I’m joining you in your optimism. As we celebrate the World Series victory, we will look back on game 2 and remember how low we were. Every great story needs a detour.

a post after my own heart…I am heading to the airport first thing in the morning to fly down and watch games 3-5 in Ana. Let’s win this thing! :D

I like seeing that some fans still have hope, I am getting tired of seeing posts from the nay-sayers. Being down 2-0 isn’t the end of the world. You can be sure that the Angels haven’t given up yet, and NEITHER SHOULD WE!

whether we win or lose the series i want us to fight hard. i just didn’t see that same fight we had in the bos series in game 1 of the ALCS or after fuentes blew the save last night. i was happy to see the yankees used every single pitcher in their pen last night. i hope that helps us in game 3. i am going to do my best to tone down my apocalyptic pessimism. this post has the perfect balance of optimism and realism for me to get on board. thank you.

A series isn’t won, as the 2004 ALCS showed, until one team has won four games. Just two years ago, the Indians had a 3-1 series lead against Boston and let it slip away. While being down 2-0 isn’t ideal, it’s certainly nothing worth panicking about.

As we showed in Boston just a week ago, with two outs and two strikes against us – not once, not twice, but THREE times – anybody can come back.

The Angels beat New York four straight earlier this year: May 2, then July 10,11, 12. It CAN be done. But yes, they need to play a little bit better.

Until the Yankees have gotten the last out of a fourth win, I will always believe there is a chance…

… I also believe we have not seen the Yankees play a quintessential Yankee game yet.

Ive avoided HH all day to keep from getting to depressed, but couldnt help myself. Nice to see Im not alone in thinking that our team can still win this thing. GO HALOS!!!

I admire your optimism, but in my opinion you have no chance. Good Luck! If we for some odd reason lose, then I’ll root for you in the WS. :P

If this series is really over, why do they bother having any more games?

Whatever happened to the old adage… “You haven’t really won until you win on the other guys field?”

The source of frustration – and optimism – is the Angels have only played about 2/3 of Angels baseball. The pitching has been pretty good, but defense has been poor at critical times, and the offense (hitting & base-running) has been a good cure for insomnia.

So, I remain part of the optimistic crowd. If the pitching remains decent, and if the defense reverts to seasonal form, and if the offense manages 4-6 runs a game, we still have a great chance to win this series. Yeah, that’s a lot of if’s…but far from the realm of the achievable.

one, no team has overcome the kind of adversity the angels did this year. game two’s loss was big but this team is better able to respond than most, if not all.

two, they didn’t have to play today and have three games at home in the warm california sun and not the cold and wet of new york. it’s no excuse for why they lost, but i have to think the conditions factored in why they played as poorly as they did.

three, i like the day game followed by a night game rather than a night game followed by a day game.

four, i like jered weaver in his game 3 matchup over andy pettite and john lackey over aj burnett in game 5. that leaves the critical game 4. given his performance in game one and just about the entire second half, you have to like cc against the angels, but scott kazmir matches up well with him and i have to think if cc is going to falter in this series (he’s due for a loss) it would be on three days rest and not his regular four.

five, i like brian fuentes, but really, really, really miss franky rodriguez. i’d even take kelvim escobar closing games about now.

“we’ll win with what we’ve got.”

one game at a time. one day at a time.

go halos!

Amazing post! Well-written, thoughtful and positive! Thanks MIKE!

… is the next game. The Angels don’t have to win 4 out of 5. They have to win the next game. Focus on winning the game in front of you.

We have always lost GM 1’s to the Yanks and come back to win the DS series. While the math is not 100% equal in a 7 game series, the concept is. We can easily come back in this thing if we take it one Win at a time. Let’s be honest, won’t you feel a million times better if you knew in advance that we would win today. This 1 game here is huge. The Yanks held serve at home and we gave them GM 2. We can hold serve at home and we can take 1 from NY. Calling all you Angels!!!!!!!!