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LET'S DO THIS

MONKEY MONKEY!

bulger retired 3 in a row

:|

What gives?

Shields 4 runs, and Bulger a 1-2-3?

hey a reliever threw a 0 on the board !!
And it was BULGER?????!!!!!!!!
Jesus is coming back. Any second now.

And its not the B-Wood Jesus.

i hope the dodger fan guy doesnt come to this thread
pretty obvious a post 02 fan.
Well, we are definitely back to the days of Nolan Ryan

with the Arson Squad

I thought we were done with this kind of play

my childhood nightmares are coming back

i didnt think i was being a jerk

turning traitor after a couple weeks in april to the DODGERS??? in an angels blog?

Gah

and to make things worse they have Bill MacDonald in the ad. Gah, and gah again, I say.

Okay, no I'm ocnfused, why is Wood not pinch hitting?
cause you can't hit a 3-run HR

with nobody on base..

Let's get some more runs, Halos...

the Bad News Bears innings are behind you! DO IT NOW!

whered the dodger/fake angel fan go?
who the hell cares, it's game thread emotion

He’ll be back. No need to clobber the kid.

hopefully struck down by the ban hammer lol
Which one you talkin bout howie2.0?
hey guys

here comes precious Aybar. Scioscia’s golden boy

Don't expect a walk here, 3 Balls means hack
this is such shit
1 out.

Any one have an update on Lackey or Santana. Or Anybody. I need some good news.

They're throwqing bullpens

Fri & Sat

per Phys & Hud when we had a lead.

the ironic thing

is our starting pitching is doing well

See E-Bar? You let the outfielder get the short pop-ups
Abreau wasnt exactly close
But Torii was
You must've been watching

the Premium feed!

I'd really like to hear a "We want Wood" chant

I’m pretty sure the kid’s gonna be a bust, but we won’t know until we see him

Dude...

as a guy, I’d have trouble starting an “I want wood” chant.

I wouldn't

It’d be hilarious and get the point across

"Maybe we should start one of those wave things?"
"don't call it a comeback"
Figgy with a single
thank you figgy for hitting that ball.
well. cheering for the angels obviously isnt working. howabout reverse psychology?

GO TIGERS!

That never works for me and the Red Sox
or the mariners for that matter

damn them.

this is how it can start

LET’S GO

come on boys

big win could work wonders on the season

i love when the heart of our lineup comes up in the 8th
Chopper's warming in the 'pen
HEY HEY HEY ON CHRISTMAS DAY!!!!!
he's 3-4 hopefully he can do something
He can pop out
Pop Ups

are not clutch.

neither are roll overs to the right side..
cant be clutch every AB
Need to be grittier then.
uh Hud...this is exactly like the Angel's bullpen.
Small Sample Size?
true i mean as of late
No argument there
I didn't see the beginning of the game

Looking at the box, how bad was Saunders?

NG
really?

i kinda felt like he pitched decently

Solid

5IP 5ER

Even the “vile of shit” Moseley is usually more effective (quote is courtesy of Casey’s vile of stooL)

i retract my statement then i have seen the light.
he got his stuff together after an iffy first.
not his best day...

2 good innings……3 not so good

Ms. Thompson's husband is warming up in the bullpen, premiumly.
I can't believe how many times the bullpen has screwed this team
Also

crappy D

Yes

Which somehow aren’t errors.

Yes, advertise for the online shop

I don’t get paid anymore and the team is playing awful. That’s what I want. More merchandise.

Now is the time to ebay shop ...

All the bandwagonners have that same kind of mentality … “Team sucks, don’t buy gear.” So, the sellers have too much inventory and the prices drop. Buy low, sell high.

that guy looked nothing like billy mac......

he’s got competition

LET'S GO THOMPSON

thump thump thumpthumpthump LET’S GO THOMPSON thump thump thumpthumpthump

JOIN ME!!!!!!!

you thump and all i hear

is the imperial death march.

