Season 2/3 Beginning

32 * 3 = 96.

That’s still very good. And as Arizona showed us last year, having a record better than your pythagorean mark isn’t always a bad thing.

but i don’t really know how much our pitching can hold up night in and night out with any offensive support.

I believe we have been very lucky and also very good with our pitching this season. That being said, at some point we are going hit a bad series or week with our pitching and if our offense is not producing it could get bleak very quick.

I hope this is not the case, but gutting out wins with 1,2,3 runs a game is getting a lil’ stressful for Cupie and this type of baseball will not win playoff games.

And Rev thanks for posting like 18 different stories today. Apparently, you got that dog out from under house.

aka Seattle Mariners and New York Yankees

I also think that this year is Vlad’s opposite year. He’s going to kinda struggle in the regular season, then blow the F up in the playoffs.

You simply cannot overstate it, by building a solid team with a strong foundation, and lots and lots of depth (read that as “role players who have thankfully checked their ego at the clubhouse door”) you can prevail over the toll that injuries take on a team over a 162-game season. So Vlad isn’t hitting the crap outta the ball like we’re used to seeing by now, big deal, Hunter has been MONEY, and good great outstanding pitching has carried the Halos to the most wins in the bigs so far

I say we win 100 for the first time ever.

Santana and Saunders continue to be studs. The Lackinator is back. Howie’s coming back soon. Figgy in a little while. And you just know Vlad will get hot.

If you don’t share my optimism, then prepare to endure a wedgie and get thrown in a dumpster.

well…..who ever “they” are havent watch the way the angels have been winning lately…..but I’ll take a win any way that i can get it…...even if it means going through a pack of tums a day….......

looking back at the 2005 year in which we had good pitching and patchwork offense, I refuse to think that with all the talent in this lineup (i,e, figgy, GMJ, HK, GA, Vlad, hunter, etc) ....come on!....this offense is better than most playoff teams (maybe even 2002) that we’ve seen these last years.

of this team to go with a plug n’ play approach to our pitching and defense. There aren’t really any stats that could show it, but the fact that this team has rotated more than 8 players through 2B, SS, and 3B with no discernable breakdown in defense or teamwork is amazing. Some guys aren’t as good as others, of course, but they’re still pulling the load and working well together, and it shows. The only other Angels team I can think of that suffered this many injuries to key players was the ‘04 team, and it didn’t fair nearly as well during the stretches when everyone was on the DL.