July

by ClutchHomer on Sep 1, 2006 7:42 PM PDT

This team peaked in July; The bullpen has hit worse case scenario and the offense is shakier then ever. If things don't work out and we miss the playoffs we can atleast look forward to a bright future and view this as a transition year.

Choakland will get knocked out of the first round because, let's not kid ourselves, a 1-2 of Haren/Zito is not going to cut it. Loaiza? Blanton? I would be shaking in my boots when that third start comes around. Good luck Choakies and I am anxious for when you resign Frank Thomas, the mirage, and revel in preseason Bobby Crobsy MVP predictions.

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For all of the whining abut injuries that Oakland fans do, losing Bobby Crosby and Huston Street were absolute blessings - The She-Wolffs took off when those two notorious chokers went down.

by Rev Halofan on Sep 1, 2006 9:13 PM PDT reply actions

shut up dude

You guys suck so f'n bad right now... ion wanna hear how the 2006 Oakland A's are gonna lose first round... if u weren't stupid ass angels fans maybe you would understand that your team can lick my left nut

Shake and Bake

by GeekProud-69 on Sep 1, 2006 10:51 PM PDT reply actions

Someone ask NICO at Athletics Nation

why he is so vehemently against my policy of banning Oakland trolls when my leaving up their posts only remind us of the neandrathal Raider cave from whence many of the "nation" were spawned.

by Rev Halofan on Sep 1, 2006 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions

I'm sure your left nut...

...is the only one you have left.

DarkAngel hath spoken....

by darkangel01 on Sep 2, 2006 12:01 AM PDT up reply actions

John Kruk

borrowed GreekHuston's Righty.

by Rev Halofan on Sep 2, 2006 12:03 AM PDT up reply actions

you know I was kidding... about that post

but read my diary Rev

Shake and Bake

by GeekProud-69 on Sep 1, 2006 11:02 PM PDT reply actions

Enjoy it greek styole

with all of your INITIATED brothers - - - and don't allow any girls into your club either, "Huston"

by Rev Halofan on Sep 1, 2006 11:04 PM PDT up reply actions

A little trigger happy

He probably read the trendy "HH is lame" thread over at AN and wanted to be a hero and start some shit over here. Huston, when do you get off the DL?

A pipeline of talent, welcome to Anaheim.

by ClutchHomer on Sep 1, 2006 11:11 PM PDT up reply actions

OH AND ABOUT LICKING YOUR LEFT NUT

in the words of John Lackey:

STICK THAT THING OUT THERE...

by Rev Halofan on Sep 1, 2006 11:13 PM PDT up reply actions

Regarding Loaiza

He has, shockingly, been on fire for the past month or so (4-0, 1.48 ERA, giving up less than a walk/hit per inning).

Zito has been reliable in postseason play (2.75 ERA, .193 Batting Average Against) and had he not hung a fastball to Manny Ramirez, the A's would've advanced to the 2nd round in 03.

Haren was also pretty solid in his cup of coffee with the Cardinals' World Series team (1-0, 2.76 ERA)

This is a different team than the "misfit toys" bunch we had in the past. No more Jim Mecirs or Jeremy Giambis or Terence Longs. We have depth. Duchscherer has filled in for Street, who is having a bit of a sophomore slump, and we haven't skipped a beat. Scutaro has come up huge all over the infield. Antonio Perez... uh... keeps the bench warm.

That said, this was a transitional year for the Angels. It's going to be scary in the next couple of years if those young player progress as predicted.

Stephen Colbert: "Kids who look up to athletes become athletes themselves."
The Word: Or bitter sports journalists.

by jlaff @ Halos Heaven on Sep 2, 2006 12:15 AM PDT reply actions

If Zito had not blah blah what?

What's the point of a comment like that? All it means is "If we had had pitchers that were capable of beating hitters, we could have been better than that team, but we weren't good enough". that's baseball. i don't care about the "one pitch away" shit, and no one else should...if you lost, you probably deserved it.

unless doug eddings is officiating your game :-X

by Caseys Kiss of Death on Sep 2, 2006 1:07 AM PDT up reply actions

Uh, sorry Bud

The A's run differential (the true measure of a team) is only +45. A few short weeks ago, it was negative. New Yawk is +124. Chicago is +102 and Detroit, hands down the best team in baseball, is +143!. You guys lose in the first round. End of story. Then after we add a few F/A bullets this offseason and Zito signs with the Dodgers or Mets, you can kiss your sweet ass goodbye for the next 5 or 6 years.

DarkAngel hath spoken....

by darkangel01 on Sep 2, 2006 2:05 AM PDT up reply actions

Thankyou

Dark Angel hath spoken. We are on the same page.

A pipeline of talent, welcome to Anaheim.

by ClutchHomer on Sep 2, 2006 8:49 AM PDT up reply actions

The games are played on the field...

Not in a run-differential-off. The 2001 A's were far better on paper than the Yankees and far better than the 2002 Twins, but lost to both.

One thing we do know. The Angels' chance of advancing past round one in 2006 is 0%.

DEAL

As for 2007? Well, you GM is garbage and prospects are prospects. You could very well be a sub .500 team next year. Keep hope alive, though!

by Calvin @ Halos Heaven on Sep 2, 2006 9:56 AM PDT up reply actions

The 2001/2002 A's

lost because they are choke artists. One team choked both years. For you to expect 2 out of 3 of the other AL representatives to do the same to advance your sorry asses to the Series is delusional. The 2002 Twins series was lost before it was played. Your manager, Art Howe, refused to re-align his rotation for the post season even though Minnesota that year couldn't hit lefties to save their lives, but hit well against righties. The A's had Zito and a 20 game winner Mulder but decided to throw Hudson twice in 5 games and lost them both. Pretty fucking stupid, but we really appreciated it. Instead of facing Zito, Mulder, and Hudson in the ALCS, we got Radke, Mays, and Milton. Nice. Oh, and even a garbage GM (which Stoneman is not) can sign Soriano and Aramis Ramirez while you guys lose your best pitcher this winter and add little of impact. Have fun facing us the rest of the decade asshole.

DarkAngel hath spoken....

by darkangel01 on Sep 2, 2006 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions

Sure....

The A's have the best record in baseball post all star break. We've got awesome pitching and defense and score enough to get the job done.

We can take any team in the league.

The Angels are out of it. It's over and there's nothing to be done. Next year is a long ways away, and nothing is guaranteed. You need to accept this and stop grasping at straws. I know you're hurting. Maybe go cry into a pillow or something? Just remember the good times. Think back to 2002 when you became an Angels fan because you thought that monkey was funny. "

Hehe! It's a monkey!! Look at him jump. I sure like this baseball!"

by Calvin @ Halos Heaven on Sep 2, 2006 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions

Once difference about our long offseason...

We can spend money to get better the A's are going to have to rely on Jason Windsor. Good luck with that.

by riktermiller on Sep 2, 2006 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions

Have fun daydreaming about 2007

I'll be savoring the sweet part of the 2006 season.

DEAL

by Calvin @ Halos Heaven on Sep 2, 2006 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions

Try 1982 dipshit

While not my favorite, I'd take the rally monkey in a sold out stadium in a sea of red, than some idiot banging on a drum in a half empty stadium dressed like packer fans.

I'm sure you have plenty of experience crying (biting?) your pillow while Hobbes is slipping you the big one. Not my bag, bud.

DarkAngel hath spoken....

by darkangel01 on Sep 3, 2006 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions

Sure

Keep harping on the run differential. Yet we keep winning.

Stephen Colbert: "Kids who look up to athletes become athletes themselves."
The Word: Or bitter sports journalists.

by jlaff @ Halos Heaven on Sep 2, 2006 10:14 AM PDT up reply actions

RUN DIFFERENTIAL

The A's have the reputation as being the "Stat Guys" team - it is funny, though, that when a stat that is used to indicate greatness no longer applies, how it suddenly disappears from all the conversations.

That is all.

by Rev Halofan on Sep 2, 2006 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions

Only pro Choak town stats

are utilized in the nation!

by riktermiller on Sep 2, 2006 2:01 PM PDT up reply actions

lets count the days till the Angels are eminated..

then maybe you can shut up

Shake and Bake

by GeekProud-69 on Sep 2, 2006 12:01 PM PDT reply actions

EMINATED?

This guy is quite the priceless sodomite.

by Rev Halofan on Sep 2, 2006 12:14 PM PDT up reply actions

eliminated

my guess is september 18th

Shake and Bake

by GeekProud-69 on Sep 2, 2006 12:31 PM PDT up reply actions

if AN has banned this guy

why can't we?

Be nice to Nurses... we keep doctors from accidentally killing you!

by ladybug on Sep 2, 2006 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions

they banned him

because he the refelction int he mirror that they fear to face.

He is Oakland.

by Rev Halofan on Sep 2, 2006 1:09 PM PDT up reply actions

what really scares me

is I understood what you just wrote.

Be nice to Nurses... we keep doctors from accidentally killing you!

by ladybug on Sep 2, 2006 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions

ladybug

thats funny... name one pitcher pre-2002...

Shake and Bake

by GeekProud-69 on Sep 2, 2006 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions

How about I name the entire 1996 rotation

just for fun. Chuck Finley, Shawn Boskie, Dennis Springer, Jason Grimsley, Jim Abbott, and Mark Langston. I believe we had Chuck McElroy, Mike Holtz, Troy Percival, and Mike James doing most of the bullpen work, too. Why choose 1996? Because we sucked ass that year, and I was a fan anyway. Now SHUT UP stat boy, and go check out this statistic: home attendance from the beginning of the Angels to the modern day versus attendance for the Athletics during that same time: YOU LOSE.

by Caseys Kiss of Death on Sep 2, 2006 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions

oh puhlease

I've been a fan longer than you've been alive. I am also not going to go down the roster of who I know was on the team to prove anything to you because then in your infinite wisdom, will then fire back with "you don't know shit, you looked it up". Not going there scrawny one. I will tell you my favorites; Percy, Bengie, Glaus, Ersty. Then there was Carew, Reggie, Sutton, Fregosi and the one and only Nolan Ryan. And yes, I attended games when those guys were playing and it was the California Angels.

I also know where the gas goes in a car, how to change a tire and how to change the oil. I can also do most household repairs. Anything else you want to attempt to insult me with or shall we stop now?

Be nice to Nurses... we keep doctors from accidentally killing you!

by ladybug on Sep 2, 2006 3:05 PM PDT up reply actions

great

ok wow lets talk about attendance when you guys play in ANAHEIM and we play in OAKLAND! now who should have more fans? you guys duhh

Shake and Bake

by GeekProud-69 on Sep 2, 2006 3:20 PM PDT up reply actions

cheap as shit chump fairweather fans

who love to sterotype Southern Californians as bandwagoneers.

I hold up huston123/greekpride-08-sodomite as the epitome of all A's fans.

by Rev Halofan on Sep 2, 2006 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions

can we hook him up with johnsamo?

maybe he'll go away then

Be nice to Nurses... we keep doctors from accidentally killing you!

by ladybug on Sep 2, 2006 4:57 PM PDT up reply actions

Ok

And how did that do a single thing to help your point? The Angels should have more fans, and they DO...so how does your bandwagon equation work if we have ALWAYS had more fans? And forget all of that anyway...if the Athletics are all about their "nation" of fans, why don't they draw more support? And you guys aren't exactly stranded in Osh-Kosh, Wisconsin...you're in the fucking Bay Area. San Francisco is home to 750,000 people. San Jose another 900,000, Oakland another 400,000...and how many towns between 60,000-200,000 lie in between all of those? That region of the state is packed with MILLIONS of potential fans...roughly 3-4 of which show up for a game on a given night. You have absolutely ZERO basis for stereotyping all Angels fans as bandwagoners. I just gave you the entire 1996 pitching staff FROM MEMORY, and of course you blow it off and ignore it because you were gasp proven wrong...and it's IMPOSSIBLE that an A's fan could be wrong, right? you worked out all the math equations on your calculator and everything...how could you posssibly not be correct? Get bent, pocket-protector-wearing, silicon valley reject. you lose this debate.

by Caseys Kiss of Death on Sep 2, 2006 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions

haha ofcourse I did

SF fans go to Giants games... San Jose fans go to Giants games... the rest of the bay goes to Giants games... nice stadium= better fans as you guys should know... why should fans come play at our dump? they shouldn't... If you guys played at a football field you would get it... the A's are a better team and thats all that matters

Shake and Bake

by GeekProud-69 on Sep 2, 2006 3:53 PM PDT reply actions

You're so fucking stupid...

...it's no wonder you're an A's fan. You guys draw 24,000 fans when you're good. We drew that many when we sucked and our 3-4 hitters were Von Hayes and Hubie Brooks.

Doesn't it tell you something when all the greater NorCal fans are Giants fans? The same Giants who have never won a World Series on the West Coast?

You're stadium is a dump because your city is a dump and your people are troglodytes.

DarkAngel hath spoken....

by darkangel01 on Sep 3, 2006 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions

come watch not come play*

correction there

Shake and Bake

by GeekProud-69 on Sep 2, 2006 3:53 PM PDT reply actions

another correction

you have no reason to believe the A's are a better team...they have played better ball for an entire season. winning games at the rate they have does not coincide with the roster they put forth. are they good? yeah. are they actually 8-9 games better than the angels? probably not, but that's why you play the season. and frankly, i'd rather be an angels fan right now. MUCH more recent world series victories, recent playoff success, and a GM/Owner combo that will provide more promise in 2007, plus a farm system that is second to none in t he american league.

and so what? you guys compete with the giants for fans, we compete with the dodgers for fans. yeah, dodger stadium is a wreck and in a shitty area, but it is still a top draw place to play because idiotic LA fans tend to think of that giant urinal as some sort of shirne. unlike you guys, however, we started from expansion team scratch...you were an existent franchise before moving to oakland, and you still couldn't hold on very well. there really isn't an excuse for the A's being as poor a draw as they are if they really are, in fact, a "nation" of fans...and there CERTAINLY isn't a basis for saying the angels fanbase is loser band wagoners.

by Caseys Kiss of Death on Sep 2, 2006 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions