Halos Heaven

Quinlan's Goofy Swing - June 1, 2010 reply

all that is left

is for jose quillen to go yard and point directly at scioscia before trotting

Fastball to the head

short hop to Q's n*t sac

Qo Quangels

vlad IS my man - June 1, 2010 reply

WFT

just happened?

Wonder why
Sosh didn’t pull PInerio sooner? IMO i think its pretty weird when a sinkerball pitcher gets more flyball outs then groundball outs. I would’ve pulled him for Bell or Bulger in the 5th inning.

flowchart says...

Starting pitcher must give up at least 7 ER to be removed prior to the 6th inning regardless of circumstances.

MIGHTY MAICERRRRRRRRR

Neekohlai - June 1, 2010 reply

MAICER!

WOOOHOOO

HR Mighty Maicer

Quizzy!

Torii's UZR

Is dead average right now. That’s a lot better than I expected.

Considering the lincoln logs he plays next to, I'm not sure that's impressive

lol

Abreu is dead last in RF

Rivera below average in LF.

GOLD GLOVE

old love maybe

Lose the Gs

QED

Maybe
that’s why Torii keeps getting his gold gloves. Abreu and Rivera are so slow in the OF and since Torii makes them all, he seems more spectacular?

Mighty Mouse!!

Maicer

HR!!!

Qice tits

MIGHTY MOUSE!

Ugh, I forgot to add him to my FLB team too late.

MOuSE TITS!!

WOW micer with another homer

a new Qope

Someone drank the rally bbQ sauce

the Q strikes back

Qaicer

vlad IS my man - June 1, 2010 reply

not enough redemption Torii

Queeeeeef

vlad IS my man - June 1, 2010 reply

"Torii ripped one..." uh ok.

is anyone else's broadcast of this game

jumpy and visually stuttering at almost regular intervals?

mb.tv

is surprisingly steady

when is Mathis back?

Naps/Wood platoon at 1b, mathis behind the plate….

Qwank one, Quadzilla!

hummm I'd question that one

I think that is a Homer

Never mind I think it had to go over the railing

Wow, that was close

did it make it?

doesn't look like it

doesn't look like it

depends on the park rules

replay please

the shit hit the fan

no, it hit the metal railing

I don't think so. I think it hit the railing

i just wanted to use that phrase

in a different context than it was intended

blue, scratchin his nuts at third

gold bond will fix that

hmm. my doctor prescibed pennicillin

off the rail

interesting

Torii needs to score on that.

Should have been 10 feet from second when it hit the railing.

Torii is brainfart city

lately

lately?

you mean since 2009

now don't be mean..

just cause he couldn’t get u-haul to stay, that doesn’t mean that he has been a bad player for the team. it just means that the team was fortunate… we’ve got Kendry, even though he is hurt..

Not sure where torii was standing but even if he was at 2nd he wouldn't have made it home because the other fielder had already been in LF to get it.

Disagree

That ball rolled a long time.

Respect for the Royals fans

Not reaching out to catch the ball and therefore letting it not be a homerun.

agree

yea he moved out of the way.

^^ this ^^

so much more class than that scuzzy cubbies fan

+1

although I think it might be possible that he was scared

Ha, definitely possible.

It looks like he made a conscious decision not to interfere, though. Pretty smart.

looked like it

Quinlan's Goofy Swing - June 1, 2010 reply

game day has it landing in canada

Seems like

we have had zero breaks this year.

And we’ve played like shit.

the closest it could be to being a HR

without being a HR

yup

:(

almost

joeyz34 - June 1, 2010 reply

I say a base hit .

you called it Ed

LOL...BTW what are you doing in the far east . Just curios .

darn

That ump should enter Dancing With the Stars

I'd vote for him

ryanfea - June 1, 2010 reply

missed it by an inch

Someone needs to step up

And make the near miss irrelevant.

Rivera...

trying how to figure out how he’s going to kill this rally

thats funny .

contact play on

he hits a 3 inch dribbler

he did his best...

to kill another rally and that’s all you ask of him

Robinson Tejeda pitching

Juancho doesn't strike out much

but he can DP

but

he hits into lots of DP’s

but nobody at 1st

Ok lets score

Look at this guy

21 strikeouts to 17 walks. That’s Rodney-esque.

I'll take a productive out

right now

oh well

c'mon Juancho!!

he failed us

craptastic

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Juan Fail

way to go Juancho!!

Tremendous situational hitting.

barfs

just not onthe rug

please

Dang it Dino!

That's a rally killer right there

fudgepacking batsniffer

dang it Juanita

Juancho, the anti-clutch

by the way..

I was not fortunate enough to ever hear Mel from Fullerton on the Ride, but.. in his memory, lt’s all salute him.

RIP, Mel.

+1

Jesus.......Juan .

all we need is a freaking single here

what is with this jumpy telescast?

Is it just my teevee?

time to replace the Magnavox

Ball has been low all night

Take the bat off your shoulder Nap

AND NAPOLI DOES WORSE

it's ok quys

Q is due up 2nd next inning….

QFT

hard to swing at that one...

when both hands are on your throat

what do you know

a manager that can take out his starter BEFORE he gives up the game trying/go ahead runs.

good point

Soth is the worst of all MLB in “gutting it out” points

what a crock of shit

There's the game right there . Hope I'm wrong .

lucky for us, mr. sunshine

you usually are

Ed@sunshine

May is over

Time for Naps to go back to sleep

Quinlan's Goofy Swing - June 1, 2010 reply

Rally fail

UCIHalo - June 1, 2010 reply

he goes down looking more than anyone

with risp

Qrap

ryanfea - June 1, 2010 reply

Ned Needlander

made the right move there

how does he go from a 3-3 night to getting called out looking on 3 straight fast balls

RexTookMyStash - June 1, 2010 reply

At least that double

Got the Angels into the Royals’ soft squishy bullpen.

Didn't look soft or squishy against Rivera or Napoli

Although maybe that was us.

except that ours is liquid

Liquid Bullpen

would be an awesome name for a band.

I dunno.

It suggests something you do not want to step in.

If our bullpen were a punk rock band

they would be White Flag

hasn't our bullpen been pretty solid the last week or so....

hehe

Gasoline?

or worse

Bowie song.."..Putting out the fire with gasoline ..."

reminds me of the runs

liquid indeed

cmon a-joel

Q-Bert!

yeahhhh Q

oh Q, we a adore you

Quantastic!

yeswecan - June 1, 2010 reply

Good job by Q to stay with it??

I would sure hope a guy hanging to his ML career by a thread next to a burning flame would go after FAIR balls.

Aybar's just wasted

Aybar is the mascot

for our low IQ team. Lots of tools without the brains to utilize them.

Our team is expensive and sucks

So the mascot should be…..Elliot Spitzer’s old girlfriend?

But she was successful

at her job

Red Sox now ahead of the A's

but the Rangers tied it up in Chicago

bitter sweet with Lackass on the mound

we are starting Q at 1B

Go Red Sox…. not bittersweet at all to me….

point taken

Q will show us the way

PInerio trying to hang around

long enough to vulture a win that the equally undeserving bullpen scrub would otherwise get

That ball is LOW

It’s been low all night, dammit.

Listening to the away broadcast

and they are adamant that the strike zone is correct. All a matter of perspective I guess.

ineptituderunsamok - June 1, 2010 reply

Hunter had a low strike early on right down the middle, called low

Howie’s was six inches lower, and he’s shorter.

Clearly its close

or it wouldn’t even be a discussion topic.

ineptituderunsamok - June 1, 2010 reply

now that was low

double past 1st ...for Q

I think it works better when you think we're gonna lose

OK ..thats it game over .

Bye.

say it ain't so Opie

are you throwing in the towel??

I thought he was leaving.

I was being polite and bidding him adieu.

oh ok..

well, at any rate, welcome!

Hi! How's the weather there?

Cooling off down here for a couple of days, but still nice.

he was responding to my digs on his pessimism

and how he is often happily wrong

got that right .

now

we have a chance

Lol!

Q against 97????

this is like _______________________

you guys fill in the blank

That 2-1 swing.... wow

does it make you

quiver?

Q wuz robbed!

that contact just earned him 3 more starts.

Good thing we traded Callaspo

sigh

who'd we get for him?

Bulger

...fail

Jason Bulger

......Jason Bulger

Many Jason Bulger

meltdowns

Because Bill Stoneman

was an awesome judge of offensive prowess.

