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Why does Quentin always seem to pwn us?
Shitty Angels baseball has done that
Because his name is part of a running gag on this site?
I would say more like, why does everyone pwn Kaz?
Now would be a good time for the offense to wake up
dejected Kazmir sighting
MAC ATTACK!!!!
mcanulty looks like a white dude

ate bartolo colon

Let's Go

Halos!

Come on Fat Bastard
Let's sign Pedro and DFA Kaz

frustration talking

Kaz looks extremely pissed
It's true that Quentin's one-hander is not a home run in just about any other park

Also, Kazmir sucks.

Obviously didn't eat enough before the game.
McAnulty goes for Option A
Paul looks overmatched.
Damn

who would have ever thought that we would end up with

McAnulty
Alridge
Frandsen

all 3 suck

meanwhile, wood is getting valuable experience remembering what the pine felt like the last 3 years he got dicked around by this club so robbie Q could rub scioscia’s nuts

Well Surprise another strike out
might be time to shorten mcanus' swing

and turn him into a slap hitter, these strikeouts are problematic

Trevor Bell

I thought I had read that Bell had been called up to start in place of Kazmir today. What happened?

You were dreaming?
Wishful thinking
trevor bell

would get lit up like a christmas tree.

The L.A. Times made an error

Corrected it in today’s paper.

Thanks

Thought I was crazy. Well, maybe I am. I just found an article on the Angels’ site that says Bell was sent down to get back into the starting routine, with the team denying that it had any correlation to Kazmir’s struggles.

I had been a bit confused, because Bell went down when Thompson came up, and therefore cannot be called back up for another 10-15 days unless someone goes on the DL.

Fat Bastard goes down swinging
checking in looks like Scoscia decided to put the b team in today
Obviously Soth didn't want to put together a winning streak.
And........who the hell is this guy????
So did we promote Arkansas to Triple-A and Salt Lake to the Big Leagues?
aldridge

taking a few pitches, before unleashing the swing that kept him in the minors for the last 15 years

That inning was AWESOME.

:|

Embarassing....
did you guys hear the good news

we will be paying Kazmir money next year too

are we giving us already????

I have never heard of these guys being discussed on here very much, if at all

I meant giving up
Ryan, McAnulty, and Aldridge

are all Minor League vets who we gave contracts that were just for Minor League depth that have no business on a MLB roster.

Are you in your mid 30s? Have you been playing minor league ball for the past several decades?

Come to the los angeles angels of anaheim, where there will be a starting position JUST FOR YOU

I thought that was SF
McAnulity, Fradsen, Aldridge, Wilson

what a weak ass lineup

Sounds like the world's most inept law firm
but they sound cheap
Bet they wouldn't make me work today

like my firm did

dude they would not only make u work

but they would make u file things that can not be filed.

And Kaz serves up the 1st career HR of that guy
Well, looks like this is going to be one of those blowout games.
14 Dingers on the season....

Way to go Kaz.

game fuck this shit
consistAnt
at least we know what we are going to get each start out of Kaz..... shit
Kaz

Seriously. Learn. How. To. Frakking. Pitch.

Rec'd for the BSG reference.
If we could trade Kaz for a Cylon, I'd do it

Especially if that Cylon looked like Tricia Helfer

Kaz is a mess tonight.
I thought Kazmir would actually do well this inning because he looked pist........ I have never been so wrong
oh shit

this is getting stupid now

We should pull Abreu and put in Willits..

Pull Howie and put in Wood.

Viciedo

the next HR king

and Kaz has the honor of number 1

sweet slider bro

why not just let it rip and then have the surgery?

This team does not belong in a pennant race
Overreaction much?
yes, yes it is

Correction
Kazmir doesn’t deserve to belong in the pennant chase. Even Joe had a better outing.

Well, not the guys out there, certainly.
Cleveland up 4-0 on Texas.
guess we picked a good time to slump.....

as so are the Rangers.

Mighty Rich Thompson.

Hell yes.

Dayan

sounds like a shade of blue only acrylic artists use

WE WANT CHOPPER!
I'd characterize Kaz as a bullpen kiler

except thie pen is already deceased

as long as he doesn’t
get near Kohn or Thompson. They still have potential.

how much are we paying this dbag this year and next year?

Maybe
Kaz should just work on a knuckleball. He doesn’t have to command a knuckler.

auto-safe on a steal to second

cant figure out why other teams just dont do it, no matter the baserunner.

true

but why steal 2nd when you are guaranteed a walk

Well, looks like I have to resort to Plan B this evening

Go Indians.

YAY INDIANS
It is a true fact that the Rangers won't play as well in the 2nd half

That’s our opportunity.

