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Game Thread: Spring Game 1

Angels Versus White Sox at 2 PM. - Joel Pineiro starts for the Angels and is scheduled to throw 30 pitches.

We are tinkering with the pregame picks. If you are new to Halos Heaven, we have a thread to vent our reactive minds out and about as the game progresses. Join in, it is a great way to meet the community.

Also today will see the 10 MILLIONTH page view on our site, and our comment pages are complete, not adding new pages after every 20 comments to jack up our numbers, so that 10 Million has been EARNED. Thanks for being part of a great community, here is to an awesome Angels 2010 campaign.

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Woooohoooooo!!!!!

Let’s do this!

Finallly the day has arrived.

seems like it was a long winter. But I’m excited for the start of baseball again.

F N A

I’m here!

All is right in the world.

Angels baseball is here!

I SEE THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THIS DARK OFF SEASON TUNNEL!

Rejoice.

Halos Line Up

SS Erick Aybar

RF Bobby Abreu

CF Torii Hunter

LF Juan Rivera

DH Maicer Izturis

2B Howie Kendrick

C Mike Napoli

3B Brandon Wood

1B Robb Quinlan

RHP Joel Pineiro

I'm ok with this

…for today

Maicer in the 5-spot at DH. LOL
It was done in the 2007 ALDS

Believe it or not.

Ah, 2007 ALDS

Casey in the hospital, Garrett with pinkeye, Maicer at DH. How didn’t we win that series?

Sosh loves those wacky lineups
wow, I didn't think Bobby or Torii would play today
I raise my food-grade stainless steel office thermos to a great season
Will this game be on internet radio or anything?

If you purchased MLB package it’s on there. It’s supposed to be on AM830 online also.

Angels Baseball!

Wooooooo!

Will there be a gameday for this

Or is there a place where I can stream ? :P

"Game Thread"

Sweetest words in the Haloverse — felt like I was never gonna see them posted again

EEEEEK

First (kinda) for reals game thread of 2010!

Will this work day never end? I need to get home, already!

Is it Me

What, what, what do I win.

I would like to thank the academy… LETS GO HALOS!!!

Geez it seemed like it was only a couple weeks ago...

… that we were playing the Yankees in the ALCS…

Damn, was I really that drunk that I slept through December, January and February?

22nd-ish!

BOOYAH

anyone find any audio yet?
http://azulweb.streamguys.com/am830klaa.asx
GMJ: HR, double, 3 runs scored in Mets debut
Oh man maybe we can get him in a trade.
I heard he wants to play the 4th Outfielding spot.
you think we could get Granderson instead?
Of course man...

I think if we over Matsui and Matthews, we’ll get him.

it's spring training

even Robb Quinlan has good springs

That was actually his second game.

First game was Tuesday. Struck out, grounded out, and grounded into double play

Good. That sounds more like the GMJ fiasco we all know and love.
red floyd standing by
first game of the year!

WOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Jo-el?
He's from Krypton

I’ve heard a lot of people pronounce it that way.

That was odd

Diablo-vision? wtf is that?

The devil made him say that
Well thats it for the KLAA stream
did anybody else's audio just give out?
No, but I'm using a radio....
Q is starting at 1B
Win that spot Q
Called K on Beckham.
Halofolife checking in.

Afternoon all, anyone crack open a celebratory beer yet?

Not yet

but working on my 2nd celebratory cup of coffee

Bastards! Its just a Spring training game fer shitssake
What happened?
830 audio stream was cut
Lack of streaming makes QFR very mad
Yeah.

I mean if they had killed Kenny, well,…. then they’d be bastards!

What would Brian Boitano do?
He'd quit being a cheap bastard and buy mlb.com at bat 2010
Pure-shit-ski getting booed
Pineiero K, struck him out looking.
The first Jo-el.
Pure-shitski GIDP 6-4-3 to end the inning
I can get used to that.
Any velocity readings on Pineiro?
His first three pitches:

Knuckleball 41 MPH

Two Seam Fastball 102 MPH

Screwball 88MPH

Not too bad

Considering he threw the screwball lefthanded

Really?

Reports have his slider at 235 mph with a 4 foot break.

you heard wrong

6 foot break

Mota considers himself beloved in the greater Latin American and Hispanic communities and takes great delight in pronouncing players’ names with an exaggerated accent.

Racist.
Hostility Abounds!
I GOT QUOTED!

And on the first game of Spring Training. Gonna be a good year.

Dont get everyone started again.
this has always kind of bugged me lol
We should spell the names the way Mota pronounces them
Bobbie Abroo
Bobbie Abroo is out.
My-cer Is-too-rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrez
Here- "r"

You forgot one.

Reeeeech COR-eeeeen-theen-an Leh-Thorrrrr
I loved you in the Wrath of Khan.
Jess! Jess! It waazz a suPARB parFORmahnsss
That one took me a while
Torrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrri Hunter
Ha, ha Juan Pierre....
Domo there Doyers
Shut up

I love that guy.

Then marry him
He said no.

Dick.

Are you guy watching it on TV or can you hear the audio – or did you purchase the MLB.com package?

Watching on FSN
Im missing Rex on Radio already, moto is boring!
Howard's Commercials are back!

I love it!

Looks a crap-load warmer in AZ

than it did for today’s Grapefruit League games in FL. Everyone in Florida had heavy jackets on.

Joel is a God
Sit down

2 Strike outs for Jo-El

Argh

Stuck at work. At least there’s gameday…

but it feels like your playing someone else's video game
2K for Pineiro - I'm liking this guy so far.
Wah wah wah

Oh you Kendrick

Shaq woulda had that.
Nice throw Kendrick
Jump Higher Quin.

How you gonna make the team with a total GA effort like that.

Is the audio link still not working?

it's gonna cost you
$14.95 to be exact

but at least I got the game back

MLB audio?

or one of the mobile apps?

Either.
I seen the comp one was for $19.99

got a link to the cheaper one?

I just purchased mine from BB App World

I believe iTunes has it for $14.95 too

Good point. Maybe if you want 'til half the season is over. ;-)
mlb.com at bat 2010 for the blackberry
never mind.

I thought they kept saying on AM830 that we would get to listen to it for free.

On AM830 over the air
They say that every year

after a delay, during which everyone pays anyway.

I really like what I'm seeing from Pineiro so far
Doing stuff in ST is actually impressive slightly for pitchers.
Not any more
I should probably shut up

when someone is doing well, not much defense behind him though

Ahh, life begins again!
Lots of GBs so far from Joel

Defense can’t keep up as of first game.

who got the hit for us?
Abreu

but it should have been called an error on Juan Pierre

It should have been an out. Pierre dropped it.
Abroo.
He's probably saying it right, actually, don't you think?
Boobie Abroo?
The older I get the more I need baseball to live.
Ahhh, feels good
And gameday is totally frozen...
It needs Viagra
Stirrups isn't here, but...

Fukui-san!!!!

I must say baseball is even cooler connected to HH

really appreciating this already

It's almost like 3-D!
Glasses free!
my wife is going to love me watching the game

and checking out HH at the same time (not)
(though I’m at work now)

Yeah

That doesn’t always fly in my home either.

Yeah, it's good times.

Then you start quoting the site at her.

and Son of Raaddad

will be joining me as well I’m sure
This should get crazy

Wait until the posters that misread stuff show up

wish there was a class they could take to catch up on the history of this site.

like what?

(I don’t want to be one of them….screwed up enough already)

You're fine.
Ah, blessings

from on high ;)

When jean shows up

Have her explain to you how it’s done

2nd that

New here myself. Just been reading all the comments for the past month or two trying to get acclimated and catch on the the inside jokes…

There's Inside jokes?

Hunh…go figure

Thank goodness for my netbook.
Listened to all 2009 Spring Training Games

Just like this.

If you wear sunglasses while posting ...

it’s even cooler

like Rev in his profile picture?
that good sir

is what they call RAD

Bases Loaded

Pierre coming to the plate

Howie needs a new glove
Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh

Good to be back!

is Jo-El still pitching?
He's gone now.
No

Kal-El warming up.

I'm getting cognitive dissonance

from watching the Angels on DiabloVision.

Ok, so what is your opinion of what you saw with Pineiro?

I realize two innings in ST isn’t much one way or another but…

Forget it, Jake

It’s Tempe town.

our defense needs to work out a little rust

other than that a good start

RACIST
Fag

oh god, did i just open up another can of worms?

Nazi!

Okay, just kidding.

I call Godwin!
I want my scalps
ahh... when in rome.
Theres a 162 games man

you need to chill.

I thought he looked good.

Probably wouldn’t have given up any runs in the regular season (Aybar should of had that one)

Yeah, thats why I was asking...

…I was a bit late to the party and turned on the TV right when it showed Aybar misplay it.

So was wondering how he looked as a whole, as much as that short of a timeframe can give you. Cool thanks.

5 pitches into the first game of the season

And i’m already sick of Jose Mota

You better be careful

saying things like that

racist...

oh wait your from the UK…I mean…Colonialist!

Hey, I can be racist too!
Tory!
Nah. With our luck, he's a LibDem
....he likes other girls?
Well, I was talking in colonial terms.
I can use my my winter f-bombs

FUCK THAT

Take-It-Easy Bro
good one, BHM
Wow

I’m so happy to have baseball that I couldn’t complain about anything at this point.

Same ol' Rivera in the box

jersey adjustment, cup adjustment, hat adjustment, cup adjustment.

smell the bat.
As long as he doesn't adjust his cup

then smell his hand.

Or smell the cup. Amirite?
Hey, the man knows what he's doin' alright?

Give him a break

Better than Nomar

Couldn’t stand watching that guy at the plate. glove glove shoe shoe glove glove….

According to this thread

Gameday is about two innings behind.

Frozen at bottom of 2nd
Take the lead, Nappy.
Howie could have had a triple I think
best not to pull a hammy in first ST game
Yup.

Besides, NAPPY IS UP!

true

keep everyone healthy

Howie! Extra bases.
Side Salad please
good start for HK
HK47 double

And it’s the bottom of the 2nd, chariman

Howie doubles

all is right with the world

Lol, but I'm just staring at a picture of Rivera.
SUCK IT AJ
And keep sucking it.
i love when bad things happen to him...even spring training
I hope the White Sox re-sign him this coming off season

so I can boo him in person at ST next year.

wuss

AJ is Gay

YES!

Take that you hack, AJ!

Nipples walks

must still be sleepy….

Look what you did for Wood, AJ.

Suck on that!

Work intruded. What happened?
GMJ homered
Oh. I thought Quentin flew out to center.
see, i was going to type that

but i wasted a valuable 8 seconds searching to see if someone had already written that

B. Wood!
DO NOT TALK ABOUT ERECTIONS IN GAME THREADS PLEASE

Jesus you guys have no class.

ALL YEAR KIDS>>>ALLL YEAR
HOMOPHOBE

Did I spell that right?

just wait til Wang pitches to Wood
Do we play the Nats this year?
With Dick Pole as the pitching coach
COME ON BRANDON!!!
Lets Go Chubby!!
Double steal!

Suck it AJ!

AJ can't catch either
Wood got out.
Wood grounds out to SS
yes updates please...

since I can’t find anything that’s updating live.

google mlb gameday...

it will lead to a link where you can keep track but…its frozen right now.

exactly - it's frozen
aye, and there's the rub

appears to be a waste of time

did the double steal work?
Yes, but Woody grounded out
Yes. But Wood grounded out right after
Wood looked like stick boy at the plate.
checking in, Q is at first

remember it’s March

Stokes is pitching.
Stokes pitching now.
Juancho!
13lbs lighter

and making catches

Way to be lazy, Juan.
He was lazy again just now.
Who was that in LF?

Juancho

Again, man, CHASE THE BALL JUAN!
Juan lost 13 pounds.
Too lazy to eat?
Wish I was lazy!
why would he be holding sterling?
That's 6 Kg to you.
no, it's thirteen quid

i’d be gutted if I lost that much money

No, I meant weight
irony doesnt work that well online...
Or just slightly less than one stone, if you prefer
Is the new guy on the comms at all today?
nope just terry smith and jose mota
Juan Rivera Rules
What did he do?

Are the tips still bleached?

He made two difficult catches without leaving his feet
Atta boy, Number Juan!
Stokes is keeping Rivera busy
and again!
its good exercise

And Stokes keeping that pitch count low.

Rivera is also Stoked
How does everyone feel about Victor Rojas? Was he a good choice?

i have seen him on the MLB Network, but never heard any of his play by play work

An inspired choice, I think
There is a whole thread about it . Look around.
Should be good.
No room to move in the Angels Dugout
second hand smoke is not toxic
THANK YOU

That ad is so bogus, and paid for by our tax dollars.

yet another reason not to pay tax
Easier said than done, my friend.

But I like your thinking.

It can seep thru the cracks in your wall. LOL
Far more lethal things

seep through my cracks.

Dude, that's what the toilet is for...

(Or, the loo, if you’re UK Halo).

What about second hand Stokes?
he MIGHT be toxic

time will tell

This is a topic that needs to be thoroughly researched

I vote Quinlan for the job.

Q

Is gonna hit a home run

Later in the game
He always seems to have at least 1 clutch HR per season

I assume that comes from pre-season practice like this.

No Matsui today.

Soth wants to torture the Japanese press.

hahaha

i really wanted to see him take a hack or 2

They are saving him

For when Rodan arrives.

Only if he signals to left

before shooting his fire breath at him.

Well, he'll have fun fighting Mothra at the Big A.
be out for a couple more days

needs to get more warmered up then the rest of the team

I think Aybar will have

a great year batting leadoff this year

I have no worries about Figgins

playing for Seattle, Aybar will work great at lead off and Wood will add some production at 3B.

And the Angels Machine strikes!
All tied up!

A hit for Rivera

The Boy King is up!
Rivera looking great.
There we go

Get those Angel legs moving

Way to go Juan. RBI
Please, somebody stop that dumb-ass Roger Lodge 714-TICKETS commercial!

If I hear him sing one more time, I’ll go postal!

I'll hold him if you hit him.
7 - 1 - 4 TICKETS.........7 - 1 - 4 TICKETS
My 5 year old sings a long with him.

Think he’ll pay me to have her replace him?

714 tickets, 714 TICKETS!
I need to hear it again, i didn't catch the phone number
What inning is it in. Cause gameday is in the 3rd.
end of 3, waiting for start of 4
Heading into the top of the 4th
Hmn, At Bat for iPhone is better than before!

While Apple doesn’t allow 3rd party apps to run in the background on the iPhone or iPod touch, Silicon Alley Insider notes that you can listen to audio in Mobile Safari while using other applications. It’s this trick that MLB exploited with At Bat 2010. With the tap of a button, At Bat will push an audio stream to Mobile Safari.

Good to know.

First Run of the (spring) Season!!!

yeah baby

Hula-Dula makes the catch!
Raadad, are you getting these names?
I guess we need to put up the annual link to the nicknames thread.
Yes

And I submit Number Juan for Rivera.

I got drunk at an Angels-Rangers game last July and started calling him that and stuck with it ever since. That’s how true nicknames are made, right there.

That would help

Can figure out most of them, but it takes a few seconds….

Ah, you read my mind

Why “hula dula”
enquiring minds want to know
(saw that a while back and just laughed without knowing why)

Cause he's the domino ruler
He was quoted as saying he was the hula-dula domino rula

While playing dominoes in the clubhouse.

I see

said the blind man
thank you—too funny—love that guy

Who is that pitching?
Stokes
Ahh for some reason I thought it was someone else.
wtf is diablo vision?
It's one less than triablo vision
the diablo is in the detail
Seriously, though... It's probably the big screen at the stadium.

It’s Tempe-Diablo stadium.

anyone think its weird

that the Halos are on Diablo Vision? Isn’t that Ironic?

Ask Alanis Morrisette
You beat me to it.

I was just thinking that.

10,000 spoons?

what a twat she is

like rain on your wedding day
YES!!!!!!

BASEBALL!!!!!!!

Hi Figgi

Hey...

You new here?

I just realized I might not be able to do this Game Thread thing in the regular season...

/tear

I have to watch on MLB.tv on my computer. Participating would require minimization of the game or the operation of my laptop AND desktop at the same time. I’m worried about adding the final straw to the back of the camel that is my growing Adult ADD…

Worth it.
Don't tempt me

I wanna get laid this year. ;)

I have MLB.tv

You can split the screen. Or geek out like me and get dual monitors just for that reason.

I will now being

to idolize you.

I would much rather be able to watch the game on TV
One laptop for mlb.tv

another for the eight poker tables.

Oh, and a tv on for when there’s nothing doing in the game or the poker tables.

I have a new 24 inch monitor

I want to experience the bat sniffing and loogie hawking in all it’s glory.

there's a reason why god invented mobile phone texting
Good to see Q back

Oh wait, no it isn’t.

and his Goofy Swing.
And his Flintstone-esque base running
You know what we really need is an English announcer

the English accent would be so cool
someone like Alan Rickman, sneering when Papelbon is pitching
(UKHalo inspired that thought)

I'm available
What about that Scottish dude from FIFA on XBox?

I hear that guy’s voice all the time thanks to my roommates.

like: "oh dear...the mighty --Q-- is up agaaain"

“how stimulating…” (sarcasm and sneer)

how about someone with a South Boston accent?

and make us miss Mota

Nah, Scottish guy would be cool

“Youkilis, he cannae hit the ball”

“Ooooh Sco’t Shields is inna wee bit a trouble in’t he?”

is it Andy gray?
Yep, that's the guy
How about an Aussie!

Crikey, mate! Bruce just hit one out!

Hahahah!

Yea Nate
Long live the “october 09 trio” ( made that up)

Or an Austrian/German like Gov. Ahnie

“Naapi just cruoushed da ball
best hitta in Caulifoornya”

Nipples goes yard!!!!
KABABABABABABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
I was hoping Wood would get the first HR, but I'm good with Napoli doing it
solo shot?
Mmhmmm
Naps!!!!

Oppo!

**** HOME RUN -- Mike Napoli ****
**********HOMERUN************Mike Napoli!***************
Oh how good it feels

To see that again :)

I couldn't remember who does that, so I tried, in case he wasn't here

No offense 44.

Nappy

That’s whats up !

Nappy Hit a HAPPY
Wood didn't go quite far enough.
Sounds like a personal problem
You're just lucky opiejeanne isn't here right now
I've been scolded by the best...
NAPS!

Outtttta heeeeeeer!

Can’t wait for the Nappy vs. Mathis thread #83718735 version 2B81.

Q can catch too, don't forget
Thank GAWD

Budde isn’t getting any time in ST from what I know.

All we need is a three headed monster.

damn!

I’m out.

me too

but car radio baby! sweeeet!

Who's the new pitcher? Missed Terry's call
Fuck! I missed it!

That’s it, no bathroom breaks for my daughter while the game is on!

Dude, you just blew your F-bomb for all of ST!
I'm pissed!

While I’m wiping her butt, Napoli goes yard.

But you get the dad of the day award!
Yeah...

I’m sure she appreciated it.

Willits now in CF

Evens in RF

Reg-gie! Reg-gie! Reg-gie!
Er, 'Evans'....
and Bourjos in as well
Don't barehand it, Woody! You don't want to hurt yourself.
There's been an awful lot of stealing 2nd.
Yeah! They should try stealing 1st for a while!
Naps is gunnin' down those runners.

Not.

only 3 stolen bases allowed in 3 innings

 it’s not like it’s becoming a problem

At least he did'nt throw any to the outfield
Terry talking about the Cubs thing
Um, an out would be good....
OH COME ON AYBAR
Baseball is back

No Sleep Till October, as the Beastie Boys didn’t quite say

Damn Pure-Shit-Ski
Aybar is DEAD to me today...

…wtf did he do all offseason, play Bloons and Farm Town?!???

A.J. got a homer
Ortega still sucks at pitching.

Aybar is rusty…..

they have Andrew Jones AND Juan Pierre?

Is it the retired home for crappy outfielders?

It's the Ned Colletti Memorial Outfield

generously donated by the Doyers

No, but they *do* have

Andruw Jones AND Juan Pierre.

oh boy, i'm watching your every post now....
Oh, come on yew wer axing for it
I'm going to go to the store in a bit...

…and punch the first can of Ortega chile I can find.

I’m a man!! I’m forty!!

oh, ortega...

your chilis are the only good thing about you.

How are things looking in the first ST game?? whats the score?
4-2 White Sox
At least it's not 13-3
Quentin

Flew out to center.

What's a Co-leader, something you drain spegehetti in?
really?? maybe it is your grasp on inglish harming you there :)
Nice catch Reggie!
so stoked to be listening to baseball!
Yeah I need to jump in the car in a sec...

…just making coffee. LOVE to drive, drink coffee/tea, and listen. Even if we’re behind.

Ortega is not getting my vote for the all-star game this year. Yes, shocking, but ain’t gonna happen! :P

Naples Rib Company

A challenger appears for the lamest commercial title. Howard’s should be nervous.

Well, Howie needs something that stains his uniform too...

Of course, Soth knows the most about LAUN-dry

Looks like Juan's lost thirteen pounds landed on Scioscia.
I'm sure he had them with fava beans and a nice Chianti
Let me guess, Hannibal had Soth over for lunch...
Boy I'm glad we have Willits and Quinlan in the same lineup!
Got kinda ugly quick.
I am on a horse
Riding backwards
side saddle
Does the Old Spice guy ride side saddle in those spots?
you're seeing spots?
Ryan Mount. at least somebody can field ground balls today.
That Kid Pitch show looks pretty awesome
Come on, Gorgeous
Conger roll the hole.
WOW

CONGER-SMASH! That kid’s swing from the left side of the plate is worth talking about. Feel kinda bad for Peter Bourjos, looking like a statue with two strikes, fastball right down the middle. LOL either he was expecting something else or he’s a little nervous.

If we don't win this game, our season is OVER!

Damn Reagins and his crappy offseason.

Signed,
     Dale

wow - you REALLY give up fast.

hehehehe

I told you so

Signed,
   Joan the Angry Dodger Fan

man, it got real quiet in here

You all need to build up your stamina, good thing its only ST

Gameday is frozen

I have no idea what’s going on…

Well, lots of folks are at work right now.
wouldn't stop us during the regular season
Yeah, you rite!

2 out – runner on 1st I believe.

4-2 top 7 2 out man at first

Who’s on first?

Yes.

And What’s on second.

I don't know

3rd base

Who's pitching Today?
I don't give a darn!
Anyone see that Matt Brown went 2-3, HR, 3 RBI?
He really didn't have a future with the Angels

Woody, Maicer, Sandoval made him pretty expendable but no doubt, the talent is there as evidenced by his Olympic performance. Best of luck to Brown in Texas.

Wish him luck

Yeah, he’s good. I read that he took Nick’s death really hard last year, so that might be why he kind of fell off the map after such a great Spring. I think he could have been a nice backup for K-Mo at first, power hitting pinch hitter. Fill the role Q has at least. Actually, I think he can be a starter eventually, and I’m bummed we weren’t able to get anything back for him via trade, but he killed that with a sub-par season at SLC in 2009.

So, I guess a lot of smokers must be baseball fans.
I don't smoke

but those ads are making me want to start.

They're talking about making it illegal to smoke anywhere in Pasadena

How times have changed.

"O'er the Laaaaand of the Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"
Well, if we're comparing notes

Last time I checked, Wi-Fi hot spots remain unendangered hereabouts. . .

. . .said with cordiality
the allusion has me stumped
The UK version of the DMCA... tabled by the LibDems... an amendment to Mandy's Digital Britain law.
Well, I hadn't heard that

but little surprises me any more.

Not the worlds greatest link,but

here

just firing up my bittorrent client now

If I go quiet, assume the government have had me shot.

Word here is that Parliament is considering banning WiFi hot spots

as an anti-terrorism measure.

Great, now when I finally become a world traveller

I’m gonna have to fly with no shoes, no bottled water/soda/booze, no sharp or potentially sharp objects.

And no wi-fi.

F*ck, I think the terrorists are winning…

What do you mean "are winning"?

try “have won”.

Well, I can still go around blasting "fuck authority"

And stumble home drunk

And don’t have to bow to the east or anything.

There’s still hope!

They repealed prohibition?
Yes

But we have to sign a form to buy Sudafed.

Yeah man

Don’t believe the propoganda put out by the Candian Tourism Bureau!

*Canadian
That's why my Moonshine Bootlegging Inc shares are doing so badly
Dang Revenooers!
Yeah, our hat can be pretty shady sometimes

Just look at the Olympic Hockey Final

and anyway, we only have 2 more months of those c***ts

…until the next bunch of arseholes take over.

EEEEEEEEEEeeeeeEEEEEyyyyeeeaaaahhhheeeeeEEEE

You’ve got to really carry out te ending of “free” if you want to fit in during your travels of ’Merica.

Just offering some friendly advice.

Don't forget the obbligato part
Kazakhstan is the greatest

Country in the world!
All of the other countries
Are ruled by little girls!

Number One exporter of Potassium!
Thank God for the nicotine patch

or else my family would be dead.

but maybe a neighbour smokes...
No, I'm using the patch

Quitting didn’t go so good the last time.

Anyone know if they did any stadium upgrades for the all star game over the offseason?
The big A is shinier and newer

I think they installed new TV’s too, but don’t quote me.

Did they go to Howards?
If they went to Howards they shoud have gotten bigger TV above the 200 sections. They are small compared to SF and SD
That was all done last year during the season though
It was just recently finished though.
Not sure about over the offseason..

The Big A out front has a new paint job, plus new scoreboards within the park, and a new batters eye and there’s talk of getting rid of the fountain and rocks and putting a restaurant out there.

That might be a good idea

Not the entire rock pile, but at least a portion of it.

I’ve always thought it was a bummer all of that prime outfield viewing being wasted.

yeah I agree

I’m not really down with a restaurant but maybe some good seating and something else, like an actual waterfall.

They should put the restaurant ON the rocks

it would be totally cool.

How about an open-air bar/nightclub?!?!?!?!111!?

They could call it “The Rockpile” or just “The Pile” and you could go there and get tanked with your boys and some lovely Angelette’s???

I think I’m on to something here.

I miss Weinerschnitzel
what - no weinerschnitzel this year? Who then?
Who Dat is the Saints.
Don't have them here

No Jack In the Box
No In-n-Out
 
Fastfood wasteland.

super shugar krunch

muthafukas!!!

By the way, that 10 MILLION hath been earnethed.

Total 10,004,549

Fernando Rod looks good

He’s gonna be a good major league reliever. I can see him in the 6th or 7th inning for the Angels in a year or two. Rafael Rodriguez too.

F-ROD?
I have no idea what to call all of them.

K-Rod and A-rod were good enough. Now there’s A-Roid and we have so many Rod’s it’s not even funny.

Francisco rodriguez doesn’t impress me, we can call him fraud lol.

Fernando can be Fern-Rod

and Raffy-Rod for Raphael Rodriguez.

good thing we dealt Sean Rod.

well...

F-ROD is too close to FRAUD… but it could come in handy later… hmmm

Hank Conger's looking good back there

He’s pretty mobile behind the plate, pretty quick.

Ryan Mount is the player of the game today for his fielding efforts.

Napoli is Panther for the long ball.

Bourjos doesn't look so comfortable at the plate yet

but he’s pretty damn fast

GEEZ!!

Bourjos is freakin fast! He got down the line well and had a good jump toward second.

oh, and whats up guys

i was stuck in lab til 4. Angels baseball is back!

King Conger SAC RBI
Conger! 4-3 now.
R A L L Y T I M E !
RBI Sandoval!
Sandoval tied it!
Sandoval

rolled the hole!

new ballgame!

best headline ever?

http://www.examiner.com/x-39000-Entertainment-Industry-Examiner~y2010m2d20-Transsexual-performer-vomits-on-Susan-Sarandon

Oh god yes
Apparently it's part of the act
At least it missed Scarlett Johansson

that would have been gross

I thought trannys always swallowed no matter what.
The White Sox pitcher is even worse than Ortega though.
Conger and Sandy looking good

Couple of panther candidates out there. As well as Napo-smash

Chopper time....
Aussie sighting!

Let’s go Chopper.

Btw, this game is over after 9 innings, no extras..

Bud Selig would approve
We need to win this

I don’t want our first game to end in a tie.
They just said it won’t go past 9 innings.

Nice throw by Conger
Attention Messrs. Napoli and Mathis.

That is how you throw out someone attempting to steal.

That is all.

spoke too soon.....

I’m ready to sign up Conger for the major league team. Forget Mathis.

we're already paying Mathis...
+1

Why the hell give Mathis all that money when we have Conger waiting in the wings?

Conger!

He can throw out runners too! Nice!

And now, he looks like he's been learning from Napoli instead of Soth.

Maybe not. That was a Jeff Mathis special.

maybe we spoke too soon.... oops
hmm..

that looks a lot more like the throws I’m used to seeing from our catchers..

I sure missed this place during the off season… good to have these game threads again.

Nice job Thompson
Nice outing for Thompson

Thompson has some nice stuff. I wonder why he’s never made one of those top organization prospect lists?

He's not consistent.

That’s why they’re prospects.

Thompson did good, Conger helped his cause a lot.
looks like we're headed for penalty kicks
Changed Chupa's hit to an error on Pierre
I thought it was Pierre's hit to Kendrick that they changed
You're right. My bad.
Romine caught stealing.

…and that is the ballgame

Ah ah!

You DID make an “appearance” after all

King Conger gets another guy at 2nd to end the game
nope
Damn...

Another brain fart…. lost track of who was at bat, if you can believe that!

well I guess at least it’s not a loss

Let the Halo flicker dimly! Just another Halos tie!
that should be "Halo's"
Actually, it should just be "Halo"

Pbbbbbbttthh!

first game ends in a tie

way to start spring training! at least its not a loss!

Not bad for what I'm predicting as an ALDS preview
Who's our Panther?

I’m voting Hank Conger. It would have been Naps but everyone kept stealing on him. CONGER SMASH!

Ryan Mount was pretty awesome too.
Jesus Christ, 615 comments on a SPRING TRAINING GAME?

It’s gonna be some kind of year….

It was a very interesting game actually.
This was going to be my exact post.

I am stunned. We are going to need a TEAM of moderators each game this year to keep up.

I was waiting for you to shout "Fukui-san!"
I might have! But I was working and not in the game thread during the game.

But I did see your call to action above. Gonna be an excellent season. : )

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