he gets that out, the game takes on an ENTIRELY different feel.

and his 0-3 didn’t help anything

But these still fucking hurt.

Really f—ing stings.

Especially because Boston now knows it’s the “same old story” (to quote the blowholes at TBS) and so knows that all they have to do is fend us off Friday—not too hard—and the SERIES IS THEIRS.

Done.

How about Figgins ? He didn’t get on base ONCE. GA had hits his first few times up, as did Teixeira. If Figgins had been on base once or twice, it would’ve been a completely different ball game.

Kendrick was terrible, but Figgins just as much. And don’t get me started on GMJ.

GMJ*

1.) Gary Matthews Junior. [how did he not play himself off the playoff roster?]
2.) Scot Shields in the ninth. [that belongs to Frankie]
3.) Throwing a fastball to Jason Bay. [he struck out on curve balls and looked horrendous]
4.) Throwing a fastball to Jed ‘Effing Lowrie. [a rookie who can’t hit breaking balls]
5.) Not taking the free walks which Lester was trying to hand out. [especially early in the game]
6.) Not pinch-hitting for Erick Aybar in the ninth. [Aybar, 0-4]
7.) Not pinch-hitting for Chone Figgins in the ninth. [Figgins, batting first, 0-5, 3K’s, needs to bat ninth]
8.) Not bunting one ball towards the geriatric, injured Mike Lowell. [play Angels baseball for chrissakes]
9.) Vlad Guerrero…

lackey shouldnt have gone away from the curve ball against bay – fastball out over the plate game over

vlad 1st pitch hacking after a teix walk – fail … leads to a howie fail with 2 outs

vlad kills a rally by trying to go to 3rd

most importantly, we never got a leadoff batter on base. figgins led off an inning 3 times and failed, o/5 on the game

Scioscia and the Players ADMIT: The Red Sox OWN US IN THE PLAYOFFS…..and I want to hear them say: “WE ARE TIRED OF LOSING TO THEM !”

Angel Baseball= exciting and fun
Angel playoff baseball= boring and excrutiating

but one game can change it all

but the ALDS championship will only be that much sweeter that it won’t be a sweep.

As much as Kendrick sucked, Figgy has the big guys with all the hits batting BEHIND him. He gets on base once, twice and we win.

Too aggressive, too many times running 2nd to 3rd. Sucked the air out of the stadium.

i noticed by comparison to the regular season games that our hitters were not swinging as much. emphasis on howie kendrick and chone figgins. i think they were trying to draw walks. we’re not sticking to our specialty

We did not lose another game against them since. Let the ALDS be just like that and we’re all going to be fine.

Go Halos! Go Ervin!

Swung at a bad ball with 2 on and 1 out, ran through a stop sign to ruin our last good chance at a comeback. However, they should have pinch ran Willits for Vlad who may have made it 3rd on that.

While the 6 LOB is inflated because he comes after the middle of our lineup…he’s supposed to be there to drive in the middle when they get on base. His ABs looked poor, Aybar and Chone had poor ABs too. They took fastballs and swung on outside curves.

I refuse to let this get me down, partially because I’m drunk, GO HALOS! I’ll be more fatalistic if game 2 doesn’t go our way.

Also special BOTG goes to the shitty umps. What was with the bad check swing calls?

I thought Fox was bad. Not only were they sucking Chowda ass the whole time, they kept repeating themselves over and over.

but we can’t do that. We still love Vladdy and we are still gonna cheer Kendrick when he gets us those hits. I know all of us are frustrated because the stinking bosox beat us again but we gotta stick to our team and every player. We lost today but we need to rebound as a team and not go calling people out. Its about coming back as a team. We gotta pick up those bats and use them against these sox. We are gonna fight back.

LETS GO HALOS

the biggest problem is this – our 9 hits (yes, all freaking 9) were singles. we’re going to have to do a little better than that to win this series.

the Red Sox had 8 hits, but 3 of them went for extra bases (2 doubles and a homer).

we can’t come through in the clutch it seems. is there a magic button? no. all we can do is hope Scioscia lights a fire underneath them tonight, and they start playing the way they did to win 100 games.

Was it just me or did he look a bit haggard tonight.
Like he hasn’t gotten much sleep.

And Publicly Say They Are Tired Of Losing to The Red Sox in the Post Season and Cut all the typical “we’ll see how it goes” talk.

