Halos Heaven

's control isn't the greatest and the Rays draw a lot of walks. Plus, Wilson isn't very good at holding runners.

CJ is an OC kid yah?

Yep, Newport

he used to live in huntington

we went to the same elementary school, he was 1 year younger. we played little league together way back when in Seaview LL.

he had an older sister too, one year older than I, so me and my best friend used to sneak out of his house and go toilet paper their house when we were 10 years old. I distinctly remember putting a big wad of TP in the exhaust pipe of their mom’s car one night, only to imagine the car blowing up the next day, so I removed it all before we left.

Pussy

lol!

I know, right. I was 10 years old though, and having a family of 3 blow up due to something I did was not something I wanted to carry around with me for the rest of my life.

although if I had known he’d become a rival of my favorite team I may have acted differently.

Your shortsightedness has cost us all dearly, 2pints

Did you two at least lurk outside his sister’s window for a while?

it was a 2 story

we let the TP fly, then bolted. had to get back to my buddy’s house before his parents realized we were gone.

I'm not even gonna make a pick on this game

I got all three wrong yesterday so I give up.

ryanfea - October 7, 2010 reply

G'd morning everyone. 3 more games today.

Halladay game was Awesome!

I hope Scot is rooting for the Rays, those Shields's need to stick together

Kind of sad that Baldelli is out, the comeback he made this season was a good story

seems it'll be a good story every season

poor guy

And it begins

WOW, Shields' numbers are almost Kazmir'esque

Risky choice.

Maddon will get ripped a new one if he sucks and they lose.

Understood...though Price was a "no-brainer" and look where that got Maddon... :((

imagine how pissed we'd be if sosh started Kaz in gm 2.

Ouch...

That said, I like my chances with Shields over Kaz any day of the week!

his rocco baldelli decision was rad

Let's Go Rays!

I like it when Gameday throws two pitches at once

I’d K on that too, Michael Young.

Hamilton take out a photographer. LOL

Good start Shields

Randy Wolf's brother is the homeplate ump

Wow nice play

Hey Hamilton, stop it

Just saw a post on FB from Jeff Biggs. “The Drive” raido show will not return until next season.

I’m sure we’ll still have to listen to Ridin Dirty though. And so the fans get screwed again. This sucks.

Yeah, this doesn't bother me at all.

you must not listen to sports radio then.

This doesn't make me happy

I wonder what Biggs will do until next year?

Stare out the window and wait for spring,

like the rest of us.

Duh…

;)

cath619 - October 7, 2010 reply

Well, duh,

Of course!
(:

Unfortunately thats all I listen to.

Biggs show is all about towing the company line.

Ridin Dirty is all you listen to?

Yeah, no.

I'm sure that show will remain....

no matter how much we cry out that we hate it.

Isn't the premise how to drink, drive and get away with it?

seems like it to me...

but they say it’s about being the designated driver….
yet they have a lot of commercials and lawyers on the show talking about how to get away with it.
Take a hint from what happened with Andrew Gallo – it doesn’t pay to drink and drive.

That's how it's seemed to me, too

I can’t listen and I’m disappointed with AM830 for having the show

There's still Rex Hudler on Saturday afternoons.

true...

I’m going to do my best to let it be known that’s all I will be listening to. I’ll just come in here to get my Angels news. That just sucks.

NOT coming in here...

that we have no Angels talk on AM830.

SRod saving a run...at least temporarily...

ROFL

it's like watching an angels game

bwuahhaa

what happened?

pick off thrown away

runner from 3rd scores.

now shields falls off the mound on a pitch and it goes behind the batter

shields looks like garbage right now

wow

he escapes

for now

Rays franchise should be liquidated throughout MLB.

we could use a new shields

butcher can fix him

I like their 3rd baseman.

Maybe with a little help from hatcher, he can reach his full potential.

Buck Martinez just can't find enough good things to say about the amazing Rangers

and the genius of Ron Washington.

he's a front runner

the way the rays are playing, i wouldn’t be talking about them either right now. the only difference, my voice doesn’t make ppl want to cut themselves.

CJ doing what Cliff Lee did

throwing strikes to scared rays batters intent on staring at baseballs

GET OFF HIS FIELD!

Rays are letting me down so far

Suboptimal - October 7, 2010 reply

Well...

I see the Phillies smashing everyone.

I hope Tony is watching, Tampa's going to trade Shields for sure.

Tony should give up 3 prospects, and take on all the money.

Shields' contract is too much of a bargain

They’ll keep him, but Garza is almost certainly gone.

Suboptimal - October 7, 2010 reply

Now Garza, I'd actually want him.

I hate Kinsler.

Concerned your child wont be douchey enough?

Name him “Ian”

especially if he has long dark curly hair.

I just realized that the Rays only have 1 hit and that lead off the game. Pathetic.

SWING THE BAT WITH 2 STRIKES

kinsler bobble head doll guy

Nice fielding Ian

muck bartinez

deep analysis of an error

hey, he taught us the importance of the productive out that the Rangers do sooo well.

I'm not seeing along postseason run for the Rays at this point. They've been pretty sad thus far.

If the Rays don't win this one

it’s going to be really tough for them to win both in Texas.

Must be a bummer..

do great in the season, get bounced out ALDS… i wonder how that feels like….

:|

probably like it did to get bounced out of the ALCS last year.

Wait, Treanor's job is to get on base? I never realized that that was the goal.

I'm so glad these guys are here to inform us of that

they took lessons from Gubi

Charge the mound!

why?

I only have a radio and these guys are not helping much…

Treanor was it by a pitch for the second time in the game.

Fuentes sure did a nice job pitching those two innigs of relief for the Twins last night.

Yep

since he isn't a closer

he is allowed to. his arm and stamina have changed since he is out of that role of only being a guy who can pitch with a small lead in the 9th inning of a baseball game.

sincerely,
soth

thats a swing

“that’s a tough one” lol, ok muck bartinez

he could hit a homerun off that swing

AND IT LEADS TO A 3 RUN HOMERUN

OH BOY

ROBOTS

Seriously, he went by a lot

ive seen home plate umpires call that a swing

on check swings half that far.

then the 1st base ump blows it too.

combine that with the bullshit call on pena yesterday

i still want a world series to be won by a bad call.
it’s the only way to get something changed.

stick a fork in it

That looked like a swing to me

and SHIT

That's some seriously shitty managing.

Shields is raising hell. LMAO

umpires ... wow

good for you joe maddon. good for you.

create a shit storm. stab his face!

Why the hell would you put Chad Qualls in right there?

Shields and maddon will have words in the clubhouse

haha.

sure as fuck seems like MLB wants texas to win. announcers on the nuts, umpires on the nuts, america on the nuts

Nolan Ryan and Bud Selig are bosom buddies, they make thing happen.

ive watched about 100 rangers games this year

and it’s amazing how many bad calls went their way, their pitching staff as a collective, were given maddux sized strike zones all year.

something fishy

I guess they got all our "luck" this season.

maybe

usually that stuff evens out, but clearly some teams have extra help – surprised to see the rangers fall into that category.

VLaddy! Vladdy! VLADDY!!!

Rangers feasting on meatballs

Is the entire crowd really chanting "Replay Replay Replay!"?

Awesome

when tampa gets shut out

mlb will sweep this under the rug

silence! pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

wow this game sucks

AlohaHalofan - October 7, 2010 reply

i wish i could see what maddon and sihelds are doing in the club house

jose guillen v. scioscia redux

Now I am going to have to root for the MFY to beat the Rangers. YUK

yeah that sucks

AlohaHalofan - October 7, 2010 reply

? why.

Let the Rangers have their day. they have waited so long. God I am so sick of the Yankees. Money might not buy gaurentees, but it sure does buy playoff berths.

who will the umpires want?

who do you think?

i think uncle bud wants texas

Maybe if the Rangers win it all it will light a fire even brighter under Arte Moreno.

right, the untapped Texas market, doesn't want the Yankee favoritism to be to obvious.

