From the bottom of my heart, thanks everyone.

by AlanFalcon on Oct 25, 2009 9:59 PM PDT Comment 41 comments

Sincerely: Thanks, everyone. I discovered this site during Spring Training and never felt more involved with the team ever since. I finally joined up on April 7th, figuring that with the season beginning I could add my voice to the fray.

Then tragedy struck, and boy it struck hard, deeply and personally. Rev, your Adenhart memorial post remains the most beautiful and eloquent thing I've read on the subject to this day. You guys, you helped me process my own emotions, and my own reaction to Nick's death. I wish I knew better how to express how much this helped me, but words fail here and so I can't even try.

There have been optimists and pessimists and everything between, and together as a community you always made me feel like a part of something, like my fandom connects on a deeper level than just myself on my couch watching a game, or at a game, cheering my team. When the team was down, you helped me see hope, and when the team was up, you helped me fully enjoy every moment to its fullest.

There have been very intellectual posts which have helped me see the game in a new light, as well as analysis and opinion slinging which all helped me feel more connected to this game. I've never had such a deep understanding of this team's history or even the history of baseball as I've been exposed to here. How much richer my appreciation of the game is now!

I had a wonderful opportunity to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before an Angels game, and I got some great advice, and great encouragement from all of you that helped me make the most of the experience. Not to mention some awesome HH T-shirts, one of which I have been wearing all day, and one of which I got to wear on the mound of Angels Stadium.

We have a great team, and what's more we have a great community. I hope you cherish both. I do. I do so much.

This Fan-Post is authored by an independent fan. Tell us what you think and how you feel.

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Yo Alan!

Thanks for coming out to our game today! I formed our particular league so that we could not just watch but experience the grand game, and you exemplified all that I want out of an amateur ball player.

I’ll email you when it’s time to get the 2010 season rolling – in the mean time, feel free to recruit. Dom is seriously working on a plan to revive the Beer and Whiskey League tradition, and have a wood cask at third. As incentive.

Cheers!

"Death to the opposition!" - Commander Worf, First Baseman: The Niners

by Zoe Necrosis on Oct 25, 2009 10:06 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Hey Zoe!

I gotta tell you that today’s game totally helped numb my body (“Exercise? What are you doing to me!!!”) that it probably helped kept me from breaking something in my house during game six! I had a real blast, and I regret that I couldn’t make it to Trainwreck. Looking forward to the 2010 season! Of both the Angels and Gothball, that is! Thanks again for the invite, and for the chance to experience the grand game!

Rest in piece Nick, Courtney, and Henry. To the 2009 Angels: I love you all. Thanks for a ride every bit as enjoyable and entertaining as 2002.

by AlanFalcon on Oct 26, 2009 8:43 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I didn't cry when we lost.

But I cried when I read that. Thanks.

by Rev Halofan on Oct 25, 2009 10:07 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I concur

This season was the biggest emotional rollercoaster, and I’m thankful that HH and everyone in the community was around during the roughest parts of it.

Thank you all, looking forward to another exciting offseason.

by Neo8234 on Oct 25, 2009 10:07 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Here here Alan!

by TheAntiSox on Oct 25, 2009 10:14 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Very nice post.

The 2009 Pregame Picks Winner and Iron Man of Halos Heaven.com

by 44FAN on Oct 25, 2009 10:57 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Thank You Alan

You’re a gentleman and this is a touching post.

by Jack Frost on Oct 25, 2009 11:05 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Cheers!!!

"Figgins' OBP is still over 40!" -Steve Physioc

by Figgi4life on Oct 25, 2009 11:23 PM PDT via mobile reply actions 0 recs

This reminded me

that we have something special here at halos heaven. we have one of the most unique and solid communities i have ever seen on the internet. we grow with the success of the halos, but are unified during the hard times. being an angels fan is NOT easy. we don’t have a plethora of championships, fair media coverage, or a “nation.” visiting this site reminds me that there are others who have the intestinal fortitude to be fAn strong. after the team comes up short, it’s easy to hang your angels hat. you all remind me that true fans fly flags year round. be proud of our team!

Chili Davis - the closest thing the MLB got to a real life Pedro Cerrano.

by NW angels Fan on Oct 25, 2009 11:32 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Great post. Nice to meet you here.

THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!

by opiejeanne on Oct 26, 2009 12:17 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I love this site

I’m kind of a dork here, but I don’t care. Those who don’t like me are my brothers. Our ultimate goal is the same. Angel baseball, Angel wins are the goal here. In the 80’s – 90’s I would bang on the ceiling with a broom from the livingroom while my dad would bang on the floor with his cane from his bedroom when the Angels did something well. This site has brought much of that back.

Well, brothers and sisters, lets begin again in April.

Who goofed? I've got to know.

by hittheg on Oct 26, 2009 2:28 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I totally understand where you're coming from...

…your comments summon many old memories, like one as a young child of “hiking” into Dodger Stadium to see Angel baseball. We were “hiking” ‘cause my Dad didn’t want to give O’Malley any more of his money than he absolutely had to ( I still hope to some day include this and other stories in an HH Father’s Day special on the…um…unique character of my Dad). Pay for parking? “Screw that bastard! We’ll park outside the stadium and walk”.

So, keep recalling those memories of exchanging ceiling/floor communications with your father, and more. It’s all good. Some may consider it dorkish. They may have cause to reconsider as time passes, as significant members of their family pass on, as they have an expanded collection of memories from which to cultivate.

by sothball on Oct 26, 2009 8:06 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

your memories of your dad

are a crack up. Too bad that his may be fading, but yours are priceless.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.

by Moondoggy on Oct 26, 2009 8:13 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thanks for the kind words. He was quite a character.

