Game 43/162 T H R E A D part 2

but it damn well makes it harder to throw where you want in that, if you throw it in a spot that should be called, it’s not going that way and you’ll end up walking runs in all day.

Don’t mistake what I’m saying. It’s his fault for the shitty pitch…no one is saying otherwise because no one CAN say otherwise. It’s also, however, the umpire’s fault (less so) for taking half of the plate away from him leading up to the mistake.

by Caseys Kiss of Death on May 15, 2008 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

can't groove a pitch either

by cupie on May 15, 2008 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

lets see

willits, izzy, and vlad

pinch hit rivera for izzy

if i see GMJ in this game i will bleed out the ears

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by Carl Johnson on May 15, 2008 10:08 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Why Rivera for Izzy?

Izzy is hitting better right now. If you really want the best hitter, go with Q.

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by Zu Long on May 15, 2008 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

thats a great idea

put in the rally killer himself…

Bring up Wood!!!

by howiestheman on May 15, 2008 10:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Q's hitting .300 with men on.

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by Zu Long on May 15, 2008 10:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

small sample size

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by Carl Johnson on May 15, 2008 10:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

No kidding

But Q also stays out of DPs. Say that about Rivera.

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by Zu Long on May 15, 2008 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

i want power

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by Carl Johnson on May 15, 2008 10:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Note to the ump

just because the batter moves, doesnt mean it’s a ball

Bring up Wood!!!

by howiestheman on May 15, 2008 10:09 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

stupid scioscia playing K-Rod in a non-saver

by Los Angeles de Anaheim on May 15, 2008 10:10 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

well, if we dont score

another loss which can be squarely placed onto the shoulders of the great umpriing of major league baseball

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by Carl Johnson on May 15, 2008 10:10 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

It's 3-2 if they call Uribe out on the DP like they should have.

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by Zu Long on May 15, 2008 10:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Agreed, agreed

the umps have shafted us in this game big time

Don't call me Desmond

by highlandhalo on May 15, 2008 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

don't be a wuss...

...you left runners at third and second…

...not once, not twice… but thrice…

that’s poor clutch hitting, mang…

Vicente Padilla is... EL TORO!

by oc on May 15, 2008 10:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

why are you here?

by SCHalo on May 15, 2008 10:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

to monitor the progress of the American League West.

Vicente Padilla is... EL TORO!

by oc on May 15, 2008 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

wants to watcha playoff team

duh

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by Carl Johnson on May 15, 2008 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

What, back already?

Are the Rangers over .500? No? Then why are you here?

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by Zu Long on May 15, 2008 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

im fine with that

but thats because the players didnt play well, and thats one thing.

losing because an umpire cant make accurate calls is not acceptable. this is a multimillion dollar industry.

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by Carl Johnson on May 15, 2008 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

you know, you're right...

...in that case i would argue Bennet Salvatore’s questionable officiating in the last three games of the ‘06 NBA Finals.

this is nothing new, sir.

you win some. you lose some. but, you won’t get every call.

Vicente Padilla is... EL TORO!

by oc on May 15, 2008 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Doesn't mean you can't bitch when they blow it.

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by Zu Long on May 15, 2008 10:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Here comes that fat ass Jenks

Don't call me Desmond

by highlandhalo on May 15, 2008 10:12 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

god angels fans are hot

ive been ruined by fenway

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by Carl Johnson on May 15, 2008 10:13 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Blue

not a strike

by cupie on May 15, 2008 10:13 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

wth

this ump is horrible

That was not a strike for the Angels all night

by MH252525 on May 15, 2008 10:13 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Come on, Reggie, get on base.

*Visiting Angels fan* Never give up, never surrender!

by TheOptimist on May 15, 2008 10:14 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

1-1

by cupie on May 15, 2008 10:14 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

The first strike to Reggie was out of spite by the ump.

Ain't no stoppin' us now. We got the groove!

by Fan Since 1981 on May 15, 2008 10:14 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

1-2

by cupie on May 15, 2008 10:14 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Broadcasters are sucking Chuck Meriweather's jank

Maybe he’ll give us a freaking make-up call this inning

Don't call me Desmond

by highlandhalo on May 15, 2008 10:14 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

No make-up call. If anything, he'll call everything a strike.

