Halos Heaven

I thought the Angels played a much better game than the score indicates.

Brandon Wood appears to be on the verge of busting out any game now. Just getting some bad breaks lately.

Rangers100 - July 7, 2010 reply

Both true

you are wise

Piss off

LAASurfin - July 7, 2010 reply

Busting out of the major leagues forever....

Robviously - July 7, 2010 reply

Nope

The Angels were really awful. Nice sarcasm jerk.

Keep playing your banjo.

XYZ123 - July 8, 2010 reply

Line 'o the week:

Angels couldn’t hit water if they fell out of a boat, which they will need to get from the dugout to the clubhouse…

-(Rev)

LAASurfin - July 7, 2010 reply

Who goofed?

I’ve got to know!

rspencer - July 8, 2010 reply

McAnulty looks like

Tom McGowan…must be a Mc thing.

maze88 - July 7, 2010 via mobile reply

like I said during the game thread

He reminds me of one of the fat people from Wall-E

TheKingfish - July 7, 2010 reply

Pretty much,

but his hair-do definitely reminds me of the movie HEAVYWEIGHT. There was a baseball scene as well, which makes sense bcuz they sucked.

Btw, why in the world does he wear his cap underneath his helmet? Just as ridiculous looking as Cervelli with his huge helmet.

maze88 - July 7, 2010 via mobile reply

So does Pierre

cause of his pea head.

Yeah

Pierre looks like a little kid wearing his dad’s batting helmet.

rspencer - July 8, 2010 reply

I would have liked to be in the front office meeting when they decided to bring this guy up

you know there was some low level temp who was too afraid to say anything but was thinking “What the hell are we doing?”

UCIHalo - July 7, 2010 reply

He was doing really well in the minors, I thought it was worth giving him a shot too. Obviously it hasn't worked out though.

Very

Brandon Wood-like

maze88 - July 7, 2010 via mobile reply

There's a reason why he and Alderidge are career minor-leaguers with multiple organizations

mustard_man - July 8, 2010 reply

the fuck did i do?

boyonthedock - July 7, 2010 reply

Will there ever be another show as good as that one?

F*ckin’ McNulty.

Quinlan's Goofy Swing - July 8, 2010 reply

never

“you happy now bitch”

Troll alert! Troll alert!

he

gone

Rev Halofan - July 7, 2010 reply

Brandon Wood

Couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a fargin’ boat.

graydog28 - July 7, 2010 reply

Tommy Lasorda

Let’s not forget who originated that quote…with his salty verbage.

graydog28 - July 7, 2010 reply

I would love to forget Tommy Lasorda.

Who cares if he made a funny? He’s the enemy.

+1

My mom always says that he and Mussolini make her embarrassed to be Italian.

Teixeira Who? - July 8, 2010 reply

IT AIN'T MY F***IN' FAULT!

Campanis is the guy!

rspencer - July 8, 2010 reply

Tonight made the idea of bringing up Bourjos more appealing.

Whats the chance of someone asking forJohnny Rivers?

UCIHalo - July 7, 2010 reply

This team is pretty god-awful.

Blame of the season: Tony Reagins.

bc56274 - July 7, 2010 reply

This team was doing pretty well until this past week

Blame of the past week: Tony Reagins.

bc56274 - July 7, 2010 reply

I think he deserves a lot of blame for this season

for the signings of Matsui, Rodney and the trade to acquire Kazmir.

Matsui was a good signing. It hasn't worked out, but it sure seemed like a good idea at the time.

agreed

as recently as the WS, he looked pretty damn good—as in MVP good

I hated the signing from day 1

It didn’t seem smart to me to sign someone at his age with no speed and no value on defense.

I said all along that we must resign Vlad cause he's gonna have a career year, but nooooo...

(boy am I full of shit . . . )

We'll keep your application on file for when Reagins is done.

Just file that under "Bullshit"

or, “Warning: Do Not Hire This Applicant”

The Angeles would have resigned him if they got the deal Texas did.

Vlad was looking for a multi year deal and the Angels weren’t willing to give it so they moved on. Vlad ended up only getting a one year plus and option for a second with Texas. Too bad it worked out that way but them’s the breaks.

Halo84653 - July 8, 2010 reply

But how is it a good signing if it doesn't work out?

That sort of begs logic.

Half the fanbase (the crazy half) thought GMJ was a good signing at the time, but that didn’t work out either.

You have to judge a signing on outcomes, otherwise you can wipe a franchise out on the “best of intentions”.

I was judging the signings based on "Did they make sense at the time?"

There was very little to suggest GMJ would be worth the contract he got, besides the career year he had in his 30s.
There was almost nothing to suggest Rodney would be worth the contract he got.

There was pretty much nothing to suggest Matsui would struggle this badly, so I think it was a good signing.

Reagins has made decisions that deserve to be criticized, I just don’t see the Matsui signing as one of those.

Matsui was all Arte...

Billboards/Revenue

Reagins is just an Idiot with wandering eyes and mumbled speech.

Funke5ive - July 8, 2010 reply

But you still can't call Matsui a good signing.

It may have been logical and well reasoned, but the fact that it didn’t work out prohibits it from being considered.

snowhor - July 8, 2010 via mobile reply

I wanted Vlad back,

but when it was apparent that he wasn’t coming back, Matsui seemed like the best alternative.

huh?

Wally's World - July 7, 2010 reply

Matsui was a stupid baseball signing, marketing maybe, baseball stupid

And I’ve bitched about since day 1 on this site and he is exactly the Matsui I knew he would be. The Yankees didn’t even offer him a contract after winning the MVP of the world series, why you ask, because he can’t play an entire season, he needs long stretches of time off. And that is if he is just going to D.H. I was shocked, disgusted, and dumbfounded that the biggest move the Angels made in the off season was to sign Matsui. That was a huge F.O. fail.

steelgolf - July 8, 2010 reply

Not that well.

