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our offense is stellar
dont suck anymore
That's a whole lotta ugly in the pic
get in my belly!
could not resist

chowdettes get impregnated with the weakest sperm cells

Pedroia Destroy-a?

wow

Darwin's waiting room
Did McAnus switch sides?
That gene pool needs a little chlorine
let's go fellas
Woohoo, let's go Angels clap clap clap clap clap.
Crawford

59 games from now

what does that mean?
we have 58 games left after tonight
I understood that part

…….wasn’t sure about your lead-in.

what kind of parents raise a son

that wears a Red Sox jersey and a Pirates hat.? And people wonder why the public schools are failing!

come on Angels...don't suck
I like this as our new chant.

I can hear it reverberating throughout the stadium: “DON’T… SUCK! DON’T… SUCK!”

Boston's like 'oh man we got a pitching battle tonight!'

nooooo… that’s just our inept offense. we bring it EVERY NIGHT!

Fantastic Effort Angels

Bravo.

Thanks Naps for jogging down to first

so that Beltre can literally stand with the ball for 2 seconds and throw you out by 20 feet. What exactly did you guys talk about in the hitters meeting?

Hey, it was a hitter's meeting, not a running meeting
Great job, Napoli.
Was that picture taken in the aftermath of the Chernobyl incident?
Ha Ha +1
The girl in the far left looks like a 5 though

If I had a couple beers…

Billy Mac....

is that you?

The man is a legend

I wonder if the team ever found out about that HH post?

Cruel irony

There hasn’t been an Angel team in the last five years with this much home run power, but they can’t score runs in any other way.

weaver is filthy

i saw him pitch in texas last week, and hes really trumping that performance tonight

flagged
lol

i thought youd be in a better mood since youre winning tonight…

We're not utterly crushing Lackey like we'd like though

but yeah, Weave is dealing

Unless the Ninja picks up a big bat soon...

Mad Libs

Mad Libs?

What?

Has Anyone else noticed that Bourjos has played a few games in LF lately

Maybe being groomed to replace Rivera soon.

If Maffis is out there a several times a week despite his overall suckitude

Rivera ain’t going nowhere.

Mathis has compromising pics of Soth

it’s the only thing that makes sense

who is Maffis?
Our dadgum catcher

and future Gold Glover

I giggle every time I see the work "dadgum"
I don't know

Rivera has been demoted down to 8th in the lineup.

yea because God forbid

we ask Torii to do the right thing for the team and put a guy that could run circles around him in CF….

we mock the M’s for them not putting Figgy first and Ichiro second in their lineup, but we are going to do the same thing defensively.

He was CF today
Id rather him play LF

and have Juan play RF

K x 8 and the hat trick for Hermida
somebody on this earth actually is wearing a shirt

that says Pedroia Destroy-a

Sadly, there are probably many people wearing that shirt
i want that shirt
Hahahaha.

Love it.

His hair line has definitely been destroy'ad
8 k's!!!!

Day-am.

Is Kohn warming up yet?
hope its Linda Kohn
ugh, you ain't hitting .300 with those eyes
She hasn't been warm since 1993
has a better splitty
My mind was in the gutter on that one
Let's do this!
We scratched out a run!!!!

Day-am

An idea

We should go to a four-man rotation for the rest of the year

love watching the game on mlb.com

cox is really pissing me off this week

Texas is getting the most out of Cliff Lee
Wow...

logging onto HH and seeing a bunch of losah chowdah heads near the game thread is kind of infuriating

Too bad no one watches the Red Sux anymore, they're missing a WTY masterpiece
This just in: McDonald will be batting 3rd tomorrow after tonight's performance
Wait, what?

Having cable trouble…

I.e., can't actually see what's going on...
maybe we ought to suit up Billy Mac
Yo.

Just came to cheer you guys on against Lackey

Now why would an AZ fan dislike horseface?
because he pissed all over my fantasy team
Because no one likes him?
Because his appearance makes children cry
Nice view of the fountain
May have already been covered, but

Anyone else having cable trouble tonight? We use Cox and it’s all screwed up…can’t really see much of what’s going on in the game.

yea someone else was complaining about their Cox tonight
your tv is just as frustrated with watching the Angels as you are

be more understanding

try DirecTV
Planning to get it in the new apartment if the landlord's HOA approves.

I’m at the parents place right now, so stuck with Cox.

im using mlb.com right now i have the same problem
Red sox fans love the cox
WTF the blue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WTD(ad) looking pissed after that call
these Boston announcers are annoying as all hell
why pitch out with 2 strikes

just throw a strike, Scutaro doesn’t expand the zone much anyway.

that pitchout also forced him to come in with a nice pitch to hit
because the runner was getting too big a lead

they almost threw him out

Holy Heck...

Soxh using voodoo to get YTW out of the inning

Young the Weave?

Is that like Mott the Hoople? (or however it’s spelled)

Ask YWC he likes classic rock
The ump was calling him safe before he even slid
i thought so too

check was in the mail

please pontificate more Rev
Kevin took of his sweatshirt
Fuck those Red Sox fans, I hate that there's so many of them at our stadium!

There goes mine for July…boy I saved that for a while

Buy a fucking ticket then!
Don't preach to me brother...

I go to plenty of games and I’ve got an hour drive to the stadium!

all you got

is excuses

you and me on the computer and not at the stadium
it says coaching visit on mlb.com

is it butch or soth?

Not looking good...
This inning is taking much longer than it should have.

Come on

Son of a mother cruncher!!!!!!!
this team sure does struggle alot within itself

pAthetic

FUCK out OF defense
OH

MY

GAWWWD

BOTG Rivera

Shit shit shit shit shit shit
Weaver is pissed
he should be pissed at himself....

a 2 out walk to a stupid clown.

Damn you and your slow legs JUAN!!!!!!!!!
I HATE BOSTON
What a worthless gimp.
SON OF A BITCH RIVERA!!!!

YOU CAME IN ON THAT SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EFF YOU!!!!!

that is juan fucking lame left fielder
BOURJOS

NOW

I thought you said that already
Bourjos would have had that easy
GA would have had that without even trying
why was he so shallow?
shorter jog to the dugout
straw

break

camels

back

FUCK THIS VENEZUELAN PILE OF SHIT

was it really that bad

no tv…

he should have caught it
same here

I’d love to see it though. I can only hate juan theoretically right now.

consider yourself blessed
Can it get anymore obvious what our needs are at the trade deadline!
Rivera needs to be put down

in the most inhumane way

I blame the fact that we pitched out

For no reason. 2-1 count instead of 1-2.

or how bout a 2 out walk to a scrub.........

even if he was 2-2 today

yea that pitchout was chickenshit

they already had 2 strikes on the batter. Just get him….. besides I’ve seen Mathis not get the guy plenty of times even when they have pitched out.

S H I T !!!

Why play so damn shallow w/ 2 out?

Lowrie is such a punk

He’s not even a good player, but he’s always giving the Angels grief. He hit the walk-off single that ended the 2008 ALCS, and he took what should have been a game-ending strike three from Fuentes last season.

That was Nick Green
the called 3rd from Fuentes
Ah, you're right

I conflate them because they’re both just about the same player.

shit for brains in leftfield; but it started with the *** HP umpire blowing the call
where are these pitches to youk????
this team really screws over weaver

we better pick him up

+1

If we had half a decent offense, Weaver would be in Cy Young discussion

Exactly. He must be wondering "Is it possible for this team to get more than one run a game for me?"

Besides, I DON’T want Lackey/Red Sox beating us. (Okay, I don’t want ANYONE beating us, but I hate them more than any other team)

We're still in this
I used my f-bomb already.

Can I call the Red Sox "disturbingly enthusiastic goat fellators?

Do the Halos have the stones to come back and beat Lackey & the Sux
They don't have the stones

To beat a replacement level pitcher

Ask if they can come back and beat Vicente Padilla and the answer would still be the same...

Highly questionable.

Rivera could make up for that with a HR
he doesnt have the kahones
But he will probably ground out weakly to SS
Don't jinx him
Well there is Crab Fest at Red Lobster

Thanks mlb.tv commercials

Thanks for putting it all into perspective
sort of like Mrs Lackey's unmentionables...
what time does red lobster close ?
Can't say we didn't see that coming
that is our area of consistency
Here ya go, Weave,

Shutout the red sox.

— Offense

Rivera is making his pitch

to be the full time DH

he needs to hit better

funniest post all day
Full-time 4th outfielder
Here's where we roll over.
What was tht in F-Rods mouth
If we lose tonight I'm taking a week long Angels baseball break
Deal. I already can't watch, I just listen so I can be productive...

But I’m at the point that I rather read about upcoming NFL training camp news than watch a heartless team.

I don’t mind if they don’t win another game this year, but show you care and have some life.

And I hope Rivera gets flesh eating bacteria disease through a bite from Chupacabra next time he eats at El Pollo Loco.

Er deal I'll take a week off too :P
You know right now Horsie is loving this too...
This better go over the fense Juarning Track
Buncha Puss Hitting sissies......
Little Juanita had BETTER make it up here
I remember a time when a one run deficit didn't seem like 10 runs

Ah, those were the days

Juan better have sealed his fate

trade him for anything.

Ok
since Rivera’s not contributing with the bat, we might as well call up Boujos. Worst case scenario, he helps out the team with speed and defense.

they just showed WTY in the dugout....pissed is an understatement

I’d be pissed too
if our garden gnome OFs couldn’t catch that.

I vote Juan

for PTBNL

he gets my vote for DFA
So we only have 7 more outs

and we are going to let Jeff Maffis hit?

every dog has his day apparently
Even a broken clock tells the right time twice a day
Esshh...speak too soon? :-P j/k
Wait,

Is it 2-1 or 3-1?? Gameday says 2-1 but this site says 3-1.

I wish I had tvvvvvvvv! argh!!

Beltre had 2 hours to make that throw
see ya later juan

send him back to montreal

nah

knowing sosh juan just earned himself a permanent spot in left.

WTY doing his best Zambrano impersonation....

…more deservedly too

OMG... I thought that was almost another baserunning boner
i have a feeling about macier right now
Just curious

How long is Juan’s contract for?

Next year is the last
Hahahahaha Mathis quit believing the hype about our outffielders arms

that almost got you thrown out at 2nd

I guess
we gonna get “Call Borjos Up” chants in Anaheim?

