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Angels Visit Dodgers Spring Game THREAD

1:05 PM: Lefty Joe Saunders pitches for the Angels against undecided for the Dodgers.

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Go Halos!

The game is on TV. Ch. 411 Prime on Dish network.

channel 694 on Directv

Lineups

Halos:
SS Aybar
RF Abreu
CF Hunter
LF Matsui
1B Morales
2B Kendrick
C Napoli
3B Wood
DH Mathis

SP The Colonel

Los Doyers:
2B DeWitt
3B Blake
RF Ethier
LF Octo-Manny
1B Loney
DH GA
SS Hu
CF Repko
C Knoedler

SP Monasterios

Wow Mathis at DH. well time to see how Matsui looks out there
Since we are visiting a NL-club, why the DH?

I almost would rather see Joe hit than Mathis…

Dodgers didn't want their pitcher batting today either, so the teams agreed to use a DH
THIS should be the rule in the majors

Let Orel Hersheiser, Don Drysdale, Rick Reuschel, Don Robinson and Ken Brett hit. And let the others sit.

TAKE THAT BACK!!!
kind of have to now, don't I?
just this one time...
yep, just this time
wow

i bet in hindsight you feel dumb for saying that today eh? :-p

It's a good thing this is a game thread
LF Octo-Manny

Or else we’d have 44FAN posting his favorite picture…

Mathis DHing!
c'mon Bobby
robbed by Manny
Nice hit Torii
Ringing double for Hunter.
good day all...

Happy to finally see me some angel baseball!!

Godzilla gets an RBI single.
I called in sick to work for this.

Let’s go Halos.

GO ANGELS

Kill the blue bummers

Classic Saundo
not great commentary there lol
Who is the guy playing SS for the Doyers today?
Double for Wood
Napoli flys out, followed by a Wood ground rule double
Woody

ground rule double to RF…very very nice!

Mathis= HR to LF

Woohoo!

This guy can't pitch for shit
***************HOMERUN**************Jeff Mathis!********************
there it is - been waiting for that
This pitcher has made Aybar look like an ass.
Eybar = K3yerout

swinging wildly…that’s what I want to see from my leadoff hitter! NOT! Welcome back E…ouch! I know, first game back

Just a quick question...

…have they nerfed MLBTV to get us to buy the premium version?

It looks like they’ve stuck a sock over the camera lens

i’ve noticed that on many of the broadcasts. i think it might just be some problem with the equipment in AZ. at least, i hope it is. looks like vaseline on the lenses.

haha just realized it is on TV
i almost missed it, too

yeah, according to the angels website, it isn’t on tv. but it is!

Still no good for me...
not great but fine for ST

yeah, its passable. i wonder if its a compression issue. there’s no way it’ll be like this in regular season play.

idk but ST games always seem to be poor camara tv quality

yeah, the AZ games seem to for me. some of the grapefruit games i’ve seen haven’t been bad.

Manny strikes out. 1 out
Sit down MANNY
K3yerout

just cuz…

Loney grounds out to first. 2 outs
Loney always looks like he's on the verge of tears
Well, he is on the Dodgers...
Good point

I guess I’d cry as well

Maybe he's feeling the pressure of GA taking away his job
I know this Colonel...

keep it up Joe!

GA=00=nice play by Kowbell
GA grounds out to first. Going into the 3rd inning
1,2,3 Nice inning for Joe
GA too lazy to hit it out of the infield.
Is GA lazier than Manny?
You have to ask?
People have to call GA

to ask for the rights to use lazy.

And he's too lazy to get back to them...

…if you use laziness without permission, he’ll be too lazy to sue though

Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier will learn a lot about laziness under Garret’s tutelage

If he can be bothered to show them
good point
HD camera form the dugout to the batter

crappy public access TV camera in the outfield

Whoever it is on Prime Ticket just used the word bedazzled in talking about baseball.

Don’t have prime ticket…

That is not bedazzling
I just choked on my water laughing.
Another Double for Torii
Torii doulbes to lead off the 3rd.
Torii steals 3b

nice

Matsui grounds out to 1st. 1 out

Torii stays at 3b…unclutch Godzirra

Matsui not Bedazzling
Super duper stars?

I know no one will be Vin but what the hell?

Changeup is LaLob like...

making the Halos look stupid

looked safe but it was close
Have to agree...looked safe.

Torii and Soth not happy!

