but it’s Wednesday and Friday night, not Thursday.

any day you want to name it, the bottom line is that we’re being manhandled. period. the entire team (save for Vlad and Tex, it seems) is HORRIBLY un-clutch, over-matched and mentally beat.

i would love to know why our relievers can’t sit for half an inning and still go out and do their jobs. i would love to know how mickey effing hatcher still has a job after series’ like this. i would love to know why reggie couldn’t squeeze that ball. i would love to know why howie utterly sucks right now.

i’m more dead than pissed right now.

this hurts.

This season was our last chance for quite some time. Tex isn’t coming back. Vlad is getting too old. GA IS too old.

The simple presence of hope is the reason none of these terrible events has stung as sharply as Henderson’s hit. We have a great hope in our franchise these days.

2002 changed everything. Those games would hurt almost as much, be we’ve got a World Series. Yeah, we have the promise of more, but without that one, those games are daggers.

Also, the Moore game turned a win into a loss. The games you reference turned potential wins into losses. But they would have lost in 2005 anyway. 2004 too.

I hope mentally we dont loose it.

One thing, If Coco is called out at second Frankie pitches a lot differently to JD and this could be a different outcome. Sometimes certain teams get all the calls, Just think when Michael Jordan drove to the basket and missed a shot, the whistle was blown becauwse “Hey he must have been fouled” it is the same here. Not for one individual but an entire team, check swings dont get called, bang-bang plays never go our way, pick offs dont happen for us (by the way was the ump just plain lying he said he tagged him on the arm but the arm was no where near the tage like he just had to say something and made it it up)
This is what hurts the most, knowing that if it came down to a close play we can’t count on it going our way. This is how it goes when things are down

in the postseason. Honestly. Learn to pitch.

The better team has won the last two games. I don’t see what is so demoralizing about it. Never once in either of these games did I count on a win, I hoped, but come on, we have watched this team all year and know when a loss is coming. Maybe if they blew a 3 run lead, or had gone into the 9th with the lead. But a 1-0 lead in game 1, and scratching out a tie after so many epic failures with risp, nah, this isn’t so bad and it’s how most of their losses have looked … for most of Scioscia’s tenure. The team needs a different approach, it is no longer a mystery what scioscia or the angels are about, and it’s been exploited in the playoffs to the tune of 9 straight losses.

Don’t Let GOSOX to get to you. I don’t have any problem with any Sox fan. He can’t control what the Halos do on the field.

While tonight’s game was painful, it wasn’t nearly as bad as 1986.

In 1986, we didn’t have a World Series title. In 2008, we do. They can’t ever take that away from us.

We weren’t leaving in the ninth inning tonight, we were on the cusp of going to the World Series in 1986. Even though we only had to win one game in Boston in 1986, I knew we were dead after that debacle..

Even this team is way outclassed. Living in the confortable confines ofthe AL West. What I saw was a team that could not deliver.

Most complete team in baseball? yeah whatever

Soth threw everything but the kitchen sink at these fuckers and still couldn’t get it done.

pathetic.

sorry, i think that just sunk in.

This is exactly what Frankie decided to do at the end of the game, JD Drew:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0rwG39Jzk

Again, at 8:18 to 8:32.

La. La la la la la…All right, that’s enough!

BOOM.

Inning uno, I got called out after I posted an explitive about turning the game off, saying eff this shiz about voodoo’s inability to close out the inning and giving up 4 runs.

Some “true” diehard told me to leave HH…an 02’er , im guessing, who had all the sugar-coated hope in the world that the mighty angels could pull it out against the sox.

Not to rub shit in, as I’m feeling this pain as much as the next, but man, no need to call out the cynic who has endured the Autry era…pop in the Mighty Ducks dvd and have a laugh or two, and accept that there are people who are on HH that are pissed the FUCK off and don;t have the elitist that you’re not a true fan if you always think the glass is half empty.

On that note,
Fuck this season.

If Arte can sign him the Angels will be contenders for years to come. And honestly, it’s going to come down to money, not wins. So, let’s just hope he backs up the brinks truck.

This post, which is harsh, but I couldn’t be more heartbroken right now…

Thank you for the amazing 100 win season. I had an awesome time cheering you on.

Unfortunately, you have turned into complete retards for the post-season. I cannot devote any more time or energy or passion into your BULLSHIT losing against the most horrible ridiculously ASSHOLE-ISH team in baseball, the Red Sux.

I hate them more than anything in the world right now. More than the Yankees. More than ANYTHING. AND I LOVE YOU GUYS.

But, I cannot sit back and be taken advantage of any longer. I’m sorry. It’s horrible. To show me so many wins during the regular season, only to go to the division series and turn into chumps against the most doucherific team in baseball.

You have broken a record for the most consecutive losses against any one team during the post-season. And that team just happens to be the most ridiculously cunt-erific team in baseball.

I have officially stepped aside now. I will NOT be buying any regular season tickets to your baseball games next year. If you so happen to make it to the playoffs and the fuckface Red Sux do not, then I MAY indulge myself into buying a ticket.

But, as of right this fucking second, I am so disgusted with the way you have presented yourselves in the post-season. I will not spend all the money and time on you.

Again, thanks for the wonderful season. And FUCK YOU for these post-season losses.

I would be crying right now

WWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/weeee

Is what we’re doing right now.

The most ungodly fuck up I have seen all year. (I haven’t used one F-bomb all year, so I’ve been saving up.) This team is over. I don’t use half of them, and when they choke like this, I just get furious. It’s no fun.

After the 2002 post season he is now:

9 appearances
0-3 (all against the Red Sox) of course the walk off HR he gave up to Man Ram was credited to Speier or he would have one more L
3 saves
12 innings pitched
16 hits
7 BB / 11 K’s
7 runs
ERA 5.26

Man give him the contract ………

wasting time and money on this team. They fool us every year by playing like gangbusters in the regular season only to turn into pussies in the playoffs. Don’t call me a bad fan, but I’m not even going to watch the game Sunday, why ruin a weekend? I would, however, wish that the Colonel tune his arm up to play that song known as “Chin Music.” Sorry to sound so down.

That’s probably the understatement of the year.

I knew the Angels were going to lose when K-Rod came into a tied game. Knew it, and said so to my friend (a Sox fan) who joined me at the game.

Because I cannot bear to watch the grisly end on Sunday, let me take a moment now for a couple of thoughts.

Thanks, Mark Teixeira, for reminding this franchise what a premiere hitter in his prime looks like. It’s been a pleasure to watch you hit. Enjoy the money in Baltimore or New York.

Thanks, K-Rod. Just as Rick and Ilsa will always have Paris, we’ll always have 2002. Enjoy the money in New York, Chavez Ravine or wherever you wind up next.

Thanks, GA, for everything. A class act all the way. The consummate pro. Enjoy the rocker.

Thanks, Jon Garland, I guess. For something. Oh yeah, you autographed my program after a game this season. I appreciated that. Thank you very much, and best of luck in your future endeavors.

Juan Rivera – if this is the end of the line for you in Halo Red, thanks for some truly memorable HR blasts. As you finally hit 30 HR for someone else next year, I’ll think back wistfully about what could have been.

To the rest, see you in April.

Yeah, I have given up on the season, but not on the team.

but all I can do is say that I know how you feel. Still, the one thing I have that I didn’t in 1986 is Angel fan fellowship. Back then, a lone Angel fan deep in Dodger country, I was alone in my misery. Now, I have a wife who is as rabid an Angel fan as I, and a place to go where I can commiserate and get some words of hope to remind me that all is not yet lost.

It sounds corny. It is corny. But there it is.

- this is the best halo team ever and with the most wins ever. we were the favorites to win it all the whole year. we gave up a future 1b to try to win this year

-we built a team just to beat the one we are losing to now. each game was winnable and we just didn’t play like we did in the regular season

-this was our opportunity to prove to the whole sports nation that we were a force to be reckon with. in the process plant a seed to start a dynasty like the yankees or even build a passionate fan base like the red sux. remember the goal of arte moreno and why he has added LA to our name.

if we lose this series it will be the same. next year we will continue to get NO credit from the media and from sportswriters throughout and i hate this because i know what a quality club we have

all that being said we win sundays game and i think we are right back in this thing

You would think a reverend would know better.

(Just sit Howie, insert S-Rod, and watch all heaven break loose…)

This shit still hurts as bad this morning as it did, well, this morning (here in the East).