THE FIRST STEP IS ADMITTING YOU HAVE A PROBLEM. THE ANGELS HAVE A PROBLEM BEATING THE RED SOX IN THE POSTSEASON.

Seriously, the Sox played a great game. As much as I hate to admit that. And regardless of how much the TBS crew sucked him off, Lester did pitch a good game.

A guy goes 0-4 and is BOTG? He didn’t give up any runs, he didn’t make all of the outs. The Angels didn’t lose the game because of mistakes or errors, they lost because they were out played.

Friday’s another game, its not over yet.

  The Broadcasters sucked ass, GMJ sucks ass, why didn’t Sosh pinch for Napoli to lead off the ninth,? You knew he was going to K against Pap Smear, A homer only gets us withinb two.

For me it was the whole approach to things but if I am picking a guy it is the guy that is at the top of the order “table setter” who was awful. Howie had a total of 15 Ab’s in September. Not expecting a lot out of him at this point to be honest with you. The guy with experience and a 2002 World Series Champ was not good.

Red Sox “Table Setter” 3-5 run scored RBI w/DBL and 2 SB
Angel “Table Setter” 0-5 w/3K’s

Figgins is the BOTG

What’s up to all my true Angel buds! … oh, and I guess hi to all of you losers who want to blame and/or bash or players.

Let me start by saying RELAX, have a beer, take a pill… do something! This is only one game and we have a team built to win this thing. We had solid pitching for the most part and our bats will wake up for the next game. Don’t sleep on Lester… dude is a great picther.. give him some credit and stop blaming our team.

Word of caution though.. All I heard is how the Angels hammered the Redsox this year. Well that was without Big Papi and without Jason Bay (no he’s no Manny, but he did hurt us tonight and is severely underrated.

Vlad is Barry and ARodesque. The guy just isn’t clutch. It’s time to shift the order around a bit. I would hit Hunter in the 3 hole, Tex in the 4 hole and Vlad 5.

Either way, don’t get your panties in a bunch, but Game 2 is a must win… obviously

Anyone know of anywhere in Colorado I can go find some red sux fans to beat the shit out of? There is nothing I would enjoy more right now.

hearing that the world is coming to an end??

Its one game…do we not have an All star pitching Friday night??

Kendrick, Figgins, Matthews, the supposedly Pujols-esque Napoli, Shields, etc. And even the guys who did well didn’t do that well. Singles all around. Lackey was by far the best player and he made the worst mistake of the night with that pitch to Bay. So my analysis? We got beat by the better team tonight.

But we really gotta calm down. It’s not the end of the world. We can come back from this. We need to be patient against Dice-K on Friday and let Ervin do his thing. I have no problem saying we can win this series.

I’d blame Chone for this one. He did nothing tonight, especially when leading off innings 1 and 3, and struck out LOOKING… god i hate that.
Rough night, but if 1 or 2 pitches could have been changed, we win this one.

Whole game would have been different if Lackey didn’t go away from the curveball. Or, maybe, just maybe, after throwing everything outside for 2 at bats, just show something inside once?
It’s no secret why he gave up so many homers, they know what’s coming after a few at bats!

At bats with risp and less than 2 outs :
vlad 1st inning – pop out to right first pitch
tori 1st inning – walk
aybar 9th inning – horrible k

tori also ended an inning with 2 on, on a first pitch weak grounder to the pitcher. sure he got the lone rbi, but howie hit the ball harder than him all night … and howie didnt even make hard contact all night.

i’d blame lackey 1st, why can’t we have a starter pitch a game in the post season without giving up a run? he had a lead, his game to lose.
2nd – vlad killed two rallies, one with his first pitch hack bs in the 1st. and also with his stupid baserunning.
3rd – every person who led off an inning. 0/9 leading off an inning, 3 times it was ChoKe Figgins.

beaten on a homer by manny’s replacement. ouch.

it a’int over. we just need one freakin’ win and the rest could take care of itself. i hope Torii said something in the locker room afterward.

But I like our matchups for game 2 and 3 better than last year.

That said, Friday is a must-win. Dealbreaker right there.

A 3rd year guy with 10 postseason ABs gets the blame when the so-called “best leadoff hitter in the game”, “catalyst” and “sparkplug” goes 0-5.