I watch Bourgois every week here in SL

That kid can FLYYYYYY. He would have had that catch for sure.

Yeah, I hear the French middle class vacation there all the time

Oh, you meant Bourjos. sorry.

LOL

wow, the snarkiness on this site tonight is out of control!

Your 2010 Angels, everyone.

TrAdition since 1961
what a dumbass slogan

I've really had a hard time rooting for this team all season

I don’t really care about any of the players, other than Weaver, Naps, Aybar….

Usually, in the real world, when you're bad at your job, you get fired.
Good thing Jeff Mathis doesn't live there
not if you work for the govt

not if you work for the govt sosh

These guys get overpayed by the millions because an agent convinces teams of their "worth"

They don’t live in the real world

they get paid millions

because people buy the product, quit buying tickets, they are underpaid if anything

These Howard's commercials are something else
maicer lookin like a 242 hitter
with every 0 on the angels board...

WTY gets a lil closer to free agency…

i a going to have to start charging member os f this webiste

i a m paying for direcTV and you are asking for what i am paying for for free.Stuff you cox and your gameday up where the sun dont shine and get direct tv or pay my directv bill

Rev... You drinking?

If so, I don’t blame you. I just wonder if I’m ahead or behind you right now in BAC.

watch this game sober

it takes a real man to endure such pain and i am that raging dude

Ha! If that is the case, I'm admitting I'm a pu_ _y.

I’ll take a beating from 22 Doyer fans wearing brass knuckles, but I can’t deal with this pain.

sorry I asked about the score
a LOT stitious
Sorry? I think?

Or thanks? Not quite sure.

I'll give those bawston a-holes tomorrow's game

but dammit, I want this win tonight!!!

basically the giants from last year

minus anyone good in the bullpen, if they had a good bullpen.

Thank God the Halos don't play Thursday...

…I might have actually be tempted to pick the Jersey Shore premiere over this team

Leadoff walk: 2010 Angels Bullpen everyone
i am picking a fight with everyone

bring it on

Indeed, it does seem so
seem?

it is on bro, take THAT!!

I luvs youuuuuuuuuu
Now you getting the feeling I feel when I watch the 2010 LAA ...

makes me so mad , the way they play .

Rev is going to just ban everyone tonight…. :)

probably be doing us all a favor........
you're probably right
no way

i am taking all of you with me!!!!!

Try pushing his buttons then

Tell him “Exit Through the Gift Shop” deserves an Oscar!

Can I have a dollar?
WTY has already gone on record about how he feels about the OF defense:

Weaver Miffed By Angels in the Outfield

espn stris shit

exaggerates quotes, don’t believe Mark Saxon, he is an unreliable locker room reporter, very unprofessional

i dont believe saxon...

but i believe the expression on weave’s face after the 7th inning finally ended. if he’s not pissed at the poor OF defense yet, its only a matter of time.

Weave
probably didn’t confront, but those were plays that should’ve been made. A lack of hustle by Abreu was all. Hell, if I did that, I would’ve been yelled at for lack of hustle.

lay off rivera guys

heres the real problem
http://blamerobbquinlan.blogspot.com/

We love the mighty Q here at HH
we all love Q

the author is a padres fan
but i just have to look for another reason for the halos effort this year

Conger&Kazmir for Lee, right?
Yep, that trade is gonna happen.

/sarcasm

Hell no
We needs OF that can field

Do I dare watch the next two innings?

Nothing good can come of it

you’ll see
some weakass outs.

It's Willits time!

Come watch the parade

id recommend watching Black Dynamite if anyone has netflix.

is that a sushi roll?

I'd recommend The Towering Inferno
I recommend Transmorphers
is that the end result of too much Del Ninja?

del scorcho(ed)

And the team had a 30 minute closed door meeting tonight...again....

Have more of them, they are clearly working.

Closed door so the reporters can’t see the Xbox action.

Maybe Sosh needs to close the door and lock the team inside

Give them a timeout. Well, except for players like Weaver who are actually doing THEIR job

I need to beat up someone
good throw would have had him
How the shit does Ortiz score from 1st there

I thought Juan had a good freakin arm. That’s bull freakin shit

apparently he was playing right down the line

and Torii was playing in RCF

Juancho not covering himself with glory out in LF
a paraplegic cuts that off
wow... david ortiz beat someone at a race...

juan is pathetic

Ortiz scores from first base. Hilarious!
one more nail in the coffin
I know our defense is slow and all

but is that gap in LF not like HUGE based on where Torii and Juan were both playing???? Seemed like they were a mile apart.

I don’t drink – but I might start

I can recommend some special recipes specifically to deal with Angel baseball.

Just let me know how ironclad your stomach is.

it's pretty weak...

no spicy salsa or foods

Now is as good a time as any
yea I'm 31 and seriously thinking about it

this team SUCKS. I’d rather watch the Angels of the early 90’s BEFORE Salmon got here.

David Ortiz would finish third

In a footrace with a pregnant woman.

but first against JFR
But still ahead of Juan Rivera
JR would run the wrong way

And forget his shoes.

