Wow... Video of Nolan Ryan sticking up for Anaheim...
Three Years Ago Today... Baseball's Preston Gomez Passes
68 Years Ago Today... Los Angeles Angels Reduce Bleacher Admission to 25 Cents
PRESENTING: The worst internet essay you will read this year... Jonathan Silverstone: #OccupyLA ... Angels?
SURVEY: A chance to rate the Angels broadcast crew: Offseason Notes, With a Picture of Mark Gubicza
And if you missed Bill Plunkett's Angels chat on the OCR yesterday, lots of good info and fun banter. Note that most of the traffic driven to the chat came from Halos Heaven.
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Rev -- you are too much.
Here I am trolling down the Plunkett chat and there’s the infamous Vegas picture. Great…just great.
Moondoggy - January 13, 2012
I was full on trolling as
awsome-o
DAD OF VLAD - January 13, 2012
I saw
You’re an idiot. Lol
Moondoggy - January 13, 2012
I guess that could be considered trolling. I guess.
Mayheminthehood - January 13, 2012
only if he were an A's fan
Moondoggy - January 13, 2012
X
red floyd - January 13, 2012
Fart sequence initiated.
Commander_Nate - January 13, 2012
Oh, Huff Po...
You’ll print anything.
5thStarter - January 13, 2012
That article could have been much better if he had written about Jeff Loria and the Marlins
Baseball and the other major sports are actually a shining example of what OWS (as I understand it) and working class people are harping about. The MLBPA, NFLPA, etc are unions after all, and they’ve done an incredible job of making sure their members are compensated for the work they do for their employers (the teams). Can you think of another field where the folks who perform the primary physical labor of bringing the product to market are so well taken care of? When you take a few seconds to think about it, professional athletes are probably one of the last social groups in America for whom the “American Dream” is still alive and well.
Sure, you can probably argue that guys like Pujols are overpaid to some extent based on the real value that pro sports add to society, but how by how much? MLB is a multi-billion dollar business that rests entirely on the backs of the 800+ players that perform in it every season. Why shouldn’t they get a huge chunk of the profits? You can make a case for stadium employees and the like, since a hot dog or a beer is a part of the product as well, but the reason there is a product at all is the players. We don’t go to the ballpark to support the billionaire in the owner’s box, and he doesn’t really do any of the work.
Arguing against athletes getting big paychecks for entertaining tens of millions of people is like arguing against actors for making blockbuster movies, authors for writing bestsellers, and musicians for selling out amphitheaters. They all fulfill a demand for entertainment. If someone’s going to get a big paycheck, it ought to be the folks that actually provide the show. I don’t hear anyone making the case that major record companies and film studios need to make more money (besides record company and studio execs, that is).
If you’re going to “Occupy” anything relating to pro sports, it ought to be the public funding of stadiums, the tax breaks awarded to owners and the cronyism exemplified by Loria and his Marlins in the deal for their current stadium. In a lot of cases, the public has already paid for their local team before they even buy a ticket. Put a stop to that and maybe player salaries and league profits will be a bit more reflective of “real value” or whatever you want to call it.
Commander_Nate - January 13, 2012
Behold
A man in whom there is no guile.
NathanielS - January 13, 2012
Sounds like a coomanist
Im glad I voted for OpieJ
Moondoggy - January 13, 2012
God I'm tired of "Occupy".
Their whole “heroically standing up to the man.” bullshit theme is almost as tired as the Bush era “Wer gonna git them terists! Merica!” crap. I’ve been basically unemployed for two years now, I’m frustrated, but I just can’t get on board with these guys.
“Professional athletes and the business (yes, just like all else, it is a business) around them remain sacrosanct. But is that compatible with the passions of the American people that have allowed them to withstand pepper spray and physical response?”
Yep, it’s a whole pile of Nathan Hales and Medger Evers out there risking it all every day to make sure not a day goes buy without a solution free pile of shrill bitching. I mean, our system’s far from perfect, but when I think of people in Syria, or Copts getting killed in Egypt, or even protesters in China or Iran and both what they risk and what they have to complain about…. and then “Occupy” tries to talk as though they are on the same level, the whole “solidarity with the Arab spring” thing….
It’s like my old friend professor Chris said. If you can make a living “Living a life of protest” then you’re not fighting much of anything. Most revolutions don’t come with online stores and t-shirt vendors…. or billionaire sponsors and matching iPads.
AND HATE ON THE ANGELS! SOURCE OF JOY TO MILLIONS! Baseballs going to be a welcome ray of sunshine for a big pile of the 99%. Go occupy Solyndra and leave baseball alone you joyless wankers.
gitchogritchoffmypetis - January 13, 2012
Look at the source
For all we know, this guy had to think of something to write about for his current events class at Yale…and/or is a pissed off Cards fan.
Commander_Nate - January 13, 2012
Ohhhhh. Cards fans....
No one ever sees them coming.
gitchogritchoffmypetis - January 13, 2012
Lumping Rojas and Gubicza together to be rated.
Is like lumping Mathis and Pujols together as “Angels that wore #5” to be rated.
Darth Duane - January 13, 2012
+1000
Huge flaw with that survey…
Halo Hurricane - January 13, 2012
Baylor, Grich, Fregosi, Carew, Ryan. It doesn't get any better than that!
I especilly enjoyed Nolan’s Texas twang.
Wait. I thought Fregosi was traded for Ryan. (Fregosi managed the Angels from June 1, 1978 through May 28, 1981.) Ryan pitched for the Angels from ’72 through ’79.
KMPC Los Angeles………………….of Anaheimmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
wumbug - January 13, 2012
I'm guessing it was during Fregosi's tenure as manager.
red floyd - January 13, 2012
Fregosi surely looks fit in that video.
wumbug - January 13, 2012
it must had been 1979, early, because Nolan left after the season
plus Gary Owens is in the video.
tanana40 - January 14, 2012
Was it filmed in Beautiful Downtown Burbank?
red floyd - January 14, 2012
you bet your sweet bippy
tanana40 - January 14, 2012
Say goodnight, Dick.
red floyd - January 15, 2012
Gubi looks kind of like WTY in that baseball card.
red floyd - January 13, 2012
Victor is awesome, Gubi is kind of meh.
red floyd - January 13, 2012
agreed. Gubi needs to step up his game this year in a HUGE way
yeswecan - January 13, 2012
He needs
To stay within his mechanics
Moondoggy - January 13, 2012
to blessed for press
ItCouldHappen - January 13, 2012
He needs
To trust his stuff
red floyd - January 13, 2012
And the deception.
gitchogritchoffmypetis - January 13, 2012
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