Favorite Non-Anaheim Moment
by lackey41 on Feb 24, 2009 8:43 PM PST
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PrintWell, this time of year is terribly slow for baseball, with spring training games just on the Horizon.
What a great time to ask you what your favorite baseball moment is outside of Angel Stadium (actually being there).
Mine actually happened in a trip up to San Francisco, on vacation with some of my family. Being the person I am, I knew that the Angels were in town, and persuaded my family to go. I even persuaded some Canadians that I didn't know to go. Anyway, I was in the ballpark of the A's, what a trashpit it was, and the Angels were tied with them in the 9th inning with k-rod on the mound. Jason Kendall was on first base and I believe it was a 1-2 count. K-Rod throws his nasty breaking ball that should have been called a strike and ended the game, umpire blows the call. K-rod is clearly disgusted and lets the umpire know. Whoever the catcher was at the time threw the ball back to K-rod, who was still pissed, and K-rod lazily drops the ball. Kendall seizes the opportunity and scores ending the game. Not exactly the brightest moment for Angels fans, but hilarious none the less.
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Sweep in Seattle
Opening Day victory on the road in 2004, watched them sweep a three-game series at Safeco – a good start to the season – saw Vlad’s first homer as an Angel, a great five-run comeback in the 3rd game to win it, met Kevin Gregg’s hippie mom out by the bullpen, a groovy time indeed!
going to a dodger game and NOT having to be called...
as a witness to a future murder trial.
I went to an A's game vs the Mariners.........on a school trip
Got to see Griffey play during the prime of his career and he hit a Ball farther that I’ve ever seen..and he barely swung…and it flew outta the park in a hurry………..I was already a fan of the guy…..but that hit cemented it…….
12/19/08 - Thank you KLJ for coming into my life.
by norcaliangelsfan on Feb 24, 2009 10:27 PM PST reply actions
Really? I hated him with the passion of a thousand burning suns
Have you seen Jim Abbot's Glove Switch? Holy crap.
i wanted to hate him..........i just cant
12/19/08 - Thank you KLJ for coming into my life.
by norcaliangelsfan on Feb 25, 2009 1:13 AM PST up reply actions
I like the guy.
He would always joke with the fans in center. How could you not like the guy?
I have nothing important to say.
Easy.
I took a Little League team to a day game against Seattle with Griffey roaming CF and our team out in the CF seats. Griffey was playing just below, and to our right.
First fly out to him he cadillaced the catch, barely bothering to be moved. He dropped the ball. My 10-year old kids got on him bad about fundamentals. He flipped them off.
Later same game a shot was hit over his head. He presumed it to be a home run, and did not even bother to move. He just turned to watch the ball go out. It didn’t. It hit the fence and came back to the outfield, which was when he finally flinched and went chasing after the ball to hold the Halo to a double. This time, as my kids gave him another razzing about fundamentals (thankfully) he just stood there facing the infield and did not respond.
Flipping off 10 year old kids. Really. And for effing up a showboat move. Class, real class.
You are kidding, right?
15 boys, 10 years old, teammates for a couple of months by this point. Hooked up together for 4 hours at the ballpark, including pre-game parade around the warning track and now loaded up with junk food. Caps on backwards, shirt tails pulled out, roaming the stands and concourse. Fart jokes, homo jokes, gross out contests.
And nowhere in that behavior can you find the prospect of yelling at the bad guys when they do something so stupid on the field that even THEY know better?
Mark McGwire
Saw him hit 2 HR’s at Doyer Stadium. One of them hit off the roof of the outfield pavillion.
Caught a home run ball at Milwaukee County Stadium in '90 by the A's Terry Steinbach
In the process of catching it, I slashed by shin down to the bone on the samurai sword-like metal bleacher benches. That damn ball wasn’t worth the 40 stitches; the Miller beer, however, helped numb the pain.
Saw a guy get nailed in the head with a foul ball at The Epicenter(the RC Quakes stadium, doncha know) because he had nachos in one hand, a beer in the other and couldnt decide which to sacrifice before the ball got there. I lauhed for 20 solid minutes.
Have you seen Jim Abbot's Glove Switch? Holy crap.
by HaloDutch on Feb 25, 2009 12:58 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
wonderful...
I just got the funniest picture of that happening…
Show 'em your a panther... Show 'em what you can do....
by stuck in Romania on Feb 25, 2009 7:48 AM PST up reply actions
The first two innings of a...
Diamondbacks v. Cardinals game circa 1999. Don’t remember much after that except that it was miserably hot outside.
since 1961
Father's Day couple years ago
Dodgers stadium. HGH hits ball to wall James Loney playing RF misplays it crashes into wall. HGH ends up with inside-the-park HR.
The sad part of mine is that I don't remember the game...
