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Okay, for this thread at least TRY to win.

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First!
uh...sure...1st
It shows up on my laggy-ass computer as first

and that’s all that counts in this nutso’s mind.

there is only do
Torii didn't like this thread
Ummm
Losers always cry about "trying" their best.......

winners go home and eff the prom queen…….

(worked yesterday)

7 in the 7th last night lets do it again
LETS GO HALOS
Stupid Ziegler.
Jesus. 2 outs already?
Ziegler likes this thread
damn those 2 outs were quick
I got a Fever...
was that you rocking out to Kansas in that State Farm commercial???
Nah, I work for Nationwide.
Cmon k-mo
Sweet jeebus in a sugar pot
How fast was that?
faster than dondo and raf rod imploding.
weak half inning
I don't think a single one of those was a strike.
hey guys.. no need to see any pitches or anything like that..

just hack away like the good ol days

I'm gonna hit the showers and try to change our luck
too bad weaver didnt have many 7 pitch innings........

otherwise he’d still be in

if wty doesn't have 97 pitches through 5...we don't see dondo
If Scioscia doesn't put in Dondo

we don’t see Dondo.

they send dondo to AAA...we don't see dondo
Sometimes the way Scioscia uses the bullpen makes no sense whatsoever...
until the angels have a 1 game lead

he’s not going to try and overuse bulger or jepsen.

that’s my guess

that was unpleasant

at least they didn’t leave any on base

side arm

when did the A’s have Kent Tekulve pitching?

Like the thread switch
MASH TIME FELLAS

Lets’ do this!

this thread needs to tighten up before it unravels
Rodriguez back in?
Um... no. It's someone awesome who will get the A's out in order. >_>
Raf-rod

No more runs please

So Raffy for the loss?
We are in Neutral territory now
I'm not just belittling Raffy

I’m pre-littling him by expecting him to give up a HR

our bullpen never saw a lead they couldn't blow...tell me that ain't Rodriguez back out for the 8th?
ok

we won’t tell you

To be fair to Rodriguez

he gave up one weak-ass little single last inning. Not exactly a full-on implosion. That inning was all Dondo’s doing.

i really dont want to be fair to rodriguez though.
True..Dondo's fault..but Bulger should have been in there anyway. I don't get the system..thought we used our BEST relievers when we have a one or two run lead!
STRIKE. YOU JERK.
to be fair....

he got pinched by blue

Who do you think I was talking to?
Rodriguez

but thanks for the clarification

WHAT THE FUCK? (August)
Those were both strikes
what happened on the wild pitch?

should naps have blocked it?

no ball hit the grass and took a really high bounce...

naps had no chance

What a fucking load of garbage

how many strikes does a guy need to throw in an at-bat for a man to strike out?

6

based on this ump

Where did that miss?
n the ump's frontal lobe
rodriquez

it is, but the Rodriquez I wish we had on the hill is in New York. By the way, this is what I have been saying, our pen and middle relief is not very good. Im not sold on Bulger. Arredondo is done for the year.

jepsen solid. palmer solid.
Oliver solid.
Has to be right down the middle to get a call.
ME no like split screen
Here's what should have happened

Oliver walks out for the 7th.

Inning ends 3-0.

Bulger is in right now.

Inning ends 3-0.

Fuentes walks out for the 9th.

We win 3-2.

Is that really so much to ask?

Pitched multi innings last time.
Boohoo

wins are important right now.

But yes

then swap out Oliver for Jepsen.

No they aren't. We have a 5 game lead.

Keep your best reliever healthy. The last thing we need is to blow out the arm of a guy we’ll need in October.

See above

but yes, wins are important right now. Are you insane?

Or would you like to watch five games turn to 4 after tonight.

And 4 to 3 the next night?

I concede taking out Oliver out of my above equation. But to suggest “pfft, whatever, we have 5 games on Texas” (actually 4.5) is asinine.

No, it's assanine to suggest we risk blowing out the arm of our best reliever in a game where by all rights we should

have been out of the inning twice by the time the go-ahead run scored.

You sacrifice one game today so that you don’t sacrifice more down the stretch. And really, it wasn’t much of a sacrifice, we can still win this.

So I concede twice

three times now, actually, that I would swap out Oliver in my scenario for someone else.

and you continue to go trucking right along?

So who pitches the 8th after Jepsen? Especially since Jepsen pitched wednesday?

Or is his arm expendable too?

Bulger

Jepsen
Fuentes

Like I said.

Fine, you're brilliant.

I can’t imagine why you aren’t a major league manager.

Jesus fucking Christ dude

let it the fuck go.

The first post I thought was clearly a joke.

Someone corrected me about Oliver’s pitch count last night.

I corrected myself.

And you keep hammering the fuck away about some bullshit that I already corrected, all because I pointed out that a five-fucking-game lead with 30+ games to go isn’t exactly safe.

Christ.

Okay--You're right.

My bad man, alright?

My sarcasm detector just blew up

thanks Jackass. You owe me a new one.

Shit.

/gets out checkbook

So much for my new PSP…

New one coming out in October

don’t blow your money on the 3000.

Oh. Then I don't feel as bad.
except for Oliver had to cover Bell's masterpiece last night
Oliver

Oliver is 52 years old, if we are banking on him we are in trouble.

fine wine

aged cheddar

If you're banking on Oliver right now

it’s like owning Google stock that you got at the IPO, buddy.

Ollie threw 42 pitches last night
this umpire has been on a's all day

must be too much money on the angels side today

they heard rex talking about umpscare.com and made a donation
Bring in someone else.
So I just turned on the game

tie game in the 8th and Rat Rod is pitching????

what you missed is that dondo blew his load...

and sosh decided on Rodriguez to save his ass.. .haha

ok how much longer do we have to suffer rodriguez here...

cmon sosh

until he takes a liner off his arm
Nice bat toss douchebag (cust)
anyone know how Texas did? Things aren't looking real good here at the moment.
bunt try

i recall a chapter in moneyball… ah never frickin’ mind…

Fuggit

I am going back to the first thread when we were winning

Ugh

I officially hate this game.

GIDP,

Anyone?

Needs more DP.
anyone notice this game is eerily similar to nick's start at the beginning of the year...

pitched SO ball, pitched way out of trouble and BP blew his lead too

I'd rather not talk about that
debated not saying it

but couldnt help but notice

i agree

very similiar

No word on Bulger?
Kowbell blows the DP.
would have been a very hard dp to turn I think
Our defense turns that 95% of the time.
why is no one warming up
MORALES!!!!!!!!

Dang it!

Quinn would'da had it
raf rod is a giant turd.

F his era in salt lake. I never want to see this guy again.

Please be the PTBNL

I agree

Rat Rod has shown that he is nowhere near ready for the majors.

Wood is giant turd.

F his batting average and HR’s in Salt Lake. I never want to see him again

I actually agree.

If hes the PTBNL i really couldnt give a shit either.

But to compare raf rod to wood is pretty appley to orangey.

I know

Just wanted to throw that one out there

Morales wanted his walkoff to be a little more dramatic
Retarded
that's what you get when you walk the leadoff batter
He didn't.

The ump watched six balls cross the plate and gave Cust a base anyway.

Yeah. Raf Rod is just terrible.
He is

but a lot of this falls on the umpire.

yeah fizz thats why they are in last place "a tough bull pen"
I hate to bring it up

but I can’t help but notice the eerie resemblance between this game and the game of April 8th.

said the same thing myself...

super eerie… and saddening to be reminded of it

See above
why is Rodriguez even up from Salt Lake? Is he really the best we have up there?
BATTING STANCE GUY

WHEN you don’t see who he is imitating he is just some dude play acting with a bat….

but getting rich doing it
He's me in my backyard with a wiffle ball bat when I was 8

except inexplicably famous.

Shit. Now the Angels can expect the worst.
this would be a great time to show up naps... do something
C"mon Naps!

You’re way overdue for a HR

This is it, Nap!
looks like the offense went home already
super late roll call
HR

GMJ. Calling it

Worth a shot
third out at the plate
C'mon my good friend Gary!!
SWING LIKE A REAL MAN GARY
not that good an actor
real man ? have you not seen the guy prance to 1st ? ha
thru 8 innings

BOTG- Breu

Abreu or Dondo or Raf
You be the

Life of the party, I see

o rly?
if he comes up empty again

he will be my blame

relievers are supposed to put up a 4 spot and ruin gem by weaver?
hitters with high RISP

are supposed to not have 5 LOB

good pitching always beats good hitting.

These relievers suck balls.

This doesnt even need to be argued.

if we had been leading

rodriguez would still not be pitching

We were leading.

Remember?

you know what we are losing and if abreu doesnt come through

then hes my blame

if this was an SAT test you would fail.
u can't fail an SAT
If you take it and you don't get into any schools with your score

that’s a fail.

yea but i mean

its not a pass or fail exam

You don't actually go to Princeton, do you?
Princeton Tech
1880

That was my score. Not Ivy league caliber. I took the SAT 4 years ago. I got a really bad score but I got into princeton University. No more talking about SAT’s please. This game aint going our way and this conversation isn’t productive at all. Our offense aint hot and our bp pitching is shit. But lets not go off topic please

You took the shitty new test

haha@u.

hey I'm in school

and thats what matters

I was in school

then I finished it.

I'm still in it

got a couple years more. First person to finish high school in my fam.

This is difficult to argue.
if IF the angels dont come back my angst will be at sosh...

raf rod in that situation when bulger is available (from what we know) is mind boggling

break ouot the silver sombrero
you suck, Gary

that is all.

Strike one to Matthews

was ball four to Cust.

that seems to happen a lot
GMJ is ruining Bentley's fine reputation.
Were gonna need a hold

And some runs

weav

so how pissed off is Weaver right now?

hate it when the game is ours..and our bullpen politely hands it back.
I WANT A POSTGAME LOSS THREAD PREPARED

We need some mojo

RODRIGUEZ STILL OUT THERE!
What happened to Rev???
He's at the Del Taco with Tony looking for bullpen help
Still Raffy?

I guess Soth and Butcher left the stadium. No one around to make changes.

How many

rookie closers ARE there?

Oakland has a new one every year.

Sometimes two or three.

with our record against new pitchers its a great AL west strategy
Physioc is annoying.

Anyone noticed?

for some reason the announcers aren't annoying when we are dominating the game
you are kidding, he makes annoying enjoyable
annoying

yes, since he has been announcing with the Angels. Wish he stayed with the A’s

Physioc is beyond annoying....he's the worst sportscaster in the United States; possibly in the world!
and certain sections of Mars
Olympus Mons hates Phyzz
AL West Rivals do a good job in pissing me off.
the A's suck

they got to face a couple of should be minor league pitchers.

Not to mention a healthy amount of help from the ump.
we wouldnt have won yesterday if it wasnt for 1b ump
yeah i'm not a big fan of blaming the umps
except eddings
well that sumbitch has earned it
Meh. we still score three runs the next inning.

Not to mention three more as the game goes on. >_>

way to make sure the runner doesn't get a walking start Rat Rod

this is so pathetic

amateur hour from the pen
I've found out the secret to Phyzz's anti-homerism

He worked at ESPN from ’89-95…

*gasp!!!

How’d you get that?

as Chris Bernans bitch!!
wait i was wrong, he was the guy would re stocked the vending machines
When is his contract up? Is there a buyout? Lets get some money together.
Maybe we can get Hawk Harrelson.

YES!!!! lol

you can put it on the board
U can put it on the boaarrrrrrrrrrrrrd! YES!!

He gone!

please make it stop haha...

the best was buerhle’s perfect game … YES YES YES YES YES YES YES…

haha

I was hoping he was the player to be named later in the deal with Tampa.

First the Bills lay a stinker

now I have to deal with a blown winnable game from the Angels?

FML

silver lining

they still might win, and the good relievers weren’t used

things could be worse you could be a raiders fan like myself :(
yeah that game today was craptastic......

the Raiders and Lions are the only reasons I have to feel good about my own favorite teams coaching staff.

and TO's reality show yes ?
Best not to be a Bills fan
wide right!
thats just cold man
More importantly, as a Giants fan

18-1*

Best way to deal with Physioc is to TURN ON THE RADIO! Unless, of course, he happens to be working the radio side that night!
DELAY.

The delay is amazing. I can hear the call on the radio, and walk all the way across the house to watch the same play on the TV. Without trying to walk fast.

I just timed it.

Somewhere between 6 and 8 seconds

radio

there is a delay.

Patterson has 10Ks and 0 BBs in 27 ABs against RHP
I think Arredondo and Rat Rod sucking so much calls for drastic measures

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?pos=P&sid=milb&t=p_pbp&pid=543409

doubt he could be much worse

here we go

i think in order to win we’re going to have to score more runs from the other team

than rather...i type like raffy pitches
top of the order coming up

bail out the kids halos

If nothing else, Raffy saved the bullpen.
Rally Punch FTW!!!
red floyd, back from dinner

I guess I shouldn’t go out to dinner during games

great idea Howie
bunt

nice bunt, damm I wish he would play every day.

