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Game Thread 2 - HOLD THEM!

HOLD THEM!

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thurd
Rev, did I set a record?

1st on both threads? As if….

Dondo do it
no walks

make them earn it

don't make us bring out the booze this time Halo bullpen
This team...

…drives me to drink too.

Starting to wonder if the booze is in the bullpen

They definitely have lighter fluid…

I think they'd be playing better
Leadoff walks suck...
Always seems to equal a run that leadoff walk

hopefully that won’t be the case this time

Napoli in the game

Lower the CERA, dude!

last time dondo was effective 2nd inning out?
Don't walk them back into the game!

D:<

please get an out, i hate Granderson
Don't walk these scrub hitters!
Dondo setting up the double play to face Granderson?
why didn't I think of that?

sheez, that is simply retarded ET! WTF?

He's done

GET HIM OUT

what the hell?
Can we have a new pitcher now?
OK those pitches were terrible
"HE'S READY"

THANK GOD

Neeeeexxxxxtttttttttttttttttttt
dondo is a 1 inning pitcher
here comes the K specialist
wow Bulge has moved up in the good graces of the Soth
Deservedly so
Pulling out the Bulge
this bullpen is just insane
To everyone who bitches

when Scioscia only lets relievers go one inning — this is a good example to keep in mind.

HOLD THEM!

Throw strikes Jason.

bases arent loaded

should be safe

aaaand, after that curve

all fastballs coming

We need to do something

about this strikezone allergy that our bullpen has.

napoli cost him a strike on the 3rd pitch
Aaargh I can't see anythin

MLB.TV sucks today!

You are probably better off
your lucky
Fucking shitheads

There goes my f-bomb for February too!

i can't stand this
WALK THE BASES LOADED?

F THIS!

I guess the bullpen is trying to bail out Detroit
Bout time they bailed out somebody
These pitches aren't even close enough to get them to offer at...:o(
Bases are loaded.

We deserve to lose if we keep this up.

Time to get the depends
I love how the Hava Nagila song at Comerica Park has all the wrong notes.
that does not happen in NYC

believe you me

Bring in Thompson.

Let’s see what he can do.

bulger looks like he's throwing soft toss compared to zumaya
Ground ball, please
Angels this year have given up more runs in the 8th inning than any other
Thanks for that cheery thought
Shields can take most of the credit for that

But yeah, it’s been a disaster. Whether Dondo, Speier, or whoever.

Wow almost HBP with bases loaded
bulger no curve today

DANGER

Flacido doing us a favor by swinging at garbage
stay hard

if eh goes soft he’ll bloop it

gidp gidp gidp

there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home

ARE YOU F'ING KIDDING ME??????????????
i have now seen it all

and had enough with this amateurish team

Napoli WTF
Not Naps fault - Matthew throw was crap
he hit the cutoff man, morales let it hit his glove like a moron
it was a high throw

they gave the error to Matthews not K-Mo, it’s kinda of both their fault, the throw should have been better but K-Mo still should have caught it

If by "hit"

you mean threw it 4 feet above his head and 6 feet to his left, then yes.

lol, the throw hit his glove. and kendry didn't jump ... and was on the mound

try harder

Try watching it again

Morales is on the mound, jumps to his left, arm outstretched. He gets some blame too, but it was hardly a good throw.

Kendry blew it

Turns out it doesn’t matter because Bulger would have just walked in a run

No it was Morales just dropping it

Thought it was Naps.

8 walks by Angel pitching today...

good F’ing grief

nice drop kendry morales

Arson squad, strikes again.

So pathetic.....wow.
big fat E ON MORALES
un fucking believable
sadly, not really
we do not deserve to win this game

leave the bases loaded and vlad gidp and walks galore.

soth should fine himself for having such a crappy fielding team
PUT A TENT ON THIS BLEEPING CIRCUS
You gotta be kidding me

Score now/who’s on?

lol at matthews getting that error.
5-5...runners on the corners with 2 out
Updates? Angels now trailing?
1) Pull out hand grenade

2) Pull Pin
3) Wait…
4) Wait….
5) Wait……………

figures

this is happening to much that I am starting to become numb to this. it’s like it’s expected

5-5 Runners on 1st and third
This is so sad
Wait for it!
where the f did that curve miss
this team is really hard to watch

pathetic offense, sloppy defense, and horrible relief.

only saving grace is good starting pitching and memories of 2002

Still waiting...
this is ridiculous
9th walk in the game and 4th in the inning!

PATHETIC

Scioscia just looks depressed
no hits this inning!
Thanks for posting that :(
Looks like

I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffin' glue...
I'm turning into Randy Quaid from Major League two... this team is terrible right now.
just keep throwing balls
1 step forward, 5 steps backwards
I just threw up my mouth a little
15 walks in the game

obviously this umpire isnt in a hurry to go anywhere

Has Thompson pitched at all since being called up?

I swear to god
Now is the best time to use this:

FUCK

already used mine
Fuck.

First time used. COUNT IT!

WILD THING YOU MAKE MY BUTT STING!
Bulger looks like he just got kicked in the nuts. How can you not expect that to happen after 4 walks.
we got exactly what we deserve
OPPO SALAMI

FUCK!

I don't even believe this
I think the pen was worried

about losing their worst in MLB history standing.

F THIS!

The Tigers have scored 5 runs ON ONE DAMN HIT!

7th loss this year after leading the game past 7 innings.
and that means

that all the statheads we were laughing at last year as Angels won all those one-run games are now returning the favor as the pendulum swings back

holy fukin shit!!!
nothing holy about that
so does bulger lead the league in grandslams given up?
In grandslams given up

And deer in the headlight expressions.

Screw you Bulger

Screw you Dondo, Screw you Butcher, Screw you Scoscia

Butcher and Scioscia?

What did they do?

Scioscia knew damn well this would happen if he left Bulger in after the third walk

Good job, Soth.

Bulger has been nails since April

Nobody can get anyone out. It’s not like he has six Dennis Eckersleys to choose from.

Bulger has also now given up 5 grand slams this season

Leaving him in with the f—ing bases juiced is insanely idiotic.

Which is to say

The expecation or probability that Bulger would give up a tater with the bases loaded is extremely much higher than that expectation would be for any other bullpen pitcher on this staff, regardless of how much they suck or how good Bulger’s been recently in other situations.

wonder is scioscia thinks arredondo is still a 2 inning pitcher?

pathetic managing and even more pathetic pitching

FUCK THIS BLOWPEN
Truly a waste of time.
Aye carumba
mathis should've stayed in.
yup

Napoli for blame of the game due to his CERA

We need Bob Uecker right about now.
what a surprise
Virtual f-bomb use

All together now: can Brandon Wood pitch?

time to fix the bullpen, until that is done, this is a .500 team with a 115 million dollar payroll

and this is not whining it is a fact that the team needs to deal with sooner rather than later

BLAME SOTH

You can’t blame The Grand Slam Specialist—That’s just what he does. He gives up Grand Slams if the bases are already loaded, or he gets himself into a perfect situation to give one up!

F—k you, Scioscia. You knew this was coming. TAKE HIM THE F—K OUT BEFORE HE CAN DO IT AGAIN NEXT TIME, A-HOLE.

soth has to call a team meeting and rip some serious ass
someone has to go down for this piece of shit
they'll probably send Howie down after it look like something just clicked
If only it were a 7-inning game

Like in Little League. Maybe that explains why we have a Little League team.

i guy named CLETE just hit that
Palmer who should be 6-0 should stay in the rotation with Escobar in the bullpen

He’s had success their before. Our bullpen sucks and if the Angels magically make the playoffs then it makes no sense to have 5 starters. The only reason our best pitcher this year even pitched in the playoffs last year was because a deciding game went into extra innings.

Also change some things up Soth. DFA Q and GMJ, bring up some young blood.

DFA a guy with 2.5 years left on his contract?

Umm, as much as it sucks, NO.

why is he going to get better?

His OPS is dropping by like 100 points a year? It’s a lost cause

We've got bigger problems than GMJ
Maybe, maybe not

But you do NOT DFA guys with 2.5 years and about $30 million left on their contracts!

Is GMJ the worst signing in Angels history?

There are probably others, but he has done nothing. At least Moo Vaughn had 2 good years with the Halos

Finley was pretty bad

as was Hillenbrand

Agree, but they weren't signed to a lifetime contract like HGH.

It seems like HGH is the worst

Yes. Giving him 5 years was insanity.
Complete insanity.
hard to beat finley
And Moo got us Appier for one good year.
Edgardo Alfonzo.
thay was a trade for finley
The Angels got him in return for Finley. It was a crap-for-crap trade.
Is Palmer officially in the pen?
are they really tryign to discredit the grand slam by

talking about how it sounded?

Is it possible that it sounded like a bad case of diarrhea?

Because that should be the theme song for the bullpen when it enters the game.

I think Jerry Crawford had the bad case of diarrhea

why else did he dart for the dugout without explanation mid-count

3 for 3 with bases loaded and two out
How can any of our bullpen guys

Even show their faces in the dugout is beyond me.

way to run that out Bobby
can we sign Kenny Powers to a minor league deal?
Look the bullpen blew it.

But that has no bearing on Matthews or Q.

I agree with the sentiment that Escobar should return to the bullpen and Plamer should continue to start. I think that makes the best sense.

At this point in time...

I can’t think of another option in-house

DFA Q for 3 years of suckage

DFA Matthews for 2 years of suckage. If you aren’t part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Those 2 most definitely are NOT part of the solution

Just for the record

That throw home today that went wild and scored the fifth run for Detroit was NOT GMJ’s fault. It was Kendry’s. If Kendry hadn’t tried to cut it off, the ball would have continued on its path to Naps, who would have caught it, with no run scored. Instead, it ricocheted off Kendry’s glove and went wild, and the run scored. The error was rightly charged to Kendry.

blame of the game Scioscia, Bulger, and Vladdy for the clutch GIDPs
What's more sickening....our bullpen or Vlad?
bullpen

Vlad is old and coming off an injury. His ship has perhaps sailed

Bullpen

As shocking as that is. Vlad is terrible, but one guy at DH cannot cost you nearly as much as our bullpen routinely costs us.

Whats sick is

I’m still watching.

At least Vlad's $15 million comes off the books after this season.

And that money can be used towards some (hopefully) productive free agents.

easy

bullpen

whooooopeee
if he can't start hitting, he can always coach the Knicks next season.
Uhh, Vlad, where was that hit earlier in the game when it mattered?
Thanks for the single Vlad. Too little too late.
3 feet up the line to 15 b/c of cuba's stupidity

sign teix

wouldn't have stopped the salami
this inning was doomed when arredondo started this inning

always starts with scioscia staying with him too long

These complaints are absurd

He went 1-2-3 in the 7th. Everyone complains if Soth takes guys out after innings like that. So he sticks with him and everyone complains. The reality is that when you have six bad or mediocre pitchers to choose from, then you have no good options.

check dondo's game logs

he is always HORRIBLE after he sits a half inning

ALWAYS

even if he faces 1 batter and sits
That should have been an error on Kowbell...

:((

Wasn't it?
what a garbage game
has thompson got bad breath?

he can’t be worse than this dogshit

our true #3 hitter keeps doing work
i didn't know tiger woods was disguised as juan rivera
Oh nice

Thanks for messing up my runs/hits picks even more Juan.

How the hell did he hit that so hard?

hes been watching vlad videos from 2005
Maybe Rodney will hand out walks too

Thats the only way were getting back in this game.

At least Soth has one more ab to see GMJ fail

Pettit would be nice

this is what we get for giving torii the day off, 0-4 matthews with 2 k's
Why is Torii not hitting for Matthews?
pulled groin Rev said
Shit, keep forgetting

Thanks

Because Dondo is next
Not Dondo

I’m drunk

it's Torii's day off - I guess
quickest route to 0-2?

hk
gmj
vlad
?

I blame it all on the new thread.

Agreed

This thread has been a disappointment

joey crawford's blnd

he’s not even consistently bad

we get monday off
Suckage = turning winning 5-4 into losing 9-6

Bring up the Bees or Kernels at least they can win!

back to spring training drills...and extra fielding drills
0-5 for GARY

you are a piece of shit HGH

GMJ how fitting.
can sean rodriguez play CF?
no but Figgy can

Figgy is so versatile if the Angels wanted S-Rod in the lineup he’d be up

Hahaha

Figgy in CF in 2006 was a bonafide fiasco. If the Halos had confidence in him at that position they would have replaced GMJ with Figgins in 2008, instead of signing Hunter…or wouldn’t have even signed GMJ in the first place.

wow. just... wow.
GMJ is garbage... please go away
FAIL

Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh

And GMJ comes through....

For the Tigers. Way to go HGH.

Too many BOTGs to go around
Dear Mr. Moreno, Scioscia, and Reagins,

We, as loyal fans, deserve better than this.

Sincerely,

Trojanangelfan

On my way to the stadium

to put sugar in GMJ’s gas tank.

I’ll keep a look out for security… though, they may already be beating you to it.

1 run leads mean nothing to me anymore, unless a starter is still pitching
Another loss thanks to the arson squad version 2009
$115 million buys us a .500 team?

Something is wrong here, and it starts with management not being able to make decisions to yank releivers who can’t throw strikes. Our bullpen is terrible, and we will continue to lose until we fix it.

I left for just a few minutes? Who imploded?

Bulger, Kendry, HGH, you name it…

8th inning walkathon courtesy of Dondo and Bulger
see? Housework IS EVIL!
Los Angeles Mets (2008)

Of Anaheim

the silence is overwhelming
Rangers Win!!!

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