NO WAY!!!!

you’d take the yankees over texas?

I wonder what Muck Bartinez had to say about the check swing call.

"It might have been a swing"

"the question is intent"

it was clearly a swing.
he kind of changed his tune after the 5th replay

All those bitches do.

Bad calls aside, Rays are taking a shit in this series.

Yesterday their RISP was Angel-like.

They need to point some fingers at themselves as well.

hitting all those fly blls right to the outfielders is so Angel like as well.

I hate talking about luck,

but I think the Rays have lined out to right or center about 8 times in these last two games.

Sometimes you just can’t find the gaps.

Well, looks like it's Twins or bust for me.

me too

I figured it out. The umps are pissed off that the Rays took the AL East away from the Yankees

sweet stache pavano

It is pretty awesome

andy pettite - proven cheater

proven narc

a yankee

Well at least I have the Giants to pull for now.

I’ve lived here 6 years already so I think that buys me at least a little credibility.

love that they found a way to talk about the yankees for 5 minutes

They were having withdrawls

Yikes, the Rays have terrible batting averages.

How’d they win so many games?

Pitching.

Pitching and defense. Also, while they don't have high batting averages, they walk a lot and run a lot.

So they generally manage to make the hits they do get count.

Makes sense. Thanks M and Nate.

pitching and defense?

sounds like a recipe for success. we should inform Sosh of this brand of baseball.

Fucking Qualls had a 7.32 ERA, 7 BLSV's, and a 1.80 WHIP, in 59 IP's this season.

Why’d you put him in a high leverage situation Sosh?

What are the matchups for Games 3 and 4?

Garza/Lewis and I think it's Davis/Hunter in Game 4

Hmm, all of those guys kinda suck

Wonder what that means?

It's going to be a long season next year I fear ;)

RedFog - October 7, 2010 reply

Yeah, I hear it's going to be about 162 games long.

wow.

Seriously though, that Arte article gave me hope.

He’s not afraid to spend money, we’re getting Kmo back, we got starting pitching, Conger, Gorgeous, and our young bullpen flashed signs of greatness in September a la Walden and Kohn.

What me worry?

me too

it made me think the chances of them signing CC went from about 40% up to 85%.

fa sho

Rally!

Oh god, the headline on ESPN is "Power Rangers"

I'm goign to kill my eyes if I even make the mistake of glancing at that.

Kinsler is the pink ranger

and Vlad is the black one. just don’t tell Torii…

Hula Dula, Rita Repulsa Rula!

Just wow :-)

AlanFalcon - October 7, 2010 reply

Anyone still want to spend 100 million on Crawford?

Negative, tower

Wave off! WAVE OFF!

How about 4 years, 72 mil?

How 'bout tree fiddy?

Let's go, Wonder Boy

Upton having a great series.

Sweet baserunning Young!

The Blue Angels are practicing outside the window of my office.

It sounds like we’re being invaded by Canada.

Are you complaining about the sound of FREEDOM?!

I actually think it sounds pretty cool.

Is the Comm in commander_nate for communist?

Good

No. It’s actually one of my HS nicknames that I applied to my alter (drunken) ego afterwards.

Where are you?

I mean what town?

opiejeanne - October 7, 2010 reply

Sunny san francisco

Fleet week is this weekend I assume.

Miramar Air Show was last weekend

Not sure who they had, but I would assume the Blue Angels.

Budget cuts, they had these guys instead:

I knew my squadron was decomissioning when I left, but DAMN!

Damn Obama

Raisin' taxes on gasoline?

“That’s f**kin’ gay as hell!”

damn str8

You saw the new South Park last night right?

Miramar was awesome

Yes, they had the Blue Angels but the star of the show was the F-22 Raptor. What an amazing machine that is! Loudest thing I’ve ever heard in my life

Higz - October 7, 2010 reply

They actually had one airborne?

That’s pretty sweet.

Last one I went to was the one I worked back in 05 or 06 while I was stationed there. The only next-gen plane I remember being there was an F-35 on static display.