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no Oakland As either

granted, there was only one, Andew Bailey. AL WEST bias anyone?

the Rangers played half the effing game!
but we got to see

Josh Hamilton botch a throw to 3B, show off his .243 average and get on base once to force a Michael Young Double Play.

If T Hunter was going to sit on the bench...

then he should have made the trip to St L.

2 Mariners got in the game and 2 Rangers.

4 AL WEST players played. There were 6 Red Sox voted in and 5 Rays

Yeah, but the difference is that the A's and Pirates suck balls.

How the hell does a first place team not get a single player in the game? I mean really, what the hell?

Great Win...

I guess our Halos are not good enough to play in All Star game.

Fuck ’em all…

We are in first place. Thanks to the rest of fellas of the AL guaranteeing us in home field in the World Series.

good point

we can say it as GIVEN to us. HEH HEH HEH!

Joe Maddon should be fired.

PERIOD

I love Carl,

But he doesn’t deserve it because of his manager.

This is so infuriating and depressing at the same time.

After all of the shit we went through this year, we don’t even get a break and see two of our players in action in the Midsummer Classic.

We get no respect. If we win the WS, people will act like it never happened. F*** them all.

And the Rangers? F***ing overrated asshats.

Maddon, you’re dead to me.

Skanks Phils and Sux too.

F*** them all.

I'm still voting.

Is that bad?

No, shove in their faces that a player that didnt play wins MVP.
LINK?
It's on MLB.com
can't do it anymore.....
I just kept it up from before it was announced, and it still counts.
Joe maddon...

phuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu(sigh)uuuuuuuuuuuuuck you

So they say this is the shortest All Star game time-wise

So why did it go half an hour over on DirecTV’s guide? And don’t use the excuse that it didn’t start until almost 6, they knew about all that shit.

My recorder stopped at 8.

This truly was disrespectful

To the Halos and us fans.

True dat.

In turn, we should show no respect to any other baseball club in this country.

Additionally, it was disrespectful to all the teams that didn't get to see their All-Star play.

Just to showcase the Skanks and Sux. Outrageous.

I feel for the A’s too.

And the Pirates.
Yeah

The Bucs, A’s and Halos got PHUCKED!!!

See above.

If you’re a crappy last place team, having your crappy forced All-Star picks not appear in the game is part of the package. How the hell does a first place team not have a single guy show up?

I wanted to see figgins backflip damn it

and now Joe maddon took that away from me…:’(

i know

I was almost more excited for that then him playing

Random backflips

are always good

Nothin' but a...

East Coast love fest! Maddon has 0 class!

the mlb is against the angels!

its a conspiracy Pictures, Images and Photos

Who's that?

Carl Everetts Godfather?

Can we invite no Skanks, BoSox, Phils, and Rays next year?
Invite them

Just bar them from playing and show no regret when those damn fans complain.

You also need to mandate that the broadcast booth not speak of them, either.
Maddon.

Don’t listen to what they say. Spiked blonde hair and black rimmed glasses are a good look on a senior citizen.

EVERYONE!!!!!

There is an upcoming series against the Rays

How about we go there and boo everything???

I’m already going. There is a day game on the Wednesday, if that changes anything.

August 10-12

Monday at 7:05
Tuesday at 7:05
Wednesday at 12:35

I'm goin to the Tuesday game

Napoli bobblehead night

I hope Angel fans have the intelligence to unmercifully boo

Joe Madden next time the Rays come to town.

No big deal!

Scioscia will be managing the AL team at our field next year so it’s all good.

Thank God that the ASG is FOR THE FANS!!!!!
yea serious

i was waiting the whole time for an angel
LAME

Freaking Waste of my time.
kinda wished it had gone to extra innings

maybe then Maddon would have played them.

BTW

No cubs played

that sucks for cubs fans
oh

that’s interesting

we just all assumed they would have played

I feel for them.

Let’s go over and plot to protest against all those overrated asses at New York and Boston.

i cant even remember any cubs in the pre game ceremonies
Derek Lee I think.
Ted Lilly...

..he got booed.

oh yea now i remember ted lilly getting booed i was laughing so hard i must of forgot
At least

Beckett and Wakefield didnt get to play either.

