Halos Heaven

my mom and brother are at the game

they are from the Dodger side of the family…

Rev Halofan - April 3, 2010 reply

Pobody's Nerfect.

I went last night...

took a Dodger fan. It was so cool to see our young guys pull it off. Even better to shut up the Dodger fans, they couldn’t believe they got beat by the AAA players.

Need some more of

last night’s kind of win! Simply the best

go angels

Who's gonna win?

Hint: LA’s original baseball team.

3rd Echelon - April 3, 2010 reply

Then that would be the Angels

princeton11loveshalos - April 3, 2010 reply

Ding! Ding!

3rd Echelon - April 3, 2010 reply

Lets go Halos

will be dancing tonight but good luck team!!!

Got the kid in his Angels cloths

When the wife is not around the boys play or watch the game
free today on MLB.tv

Angel's lineup

Aybar, SS
Abreu, RF
Hunter, CF
Matsui, DH
Morales, 1B
Rivera, LF
Kendrick, 2B
Wood, 3B
Mathis, C

Pineiro, SP

Looks great

100+ win team

"L" is going to pitch good today

2009 Game 3 NLDS rematch

Pineiro vs Billingsley

I like that they are using the DH even though they don't have to.

Who got the error last night?

C.M. Hu

Hu got the error?

Downing Rules - April 3, 2010 reply

Red jersey's grey pants. - I like

I wonder if the Doyers have an all blue jersey to wear against

the Angels’ alternate all red ones

basehit for Aybar

1st to 3rd cause that's what we do

Abreu going 1st to 3rd?

Really?!?

yup on a basehit to right by Abreu

cuz THATS how we roll

Ichiro and Figgy have nothing on Ayabar andAbreu

6-4-3 rbi DP

I think it took until the 8th inning to see a DP last night.

let's go hAlos!!

Quite a bit of RED in the stands

Go get 'em Jor-El

BP Scanner - April 3, 2010 reply

let's get a DP now

Or a caught stealing / pick off

what is wrong with MLB.tv?

Pretty sure it's not free anymore

It was a one day "preview’ yesterday.

but the stupid boston game is free today?

can i have a dollar?

beat you

can I have a dollar?

jinx!

such a pleasure to listen to vin scully

interesting to know

that Soth’s wife replaced his World Series trophy on the mantle with their son’s first homerun ball.

better than safe sex

Is nobody awake yet?

Or did Vin put everybody to sleep already?

Seems kinda quiet in here today..

tis Easter weekend

may have something to do with it

Go Halos!

Hi everybody. We’re watching it on tivo, so we’re a little behind the live broadcast right now. We’ll catch up.

hey opj

Hi QFR.

i at work listening on mlb at bat, so I'm a minute behind everyone too

The first inning just ended for us, we'll zip through the commercials and eventually catch up.

Oooh, cool.

Mine is a photo my grandpa took in 1923, a movie still.

Ooooh! Cool!

Mine is a photo my grandpa took in 1923, a movie still.

So close

yeahhhh

So Pineiro figures to go....

5 innings?

90 pitches

You would never hear Scully's story about Aybar's game in the DM from Gubicza.

but you'd hear clumsy banter about the WWE

yeah... those are the breaks

these defection stories

never get old

If someone has a picture of the CF pine trees...

…I keep hearing about, maybe they can post them in an existing thread. Keep hearing they look so out of place but I wanna see ’em!

I couldn’t watch last nights game so missed ’em.

I noticed them too last night

Seemed kinda random

looks funny

Or just post a link here if you have it...

…I guess Hunter made a crack about fear of a pine cone hitting im and something about a forrest ;)

It looks strange to me

looks like colorado

I didn't get a picture of them last night - thought about it though

They are more like tall bushes.

They must be in pots because that section opens up to get large equipment in from the outside, like Monster Trucks.

So they are like baby pine trees?

I wonder if this is just an ASG thing or they plan to let them grow in over the years…

the truth of the trees

An urban legend persists that marijuana seeds left on the outfield grass by concert-goers sprouted and had to be destroyed by ground crews

i guess they grew fast this winter

Geez

Rivers is loving those IF pop-ups. However, I don’t mind it if he starts out slow. He’s usually a slow starter, and then rakes at the end of the season. Last year was the opposite. I’d rather have him start slow and end on fire..

DUCK

Is that Eddings umping 3rd?

Cause it would all make so much sense..

Emmel - according to Gameday

sexy.

Gapper!

Howie Doubles!!

Gonna be saying that ALOT this year..

Where does Vin get all these stories from?

Why don’t our announcers know this crap?

legend vs. scrubs

good research

and 1 motor mouth > 2 motor mouths fighting for air time

I always wondered if his staff prepares them..

..before games or more likely…his brain is just so chock-full of them it’s scary.

Seems weird though that he’d know so much about some Angel players by just random reading/baseball conversations (at his age), but maybe.

Either way, it’s his delivery that makes them fun to hear. Although Mota is a close second )

Meant to have a ((cough)) after the Mota statement :P

Back in the 50s and 60s we thought he had a monster cardfile in the booth, and maybe an assistant who rummaged through them to find him the info he wanted.

you mean there was a time before Wikipedia?

Hehe. Yeah. koff koff. And Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings.

ladybug is your kid?

I feel so old.

Heh maybe now he just has a custom...

Android or iPhone app he uses ;)

I realize I don’t want to know. It’s the only thing from Doyer culture I enjoy. Always have enjoyed him and always will.

So maybe not knowing how he works is part of the magic…

He does most of the research himself.

Apparently used to prepare a ton of these anecdotes with an hour or two of research before each game. Not sure how much he does these days.

But it’s not just the quantity of the anecdotes — it’s the quality. He just manages to come up with some truly wild ones along the way.

I do think people hand him stats and stories, but he does know a LOT about baseball.

All of Vin's stories

can be found in the Angels Media Guide.

G Abbes - April 3, 2010 reply

Gotta go guys, have a tutoring appt to keep

Go Halos!

Wood K's on the cutter. 3 outs.

Not sure if people need a play-by-play

xavier Paul

can you trust him?

thanks for saving that one Brandon

crap

That sucked.

But props to Mathis for leaving his mask on the plate to slow Carroll down. And a pretty decent recovery, even if we didn’t get the out.

Joel you need to get better or be replaced by Palmer

lol

Uh oh, Joel.

So..

What do u guys think of pin-yer-ohh?

HalosBiggestFan - April 3, 2010 via mobile reply

i want palmer

because of a bad half inning in spring training?

Pinata is a solid #5 who pitched better than lackey last year.

Pinata did not go 11 - 1 for last season

palmer is a winner and i like winners

Ponson could go 11-1

with the run support Palmer gets.

the team believes in Palmer and gave him the support to get those wins

youre weird.

What does that make you?

it is wrong to like Palmer

yes

Palmer has been lighting up the spring

for offenses everywhere

don't tell that to people who only look at records.

I like JP

He doesn’t have his best stuff today. But he’s a solid pitcher.

agree

Yea I think he’s just off today, but he has thrown a couple of reallllyyyyy good sinkers

HalosBiggestFan - April 3, 2010 via mobile reply

Finally

it is cool that they still have an organ player

Has anyone seen the tv show "eastbound and Down"

Love it, if you have not seen it watch it.
And if you have, do you know when the second season starts?

Haven't watched hardly any spring training this year

but Mathis looks just as horrible as ever

OK

I officially hate Scully

why?

His ESPN style analysis

of the opposing team & players

Or maybe

I hate his research assistant

Actually my favorite time to listen to him is during interleague play...

…when the Angels are putting a drubbing on the Doyers.

He will rip the Doyers something fierce and he’s one of the few announcers that can be so critical and get away with it. And I love hearing it when it happens ;)

Of course Chicky Baby used to have the same cache to do it with the Lakers.

Sorry

Can’t stand his delivery.

Bores me to death

Then how in the world do you feel about...

Gubi and Mota?!?

Mota... don't get me started

Gubi doesn’t bug me as much because there is some one else in the booth to break it up

It's cool, I can respect you not liking him...

…but hating him…seems impossible. Or not.

On the flip side, I don’t think I’ve ever seen some many people defend something Doyer-ish as just now ;)

but he's talking positive about our guys. That's a HUGE plus for me.

I'm sorry

But his talking about Aybar reminded me of every Baseball Tonight analyst

Historically backwards.

It’s like calling Eric Clapton “John Mayer-esque”.

Baseball Tonight scrubs may try to emulate Vin, but don’t confuse the echo for the voice.

yeah

calling Torii a role model and inspiration to others is really brutal

"ESPN style"

Has to be the silliest description of Vin Scully I’ve heard in a long time.

The man’s been talking like this for three decades longer than ESPN has even been in existence.

+1. Will read again.

Fine

Then I’ll say ESPN is doing Scully style analysis… that really a better statement?

Sure. It makes more sense.

I don’t agree with it at all, but it actually has a logic to it.

O_o

Hating Vin Scully is the equivalent to hating Mother Teresa

If it’s done, it’s typically done by a moron.

lolol

Christopher Hitchens excepted.

An arrogant drunk he is, but a moron he’s not.

how can you hate old people?

your satan

I'd smite you

if you weren’t already destined to be smoted.

c'mon Bobby

Let's go Bobby, work that count

Good stuff Bobby

has anyone seen a player's face yet today?

this stupid HD broadcast is so high-contrast that all we get a re black splotch shadows from the brim of the caps obscuring everyone’s faces. WHAT A JOKE.

Rev Halofan - April 3, 2010 reply

my pirate feed looks horrible

guess i know why now

and must be a minute behind, as fans rejoice Tori

Pirate feed?

Email me, please share!

You're such a Dodger hater. Next you're going to tell me Jamie McCourt doesn't deserve $1 million a month alimony.

thanks Torii

Toriiiiiii!!!!

Work that count, Matsui

bases juiced

For the Cuban Missile to launch

Grand Slam

Go Kowbell!

woooooooooooooo

Grand slam baby

WOO awesome what is the score?

6-3 Good Guys.

awesome thanks

slam

Ha ha ha

Cuban Missile!!!!

Kendryyyyyyyy

I'm suddenly hungry for a salami sandwich.

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Cuban Missile LAUNCHED

Kowbell SLAM!

The Legend of the Raft

Who do you guys like in the Final Four today?

the human torch

although the stretchy dude is pretty awesome.

Rev Halofan - April 3, 2010 reply

Butler for sure

no one

i want everyone to lose to save my bracket

Your bracket looks like mine. I thought for sure this was going to be UC Santa Barbara's season.

No i did well until

last weekend when all my team lost

That was pleasant!

mattwelch - April 3, 2010 reply

Leveraging the rewind...

…of DVR…until I finish this beer. At least a few more times to enjoy ;)

Wonder if we could possibly go another full season

without one of those grand slams? I don’t see it happening..

Jinx.

we need the X-factor

Chad threw a hanging slider

Guess his command is starting to fall apart.

Couldn't a GS wait until the regular season?

If I recall, the Angels finished 2009 as Grand Slam virgins.

you just jinxed it too

Haha. Baseball and superstitions. I <3 em.

Crap.

it's okay though

cause we both said it at the same time, the jinx’s offset each other.

Eh

I prefer a huge rally than a grand slam.

true - but it is fun to see those slams

It's like fighting over the decision to eat...

…a good Philly cheese steak sammy and a Pepper steak from Giamela’s.

Love ’em both, sometimes one just hits the spot more than the other.

You are correct

score is 6-3 US!

yup

USA USA

Yay that is great thanks.

now got to go again be back later
(Rev so you know I did combine two lines for you since they still make sense but the other just doesn’t go allong with it)

Did you wanna ice cream cone or a balloon for doing that?

sure a lot of empty seats there!

How many seats a month do they need to sell

to support Jamie McCourt in a month?

It's only the 3rd inning.

Dodgers fans are still making their way in the stadium and to their seats.

or just as likely...

they are in line waiting to buy a Dodger dog. I have heard that you can enter the line in the first inning and not get out until the 4th.

Downing Rules - April 3, 2010 reply

c'mon Brandon

Chad is getting worked

He’s pitched over 30 pitches this inning.

39 pitches after Kendrick's hit

Later Chad!

Thanks for pitching today.

yeswecan - April 3, 2010 reply

How many people were at the Angels game yesterday?

I would look it up but my Internet is down.

40,000+

or option A if you were there.

wait...internet is down - how are you here?

You're so adorable, Angelsfan7.

James Brown Walk up song

Greatest thing ever

Duck the fodgers..

Does anyone enjoy seeing the dodger fans see their team get pounded by the team they hate in their own ballpark as much as I do?? Omg I love that!!

HalosBiggestFan - April 3, 2010 via mobile reply

How has Brandon Wood looked this spring?

Is this guy going to be any good, or is he the next Dallas McPherson?

He looks a lot more comfortable.

Being fairly patient, using all fields. Great defense at the hot corner. I think he will do at least decent, if not great this year..

Wood has been pretty good

Hasn’t batted a lot in. But he’s been getting on base a lot. Good solid hitting and he’s learning to get those strikeouts down.

His pitch recognition is progressing. I think it helps a lot that he’s around Abreu and Matsui.

Defensively, he’s been very solid.

Wood on an error

We’ll take it.

Viagra might help.

This game is getting me jacked for the season

Poor Mathis

RedFog - April 3, 2010 via mobile reply

we need to trade him while the value is still high

What's wrong with Mathis?

nothing is wrong with Mathis if you could start 3 catchers every day

Who is the third? Is Scioscia making a comeback?

there is talk of the Halos carrying 3 catchers

Bobby Wilson?

Indeed

yep

Who is doing the radio calls for the Angels right now?

They seem to be really.. uh… uninformed and they sound really bored.

Well, the game doesn't count, you know.

Still would be good if they were at least interested

very true

You're so demanding.

I'm an Angels fan

I’m way too laid back for my own good. Someone needs to keep my interest.

Uh oh

Come on Joel. 1 groundout. Please.

Sporting WOOD

Nice catch Brandon

There's the value added over Figgins at third base.

“Up the ladder” goes Wood.

Figgy had some vertical though

how he was 4 feet tall?

Figgy could jump

i can jump to

we all can jump.
but a taller guy can jump higher then a small guy

& run and bunt

wood got some speed

Who's his dealer?

Washington

hell ya

how he was white?

Oh whoops. I thought I was DAD OF VLAD for a second!

(J/K DAD OF VLAD)

life is joke

it is cool.
but whitemen can jump

"At Night Chinamen Jump" by Frank O'Hara

At night Chinamen jump
on Asia with a thump
while in our willful way
we, in secret, play

affectionate games and bruise
our knees like China’s shoes.

The birds push apples through
grass the moon turns blue,

these apples roll beneath
our buttocks like a heath

full of Chinese thrushes
flushed from China’s bushes.

As we love at night
birds sing out of sight,

Chinese rhythms beat
through us in our heat,

the apples and the birds
move us like soft words,

we couple in the grace
of that mysterious race.

And thus concludes our poetry minute on Halos Heaven.

Yao Ming?

Yah Mean...

…he was conceived to that poem?

Righteous!

Figgins hit a homerun yesterday. How many does Wood have?

He's got 1 homerun

Stadium looks a little more full now

someones got to pay for Jamie McCourts support payments

Aybar's last hit of Spring Training

2 for 2, 2 R, 1 BB

Clownfish on the mound!!

c'mon Q

we will find out today what will happen to q

that's what I thought too...vin just said he signed a one year deal with Angels. When did that happen?

it's a minor league contract

that’s what I thought too – thought maybe Vin knew something we didn’t yet.

What?

you would think the Angels would know before Vince

Q's penultimate AB as an Angel?

another mis-Q

recording history

I just got knocked out of my poker tournament. I'm such a donkey.

ROBBERY!

That home run is Q's fault

Anybody know how to get widescreen working on MLB.tv?

Or is it not working today because it’s preseason?

Commander_Nate - April 3, 2010 reply

do you really want a widescreen view of Dodger stadium?

I'd like a widescreen view of us kicking their asses

But seriously, I have 24 inch widescreen monitor, I better be able to use it during the season.

Commander_Nate - April 3, 2010 reply

lol

Almost like hearing Randy Newman sing "I Love LA" in quadrophonic.

I hate Randy Newman.

I'm impressed that Michael Kohn has made it this far, this fast.

Still with the team, in the freeway series.

Yeahhh Nap

I think now would be a good time to break out the pictures of Mike Napoli's mothers nipples.

But then again, is there really ever a bad time?

Gameday is behind, again. Person at Dodger stadium must have fallen asleep

he is at Dodger stadium he might have been robbed or killed

true - very sad but true

he is probably still trying to get into the parking lot

UCIHalo - April 3, 2010 reply

Only 2 people

seem to have a chance at winning the Opening Day Lineup Contest, based on what Soth has been doing with the lineup thus far. Both of these “winning” lineups are dependent on Napoli as the starting C. These two posters are V-Hawk Angelorum and Blaze453, neither of whom I’ve seen post much here at all.

How close or far off were you guys?

I was kind of there

Stupidly picked Bay in LF. Had not, I would’ve gotten 6 points.

Instead I only got 2. :(

Yeahhh the throw made it to 2nd...

Nice call from Scully...

…he’s stealing the signs

really. That was brilliant.

That's Vinny!!!

The best in the business.

Yes he is.

I sojourned for 9 lonely years just south of Oakland and my boss was a Giants fan. He’s probably the only person who had never heard of Vinny. Idiot.

He must

have been living on Mars all his life…Dodgers DID play the Giants a COUPLE of times~~ agreed…idiot~~~

Oh, up there the southern half of the state does not exist, unless something cataclysmic happens.

We moved there just before the Northridge earthquake, and I think that’s just about the only big news we heard about the whole time.

I hate the Giants with a passion that goes back to my childhood growing up in LA as a Dodger fan, and the Giants at the time I lived there had a terrible announcer, an older man who sounded like he was eating oatmeal, and my boss tried to tell me the guy was a great announcer. I laughed at him.

I don't remember

ever hearing the Giants announcer. My dad was a Dodgers fan, and me too, when they were in Brooklyn & when they moved out here. Giants were always “the enemy”!! Went to see Los Doyers at the Collesium and only once at Chavez . Then fell in love with the Angels and kicked the Dodgers to the curb; but have always been a Vin Scully fan.

Mom and Dad used to go to Dodgers games when the team first got to LA.

Then they went to couple of Angels games when they were in… the coliseum? and at Chavez Ravine, and Mom decided she loved the Angels. It took me a while to fall in love with the Angels; I sort of married into it.

rally mom!

hi. :-)

yup...that be me!!

Rally mom, Figgins would have hopped up on the dugout roof...

…did a backflip, mooned the McCourts, and then snatched that ball out of the air like a baby chick from a branch-perched nest.

LMAO!!

He would do that for sure!! FIGGY!!!

What the Hell is Wood doing?

Does anyone else notice that? His stance is different. He’s all of a sudden got an more open stance, has his hands a shade higher and is bending his knees more. It seems like his other batting stance was working alright.

Has anyone else noticed that? Is he trying to generate more pull power?

Yeahhh Shields

YESSSSSSSSS Brandon

Great catch!

Figgy wouldn’t have been physically capable of grabbing that one.

come on....

no more Figgy bashing….geeeeze..have to watch the mariners to see him…that is totally heartbreaking!!! I miss him…he has spunk!!!

It's not Figgy bashing

It’s physics, Wood has 6 inches of Figgy and was able to stretch himself over that wall, Figgy’s body would be incapable

You haven't seen Figgy parkour.

HAHAHAHA

Q fail over the railing.

Did he died?

RedFog - April 3, 2010 via mobile reply

Huh?

He fell over the rail, and he wasn’t even moving that fast. FAIL, but he didn’t die..

I knew that reference wouldn't work here...

RedFog - April 3, 2010 via mobile reply

Play them off, Red Fog.

Only in the movies.

Q has zombie cat powers. He’s Schrodinger’s cat times infinity. He rides a pale horse, he’s white magic, and when his contract ends, all of baseball ends.

I wish he would ride...

…that horse right out of town.

RedFog - April 3, 2010 via mobile reply

Something wretched this way comes.

Ladybug...

still with us? check your email

Dear Dodgers,
LA is not your town – you are transplants…We the Angels were born in LA that makes it our town…. hehehe

I prefer to think of the Dodgers as implants.

Seems more culturally appropriate.

"where do you buy the hats with the bill pushed off to the side?"

I can only find them with the bills on straight.

There's nothing in baseball that looks dafter than that

Apart from John Lackey

the mole plays

Ha ha

Seattle Sucks

Seems like a non-sequitur...

…but that comment is never out of place

i felt like dropping the hate

Does anyone know....

The order in which our relievers will appear during the season? Shields 6th, Rodney 7th, Jepson 8th, Fuentes 9th and Bulger/Stokes whenever?

Halowood

no joke but when you posting the Oakland contender Post?

LOL I got so much crap for the Texas one....

I’m actually half way of afraid of what would happen if I posted the Oakland one. PhiSlamma might try to find me to duke it out. That guys is a buttdart.

I thing his thing is to be a dick

Phi is like that.
just do it and add three lines to your sig

I was thinking you should start your own blog

Stop taunting him with shit threads and I'm sure he'll calm down

halowood

try changing the subject to In-N-Out and it will defuse like a bomb
or call out someone esle

I have no problems with your posts

If I don’t want to read them, then I don’t look at them. It can get a little dullsville at times around here, so I don’t see the problem with posting whatever/whenever.

The only problem is that occasionally the cleaning fluid runs out...

…on the random text generator, and replacement fluid is really hard to find on EBay.

just get the one with

the USB hook-up. 21st century digital boy.

i doubt shields is the 6th inning guy

Fuentes 9th
Shields/Rodney 8th
JepsEn 7th
Bulger/Stokes, wherever they fit in..

That's what I assumed....

I just haven’t seen it this Spring, so I was wondering if Scioscia planned on surprising by tinkering.

What you have seen this spring

Has been our top relievers pitching in the early innings, so that they’re not just facing minor leaguers all spring.

You won't see Ryan Aldridge or Gary Patchett on opening night either.

Spring isn’t a script for summer.

kid just pisssed everywhere while changing him

Texas Sucks

Dont stop believing - Journey

I hate that song
Oakland Sucks

I keep hearing the Kuroda as "the Corroder".

That would make an awesome superhero.

His motto: “Rust never sleeps.”

awesome.