No, Mr. Sarcastic

Because Callaspo played Howie Kendrick’s position, very badly, was a bit of a head case, and we needed relievers.

um

kinda like the reason that Soth ditched Guillermo?

Guillermo? You mean Guillen?

He was a headcase.

oops

yeah I meant Guillen.. my mistake. spell check Fail And yeah, he is and will always be a headcase.

You mean Guillen? Not quite comparable

We had a middle infield surplus, and Callaspo was judged to be a bit worse.

Thank you.

/And hasn’t Bulger pitched pretty well recently?

The head case point is a big one.

Because I think the guy attacked his girlfriend twice over the past two years.

But aside from that, we let a really talented guy go for a pretty crummy reliever.

For sure (and this hurts to say) he's been a more productive hitter than Howie

Agreed.

But I’m still hoping Kendrick is going to put it all together for a full season one of these years. (And hopefully for more than one year.)

Bulger's crummy?

I didn’t think I missed that many games while I was gone.

Decent last year.

Not so great this year. And he’s 31 so I’m not sure he’s going to get better.

enogh bulgers

to make a Quadrangle

Lameness

take care. I’ll be rooting for a rally

have a good one, Ivy

Something about

Kendall just makes me wanna punch him in the face

that's what Lackey thought too

I don't think that you won't find

a bunch of folks that would love to give lackey a nice hard hit to that slack jawed face of his.

Perhaps it's that he tries to look tough

with the chew but hits and plays like such a pussy

LETS QUO HALOS

eyespy - June 1, 2010 reply

Nice.

how come even the Royals have a lot of guys that throw hard

and the Angels have Jeps and Rodney????

jeps an rodney throw hard

just right into the bats

Drafting high in the order

This

when you draft 1st, 2nd, or 3rd overall every year, you’re bound to have some talent somewhere.

yea but their high picks have almost always been busts haven't they?

I mean imagine if they got the usual type talent from their Hochevar and Gordon picks.

KC's relievers

came out of the California Penal Leguae

damnit, I wanted Rick Vaughn

"We wear shirts with sleeves on this team, son."

Since when did Royals relievers throw strikes?

c'mon Bobby!!

almost another HR for Izzy

Embarrasing

we let the Royals match their whole season’s prior run total in one inning? Dammit, Piniero.

Pineiro had a lousy defense tonight

like it was Piniero's fault when Torii was dreaming about his next gold glove

He also got hit pretty hard

a handful of line drives, and a couple shots up and off the wall.

Even that line-out there to Rivera.

Setting the stage

for a dramatic Quinlan go-ahead home run in the 9th.

Who am I kidding? If the game’s on the line, somebody’s pinch-hitting.

great

now we get Soria

Looks like Matsui's near HR

Was the climax of this game.

yep

no pictures in the game threads

NO FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM

now he chimes in

not just your TV that’s shakey

Hey Rev

just for nurture reference, is there a link to the gameday post rules? (kinda like the 1 fbomb per month, panther, etc?)

I looked but I can’t seem to find one.

Regards

I think it's in the rules.

I saw it about the time I signed up.

there's an outfielder who lives a life of danger

Everywhere he goes he stays a stranger!

Maybe
the Angels were destined to lose the game that Q starts. Remember the last time Q got a start?

Look on Baseball Reference some time the Angels' all-time record w/ Q starting at 1B

It is u-g-l-y.

I think this is the first start that Q has gotten on a non Sunday day game

after a Saturday night game in a long long time.

Just checked
If im reading the stats correctly, Q is actually worsening this team with his presence.

Q
gave everyone the losing disease

nice play!

Ump wants to go home

Or wants Guillen to sit down

either way I don’t blame him.

I have to go to work after this

crappy start to the day

crazy...

Pineiro could get a CG loss.

I think he deserves it.

Shit

Ball was Qrushed

so how many Doubles were there?

3, I think

of all people

why him

God I hate Guillen

I rank him down there with that punk-ass reliever from Boston

and PIerzinsky.

they both suck

All three.

how could I have missed that f&##&&&@&&#&&&@&@head from

the blacksox?

I was really pulling for the sweep this series...

Royals…no Greinke…it had to happen :(

We get Greinke

Yeah, but "we" is short for Weaver.

but..

Weave is he staff ace. He knows that he needs to step up.

G-baby vs Weav on thursday.

Oh shit, forgot it was four games

well, we better take 3 of 4 or I’ll be pissed.

G-baby never has any run support, the dudes 1-3 lifetime against Angels.

I think we take 3 or 4

of.

thank you.

How many times tonight

has Pineiro laid a meatball in there while ahead in the count?

Jesus!

Did he point at Sosh?

So Soth is willing to let Pinero give up TWO homers in the 8th inning????

you think the first one would end his night.

anytime a hated former player does something like that

it is karma for all you bad ways … just gotta be our bad karma

i apologize

to everyone for cutting off those mattress tags

So, it was you!

not over yet peeple

yes it is
unless the Royals traded for Aarsdma before this game.

BOTG

Soth for thinking Q is a ML player.

He wanted to make Q feel as if he’s not worthless on a ML team. Statistically, he is.

rofls.

it’s his good looks?

He is...

if ML stands for Minor League. Could be a star in Moose Jaw

Pineiro does wonders for the opposing team's batting average

Let's trade him to the Rangers

Wow, 68 mph?

wow

KC’s field is just about as empty as the A’s..

Their popularity is just more selective

RexTookMyStash - June 1, 2010 reply

Man, that's nasty

KC should just trade Greinke and Soria. They could restock the farm in an instant.

I think they will have to eventually

I mean the Royals won’t be competitive b4 they reach FA

oh well

Well that was failure

Even though the Angels weren't going to win

it still hurts to see the game end on a pitch 8 inches off the corner with that said.

#%#%# Soth, how about you play real #%@%# players…………

Nap

2 strikes and looking for?

The question now is , Will Q start again tomorrow ?

Automatic
2 game losing streak right there

probably...

he played well he just didn’t hit well (or at all)

his “gold glove” defense is comparable to what Ryan did. but Ryan had a hit yesterday.

Well, there's always tomorrow

thats twice where Napoli sits and takes a called strike.

not his fault really when
the pitch’s a couple inches off the strike zone.

have to keep fighting it off though.

probably would’ve swung and missed
only guy that might’ve fouled that is Vlad and Ichiro

only one big problem with that...

the ump has called that all game and he was our catcher

Just because
he knows where it’s gonna land, doesn’t necessarily mean he’s gonna hit it.

that pitch was like 95 and WELL off the corner

how easy do you think it is to just foul it off….

never said it was easy.

that's why you just take it and hope the ump

correctly calls it a ball

Vlad
might’ve hit that one outta the park, but Nap’s no Vlad.

Vlad hit crap pitches by crap pitchers for homeruns

Not pitchers’ pitches by All-Star pitchers.

but that late in the game?

maybe the ump wants to go home.

can't blame him for that one

he would need a fruit picker to even touch it

Should I feel bad about chuckling about the guy who has the last name Kuntz?

I went to law school with Karl Kuntz

we chuckle and he’s doing pretty well now

don’t know how his sister made out tho

I like how the Angels were fighting to get back to 500

after being way beneath not all that long ago and Soth starts Q….. aye carumba

Statistically Q
has been negatively influencing this team. I think Willis is more valuable then Q because of Reggie’s speed and his ability to lay down a perfect bunt. I also have yet to see Q’s “gold glove” caliber defense. He made routine plays that Ryan and Napoli would most likely have made.

who said Q is gold glove calibur?

and I agree, Willits at least brings a skill set to the table. Q brings NOTHING except a big plate to take away abs from more deserving players.

Let's all hope

that this game does not define the entire month of June. The Halos need to keep up the momentum that they started i may (even with the tragic loss of KowBell.

GO ANGELS!!!!!

Hard to do
with Q as your starting 1st baseman. Maybe Ryan or Naps

I think that Q is a part of the 1b merry-go-round

until Wood, or Naps, or someone else fills the spot. Hell, Q isn’t a great fielder regardless of the position that he plays. he is a (sometimes) decent situatinoal hitter though. Maybe that is why Soch likes him?

Maybe
he was a situational hitter, but I still haven’t see a hit from him this year. I would rather take Glaus as the new 1st baseman no matter how injury prone or short ranged he is. At least Glaus more then makes up with his power. Q is the last ditch utility man, not a starter.

replace sometimes

with 4 years ago and that about sums it up.

645 OPS in AAA.

AAA!