I woke up today with all the hope that the Angels would make a late push and resign one of the faces of our franchise, John Lackey.  Needless to say, when I heard the early reports about him possibly signing with the Saux, I was pissed. 

 

To hear he finally signed with the Saux, I am truly, deeply saddened... he is one of the very few Angels players I am very upset at losing. I understand that baseball now is a business, but there are certain limits. There are certain players that you just begin to identify with your team, and Lackey was one of those guys. I loved that he never wanted to come out of games, that he always wanted to go out and compete. Most of all, I loved when he got pissed off that that he got pulled from a playoff game, and his reaction was "this one is mine"... I loved his competitiveness, which is what I love about just about every single Angel. This date rates only behind the Donnie Moore game for me in the worst in the history for Angels fans. Not only did we not resign our ace, we lost out on Halladay, and have no real viable top free agents to sign that can fill the gaps of a Lackey or Figgins...