Nice job cutting off that ball Juan

piece of shit

ARE WE WINNING?
What do you think?
ANOTHER wasted

Weaver start?

ah Fuck this team
Scot "White Flag" Shields

Is getting ready

If Lackey was a half way cool guy he would publicly admit that he feels sorry for Angels fans
Waving the flag

Shields up

Was Kohn's appearance last night a show case for a trade?
Rojas just said that Shields is loosening up

Might as well turn out the lights

shields is the reason for this funk

KC series a couple weeks ago , 1-0 lead, shits the bed.

insurmountable deficit just got insurmountabler.

Can we plz
just call up Bourjos? The OF is just sad.

Weaver is too much of a competitor to stay on this team when he will have the chance to bail...

Of course BorASS will all but make that happen anyway, but I bet he is counting the months, weeks, and now innings…

if it keeps up it'll be Lackey all over again

its sad

this team will be a lot better

by the time Weaver is a FA. Add Kendry, Haren, and the fact that we have gotten next to nothing from 3B and our OF’s outside of Torii have all sucked….

And just think

Juan will be another year older and slower and fatter next year

but
when he goes to another team, he’ll slim down in the offseason and have a monster year with some other team.

I thought Juan lost weight during the off season

and was lookin lighter in ST

no

that was his eye sight

You forgot lazier and blinder(?)
he's going to be GA 2.0

sorry
GA can actually field and hit

What a damn trainwreck of a team

…I can’t stop watching…

This is my mindset...

it almost riveting to see what laughingly ridiculous thing is going to happen next.

does this mean we become sellers?
No, Sosh is too fecking stubborn to realize what we can view through clear eyes...
Rivera for some cleats

Mathis for 2 packs of bubble gum

I'm going to a public internet cafe and sending anonymous emails to the INS for Rivera...

Sure, he’s here legally but maybe they will find something else in the process, at least long enough to keep him off the field for a game or two.

thank you Torii
Who cares

3-1 is as good as 10-1

Woah, nice catch Torii

too bad
we can’t clone 2 more Toriis to take the field.

We would need 4

2 of them to play CF

true but that is alot more bad base runners

then its settled
WE NEEDZ CRAWFORD

I would say that are near desperate
might as well unplug the halo
Torii???

I thought you lost that ability

Can I post of picture of a bunch of tickets I have for sale?
not sure if you could give them away at this point
have been watching

Wipeout
same as this game
just sad

Why does our bullpen always give up runs?
Now *THAT'S* the Torii we know and love
I'm thinking of a new team to root for.

Padres might be a possibility. I’ve always like Buddy

They're losing to the Dodgers now...but at least they're still in first
The Rays

or any team from the Central

Twinkies. They play non-2010 Angels Baseball
Two men doth not maketh a team.

Torii and Weave, I salute you.

Torii allowed a runner to go from 1st to third.

looked terrible jogging in to get the ball.

Jepsen ERA is 4.5
Damn it...i leave for a cigarette and we give up a run?! I'm done
I am having a hard time understanding why Jepsen is considered any good?

He’s usually good for giving up a run every apperance.

Why does Scioscia tolerate this?

You can tolerate a great player who doesn’t always hustle. You can tolerate a below average player who brings the effort. What’s the point of a crappy player who is lazy?

If you don’t bench Rivera you are not doing your job as manager.

why is Arte tolerating this?
dumbshits still buyin tickets
Sciosica reenforces it

when you constantly play mediocre talent players lose the motivation to perform.

Let's look on the bright side:

At least there won’t be anymore stupid fanposts predicting a winning streak from this pathetic team.

but we're about to go on a roll!
angels 2010 transformation post

is being typed as we speak

LET'S TURN THIS SHIT AROUND

MOTHERFUCKING RALLY

Yeah, SD has a chance agains the Doyers, they are only down 2.

I’ll switch to that game too…

callaspo hears your capitalization and will respond
Let's Go Halos!
Good thing that closed door meeting today

lit a fire underneath these guys.

I think he used a match that quickly blew out
Look, guys........

It’s only the bottom of the 8th.

We’ve still got 6 outs

tell that to a team
that has an offense.

Really? I mean really?!?! Have you been watching this team?

for the past 2 days
yes

Is that enough to get a man on first?
I missed the beginning of the game

did Lackey get booed?

So Rev hated Exit Through the Gift Shop?
Someone freaking explain to me why we got Callaspo?
we had room for 1 more crappy 3rd basemen
we needed

to corner the market on 3rd baseman

Troy Glaus
Not a 3rd baseman anymore.
well lets make him one again!
crappy third basemen.
Guiness World Record attempt

at most league average MI on the same team at the same time.

we were short a 3rd baseman
and two thirds of an outfield

i’m pretty sure
that we can put the garden gnomes in LF and RF and no one will notice a difference.

funny sad and true all at once
Clover explained it well enough in another post.

Scioscia is trying to build a transformer of 3rd basemen…

I bet Arte just loves writing these checks out.
Who neutered this team?
John Lackey and Vlad Guerrero
i wonder if arte moreno uses tony reagins as a human ottoman
Someone freaking explain to me

why Callaspo gets 3 hits in 15 abs and is promoted to 2nd in the lineup?