We’ve won two of seven since last Wednesday. We had won three of six the week prior to last Wednesday.

Outside of two or three weeks in early-mid June, this team has been largely treading water. We’ve lost series to Kansas City and Milwaukee for hell’s sake — the friggin’ Royals have a +17 run differential on us this season — and it’s not that long ago that we were swept in a four game series by Boston. Now we may get swept in a four game series to the ChiSox.

This team has been out of first place 83 of the 86 games this season. That’s some chronic suck. I think we kid ourselves if we think the team has been doing pretty well.

Ok, so next year we'll have Kendry back, and we'll have Crawford, and

oh . . . god . . . I can’t face it . . .
The heck with the “chronic suck”, I just want some chronic, brotha

We've got success in our future.

Hopefully Reagins doesn’t trade the farm on some speculative moves before the trade deadline so that we can lose to Texas by two games in October instead of six.

But don't you think that there's a s**t load of guys "on the farm" that we could move

without it being a real problem. Other than Trout, Borrjos, Conger and a few pitchers, (and Q, of course), who ISN’T expendable to try and salvage this season and possibly next?

But what are we realistically going to get in a trade without losing any of those guys...

Nothing anyone will be happy about… that’s a fact.

thetooth - July 8, 2010 reply

You are so right

unless its Crawford or Lee

Raaddad - July 9, 2010 reply

I was referring to pre-Royals series. And it has been 2 months since Boston swept us, I wouldn't say that is "not that long ago" in terms of a baseball season.

And as far as the team playing well, I was mostly referring to June, I should have specified that.

Overall though, pretty well might have been an exageration, but they’ve at least been playing well enough to keep the gap between them and Texas close for the most part.

Also, I think you misread the Royals run differential. We've outscored them this season 36 to 19

~MMP~ - July 8, 2010 reply

Now that IS depressed

and potentially dangerous

LAASurfin - July 7, 2010 reply

haha

I’m in full agreement.

RexTookMyStash - July 7, 2010 reply

eat a beef and chedder for me.

or heck, ill go get one myself.

teopeht - July 7, 2010 reply

yum

cardboard

Funke5ive - July 7, 2010 reply

Arby-ceuticals...

Downing Rules - July 8, 2010 reply

I'm getting sick of this old, slow and defenseless team

Old Outfield that is but slow and defenseless applies to about everybody on the team

Well, at least the Rays swept the Sux

it’s not all bad . . .

I have a soft spot for the Rays

did they solve that problem in the dugout between Longo and whatshisface?

teopeht - July 7, 2010 reply

Don't know

what happened again?

Somone told Longo he hits like Brandon Wood.

It got pretty ugly.

RexTookMyStash - July 7, 2010 reply

Oh! That's a low blow

Maddon benched him

But he said it was “unrelated”

Figgi4life - July 7, 2010 via mobile reply

Reagins has a soft spot for the Rays, too.

That’s why he took on Karmis’ salary AND gave TB prospects. Imagine how f’d TB would be with that albatross on its payroll.

snowhor - July 8, 2010 via mobile reply

What pissed me off the most.

Here’s my ranking for the things that pissed me off the most in tonight’s game:

1) Aybar getting picked off. Every frickin’ game we have a base running gaff.
2) Napoli’s complete incapability to get a hit with men on base.
3) Seeing McAnulty followed by Wood. 2 easy outs in a row, guaranteed.
4) Abreu striking out looking and getting all huffy at the ump. You don’t get that
Yankee zone anymore! Swing dammit!
5) 5 errors from the opposition, and NO win?

Quinlan's Goofy Swing - July 8, 2010 reply

6) Howie not going 2nd to 3rd on a deep fly ball out. Twice!

Fred Fredrix - July 7, 2010 reply

how many outs when that happened?

doesn't matter.

Even with 2 down, having a runner on 3rd changes they way that have to pitch. The 2nd one was completely inexcuseable. Rios was running towards the center field wall on the catch, I thought sosh was gonna flip his lid after that one.

AlohaHalofan - July 8, 2010 via mobile reply

it does matter

Quinlan's Goofy Swing - July 10, 2010 reply

how does it matter how many outs there were?

he should take the base regardless of how many outs… theres no way Rios throws him out.

AlohaHalofan - July 19, 2010 reply

has anyone else

noticed that McAnulty wears his hat under his helmet? I have never seen a major league player do that. I think it just enhances his level of suck to an almost comical level. What in the hell were we thinking when we signed this guy?
“I know what will fix the first base problem, we’ll sign a fat Brandon Wood without the minor league credentials. Problem solved.”
Our front office has been making an abnormal amount of questionable decisions in the past year.

IE Angel - July 7, 2010 reply

He was a minor league free agent who was signed to fill a leadership role for the Travelers and started playing really well.

At which point, the team decided to give him a shot at a bench role with the team, which obviously isn’t working well.

Look closely at Chicago's leadoff man tomorrow

Juan Pierre wears his hat under his helmet. Also, Jackie Robinson did the same thing.

Teixeira Who? - July 8, 2010 reply

More guys used to do it.

I think they can size helmets better now than they used to, so we don’t see it as much. With Pierre it’s probably because his head is pea sized. With McAnulty, I don’t know, maybe he’s just more comfortable that way.

Rally Manatee - July 8, 2010 reply

I blame Izturis

Always injured. With him in the lineup we could bat him second and Howie could bat 6th and we score/drive in more runs. I’m assuming Mike is batting Howie second because of speed. Doesn’t want a slow guy batting second.