All I hear is the crack of the bat of Inge's HR to straight-away CF
HR

sorry, ashley

Jesus

this team is embarrassing. There’s no excuse, none, for Wood not playing right now. Watching an 8th inning of Aybar, Figgins, and Izturis is an embarrassment to fucking baseball. Get one of those 3 clones out of the goddamn game and give someone who can hit a ball further than 80 feet a chance for once. I swear to God, it’s like the morons who run this shitty team have an aversion to hitting home runs.

Without Figgins,

we are even closer to nothing…

I don't care which of the three goes...at all

just get rid of SOMEONE. It’s absurd.

HEY GUYS, OUR BEST POWER HITTER IS OUT FOR A MONTH, WHAT SHOULD WE REPLACE HIM WITH?

HOW ABOUT THE GUY WITH THE LEAST POWER OF ANYONE ON OUR BENCH?

WELL, WE HAVE A MINOR LEAGUE PROSPECT WITH ELITE POWER WHO PLAYS THE EXACT SAME POSITION AS THAT POWERLESS GUY. WHAT ABOUT HIM?

I DON’T PAY YOU TO MAKE SENSE, JUST PUT IN IZTURIS AND SHUT THE FUCK UP

how come they never go to that side when i'm there

foul balls

oh Chopper

:’(

N rims for Chopper pitching like that. LOL
Scioscia looks like he doesn't even care anymore
Good start for Rich

’night guys

HEY LOOK

A HOME RUN, WE COULD USE ONE OF THOSE FROM TIME TO TIME YOU KNOW SCIOSCIA. GUESS WHO ISN’T GOING TO HIT THEM:

FIGGINS, IZTURIS, AND AYBAR.

FML.

And yet...

Everyone else has the ability to….

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

i dont even have the motivation to finish the word

and mr.thompson

has OFFICIALLY joined our bullpen

"How can we sleep while our bullpen is burning?"

Aussie connection

Sometimes, we need to get lost to find ourselves...

sometimes, you just gotta go walk about…the bases….after you just hit a FRIKKIN HOME RUN of the Aussie

Most luminous member big cat team destroy baseball travel much far.
Can't get much lamer?

Wrong.

can't bring up Wood just to DH

need to move some folks for that to happen

He's already up.
my bad

for him to PLAY, that is

Did you hear the sound that Inge's bat/ball made?

That was properly struck to CF!

square as a meal

or a Maker’s Mark bottle?! :)

this is actually getting sort of awesome

whats the record for worst bullpen ERA?

I was quietly rooting for a bases loaded situation...

and then Soth bringing in Bulger for the ultimate shame of Grand Slammage.

It didn’t happen, tho.

Whoo....

Torii and K-Mo get to bat next inning, and they both are going to hit HR for my

Don't know why I'm still watching...

sheer bloody-mindedness, I guess.

sheer bloody mary-ness

nothing better to do

oh wait sleep

not really a drinker, though this bullpen may change that
because you're a fan
thank god...

somebody here is willing to say that…

Yeah.... can't be worse than the dark days of the 90s
well said...

people don’t forget what this team has had to endure so early… 02 and 07 didnt start out great but ended with a WS win and a DIV title. way too early to give up hope

Worst Angels team I've seen in years

But seriously, I’ll bitch and moan and be super negative, but I’ll always support them.

meh

worst angels bullpen

Well Aybar's defense is bringing the team down
He's getting inconsistent again I think
Tomorrow is gonna have to be a Torii jersey day.

Wish I could have bragged while wearing it :/

I just thought of something

1986 vs the Tigers, Schofield’s slam to beat them 13-12

How about a repeat?

Need another run on top of that
They scored 8 in the niinth in that game.
what if aybar hit it
we want swisher clap clap clapclapclap
Hud: "Angel fans have been spoiled since oh-two"

Preach on brother Hudler.

fans that joined since 02 are spoiled

and yes, this is what it felt like until 02.

95 was nice..........then got real bad in a hurry......
it was like this around this time in 02 as well
So...

…apparently this is what those 16 years felt like.

Welcome to the Brotherhood
your sig is perfect right now...
Oh dude

I’ve been in the brotherhood for a long time. I was there in ‘79, ’82, and ’86. I sitting in Jim Fregosi’s season seats for game four in 1986.