Because I think that is technically more than 8 of the other players :O
Maybe Pittsburg will take Callaspo instead of Izturis for GJones
All of you suck. It's your fault this is happening

Fuck you all.

Signed,
Carlos Zambrano

Fixed

Signed,
Jered Weaver

MUST WIN VICTOR????????
that should be his new name
what's victor conte up to these days ?
Supplying pills to Marlon Byrd
THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT
I like the way you talk
BOBBY nice.....now rinse lather repeat
In slightly better news

Reckling K’d 10 and gave up a run in the Travs game tonight

tell the whole story....

Travs got 4 hits on offense. Sounds like he’ll be prepared for what lies ahead in Anaheim.

1 walk and 3 hits
That moment where you find a car doing 90 mph five feet away from you

and you freeze in terror and confusion, not knowing what to do, just waiting for the inevitable impact and pain.

THAT is how this team seems to approach games these days.

GOODBYE BASEBALL!!!

Bobby!

FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!
Obviously, our guys don't know that Lackey gets tired at the end of the game

and at the end of the season….

So Abreu decided to show up today. He's apparently the only one.
Why do they do this to us? Why? Why? Why?

We all know what’s going to happen, but Bobbay has to make us stay and watch

Yep

Unfortunately we’ve seen this story over and over again this season

BYE LACKEY!!!!!
This looks familiar...

are we in yesterday?

*******************HOMERUN***********Bobby Abreu!**********************
stupid bullpen

way to keep the game close

Please don't leave it as a 1 run loss now...

Don’t tease unless I can see boobies.

dude all the Angels ever do is get to 2nd base.
Everyone's complaining mad me miss Abreu's HR
We're into the Sux bullpen, which is worse than ours
solo shots, cant hit em when we have men on
I think this team needs more McAnulty and Aldridge.
Yup..Deja Vu indeed

wait til the bullpen continues pitching next inning..

Nonetheless, GO HALOS!!!

fuck you lackey
Good thing Francona is a shitty manager

Or we would lose by 2 runs instead of 1

No one besides Abreu paid attention in the hitter's meeting
most the players didn't show

they heard that they meeting was for hitter only

it was a hitter’s meeting
Based on past few days, only Matsui and Abreu allowed to enter

We need a miracle.

Get to work, Hula Dula!

come on Torii...it's the kid's bday today.... DONT RUIN IT
crap
you're being such a lady.............
saving my f bomb for I have no idea what
yeah, as my blondielocks once told me,

“I have to quit cussin’, it’s so fucking unladylike.”

thats a nice zone for boston
sit your ass down Tori that was a good pitch

your just making yourself look stupid

Matsui, you've been good lately. Continue that please.

seems
the hitter’s meeting had Hatcher in it.

Go go Godzilla
Swing at a ball, stare at a strike. Good approach, Torii.
Maybe they made Brandon Wood the new hitting coach
not like he has anything else to do...

he’s even lost value
as a trade chip

Yeah, I wonder how many possible trades we didn't complete because we didn't want to give him up

someone should
go back in time to tell Reagins about this. And also to save NA’s life, accept trades that want Wood and NA

I think we would cry if we saw some of the names we passed on because we didn't want him part of the deal
to be fair...

back then if he HAD been traded this place would of been in an uproar…

I don't know...after his unproductive stints when he came up I think this was forseable
its debatable

i personally wanted to see him get consistent PT to see what he was made of, and im positive 3/4’s of the members here thought the same. at least we’re all in agreement now though haha

then we’ll
laugh and say “damn, we almost had Brandon Wood as our reg. 3rd baseman. Good thing we got Cabrera instead”

Exactly. He already cleaned up all the sunflower seeds off the dugout floor

Took the trash out of Sosh’s office. “Give me something else to do”, he said

I haven't even seem him lately...is he still sitting on the bench somewhere?
You know...Soth's doe eyed look is fine when we're playing well

But it’s a little frustrating when we’re playing this shitty

no way he swings
Okay, can Napoli do something here?
no

Naps cant do nothing
in crucial situations

hopefully but this pitcher is pretty tough
take 2nd Willits

NOW

should have brandon wood finish out the season
so he cant complain about abs
production at 3rd is horrid

give the kid some ABs, let his brain regenerate. This team isn’t catching texas.

So we can laugh at him

For having one of the worst seasons in MLB history

which is in at least part to blame by how Soth played him in previous years.

Never given him enough abs to either see what type of player we had, or for him to get in a groove. He’d do well one day only to sit for a week. But good ole Robbie Q got to play even though everyone knew he’d NEVER be a starter for the Angels.

willits running for Stan
here come fastballs
naps always gets blown away by fast pitching

sit offspeed

Our TV announcers are starting to sound like a couple of used car salesmen

especially that Victor dude

got nothing to say
besides weak out to defense

crap, I wish no one was on base

so Naps could hit a HR to tie it up

well 7-8-9 are up next inning

we done

9 and half back by nights end

I think 10 was my threshold for abandoning the season.

Nope, 8.5 back
shit

then i will abandon the season on thursday night then

8.5 games out and it's not even August.

What am I supposed to do for the next two months? This is what it must feel like to be a Pittsburgh Pirates fan.

they can look forward to football
Pregame Picks

I need one more hit in this game.

