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Panther of the Game: Mike Napoli
May the force be with us. May all the botttom of the 9th relievers we face be Miguel Batistaesque.
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Yay...
Q played some Q 3b tonight too! Nipples for Panther!
Whodathunk we would be rooting for a former Ranger come August...?
Oh, and btw...
linkie
ANAHEIM — Angels right fielder Vladimir Guerrero left after the fourth inning of Friday’s game with the Mariners with irritation in his right knee and is listed as day-to-day.
Sounds like an excuse to give Vlad a few days off!
Whodathunk we would be rooting for a former Ranger come August...?
ive never seen
any athlete run the way vlad runs
"There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher." -Ted Williams
by AnaheimHalos61 on Sep 12, 2008 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Wait...Vlad can run?
Driven into right-center field, Erstad says he has it...the Angels, world champions!
built in excuse for any october failure
by Quinlan's Goofy Swing on Sep 12, 2008 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions
when he could run...

"There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher." -Ted Williams
by AnaheimHalos61 on Sep 12, 2008 10:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Yay!
Bearded man with blouse unbuttoned makes flame shoot up in sky. All party friends jump with glee at sight of small ball going over big wall!
Gansta.
http://bills.sportsbloggingnetwork.com/
by norcaliangelsfan on Sep 12, 2008 9:47 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Napoli is most luminous and provides unlike method of win games.
He is panther of mine!
Exceeding expectations is less a matter of luck than possession of certain assets.
by anaheim angels on Sep 12, 2008 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Abso-frickin'-lutely
Hey you! What are horse mackerel!
Hey, the chair are sailing! You believe that I am toad of the month!
(Yes, that is K-Rod's entry music, translated)
Of Course there is love for the win pic
Who doesn’t like looking at Princess Leia in that gold bikini
in fact ill have a side order of that to go
Willie Mays Aikens is FREeeeeeeee
by Angel Aviator on Sep 12, 2008 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Yay
If Naps name was Ichiro that would have been a grand slam
Driven into right-center field, Erstad says he has it...the Angels, world champions!
Or Johjima for getting hit by a ball almost every inning.
Driven into right-center field, Erstad says he has it...the Angels, world champions!
Naps.. definitely
"There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher." -Ted Williams
or should i call him
salade latérale
"There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher." -Ted Williams
by AnaheimHalos61 on Sep 12, 2008 10:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Screw BYU!!!
Not the place to say it, but I had to.
by Big Easy Halofan on Sep 13, 2008 5:46 PM PDT up reply actions

"There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher." -Ted Williams
does anyone else get this pic? :)
"There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher." -Ted Williams
by AnaheimHalos61 on Sep 12, 2008 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Naps all the way.
Fangraphs loves Napoli so much it married him. Naps with a WPA of .594 Next best Angel? WPA of .143 for both Dondo and Q.
Ain't no stoppin' us now. We got the groove!
by Fan Since 1981 on Sep 12, 2008 10:03 PM PDT reply actions
im not sabermetric friendly
what does this mean?
"There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher." -Ted Williams
by AnaheimHalos61 on Sep 12, 2008 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions
It means that fangraphs gives Napoli approximately 60% of this win, a hefty amount.
~Till the Halo burns out...
nice
"There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher." -Ted Williams
by AnaheimHalos61 on Sep 12, 2008 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions
hey zu
do you realize your coming up on a milestone?
"There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher." -Ted Williams
by AnaheimHalos61 on Sep 12, 2008 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions
If you mean 10,000 posts, vaguely.
I don’t really pay attention to that sort of thing.
~Till the Halo burns out...
Joe Saunders
Should also get some credit for the quality start . WPA tends to underrate starting pitchers.
by Mickey Hacker on Sep 12, 2008 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions
apparently walk-offs are no longer good enough to get you on ESPN...
except if you’re the Red Sox.
I lie… they had a 10 sec. highlight of the game…. a shot of KRod getting ready, then Napoli’s homer. that was it. no more.
nothing about Saunders’ night. nothing about Q’s triple… heck, they didn’t even show the great assist from the first inning.
screw you, East Coast. you suck.
Kotch would've had that.
Considering all the great defensive plays in this game,
combined with all the games that were rained out, that sux.
Francisco Rodriguez: 203 career saves. 4 career Panthers, 1/2 as awesome as GMJ.
what was pretty crazy was that they had a gamebreak from BBTN showing naps hit the SF
and i think it was fernando vina who said, napoli has some serious power, as evidenced by how far he hit this ball. and then literally 2 minutes later, nipples hits the walk off
Exceeding expectations is less a matter of luck than possession of certain assets.
by anaheim angels on Sep 12, 2008 11:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Serious power to Vina = Albert Belle
Remeber the “broken up” play when Vina was playing 2B and Belle steam-rolled that little punk?
by Downing Rules on Sep 13, 2008 9:16 AM PDT up reply actions
Nap for POTG
Then Saunders for a solid performance.
Angel Pitching, Angel Defense - get past that.
by vladtheimpaler on Sep 12, 2008 11:37 PM PDT reply actions
i didn't even read any of these posts...
but mike napoli is my favorite angel. period.
PANTHER.
"Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."
If he can stay healthy.....................
Angel Pitching, Angel Defense - get past that.
by vladtheimpaler on Sep 13, 2008 2:17 AM PDT up reply actions
Kwin-len, or Q
What is up with all you people continually dissing the Q man? For the past (6?) years or so, this man has brought us a .280 avg and the ability two play 4 different positions well (2OF, 2IF) as a BACKUP player. On the most recent thread, after Q hit a triple, someone called him Q-suck. Disgraceful.
This guy only averages about 70 games a year and 180 ab’s. And yet he can still maintain a decent level of play (“oh, my Rivera is not getting enough at bats or he would be Babe Ruth”).
Q is a BACKUP. He is versatile. What the FUCK more do you want from a fucking backup player?
Angel Pitching, Angel Defense - get past that.
And he is a lifelong Angel.
Angel Pitching, Angel Defense - get past that.
by vladtheimpaler on Sep 13, 2008 2:26 AM PDT up reply actions
and I have saved up my "F" words for months
Angel Pitching, Angel Defense - get past that.
by vladtheimpaler on Sep 13, 2008 2:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Poor quality crowd last night...
only cheered when the scoreboard told them to and the 9:30 rule took effect in a big way (in a 3-3 ballgame, the place was vacated in massive numbers).
Thank you, Mike Napoli, for treating those of us who stayed behind to yet another Halos walkoff treat this year.
They didn’t vacate the cheap seats – packed thru the fireworks show…
by Rev Halofan on Sep 13, 2008 11:17 AM PDT up reply actions
Gotta get your moneys worth.
Driven into right-center field, Erstad says he has it...the Angels, world champions!

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