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Los Angeles Angels @ Texas Rangers


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Let's Go Angels!

Now with luminous Q power!

by 44FAN on Jul 8, 2008 5:02 PM PDT   0 recs

let's get a win for Joe's wife and imminent baby!

and let’s score more runs!

Mike Scioscia: He provides to unlike method of your team member.

by howiestheman on Jul 8, 2008 5:03 PM PDT   0 recs

let's get a win for Joe's wife and imminent baby!

and let’s score more runs!

Mike Scioscia: He provides to unlike method of your team member.

by howiestheman on Jul 8, 2008 5:04 PM PDT   0 recs

rain delayed

:(
maybe an hour?

Mike Scioscia: He provides to unlike method of your team member.

by howiestheman on Jul 8, 2008 5:06 PM PDT   0 recs

Lets go Halos

dont make me regret staying indoors on a beautiful summer day in Oregon

by Northwest on Jul 8, 2008 5:06 PM PDT   0 recs

anyone kno wut the deal is with earlier games this last week?

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

by halofan4life on Jul 8, 2008 5:11 PM PDT   0 recs

They’re playing in Texas dude. They’re two hours ahead.

by foxpaw on Jul 8, 2008 5:15 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

not wut i meant

all the halo games have been starting at 6:05 local time for the last week

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

by halofan4life on Jul 8, 2008 5:18 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

...where exactly do you live?

The Rangers play in the Central time zone which is 2 hours ahead of Anaheim time.

Meaning when the Rangers start at 5:05 PM PDT (Pacific Daylight savings Time), they are starting at 7:05 PM CDT (Central Daylight Savings Time).

Nowhere in that equation is 6:05PM.

by shiftyeyedgoat on Jul 8, 2008 5:21 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

yup

im retarded, my math abilities escaped me for about 10 minutes. thanks for settin me straight shifty

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

by halofan4life on Jul 8, 2008 5:24 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Rain?

What’s that? Water from the sky you say? Man, you are crazy!

So WTF is up with GMJ batting second? Is it not enough to have a black hole in the bottom half of the batting order, now we have to place it right behind Figgy and in front of Vlad. And Aybar 3rd? I love the Admiral, but since when do you put a slap-hitting .270 hitter in the 3-hole?

I know Sosh is a genius (and I don’t mean that sarcastically) but he really is challenged sometimes when it comes to writing out a line-up.

P.S. BTW, if GMJ goes 4-5 including a picture-perfect H&R, and scores 3 runs, and the Admiral goes 3-4 with 2 HRs, I am totally taking credit!

K-brothers rule! (Kendrick & Kotch)

by halofan91 on Jul 8, 2008 5:16 PM PDT   0 recs

Ah man delay??? well getting some eats… hopefully i get to come back to some Halos Homers!

by lesserknown on Jul 8, 2008 5:17 PM PDT   0 recs

Rain sucks

Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.

Kobe tell me how my ass tastes

by hauldog on Jul 8, 2008 5:24 PM PDT   0 recs

Beane must be rooting for the curse to end he traded 40% of a rotation to the Cubs

for Gallagher and a tub of crap

Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.

Kobe tell me how my ass tastes

by hauldog on Jul 8, 2008 5:25 PM PDT   0 recs

hey Gaudin was converted to a shitty inning eater...

So basically the Cubs get a piece of shit, a broken piece of shit (Harden) while the A’s will scavenge off the ripe meat of the Cubs prospect list.

by shiftyeyedgoat on Jul 8, 2008 5:28 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Look at Gaudins numbers and rethink that

Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.

Kobe tell me how my ass tastes

by hauldog on Jul 8, 2008 5:31 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Oh jeez oh man!

3.59 ERA with a .263 BAA for a middle reliever?!!?

He is no mere man… he is a GOD.

No, wait.. he’s just kinda mediocre.

by shiftyeyedgoat on Jul 8, 2008 5:49 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

4.43 ERA in 34 starts last year.

He was 24. The guy they just got is 22, and not doing any better.

~Till the Halo burns out...

by Zu Long on Jul 8, 2008 5:52 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

a) So the fuck what?

b) Who said any of these players are worth a damn? Harden is when he is healthy, and since Harden does not connote good health on a baseball team - he’s had two seasons pitching 120+ innings since 2003 and only neared 200 with 180 ONE TIME 4 years ago - methinks the A’s dumped off a player they thought would no longer be able to compete in their youth-oriented system.

Gaudin is a shitty deposed starter from a heavy pitcher’s park moving to a notorious HITTER’s park as a supposed starter? Great logic.

by shiftyeyedgoat on Jul 8, 2008 5:58 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

a) So they traded for poor value.

b) You did when you said the A’s were “scavenging off the ripe meat from the Cubs prospect list.” Point is, they traded a Grade A starter when healthy plus a 3/4th starter for a guy who projects right now as… 3/4th starter. Oh, and they got a box of crap too.

c) Take some chill pills.