I need 0....let's hope our bullpen doesn't give anything up cause God knows the bottom of our order's not gonna get a hit
Well there's No. 15

if we can’t win (Halos), can I just win with my 15 hit pregame pick?….man oh man..

somebody should have told Naps that Lackey was talking shit about him

then maybe he would have hit a hr

more likely
would’ve hit a foul ball in Lackey’s face, then K on the next pitch

This might be my last Angel game in a while

I got better shit to do with my time.

just got back from summer classes.

what’s going on?

the usual
shitty offense, shitty bullpen, bad baserunning/outfield defense
spot on
glad i didn't miss anything noteworthy
actually you missed juan fucking stupid play by our left fielder
lazy play? by an angel LF? inconcievable

don’t worry
he’ll get a clutch hit to win the game. Wait, we are talking about GA right?

Garret would have made this one blindfolded

Rivera just screwed the pooch

well at least we can look forward to him getting arrested for animal cruelty then.
must be a must win TONIGHT

otherwise, kohn would be out there

That's inkohntrovertable
You've Kohnvinced me
Now it's time to show off our great closer
quietly, he's having a phenomenal july

with smoke and mirrors of course, but still

hope francona uses papelbon, bard is lights out
you're about to get your wish
The Angels sold their soul

To One West Bank. Losing thier magic in the process.

no

it was the snuggies

no

the Rally Gnomes were possessed

i still want one regardless
then send it to me and i will

BURN IT AND THE SNUGGIE

I can't

I’m one of Them now.

PUT ON THE GLASSES

you will seee

Naps' X-Ray Specs?
no mini-sirloin burgers song

really hurt this season

yes....

where is the “take me away” commercial when you need it

it's now a Boston song, go figure....
to take Juanita away???
Damn I wish Maffis would have just called for that

instead of having Weaver throw him a 3-2 off speed pitch with 2 outs and the bases empty………………..

WE WILL WIN WITH A WALK OFF
last comic standing
So I'm guessing since Soth doesn't admit when we're going to obviously make the playoffs

He’s not going to admit that this is one big failure of a season

I picture Jered Weaver as Jacob Marley visiting Dan Haren as Ebenezer Scrooge

telling him “Each link of this chain I wear are wins I should have gotten but didn’t because of no support. You will share my fate unless you change teams”

Shitty Offense made me forget about Shitty Bullpen
Which is masking our shitty defense

which is masking
our phenomenal pitching

I hate the Callaspo trade
yea we gave up 2 young starters

so that Kendrick or Aybar can sit on the bench which has happened the last two games. Dude doesn’t have a walk or XBH yet with the Angels yet does he? WTF you idiot Tony!

but maicer gets to play

he of the 240 batting average and paper mache body

it was pointless

wood should be getting at bats, but since we have 6 candidates for 8&9 spot in the lineup, he just couldn’t compete with the other terrible hitters

why so soon
unless we trade away our surplus of 3rd basemen

it was useless. It adds nothing to this team.

Yeah

We should call our middle infielders “deck chairs.”

hell with it, just plunk him
With the 88 mph heater?
sort of like getting hit by a nerf ball
that is not a fight that i think fuentes would win.
a Fuentes fastball

wouldn’t do much damage

if we got into a fight

we still couldn’t beat anyone

They're showcasing Fuentes for a trade as a LOOGY
washburn v. ortiz

2.0

What happened to Bobby's "great influence" on this team?
He got a 4 Million raise from last year
he put up shitty number with his shitty d

and lost all credibility

Hello Everbody!
HI DR NICK!!!
Thank you ladybug, I knew someone would get that
where ya been?
In a weird place called Anaehim and Los Angeles....

The wife and I went down South for vacation, now we’re back in Nor-Cal, where you cn walk 5 steps and not bump into anyone.

I understand the contrast.....

welcome.

we missed you last night.

Hey there

This place is miserable at the moment

Did you hear Kohn got called up?
*hoping he doesn't ask how it went*
LOL yes I was there watching him last night.....

He just couldn’t spot his stuff. If he manages to to get his slider over I still believe he’ll be deadly.

We though you were gonna run out on the field and hug him
lol thought about it, we were sitting right on the RF wall, but it was just too far of a drop
has anyone ever stole home on a pitchout?
WTF was that????
that was the Angels sucking
The Angels do what it takes to lose
CRAP!!! WTF was that Howie and Fuentes/?
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
CUE YAKETY SAX!
lol Perfect soundtrack
more appropriate than "Buttercup"
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
what a comical way to sum up the season
Nail in the season

play the kids already

That was comical
Fuck this game!

Fuck this gutless team!

The Circus has arrived .
relinquish the F-bomb ban for tonight, por favor?
I can't even begin to share my pain on that play
Was that the Angels out there or Benny Hill
Benny Hill had that cool saxophone theme.

We got nothin.

now

that was funny

Ortiz infield single. Awesome
How do we suck?

Let me count the ways … relief pitching, defense, hitting in the clutch …

I know I endured the 94 and 96 seasons in which we had one of the worst records in baseball

so why does playing 500 this season feel a million times worse?

because you knew this team sucked on paper

and thought about the shitty years and knew this season would be just about as painful, but with much more bullshit coming from the FO

Because every game is televised?
Because in the Scioscia Era we're used to this team winning
I call it the Moreno Era

but that’s semantics.

