Vladimir Guerrero's 2 HR Deliver Angels 99th Win
by Rev Halofan on Sep 25, 2008 10:10 PM PDT
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PrintGet pumped. Win 1 game in the next 3 and the Los Angeles Angels have 100 wins and Home Field Advantage for the entire postseason.
Get pumped. Vladimir Guerrero is heating up. Mark Teixeira is heating up. Torii Hunter’s bat may be thawing. Mike Napoli knows when to at least put it in the air.
Get pumped. Scot Shields pitched a 1-2-3 inning. Jose Arredondo was shaky but managed, getting his 10th win, the SIXTH Angels pitcher to go double digits in victories this season.
In what might have been his final appearance as an Angel in 2008, Dustin Moseley pitched a serviceable 5 innings, giving up 2 in a difficult first inning and then kicking ass the rest of the way. A tip of the HALO to Dustin, who kept us in a few games this season with 2 wins to show for it. Not a bad return for Ramon Ortiz at the end of his line.
Get pumped. Howie Kendrick is getting his stroke back. Erick Aybar has his back and the glove is divine as well. With Chone Figgins as the weakest link offensively at least his glove at the hot corner is indisputably stellar.
Get pumped, because the mainstream media in Southern California will be too busy stroking Joe Torre, Frank McCourt and Manny Ramirez on a mediocre job undone to notice that the best team in baseball isn’t the one who backed into the playoffs after selling their farm.
Panther of the Game: Vladimir Guerrero
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props to moseley for not sucking
"Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."
Moseley definitely did not suck
Maybe he wants a playoff spot?
Driven into right-center field, Erstad says he has it...the Angels, world champions!
Vladdy was Panther tonight
1 win against the Rangers, and we’ve got the first 100 win Halos team!
Kotch would've had that.
go vladdy!!!
99…sweet
Still, I wish I was here
by adirondackangelfan on Sep 25, 2008 10:12 PM PDT reply actions
hahahaha
Torii, on base stealing: “I’m like a hyena! I always take advantage of chances like that!”
Kotch would've had that.
Am I the only one who noticed that Arredondo made off with his 10th W tonight?
*Visiting Angels fan* Never give up, never surrender!
Ninja'd. :P
*Visiting Angels fan* Never give up, never surrender!
by TheOptimist on Sep 25, 2008 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions
itchy and scratchy
In what might have been his final appearance as an Angel in 2008, Dustin Moseley itched a serviceable 5 innings
I do appreciate the relatively unseen way our team has gotten itself into the post-season.
Now if only opposing teams also underestimated our ability we’d be set for a great postseason.
Driven into right-center field, Erstad says he has it...the Angels, world champions!
Juan Rivera… will be playing, but GMJ is hitting pretty well the past couple of weeks 300+ avg; hud says JRivera will play this weekend.
Hud is ENTIRELY too happy … about Smashmouth being at Rally Monkay (misspell intended).
cranial flatulence.
losiento, senor quarenta y quatro fanatico.
by Downing Rules on Sep 26, 2008 12:26 PM PDT up reply actions
He gets goin' so fast sometimes...
One of these days he’s going to swallow his tongue.
; )
"i got 5ive on it"
big props to moseley... a lot of us bash him early and deservedly so...
but the last 3 starts he’s started slow and finished strong… with bulger and jepsen sort of floundering why not give moseley a spot on the postseason roster… long relief is probably going to be his best opportunity to succeed long term in the MLB
Krod save count (62) ... Rob's blinkie cup collection (8)
by BigBangRobbDawgg on Sep 25, 2008 10:36 PM PDT reply actions
oh and of course BIG VLADDY is panther
please PLEASE stay hot in october !!
Krod save count (62) ... Rob's blinkie cup collection (8)
by BigBangRobbDawgg on Sep 25, 2008 10:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Dodgers didn't sell the farm for Manny, or even really close
but I am still PUMPED for much of the above mentioned items, particularly Howie.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Sep 25, 2008 10:37 PM PDT reply actions
They certainly did not get him and Blake for free.
I thought they gave up a couple of nice prospects.
The Angels may have beat them 8 times in a row, but winning three before they do is all that matters.
They gave up solid, non-spectacular prospects from a relatively strong farm system
this wasn’t like A.J. for Liriano, Nathan, and Bosner, or Colon for Lee and Sizemore and Phillips.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Sep 26, 2008 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Just to make it clear though
I hate the Dodgers…but they got a pretty sweet hitter for relatively cheap. LaRoche is good, but he’ll never be great enough to justify him not being traded when Manny came along.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Sep 26, 2008 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Vladdy was pantheresque
and Napoli is on FIRE!
You ever feel as if your mind had started to erode?
a microcosm of the Dodgers' season...
they just celebrated clinching the division after LOSING to the Padres.
Kotch would've had that.
The Dodgers are 16 games back from being the best team in "LA"
Hooters anyone?
by Chone's Chonies on Sep 25, 2008 10:57 PM PDT reply actions
I dislike divisional formats
Dodgers shouldn’t even be in the playoffs as far as I’m concerned. Someone explain to me why it is that there are 4 teams that go to the playoffs in each league, and there are 7 teams in the National League alone that might finish with a better record than the Dodgers, and yet they get to go to the playoffs?
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Sep 25, 2008 11:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Because you play so many games against teams in your division...
If every team played an equal number of games against every other team, I’m with you.
Divisions with parity will produce teams with less wins from more talent, whereas a mediocre team in a crappy division could have a great record.
I’m ok with scrapping the divisions. They’d just have to even out all the games and lose the division rivalries. It would work, but I’m not sure if it would be as much fun.
That's what I thought...
Hank just likes to hear himself talk. Earth to Hank – there’s something to be said for change, but it’s worked this way for 108 years now.
I feel the need, the need...for speed!
Hank is a douchebag who brought it up when divisions cost his teams the playoffs
and who sat back and loved it when it helped him get in.
I’m just a fan who doesn’t see why your geographical locale should dictate playoff eligibility when there are teams that aren’t going to the playoffs who are better, and whose only flaw is playing at a physical point further to the east or west than their opponent
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Sep 26, 2008 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Did you dislike it in the 70's? and still dislike it now?
The Angels may have beat them 8 times in a row, but winning three before they do is all that matters.
Vlad is definitely POTG
And our line-up has been more than decent enough. Napoli, Tex, even HGH has been better of late. As for the Doyer talk, let it go. First round sweep, most likely, one first round win is probably there best case scenario.
YOU DON'T KNOW THE POWER OF THE DARKSIDE.....
Putz for Panther????
Show 'em your a panther... Show 'em what you can do....
by stuck in Romania on Sep 26, 2008 2:27 AM PDT reply actions
Let's hope Vladdy keeps it going
He’s been A-Rod-esque (Yankee version) in the playoffs.
I feel the need, the need...for speed!
Jose Canseco Homer?
Vlads homer last night was almost like the homer off of cansecos head
"Boy, did he drop a huge deuce in the stands!" (About a two-run homer)
Rex Hudler
by devildogamp on Sep 26, 2008 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions
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