Didn’t like him at first, but then he grew on me. That guy definitely has a way with words. And everything he said about last night was damn straight.

Look Angels won, so usually, fans just move on. Problem is Lackey is a free agent at the end of the year, and that is the confrontation.. Our last moments remember JL in an Angel uniform is the 7th inning .

Great point by Steve Hartment and former GM Bowden from the Natiionals. Hartment said, he could coach by the book like Sosh, any fan who really follows baseball can make that call. The great managers are the ones who coach on instinct and guy feel, I 100 percent agree.

Look, all year, I have bashed our manager for over managing, and relying on pitching counts. Adenharts awesome game, but to be pulled and pen blows game. Of course we have seen this all year with Lacky ahead, Weaver ahead and Saunders ahead. I will say this again, sometimes the best move a manager can make is the move he DOES not make.

What is so crushing on this and why all the ANgel fans cannot just say, look we won lets move on is because more and likely, we lost any hope of resigning Lackey, Could you imagine Lackey in a Dodger or Red Sux, Yankee Jersey next year? Texas sounds like a fit for him, but, the team is having financial troubles.

You do not have to agree with me thats fine, but I will ask this, does Lackey get the appreciation and respect from the Angel fans as he should? Next to Nolan Ryan, Lackey may be the best right hander ever to pich for the Halos.

FInally, What I have heard a lot today on radio is, stick with Lackey who won a game 7 World series as 22, lives for these moments and is in a contract year. Our manager picked 39 year old journey man. Yes, he has had a good year for his standards, but plan and simple, dont piss off your best pitcher, or player. Example Kobe Bryant. Can you see phil tell Kobe in the 4th with 2 minutes left of a tie game against the Celtics, your tired, you need to sit, we need fresh legs in and lets go to Sasha!!!! or Luke!!!

Who the hell would want to be a “clone” of an dirty goateed ass-clown like Jim Rome? His radio show is the Dungeons and Dragons of sports radio. I listen to five minutes of that show and I dont have a clue what the hell he is talking about because their is so much nerdy lingo that you only really get if you listen to the show everyday in its entirety.

Really, who follows and worships this guy? A bunch of geeks who spend their thoughts on trying to give Rome an erection from the perfect “smack.” I aint hating if you listen to it. Hell, I wonder what hes got to say about things every now and then but 90 percent of the time I dont know what he is talking about and get tired of his massive chest-pumping bravado when we all know hes just trying to make up for something…

He Rome, I see you grew some facial hair and put on some weight. Maybe you can actually take Jim Everett this time.

was capable of using enough Wikipedia to research who Connie Mack and Casey Stengel were, so that they could type those names into the teleprompter for Rome to recite.

Last year, we could second guess the squeeze call. This year we could question the Lackey call. And the Fuentes call. And other calls. I could question them, as well.

But all the Monday-morning quarterbacking only counts when we lose. These guys live by results, and they know it.

Do I think Lackey should’ve been pulled? Hell no. But that’s the way Scioscia works. Should he have put in Fuentes for Weaver? My gut says hell no. But Scioscia’s not going to mix up the pattern he’d constructed throughout the season. And he knows that if the Angels would’ve lost that game, there would’ve been a fucking shitstorm — that he would’ve had to face.

But it didn’t happen. The Angels got it done, and maybe some here think that happened despite him. But this blog has been a bitch-fest for results, so we should give Scioscia his props for his results so far.

Sorry I am old School when it comes to pitching. Having pitched minor league ball I may know something. Sosh was wrong! The five man rotation is wrong, and starting pitchers need to work longer into games and throw more pitches.

Think about it, back when you had four man rotations, you had maybe 1/80th of the arm injuries you have now, (okay slight exageration). You also had a lower payroll not having to carry extra pitchers who maybe pitched to the opponents top lefty, and got paid 2-5 million a year for it.

Let your pitchers work out of jams!