Mr. Lackey and The Gipper

it’s all about business……….at the end of the day……you dont get rewarded with juice boxes and cupcakes…….

You either win and stay on getting paid along the way…………or you lose……and find a new job……

I appreciate your sentiments though…….It’s obvious that you truly love the game, as do I….but I just dont get that emotionally invested anymore…..not with people who I barely know……….the tragedy of Nick Adenhart taught me that.

at least Lackey gave us game 7.

But Mr. Orange, you don’t like to boo? (tsk tsk – coming from a guy who lives near Philly) I agree with you though, it was highly doubtful Lackey was coming back.

That’s betrayal big time by Benedic Arnold Fishface

Lackey did what most people nowadays are doing. They take the large contract and leave the team that raised them for a contract. Hunter did it when he left the Minnesota Twins and I love the guy. I wish people could stay with the team that they gained fame with, but sadly things don’t go that way anymore. Reading the stories of lifelong franchise players makes me realize that baseball is becoming a game about money and not about the love of the game.

that evrytime I read a Hapyorange post I rest my chin between my thumb and my index finger and go, “hmmmm.”

Is it because he is intuitively wise or just wiser than me?

Just a FAN, baby…JUST A FAN!!!

I am in Cabo San Lucas for the next 45 days or so enjoying the start of my retirement and the Angel fans here are not surprised at all. I think that as we get older, we tend to accept bad news with a better Face than we are younger. Sometimes I yearn for that unbridled, let it all fly attitute. Its good!!! So, I say to all of my brothers and sistors at Halo Heaven…LET FLY!!!!! tell us all what you think!! Because when it’s all said and done, we are just a bunch of kids that refuse to grow up. We are a bunch of kids that don’t want our best friends in the neighborhood to move away. And lastly…We are all a bunch of KIDS!!!!!

Coming from you, That means alot!! I will miss my Angels, as I will be traveling and will no longer hold Season tickets for the first time since they played in L.A. I WILL alway be a part of Halo heaven though!! Thanks again!
“Hap”

hapyorange wrote a nice piece.

just dump him in the bucket of the other three that won a WS game for us, (along with Frankie and Donnelly) – that’s the ultimate bottom line and his only true legacy. I’ll fondly remeber him for that and be forever grateful. Its stops there.

But I now have no more, nor no less respect for him than Ramon Ortiz. To me, there’s really no difference between the two now.

But, after the turmoil of 2009, I thought Lackey might – if not give a home team discount – give his home grown team a “last look”…an opportunity to counter-offer.

Instead, it appears he left in a hissy fit, and was determined to sign with whatever team came up with the fastest, highest dollar contract regardless of any other considerations.

I didn’t expect it from Teixeira. He wasn’t a home grown talent. I really did expect this small tip of the cap from Lackey, a hearty “Thanks…but no thanks”. To me, THAT is what makes him appear to be an ungrateful, money-grubbing slug.

or ramblings of a lunatic.

either way… congratulations?

We’ll always have 2002. Every-time a series goes down to a 7th game, I’ll think of you. You were frustrating to watch in the beginning. I never knew what Lackey would show up to the game. I remember Scioscia having to talk to you to control your emotions on the mound. People wanted to demote you, but Mike pushed you in the direction you needed to go.

Some people gave you crap for your attitude, but I always loved it. I always knew this about you…you wanted the ball. You hated being pulled, you hated losing, and you always poured your heart out on the mound. I loved that about you.

Whenever the benches cleared, you were the one who was always pissed off and had to be held back. Jason Kendall & the A’s. That was a classic. Or how about the other one against the A’s where you gave up a double…and then threw a perfect game. Awesome. You were the ace we needed.

You finally carried us over the Red Sux in 09. But it hurts that in 09, you also left us for them. I don’t blame you, honestly I don’t. You earned your chance for a big contract and took it…but I threw up a little bit in my mouth when I saw you with that stupid looking B on your hat. It’s kinda like your wife leaving you for your worst enemy. My love is gone I tell myself, but it still hurts. I want you back. Why John, why? I might understand it on an intellectual level, but in my heart it is just wrong.