5-Game Streak Ends
by yeswecan on Jul 21, 2008 9:45 PM PDT
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Blame of the Game: Gary Matthews, Jr.
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Blame
GMJr.
He completely sucked the life out of the offense, and made a critical error. If the Angels were down only 3-1, chances are Speier wouldn’t have pitched.
Santana didn’t pitch badly. 3 ER in 7 IP, 8Ks, 0BB.
that's uh, pretty good pitching.
You strike out >1 per IP, you are pitching pretty well.
by shiftyeyedgoat on Jul 21, 2008 9:50 PM PDT up reply actions
GMJ was playing tonight? What?
Francisco Rodriguez: 186 career saves. 2 career Panthers, tied with Hector Carrasco.
gary
or scioscia for putting him in. i seriously don’t understand it. what happened to playing the guys who give you the best chance to win
Is this really a question?
Ask yourself: What changed from the previous 5 games, which we happen to have won all of?
Answer: 0-4, 2K’s, 2 weak grounders, 3 men left on, and an error that ended up allowing a run. GMJ is your loser.
*Visiting Angels fan* Never give up, never surrender!
Good point. Rivera was also held hitless in tonight's game.
And he failed to execute a single defensive play all game.
Rivera: BOTG.
Francisco Rodriguez: 186 career saves. 2 career Panthers, tied with Hector Carrasco.
Basically all of them.
Though the Beckett one he got PH for. He still got a hit and a walk that game though, IIRC
~Till the Halo burns out...
Atleast 3.
Reggie pinch ran for him alot in the late game, but they were Juan’s hits. Anyway, Juan’s statline in the last 5 games:
6-14, 2B, 3 BB’s, 1K, 1 RBI .428 .529 .500. Yeah.
*Visiting Angels fan* Never give up, never surrender!
GMJ
though in fairness I give the assist to Izturis for going 0-4 with 5 LOB
~Till the Halo burns out...
I lean to Izzy.
GMJ we simply hate. And he sucks, living down to our expectations.
But Izzy was the black hole in our serious rally opportunities this game.
Francisco Rodriguez: 186 career saves. 2 career Panthers, tied with Hector Carrasco.
Yeah, but Izzy still had some solid D at least
GMJ put us down in the second with that error.
~Till the Halo burns out...
Yeah, it's kind of coin flip till you consider the defensive difference.
*Visiting Angels fan* Never give up, never surrender!
by TheOptimist on Jul 21, 2008 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions
GMJ
though in fairness I give the assist to Izturis for going 0-4 with 5 LOB
~Till the Halo burns out...
One more time, but with EMPHASIS!
Francisco Rodriguez: 186 career saves. 2 career Panthers, tied with Hector Carrasco.
hey!
Black Hole, that’s racist!
Seriously they just need to give GMJ the rest of the year off and start fresh with him in 2009.
Unlike GMJ though
he’s clutch. And that’s good enough while Naps is out.
~Till the Halo burns out...
im okay with mathis for now
he can’t hit consistently, can’t throw runners out. but in the face of no other viable options he is the best we got unlike Gary. out of our 6 outfielders Gary is my last option
Plus, Mathis calls an excellent game. A lot of the Catcher's position doesn't
show up in the statline. Also, Mathis makes 9.6 million less per year.
*Visiting Angels fan* Never give up, never surrender!
by TheOptimist on Jul 21, 2008 10:05 PM PDT up reply actions
"Snake Eyes" Gary Matthews, Junior -- Officially Worthless
But worthy of today’s BOTG. Gawd, did Stoneman get suckered into taking this journeyman POS based upon ONE stellar season.
You ever feel as if your mind had started to erode?
Sucker punched from nowhere
I tuned in late and what do I see? GMJ, reported with a small tear in the patellar tendon, starts and plays in the game tonight? No offense to Gary, but when I read this news the other day, I thought this “officially” put him on the bench indefinitely. What in the bloody hell??
by Big Easy Halofan on Jul 21, 2008 10:16 PM PDT reply actions
GMJ in an EASY choice for BOTG
Dude looked horrible up at the plate and on the field.
A knee injury is a very serious injury for a baseball player. You take a players legs out from under him and his swing goes with it.
he must've had a knee injury for his entire career
minus 2006, of course
Mike Scioscia: He provides to unlike method of your team member.
by howiestheman on Jul 21, 2008 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions
gmj
he couldn’t even advance a runner. he did nothing that a major league player is expected to do. if anything, his job is to play defense, and he didn’t even do that tonight. if he isn’t in the lineup, the tone of the game is entirely different.
"Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."
Santana for sure (Although the offense sucked, especially against 3-10 Byrd)
That’s what happenes when you elevate fastballs. they get hit, and hit hard. and Santana got hit hard all night.
World Series Bound in 2008
Are you going the Tuesday Tribe @ Halos game?
If so, look us up in View 414 Row B seats 6 & 7. I would have had Maicer Izturis sacrifice in the first inning with nobody out and runners on first and second. Maicer excells at rbis with two outs not with no outs. Blame of the game—Gary Matthews Jr. hands down. Lifetime Paul Byrd is 6-3 when I see him pitch. Ervin Santana fell to 23-6. I absolutely picked the Angels to win Monday night. You cannot win them all.
At least you are at .500...
My attendance is at a .350 win percentage!!!! I was not there last night, though.
by Downing Rules on Jul 22, 2008 9:14 AM PDT up reply actions
Piling on
HGH – in spite his $10 million contract, I was surprised to see his name in the boxscore.
I thought he’d been banished to rot on the pine for a while.
Still hoping he turns it around, but he isn’t helping himself on the field.
Definitely GMJ
He has no reason being in when Juan RIvera is hitting as well as he is. I missed Aybar today as well. Horrible fly out with bases loaded by Izturis.
DFA Quinlan
HGH.....When I saw the lineup I thought to myself, OH boy we might lose this one.
And sure enough we did.
Put Kendry Morales at 1B, and move Sean Rodriguez to 3B......NOW LETS GO WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Izturis or GMJ
They both sucked. Pick one.
Where Howie took a BB and hit two HR's in the same game...
Snooze-Fest
BOTGGMJ
An inconsistent offense will be the death-knoll for this team. Mark my words.
You think you’re gonna go through Boston like that?
Agressive base-running is great, but it don’t do any good if you can’t even get on base.
Let no joyful voice be heard! Let no man look up at the sky with hope! And let this day be cursed by we who ready to wake... the K-Rod!
what are you talking about?
The Halos were all over the basepaths tonight…....just no one could get a clutch hit to bring in them in….Halos had RISP all night long….
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by norcaliangelsfan on Jul 22, 2008 5:52 PM PDT up reply actions
GMJ
He has not bought into the Soth’s system and it’s gonna get his ass run outta here. His ground ball to short from the left side with Howie on second was just about the last straw for me.
I really do want to give him the benefit of the doubt though.
GMJ
im done giving him the benefit of the doubt, ive waited a year and a half for him to pull it together, and he has yet to do it. he is not helping this team in anyway, if he wants to be on a winner so (july bomb) fucking bad, he can contribute by sitting his ass on the damn bench.
great now im pissed, one more thing to add on to the i hate GMJ list
damnit
i pledge alliegance... to mike Scioscia
and the angels way of baseball
and to each pennant and ring we are sure to win.
one fanatic, under the halo, unwavered
with in n out and world series rings for all
GMJ
Scioscia mentions:
“He’s got to get out there and play,” Scioscia said. “As a player plays, you can’t evaluate him until he gets out there and does what he needs to do. We’ll get a read on him. You’re not going to get the whole story in one night, but if he’s going to contribute, he needs to get out there.”
EXCUSE ME ?
1 – He’s not going to contribute
2 – If that’s the philisophy, then why on earth did it take so long for Rivera to get a decent chance ?
Seriously
GMJr. is a career .250 hitter. That’s the BEST that can be expected of him, IF he’s healthy. That is exactly what he’s going to contribute, at best. If he’s not healthy, it will be something less than that. If healthy, Juan Rivera will do better than that.
What in the world needs to be evaluated?
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