BLOOP & A BLAST TIME!!
wtf howie swing that lumber no wasted AB's in the ninth
2nd rally beer
cmon Figgy

One out magic please

we work better with 2 outs

sighs

Rory called that bunt like it was a walk-off HR.
problems solved

very simple to fix our problems, go get a darn set up man tomorrow. Bring back Dick Enberg next year and everything is solved.

thats why i dont like seeing tori bunt

gives the other guys bad ideas

Can I haz moar runz...?
OT: Phyzz's haters spread to ESPN college basketball too....

A comment one the awfulannouncing.blogspot.com….

keyser soze said…
Nov 1, 2007 6:36:00 PM

Steve Physioc? Did he get fired from Fox Sports Net and had to start back at the bottom of ESPN?

Figgins gets on
woo hoo...and so it begins
WHOO!

TOO FAST!

there we go... men on base.. thats what we need
Nice hustle by Figgy!
wooooooo! there the error! Rally Time!

BEHOLD THE MONKEY

WALK OFF PLEASE

PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEE

No BOTG for you

if u come through Bobby

Ok abreu

this is all U

Thats why Howie doesn't bunt

he doesn’t have SPEED!!

Lets go Bobby lets go
C'mon Shrek

Make it happen

Come on ABREU!
Bobby is due
Time for a chupashank redemption...
c'mon BOBBYYYYYYYY
Time to shed those goat horns, Chupa
Chupa, you owe us one!

don’t f this up!

lets go bobby... please PLEASE check in this AB
this is it, ompa-lumpa!
THE GAME FIZZ THE GAME!!
figgins you moron!
HOLY SHIT EPIC FAIL
Wow. Terrible... =_=;
UN EFFING BELIABLE
There's your BOTG

FAIL!

hmmmm guess he doesn't have a noodle arm
He does. Figgins just had to run back touch base and get to second

and STILL nearly got there before the throw. It was on target but check the bounce and airtime. That ’s pretty damn limp for a major-leaguer.

why are we losing to this crappy team
...Really
don't see that everybody, late August doldrums continue
don't see that everday
this game was GIVEN AWAY
Uh, Phys, we won last night...
LOL couldnt have ended this game any more perfectly than that.......

FAIL ALL AROUND

we've played 3 games this series Phyzz

you must have forgot about the game you the “best ever”…

HA man

utterly depressing. LEaving Torrii on deck!! Come on Figgy

seriously?

SERIOUSLY?

WE"RE IN A PENNANT RACE HERE!!!!!!!!!!

I'm out. Get 'em tomorrow.
I love stupid (aggressive) baseball
STUPID STUPID STUPID!

WE DESERVE TO LOSE FOR DOING THAT

Physioc blows

“The A’s take the 1st 2 games of this series.” Did Friday not count???

figgins may have just taken raffy off the hook for BOTG

that was an exceptionally special play

phys just needs to shut the hell up - he does NOT even care about the Angels.
Bob Starr

Bob Starr is rolling over in his grave, as charles Barkley would say.

:(

what a crappy game and bad home series.

Oh well lets get after it tomorrow
Vintage California Angels circa 1992
If the Angels lose the west by a game

Soth should be drawn and quartered for his actions. Rest is for when you have pretty much wrapped up the division.

Yeah, this is bonehead shit.
We'll throw this one on the pile. >_>
give bobby a day off tomorrow

figgins too just for being “that guy” right there

and give rat rod a LOT of days off
That 9th inning was atrocious

Somebody needs to pour a frothy cup of diarhhea on the heads of Kendrick and Figgins.

Rather, Kendrick's play wasn't a bad idea. Almost worked.

I’m still for Chupa and his 6 LOB.

Howie

is a significant step slower than the guys who can bunt for basehits pretty frequently.

Frothy cup of diarhhea?

I hear that’s how they celebrate in the South.

its hard to believe that this team is the same one I saw yesterday
i had to go to the F'n inlaws house

and come home to watch this steaming pile of a game.

My day sucks.

they didn't even bother in the ninth

I guess they all wanted to go home early

Poor Jered Weaver pitched so well .

What a freaking waste

Dear Tony,

Find us a fricken bullpen please.

he cant just make moves like clockwork sheesh.
The current Hector Carrasco is better than 4 of our relievers right now.
and on top of that the chargers lost again on a last second play
lol it's preseason
We changed rally threads like the Halos changed pitchers

maybe too soon!

at least the dodgers won and rocks lost
we hate the dodgers around here
I assume Bailey will be ROY
Weaver had thrown a ton of pitches

but Arredondo and Rat Rod? In a pennant race?

Dear Scott,

PLEASE HURRY

he has Weaver's pitch count problems too

which means more of the same f’ing bullpen

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