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it did not have to be this way.

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GO ANGELS!!
Shields....
haven't seen him in a while
Thats because he is bad at baseball
Angels Baseball

Never make it easy

how many pitches b4 shields

gives up a run. ive got 6

He's been solid lately
and your point?
Have some F'n faith

Damn

i have faith in 3 of 5 of

our starters?

I'll take the over
These are the Angels, not the Clippers

No need to be so negative.

i love the Clippers!!!!!
then you must really be used to rooting for really really bad teams

with no hope of improving

no i love the LA Galaxy too
Wait till they get Lebron
well as long as he throws 5 or fewer pitches this inning

i’m ok with that

Let's go Angels

clap-clap clap-clap-clap

this is starting to get annoying
Which Shields will we get?
The only Shields there is, the one that blows total anus
Panty Shields perhaps?
I said it first
Hey, i'm not that sharp red,

I’m 8 beers into a 12 pack. I’m just glad I can still reference Airplane!

Reference Airplane!? No! That's just what they'll be expecting you to do.
Crap. We got Panty shields.
Needs more DP.
this looks bad

take him out now

I can haz DP????
Let's Go Halos!
clap-clap clap-clap-clap
here comes a double

play!!!

Great now my mlb.tv goes out

perfect…

on the plus side

saundo pitched great

Shields pitching

This will not end well

Willtts need to be so much shallower
I hear he only reads comic books and calls everyone "dude"

Is that shallow enough?

kendall holds the bat

like my daughter will when shes 2

Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit drinking
reply fail?
No. I wasn't replying to the earlier thread.
Well, i'm still doing amphetamines.....
you picked a perfect day

to wait to quit till tomorrow

Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit methanphetamines
looks like i picked the perfect day to keep sniffing glue
looks like I picked the wrong day....

…to quite snorting coke.

But

do you watch Gladiator movies

I'm going to assume this isn't Ron Washington.
Get that out Shields.
Do you think Gubi's right?

IBB DeJesus?

seems to be the right move
Not if you're going to throw it over Mathis's head
I hope they do IBB him
Scot almost lost the game there
lol almost wild pitch

on a pitch out

These pitch outs are terrifying.

Shouldn’t this be easy?

we haven't

had the chance to go over that memo i believe

Oh god, almost a wild pitch on the IBB
first pitch of the IBB by Shields

“I call that pitch mah Rodney…”

Scot, IBBs should be the easiest play in baseball.
F**K. It's called playing catch.
Shields is playing long toss
What the hell is wrong with Scot Shields
2 many red bulls

and snicker bars

That did not inspire confidence
Wow, just wow.
This can only happen to the Angels
Christ, shields are you TRYING to throw the ball away?
ok when two of his intentional balls are nearly WP

….. do we really want him facing a guy with the game on the line?

You know, actually, given how we work, it would be the perfect plan.
And get Betancourt at home?
that only works if Torii is on third
what happened to the have faith

people?

on second thought

maybe shields is the one who should have given up drinking today

K this bastard, Shields!
At this point, I'm worried that the ball makes it to Mathis's glove
Sheilds hasn't been the same since someone hacked his twitter
Well played, Mauer
FINISH HIM!
every time you say that I imagine Scorpion doing that spear pull of death.
That's what I'm thinking in my head, so it works.

Our bullpen is really horrible. Poor Saundo. Just like what happened to Weav last week.

and right now our offense if even worse.
Trade Fuentes please
Blame Scioscia.

He handled the 9th inning wrong and then put Shields in.

That sucked
That was expected
For Fucks sake.,
What a terrible pitch
Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit
HEY

WE ARE PLAYING THE GOD DAMN ROYALS!!! It isn’t that hard!!!

well that's just....

….unsurprising?

Can we have a decent bullpen again?
When Reagins is replaced

He seems like can build everything but a bullpen.

oh he built

an offense? i’m surprised

Signed Torii

He was the team’s Director of Player development for years. So he helped develop most of the team…

What did he build?
Dear Santa,

I know it’s early, but I’m writing now for a reason. I’m not asking for anything for myself. But could you possibly bring a 4th of July present to the Angels? They really, REALLY, REALLY need a decent bullpen.

Thank you,

red floyd

P.S. The cookies are hidden in the microwave oven.

Could our Triple A

bullpen be any worse than what we have now?

probably yes, but not by much
BTW who ever took the over 6 pitches wins!
What are the odds shields gets DFA'd tonight?
OH PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE
this very well could be Scot Shilds last year in the bigs
I would think so.
probably

Somebody will take a chance on him on a minor league deal though

Someone else will take a chance on him.
This is just painful. Even when we get quality starts...

our bullpen blows it to pieces.

Attention starters

Pitch CGSOs or we will not win

Why do you think Hokie Joe started the 9th?
except its 2010

and god forbid if we let someone throw 125 pitches

the blame for this one

is on the lineup, they need MOAR runs

games not over.
that is why I said need

not needed, present tense FTW

Exactly! 1 run off of Kyle Davies was the problem tonight.
Time to hand Shields his walking papers
after Shields nearly threw his only curve of the inning away

where do you think he’s going to throw the next one Mathis???? Right down the middle of course

I'm gonna go watch the Rangers game and hope the choke as bad as we did
Scot Shields..hahaha

I don’t want to say fans expected Scot to blow it….but there was a feeling.

You can go ahead and say it.

We did expect it.

oh i knew he would

but i was told i had no faith or something

Got the K one batter too late
Well, now we get to go up against Soria.

Gut-check time.

MFING RUNS

christ almighty

you mean one wasn't enough

greedy

i know im a greedy sunnuvagun

i want wins

good old jose guillen

always reliable

Were losing to the Royals?!?

The friggin’ Royals!?!

Finish the 12-pack, dude.
I'm moving on to tequila red...

Beer just ain’t gonna cut it with this bullpen.

might not be the right time to say it

But I do think Shields is getting better. Doesn’t help us now.

RUNS!

here comes a real closer

just had to say it....
We're goin' to mess him up
White Sox just scored 2 in the 9th off Feliz
It seems like we should be the team with a real closer...

not the Royals.

white sox 5, texas 3 9th inning
Missed opportunity
We laughed at Texas

for beating crap teams, but now we’re about to blow a game against one.

Is it worse to lose when they lose,

Or win when they win?

Worse to lose like this when they lose
Chance to make up a game =

feighal.

Pretty funny

Right when I saw mathis in the intentional walk stance, I said “Dont throw it away, Shields”. And he came sooo close to doing just that

chupacabrughhghgh
We may need you to tie it here.
i sure hope

matsui comes up because hes GRRRRRRRRRRRRRREAT

Here's where Torii makes up for that wonderful baserunnning move

or not

C'mon Hula Dula. Give us a walk off.

Guess not.

Matsui double.
WTH does Shields have to do to get DFA'd

He’s in Speier territory now

torii in a rush or something?
Here's where Matsui makes us forget Vlad

or not

This is what Matsui gives you

heartaches …….. nothing but heartaches!!!!!!!
Seriously, Matsui will only pay off if you give him a month to a month and a half off and then bring him back to hit.

Tori wants to go home
what a fucking depressing game, plus texas is going to lose
Scot Shields needs to be DFA'd

any big situation the guy has choked. I don’t care that he throws up 0’s when we are up or down by 5 runs

nah

work in progress

In double A,

Yes.

No one has been a bigger Shields fan then me

but I have to say it might to time to let this one go.

faillllll, if i were a mariner fan i would say something along the lines of

there is no floor

Take a picture boys and girls, this is what we like to call a missed opportunity.
damn roles instead of matchups

would have loved to see Jeps vs Aviles

That first pitch was a matsui pitch

low and down the midd.e

Matsui swing at strikes

DUH

You know what, screw this.

Don’t give it up Matsui. Fight. FIGHT damn you.

I need bacon.
slaters 50/50!!!!
KC's relievers have some respectable ERA

especially compared to ours

what team doesnt compared to ours?
Home Run please
SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT
I second that.
Fuck that.
It was worth it,

Btw

We'll get 'em next time
Fuck this bullpen
Offense fail today.
That was soooo weak

overall suck and fail tonight

what a stupid stupid game

everyone is to blame

burn it down! fire sale

time to rebuild. at least our bullpen

THERES A FIRE!!!

sale

At least we lost to a quality team and not the Royals.
well

that’s shitty.

let’s hope the white sox hang on, though

Our bullpen blows
Horribly mismanged game

watching Saunders come nowhere close to throwing well in the 9th after getting lucky to get out of the 8th. Only to see Fuentes come in against righties who pwn him.

We are shocked, SHOCKED that you think the game wasn't managed well.
be honest Zu

you didn’t want Jeps to start the 9th?

Dude, have you seen Jepsen this year?