Ain't no stoppin' us now. We got the groove!

by Fan Since 1981 on May 15, 2008 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

cuxx words

by cupie on May 15, 2008 10:15 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Let's go Pharoah

by cupie on May 15, 2008 10:15 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Let the Boy King hit

Don't call me Desmond

by highlandhalo on May 15, 2008 10:15 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Hot hands. 2-4 tonight.

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by Zu Long on May 15, 2008 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

screw it

i swing on 3-0

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by Carl Johnson on May 15, 2008 10:16 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

ugh that was such a fat pitch

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by Carl Johnson on May 15, 2008 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

and another

gotta swing at those dude

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by Carl Johnson on May 15, 2008 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Three was just as fat

didn’t help.

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by Zu Long on May 15, 2008 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Take 2, Izzy.

*Visiting Angels fan* Never give up, never surrender!

by TheOptimist on May 15, 2008 10:16 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Fuck baseball

I’m out of this thread.

Good night.

by Caseys Kiss of Death on May 15, 2008 10:17 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I'll laugh if Vlad Homers.

~Till the Halo burns out...

by Zu Long on May 15, 2008 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

26-outer...

Arte, please buy the Angels back from the Red Sox...they've owned us long enough.

by Downing Rules on May 16, 2008 10:14 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

mice should have just moved back.

the ump would’ve called it a ball.

"Here we go baby, 'bout f***'n' time!"

by b0rd3rline on May 15, 2008 10:17 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

thats a classic example of a terrible AB determined by old baseball folk

youve GOT to swing at 3-1, but i wouldve gone at 3-0

3-0’s are so often exceedingly fat meatballs

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by Carl Johnson on May 15, 2008 10:18 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

3-2 was also fat.

He threw three straight balls, and I’m hitting .200, I take two.

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by Zu Long on May 15, 2008 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

im 2-4 in the game

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by Carl Johnson on May 15, 2008 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Different pitcher.

And 3-2 was, again, also a fat pitch.

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by Zu Long on May 15, 2008 10:20 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Jenks is such a piece of trailer park shit

Take him behind the woodshed Vlad

Don't call me Desmond

by highlandhalo on May 15, 2008 10:18 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

The only thing on this team worse than Matt Brown is Scioscia

Arredondo threw all of 4 pitches.

Looked as dominating as any pitcher has all year, and bam he’s out of the game.

by MH252525 on May 15, 2008 10:18 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

in a tied ballgame at home...

...you almost always go to your closer in the ninth.

don’t know you can blame Scioscia there.

Vicente Padilla is... EL TORO!

by oc on May 15, 2008 10:20 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

that's exactly my point

a manager should look at who is most likely to get people out. A guy just flat out dominated, threw 4 pitches and he gets yanked? Scioscia only knows how to manage by the book. He’s a horrible in game strategic manager. Every pitcher you throw out there, you run the risk of him not being on his game. Arredondo was definitely on his game. There is no way he should have been taken out.

by MH252525 on May 15, 2008 10:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

The same guy who gave up a homer yesterday to the first batter he faced?

That guy?

~Till the Halo burns out...

by Zu Long on May 15, 2008 10:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

:O

Take your dirty facts out of this argument!

Chart it up! Game on!
Week 6: http://tinyurl.com/4qw4x6

by scottnak on May 15, 2008 10:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Pitchers are good some days and bad others

The more pitchers you put in the game, the more likely it is that one of them won’t have their A game on a given night. Arredondo certainly brought his A game and he only threw 4 pitches. Frankie traditionally doesn’t do well in non save situations.

by MH252525 on May 15, 2008 10:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

yawn...

Vicente Padilla is... EL TORO!

by oc on May 15, 2008 10:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

keep drinking the Soth kool-aide.

by MH252525 on May 15, 2008 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Frankie's still the best pitcher we have

And Arredondo is the guy with a 6+ ERA

A-Game or not, you go with your best pitcher when you get to the 9th at home. Didn’t work out for us tonight.

~Till the Halo burns out...

by Zu Long on May 15, 2008 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

you really have NO idea about sample size do you?

he’s given up 1 hit in a MEANINGLESS AB, look at the stats he’s put up in AAA.

A whip under 1 and a strikeout to walk ratio of almost 4 to 1 in a hitting environment where Matt Brown can put up a OPS of almost 1.100.

And don’t bring up. something like “Adenhart has good # in AAA too”. Adenhart walk to k ratio is almost 1:1.

by MH252525 on May 15, 2008 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

not a well-managed, well-umpired, or well-played game

try again tomorrow

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by Carl Johnson on May 15, 2008 10:19 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

****.

Game over.

*Visiting Angels fan* Never give up, never surrender!

by TheOptimist on May 15, 2008 10:20 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

BOTG

Scioscia in a land slide.

by MH252525 on May 15, 2008 10:20 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Shit

BOTG: 1st base ump on the blown DP call
Second nomination: Soth
Third choice: Judy

Don't call me Desmond

by highlandhalo on May 15, 2008 10:22 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

BOTG Scioscia -- starting K-Fraud in a non-save???

by Los Angeles de Anaheim on May 15, 2008 10:22 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

ya heaven forbid you think your closer can put up a 0

what an idiot that scoscia is

by ihearhowie2.0 on May 15, 2008 10:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

did you see Arredondo's ab to OC?

If you did, I don’t see how you can say that he isn’t the person you want starting the 9th. He had filthy stuff out there.

by MH252525 on May 15, 2008 10:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

ya, he recorded 1 out against a guy hitting .200

hindsight is 20/20, thats all i’ll say. the same people blaming the manager for putting his closer in the 9th are the same people whod bitch if he kept arredondo in and lost that way.

frankie isnt the first closer to come in during a tied game in the 9th, why does this seem so foreign? because you all have a fantasy of arredondo being a shut down reliever from ONE out??

by ihearhowie2.0 on May 15, 2008 10:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

no actually not...

I thought Scioscia did a great job getting Mathis out of the game for Napoli, it didn’t work out and I said that Scioscia did the right thing.

I like Scioscia bringing in Arredondo and I questioned it B4 the leadoff double.

and the one out that Arredondo got, while only one out was sick. He was throwing 96 with filthy off speed stuff.

by MH252525 on May 15, 2008 10:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

He threw 96 yesterday too.

It didn’t save him then.

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by Zu Long on May 15, 2008 10:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

regardless

it’s completely illogical to have a reliever throw 4 pitches unless it’s some situational advantage. Lots of people say well the Angels have to throw the bottom end of their bullpen in certain games because the end of the bullpen is overworked. This is a classic example of Scioscia overworking his bullpen. The strain Arredondo put on his arm in 4 pitches is close to what he would have put on it by throwing 30 pitches. (it has been proven appearances is more important than innings) But now, when we start a series against the Dodgers tomorrow, Arredondo has thrown in 2 straight games and if we need Frankie tomorrow he threw 19 pitches tonight.

by MH252525 on May 15, 2008 10:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

You're an idiot -- most Closers operate off of the adrenaline of winning a close game

K-Rod has consistently shown that he does not perform well in non-save situations. As a manager, Scioscia should know this and not start him, unless we’re behind and K-Rod hasn’t pitched in days. IN my view, coach deserves the blame more than pitcher. I have nothing against K-Rod—we just shouldn’t be using him unless it’s a save situation. That’s when he’s good.

by Los Angeles de Anaheim on May 16, 2008 9:23 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I gotta go with Aybar.

4 men left in scoring position.

~Till the Halo burns out...

by Zu Long on May 15, 2008 10:22 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Bah.

Chart it up! Game on!
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by scottnak on May 15, 2008 10:24 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Horseshit way to lose

Don't call me Desmond

by highlandhalo on May 15, 2008 10:28 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

K-Rod gave up the winning run

But didn’t exactly implode, so he doesn’t deserve the blame for everything else but the ‘L’ in the box score. The White Sox were able to push the winning run and ‘it’ just happens when Pierzynski is involved [maybe we should pick him up].

BOTG: Maybe the lineup

by BBFan1 on May 15, 2008 10:52 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

[maybe we should pick him up]

Funny. I was thinking the same thing. Hate him as much as you want, but DAMN, this guy is right in the middle of all the action. He makes things happen. I shake my head in amazement as to how he riddles the Angels. And I am unfortunately left tipping my cap to him.

Arte, please buy the Angels back from the Red Sox...they've owned us long enough.

by Downing Rules on May 16, 2008 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs