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Joel Pineiro Slays Tigers in Angels Win

FINAL SCORE IN ANAHEIM: Angels 2, Tigers 0...

The fifth starter for the Angels pitched like an ace while their former #1 was licking his wounds on the other side of the country. Joel Pineiro pitched 7+ innings of shutout ball, Kevin Jepsen held two baserunners from scoring by getting two outs in the 8th and Fernando Rodney got his 4th save in a 1-2-3 9th inning.

Meanwhile former Angel John Lackey got battered for 8 earned runs and tattered in 3+ innings in Fenway Park in front of a sold out Patriots Day crowd driven to misery by a sweep of their beloved Red Sox at the bats of the Tampa Bay Rays.

The late offseason signings of Pineiro and Rodney carried the team tonight. Amid a chorus begging for a rebuilding through the farm system, the front office built a solid foundation for 2010 and it was in evidence tonight. It is as if Tony Reagins knows what he is doing...

There once a horse named John
who relieved himself on the lawn
But in rode Pineiro
said
"¡Angels Yo Quiero!"
Lackey's legacy's dead and gone

Our SBN partner site FANGRAPHS had Pineiro, Jepsen and Rodney as the highest contributors to the Angels victory as calculated by WPA, check out that link to see which of them contributed the most.

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Poll
Panther of the Game
Joel Pineiro
351 votes
Kevin Jepsen
16 votes
Fernando Rodney
7 votes

374 votes | Poll has closed

0 recs  |  212 comments

Comments

Screw that horse face lackey

go angels, we are .500 and kicking ass. GOD BLESS AMERICA

PANTHER OF THE GAME: Naps

for sitting on the bench

and letting Mathis play?

+1
Opiejeanne!!! I missed you during the game threads
get a room
Aw, chill, dude!
;-) I was here in spirit while I was at the game.
I'd get arrested. I think there's a legal limit on how much older the cougar can be.
Not that I am a cougar. *cough*
You're 90?

Opie, I’m 47.

Ok, I'm only 13 years older than you,

but I’m married.

Me too.
Ah well, it is not meant to be. ;-)
Rodney's post-game interview started with:

“When they first brought me to Anaheim Angels…”

That was awesome
I laughed at that too.

classic.

TEAM SHO

Kaz needs to complete this dominant turn in the rotation. Pinata’s got my panther for tonight

I have a really good feeling about this starting rotation this year
definetly a strength coming into the season everybody is on track just Kaz needs to get on it

I give Kaz a break though cuz he only has a start under his belt hopefully he gets there

Punctuation is your friend.
WTH

Are you the den mother?

YES I AM!

You wanna get your merit badge then you had better learn to put a comma or a period where you’d take a breath, or you’ll pass out.

yesum

Mrs. Post

run-on sentences for the lose.
but dont let it toch you in the danger zone
Is is just me?

or does Pineiro look like the #1 and Kazmir look like the #5?

i agree

Kaz is the reincarnation of LACKEY

too early Kaz has only one start
Kaz is going to be fine

but it may take some time
The bigger problem is that he rarely gets any run support

And it was like that last season.
No. Weave looks like the #1.
what i mean

the before the season started, Piniero was billed as the guy to replace Lackey as our #1. Well funny story. he’s done a good job.

Big P shootin' for the #2 slot though I'm thinkin'

First time I stayed in the thread with only MLB Gameday

That wuz fun

the halo shines tonite...
At least I get to see the big A on your post.

Too many condos now, couldn’t see it at all on the drive home.

were you not going to move?
.... the house is for sale, as of last week.

One offer before it was even shown, but it’s a bit low. Another coming in tomorrow and maybe a third one. In the middle of counter-counter-counter offers with the low bidder. It’s been a bit of a wild ride this weekend.

And... we are supposed to get on an Aer Lingus flight to Dublin a week from Wednesday.

Watchin’ that volcano….

Probably won't happen

the insurance guys won’t let it

sorry to say
Yeah, I know.

Last time I checked their flights were not cancelled for tomorrow, but that may have changed in the last couple of hours.

Aer Lingus has said they will give us a complete refund, or we can rebook for free. I bought those tickets many months ago at a decent price, wouldn’t want to pay for the same ones right now.

sung ot the tune of WATCHIN THE DETECTIVES

She is watchin the volcano
then it spews, spews

oh yea

deserves a separate post and to be finished

Pineiro = Panther

Fuentes = Setup
Rodney = Closer

Fuentes = Trade bait lefty only
I don't think he's very tradable at $9 million

plus another $9 million vesting option for next year

the guy is SUPER overrated

Jepson could get 30 saves on this team.
It was a bad signing. We have no other lefty and he fits for lefty hitters only

Bring in Fuentesaurus to face Big Poppy

Oh….I forgot….anyone can get him out now…..

his supplier (manny) turned his beeper off.

JepsEn
he can't help it

watchin all those The Jetson’s shows

Our bullpen actually looks good if Fuentes stays the hell away from the 9th Rodney doesnt even let people get on base its an odd feeling
Rodney has been closing out games with Authority!

I haven’t felt this confident about a Halos closer since Percy was in his prime.

Yeah, contrary to the scouting reports.

I keep hearing Rodney likes to “make it interesting” like Frankie used to do. But so far, Rodney has been quick and dirty. Me likey.

The knock I heard on Rodney was only in non-save situations...

but he was said to be “lights out” during saves. I read that here, not sure how accurate it is.

He has consistently facing the bottom of opposing team’s order in his saves…I give this save to Jepsen with a Hold for Rodney.

Holy shit...Fernando Rodney sounds SOOO LAID-BACK....

did anyone just hear that clip via radio?

it is 4/20 iin a few hours

he just started early
he has a card for anxiety

Damn

To bad for Lincecum. He wont be in Cali…

he is from Washington

SO I BET HE GROWS HIS OWN

ya, But

Does he prefer Indica or Sativa? I bet Idica….Hud seems Like s Sativa.

Probably rolls the spleefs

I mean, isn’t DR like Jamaica?

Raddad

You’re rad. :)
 *earmuffs *

Sativa= Coffee
Indica= Heroin

No, you're rad.........

I’m just Raaddad
but I will take some “coffee” at the Big A when it’s legal next year

Dude someone did something in College

I am training to be a police officer, that is how i know.

Well...I'm not giving you my address lol
How 'bout Dadgum Shotgun Mathis with a 10-game hitting streak!!!

I loved that opposite field “doinker” that plated the first run

Has anyone checked the basement for pods?

Is this the same Mathis we’ve come to know and, uh, love?

Ha! He does seem to have been reborn after the Yankee playoffs

Reminds me a little of Ersty behind the plate—the same driven kickass ballsout attitude

Yes, now that you mention it he does remind me of Erstad.
Pinata's ERA at a brick 1.77

meant to type ‘brisk’

They feel like "bricks" to the hitters, bro
basically like 3 times lower than Lackey's

I’m not saying the Angels should be feeling all that good, but dang Red Sox, you can’t let the Yankees and Rays get that far out ahead. They are already 5.5 games out of a playoff spot. It’d be one thing if they were chasing the A’s, but if I would have known that on April 20th, the Red Sox would be in the situation they were in I sure as heck wouldn’t have considered them a favorite for a playoff spot.

There are a few games still left in the season.
It's a brick.... house...
I knew you were a disco dude, Red

Rick James, KC and the Sunshine Band, etc.

Rick James? Disco? Um, not sure that's right.

I HATE KC and the Sunshine Band, and when they play Boogie Shoes at the games it makes me want to scream.

How can anyone hate

Kc and the sunshine band…you have so soul or joy

Sez you.
ya

says me

C'mere and say that to my face.

Oh, wait, You can’t. Ha!

look behind you

i am always there like a ninja

Shake Shake Shake

Total stripper get-it-on tune as well

We are from a different generation. Aretha's Respect was the great topless number when we were young.
in my generation it was

Maple left rag

^leaf
WTF?
Google it

in my days they showed the legs with that song

OHH YAA

I can't yet
It's a Scott Joplin piece, they danced the two-step to it in 1899.

His stuff was used extensively in The Sting.

I should say, white people danced the two-step to it.
Doing jazz homework
Got it--it was hot on The Sting

jazz class eh?

Bachelor's Degree in Music. Played The Chrysanthemum Rag

on my clarinet, not my major instrument, for a massive concert, rocked it.

One of only two A’s in Jazz History that year, easy peasy. Will tell you stories about collidge later on. Byeee.

"rocked it"

Oh word?

Prove It, opie

How do I prove that?

I don’t have a tape of the performance, but I do have the memory. I was part of a quartet made up of faculty and students.

The Sting was "The Entertainer"

Which is also a Joplin piece.

I don't know--I'm thinking "Need You Tonight" as the hottest song

of my generation (or later I guess)

Backstreet Boys? Heh. That's just precious.
AHHHHH

INXS, baby
I’m watching the game again and refraining from work

Good song.

I’ve thought of covering it.

They were kind of the Monkees of the disco era.

Very “produced.” Having said that, I personally can’t help but groove on them. Shake shake shake…

I thought all the ladies dug disco

Well, at least back in the late 70’s
James’ “Super Freak” was a mega disco crossover hit

Yeah, it was a crossover, but I never considered the rest of his stuff disco, but I could be wrong.
Yea you're right

I actually met, worked with and partied with (in a way) Rick James when he was making the video for that song he did with Smokey Robinson in like ’84 or so—he was a trip

did he say

“rick james bitch”

I am so fuckin' impressed!!!

My first F bomb, and you got it.

Seriously.

In the production company. Rick would tell everyone what to do all the time. I remember him tossing out huge massive ganga-filled doobies to the ground and saying to us: “Go get it white boys”….
What a crack up.
Needless to say I grabbed them whenever I could and said thank you, Mr. James.

you are a raaddad
yes

my raadness is transhistorical and metaphorical
but not transexual, sorry

If it was transexual

a whole nother level

I hunderstand that %3 of HH posters

are transsexuals, but I might have the numbers wrong

(shit--where are my glasses?)
behind you

i am a ninja

I heard that 3% of HH posters

Respect the shit out of me

and 97 %

respect anyone who kicks the shit out of you.

Would you feel bad if i told you i am

disabled?

hey opie?
Yeah?
What do we Noobs do to succed better here at HH?

I’d appreciate your advice.
Dad Vlad may be beyond hope (lol) but I would like to say improve my thing
what do you think?

I think you're doing just fine, and I'm probably the last person to ask.

I was new here around late June… I think.

I tried not to sound like too much of an idiot when I posted stuff, not always successful, but they seem to put up with me.

Nice

You and your advice are both awesome

But now you don't give a rat's ass, huh?
Yep, same as you.
tru dat

and to think I used to be worried about what all you schmucks thought of me. ;)

Would that be a Rally Rat's ass?
When I was doing costuming in the SF area a significant part of my business came from a bunch of exotic dancers.

I can’t remember what the music was that they danced to, even though they told me. The clubs were in Oakland, between 1995 and 2001. Most of them belonged to a group called the Chocolate Chippendales.

you old people have crazy lives
I'm 60 but I still feel 17.
i am 24 and feel 40
I'll be 54 next week (fuck)

and feel….ah…..54
(drat, maybe Rev doesn’t notice the F bombs in these late night strands…)

just had mine on the 11th
busted!

fucker. oops.

i'm 45

going on 70.

Punish your body and it will punish you.

ditto fer me

02/07/1965

your now banned

(you gave me that ability a while back)

you're now banned

for improper use of the word your

^this^
now that's funny
Color me shocked!

I had you pegged at 30 tops. I guess you truly are rad, dad!

Sad. Gotta go eat some chocolate chip cookies with my husband.

Your kid(s) will make you young again when they hit jr high, if you’re lucky.

there ya go!

I’m out too

Ha! That's when mine turned evil.

Once the older one hit college, the evil switch turned off, and the younger one did it a bit earlier.

My son was difficult at 13-14, and it was exactly like that, a switch being flipped.

The girls didn’t do that, but all three of them were so much fun when they were teenagers.

My son is 13 and is addicted to technology

and having to communicate with his friends 24/7.
It’s unbelievable.
Are you going to the game on the 15th?

The Switch

After an exceedingly trying senior year in H.S., my stepdaughter suddenly became a [relatively] responsible homebody about a week after starting college, and now spends as much time at home as she can. She seems to like us again, which is nice. I don’t understand it exactly; when I was 18, I was celebrating my freedom from parental supervision on a daily basis.

Pineiro has to be Panther

that was just some classic pitching right there. That double play against Miguel Cabrera was so awesome. The pitch was perfect and what I think went under-noticed was that he gave an equally perfect feed to Howie for the dp.

Rodney has not given me any heart attacks the last couple of games...

not used to that from Halo closers……just feels weird

Despite all the hate for Fuentes

I think this season he will be a dominant closer. He brought his velocity back up a little bit.

But I can’t say if the injury he had will change that.

It’s good to know you have two closer-type pitchers in the pen though

Yeah, I was thinking that both of them closing could be awesome, if Fuentes is as good as last year.

And he was very good.

We should just platoon every position.

Get Q back in at 1st every other day…

Pineiro fo Panther...

Huge tip o the Halo to Jepsen as Panther Jr.

Exstein just hit a walkoff homerun for the Dads

why did we let him go?

Aybar or Eckstein

I’ll take Aybar

me too

duh

in order

Aybar
Cabrera
Izturis
Wood
Eckstein

Are you crazy

WOOD > Eckstein
Cabrera < Aybar

Good to see lil' Eck still ballin'

Kotchman had a great night as well with 3 rbi’s

I wish I was little bit taller,
  I wish I was a baller,
  I wish I had a girl who looked good
  I would call her
  I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
  and a six four Impala

band?

“skee-lo”

i had a kid in elementary school

who would always sing that song. Repping Franklin Elementary in Santa Ana!

Ha . Same with lil dude

from Roosevelt in Long Beach. Kid can dance and sing like no other.

I don't think that means what you think that means.

You see, the hungry Alligator…

i was saying that it is crazy that he thinks that

i know the pac-man eats the bigger number

Go Go Scrappy Do power
I wasn't here

because I was there. A friend called us at 6 and said, “Get down here, I’ve got two extra tickets!” So we went. Great seats but what was up with all the Bosox, Yankees and Dodgers fans? Too many of them tonight.

Some kid walked past the end of our row to get a cotton candy and he was wearing a Papelbon jersey. I said, “Wrong stadium, kid.” It got a laugh.

I was behind some fools on dodgers jerseys opening night.

I guess they take to heart when the e-mail invites them to see more great Angels baseball!

Could be right

they just want to see good baseball at a great facility surrounded by cool people’
but it kinda ticks me off when I’m there

Mostly they were cool tonight in our area.

The RedSox fans, that’s another matter.

Pineiro got a standing O?
On TV it looked like he did
Pretty much. We were in F129, Row J.

Great seats as long as people in the aisles didn’t dally.

Well, you had lots of ammo....

Swept by the Rays, Lackey out after 3.1, etc…

I wasn't sitting close enough that I felt the need to trade jabs.
Great Day!

Angels win! Kings win! Lackey shelled! Does it get any better?

DIG IT

I’m diggin’ the Lakers win as well

the long-awaited NFL draft is this week :D
Who cares about NFL. We've got Baseball. Specifically, ANGELS BASEBALL!!!
In Chicago?

Nope

Is this guy Pineiro for real, or is he just giving us a big tease?

I’ve got to say, I’m pretty impressed with the guy.

Well so far he's 2-1, 1.77 ERA, 1.08 WHIP

Also only given up 4 ER’s in 3 starts. To have this guy as our 4 or 5 spot might be huge for us this season.

Light up the Halo tonight.

Couldn’t post much since my youngest son needed the computer(Being a parent sucks) but I was happy with the outcome of the game. Joel pitched a gem, Rodney got the save, and Wood played a good game, got the bat on the ball, and we got the W. We are awesome. At least tonight.

Again, the biggest stat so far is Walks

Past 4 games, our starters have given up a combined total of one walk. It means our pitchers are getting ahead in counts and maintaining control.

Let’s see if Kazmir can do the same.

It means we haven't been using our mediocre bullpen.
Weird linescore.

Angels 2 4 0
Tigers 0 9 1

9 hits and no runs? Clutch performance by Pinata. Anyone count how many balls were hit right up the middle? I like how he finally got one with his foot after like 4 tries.

i know only one error

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