Kinda Blue

by Rev Halofan on Jun 27, 2008 10:22 PM PDT in Postgame Report Comment 52 comments

Blame of the Game: A long list from which to pick:

Saunders was flat, off his game, too rested and untested.

Speier choked it up with 2 outs when there were 6 outs to play with at only a 3-run deficit.

Aybar made a costly error, butt he did wreak his own havoc on our behalf on the basepaths.

Vlad grounded into what would prove to be a costly double play in the 1st inning - who knew then what we know now...

Torii, Quinlan, Kotchman, Mathis and most egregiously, Howie Kendrick all going hitless - Howie in the 2-hole...

I dunno, this one was terrible, weak and plays awful to the fan-base who have to answer to the ribbing of the San Fernando Mullets who are still living on Planet Garvey...

Blame of the Game: Vladimir Guerrero

Sure it was only a GIDP, but with this offense, one chance may be all you get and your failure in that situation gets magnified. And the name of that magnifying glass is BOTG.

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Chart it up! Game on!
Week 11: http://tinyurl.com/5op5n2

by scottnak on Jun 27, 2008 10:26 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Just Terrible

I blame Vlad for screwing up early… sent us on a downhill spiral… our top guy shouldn’t be hitting into DP’s with RISP

by Los Angeles de Anaheim on Jun 27, 2008 10:26 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

fangraphs agrees it was Vlad

by Los Angeles de Anaheim on Jun 27, 2008 10:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

vlad getting over an illness and at least he had a hit

NO MO Mathis

by UCIHalo on Jun 27, 2008 10:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

His “hit” was a lucky dribbler

by Rev Halofan on Jun 27, 2008 11:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

For me it was Admiral Aybar

by Red on Jun 27, 2008 10:28 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Planet Garvey

... anywhere near Planet Claire?

Witty .sig goes here.

by scareduck on Jun 27, 2008 10:29 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Ask his illegitamate children.

by 44FAN on Jun 27, 2008 10:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Aybar, SS 4 0 2 0 0 2 0 .282
Kendrick, 2B 4 0 0 0 0 3 2 .308
Anderson, LF 4 0 1 0 0 2 1 .254
Guerrero, RF 3 0 1 0 0 0 2 .290
Hunter, CF 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 .279
Kotchman, 1B 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 .297
Quinlan, 3B 3 0 0 0 0 3 0 .270
Mathis, C 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 .215
Saunders, P 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000
a-Willits, PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .169
Speier, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
b-Matthews, PH 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 .243
O’Day, P

Do you have a moment to hear about the Church of Fregosi?

by HaloDutch on Jun 27, 2008 10:29 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Howie

0 – 4
3 K’s
2 LOB’s

Worst offensive performance among the very bad.

No pitcher stands a chance when the offense fails to score at all.

by Stirrups on Jun 27, 2008 10:30 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

For some reason

The guy just can’t hit in the two spot.

Angel Pitching, Angel Defense - get past that.

by vladtheimpaler on Jun 27, 2008 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

aybar for me.....

1-0 and no SPEIER if he doesnt have the E-6

i root for teams that lack offense! go halos and bills!

by norcaliangelsfan on Jun 27, 2008 10:32 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I think it was Vladimir Kendrick Saunders

the new Sybil of the Angels

by ladybug on Jun 27, 2008 10:32 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Howie has no buisness in the 2 spot.

he flat out sucks over the course of his career in the 2 spot. a .250 OBP and a .306 SLG. keep him batting 7th.

I AM THOR, GOD OF THUNDER. BOW TO MY WILL AND MY HAMMER!

by anaheim angels on Jun 27, 2008 10:32 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

and Soth

I woulda had 2 pts if he hadn’t stuck Day-OOO in there

bastard

by ladybug on Jun 27, 2008 10:33 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Speier pretty much let the game out of control by allowing three more runs.

But the offense was the worst.

by 44FAN on Jun 27, 2008 10:33 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

he wouldnt have even been in methinks.....

had aybar not let the lead go from 1-0 to 3-0

i root for teams that lack offense! go halos and bills!

by norcaliangelsfan on Jun 27, 2008 10:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

or if Saunders had made further in to the game, agreed.

by 44FAN on Jun 27, 2008 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

that error led to saunders giving up more pitches......if not for it.....no runs, and Joe probably goes to the 6th or further.

i root for teams that lack offense! go halos and bills!

by norcaliangelsfan on Jun 27, 2008 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

BOTG..........

no rally thread

i root for teams that lack offense! go halos and bills!

by norcaliangelsfan on Jun 27, 2008 10:33 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

...you get what you pay for…

by Rev Halofan on Jun 27, 2008 11:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

lol

i root for teams that lack offense! go halos and bills!

by norcaliangelsfan on Jun 27, 2008 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Park'd

Worst game of the season. Hated everything about it. The lousy swings, the “Angels suck” chants coming through my shitty Ghetto-13 standard definition broadcast, and listening to Hud claime that a guy who hadn’t won a game as a starting pitcher in 2 damn years had “great stuff” when it was painfully obvious that we were hellbent on swinging at any and everything. The cherry on top was watching SPEIER give up ANOTHER HR when the game was close. I hope he’s thrown his last pitch as an Angel.

14 Ks tonight and at least half were on pitches a foot or farther out of the strike zone. That was a cringe-worthy team performance if ever I’ve seen one.

I don’t even know who to vote for.

by ReggieBullits on Jun 27, 2008 10:34 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

My greatest fear

is that this is what our playoff offense is going to look like.

by Stirrups on Jun 27, 2008 10:35 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

there will be no playoff with this kind of playing

by ladybug on Jun 27, 2008 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

this is what the playoff offense has looked like for a while now

this team needs a power bat, and it’s not coming up through the minors fast enough (cough brandon wood)

by Captain Awesome on Jun 27, 2008 10:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Per usual

As Vlad goes, this team goes.

My greatest fear is that Saunders is going to fall apart sometime in August after he’s thrown 50 more innings then his career high. He looks tired now and it’s only July (close enough).

by ReggieBullits on Jun 27, 2008 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

BOTG

All you doomsayers who are pissing and moaning right now and will be happier than hell tomorrow when we whip Brooklyn’s asses.

Other than that: Quinlan. 3 whiffs.

Don't call me Desmond

by highlandhalo on Jun 27, 2008 10:44 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

It's wussy to blame Q, he was born that way.

by 44FAN on Jun 27, 2008 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

BOTG goes to the whole team

for making that hack Chan Ho Park look like Cy Freaking Young out there.

You ever feel as if your mind had started to erode?

by PieceOfAase on Jun 27, 2008 10:46 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

there it is...

no need for me to post, that was my exact line.

"Never throw the ball so far over the fence where you can't go back and get it." Chuck Knox quoted through Darryl Henley

by Downing Rules on Jun 28, 2008 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

This is a guy who gave up...

Bonds’ historic homeruns (2 of them in one game)...
2 grand slams in ONE INNING to the same player (Tatis)
A homerun to CC Sabathia (a tape-measure job, no less)
a karate chop to Tim Belcher in an exhibition game

and a guy who was in the minors last year. He has no business being on a major league mound.

"Never throw the ball so far over the fence where you can't go back and get it." Chuck Knox quoted through Darryl Henley

by Downing Rules on Jun 28, 2008 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

but they made him look like a seasoned vet'run

by ladybug on Jun 28, 2008 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

either Q or Mathis

but im gonna say Mathis.
per Rex… Soth is using him because he likes his CERA. well i’m sorry, but 6 runs were scored with him behind the dish and he looked even worse at bat.

Jeff “Sarah” Mathis-Scioscia gets the blame.

Chaka Khan... Rally Monkey 2.0

by howiestheman on Jun 27, 2008 10:48 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Mathis can't make Saunders throw strikes

Or Speier not suck.

by ReggieBullits on Jun 27, 2008 10:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yes, his "defense" was so good

Juan Pierre looked like Rickey Henderson out there…he also couldn’t block the ball when Pierre struck out…
In addition, Mathis had his usual offensive numbers.
The Angels have a power bat that has hit 11 homers in limited duty…his name is mike napoli.

I love LAC.

by oasisman on Jun 28, 2008 1:26 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

bring out the masher

my bad...k-rod is good.

by NoDakHalo on Jun 28, 2008 8:53 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Kendrick

then Aybar.

Angel Pitching, Angel Defense - get past that.

by vladtheimpaler on Jun 27, 2008 10:52 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Cheer up fellas

At least we don’t hang out here.

by ReggieBullits on Jun 27, 2008 10:55 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Al their members are named Andrew!

by 44FAN on Jun 27, 2008 10:58 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

Hilarious

by ReggieBullits on Jun 27, 2008 11:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Just got back from the game

and to me it seemed like the Admiral. Hokie Joe’s pitching was subpar, but he was battling through it (1-0) when an inning ending DP turned into 2nd and 3rd and one out. Both runner scored and with our offense sputtering, you felt like the game was over.

My second Dodgers-Angels game at Dodgers stadium, and the Dodger fans were pretty obnoxious tonight (yelling “Angels suck” as loudly as they could). I really don’t like that place!

Let’s get them tomorrow.

K-brothers rule! (Kendrick & Kotch)

by halofan91 on Jun 27, 2008 11:12 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

YOU'RE ALIVE!

by ReggieBullits on Jun 27, 2008 11:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I guess I have to thankful for something!

K-brothers rule! (Kendrick & Kotch)

by halofan91 on Jun 28, 2008 4:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's a Chavez tradition

yelling "Angels suck" as loudly as they could

Yeah, they do that pretty much anytime they have a lead on the Halos. They just get to do it so rarely.

Angels fan since '67

by red floyd on Jun 28, 2008 12:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Saunders BOTG

Though Quinlan can be the co-BOTG with 0-for-3 performance with three Ks.

by BBFan1 on Jun 27, 2008 11:32 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Bad timing

I live in El Centro, way down there next to Mexicali. Hence, I don’t get to many Angel games. Well, a friend of my father in law’s had tickets for this game—so I did the 400 mile round trip to see my team. And my reward? One of the worst games I’ve seen them play this year. I think I’ll watch the next two games from my living room.

by Riverrun on Jun 28, 2008 2:24 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

that sucks

by ladybug on Jun 28, 2008 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

dogger fans chanted "angels suck?"

so original those guys.

by SCHalo on Jun 28, 2008 8:41 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

At least they didn't yell BEAT LA...

"Never throw the ball so far over the fence where you can't go back and get it." Chuck Knox quoted through Darryl Henley

by Downing Rules on Jun 28, 2008 11:12 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I still say it was Kendrick

not just for his abysmal performance in the box, but his weak fielding, poor throws (did anyone else see Juan Pierre nearly walk to first base on an infield single? Disgraceful…), and what appeared to be a lack of passion tonight.

There is nothing positive to take away from this game.

by shiftyeyedgoat on Jun 28, 2008 10:29 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Can't blame Aybar

He was the little bit of offense we had, and his error didnt matter much since we were unable to score even 1. The error didnt lead to all 6 runs. I got to blame Mickey Hatcher again. Wake these freakin bats up!

by Zookeeper on Jun 28, 2008 10:41 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs