Final Score in Los Angeles of Anaheim: Seattle 8, Angels 3
The Angels' luck with AAA starting pitchers keeping them in games ran out in a big way Friday night against the suprising (but don't get your hopes up) Seattle Mariners. Erik Bedard looked like a pitcher you would give up five players for and Shane Loux looked like he was 8th on a team's starting rotation depth, and so the game played out exactly as the natural order of things determined it should.
There was a time that the game was close, but the Angels could not muster any hits. Once the inning of pain came upon the House of Moreno though, the men in red did manage to put a few runs across as the hometown camera crew made the broadcast an infomercial about bringing the family out to the ballpark, focusing more on ice cream sandwiches than on pitching prospects up from Salt Lake. Of course, Angels pitching is nowhere near as sweet as ballpark munchies these days, so, hey, the marketing department is obviously emphasizing the positives about this Angels squad.
Bedard went 6.2 Innings and gave up 2 Earned Runs on 5 Hits. Loux looked about ready to cruise until a 5th inning saw some lucky hits open the floodgates as 10 Mariners came to the plate and 6 returned around the bases.
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damn you're quick rev
Red - April 24, 2009
... or did you just automate the loss post before the game?
Red - April 24, 2009
I started writing it in the 8th inning
Missus Halofan gets irked – when we are winning she says I am jinxing them and when we are losing she tells me I am the OBIT man – most obituaries on people are written for famous people LONG before they die.
Rev Halofan - April 24, 2009
this season so far ...
seems like you can’t go wrong being the obit man.
oops … CNN just accidentally posted Suri Cruise’s obit.
Red - April 24, 2009
oooh....tough choice for physioc of the game
but i’ll choose luke
vlad IS my man - April 24, 2009
Phys for BotG
red floyd - April 24, 2009
Lose
norcaliangelsfan - April 24, 2009
I'm Cal Worthington and I'll stand on my head to give you a deal......
ladybug - April 24, 2009
44FAN - April 24, 2009
that is the guy
who told me to bet on the Angels tonight!
Rev Halofan - April 24, 2009
Results up!
0 for all… except those who still can’t read.
scottnak - April 24, 2009
Worst day for guesses ever
Epic Dean - April 24, 2009
Wow
Halos Heaven was BLANKED – and by OUR OWN TEAM. Oh well. Could be worse, at least nobody got a point for that last category – that would be depressing.
AlanFalcon - April 24, 2009
As much as I wanna tag Figgy with BOTG,
gotta go with Loux.
Still, when the f is Figgy gonna set the table?
clover_black - April 24, 2009
R U kidding me? Loux for BOTG?
With the lousy umpiring and bloopshit that the M’s hit? Not Loux’s fault!
Figgins is horrible right now!
K3YEROUT - April 24, 2009
Sorry.......people (not me) wanna give Panthers to pitchers who give up 4 runs in 6 innings here......
so…..giving up 7 runs in 4 innings is worse…..so that’s why I voted for him
norcaliangelsfan - April 24, 2009
Geez
Are you still on that?
rspencer - April 24, 2009
Im just using it to point out......
There is no set guideline for who deserves panther…..that is all.
norcaliangelsfan - April 24, 2009
no one is ever going to be happy
and someone is always going to cry about it until I change their fucking diaper so here goes
LAST SEASON FOLKS BITCHED WHEN I PICKED ’EM
THEN I LET FANGRAPHS PICK ’EM AND PEOPLE STILL BITCHED
NOW I LET EVERYONE VOTE AND SOMEONE STILL WANTS TO SPEND ALL HIS TIME HERE WHINING THAT THE WORLD DOES NOT SEE IT THE SAME WAY AS HE, MISTER BASEBALL PERFECT.
Stirrups had a hard-on for Frankie last year, you want to make out with Figgy in the corner this year, go right ahead, spend all your time here whining about the imperfections of a casual, in-the-moment improvisational vote, all your time, please, bitch and piss and moan and whine away with your rationalizations about why everyone doesn’t see things the way that you Mister Perfect sees them.
Rev Halofan - April 24, 2009
*shrug* I thought this thread was to discuss why we picked who we did.....
norcaliangelsfan - April 25, 2009
oh
didn’t mean to be so harsh … looked like you were trying to pick a fight.
no harm no foul…
Rev Halofan - April 25, 2009
Defintely not......
I just enjoy the discussion…..its kinda like you said…..I spend pretty much all my free time on here………so my bad if it came off as antagonistic…
norcaliangelsfan - April 25, 2009
words of truth
I spend pretty much all my free time on here
and all my work time as well!
Rev Halofan - April 25, 2009
Hey, good point!
30 year old AA ball pitchers who give up four whole earned runs in 6+ innings, earning a major league victory for a struggling team are just doing their job, man. Palmer gets paid thousands of dollars, after all. Too bad Figgins missed two easy opportunities to help the Angels bump their lead and make Palmer’s mediocre performance look even more mediocre in comparasion.
What’s that you say? Bitter? Me?
AlanFalcon - April 24, 2009
Figgy is not blameless at all.....
But someone had to take my vote or wrath……and the coin flip went to Loux
norcaliangelsfan - April 25, 2009
I thought we were still discussing yesterday's POTG - dropping now. :-)
OF was, yes, still bitter about the loss. But as it goes, it is a new day :-)
AlanFalcon - April 25, 2009
thats the great thing about April baseball......
tomorrow is a new day!!!!!
norcaliangelsfan - April 25, 2009
I just hate how often I'm saying that these days.
But that’s okay. We still got this.
AlanFalcon - April 26, 2009
ladybug - April 24, 2009
Loux was bound to have one of these games sooner or later
At least Naps hit a HR
stolenbases - April 24, 2009
Does anyone else hate that we don't get any coverage on Sports Center
even when they show the highlights from our games, all they showed was seattle stuff, not even Naps HR or anything
halofan1 - April 24, 2009
The thing covering our team right now....
is a whole lot of ICY HOT…….
norcaliangelsfan - April 24, 2009
and Baseball Tonight is going to be at least a half hour
of the Yankees vs. Sux game
halofan1 - April 24, 2009
That's ESPN for ya
stolenbases - April 24, 2009
I'm glad about it
We’re not that good right now, and with SportsCenter running the same stats all day – I only want to see the menagerie once. So until we’re the team kicking tail on everyone else, please ESPN don’t run the coverage.
mustard_man - April 25, 2009
HaloDutch - April 24, 2009
How about the middle of the lineup that is supposed to produce?
Abreu and Hunter did’nt do shit tonight to help the team let alone Loux.
44FAN - April 24, 2009
Abreu and Hunter did’nt do shit tonight to help the team.
44FAN - April 24, 2009
Finally pinpointed it ...
Buck Showalter sounds JUST LIKE Billy Bob Thorton
Red - April 24, 2009
The baseball Gods were shinning on the mariners today
never seen a team to lucky
UCIHalo - April 24, 2009
I assume you watched the 2008 Angels?
EnglishMariner - April 25, 2009
yeah, not like they won 100 games or anything
hk47 - April 25, 2009
moron
hk47 - April 25, 2009
No. You mean the 2007 Mariners.
XYZ123 - April 25, 2009
Question about the pre game poll
I don’t know if this is the right venue for this but I noticed that my results were highlighted in red. I thought that was for people that didn’t post their answers in the comment section as well as on the form?
DaBigKahuna - April 24, 2009
Good - Bad - Ugly
Have to find the silver lining….
The Good: Thompson and Rodriguez threw the ball well; Shields lowered his ERA to 12.7 (gulp); Napoli had a good night at the plate; the defense made no errors; the team left only 4 runners on base
The Bad: Loux proved again that he is not a MLB caliber pitcher: ERA of 6.61 and WHIP of nearly 2; our DH is now hitting above .100 after a stellar 1-3 night; the team managed a paltry 6 base hits
The Ugly: Seattle got 17 hits against Halo pitching; the top 5 in the batting order went a combined 0-20; our lead off hitter is batting a sizzling .230 and has an OBP of .356 and a SLG percentage of .262
mustard_man - April 25, 2009
yeah, mustard...good points and well-written
sadly, I’m finding myself apathetic already about this season
hk47 - April 25, 2009
Dear Mike
If the team isn’t going to win — and it’s not — at least give us the satisfaction of watching Brandon Wood find himself at the major league level.
scareduck - April 25, 2009
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!
AlanFalcon - April 26, 2009
Sure hope you and others are ready to eat crow...
I am down right now, but am far from mailing in this season, Wood or no Wood.
Downing Rules - April 26, 2009
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