To clarify, Dad died in 1990. My Mom is in mid to later stages of Alzheimer’s Disease. For her, I am attending the Alzheimer’s Walk here this coming Sunday (11/1).

by sothball on Oct 26, 2009 8:32 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

my mix up

God bless your mother and have a good time at the walk

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.

by Moondoggy on Oct 26, 2009 8:37 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

No problem.

by sothball on Oct 26, 2009 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Alan, thank you

for sharing your first pitch experience with us and making us feel connected with that. It was like having a member of my family doing it. Not sure wht I should have felt so proud, but I did.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.

by Moondoggy on Oct 26, 2009 6:30 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

HH really is enjoyable and quite possibly addictive.

I found it in April 2008, but didn’t start posting until August, 2008. First I couldn’t think of anything to write, now I can’t shut-up.

So, the season is over. What now? Well among other things, it’s time for management to make some critical decisons, for some key players to ponder their futures, and for the rest of us HH’ers to agonize, sermonize, and ultimately realize that this was a special group (players, coaches, management) in a remarkably poignant year. In so many ways, it really WAS a year beyond baseball. I look forward to Spring Training, 2010, but I can’t possibly imagine a more memorable year.

#34

by sothball on Oct 26, 2009 8:14 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

beyond baseball

catchy. yes, we should make into a slogan of some kind.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.

by Moondoggy on Oct 26, 2009 8:23 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

hah

by cath619 on Oct 26, 2009 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I caught myself about to use that phrase last night so I won't laugh too hard. I was tired, that's my excuse.

It doesn’t sound so bad the way he uses it there, but it would have been totally sappy if I had used it last night.

THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!

by opiejeanne on Oct 26, 2009 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

hell of a season

hell of a blog

Member, Maicer Izturis Appreciation Society

by HaloDutch on Oct 26, 2009 9:29 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

this blog is now the ultimate power of the universe

by SCHalo on Oct 26, 2009 10:56 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

130 days to the first Spring Training game against Oakland!!

goooooo hAlos!!!

by ladybug on Oct 26, 2009 12:59 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Hey girlfriend!

Do we feel any better after last night? I do, but I didn’t sleep too well because of nightmares about baseball.

It would be fun to put together a group from HH to go to that opening game.

THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!

by opiejeanne on Oct 26, 2009 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

sounds like a plan!!

by ladybug on Oct 26, 2009 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

We'll keep it in mind and pester the boys about it in a couple of months.

THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!

by opiejeanne on Oct 26, 2009 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think it's tough to get large quantities of decent tickets to the opener...

But if this can be pulled off, I can’t imagine missing it!

And I suppose we don’t exactly need decent seats, sweet as it would be. It could be cool to have all of us in the outfield chanting “WE FLY FLAGS” right next to our boys.

Rest in piece Nick, Courtney, and Henry. To the 2009 Angels: I love you all. Thanks for a ride every bit as enjoyable and entertaining as 2002.

by AlanFalcon on Oct 26, 2009 5:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I thought Opie and Lady were talking about "opening" game in Spring Training.

But, that would be cool to get a quantity in P257 to see the flag raised. I’d like to get to the point where only AL pennants will be flown, but hey, I like me some division title flags in the meantime. Another decade of the Soth, though, and we will have like 10 flagpoles littered with division title flags. ;)

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Oct 26, 2009 5:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

We were talking about the first Spring Training Game; probably easier to get a bunch of tickets close together for that.

A bloc (or is it block?) of tickets for the Season Opener sounds really great. I wonder how hard it would be to find enough close together.

THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!

by opiejeanne on Oct 26, 2009 5:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

If it can be done...

P257 is the place right next to the flag poles and is a normal “group sales” section. The group tix sales number I have called in the past is (714) 940-2074.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Oct 26, 2009 5:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That would be cool.... to do a HH group sales for the opener.

Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch

by red floyd on Oct 26, 2009 8:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

My wife is a tenative yes, and I'm in.

And I have two friends who went to opening day this year with me and I’m pretty sure they’d want to join in too. I could probably convince a couple more newish Angels fans to join too if the price was right. So that’s at least 4 right there. What’s the minimum for group ticket sales?

Rest in piece Nick, Courtney, and Henry. To the 2009 Angels: I love you all. Thanks for a ride every bit as enjoyable and entertaining as 2002.

by AlanFalcon on Oct 26, 2009 9:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

To answer my own questions... For section 257 group rates:

Seems like this year it would require 25 or more people at $25 per person, which includes two games. Kind of strange, but not horrible. We could all pick a date in September for the second semi annual Great Get Together and see if we can’t watch them clinch another division title!

Rest in piece Nick, Courtney, and Henry. To the 2009 Angels: I love you all. Thanks for a ride every bit as enjoyable and entertaining as 2002.

by AlanFalcon on Oct 26, 2009 9:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

$25?

Group tickets are at HALF FACE. So, a P257 seat is a mere $21 (2009 pricing, $14 on non-premium days), bringing the price down to $10.50 each ($7ea non-premium) when bought for a group of 25 or more. The “premium” dates (what the team calls “Tier 2”) are opening day, Red Sox, Yankees, Dodgers and July 04.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Oct 27, 2009 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

This year there are seven tiers of group ticket prices.

http://mlb.mlb.com/ana/ticketing/group_tickets.jsp

I could swear that last night when I looked, there was pricing information for “Grand Slam” games, but today it only shows Home Run games. So I completely confused. Probably one of us should call. :-)

Rest in piece Nick, Courtney, and Henry. To the 2009 Angels: I love you all. Thanks for a ride every bit as enjoyable and entertaining as 2002.

by AlanFalcon on Oct 27, 2009 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs