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If this afternoon be our only chance at revenge for 1982 ... let there be blood... Looks like Joel Pineiro will lead this charge as the Angels take on the Brewers at 1:05 PM... kind of important for JP to sinky instead stinky...

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Edmonds playing CF for the Brewers
1982 ... we never did get them back for that, did we?

Let’s go Pin-head, bring the two-seamer.

lineup

Izturis, SS
Abreu, RF
Hunter, CF
Morales, 1B
Rivera, LF
Kendrick, 2B
Napoli, C
Wood, 3B
Pineiro, P

Assuming Stan is dh in 4-spot
I'm pretty sure no DH today
nope

playing in an NL park, no DH today.

Maicer walks
Abreu 2 run HR
Am I the only person who is getting nervous ...

hearing all the discussion about Matsui playing in the outfield???

no you're not alone in that nervousness
Soth is prime nerve wracker...

don’t think he is too happy about the idea at all!

Sounds kind of dumb to me

But hell, maybe he’ll get hurt playing out there, Napoli can become the main DH, and we still get the good press of having Stan on our team. Win-win!

Chupa!

hits one out! 2-0 good guys!

Lots of Angels fans at this game.

or Brewers fans ready to have the long nightmare of Suppan end – yeah I know, not really

Weekend looming...

and Maryvale is quite close to Tempe. I got my photo speeding ticket somewhere in-between those two points.

1st to 3rd for Torii

cause that’s how we do it.

How’d Torii get on base?

Hit a single
wooo hooo

2 runs in
4-0 Angels.
Double for Rivera.

Ya, I'm really liking Suppan so far.
Good offense?

Or bad pitcher? Cause we’re brutalizing Suppan right now.

Ah hell, it’s just good to see our offense starting to click after a slow start.

Bit of both I think
Getting closer to the opening day lineup ...

now that a lot of the fringe players have been sent down, I think we might see some of the real offense.

bad pitcher
RBI single for Naps

5-0

RBI for NAP 5-0 Angels. 1 out.
Gameday?

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2010_03_19_anamlb_milmlb_1

Thanks!
sure.

someone passed this on to me… if you save this link you can change the date and the other team and you should be able to pull it up with no problem.
You might need to switch the angels code (anamlb) from the first place to the second one then figure out the other teams code. I haven’t had a problem figuring them out though.

Much easier to just push the "today" link at top of page...

this refreshes the scoreboard at the top of the page. After that you just select the game you want on Gameday. Beats the hell out of figuring out abreviations, dates, etc

Wood flys out. 2 outs

rally killer

A five-run outburst is nothing to shake a stick at.

Unless Suppan was testing one single pitch and not mixing it up.

Joel strikes out
looking of course...
This seems about right...

I’ll check back so I can see we lost 6-5.

Funny.

Actually, what is important in spring training (imho) is what happens in the first 3 or 4 innings.

I agree...

just being a smart ass and we have been spoiled the past few years in the Cactus league.

being a smart ass ...

is better than being a dumb one. ;)

Collision w/pineiro and edmonds
Edmonds in reckless!
Former teammates iirc.
Edmonds is a prick
Uh-oh.

This cannot be good. Please be okay.

was it on a play at first base?
yes
At least he didn't run into Big Poppi
Seems like he's ok

whew

He appears to be ok.
good.

he’s fine.

Was he in a daze?
daze is the screen name

it has nothing to do Pinero’s condition;P

red floyd standing by

Do you copy, red leader?

Red Leader eating Lasagne at this time

has do not disturb look on face

(Sean Connery voice)

Red October, standing by.

Give me a ping Vasily, one ping only please
Don't get all penis-y, kid
That's a low blow...
i love that line

genius!

Told you guys I'd be back
I/S/O?

Gameday is still showing Izzy in T2 with no pitches

this thread is pathetic and gameday is slow as hell.

Pathetic cause you weren't here to announce the Abreu HR...
I can't see or hear, I need a miracle father.
And Gameday sucking surprises you exactly how?
Seems like you have encountered a loose thread...
bottom 2ndd/ 5-0/
2 outs... Hunter singled K-Mo walked
2/5-0/2

2 runners on and Johnny Rivers is up.

Torii single + Kowbell walk.

Is NAP PUS still pitching?
Rivera popped out for Out 3. Bottom of the 2nd coming up.

I’m really jealous right now… my co-worker is at this game. He is also going to the game on Sunday.

I’m really jealous right now… there are hundreds of people at the game and I AM NOT AT THE GAME.

I'm really jealous right now...and I was just there last weekend.
I'm really jealous right now... and I will be there next weekend
Now, I am jealous of you.

I already went Feb 25 to 27. Then, I got “re-assigned” back to my real life! ;)

I'm jealous of everyone

who got to go to ST….

Oh well just 17 more days and I’ll be at a game. Opening Day game.

Dang. More jealousy right back atcha...

I have to wait until game 2 to attend. Ugh.

1,2,3 for Pineiro...
Cool.

Gameday sucks

HH game threads in ST >>> Gameday

If Alan Falcon is commenting … then HH Game Threads >>>>>>>>>>>> Gameday.

yeah the gameday gave me all three pitches in the space of about 1.5 seconds

kinda anticlimactic

Fielder strikes out
Mathis has special arm strength

according to Scioscia

And luminous resistance power?
top in the game...
Well, with all those throws to Torii, he'd better have good arm strength
Home to Second = 127ft

Mathis’ throw = way, way, way beyond that … easily

Exactly my point.
I wonder ...

if he can throw a ball that can clear the CF fence at Tempe with that arm of his?

weak bat strength
end 3/5-0(angels)
Wood (or Woods if you prefer) had a BB.
Is Pineiro okay?

Any lingering side effects after the collision with Jim “catch diving” Edmonds?

nope
he's good - he had a 1,2,3 inning.
Is Pin out?

I saw a 4-5-6 listed above, so maybe he’s gone another inning?

he's pitching right now.
(knocks on wood)

sounds like he’s doing well.

[from Brandon Wood]

OUCH!

as he gives up a one out double...
That was some unlucky lumber I was knocking on.
You just *had* to say it, though, didn't you.
he's gone 1-2-3 in both innings

so apparently not.
…unless it made him better.

maybe it did...
ask howieistheman if there are any apples in Apple Valley
ROAD apples.
yeah, there's PLENTY of those

but no, 44FAN, still no apples.

knocked him into thinking he's the second coming of the "Big Train"
Thanks for the updates
I shudder to ask, but how the heck did he collide with a CF?
Play at first. Edmonds was the runner.
Or did Edmonds run into him while Pineiro was covering first.
Quentin flew out to Center
Well, of course! THAT explains it! :-P
Overzealous mound defense...
No means no?

99 no’s and one yes, still means yes.

5-1 2 outs
what the heck? How'd the Beer dudes break the goose-egg?
Cruz hit a double, and then Zaun got an RBI single, which also resulted in him getting out trying for 2nd.
Chupa assist!

Haha, stupid Zaun trying to stretch it into a double.

Abreu with a Mathis like arm guns down the runner trying to get a double
so...

Torii was covering 2nd base?

You might think Pineiro would bat better coming from the NL.
Nah. Remember, he was with the Ms for quite a while.
7 years, to be exact..
AND, he's a career .107 hitter over 293 AB's.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pineijo01.shtml

You mean someone bats worse than Mathis?
not bad 1 outta 10....

then again Mathis is twice as good!

You might

until you realize that he has orders from the Soth to keep the lumber on his shoulder and move it under no condition

5-1 Angels in the 4th.
Lameday tells me ...

that Chris Smith is pitching for Suppan facing Maicer Izturis in the top of the fourth.

Now a second later, it says the Halos went 1-2-3 and now Pineiro is facing Edmonds
bottom of the 4th
Chris Smith faced Maicer in the top half...

but you are likely correcting me that the game is now in the bottom half

yessir

just updating… nothing more

Can't access GD box scores from phone right now...

Can someone please just give a fast studs of the game summary so far?

Who should I have a mancrush on right now?

Torii Hunter 2 for 3

But Rivers has the 2 ribbies.

Man crush goes out to Bobby Abreu...

2 run HR in the first…. 5-1 Angels in the bottom of the 4th.

that too.
Thanks...

Good to see both of their bats getting some sweet luvin’ today.

Is Wood playing?

And Abreu threw out a runner trying to stretch out a single into a double.
Ya, don't think he has a hit yet, but he got a walk.
Just good to see Abrew playing...period

Bases loaded for Brewers.

Sounds like a tough play for Woody...

takin’ one off the chest

Foul salami...
Howie dives and misses grounder...

one run scores…bases still loaded

Grounder to Wood ends the inning.
***********KENDRY MORALES****** HOMERUN************
Careful... you're violating 44FAN's business method patent
He already mentioned he has no audio or gameday....

so i took the liberty in his honour to try to fill his shoes…

HK with a bloop single

Nice Howie

Nipples robbed of a hit...

film at 11

Looks like our bats are coming alive.

Good sign.

With this pitching staff we are going to need them

And yes, I went there. Our pitching staff this yea might be the most overrated Angels aspect in 10 years besides “Sciossia Small Ball” that we did not use one time to win the World Series.

Heretic
Martyr!
RACIST!
IMPOSTER
Tool

You would be Baseball Tool on “Tool Academy”

I had to even look up what the hell tool academy was

Is that your favorite show or is Rock of Love 4 more your style?

It's my favorite bad TV show next to "Battle of the Bods" on FOX Reality Ch.
So I guess that you make you "Reality Tool"
You two should go into the Toolshed together...
Silence, Commander Tool!
No way, ToolSlamma!
I challenge you to a ToolOff

ok this is bordering homoerotic now.

No homo

HA! Now it’s stuck on you!

Ew ew get it off
Hostility Abounds?
Just has to be different...
I guess it would depend on who you ask.
Work interfered. I/S/O?
6-2 I think, not sure I and O
6-2 Angels bottom 5th

HR Kendry Morales

K3yerout=Weeks
BTW...

Fuentasaurus IN

Well, with the roster down to 42, the big boys are playing into the 5th.
According to gameday the Angels never recorded a third out in the top of the fifth inning.
Edmonds walked

Braun up

Braun=k3yerout looking
Fielder strikes out
Fuentes strikes out the side!
Strikes out side...

Angels fans out in force today.

Gomez singled.
You can still K out the side

if someone gets on base in between K’s. Its an expression meaning all 3 outs came by way of the K.

Strikes Out The Side In Order

Who is this Fuentes they speak of???

K3yerout =Fielder

FYI, Edmonds popped up to the on deck circle and the ball fell untouched by Naps…working his way up in the Soth depth chart day by day…

Vargas in for Brewskis
I wonder what the gameday operator is doing right now
Reading Halos Heaven

Something to do with a bong?!

It's called run gameday twenty minutes slow to get fans to buy MLB TV package.

Like that commercial where the guy offers the little girl a free pony, but gives her a cheap plastic pony instead of the real pony behind the screen.

Well, she never asked if she could have a real one.
All the money MLB makes

the company that handles their multi-media blows. Just looking at highlights is amazingly lame.

They don't even work on my computer.
I missed it... how did we get run #6?
Morales solo HR
nice....

thanks.

Is Fuentes really batting???
Evans doubles off CF wall
***************TERRY EVANS*******OFF THE WALL****************

sorry just a doubled…

Free

Terry Evans . com

********************PETER BOURJOUS*************HOMERUN********************
Gorgeous!
too many "U's" there....

still spring so I can misspell…. right?

Only twice per thread

Otherwise, K3yerout!

but, but.... I'm ESL...

Eh???

Your SN is a way to tell people they suck, be proud!

I am fond of it…though I confess I stole it off a license plate I saw up here in Seattle…softball Mom I think! ;)

Bourjos = HR

woohoo

Sweet!

Gorgeous showing he’s not just all speed. (cough willits cough)

No need for Willits...

