrible AB’s to get to the guy who just hit a homerun

as good as the GMJ walk by boston
cause of vladdys ERA against Seattle
awesome

Has he pitched against them?

are the mariners gonna repeat as division champs?
Lol...

Jo-Jima is getting beat up back there…

LOL

On MLB gameday under Torii’s stats:

Loves to face: Four seam
Hates to face: Fastball

What????He loves and hates the same pitch?

that new Gameday feature is stupid
Torii loves the Four Seam Pizza and hates the Fastball Sub
poor Joe jima

hula playing pepper with Joe Jima’s face

KOWBELL

moment of truth

Hula walks

Loaded

that was an intentional walk too right?
kmo I need some love

like desperately.

please kendry my fantasy team needs your help
fucking seriously
really? first pitch?

REALLY?!?!?!

K'mon Kowbell

Don’t make me miss Casey

kendry, you cant play in the majors if you suck at first AND have ABs like that
my god

At least give yourself the opportunity to watch a wild pitch

keep him away from vlad
way to be selective Kendry

wow

Alright...

The last three times morales is up with the bases loaded he’s popped upzzz

see what happens when you give a position player

a guaranteed job

*replacement player
and tony begins looking at 1st basemen potentially on the block
Kendra - blows it.
He was my sleeper in fantasy and

he’s fucking sleeping (that’s mine for April)

As Troy Percival said:

(censored) your fantasy team

I could give two craps for my fantasy team....

If he’d come through every once in a while for the halos

LOL...

I already use it…..

fail................................................
Kendry needed to put together a better AB than that

Follow Torii’s lead.

how is matt brown doing in AAA?
Crap

…I have to finish the rest of this on the radio while driving home

0-5 RISP with 7 LOB thus far for Halos according to Gameday
thats pretty terrible
can wood play 1b?
just as well as Kendry
shit put abreu there or something

influx of outfielders. then you can put figgy out in of, and move up wood.

hwo cool would that be
Why is Oliver still pitching?
Junior, duh
To keep Speier away
wow

they are stretching him

To tire him out for his start?
stretching out for his start.
cause Nick Swisher plays for the Yankees
might be getting stretched out for saturday start
Because it's a tie game and he doesn't suck.
you want Fuentes in there?
maybe he's really not gonna start sat and soth knows something we dont
One helluva a game thus far!!
it's a good game...

we’ve left wayyyy too many on base though.

Oliver=no self esteem issues :)

I always forget how efficient Oliver can be.

Wood on short and Brown on First Now lets go win
Is this a Bees rally thread?
lets go bees!
STFD OLD MAN GRIFFEY
Morales is better than Brown

Wow. He K’d Junior on 3 pitches.

ouch

maybe dont swing at the first pitch anymore

What happened to the score indicator thing?
Up...

Just popped back up…

rex is not cold-blooded apparently
ollie is dealing
  • gasp *

Ollies a drug dealer????

that means olly can throw at his head now right?
only if he calls time
Apparently if the umpire squeezes you, you can throw at the batter's head

Its a 2 seam fastball, not a cutter. Get it right Gameday

G-R-E-A-T job by Oliver
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Another 1 bites the dust

3 Ks in 13 pitches. Not bad DO

oliver the new staff ace
Alright lets get some runs please.

Angels run support is terribad.

Great job, Oliver

But I still don’t want to see him in the starting rotation.

Let's get Oliver a W Halos offense!
S.T.F.DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Sit the (censored) down down down Down down down down down down?
...down down down down down down down???

I bet Carlos Silva is wondering why DO throws the same speed yet strikes out so many more guys.

D A R R E N O L I V E R !!

(Kendry, could you please start showing a little patience at the plate?)

Maybe Naps will lead off with a Homer

Was thinking the same thing.

alright morrow
let him load the bases again
if they swing 1st pitch im gonna shoot a puppy
...save a bullet for Hatcher...

…put him out of my misery.

somehow morales will end this inning
If Kowbell ends this inning, I'll be very happy
ill take it if we go through our side
yea kmo pop-up to end it
Napoli was swinging for Jupiter on that one
Prediction: Naps is going to hit a train.
You sir, are wrong.
So much for the homer
really depressing: matthews makes 11 million dollars
GMJ almost got it out of there.
Damn I guess HGH didn't get his dose this morning.
damn

almost gmj

Morrow would look really cute in Angel red

99 mph? WOWZERS

Oh Jeez...

…don’t start that “He’d look REALLY cute…” feminine stuff. This is baseball. BASEBALL! Damn!!!

whatever gets women fans i say.
Pastel colors and...

…designer uniforms outfits? No.

Of all people to catch up with Morrow’s fastball, Aybar

Figgins we could really use a double right now.
LOL......

So…..do any of you remember when Rex’s nickname for Speir was “Justin Speir putting out the fire!”

Well…

My nickname for him is/was “Justin Speir score’s gettin higher!!!”

way to show some muscle Admiral
Is aybar stealing?
Justin Expeier.
No!

Don’t tell me he’s warming up!

He's not warming up...

He only put that because of my comment…read above…

too bad he didn't get suspended
Fuentes up next
HK DON'T BLOW IT!!!!!!!!!!!
There we go

Base hit Howie

BB

nicely done chone.

Well, if bat speed is needed, here is the guy for the job

C'mon Kendrick

I could go 3 for 3

Howie reached base already

He got hit by a pitch

RISP

Always with 2 out it seems

definition of angels baseball
"And up to bat is HOWARD Kendrick"

Later…

“When HOWIE had that…AB”

INCONSISTENCY!!!!!!!
HK just missing in the clutch lately
heat in that ball
YOU BLEW IT!!!!!!!!!!!
lame

10 LOB past 2 Innings

9 LOB...
to be fair the M's have 10 LOB

at least on gameday.

I see 5 Team LOB
Here comes the walkoff!!!!!!!!
pessimistic much?
fuentes hasn't really been nails tbh
silly mastermind565

we’re the road team!

road warriors!
I like my pessimism on the rocks please
oliver is definitely starting on saturday

they are stretching him outtttt

If today is any indication

he looks ready.

Looks like it...
DO in the 9th!
Props to Ollie for a job well done.

Darren Oliver = Nasty

Standing HH ovation for DO...

(clap, clap, clap)

not yet
For DO? Hell yes!!!
Clapping here too
i love DO

he gets an applause from me

clap clap

i hope i never get the clap

Tremendous outing

His longest as an Angel?

i dont know, are we counting his first go-round with the angels?

You are correct sir

Ties July 23, 2007

Link.

31 strikes, 9 balls. DO doing his best Maddux impression.

3 inn of awesome work.

props d-nasty…………..you da man

Shields...don't fail me now
1 more out lets go
Tough to homer in that park
Shields with a quick inning.
red alert, raise shields
I almost shit my pants on that one.
nice thats why hula dula

is a baseball rula

dominoes too.
Yay for continuing on for like 40 posts in a defunct thread.

My pride is severely hurt. Nice inning, Scotty.

Time for the Angels bats to wake up
I want to agree but...

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…

Gameday sucks

What happened?

deepish fly ball to cf, Torii makes a nice catch going back over his shoulder
Chupa with the single!

Wow. Quick hook for Morrow

Alrighty, leadoff man on. Vlad, if you've been saving another of those moon shots

Now would be a good time.

C'mon Vlade

Torch ’em

wow vladi, oldschool GIDP
abreu starting to heat up..............
Way to go chupa!
VLAD YOU SUCK

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111

Vlad is short for GIDP right?
There goes that
you got to be kidding me!!!!!!!
God****ing dammit, Vlad....

Ouch. No solution for Beltre

vlad is not good anymore

i would honestly rather have torii hit 4th

UGH....

That’s like adding insult to sadness……

Right before Vlad came up….I just glanced up to the screen and saw the replay of Abreu…For like a quarter of a second it looked like GA :(

nice straight walk
Another unintentional possibly intentional walk for Hunter

Vlad needs to have another Tee session. It worked last time.

M's want no part of Torii's hatred. Time to redeem yourself, K-Mo.
when was the last time hunter walked twice in a game
Trick question, right?
Torii doing his Abreu impression

Hunter has really seemed to improve his plate discipline this year.

Please....oh please oh please oh please

don’t end this inning Kowbell

Hit a homer Kowbell or be added to my shit list.
morales hits way too high in the order

im sad to say scoscia might have kendry a little overrated

Absolutely not. Plus, he is a switch hitter, which helps the L-R balance.

morales is not a better hitter than napoli

switch hitter or not

Having 3 right-hand hitters in a row is not such a good thing.

neither is an out

have you not seen the guy’s ABs tonite? this walk was the first good one he had all night

Have you seen this guy’s credentials? Lets let him get a little sample size before tossing him away. He brutalized Beckett with that double

Alright Kendry....

HIt ThE BALL ON A LiNE…

he wanted that dead and gone...

could have been

C’mon Kendry. Send one to the gap and let Torii’s legs do the talking

you mean running?
Random song lyrics...

BILLIE JEAN IS NOT MY LoVER!!!!!!

Torii doing a moonwalk?
ahhhh, full count
Torii on the move
Nice AB, Kendry Molina!

Base on Balls

NAPS, a bomb would be nice
At least not an out
I will talk the walk
But can you walk the walk?
as long as it's not the moonwalk
3 run bomb.

DO YOU BITCH DO IT!

Kendry with the AB he shoulda had last time. Ah well.

TIME FOR A POWER NAP!

Not....quite.

Send this one home Nap.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
And this time...

Naps is the culprit……..

this game just isnt coming together at all
Pitching has been great....

…offense=fail.

I'm thinking about filing a missing person's report.

Our bats seem to be lost.

I feel like Charlie Brown ready to kick the football (and win the game)

but Lucie (the angels) keep on pulling it away at the last second.

*Headdesk* 3 straight times, men on base, FPS outs.
but...

Did anyone make note of the thrashing the Rays handed the Yankees?

Yesterday yes...today too?
today is tied.
Great "clutch" pitching by the Mariners

Looking at Gameday, Napoli should have been all over that one.

1 More inning of Shields at this point I think

Not so much...
holy crap! if i could come home from work to excitement like this every night

i’d never need a wife

c’mon halos bullpen!

its really not that exciting
For me

it has been frustration watching the Halos strand RISP

Shields - L

BOTG – Everyone but Figgins, Torii and Abreu

if they cant get this run home, they have worse problems than we do
Was posting the same thing.....

Shields – F

Come on Shieldsy. Need to K some people now.

Well thats not good.
and an E too.
And an error to lose the game
oh, failey fail mcfail
gross

but a fitting loss

Oh goodness. That guy ALWAYS does that.

Did Seattle just win the world series?
I hope your frikkin kidding...
That was SOO Predictable

That is why Scottie is NOT a closer

G-g-g-g-g-g-game over. :(

I NEVER WANT TO SEE BETANCOURT UP IN A WALK OFF POSITION AGAIN.

Still, I blame Kendry
kendry and the entire O is all sorts of Fail so far this year.........

soooooo inconsistant.

id rather have izturis hitting behind hunter than morales

just too many rallies killed

WHY CAN'T SHIELDS EVER THROW IT TO FIRST BASE??
Shields: Epitome of Fail

Hell.

could our team be anymore UNclutch
WALK OFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHh BULLLLLLLLLLLLL
maybe no more "predictions" from you
Great showing by the Halo offense today
Seattle just won the 2008 AL West title
Clutch = The opposite of Shields
Ugly...plain ugly loss.
I am angry at the offense more than Shields
+1

2 runs isnt gonna cut it.

Especially against CY Silva

Our troubles with this washed up pitcher are old

goddamn mlb tv is behind in the broadcast

thats almost more frustrating than the loss itself (which still hasn’t happened, can you say “tape delay”?)

well

that sucked!

ouch

SHIELDS you bum

Seattle is now 6-2

yuck

a walk off botched sac bunt

This is f***tastic..

Well... Oliver was pretty impressive, at least.
loux was semi decent too
And how horrible that Shields gets to pick up the #34 jersey....
why?

is it scots fault the O leaves 100000 ppl on base?

I wouldve given it to Oliver...
Here's hoping to a Weaver shutout
the only way he can win
Evil Shields rears his ugly, stuttering head again!
Whoever picked the Abreu-Hunter-Figgi got 3 points...

Anyone who picked HK misses…

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