Has he been ANYTHING approaching reliable? Honestly, there isn’t a single guy IN that pen that I wanted out there in the 9th with a one-run lead. I don’t have confidence in any of them. Fuentes has the veteran experience, which seems as good a reason as any to put him out there over someone else.

ugh yea I've seen Jeps this year

not nearly as good as the last couple months of last year, but he still has an OPS under 700 vs both righties and lefties.

which is much better than Fuentes against righties

and the general consensus on the board was that Saunders was DONE.

I know, and if you recall, I said saunders isn't someone you can stretch to 120 pitches.

But I understand why sosh handed him the ball anyway. At that point you had not a lot of good options and sosh picked one of them.

I don’t even necessarily disagree with you that this one could have been done better by Scioscia, and that especially throwing Shields out there in a one-run game seems like we weren’t trying particularly hard tonight. One of the problems with constantly grinding that axe though is that in situations like this, where you might be right, it’s still hard to take you seriously about it because you’ve said it so often.

I mean you act like Jepsen DIDN'T give up a lead-erasing home-run the last time out.
against a guy that was on fire

and a future HOF. You don’t think he spits out Aviles for lunch?

Aviles is hitting .322 and having a pretty good season last I checked.
And just FYI, Aviles splits?

267 vs lefties, 344 vs righties

Sounds like he’s going to have one of those heart to heart talks with his Scioscia bust tonight.

No.

The angels f’ing SUCKED today. Don’t blame sosh.

we needed brandon wood to hit

!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is hardly our problem
BOTG

the entire lineup >_<

BOY

Am I glad I tuned in for the end of THAT.

I wish Arte

would be like the Seattle Sounders Owner and give us all our money back for this product he put on the field

wait

what

the seattle sounders owner

gave season seat holders their money back when they lost to the Galaxy earlier in the year cause they sucked

It would go a long way

if some of players did something like that after a game like tonight

there's a pretty big difference

between a team that’s second to last in its league and a team that’s 3.5 games back in its division

i think we’re ridiculously spoiled

Just when you think we might be making a run at the Rangers,

a game like this slaps you in the face.

yeah you are right

after 1 game where one of our awful pitchers looked good and we didn’t loose any ground, I now realize we will be in 2nd until September

All I am saying is

a series against the Royals is a crucial time to pick up some ground and losing games the way we did tonight isn’t going to get it done.

it's 1 game

if we get swept or lose ground, then write that statement, otherwise realize it is just 1 game and apart from our pitching against Vlad we just kicked the crap out of our rival.

You are right.

It is one game and there is still a lot of baseball left. The Angels can only control what they do. It seems like they have a tendency to make stupid mistakes that cost them games, and those things need to be fixed.

if by stupid mistakes you

mean put the bullpen in then i agree

Haha not quite

More like the stupid base running mistakes that have haunted them in the past. They seem to run themselves out of good situations. Another run tonight would have been great and in a crucial situation late in the game, a halfhearted attempt runs us out of an inning. They have been playing better, but there is a long way to go to be a serious threat.

the loss isn't hunters fault

chances are two outs he doesnt score anyway. sure it was boneheaded but we lost because of our bull pen

No we didn't

Kyle Davies is a bad pitcher, there should have been more than one run scored against him. Plus if Torii doesn’t get thrown out there is a chance Frandsen gets a hit and blows open the game. This is on the offense and Hunter is one of the main culprits.

I am not saying he lost it.

What I am saying is that we aren’t helping ourselves out. When we get a good start, we get little to no run support. Or when we get a good start, the blow pen fails. I would like to see a consistent streak where we put those things together.

Yea Hunter screwed up,

That said, the Angels out perform their pythag and win close games by being clutch and doing little things right. It is not something that happens that much or is a big deal

Is that how a closer is supposed to work? SORIA > Tito Fuentes

That sucked. BP fail, lineup fail.
I almost don't even look forward to the 4th of July game...

…anymore, though I know I’ll get up for hot dogs and beer all the same.

This team just doesn’t have “it” this season.

i'm going to the LA Galaxy game

i gave my tickets away to my brother

Rangers lose.
A loss to the Royals? Really ??????

nice job at d.h. Matsui, and Fuentes, that was a stellar inning you pitched, oh but lets not forget the rest of the offense that just got hosed by a pitcher with a 6.80+ era. I’m shutting my windows and sliding glass doors so I don’t have to hear the fireworks from the stadium.

they just took series from the Cardinals and White Sox

this team can win games

They should not be winning games against the Angels

especially when we go into the 9th with a 1 run lead and their starting pitcher has the era that he has. Unacceptable.

5-3 in their last 8 series

They are playing well, if you expected a sweep then you need to re-adjust a bit. And this team loses all the time when only up by 1 going into the 9th, Fuentes is still the closer after all.

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