Halos Heaven

princeton11loveshalos - April 25, 2010 reply

only makes sense

its SUNDAY

Are we ever going to stop

riding his ass?

Slasher52 - April 25, 2010 reply

another photoshopped is TMZ cutting there budget

DAD OF VLAD - April 25, 2010 reply

So offensive

But so damn funny.

Teixeira Who? - April 25, 2010 reply

Rec'd

although I hope you’re aware the punishment for blasphemy is having to watch Game 5 of the 1986 ALCS for all eternity.

Quad Fin Rider - April 25, 2010 reply

Kmo

and its not even close. 3-3 1 HR. 2 Runs 3 RBI. PANTHER

princeton11loveshalos - April 25, 2010 reply

Morales

Not sure how anyone could vote against the guy who was on base every time and crushed a 3-run homer that spared us Fuentes in a 1-run game. It was nice BWood got his first two RBIs, but if anyone else had done what he did today, they would get 0 votes against Kendry.

Brody - April 25, 2010 reply

"but if anyone else had done what he did today..."

Of course not. That’s the point, the hit from Wood was clutch, gave us the lead, and gave us the win. Kendry absolutely outperformed Wood but I voted for Wood based on the situation. Not just because he got a hit, but it was the game winner and he really needed it. Based on performance, it’s Kendry hands-down; based on what meant more to me (and arguably the team), it’s Wood.

haloduck - April 25, 2010 reply

This

Rec’d.

The idea of the Panther, I think, is who is the player who performed in a Panther-like fashion by coming through in the clutch and doing something momentous or thereabouts that won this game for us, whether that be Weaver pitching a complete game shutout or Torii Hunter going hitless but leaping to rob the opponent of a game-winning home run even though another Halo went 4-4. Wood’s double not only came at a crucial moment but put us ahead for good. Kendry’s HR was padding on top of it. Yes Kendry had the statistically better performance, but in terms of pure PANTHER, I give it to Wood—or, really, Wood AND Morales as Co-Panthers.

+1

RexTookMyStash - April 26, 2010 reply

Yep
Also liked the fact that Wood’s starting to hit pretty well. Shields had the movement and command today. The offense with some good hits.

phoenix15 - April 25, 2010 reply

I had to give this one to Wood.

angelsfan7 - April 25, 2010 reply

I'd like to write in for our bullpen

they didn’t even give up a single hit today in 3.2IP. We need all the confidence we can get in this area.

Hopefully today jump starts Wood’s belief in himself as well.

Light it up!

RexTookMyStash - April 25, 2010 reply

It's the Cuban Missile, baby!

bc56274 - April 25, 2010 reply

Best play by the opponent.....

Giradi calling off the IBB on Morales.

angelsfan7 - April 25, 2010 reply

The hell was that?

I’m glad Morales shoved that up the Yankee’$ asses.

Teixeira Who? - April 25, 2010 reply

Let’s see if the Halos
can overtake the As. 3 game series against Cleveland, Detroit, Boston, and Seattle

phoenix15 - April 25, 2010 reply

Got to be Wood

Give him his due. He delivered when he needed to. it should only be a couple of weeks before he is batting 4th

GO ANGELS
UP YOURS YANKEE BITCHES

DAD OF VLAD - April 25, 2010 reply

As much as I'd like to vote for Wood...

K-Mo is the obvious choice. The man had an absolutely beastly afternoon, but Wood and the bullpen certainly played a huge part in earning the win. I’m really excited to see how much more Morales develops and if Wood really did have the coming-out party we’ve all been so eagerly anticipating. My outlook on the season certainly isn’t as bleak as it was in the first week or so.

moosemastr - April 25, 2010 reply

Typo line 3 - weekned

thanks!

Kendry has been the Yankees destroyer this series

7 for 10, 4 Runs, 2 HRs, 6 RBIs

Slyintine - April 25, 2010 reply

Yea, he virtually single-handedly has carried us the last few games

he’s our only hot hitter now that Shotgun is down

I started chanting "YANKEE KILLER"

not sure if it caught on….

Kendry for panther...

…he had himself a little personal party at the Yanks expense over the last few days

Very encouraging performances from Wood and most importantly Shields – if Scot is back as the pitcher we’ve known and loved most of this past decade, it’ll sew up an awful lot of holes.

8 runs (2 HRs, 6 BBs)

Nice that the Angels put a bunch of runs on the board. This year’s team is definitely going to need (as Scioscia calls it) “batter’s box offense”.

Not including today’s results, here’s how the Angels rank in the AL:

Runs: 9th
BA: 6th
OBP: 7th
SLG: 8th
HR: 8th
BB: 12th

The offense has been sub-par so far but should improve as the year progresses.

Fan Since 1981 - April 25, 2010 reply

We're getting there...

…slowly, but definitely on the up.

I do love reading the post-game write-ups from the other SBN sites

This from Pinstripe Alley tonight…

I’m trying to fight off the feeling that Joe G managed the Yankees out of the game today

Followed by this…

Let’s look at the full sequence of events though:

Alfredo Aceves has retired 5 consecutive batters, 4 righties and a switch hitter who batted lefty. Rather than let him continue to roll against Abreu and Hunter, Joe G goes to the Magic Matchup Book and pulls out the recipe for suck.

I love that Girardi still has his Magic Matchup Book – may it remain brimful of suck for all eternity

This is why Girardi won't win a Manager of the Year

until he relies on his players and stops over managing.

Slyintine - April 25, 2010 reply

And also because Mike Scioscia

and Ron Gardenhire are in the AL

Slyintine - April 25, 2010 reply

Don't forget "Hoodie"

eyespy - April 25, 2010 reply

That and the fact that a drunk goat could manage that team and its $4.2 trillion payroll to a division title.

snowhor - April 25, 2010 via mobile reply

A drunk goat has already managed this team 4 times

In other news, Billy Martin is still dead…………………

PieceOfAase - April 25, 2010 reply

delicious find Limey

Awesome to see the Halos fight back....

…..after getting down early. Way to go, Wood. Build on that.

Robviously - April 25, 2010 reply

Yes, Yes ...

Stoke that fire. Build it up. Pile it on. Let’s make this a bonfire of a season, and make the rest of our league the feast that we cook. Bring it on Brandon. Bring it on Halos. Bring your lumber to the party, and lets heat this sucker up.

eyespy - April 25, 2010 reply

Yes. Let us crush our enemies, see them driven before us, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

Especially Mrs. U-Hall and Mrs B. Arnold

Speaking of Mrs U-Haul... my chiding of Teixeira from my 3rd row diamond club seat was:

“HEY MARK! DID YOUR WIFE GIVE YOU YOUR PANTS BACK??”

He heard me, for sure.

win

TheKingfish - April 25, 2010 reply

you should have someone video tape you and post it here on HH.

Epic win.

REC for the Conan reference

BigBangRobbDawgg - April 26, 2010 reply

I thought the writers of the movie (and possibly Howard as well) stole it from Genghis Khan

red floyd - April 26, 2010 reply

Definitely borrowed from somewhere.

PeopleSoft used to have an in-house slogan that summed it up:

Have fun, kill your enemies.

Who is Mrs B Arnold?

Lackey's wife

red floyd - April 26, 2010 reply

Ohhhh. As in Benedict Arnold.

You know that she and mostly her father are the reason Arnold became a traitor? So it’s even more appropriate.

It's nice to beat a team like the MFY with our bats.

It gives me great hope. Abreu said the bats are beginning to come around and when they do the Angels will be fine.

was at the game

and when Scotty came in, you could feel the nervousness… I’m glad he did OK.
Also, lots of cheering for BWood when he came up.
And watching the Yankees “fans” leave early – priceless!

raskul - April 25, 2010 reply

Hahahaha!

Yankee fans left early? Sweet!

NJinHB - April 25, 2010 reply

Red Sox fan do too.

I was at Game 2 of the ALDS last year and the couple next to us left after the sixth inning. First the woman had to “use the bathroom”, then the guy “got an important phone call”.

I’m sure no Angel fans left early at game 3 in Fenway! :D

lightupthehalo29 - April 25, 2010 reply

The obnoxious Sox fans behind us in the first game left during the 7th, nearly in tears.

The nice ones that were sitting in our row stayed for the whole game. We talked to them before the start of the game and they were intelligent and funny, and they told us in advance that they were NOT like the other Sox fans.

Ran into one of those at Game 2 as well.

We were near a bunch of Sux fans, and I had made some comment about bandwagons… The girl behind me took offense, claimed she wasn’t and backed it up.

I gave her her props, and we all got along for the rest of the game (though I enjoyed it more than she did!)

It was glorious seeing this Yankee couple leave in the 7th inning today...

They were talking all sorts of smack early in the ballgame when it was 3 nil… I took my knocks with honor. Their leaving early was PRICELESS.

What was it like 2 minutes after Kowbell went deep?

I hope you guys got some smack in before they split
that is so lame

I'm not a smack talker...

I only talk smack to the opposing TEAM, as the real game occurs on the field. Not in the stands. When they were turning around and gloating when it was 3-0, I kept pointing to the field: “the game’s over there, let’s keep focused.”

Downing Rules - April 26, 2010 reply

You have more class

than the majority of these yoyos who come to the game rooting for the other team

Raaddad - April 26, 2010 reply

Wait right there budde ...

Yoyo is mighty fine pitcher on this here Halos team. Now you might want to edit that remark.

eyespy - April 26, 2010 reply

Speaking of yoyos

how ya doin’ eyespy?
:-p

Raaddad - April 26, 2010 reply

doin' gud

on vacation right now

eyespy - April 26, 2010 reply

lucky you

I’m working my ef-ing ass off
(but always time for a little HH)

Raaddad - April 27, 2010 reply

Ha! I learned through personal experience that it's better to save the gloating for afterwards.

I usually gave a better performance musically if I avoided anyone trying to get me to accept praise before the show.

My kids seemed to know this instinctively when they started competing in sports and other areas.

Oh yeah,

like rats off a sinking ship.
They were dancing and high-fiving when they went up 3-0, but filed out pretty quickly after KenMore’s HR.

raskul - April 26, 2010 reply

But to be fair

they all had to catch flights back to New York, I’m sure!

raskul - April 26, 2010 reply

Nice to see that 13 pitch AB from Maicer in the third inning.

Even if he had nothing but a strikeout to show for it, the boys got a nice long look at Vazquez, and the lineup had followed up with five runs by they looped back to Izturis in the fourth inning.

Sometimes small things lead to big results.

Turks Teeth - April 25, 2010 reply

said the pygmy who knocked up the supermodel

Don't forget, BWood had a 7 pitch K before that, so between them

they worked Vasquez for 20 pitches on 2 outs.

Best quote from the game by Rojas

Was strike three a called check swing?

I was looking for the highlights at MLB.com and they haven’t been posted yet at that site. I wonder why?

I only seen that at bat during the post game highlights that one time they showed it. I didn’t really start the game until the middle innings, and missed it live. The Skanks always get calls their way so I wouldn’t doubt that the ump might take a chance for the K since it was a pitch off the plate.

eyespy - April 25, 2010 reply

it was a high strike and he did go around

the home plate ump called it without any assistance from the yanksniffers down either baseline

It was clearly a swing from my vantage point about 10 paces behind the ump.

Thanksx2

eyespy - April 26, 2010 reply

What was the Rojas quote?

The link just says it was a good one, doesn’t say what it was, though.

Perfect pitch... right down the middle for a ball

red floyd - April 26, 2010 reply

Damn fire alarm

made me miss that three run homer

ryanfea - April 25, 2010 reply

Kendry, with Wood a close 2nd.

~MMP~ - April 25, 2010 reply

The only reasoning for Wood

would be because he gave us the lead we never lost.

For me though, I can’t figure out a way to vote against a 3-3 3 run blast day. Still proud of Wood though.

Teixeira Who? - April 25, 2010 reply

Couldn't be here, was at my GF's house

watched the game there though [in the process getting no homework done], it was great to see the offense come back. Wood made some solid contact, I’m looking for him to break out soon.

And Kendry is just. . . Kendry.

TheKingfish - April 25, 2010 reply

OT

Scottnak…I placed a bet on the game today, but didn’t see my name on results. I thought I packed 5 K’s…but not 100% sure. I placed my bet around 7:00 AM this morning. If it somehow got lost, no big deal.

sothball - April 25, 2010 reply

I had the same thing happen on the only day I got a right answer.

But, I am riding high with a big fat zero points today. Yee haw!

Unfortunately...

I don’t take care of the bet-placement system anymore. You’re going to have to talk to foxpaw about that… but if it didn’t show up on the excel sheet, i’m afraid you’re out of luck… (at least from what i can do)

scottnak - April 25, 2010 reply

nit listed

as a bet. we are working on making the system better so you can at least check that your bet has been logged but for now you just gotta follow thru and make sure you see that the bet has been placed after the whole process.

We were listening to the game on the truck radio and missed everything after Rodney got the first out in the 8th.

Who pitched the rest of the game? Someone up above mentioned Shields; when did he pitch?

Shields pitched the 9th

~MMP~ - April 25, 2010 reply

Wow! Didn't know that either

Trying to catch some waves in Malibu on my birthday and missed the last two innings.
We heard Kowbell’s blast though just as we got to the beach—great birthday present! lol

Thanks. The score didn't change so that's a good thing, but was it a white-knuckle ride or did he have good command?

He was pretty damn good, 1-2-3 inning with 1 SO. He seemed to have his command back

~MMP~ - April 25, 2010 reply

That would be just super, if we have the Good Shields back.

I listened to Bulger's inning and was pretty happy with the way he pitched.

Now maybe watching it was scarier than hearing it on the radio. Terry Smith IS doing a great job on the radio. I’d like him working with Gubi instead of Rojas, but I have to admit that Rojas is really good sometimes, especially with his snotty remarks.

It was really funny, at one point Terry seemed to uttering a prophecy. He said Bulger will strike him out after he threw strike two. Maybe he counted strikes wrong, but it was funny. I can’t remember who Bulger was pitching to at that point, and I can’t remember how he got him out.

Also, really good movement on his fastball ...

and great break on his breaking balls.

Downing Rules - April 26, 2010 reply

Great game for the Angels today, but nobody commented on this line?

“After Joe Buck spent Saturday as Joe Girardi’s saliva lender”
Hilarious

steelgolf - April 25, 2010 reply

yes, great little poetic masterpiece

It sounds like Rev’’s been workin’ that blender
But it’s all good, I’m not an offender
Just more praise to the editor-in-chief I wanted to render

damn

I wish I had grabbed some of those while composing that pseudo-sonnett

I wasn't laughing...

I was instead nodding my head, saying “AMEN, BROTHER!”

I'm sorry, but Victor had the line of the game, after yet ANOTHER MFY zone call..

“Perfect pitch… right up the middle for a ball.”

Oh, nice.

THAT’S awesome.

POTG

Kendry “you should’ve walked me” Morales.

If you missed it, they started to intentionally walk Morales on his HR ab (one pitch-out) then decided to pitch to him. Actually is was a communication error on New York and they corrected it. Or did they.

vladtheimpaler - April 26, 2010 reply

Went to the game yesterday,

As for POTG, who cares, we beat the skanks! Although it’s hard to argue against Kowbell or Kaz, I rolled with Wood. He needed that hit, in the worst way, and the RBI’s were nice.

halofolife - April 26, 2010 reply

I was glad to hear it when he got that hit. Hope it helps him come out of it.

What I love about this post is the part of the title where the Yankees are referred to as The Bronxettes.

Can be looked at as feminine or diminishing, and I choose the second because it amuses me.