they can celebrate mediocrity and the fact that they’re barely over .500. screw them.

we’ll see what happens in a few weeks.

“One astute baseball observer, the columnist who types on Page 2 of this sports section, pointed to a reason for this. Speaking of various methods of inducing sleep before surgery, Page 2 typed, "Instead of anesthesia to put you to sleep, they have you listen to Mike Scioscia being interviewed.”

That means the Angels’ manager is boring. "

Poor Bill. He knows the people reading his article cannot use logical reasoning. Therefore he must spell out clever page 2 ESPN quotes to them, in hopes of his readers getting jokes.

Go blue?

Hey L.A. TIMES veteran writers:

“Tell me how my ass tastes!”

The only thing that makes me interested in the Dodgers is a potential freeway series. Other than they Dodger Blue is meh.

The Angels are so good that they have enveloped on themselves and have become irrelevant?

The Dodgers are relevant because they are trying to stay a few game above .500 and win the vaunted NL West.

I have been hanging and hoping the Times would right the ship…

Bill, if i may quote Duran Duran, “you smell like you sound”…

My LA Times subscription officially canceled.

Billy Ashley, with a close second vote nod too Todd Hollandsworth. Screw fire marshall Bill. Thanks to the Manny trade the Dodgers are a few games above .500, due to the Dodgers not hiring Soth, the Angels are once again AL West Champs, personally, I like the trade off.

Simers was let go by ESPN’s Around The Horn. When Max Kellerman hosted. How big of a jack ass do you have to be, to be fired by a Max Kellerman hosted program. Seriously, T.J.’s next gig might be with the San Bernardino County Sun, or The Californian(two sucky newspapers in the IE).

but how about that great signing of A. Jones and that deadline trade for G. Maddux (1-4 with 5.71 ERA) Nomar Hamm has been solid. Just love to see Bud Black and the Pad’s sink the Dodgers with the Giants being the dagger

but he’s in every way, 100% correct.

The Dodgers can, do, and in all likelihood generate more “buzz”, stimulate more anticipation, and generate more fans simply because of the location and the “history”, however disconnected it may be from the current incarnation of the team.

The Angels have a fantastic team for a relatively small, but loyal, fanbase. We are the chosen few, the derth and the diehard. We will not falter on a bandwagon team, but we also must realize that a bandwagon is good for this team. We need the flaky, puerile, bemused fans that will wander through the turn-styles and shout the glory of the team from somewhere beyond the back page of the newspaper.

The Dodgers are the big brother who burned out, but was there first. And we all know baseball is a game of seniority and tradition. So for better, worse, or Steve Physioc, this team is our bane, and our pleasure. This is our Angels baseball.

not really. Things change, the Dodgers aren’t what they use to be. WE are gaining notoriety. And with Moreno and Mike at the helm, the ’gers have an uphill struggle for years to come
to match the up and coming Angels.

left out the last line which sums up the entire article in our favor, folks…

It is late September, almost always Dodger time here. All eyes will be focused on Chavez Ravine. In this city, the Dodgers will have it all.

Just not the best team.

This whole piece is a commentary of the fact that the entire LA region has their head up their ass. They are so concerned about the Dodgers getting into the playoffs that they have lost site that the best team in baseball is 20 miles down the 5 in the OC.

I had the same reactions that all of you did until I got to the last line – it was all a rouse boys – he’s mocking the Dodgers and their fans, methinks.

However bad the Dodgers have been (and to tell the truth, they haven’t been THAT bad the last decade) it’ll take time for the Halos to truly sink in as having replaced them. Look at the progress we’ve already made. 7 years ago the Angels wouldn’t have even been mentioned in a column about the LA Dodgers. The fact that they feel there’s even a question of who’s getting more attention is such a huge step forward it boggles the mind.

And we still have all the cards. We have a great, veteran management team. We have the best owner in baseball. We have the happiest fans in baseball. We have a team with plenty of talent, much of it just now coming into it’s prime. We have an organization that values it’s former players. We’re only going to keep gaining ground. But it’s still gonna take time.

… from either ESPN the Magazine or Sports Illustraded (i forget which it was) after Fresno State won the College World Series: “Fresno State : 2009 NL West Champions”

the NL West is terrible. AAAA Baseball as far as Im concerned.

“Scioscia is not a Joe Namath-call-the-shot guy. He would rather you wake up the morning after he has beaten you and have you wonder what hit you.”

that we’re the second least liked team (behind Toronto); that Dodgers are the dominant team in the area; that nobody pays attention to us (a lawyer who was pitching for work today said, “oh, you’re an Angel fan. How’re they doing tthis year?” — no work for that guy — unless he gets me tickets in Wrigley for the series).

I like being in the minority and kicking ass. When I see all the fair weathered Yankee fans jumping ship, it makes me sick to my stomach.

Torborg was an import beer

is that we don’t suck enough to have to wait until the last 2 days of the season to determine whether or not we’re mediocre enough to make the playoffs in the worst division in baseball.

You’ll have to excuse me if I don’t give a shit.

because the Angels are making a move in the eyes of a lot of LA fans. will they take over LA’s love for the Dodgers? i don’t see it but there are a lot of people now claiming they like both teams. and now the generation is growing up in the current Halo run and seeing a quality brand of baseball.

as i have said before, i don’t HATE the dodgers. that’s a ton of baseball history there that you just have to admire. i only hate it when their fans can’t acknowledge that the Angels, born and raised in Los Angeles, are now a legit big market franchise being run like the dodgers used to be.

with all that said, it’s gonna be Cubs/Halos. :)

Was his father Elmer Fudd? Besides, after reading his (blog or whatever it is), it is obvious this guy takes the short bus to work everyday.

Therefore, I Hate, repeat, HATE the Dodger fans because they bleed Dodger piss

I work close to downtown LA & use light rail to get to work so I see a lot of people around here & on the way TO here & beleive me, there are MANY Angel fans in LA. First, Artie was smart enough to put 6’ × 4’ “A” with a HALO logos in hundreds of bus stations around here & on large bilboards. Second, I see numerous people EVERY day sporting Angels merchandise…T-shirts, hats etc. (I REALLY don’t think they’re all wearing it because they like the color “red” !!) I think that the dodger fans “bury their heads in the sand” when it comes to admitting how many people in LA ARE Angel fans!!