It's not that I wasn't a die hard at that time

It’s just that I’d repressed the memories.

I bought a copy of 1986 ALCS game 5 on DVD...

Want some intense psychotherapy? You can get over it. I have. :)

except with an empty stadium

and more visiting fans than Angel fans

I miss the echos I used to hear when I yelled.
You don't know what an empty stadium is...

…until you’ve been the bat boy for the 1988 Braves in San Diego. The announced attendance that night was under 8,000. In their worst days, the Angels have never drawn anywhere near that poorly. I almost started laughing until I realized I was in the Braves dugout, and they drew even worse at that time.

I'm sure some Expos bat boys can relate

As you know, when your favorite team sucks so badly AND nobody shows up for games, it starts to fuck with your mind a bit over time….

Boo I disapprove of bunts up by 4.
And there's only 1 out...

F

Hey ya know what? We won the first game of the series...

…all we have to do is win tomorrow to take the series…it all starts with winning series!

It all starts with winning games

that you have no business losing, actually.

If you want to look at that bigger picture for the series, sure.

Simple fact is the team needs to win the goddamn games that they are winning, and winning late. There’s no way to justify what happened tonight.

After tonight, it will be 6 of 9 losses in which we won or tied after the 6th inning. And until that’s corrected, you can forget about winning a series with regularity.

PHOTOWELL seats take their first out of the year away from us

and nobody is buying them btw…

Yeah, that guy was a ball-hound

scrounging about in the cushy seats. At least he had good foul ball etiquette, by not pulling a Bartman and blocking Figgy’s attempt.

I forgot

what it’s like to not be the best and still love the team when they suck but this give me some good practice

nice pitch by chopper!

K!

One more out please Chop
ah snap

did you see AYbar make that sparkling catch. thats why he plays everyday

it's not impossible
Wow, Aybar caught that

I need to give myself a rally mohawk

stfd granderson you hr hitting bastard.
Dude's been mashin'
mini sirloin burgers........
rally sirloin burgers!
Sign those little people up...

we need some more “slap” hitters.

i've seen bigger comebacks

LET’S DO THIS

ur asking it from the angels offense
GIMME THE MONKEY
did they even do the monkey

I don’t hear the monkey music.

did he hang himself in the 7th?
Vould you like to touch my monkey?

Und now, ve dance!!!!

Chopper is not so bad, he seems like he has a case of the nerves somewhat.
Damn good thing he ain't playing for the Chowds:

GO CHOPPAH!

We dont speak that language down here.
Yea

We’ve got worse headcases in the ’pen right now too.

funny thing

in 02 i don’t recall having an overage of speed i thought it was just clutch hitters and power hitters with figgy as a pinch runner for guys like kingfish and stuff

Fullmer was the lone running threat ...

AK could run, too, and Eckstein was just a smart baserunner.

Ersty?
Yea

I remember him being quick around the bases

no no no

i didnt mean we had no speed just not an overage of it

Oh... it was under age?
i really hope

we get to see Wood hit this inning..

Minus 1 pitch. Chopper pitched great. Only pitcher to strike out Granderson.
Torii doing his part........
Okay thats how you start a rally
ok that's a good start
ok good start

lets keep it goinn

Keep 'em coming boys
ok hula dula im liking this.
theres no quit in torii
"Listen to those tribe fans now"

Ohh….I remember THESE seasons….

I remember when Firebirds were cool, too. Oh, it was like 1981...
Thats how you end a rally.
Damn

Roll the HOLE

and that just destroyed any chance of a comeback
thats game :(((
1 out left...

you guys all getting in your cars?

im just completely emotionally drained

and having an ill placed hope in GMJ isnt gonna help. IF the angels somehow someway do something, ill gladly take that back. I still have the game on though

favorable count + halo hitter= fail
Kowbell did his part too........
Game over.

Kendry morales. SOOOOO HIGH. to soooooo low.