I’ll be trying to find ways to forget this game, including tailgating and watching my Columbus Crew play LA. If the Crew weren’t playing LA I’d wear an Angels hat. Swear to God I would. I’m friggin pissed beyond words at several of the Halos (looking at you Howie and Frankie), but they’re still my boys.

The worst feeling I’ve ever had while watching baseball was in 2006 when we lost the division to Oakland with 5 infielders at the Coliseum. It was a new feeling, foreign and miserable, and to this day I still remember looking down at a table in a bar in New York and realizing that the season was over.

Last night wasn’t has bad as that. I don’t really know why. It probably has something to do with my first postseason game being game 2 of the ‘05 ALCS, so I don’t even understand what it’s like to actually, you know, win. It almost feels normal to lose in the playoffs. Every team I like does.

Whatever. I’ll be at game 3, it will likely be a miserable experience should the Red Sox win, but you know what? I take a small degree in comfort having seen the best regular season this franchise has ever put together. I watched what may have been the last productive season out of Vlad Guerrero. I likely saw Garret Anderson for the last time. I saw Erick Aybar make a catch I thought impossible. And I watched Torii Hunter hit a grand slam to win a game on my birthday, a game I was sure we would lose.

So, really, all is not lost, and if our season does indeed end on Sunday, I’ll still be counting down the days to spring training.

Last night, ranks right up there. We like this team too much. When the Sox scored four in the first, my heart just broke. I gave up, turned off the TV. Then followed on Gameday audio and Gameday as the Angels crawled back and then broke our hearts again. It was a semi-sleep night. I don’t have any faith that the team can even beat the Sox in one game. I hope that I am proved wrong but I have been waiting since October 12th, 1986 for the Angels to beat the Sox again in the post-season. It is now 11 straight losses and it is wearing on me. But I will be back, being an Angels fan is who I am. One last thing, thank you GA for many years of memories. I wanted a second ring for you and another contract so you could finish you career as a Halo with dignity.

I know it isn’t over and the knee jerk reaction is to say it is.
I do believe in this team, any negative thoughts i have is because I see what Loosing this series will do to us

Krod gone(dont care though)

Tex wants to be a on a winner and get lots of dough, I really thought that he was staying but now have a lot of doubt

GA’s time wasted, yeah maybe he signs a one year deal for a major discount or something but such a dissapointment

Vlad, another year older, those knees getting worse. Makes me mad that we waited until this year to get serious and make some trades, and getting some major free agents. Imagine Vlad with Tex two years ago. Now Vlad is in the sunset of his career and making a run at a championship is a little harder

THe best pitching we have ever had, 1-5 and the bullpen. when we are complaining on this site about Long reliever we do not realize how lucky we are.

This is a great time to be an Angels fan and this season has been great. I know we are up against it, so while I am optimistic about this series right now. I can see the writing on the wall about what a loss on Sun will do to our franchise

GO HALOS
Hopefully the same airline that took Travis barker and DJ AM for a ride is the airline that is taking boston back home (ohhh was that too soon)

1 pitch from the WS.

We aren’t even in the ALCS this year, and I knew we were going to lose as soon as F-Rod came in.

Down 4-1 with two outs and the bases loaded in the first inning, right fielder Juan Rivera grounds out to shortstop. Down 5-2 with two outs and runners on first and third in the fourth inning, left fielder Garret Anderson strikes out swinging. Down 5-3 with two outs and runners on first and third in the fifth inning, pinch hitter Kendry Morales pops up to third. Down 5-4 with two outs and the bases loaded in the seventh inning, shortstop Erick Aybar strikes out swinging…….Notice 3-4-5 hitters names arent mentioned??

With all of the various records the Angels have set this year, it is the most recent one that bothers me. 11 straight losses to one team in the post-season. Usually a team that is proud would not want to be a part of this record. I wonder if the Halos even discussed this before the game began. Where is the anger, grit, and winning attitude of this team?

In the end, records aren’t as important as winning in the post season.

Angels fan. I go back to the 70’s when losing was basically expected. I was at the game last night and that had to be the worst game I have ever been to. I never, not once thought they were going to win last night. Especially after Bay hit that 3 run shot to put them up 4-0 and we hadn’t even batted yet. They had so many chances to put runs on the board last night and they continually failed to get the hit to drive in the runs. It was so frustrating to watch them fail time and time again. Why can’t the Angels ever get clutch hits? I mean they always seem to get hits when nobody’s on base then you put a man in scoring position and they can’t get a hit to drive him in. How do they get their 4th run? well they basically gave it to them with a bases load walk!! How else are they going to score a run? I knew Napoli wasn’t going to get a hit and drive him in. I couldn’t get myself to stand and watch, let alone root another time and be disappointed once again. I had that feeling that Napoli wasn’t going to get a hit and tie it up or God forbid take the lead. Why can’t they get a fricken clutch hit? To tell you the truth, I almost feel that it was better when the Angels were expected to lose. Didn’t have to worry about being disappointed, that’s for sure. I guess this falls under that saying, be careful what you wish for it might get what you asked for. Winning puts a lot of expectations on a team. This team doesn’t seem like it is able to handle being expected to to win. It was just so much easier watching them and knowing they weren’t going anywhere. Don’t get me wrong, I love more than anything having a winning team but damn it losing like this all the time when it really counts just really sucks!
   I wonder how the Players are feeling today. Is there bickering going on? Fingers being pointed? Why would Teixeira want to come back and play for a team that can’t win in the post season? He alone can’t do all the hitting and driving in the runs. Anyway, I am just pissed about last nights game. Let’s just hope there isn’t too much finger pointing going on in the clubhouse and they get their heads on straight tomorrow and just play like thay played during the season. Now lets go kick some Red Sux Ass!!

I’m watching Major League I and II and its giving me hope.

Their White Sox are our Red Sox.

Every epic season has an epic comeback.

Game 3:

Angels 9 BoSox 3

Over?
Did you say “over”?
Nothing is over until we decide it is!
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
And it ain’t over now. ‘Cause when the goin’ gets tough..The Tough Get goin….
What the fuck happened to the Angels I used to know? Where’s the spirit?
Where’s the guts, huh? “Ooh, we’re afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble.” Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I’m not gonna take this. Bay, he’s a dead man! Ortiz, dead! Pedroia dead…

My heart was heavy with the early 4-1 lead. Then the bats started picking up. Guys were hitting and getting on base. Consistently. I thought GREAT…we are going to do this. Unfortunately it was the same few guys getting on base followed by the same guys who were unable to bring them in.

I have never gone into a game with so much hope and left with so much bitter disappointment. There was so much blown potential for runs. So much potential to really blast ahead.

With each 2 or 3 men on base came some stupid strike out or inning ending hit. So much down the drain. It was a vicious roller coaster last night and I want so desperately to get off that ride.

We can do it. I really believe that. I still think these guys are capable of getting out of this and doing it. They have the talent and the skill.

I just wish THEY believed in themselves as much as I do.

I was sooo looking froward to the Angels beating the shit out of the Sux this post season but when they lost the first game it sunk in, the Red Sux play WAY better than us in the Playoffs. We streight up CHOKED. When we were down 4-0 I thought okay bad start BUT WE CAN DO THIS!!!! After fail after fail I began trying reverse psychology, saying, “You suck I hope you strike out,” to our own players. When they tried it I was thinking, hey this negative mindset is working. Then I started getting pumped up, thinking we would win. I was thinking of the BIG HIT THEORY. Many people talked shit and said it was not true, I wish it were not but time and time again FRANKIE has proved it to be true.

I still have HOPE but I am not going into a positive mind set because it always lets me down. I will expect the worse and embrace the positives. GO ANGLES……..LETS DDDOOOOOOOOOOO THIS!!!!

P.S. I hope Kendry get the start sunday. He at least has a .500 BA unlike HK, Aybar, Naps, Rivera, and HGH. Or is Scioscia scared of seeing someone get hits at the bottom of the order. I want him hitting behind HUNTER because Howie SUCKS BALLS this post season. I hope the whole order catches fire, be it with or without Morales.

It was nice to feel that much emotion again. I consider myself a pretty reserved person, it’s hard to get me to show excitement or sadness or fear.

But there were times during the game where I was screaming at my tv screen at every whiffed ball by Howie. And when Figgy hit the triple I was jumping up and down and yelling and throwing my clothes (which lie in a heap on my floor) all over my room. And when KRod blew the pitch to Drew I was absolutely dumbstruck and then absolutely crushed.

I hate it that the Halos are in this hole and hopes are dimming but what an emotional rollercoaster. I’m not one to put stock in comebacks but I’m still going to watch my team because…

GO HALOS!!!!