My new fAvorite team

whoever is playing the Rangers

we really need to trade for a pitcher at the deadline
Eight straight balls to Juan Pierre = 8 straight kicks in the balls
I think it needs to be exponential

A kick in the balls for the first ball to Juan Pierre, twice as many for ball two, four for ball three, etc. Kaz would never be having children at that point.

this is what it would look like

if Fuentes was a starter

At least Fuentes has a mustache and an amusing delivery

At least
Fuentes gets leftys out. Kazmir doesn’t get anyone out.

That's not even fair to Fuentes
8 straight balls to Pierre.
Wow 8 pitches to Juan Pierre amount to 2 walks
What happened to Kaz?? This guy is so much better than this
Your use of the present tense tells me you are confused.
he's got the talent. He's been lousy this year....

but he does have the ability.

Does he still? I'm not seeing it.

Saunders will at least show signs of being good every other game. Kaz not so much.

he had the talent

he’s lost like 5mph off his fastball, and him not being able to throw a slider is likely him hiding an injury.

Angels

please make up some sort of fake injury to Kaz

He got
Wooditis

Remember when we were saying that Kazmir was doing pretty good?

It feels like that was so long ago

Wasn't that in the 5th inning?
I need to start sacrificing turkeys

because chickens clearly don’t work on Kaz

Yeah Rich show em you deserve it!
Why is it that Thompson comes in when we're down by 5
Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Oi Oi Oi
This is really random but Abrea has been sucking ass recently and has killed almost every rally.
we focus so much hatred on the shitty hitters at the bottom of the order

but matsui and abreu are the real culprits

yeah Matsui got hot there for awhile but significantly cooled off and Abreu has just sucked all year with occasional clutch home runs
Dirty Thompson!
sweet strikezone
I think this is the "I just want to get home" strikezone
Ok sorry I'm busy with stuff just checking

Did Soth really bring Kaz back out for the 7th after his disaster in the 6th only to see him give up another homerun, and then after the homerun eventually let him walk Juan F’ing Pierre again for the 2nd time in two innings?

Don't forget walking Brent Lillibridge
It's pretty clear mike was trying to save the pen.
yeah i went to eat dinner with the Mrs. and came back to see another 4 runs.
kazzy was working on some things out there

we liked what we saw most of the game, just need to turn the page and get soem continuity with his release point. butchy will get together with him

"Kazmir had outstanding stuff today"- Mark Gubiza
words do not exist

about how much Gubi sucks

Bring back Rex.
92 mph straight fastballs while mixing in a flat slider

OUTSTANDING

Scioscia's cringing face

since the first batter of the game would argue otherwise

Come on Rich.
RT throwing the heat.
crap, I go do dishes and the score goes to hell

what is happening???

dirty dishes never hurt anyone

shame on you

watching this game might
Rich just had to make sure Kazmir's ERA was completely F'd up
well that's fine.
Aldridge looked liked he lobbed that throw
The aussie will have a double digit ERA when he leaves this game

that run was to Kazmir

Thompson still a terrible pitcher just like last year.
little early for that?
Nope - sample size of 10 pitches is quite enough
He just K'd their best hitter.

Well
the hit wasn’t a good one. It jammed the bat, but was blooped in.

Well, second best.
I was being sarcastic

I’m not sure about 44Fan

I hope so. I really really want to like him!!
If they keep playing like this

I’m just going to sleep in. This sucks

Good night.
good morning, you mean

here’s the ironic thing, it’s 8:15 am here and everyone is still asleep. Our servants get up to send our daughter to school and they go back to bed. My wife never even stirs, and I sit in front of my lap top ebduring this.

You’d think they could get there collected heads out of there asses and play a decent ball game.

I gave my servants the day off
mine have the day off every day

I suck at the whole master-servant thing

my servants have every day off

I pretty much suck at the whole master/servant relationship thing

My favorite part of our pitching staff

Is when they get 0-2 counts and wind up losing the hitter. It happens way too much.

that’s just the bullpen
Kazmir and occasionally Joe.

I feel like I'm watching the Bad News BEars
RT still sucks
How does every guy on the White Sox not have a multi-hit game?
A lot of them have been walked
That explains it. Lol
Is Australia's national baseball team called the Baseballroos?
Baseballabies?
I like how a bloop single meens someone sucks.
How about a career ERA of 7.71
How about a tiny sample size for a young pitcher who could conceivably improve after his first cup of coffee?
no

he’s done.

it’s been written

Well, shit.
Wasn't Bell going to start today?

Kaz should be sent to the ’pen.

Error by the Times.

I blame the little birdie.

Chuck from Angelswin.com looks like an asshole.

I can’t help but smile :D

See Upthread

I posted the same query.

as sad as this sounds

that may actually improve the pen

Nice play Howie.
WOW Nice Howie
Howie's D is severely underrated.
He sucks on OF pop-ups, though
Better than Frandsen.
Nice play by Howie
Hey, it's Bobby Jenks
Another Angel, lol
rally time
How amazing would it be if this lineup came back and won this game?

they won’t
but having Spezio, Glaus, and Salmon with a BP that doesn’t give up runs, it may be possible.