In other news, water is wet, the sky is blue, and Red Sox “fans” are still sore winning asshats.

it scares him

Seriously, the guys let us down. The crowd was UNBELIEVEABLE. The most boisterous, excited crowd ever! My ears are still ringing. Those fan noise makers are very effective. Loved the 100-1 angel fan-chowd ratio.

Lester sacked up despite his early troubles and dominated. Hitting 95-97 on three straight pitches late in the game. His curveball looked nasty.

Big John looked solid. But one mistake will do you in, and he made to Bay. Bay squared it and connected. I knew immediately from the sound of the bat. I didn’t even look at it and knew it was gone.

No extra base hits was one of our downfalls. No Figgy…no base stealing/hit and run/etc.

Despite this setback……BELIEVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I give the blame to Mike Scioscia.

Vlad on first base, eighth inning, being the worst baserunner in the history of baseball, in a one run game, and you don’t pinch run?

Ninth-inning, one run game, and we don’t go to Frankie? What are we saving him for, oldtimers day in 2025?

Gary Matthews playing? Because he had one lucky game against Lester about five months ago? This guy shouldn’t even be on the roster. I’m talking about the AAA roster.

Figgins sucks every October.

Aybar looks in over his head. I miss Izturis.

If we lose friday, we might as well cancel our flight to Boston. It’ll be a sweep….guaranteed.

Then coming home at 330am and reading the anger displayed by the rest of you guys. Wheres the anticipation and enthusiasum for Friday? I think “yeswecan” and his strong chin have the right outlook. Fresno State had like 5 elimination games and still won the College World Series….

I agree with Rev about Howie being BOTG. What did he have 6 LOB? And that performance in the first inning? That sealed BOTG right there. Vlad would be the easy pick for his base running clinic, but i can’t knock hustle. Howie just choked.

So heres to a blowout victory friday night. Mathis is going to shock the world…

Old School Predictions:
Us: 8 runs 10 hits
Them: 3 runs 7 Hits

All I want to say is we had them in the first inning but the umpires were clearly favoring them and put our guys in bad hit counts with check swing strikes that should have been called balls and not doing the same to them when you do that it changes how a batter has to approach and helps knock the wind right out of a team. They started swinging at stuff they shouldnt have because of the fear if they held up on the swing they’d be called out and whats normally a ball in regular season or against a more unpopular team than the redsux is a strike against them. even the announcers said “Well the check swing calls are definetly favoring the Red Sox tonight” I think it was Chip Caray that said it but anyway the umps started the first rally killer of the night and put doubt in the teams mind the rest of the night.

I’m not tryin to knock Vladdy or anything because he contributes all year long but in that situation Vlad would have never been left in the game our number 1 angel moment of the year star would have been pinch runner. In 02 It was Figgy’s job when salmon got on base in late innings he’d pinch run for as willits should have done for Vlad but its cool now they’re cocky and they’ll let their guard down for an “ARCHANGEL” style asswhippin the kind that makes the bible scare children lol

maybe the boys needed a little whoop-ass to get a reality check in the humility department. They are up against a strong team…that’s why it’s the play-offs. No one got here from looking pretty.

It’s one game…they can still do this. You guys are whining like it was game 3. CHILL OUT….they can still do this. There’s MORE than enough time.

Quit the f**ing negative mojo and start thinking positive. Send the good vibes their way.

knock it off before I call you all a bunch of whiny ass girls who missed the clearance sale at the outlet malls

I that if we lay a turd in the first round will this effect Tex’s ‘destination’ choice? We want his first taste of the post-season to be successful, not just for him but for us as a team.

Why do we always tighten up when boston is around. Even though we spanked them in the regular season even in the last game we seemed tight

With boston we need to get on the board early (within the first three innings) and then KEEP scoring. If would have told you that Boston would only get 4 hits against Lackey, and score4 runs total I think we would have taken it. Boston could score 4 runs or 22 but if we don’t score more than 1 it doesn’t matter

Jon Bon Jovi and his mystery appearance early in that game. It threw everybody off and is clearly to blame for the loss last night.

“and he’s to blame….”

glad to see the halo fans packing the house and bringing the NOISE … also was a nice surprise to see no one really left til the end of the game even after shields was shields against the sux. BOTG had a lot of candidates mainly howie, figgy, anybody who batted after torii. against a red sox line-up lackey couldnt of done any better, made one mistake. despite the loss the series is STILL very much up for grabs. i was not impressed by the sox