Torii out at home. Kendry safe at first. 2 outs
SO SAFE

swipe tag behind the back was SO SO SO late

anyone see that - is he safe or out?
close but looked safe to me

officially out. but he looked completely safe.

Torii had his hand in there first. SAFE
Darn - but good to see Torii running
Not really...infield was in and the ball was hit right at hte SS
oh

I thought he had a better shot at scoring on Godzirra’s ball to 1b…hit slowly and not playing as far in…contact play was not on obviously til the next play.

pressure the D

practice now

was going to ask who it was hit to but didn’t want to start that again

red floyd standing by
Morales to 2nd on wild pitch. 3-2 count on Howie.
Morales in scoring position

Wild pitch

Hubba hubba

women in blue… :(

Saunders walks Hu.
But I thought Hu was on first!
Sweet

In the More photos link above, I’m kinda diggin’ the dude in the back casually enjoying a Sloppy Joe. That thing looks good.

who is out.

yes
Naturally.
So Naturally is out?
who is out
Naturally!
who!
Now that's the first thing you got right all day!
Hu out at second on attempted DP, but Repko is safe at first. 1 out
Repko got down that line...

grounder to the left of Woody…

Wood looked great

Make everyone forget Tiger, Brandon

UMPS job us again

shoulda been a 543 DP but called safe at 1B

Damn Aybar Bobble

woulda been a 643

Eybar

Eric trying to get the rust off…

Aybar sure can pivot on the ball.

I see what you did there… ;)

Napoli makes the catch on Dewitt foul popup. 2 outs
Joyce DeWitt out

Chrissy Snow in

pop culture reference

over 75% of the heads here

Rassum fassum mumble grumble darned kids today...
now, now Mr. Roper
Come and knock on our door

Come and knock on our door…..
We’ve been waiting for you……
Where the kisses are hers and hers and his,
Three’s company too.

I'll be down at the Beagle later
Joe having to get 5 outs this inning...
...and does...

nice job Colonel!

Nice play by Woody…again!

What was the fifth (treating the DP/FC as the fourth)
2 tries at DP...called safe at first on first DP and ball Eybar clanked was another DP ball
and we are out of the inning
Blake grounder to 3rd gets the runner at 2nd out. Going into the 4th.
That inning is why Saunders looks so bad to stat heads

and so good to Angels fans

Where is STAN OF VLAD today?
Those words are the language of Mordor

We dare not utter that tongue here….

;)

We dare, we dare!

    Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
    ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.

Whoa

That got nerdy FAST

Wood is so tall, he should throw down more to our midget players.

He always looks like he is going to throw it over their head.

Napoli flys out to right. 1 out
Woody=bbyeron

working the count…

Mathis ground out. Wood advances to 2nd. 2 outs.
Aybar flys out to left. Heading into the Bottom of the 4th
Eybar=more flail

Needs to get some more work in…swings at another ball and flies out to LF

Ethier walks.
Curious, what is Wood's OBP for Spring?

I keep hearing some complain that he’s sucking, but he seems to be collecting a hit and a walk or two per game.

Granted I only follow through these threads, but he seems like he’s doin alright.

before today, .364
his K rate is down to ~18%
He's had some nice walks too
Should be goin up though

A hit and a walk today, right?

Manny base hit. Advances Ethier to 2nd.
Loney pops out to 3rd. 1 out
Hope we don't see Mateo and his ilk in today

Would be nice to win a ST game again—espec. vs. the doyers

How hard is Joe throwing? Radar gun readings?
Manny OUT at home.
Double for GA, Ethier scores, Manny out at home. 2 outs
If he shaved those dreads, he'd run faster

God, what a loser.

AND IT''S GONE! .......No it's off the wall and Manny is out at the plate.

Thank you Howie.

Keep Manny away from the Angels' clubhouse

Most importantly, keep him away from the towels.

thanks for reminding us of that fact.
I wasn't sure if people remembered his unusual "habit"

I don’t pay attention to Manny – what does he do to towels?

Maybe I don't want to know.
he prefers not to use traditional toilet paper but cotton towels

that’s disgusting.

I hope he tips the locker room guys well...
and those towels get washed with everybody's uniforms?
You learn something new everyday on HH gamethread.
I think that qualifies for TMI

or it’s just really funny in a bizarre way

I prefer chinchilla pelts
they're not a scratchy as gerbils
Richard Gere might disagree
Firs of all, how do you know this?

Second, the amount of potential chaffeage involved there is disturbing.

It was written about by a sports writer involving a backed up club house toilet.
What would that be?

who K’d (ok it’s Hu)

Hu out on called strike three. 3-1 headed into the 5th
Former Angels are kicking our butts these days

Even Eck

all of GA's RBIs this Spring are from us
Angels RBI Pension program

Play more than 5 years in a Halo Uniform or win us a ring and you qualify.

*Offer not valid in New York or Boston.

Sherill pitching now.
Abreu with a leadoff walk
Torii flys out to left. 1 out
Thanks for the play-by-play, btw
Woo matsui almost hit
Matsui walks. Abreu moves to 2nd
Ryan pinchrunning for Matsui
how did Matsui look in the outfield i didn't see it
Nothing was hit to him all day
oh well an easy debut then
If that's gonna be the case

let him play the field more often ;)

Hu bobbles a Morales grounder to load the bases
Hu looking like Eybar on that play...CLANK~
CLANK; the great sound of Abreu's double of the green monster during the comeback 9th inning
YES!

My favorite moment of last season

Reccage for that memory...
And Terry's play by play of that was epic as well
So sweet...

…then Vlad following with the single to center.

And PimpleButt wondering what the hell happened.

You could feel the shockwaves reverberating

throughout baseball
out here in so cal

The "Clank" heard around the world
Vlad popped the Pimple?
Sherill is done. Miller in for the Dodgers.
Who the hell is Hu?

Did they just get him or is he some prospect?

pretty sure they have had him for a couple years. I have heard the name in the past
Shows you how much I follow Los Doyers
I just remember hearing it when we played them a few times last year
He was signed in 03

Made his pro debut in 07

came up in 2007

played in 65 games last year.

Howie grounds into double play. Still 3-1 going into the bottom of the 5th
finally able to sit and watch a game!
Hemmoroids?
only pain in the ass that I have is HERE
Where?
Mr. Ladybug?
Hu?
No, he's on first.

Can’t be at short, becase that’s “I don’t give a darn”

who's on first?
Yes.
killed
It's Higz fault...
it's ALWAYS Higz fault
Mom?
I want baby pics!!!
I emailed you a pic and never got a response, yo

the my three sons account I think?

Maybe it didn’t go through…

never got it :-(
is that account still good?

I’ll send you a couple. He’s really cute!

I just updated it-try that one
Enjoy!

I’m gonna check it out on the road now—later

Saunders still pitching, Ryan now playing in left for Matsui
Repko grounds out to 2nd. 1 out
I miss Rory!
me too

I haven’t seen you this season is this your first time on?

nope

guess you can put down as a seasonal poster/lurker

been here for about 3 years

knew you’d been here just didn’t see you yet this ST.

sounds like a bar line

“first time here?”

"what's a pretty lady like you doing in a dump like this?"

nice set-up, thanks

Knoedler or whatever his name is gets a basehit
Dewitt gets a ground rule double to left. Runners on 2nd and 3rd. 1 out

Ryan unable to make the play and looked like a bad line taken

Blake sac fly. 2 outs and the score is 3-2
Evenin' all
howdy
You're always stuck somewhere...
yeah... one day I'll make it back to So Cal
well at least your closer lol
indeed
You're Fuentes?
I read it as:

At least your closer laughs out loud.

aha... got it..

thus the Fuentes line?

A your/you're dichotomy
yo dude! How's it across the pond?
Cool (in both senses)
Ethier(?) grounds out to 2nd. 3-2 going into the 6th
Hi
hi
what is better Romania or Colorado Springs?
Both are good...

Nice being in the land of baseball… I guess Romania is supposedly the land of the origins of baseball… Shepherds in the field played “Oina” or Romanian Baseball…

welcome home
thanks

here’s link for “oina” or Romanian Baseball
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oin%C4%83

Cool, was about to look that up haha
Really?
Baseball was English...

…according to wikipedia, we just moved on to other things like cricket

Oina was founded in 1364
But...

…it isn’t baseball

I’m talking about baseball.

yeah gotcha... distant cousin...
I'm guess even in prehistoric times

people play some form of stick ball

Yup...

…spear the mammoth, aim for it’s nuts

A bunch of kids at the high school i work at

are now playing cricket.

Indian or Pakistani, perchance?
LOL

no one part of old English empire. Just a bunch of white kids from Orange County.

And they are very excited about it.

They probably think they are punk rock

Let’s play a game no one knows so that everyone will think we are different.
Or they could be stoned which would be kind of fun.

Seeing punk rock kids playing anything...

would be funny.

Wow...

…good for them. Every place you see cricket being played somewhere new it’s almost always a young Indian kid who’s brought the game with him.

Someone must have taught them…

good for them!
stellar choice
Clearly you moved OFF ;)
looks like Nappy lost a chin
Lol, he was rumored to have put on some LBs too...
If only he'd put on some BB's too
I'll take some 2B's and 3B's too.
Lead off double for Naps
Neat

Side Salad

Nuclear Double for Mike Napoli.
First Halo game of the year via tv

kind of nice

Wood grounds out to SS. Napoli moves to 3rd. 1 out
Produtive out and productive game for Woody today.
Mathis sac fly to score Napoli. 2 outs, 4-2
Mathis hits three RBI

Beautiful and in good taste.

Aybar grounds out to 2nd. 4-2, bottom of the 6th coming up

bottom 6th 4-2 Halos

This Newport Naples Rib Company commercial is so lame
Frisbee Golf is now pitching
Great catch!
NICE catch!!
Holy Heck!

What a great catch

Nice job robbing Manny

Aldridge makes a fantastic catch to get Manny out. 1 out
Glad it was'nt Abreu then.
Seems like he gets one a game,
Bobby with the catch!

Hope he did’nt hurt himself.

That was actually Aldridge
Aldridge with a fab catch...

Dohdgers announcers initially thought it was Abrew…funny to think he would have lunged/dove for that ball…and likely would have gotten himself hurt…

Abrewski??
yeah...

Aldridge was a little slow to get up…and frankly slightly resembles Abrew-ski from a distance on a tiny screen on my puter…

Ah IC

Abrewski does sound very good right now.

Evans playing CF, Aldridge in RF, Statia at 2nd, Patchett at SS
Navarro playing 1st
Dale Evans?
Where is Roy Rogers playing?
GA flys out to center. 2 outs
GA -- too lazy to do something original, copies Carlos Quentin
anyone keep up with Rich Thompson? he with us still?

I noticed Ash took down her blog a while ago

Sent to the minor ST last week.
He kinda sucked this spring training.

well if he may be released all together soon as he is out of options

if he isn't on the 25 man roster at the end of ST
Didn't realize Chooper was out of options!
Unless im mistaken but I am almost positive he is.
According to this, he's not

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2010/02/out-of-options-2010.html

yea interesting.

I know we had things earlier this offseason saying he was but maybe not idk if this is more trustworthy or not.

I'm not sure if he is out of options.

I’ve heard he is, but I’ve also heard that he isn’t

According to Bill Plunkett

here, the players who are out of options are:

  • Brandon Wood
  • Brian Stokes
  • Bobby Wilson
  • Reggie Willits
  • Terry Evans
Not sure who it was, but they flew out to right to end the inning.
Thanks for the update.

Only spring, but nice that Fuentes got them 1-2-3.

Broxton pitching for the Dodgers. Evans leading off
Evans out on called strike 3. 1 out
Any word from The Soth on frontrunners for the 4th outfielder spot?
Aldridge grounds out. 2 outs
Ryan grounds out to end the inning.
Nice easy hop for Hu.
Is he on first?
a Hu hop?

waaHuuuuuu?

Check yer email sistah
He is soooo freaking cute!!
Hey thanks!
He must come from Hu-ville.

Where the Grinch is not.

Just had an idea...

Anyone want to help write “How the Grich Stole Second”?

Stokes pitching
Nice to see Scot pitching again
hopefully Evil Shields is off on sabbatical for the season
Evans hits the ground, Repko gets a double
Knoedler strikes out. 1 out
Interesting quote from Milton Bradley in today's Seattle Times

“I mean, I’m not changing,‘’ Bradley said. "I’ve gotten this far being me, it’s been 31 years, and nothing changes about me, ever.’’

yeah, it's working so well for him too
Amusing how LL has turned into the official Bradley apologists.
of course

and as soon as he’s gone, he’ll go back to sucking tartar sauce

Patchett and Ryan collide, but Patchett makes the catch. 2 outs
out fielders collide
Ouch, Ryan got Patchett's elbow in his face
Ryan's out of the game.
Is that Tommy Murphy in LF?