=Orgasamic. Definitely.

So
the question’s how long is the leash on Kazmir. I personally like Lee

I would be okay with any trade that does not involve Trout.
sounds like the same mantra we used with Wood
Just because it didn't work out doesn't mean we were wrong to want to keep our talent.

After out, if there wasn’t a chance of him being what we thought he could be, no one else would have wanted him either.

I know

but we put so much stock in these prospects and the best we can do is Howie and Aybar

No one else sems to place the same value on our “prospects”.

had a great one named Nick Adenhart too
I would say the BEST we've done is Jered Weaver...
We'll never know about Nick

Jared is a keeper, but I’m referring to our vaunted position player prospects that we guard so jealously. These guys McPherson/Mathis/Wood never seem to pay off

Morales? Napoli?

You know McPherson/Kotchman/Mathis could easily have been the next Salmon/Edmonds/Anderson. You can’t really tell which it’s gonna be.

Besides which, trading our guys for rentals (Texiera/Kazmir)

hasn’t really done much for us in terms of winning the big one.

trading for rentals is a BAD idea

I agree

I’m not sure Kaz is a rental, just bad

Wait, so which side of this are you on? Trade Trout for the rental or don't? :-P
Kendry who? Jered who? Santana? Napoli?
ok ok

you win

Not to mention Morales
If they trade for Lee, Kazmir is definetly going to the bullpen obvious choice.

Everybody else in the rotation is currently holding their own. Its just going to be kind of hard to get him from a division rival.

I think even the Ms
know their season’s over. Lee’s a 1 year rental, the Ms have no chance of winning the AL West or the WC. If a trade is made for Lee, it doesn’t affect them in the long run. Only chance Lee stays with us longer is if he extends his contract.

If Bobby Wilson grew that beard, he could do a decent Bobby Jenks impression
Well if Professional baseball doesn't work out..
Rev. Were the Angels wrong when they listed him as Stu Cliburn?

I know it’s Stewart not Stuart, but I remember the programs showed him as Stu.

YEAHHHH BOBBY HAHAHAHA.
I was remarking at the running ability of Wilson not the eff-up by Jenks.
Clawing back!
but Bobby the rally killer is up
kendrick

seems like the only dude trying most nights

That's why I love the guy. He's a gamer@!
UCLAHY!!!!!

HELLUVA GAME

UCLAHY

is sitting somewhere cutting himself

oh Bobby DP is up
Howie learns from experience.
Nice try AJ Pussarmshitski
Howard kendrick not only sells tvs but he steals bases
Howard's prices are practically a steal
this game hurts
abreu with a balmy .250 avg w/ risp

lightening in a bottle fail

crawling back into the game

one run at a time. Too bad the game doesn’t last 15 innings

might be 14- 4 then
with our bullpen

yes

Geeze and he wants to get to 3,000 hits.

Not gonna do it looking like crap Booby.

Well

I’m gonna lose all my Panther points tonight

Gubi please stop talking that was a horrible curve ball bobby was just stupid enough to swing at it. It almost hit the plate!!
gonna make myself feel better

gonna go spy on LSB…….lol

Pinch-hit Napoli!
Nappo Smash FTW!

You have to pinch hit right? Even if he gets out it is the smarter choice

sean rodriguez just roped a double
wonder if Reagins regrets that move yet?
Godzilla, we need you to stomp the yard here...
5-1 in cleveland

I still blame
the dumb drunk for killing NIck. Instead of Kazmir, we would’ve had Nick Adenhart. Thanks a lot you dumb drunk.

I think that we would still have traded for Kaz as Lackey insurance

but that means no Pinata

was there any doubt after scoring a ton of runs yesterday

that they wouldn’t show up today?
plus Kaz kills any mojo you have going

matsui hitting .186 against lefties

it’s a no brainer, you go with the guy that sells merchandise

Matsuiland!
Worked pretty well there
he;s like willits

if he doesnt swing, something good might happen

I'll take a walk
If godzilla gets on, sosh has to put naps in.
come on MacAttack....GRAND SLAM!!!
I like how women never ask for much...
why Napoli? come on
Time for a POWER NAP!
is a power nap when he watches strike 3 go by?
Come on Naps, get us a hit baby!
Ozzie Guillen is no fun, I wanted Threets to face Napoli
well Naps can make this a ball game
he's due

0/6 bases loaded

at least we are taxing their bullpen
DAMN that was right down the middle
that was HIS pitch
Mater Dei?

Ivy, you hear of him?

common just need a base hit
DO NOT GO DOWN LOOKING FATBOY
no, he swung
He heard you.

Good call.

Napoli EPIC FAIL
Naps isn't getting laid
way to kill it Naps
McAnulty coulda done THAT
blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

mcmanus :(

No-Clutch Napoli

McAnulty could have done that

Q could have done that
I could've done that
I could have done that.
I could've done that
I could've done that
I...probably... couldn't have done that actually.
Napoli insuring he won't get traded
Angels offense 2010 - the Feast or Famine edition.
mostly famine
mostly famine

and you reminded me…time for breakfast

Forgot Naps can't hit with men on base
Now Rev Haloflan is going to put Naps up for BOTG just for one at bat.
i dunno... Karmis should have it locked down
And there goes Rich Thompson's 0.00 ERA
I don't think anyone won the pregame picks today
I was thinking it was going to be Thompson but Rev Halofan left him off the list for some reason.

Since he was warming up in last night’s game before it was over.

Okay, NOW you can say Rich still sucks.

Dangit Rich.

did he just pass the sample size threshold?
No, he just proved that he hasn't solved his problem, ie, giving up homers.
wow, we sure blow
Ummm...Naps = K3yerout

Quentin flies out over the fence…again? WTF?

I think Napoli only hits solo homeruns
Just gotta take the next 3........

and it will be a successful series :-)

NappoError
McAnulty could've done that too
I could've done that

Kotch woulda had that

Wow. We are just BAD tonight.
i've been humming 1812 overture in my head

watching the bad news halos tonight

this isn't BAD....this is HORRIFIC
way to field with your nipples
They need to make the highlight reel of this game

with Benny Hill music

with some 3 stooges clips and sound effects
on a positive note Thompson's ERA is still 13 points lower then it was last year
i wonder what rich's wife is going to blog about tonight.
her blog is shut down
nothing to live for, anymore.
2 WP for Thompson already
Damn that is one weak arm in right
I think I'm gonna shut down on this one.

Good night folks.

enjoy

im staying only because I cant find the remote.

chopper getting taxed
I'm slowly coming to the realization that we aren't a playoff team this season.

Even if we make it we can’t go deep with our lineup and pitching problems.

I cant see this lineup hitting playoff pitching

and what about the blowpen?

Same here

Although by the next Angel Win, I’ll be convince that we are a World Series lock.

And that is the lovely roller coaster of being a FAN Wooo!
We have 3 pitchers on this team that are worth a damn.......

well 3.5 with Saunders.

Weav, Voodoo, Jo-el

Thats it……..

and thats sad

I'll take Jepsen

and if Fuentes was used correctly he’s a quality pitcher.

I'll take Fernando if closing.
ok Tony

whatever you say

too many games this year when they are just not ready to play
At least Texas is losing
I think putting McAnulty and Aldridge in the same game was pushing it a bit much.
they played last night just fine
wanted to bring McAnulty to Chi-town for some deep dish
it seems that whenever the sux/skankees pull guys off the shitpile

for emergency purposes, they come through. Seems they’re inspired, our guys are happy to get the per diem (McFatbastard)

I know I’m being harsh, but shit, this is awful.

McAnulty hit a 2 run HR last night, I think that qualifies as coming through
The guy has a homer and a walk in a game and a half worth of abs.....

lets give him a chance.

Also Frandsen except for his last few games has been a nice addition.

Terry just made the point that if WTY is scheduled for Sunday

then he would not be chosen. Jose replied that maybe there would be other pitchers unavailable. He either did not understand, or it was a non-sequitor. Either way, bring back Hud. At least his non-sequirors were funny and did not make my head hurt

Alright

Comeback time!!!

OMG to the commercials on mlb.tv now...
are we making a comeback?
the forecast is

not very likely

Only 7 more runs to tie
magic 8 ball says NO WAY IN HELL
1 ER in 1 and 2/3 innings pitched for Thompson, I think that still makes him better then some current relievers.
low standard there
Frandsen made a pretty strong bid for his 1st HR as an Angel right here
Calling up Aldridge to me is puzzling

his last 10 games he was OPS’ing under 700 in AAA.

Aldridge just got robbed by Konerko

Barely missed his 1st major league hit there

Aldridge needed Napo playin 1st base
people were so high on this Aldridge guy after ST.....

but it doesnt impress me that much.,

I think it's time to work on tomorrow's hangover
Nice whats on the menu?
dunno...wine sounds good
Red or White?
pinot grigio
Yummmm

that sounds very good right now.

I'll pour you a glass
Ballgame... :((

til next time…

barf...gag....puke
team needs to go into the locker room and take a communal dump
on each other
they dumped on US
make soth wipe their butts
Only in Cleveland...
We'll get them tomorrow
Long trip........late night last night......

earl-ish- game………no worries.

Get em tomorrow……

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