26 outs does not a game make..

oh, i get it — beat the traffic?

haha why do you pick me out!

but your right its not over!

My right and your left
wtf kmo i did not want a dp
I hate this game
And it hates you, too...
Gimme some NIPPLES
Kowbell = rally killer!
C'mon Naps

hit one out for my fantasy team…AND the score…

Naps is more than due for a big one fly.
And BOTG... SHIT SHIELDS.
I'm picturing a mesh shield

through which the shit emanates. Nice image.

at least naps got a hit
Don't check out yet Phys

Dick.

what'd he do?
Announced Winning & Losing Pitchers

like 4 folks here did already.

I took mine back!
All right here we go..
1 point FOR MY FANTASY TEAM!!!!
you are the best Fantasy player EVER
why not let wood get a crack right now ?
that sounded like a prison movie
Makes to much sense.
So I watched a show with my wife

and caught up with the DVR. Can someone explain why Adam #^&*(#@ Everett has 2 yes 2 flyball singles that have resulted in runs. The guy has absolutely no pop and our OF’s play everyone sooooo deep it’s absurd. That hit made me more mad than anything seeing how deep Abreu was when it was hit off the bat.

Admit it

You were watching American Idol, weren’t you.

nope actually that shitty Lost episode
I wonder

if Chupa plays that deep ’cuz of the short porch in right in old Yankee Stadium — he had to play close to the wall

GMJ up

now game is over

whoa im just as shocked as u r
Not over yet. scratch the BOTG
BOTG: brandon wood
cmonnnn ralllyyy!
RAL-LY!!!!

CLAP CLAP CLAP RAL-LY CLAP CLAP CLAP RAL-LY CLAP CLAP CLAP

KMO DP is really hurting right now
If Rivera gets on and Aybar hits instead of Wood I will blow up
at least get me another point in pregame JR
bad mojo...

but hey, it worked out this time. Good job. Use discretion next time.

HATERS BE GONE!

Rally time now that the losers have left the thread!!!!!!

Rivers brings the clutch
12-10!!!!!!!!

AND ANOTHER POINT FOR MY TEAM

Please stop.

it is bad mojo to discuss your fantasy team, especially when it involves my fantasy team: THE ANGELS

SIRLOIN BURGER TIME!
THERE WE GO

not over yet!

Still in it

C’mon, bring in Wood!

and a loss for my picks...

lol

Wood needs to bat now...!!
Bat Wood for E-Bar
lol.......

man……crazy

wow

dammit juan you messed up my predictions

And mine

oh well, if we win it’s all good

Me too

had NNN

You know, you gotta love these guys. The Angels are never boring…

CLUTCH! Juan Rivera
We will not be denieddddd....

lets goooooooo

Eybar….now batting, batting, Er…….

This is where you make up for the errors Erick
Gosh Damn Soth.

Put wood in!

oh god no

what game are you watching?

9th inning of 1986’s Game 6 of the ALCS?

damn you for getting my hopes up

well at least we can score again

Do we not need a homerun here?

Where is Wood?

we need chemistry
2 H's and one O is water.
Why not pinch hit for Aybar?
Let's Go Angels!
Again Eybar fails to let the ball hit him!
Take it for the team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
WP!

ITS A TRAP!

TTAKE IT FOR THE TEAM!
aybar should of taken it !!!
C'mon....

let’s go Ay ay

He got ALL of that foul!
I dont want to sound cocky or get bad mojo

im just feelin this right now

better than being a downer like most of the thread here
you've lost that loving feeling........
i hate it when she does that
PLEASE GET PLUNKED!
Boras making some booty calls to Billy Macs girl
Hud loves the word Doink
haha
And I keep thinking of the wrestler
And Aybar fails
Darn it

Loss.

GFG Soth

You are a piece of crap

Dammit Erick

That’s not how you play baseball!

Scioscia you bitch

pitch hit aybar

ya but then who'd play short.........oh
Why do you build me up, Buttercup

Just to let me down?

Is this the first time we've scored 10 runs?

and It’s a frikkin loss

Hooters or Claim Dumper?
Well at least they made a game out of it.
Uh Brandon Wood anyone?
DRATS...Shields SUCKS right now!

Nice to see Woody get a few knocks today…oh wait…?!

10 runs and 16 hits

At least they’re hitting.

And Wood would have least hit it to third.

And that chance of a error increases.

KMO dp was a killer... and Aybar bitching out of a HBP
5-9 guys

spoiled morales’s night?!?!
he had the bases loaded dammit

haha yes they did.
10 runs and lose=WTF?
entire AL West loses again
FTW!!!!
yea no one is going to run away with this division.

At least when Lackey and Santana get back our underrated emergency starters like Loux and Moseley can take their spots in the bullpen.

Utterly PATHETIC

Only game worse was the Cueball grand slam game.

BOTG = SHIELDS

Guess his quote “problems are behind us” is not valid.

BOTG = WOOD

 - scoscia

yeah, we'd have had like 0.1 more runs with BWood in the lineup...

12 to 10.1 - we still lose! ;)

hah nvm. i was saying it like it was scoscia's quote

more funny than bitchy

true true but what else would we expect him to say ?

sorry guys problems still there better not let me pitch?

Scioscia is a pig.

What a doucheface.

YOU WIN!!!!!!

worst comment of the night

And You Win!!!!

Best award giver!

(taps microphone) “Is this thing on? I’d like to thank all my fans … This is sooo bizarre. … I never win ANYTHING and now THIS!! I just don’t know what to say! This is dedicated to you Will!”

We have a chance to tie, and.....

….the piggy doucheface left a slaphitter up there.

Come on…..at least give us a chance.

It's a marathon, not a sprint.

I understand your pain. But, contrast it against 1986 and 1995 and this ain’t nothin’.

Any other cute cliches?
"Dont go away mad, JUST GO AWAY"

There, last one in my “cute cliche book”.

Guess I picked a bad time

to join this blog

Welcome!
Thanks

been lurking a while and decided to dive in.

It shows me you are a true fan.

a point for you in my book!

BOTG goes to the guy that started a guy with a 600 OPS instead of Wood
no, aybar did contribute to the lead at some point

this one is entirely on shields

he made a lineup that scored 10 runs

I fail to see how that is BOTG

Aybar got 1 hit and his OPS this year is horrible. Wood could out hit him easy.

Soth gets the botg for his complete stubborness. This is the same guy that sent Joe Saunders down after he dominated one April so Fatty Colon could pitch. This is the same guy that sent Jered Weaver down when he was setting a rookie record for consecutive wins so his stupid washed up brother could pitch. That decision ended up costing the Angels a chance at the division that year. This year Soth can’t see the Angels need some pop, B Wood has served his time in the minors, he’s done what the Angels have asked, and they treat him like shit. Aybar has done next to nothing and he’s out there every freaking day.

scioscia blamers...

SERIOUSLY… did we not watch the bullpen pitch tonight?

everyone on the team got on base at least 2 times except for Figgy and Aybar. The exact players that Wood can play for
dude we scored 10 runs !!

i understand the urge for bringing in wood to get some PT but seriously any time the halos score 10 there’s NO ONE to blame but the pitching

Bad Loss... Again!

but it’s too early to get depressed

OK GUYS...

here comes 200 comments about Scioscia vs the Bullpen. Jeeeezzus. They both sucked, it TASTES GREAT AND IS LESS FILLING. NEXT ISSUE PLEASE.

agreed off with all their heads
Has anyone mentioned

that Shields appears to have the dreaded WBC hangover?

before tonight

i would of said this team is an exact replica of the team that showed up for the ALDS last year.. good starting pitching, lots of singles, bad avg w/ RISP, bad bullpen ETC. the hangover from that series hasnt gone away. but seriously people injuries and a tragedy is playing a major role. PATIENCE

I'm going to suggest

that pitching in the World Baseball Classic has thrown Shields off his groove. Maybe his arm wasn’t quite ready when he started throwing gas 100%, and we are seeing the consequences.

According to AM 830

Darren Oliver has been placed on the DL

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