#65

the unknown comic?
Wasn't that Murray Langston?
Murray Langston is playing LF
We have a left fielder in no one knows who though
Injury Time out

Black eyed Ryan

Julio Perez in LF now
Smith strikes out to end the inning. 4-2 headed into the 8th
Jeff Weaver pitching
WTE sighting!
WTE, You SUCK!!!!

You blow chunks for us, and then turn into Cy Friggin Young for the playoffs with STL.

You can bite my shiny metal ass

DoGels

Angers

Wasn't that an antacid?
WTY pitching opening day (rumored)
I missed the batter, but he flew out to LF. 1 out
Navarro flys out to left. 2 outs.

That one was almost in the bullpen

dang... 2 nice grabs
Napoli flys out at the wall. 4-2 headed into the bottom of the 8th
Napoli has to hit farther
Maybe Mathis can give him some tips.
Gibbons flys out to 2nd. 1 out
Redmond pops out to 2nd. 2 outs
Who is pitching for the Angels?
Stokes still
I suspect Scioscia wants to determine if Stokes can make the roster

I get the sense Stokes will make the team, and Matt Palmer will get sent down to AAA.

Probably, espcially since Stokes is out of options
Stokes has been pretty solid this spring hasn't he?
Ya, before this game, he's worked 8 innings giving up 2 runs. Assuming he's done, he's at 10 innings with only 2 runs allowed
Loney gets a single
he's on first with Hu
GA in a Dodger outfit. Weird
"GA steady and efficient at the plate"

NO, it’s cuz he’s LAZY

"doesn't waste a lot of energy."
hilarious descriptions!
Lindsey, running for Loney, advances to 2nd on a wild pitch
GA strikes out
GA strikes out to end the inning.
Dick Wood up to bat
BTW, your pic is dope

Don’t know if I’ve ever told you that.

nope and thanks. Stole it from a friend
Weaver hits Wood. Wood goes to 1st.
He hit the Wood
Mathis grounds into DP. 2 outs
Obligatory:

Gameday Sucks.

bought MLB.com this season
No streaming vid at work. Not sure about audio.
~cough~ me too but they gotta catch me first ~cough~

figured if I get to see a few ST games, it kinda paid for itself rather than going to AZ.

Plus hubby can get Cubs games

I decided to not be cheap and got it too
Gameday always sucks in ST

During the season it usually works much, much better.

Patchett out. Now it's up to whoever pitches the 9th to not blow it.
Francisco Rodriguez pitching, and Brasman(?) is at 3rd
F-Rod in to pitch. Here goeth the game.
He's yet to allow a run this spring.

Rafael is the one who has kinda sucked

Knoedler reaches 1st on an error by Brasman
Man this thread is like a real game... everyone leaves after the 7th inning
real fans are still here

I’m just multi-tasking and starting dinner

and I thought multi-tasking is watching the game and commenting on HH
that's why YOU da male and I da female

I got wings started, gave the kid a snack and started emptying the dishwasher

nice.... Well I guess I'm tasking care of the kid too...

Kid sits next to me with lap top playing games…

Who the heck is Brossman?

(checked Gameday for the spelling)

Fly out to left. And that's the ballgame
Angels Win Angels Win Angels WINNNNNNNNNNNN
Woohoo

Just another ST Halo Victory! :)

Victorious Victory!
put one lightbulb in tha hAlo
Light Up The Camel

i should be an ad exec

Light up the Cactus!

Just another Halo Victory!

most luminous win finally!!!
The cactus light with luminous resistance power!
just another Dodger beat down.
I hope they are planning a special tribute to Rory on Opening Day
You know they are.
Over already??

I hate when work interferes with baseball. Glad we won…

darn job! stoopid bills!
But I get free healthcare now!!!!

Booyah!

If you think healthcare is expensive now

Wait and see how expensive it will be when it’s free

I'm glad I'm a RN

I have shortcuts

Like Dorothy Hamel?
Just like Gerald Ford.
I have no illusions...
I was so completely for it

before I realized politicians were involved.

As long as they don’t mess with my baseball, I guess I’m OK

Let's see...

…previously I had an employer and an insurance company between me and my doctor. Now, I’ll have a bureaucrat, an employer, and an insurance company between me and the doctor. Can’t wait…or wait longer…

I'll just say "we'll see"

before this luminous baseball victory turns into a sour government thing

Touche...

…back to celebrating most luminous victory…

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