Won the WS without Moreno
and then the team went in the tank the following year

no way the Angels don’t keep up their winning ways w/o Moreno taking over and expanding the payroll

oh yeah, i forgot

managers have nothing to do with winning.

^^DING DING DING DING^^
It's time to

SELL SELL SELL

yea maybe Reagins can turn Matsui into another MI
As if somebody would really buy this shit
bad baseball tolerated by the management
I hope FUentes surrenders a HR

so we can make it to espn’s top 10…somehow

Next Angels give away

A White Flag

So.... how far down below us are the Mariners?
Puppies and ice cream!!

Just thought i’d try to lighten the mood.

dont worry guys

we got callaspo, the offense will bounce back and feed off his presence

This game is about to get a whole lot better

Shields is warming up

for who exactly?
but which Shields? good or evil?
I was hoping we would see a grand slam tonight. Thanks!
Shields.

We need him. He will get an out.

I'm not kidding

Either.

That play was my official breaking point

No number of closed door meetings is going to fix our issues. I have officially given up on the 2010 season.

Hey Victor, aren't you glad you left MLB TV?
he's probably the reason for this season

bring back HUD

finish him beltre!
That just reminded me of

Mortal Combat…I think. FINISH HIM Lol

i wanna see some infighting

i wanna see weaver punch the fuck out of juan rivera

do us all a favor and do it Weaver
rivera would mop the floor with him

he can hit people with power, not baseballs

juan would be too lazy and indifferent to fight back.
waiting for that to happen...long long time .
If Weaver does that

We can do addition by addition and addition by subtraction

Lose Rivera, gain Bourjos.

or we would get two months of willits everyday.
...

kill me now

just remember how loyal our manager is.

its a good and a bad thing.

Hi guys. What'd I miss?
Angels baseball
that's what I said.....
I'm in Seattle.

We had the inspection of the house today and we are depressed. It’s a shell in need of a roof, paint, plumbing and electrical.

SOP
sup witchoo?
standard operating procedure

for used homes in the Seattle area

It's in Woodinville, in Hollywood HIlls,

across the street from a 6.6 million dollar house, and the owner built it 15 years ago. It’s a mess.

It's the worst house in a great neighborhood.

It’s worth about 500k, we are in escrow for just under that, but the roof and plumbing and everything else is going to cost around $20k, and the seller is going to have to eat that or we won’t play.

Woodenville/Bothell = nice

Shit happens.

She finished it cheap. Everything was done on the worst budget,

and there is no excuse for it. None.

The property is gorgeous, but the house is shite.

Don't know exactly what to tell you.

I know the area………….it’s great.

I doubt the market is full of buyers right now.

We're the only offer she's had in 18 months.

The house could be great, but it needs a lot of work beyond those other issues. We can do the other work but not without the roof, the plumbing, the paint and electrical issues being addressed by her. And we haven’t seen the septic tank report yet. Ugh.

This was house #1. House #2 is over on Whidbey, on 5 acres, and it’s very nice. This one was close to my daughter’s house and the garden is 3/4 of an acre.

My wife and I spend a lot of time in PA .....

…..used to have an apartment in Woodinville…………and Kirkland.

Our agent has agreed to get some contractors to give us bids,

then we’ll ask for a huge adjustment. She’s taken out most of the fixtures, but left the appliances, and now we’re wondering if the house is nearing foreclosure.

sigh

talked with one of my customers in Seattle today

who told me that businesses are still laying off workers……………and some shutting their doors.

The stories I've heard say that foreclosure

subjects have the appliances removed also……….anything of value.

That's too bad.
nothin' but the same ol

trAdition

lol... My son heard me call Lackey Gomer Pyle earlier and asked "Who is that?"

So he looked up a clip of Gomer Pyle on youtube and is laughing his butt off right now because he does look so much like Lackey

I just threw up in my mouth

no really…..

ive havent used a F bomb since i have been a member of HH(a year)

can i use my 12 now?

a grand slam would be sweet right about now
it would probably come with 2 outs and Willits would pass Rivera

on the bases with the Red Sox still winning 4-3.

Outside of coming back to win this game and sweeping the Rangers later this week....

This season is done. Glad we’re ready for 2011 though lol.

WHat part of Northern Cal do you live in?
Chico
Interesting choice

Do you teach there or own a really successful liquor store? :)

School

And every place of business in Chico sells alcohol, liquor stores can’t be too successful here

CA has the cheapest booze of anywhere in the USA.

…and on every corner.

Not where I live.

I pay upwards of 6-7 bucks for a pint sometimes.

try one of those states EAST of Ca next time
haha. Right on.

I almost went to Sonoma State. But it seemed just a little too low key.

It's beautiful there...

too boring though. I prefer the Chico life. Lots of trees, lots of outdoor rec, lots of girls, lots of parties, lots of fun.

this game seems to be crystalizing everything bad about this season so far.
2 runs ... no problem

3 out of the question, but 2, they could get 2

i wanna see tony reagins in the booth, during the 5th inning

admitting that he has no idea who alberto callaspo was, and plead that arte moreno give him back his previous job of custodial engineer

He did get Haren you know
1 step forward 2 steps back

this team is getting out managed by a broke team in one of the weakest divisions in baseball.

arte is collecting quite the collection of useless latin players
Somebody needs to be fired or released

I don’t care who. Send a message that this kind of performance is not gonna be tolerated

sadly

it’ll be thompson getting sent down or something.

scioscia only calls out and punishes players who call him on his bullshit

I agree. Shakeup is in order. It's like no one cares they're flushing this season down the toilet.
I hope we trade away some of these fools
Juan Rivera is.............

fill in the blank

not in front of children.
i hope he isnt lol....that would be wierd
lower than whale piss
can I be traded

what are they doing over at Rangerheaven?

Haven't heard from Rev in a while

can’t wait to read the postgame

I think he got in a fight with himself

like Fight Club

he banned himself
He started drinking
It doesn't seem that long ago that this team seemed frisky and pesty

and could get runs in so many different ways.

Now they just seem to hack aimlessly and pray, and run like they are blindfolded.

Fanpost idea: JUAN RIVERA SUCKS

Thoughts?
Discuss.

Can't argue with the truth
the thread would end there though
I am working on JEFF MATHIS SUCKS
Things that can still be cool this season:

Having Weaver and Haren at the top of the rotation both challenging for the league lead in Ks

Kohn, Bourjos and Trumbo hopefully getting their chances to prove they can be good.

High draft pick!

Offense can’t get much worse I guess.

howie and his robo swing
Guys, guys, guys...

You’re all way too negative. We still have a battle ahead of us. A battle which we must fight for. This team will not fail, this team will not falter…..THE BATTLE FOR SECOND PLACE BEGINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

but the battle for 2nd is one you want to lose

if the Angels aren’t making the playoffs at least they could have a protected 1st round pick.

I was going to suggest Rendonmania, but no way we fall that far.
Dammit
now what?

I turned it off

Can JR hit a 3 run HR?

With the bases empty? If not, release him tonight.

It would be nice if JR would learn that you can get a ground ball *BEFORE* it caroms off the wall
Why am I still watching this game?
You're a masochist?
most likely too drunk to find the remote like me
I don't know what happened.

We saw the score was 1 – 0 when we were in a sports bar, but they weren’t showing the game, just bits of games from all over.

rivera's july:

333 average, 1 rbi, 1 homerun, and 14 runs allowed because he is a fat worthless piece of hot trash covered in shit in the outfield

did gubi fall asleep?
2010 Angels, the nightmare I'd prefer forget.
Call up half of Salt Lake

I’m sick of this fucking team in its current form

+1000000000000000000000000
at this point i would rather they just televise the salt lake games.

or maybe rancho so we could watch trout.

I almost want the angels to completely tank it the rest of the way...

Get a good 1st round pick

The way they're playing

They’re already going to tank it

And we're out of our misery for tonight.
I wish my TV had a Whack-A-Mole function

So I could slam each and every Sux fan in the crowd.

Remember when we didn't trade Mathis and Howie as part of a deal

to get Miguel Cabrera? Can we get a redo on that?

I suspect that's why we
recently traded away a lot of LH pitchers who might become something someday.
i don't even want to get into trades that we turned down.

a name like brandon wood comes to mind.

Well, see you all in a week...

…maybe after a 7 day self-imposed sabatical (sp?) from Angel baseball, I’ll have a more positive outlook.

And maybe they will as well. Will be fun to see how they spin this yet again in the call-in show.

8 1/2 Back

0-6 against the Red Sux

Now I get to hear it from my son's friend the Red Sox fan

And what can I say back to argue? We DO suck.

that they'll miss the playoffs too

and we’ll get the better draft pick. WIN!!!!!!!

Kick his ass
I'm really looking forward to Haren's next start.
why?
He's fun to watch. And not much else to look forward to this season
good answer.

He was fun to watch last night

but it was way annoying to see him take the loss yesterday
Because he's one of the few players

who can actually play

watch a strike

swing at two balls feet out of the zone

can't believe i watched that entire travesty
Well played, gents!

Except not.

Being a .500 club is okay for some teams. It is not OK for us.

8.5 behind ?

Not over yet ….Not yet .

Keep telling yourself that
10 back in the loss column

time to play wood

remember when we all wanted Juan Rivera to play instead of GMJ??

good times……good times…..

Good night everyone...Rejoice that football is only a few weeks away!!!!
Steelers are probably out of it too

I’m waiting for Basketball now

I hate football
Thanks for reminding me that my football team has yet to sign their QB...

ugh.

Guys the Angels actually have a decent shot at a protected draft pick.

Angels have the 19th best record in MLB. After the Top 15 teams then I believe your pick is protected.

Silver lining.
19th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thats effin rediculous

Someone needs to set up a "Protected Draft Pick Watch" on the sidebar here.
Wow that's fail
What ever our problem is we need to figure it out now and fix it this season
is it over yet?
I mean this game
players I wouldn't mind seeing replaced

Juan
Hideki
the new guy at 3rd whose name i can’t spell (why do we even have him?)
Mathis (sort of)

if Weaver was a basketball player he would be demanding a trade

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