Slap hit somewhere else, Bourjos hits bombs.

Gorgeous even prettier now!

what in the world are they doing between innings?

sausage races???

1 pitch 1 out

smoked line drive at the LF

I propoe a change to the *******PLAYER******HOMERUN**** format for the season

Can we include the number also, like on TV?

So for example, *******NAPOLI*********HOMERUN*******12********

Authenticity +1

is the HR banner your job? If so, I’m all for it… if not, present it to the person’s who has that “job”. hehehe

that'd be 44 Fan

I sort of knew that… it’s Friday… after a long week.

KC has 21 runs in the 5th

at least in gameday time

I just saw that.... 21-0...

Chiefs over the Cardinals???

What quarter is that in? ;)

Start of the 3rd I guess

They had bases loaded too and something that the gameday operator is holding secret happened and they escaped.

It's 21-4 now, the Royals better watch their backs!
Wow you see the future

Do the Brewers win the series?

Napoli continuing to score points with Scioscia
Argghhhh = Naps defense

:((

WTF he do now?

the ball went to the right he looked left or something like that.

another popup dropped near the on deck circle…twice today!

Sounds like Napoli is still sleepin' today...
Napoli keeps auditioning for DH

Watch your back Stan.

If we score 2 more runs, do the Brewers get free buffalo wings?
Just Bince Fielder does
Trevor Hoffman IN

Aldridge smokes a hit

Nipples flies out

routinely

K2yerout????

WHAT says Patchett???

Then singles and makes it 9-2

Out Tool
.....stop saying tool
Pin-ee and Stoked had good outings I take it
and Fuentes struck out the side....
I'm triple stoked

I’ll take singing “Buttercup” over “roll out the barrel” during the 7th inning stretch anytime.

Singing Toolette

I don’t want you to feel left out.

lol

what’s up with “tool…”

...................

I hate you

It will be stuck in your mind all day now.

you don’t even know me how can you hate me?

thicker skin requirement… ;)

So what is the score guys?
Quentin flew out to center.
9-3 Angels 8th inning

We may actually win this one.

shhhh

don’t let them know we are thinking about a W.

Royals fans were anxious to see Hoffman pitch.
yeahhh Q gets on base.
Sandoval double

Q 1st to 3rd cause that’s what we do.

where'd everyone go?

This game is not over…

yea but idk what is going on
Gameday is a dick
what else is new.

2 run HR for the Brewers.

pitching?
Stokes?
No...

I don’t know who it was as I didn’t recognize the name at all.

nah...Dehoya (SP?)
Gabe DeHoyos
As long as it's not Palmer, Nabors or that other rook

2 out, 2 strike pitch…outtahere

9-5 Angels though in the bottom 8th.
9th inning

9-5 Angels.

6-3 groundout ends inning

playing the Village People YMCA song at the stadium.

great...

now that damned song will be stuck in my head…I love the no commercials though… :)

Budde in for Nap.
Patchett basehit.
Is he gonna be the ss for Arkansas?
K3yerout = Budde
Ryan doubles

runners at 2nd and 3rd.

Ryan has been crushing the ball…even his fouls have gone long and far. Love it!

I really don't think we need to worry about

GMJ being gone, for crying outloud

Ryan is SO in the competition

for the 4th/5th outfielder

I like what I’ve seen/heard Ryan doing this ST.

pretty sure he signed a minor league deal though so he has options…whereas Evans does not

statia rbi

10-5 Angels.

going to the bottom of the 9th.
Zags and Fla St just started...

meanwhile back at the ranch…

Cassavah IN

back from Rule 5 draft from A’s

Cassevah…no spell check…I think that for these spring games we need a score card down the side with names and numbers… ;)

Just need 1 more out…

Edmonds makes the final out...10-5 Halos

Rockies in Tuscon tomorrow ladies…

Just another Halo spring victory! Woohoo!

that's 2 wins this week.
What oh what is this world coming to?

Will this crazy merry-go-round ride ever stop??

Power outage at work. Just got back on now.
There was a power outage and you stayed?

I woulda been out the door so fast…

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