~Till the Halo burns out...

by Zu Long on Jul 8, 2008 6:04 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Nooo...

A prospect is ripe, but worth nothing other than his potential. Making him not worth much more than a damn.

They traded a pitcher who has pitched 541 IP in going on 6 seasons, a pitcher who was crappy even in a HUGE pitcher’s park for an even younger pitcher holding his own in a park so small you can throw a ball for a home run, a prospect from the minors with good potential, and two meh players up top.

Get a girlfriend, maybe she’ll keep you busy enough to not make 1/5 of the posts here.

by shiftyeyedgoat on Jul 8, 2008 6:11 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I like how Gaudin was "crappy" but Gallagher is holding his own.

Also, you say get a girlfriend like you’ve got one. If so, what are you doing here?

~Till the Halo burns out...

by Zu Long on Jul 8, 2008 6:19 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

watching the game whilst she sits in traffic

Gaudin is crappy because he has shown to be no better than a 4.5-ish ERA pitcher who can maybe hold down a 5-slot in a park that affords no advantages to opposing hitters.

Gallagher is freshly 23 and in his first major league season pitching for a supposed World Series contender and doing well in a park that allows hitters to nearly bunt for home runs.

I’d take the latter.

by shiftyeyedgoat on Jul 8, 2008 6:29 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

It was not a straight up one for one trade. This is where you logic fails.

Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.

Kobe tell me how my ass tastes

by hauldog on Jul 8, 2008 6:31 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Bummer.

I’d argue that at 24, 4.43 ain’t bad for a full season, and there’s plenty of room to improve. Saying he’s “no better than 5 slot” is underrating him. That’s 4 slot on a good team. Oakland’s a pitchers park and Chicago’s a hitters park, but the NL is still AAAA.

Gallagher pitching for a WS contender doesn’t have much to do with his potential. His ERA is slightly higher than Gaudin’s, in a league where pitchers bat, and he has trouble making it past 5 innings.

Now, if it were Gallagher for Gaudin straight up, yeah, sure A’s got a steal. But throwing Harden in there, and the equation changes. You’d need more than some loose OF pieces and a single A Catcher to equal what Harden brings to the table, even with an injury history like his.

~Till the Halo burns out...

by Zu Long on Jul 8, 2008 6:39 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

are the personal attacks necessary?

Mike Scioscia: He provides to unlike method of your team member.

by howiestheman on Jul 8, 2008 6:22 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

seriously...

two posts ago, he told me to take chill pills.

And but a post before that, hauldog told me to stop sucking a Baseball GM’s penis.

Who are you people?

by shiftyeyedgoat on Jul 8, 2008 6:26 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

You're right, hauldog shouldn't have said that

but since when are “chill pills” a personal attack, man? You were using some pretty strong language for something that there’s no reason to get that excited about.

~Till the Halo burns out...

by Zu Long on Jul 8, 2008 6:31 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

2006

He looks to be a pretty valuable reliever

Also you fail to mention that the Cubs acquired what many call the starter with the most dominant stuff in baseball when healthy

Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.

Kobe tell me how my ass tastes

by hauldog on Jul 8, 2008 6:25 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Bean's cock

The first openly gay former player. But I figured you would not be savy enough to get my reference.

The A’s are eating shit on this trade, so I guess they can have my portion.

Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.

Kobe tell me how my ass tastes

by hauldog on Jul 8, 2008 6:32 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

He is not a middle reliever

Take your mouth off Bean’s cock and look at his 2006/2007 numbers as a starter. Is Gallagher your big brother?

Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.

Kobe tell me how my ass tastes

by hauldog on Jul 8, 2008 5:57 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Not a starter in '06

~Till the Halo burns out...

by Zu Long on Jul 8, 2008 5:58 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I meant 07/08

They pulled him off the scrap heap

Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.

Kobe tell me how my ass tastes

by hauldog on Jul 8, 2008 6:00 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Ripe meat? That is laughable

Patterson sucks. Murton is nice but nothing special. The Catching prospect does not strike me as anything special either.

Gallagher, well we will see.

Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.

Kobe tell me how my ass tastes

by hauldog on Jul 8, 2008 5:35 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I'm right with you.

Gaudin by himself might have been worth Gallagher and Murton. Harden thrown in is worth a LOT more than Patterson and Donaldson. More I think about it, the more I think the A’s got jobbed here.

~Till the Halo burns out...

by Zu Long on Jul 8, 2008 5:37 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I mean it is 40% of a rotation. One being potentially dominant when healthy

Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.

Kobe tell me how my ass tastes

by hauldog on Jul 8, 2008 5:42 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

its really surprising

you would think that with them having unloaded so much in the off season, and still being close at the break that they would try to upgrade.

not that im complaining, but still strange

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

by halofan4life on Jul 8, 2008 5:45 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Beane never upgrades.

That costs money.

~Till the Halo burns out...

by Zu Long on Jul 8, 2008 5:48 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Any news of start time?

"Hey, this is Victor Martinez..."

July F-Bombs remaining: One and a half

by UK Halo on Jul 8, 2008 5:49 PM PDT   0 recs

National Anthem is playing now on the Gameday Audio

sorry about the false post, still having pc problems.

Angels in 08!

by tanana40 on Jul 8, 2008 5:52 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

US anthem or Texas anthem?

"Hey, this is Victor Martinez..."

July F-Bombs remaining: One and a half

by UK Halo on Jul 8, 2008 5:53 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

very good

Angels in 08!

by tanana40 on Jul 8, 2008 5:54 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I was wondering what was going on

when I got Sports Lodge on KLAA at 515PM

Angels fan since '67

by red floyd on Jul 8, 2008 5:53 PM PDT   0 recs

What's the outlook for the game, are they gonna play?

I’m stuck here in Ohio on vacation (also in the rain).

Hooters anyone?

by Chone's Chonies on Jul 8, 2008 5:56 PM PDT   0 recs

they're about to start

Mike Scioscia: He provides to unlike method of your team member.

by howiestheman on Jul 8, 2008 5:59 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

finally

angel games r the highlight of my day. dont kno wut i would do w/o them

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

by halofan4life on Jul 8, 2008 6:00 PM PDT   0 recs

Saunders need to plunk the first Texas batter.

That draws the warning, preventing Texas retaliation against Mathis for last night. It also puts Saunders in the position of not having to retaliate for any Mathis beaning, and thereby getting tossed.

Based on the screaming of Bradley last night, one of our guys, probably Mathis in his first AB, is gonna get beaned anyway. We might as well have the upper hand.

by Stirrups on Jul 8, 2008 6:02 PM PDT   0 recs

Headhunting losers

Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.

Kobe tell me how my ass tastes

by hauldog on Jul 8, 2008 6:03 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

good call

Mike Scioscia: He provides to unlike method of your team member.

by howiestheman on Jul 8, 2008 6:03 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

the game is more important?

Mike Scioscia: He provides to unlike method of your team member.

by howiestheman on Jul 8, 2008 6:03 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

he's too lazy to be bigger than the game

Mike Scioscia: He provides to unlike method of your team member.

by howiestheman on Jul 8, 2008 6:05 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

GMJ 2nd ?

think we’ll get lucky and GMJ will get plunked ? j/k thats mean

And you can LITE UP THAT HALO !!!

by BigBangRobbDawgg on Jul 8, 2008 6:04 PM PDT   0 recs

maybe it'll be a season ending injury if they hit him

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

by halofan4life on Jul 8, 2008 6:05 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

now THATS mean

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

by halofan4life on Jul 8, 2008 6:05 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Not liking our lineup much tonight.

~Till the Halo burns out...

by Zu Long on Jul 8, 2008 6:05 PM PDT   0 recs

Aybar 3rd is an abortion

Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.

Kobe tell me how my ass tastes

by hauldog on Jul 8, 2008 6:06 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

as is matthews 2nd

a .239 BA and a .317 OBP should definitely be hitting 2nd. great call

Mike Scioscia: He provides to unlike method of your team member.

by howiestheman on Jul 8, 2008 6:07 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

way to fail, GMJ

i am SO glad we are sitting Kotch and Rivera

Mike Scioscia: He provides to unlike method of your team member.

by howiestheman on Jul 8, 2008 6:06 PM PDT   0 recs

that was horrible

And you can LITE UP THAT HALO !!!

by BigBangRobbDawgg on Jul 8, 2008 6:06 PM PDT   0 recs

Juice fails hard.

You laid off that pitch twice and then swing and miss.

~Till the Halo burns out...

by Zu Long on Jul 8, 2008 6:07 PM PDT   0 recs

so much...

for that perfectly executed h&r halofan91 was talking about earlier

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

by halofan4life on Jul 8, 2008 6:07 PM PDT   0 recs

That guy

wouldn’t know ball 4 if it bit him on the ass!

K-brothers rule! (Kendrick & Kotch)

by halofan91 on Jul 8, 2008 6:09 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

GMJ=Steve Finley

K-brothers rule! (Kendrick & Kotch)

by halofan91 on Jul 8, 2008 6:09 PM PDT   0 recs

Getting closer all the time.

~Till the Halo burns out...

by Zu Long on Jul 8, 2008 6:10 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

im almost inclined to believe that steve finley > GMJ

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

by halofan4life on Jul 8, 2008 6:10 PM PDT