True, but

Bay, Papelbon and Youkilis did. I wouldn’t be upset about Figgins and Fuentes not getting into the game if 3 other Angels did play.

I don't mind Youkilis or Bay

but I am irrationally pissed that Papelbon was the winning pitcher.

The AL won which means the league has home field advantage in WS, that is all that matters
meh.......

What EVAH

See...Joe Maddon hates Scioscia!

Joe Maddon sucks. He fully stroked his east coast future bosses. Looked like a job interview to me.

RIDICULOUS!

Torii Hunter, Jered Weaver, and Chone Figgins are obvious All-Stars, no matter who got voted in. We had to work through more trauma than any other team in the bigs this season and we will prove that we are the best. The ANGELS will go all the way!

Well, this game was about Albert Pujols and 65 other random players
F Joe Maddon

I thought Maddon would have more class and respect. Unless Scioscia asked him to give our guys a rest, then I think Maddon should be an enemy of the Angels Army. Why wasn’t Jared selected over the KC pitcher.

If Scioscia made that request, the team should have 'leaked' that preference to the fans.
But if Fuentes was warming up...

doesnt that mean Scioscia didnt tell Joe anything??

he could have said "use only if necessary"

and the goal is still to win the game.

While Jered deserved to be an All-Star, Zach Greinke deserved it also, the guy is a stud
Some of us

weren’t even going to watch the ASG.

But when Figgins got in, we decided we would.

Just to be let down.

GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

That was me...Damn it. Waste of time!!
In the voice of Comic book guy

Worst. All Star Game. Ever.

Whoa President Obama last time did the first pitch in game 2 of the 2005 ALCS..

interesting….

It's all his fault!
I, too, was upset that Figgins didn't play

But then, right after the game was over, I saw him on the field, high-fiving his teammates and, even though he was only on the screen for a split second, he had the biggest smile on his face.

Sure, he was probably a little disappointed to not play, but I think he had the time of his life. And, considering that he wasn’t anywhere close to St. Louis 12 hours ago, I’m pretty happy for him regardless.

Figgy was smiling...

because he was thinking about next year when he gets voted in unanimously by the fans and gets to play in the ASG on his home turf! Sweet!

or about the chance that he'll get to kick joe maddon in the balls
According to the All Star Game Blog in espn:

“AL manager Joe Maddon said he planned to hold back his two most versatile position players — Ben Zobrist and Chone Figgins — because they play so many different positions and would give him more maneuverability late in the game.”

Oh well!

I believe Ben Zobrist got at least one AB.
He did.
And there you are.
WOW

way to lie MADDON.

So now he has to look like he was just trying to be nice and LIE THROUGH HIS TEETH?

What a joke.

Were there any Rays that didn't play?

WTF Joe?!!

Pena didn't

But still, WTF JOE!??

Pena not in the ASG, but...

… he did get a chance to show his stuff in the Homerun Derby. All the Angels got was pre-game intros and a brief warm up in the pen for Fuentes… who only leads the AL in saves. That’s all.

What Rays site can we go to start pounding "Clueless Joe" Maddon
Their SBNation blog?
draysbay.com

here

No.

Don’t.
Not cool.

what did i do?
Invading other peoples sites is no bueno.

Just as a general rule.

i'm not going to

he wanted an answer, so i answered.

Encouraging/enabling.

Just not somewhere you want to go man. Take my word for it.

:(

whoops

'Sokay. ^_^

Heat of the moment. Happens to everyone. We’re all pissed about it.

But can we send a formal letter to Joe Maddon

Letting him know we are quite distraught by his managerial inabilities? :)

I THINK YES!
I don't think they'll be so nice as to give away his e-mail though. -_-

Send it to the Rays PR! XD

Maybe you can hand deliver it with a dozen roses
No, that's where modern technology kicks in, silly!
AH!

what did I do…

It’s been rec’d and everything lol

oh boy

internet drama! my favorite

i didnt do anything

he asked a question, I answered with a link.

sheesh

im not talking about now

i meant when and if you were going to go on the rays board

just out of curiosity

whered you find your avatar?

mine?

i just searched “homer at the bat”, thats the episode where the pic is from

i see

I knew the episode, just didn’t know there would be a pic online.

the interwebs are HUGE.

And to let you know

I took not action.

Well I am going to the ASG here

I will be there no matter what so I just can’t wait for that.

Better not be a repeat at the 2010 game

The Angels are hosting. Does that mean anything? Apparently it didn’t the last time the game was in Anaheim. Remember? I don’t recall the year. All I remember is that the Angels only had one.. ONE… representative… Chuck Finley. And Tony LaRussa decided not to give the home town it’s one thrill. He sat him and kept him as the “extra inning reserve”. Of course, he couldn’t do that with one of HIS pitchers. Like Madden, he managed to get all his own guys into the game.

not Pena..........
only because than it would be

too obvious.

True.

Forgot about him. Then again, Pena DID get his spotlight at the Derby.

but he participated in the HR Derby
They had two

Finley and Devon White. White got an at bat.

box score

I stand corrected

For some reason my tiny little memory had Devon playing for Toronto at that time, but it wasn’t for a couple more years that White was a Blue Jay, so I stand corrected. Still, it would have been nice to get more than one Angel into the home park game. The bright part of that night was Nolan Ryan getting the win (my all time favorite player).

I added a fan post to the Rays SB Nation site about "Clueless Joe"

in case any Angels fans want to join me in bashine Joe on his own site

Look for “Clueless Joe” Maddon sells out former team

Not cool, man.

Look what you got us into now!

uh-oh....

what did I do……

*facepalm

There, there

pat pat pat*

Support Figgie and Fuentes

http://www.draysbay.com/

You know it is not wise to follow through with such actions.

We may be upset, but we need to show our dignity.

Grow some balls

base balls

No can do.

I’d rather show dignity and respect for a team that sold us out. It’s a little something called maturity. :)

It is called passion

Angels need to stand up and stick together. I am not a Red Sox or Yankees fan, but man they LOVE their teams and I respect that. Remember the guy who buried the Red Sox jersey in the new Yankee stadium foundation. That is passion! There is nothing wrong with standing up for our guys. They deserved to play and Maddon needs to hear it. If you want to sit back and hope that our guys play next year, then that is your choice and I won’t criticize you, but I want to support Figgie and Fuentes tonight! Go Angels!!!

Support them by voting for them.

Or by going to games. Not by crashing other people’s space.

Rest assured that I voted and attended Angels games
There's a difference between being passionate and being a jerk.

We stick together on our own turf. We aren’t a gang, going over to some other gang’s turf to prove how much we love our team. That kind of behavior just brings those losers back over here.

In 805's defense

I do understand how infuriating our perceived lack of passion can be. How many of us have lamented the fact that fans of the skanks, doyers and sux are quite a bit more loud and boisterous at the Big A than most Angel fans. The last Angel doyer game I went to, I was surrounded by Halo fans that would do little more than mildly clap, while doyer fans were cheering every foul tip and every defensive play (no matter how routine ), while I wouldn’t go to DRays bay to talk smack about Madden, you gotta respect 805’s passion. Now i’m not calling anyone out or claiming that were not passionate Halo fans, we all are obviously the exception to average Angel fans.

Looks like 805 got banned from DRB.
One more thing

I am not advocating or supporting belligerent fans or starting a cross blog argument. Hope it didn’t come off like that.

Yes, I understand that frustration.

I am almost always hoarse after a baseball game, even if I’m sitting near Yankees or Redsox fans. I have been known to give them the evil eye if they dare to boo one of our players. Funny how well that works these days.

I was hoarse for 3 days

After that last doyer vs. Angel game. Luckily we won, on Juan’s go ahead homer. But I swear, some of the Halo faithful were pissing me off, but like I said, hooliganism and belligerence isn’t cool.

In 1979 we bought our first season tickets

in partnership with two other couples.
The people in neighboring seats brought their sandwiches and martinis (I think those were martinis in the thermos) in cute little cooler bags. They were genteel, clapped politely if their hands were free, etc. That was the tone of the area where our seats were, and I felt kind of strange being the only one yelling my head off, but this was Orange County and we were from Riverside.

When the Yanks came none of the genteel people came to the game, people spilled beer on each other, shouted obscenities at each other, and fist-fights broke out in the stands. The ushers seemed unable to effectively control the situation.

After a couple of games like this we decided to trade our Yankees tickets for some other team with fans who didn’t scare the crap out of us.

P.S. I'm older and none of the other fans scare me now.
Shitting on somebodys parade

is pretty weak.

An e-war between blogs is about as gay as Joe Maddon’s black rimmed glasses.

Agreed

Our argument is not with Rays fans, but with Joe Maddon.

not cool man......

but whatever

Hopefully it doesn't lead to an anomaly like Kinslers_Bettter XD
that was fun

tbh

I love how he improv'ed the

“Oh this is how I wunt et haytrid betwee divishinul rivuhls dis hao reel baysbul iss dun”

hahaha
Does anyone know if he still posts?
Got banned.

Good riddance.

He did?

There was a I HATE THE ANGELS Chapter 2 buried in LSB’s fanpost archives.

What or who is LSB?
Lone Star Ball, home to the hellspawn, Kinslers_Bettter

XD

Oh. Thanks.
You're welcome. ;-)
no angels

and no mention about next years all-star game in anaheim, and the only other time i remember them talking about the angels was when a mets pitcher was pitching and i cant remember if he was on the angels last year he must of been because they were talking about the angels

THIS IS JUST A SIGN...

That we are going to win it all and Soth with return the favor. Ben Zobrist will be the late-inning utility guy that doesn’t play and someone who has no business in the game (let’s say Aybar) will play 6 solid innings (yes, he’ll go 0-3 but who cares).

All-Star Game a sham

I watch very little of the All-Star Game because it is unfair.

They need to go one of two ways with this thing to make it legit:

1. Play best 2 out of 3 or whatever it takes to get every deserving player on the team and in the game and stop this World Series home field advantage stuff. Call it what it is, an exhibition game.

2. Give the manager total control over selection of a 25-man roster and play who he wants to try to win home field advantage in the World Series. Call it what it is, a contest with World Series implications for the league riding on it.

we'll have the last laugh over Maddon

when we make the playoffs and he doesn’t

Here's what annoys me

When Sosh was the AL ASG manager, he bent over backwards to be equitable and inclusive. In fact, I’m not sure I ever remember any ASG manager ever having been so openly biased towards his team.

I’m sure y’all’ll refresh my memory if I’m wrong. . .

I guess that Figgy didn't need that police escort after all...
Off topic...

anyone else notice how that “Evony” ad on this site has changed?

She went from like the Evony, Queen of the Rennaissance Fair to Evony, the Slutty Pole Dancer.

I read an article about that somewhere just yesterday

It’s a hilarious descent into desperation.

Do you have a link to the article?
I went to look around after I posted the mention of it

I haven’t found it yet. I think I got to it from a link in a comment on Ace of Spades. I’ll look there and post back here if I find it.

And to think the Halos gave Maddon his start. F him too, that totally sucked. Add to it moron Joe Buck telling us that Francisco Rodriguez was warming up for the American League in the 8th when it was Fuentes in the bull pen.

So first place gets you two players (one very very late addition) and no game time.

The last time I actually cared about an All Star game

Was sometime in the early 1970s. To me it’s always been the 3 Day Black Hole in the Middle of An Otherwise Great Summer. And it’s become sooo overhyped and silly.

I’ll be glad when it’s Thursday.

Go Angels.

Anybody else with me....

everything this year just seems to go wrong, but that is why i think we have something special in the works… we are proving we have the heart of a champion… i honestly feel as though we have a better chance of winning a WS this year than we did last year, just cause we were never really challenged last year…

I honestly can’t wait for the second half and a phenomenal pennant race… let’s go get Halladay and win!

I think you may be right

To give an example from the NBA, I really think that’s why the Lakers won the NBA this year… last year, they cruised through the playoffs and choked against the Celtics, who had to scratch and claw. This year, the second and third rounds were incredibly hard fought battles that toughened the Lakers for Orlando.

Similarly, I think the Halos will be very tough in the playoffs this year. This year is a perfect example of “That which does not kill me, makes me stronger” (no disrespect towards #34 intended).

Pardon my french.....

But FUCK JOE MADDON!

I can second that emotion.
Rev, do we all get a free F-bomb to use on Joe Maddon?
I used it

And I’m still here. It was fun.

Crying about this is lame. Figgins and Fuentes are not going to sweat it. Joe Maddon rocks. He has Angel blood flowing through him. The dude put some serious time in our dugout and clubhouse. Give him some respect.

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