We were living in Bah-stin at the time — 1969, and went to the Bosox community pancake breakfast. I believe the game that day was vs. the Halos, but unforutnately, I don’t remember much of it at all.
Angels fan since '67
Weaver moving within one of Whitey Ford in Yankee Stadium
All the FAT educated Yankee fans thought Jeff was on the mound. It was great fun. I love that stadium.
I guess I already used my Manny bomb for the month?
Close second watching the Angels clinch in choakland of Fremont
I guess I already used my Manny bomb for the month?
2004 — I was there, too! Awesome day! We all partied above the dugout until security had to surround the halos fans and chase us out.
by Downing Rules on Feb 27, 2009 4:36 PM PST up reply actions
Nice. I was in the upperdeck. Bought my tickets day of.
I guess I already used my Manny bomb for the month?
I was just below the upper deck in LF … but, I marched down to the Halos dugout to join the rest of the Angels fans.
by Downing Rules on Mar 2, 2009 11:05 AM PST up reply actions
Nice. My friends are A's fans so I did not partake.
I was behind home, but way up high
I guess I already used my Manny bomb for the month?
Hmm well let's see..
I was there to see the Angels No-Hit the Dodgers and lose, I was at the NLCS game where the Dodgers were eliminated.
Without quesion I think my favorite non-Big A memory is the Coliseum Game last year. I was there for batting practice, there was a huge crowd in the field just beyond the right field fence waiting for Papi, and Youk hit like 5 moon shots, Blake Dewitt raked too. Plus the game itself was pretty cool.
Vin Scully was honered before the game and gave a speech. It was really cool to hear his voice over the loud speakers with 110K+ in attendance. A truly MOVING experience.
by MidwayCityLivestock on Feb 25, 2009 9:51 AM PST reply actions
First and only game at Wrigley
which my Grandfather took me to. It was when Sosa was in his prime, he hit three home runs that game.
That game was awesome.
I brought sexy back, but they only gave me store credit....
sosa in his prime?
so all roided out?
by BryanHarvey'sMoustache on Feb 25, 2009 10:10 PM PST up reply actions
Vlad crush a ball at Doyer Stadium.
Watching the Halos play at Fenway is up there, but Shields blew the game…
I have nothing important to say.
My wife and I were at Dodger Stadium for the '88 World Series to see ...
…Kirk Gibson’s home run in game 1. That remains the only World Series game either of us even attended.
Ninth inning win at an Astros game last year
The parents now live in Houston so we went to an Astros game versus the Cards. Which was weird because between both of them I think there were at least 5 former Angels.
So the game was really close with the Astros trailing most of the game. Behind me sat a bunch of Cardinals fans blabbing on about how Erstad was old and shit and how the Cards ruled. Well, with the parents living in Houston and Erstad a former angel I had to take sides, naturally.
Bottom of the ninth, the Astros come up one-run behind. They get a guy on and then Berkman comes up and launches one out of the park to win the game. So sweet. I turned around and laughed in the faces of the Cards fans…told them to take LaRussa and shove him up their ass…after all….he IS a former A’s coach.
BTW, in Houston, they sing “deep in the heart of texas” and “Take me out the ball game” in the seventh inning stretch. So weird to hear 40,000 people clap along to “Deep in the Heart of Texas”
by BryanHarvey'sMoustache on Feb 25, 2009 10:18 PM PST reply actions
They really sing that eh? I thought that was merely a joke in “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.”
by Downing Rules on Feb 27, 2009 4:37 PM PST up reply actions
When I was 12
I was a bat boy for the Arkansas Travelers, who are now the Angels AA team but they were the Card’s AA team at the time. It was a great time, but I really learned alot about how grown men act during a game. I had never heard so much swearing in my young life, I heard words I didn’t even know exsisted. (is that how you spell exsisted?)
existed
You must of added assisted to existed to get exsisted. Take away the assist and exist becomes an unassisted putout. If it is to the first baseman it is “3u” for those of you keeping score at home.
Is getting “exsisted” what happens as a result of a redneck divorce?
by Downing Rules on Mar 2, 2009 11:06 AM PST up reply actions
ARod is trying to get excysted
Is a redneck divorce done with a shotgun?
1963 World Series Game 4
My father and I went to Game 4 of the 1963 World Series. The pitching match-up was a battle of southpaws—Sandy Koufax vs Whitey Ford. The Chairman of the Board (Ford) pitched a 2-hitter and lost. Both hits were by Frank Howard, a 2nd inning pop-fly single in short left-center and a towering one-handed (there is a 1964 Topps baseball card to prove it!) 5th inning home run blast down the left field line that went directly over our 5th row field box seats in fair territory to land in the Loge level. That was the first home run to land in the second deck at Dodger Stadium.
Mickey Mantle homered to left-center off Koufax in the top of the 7th inning to tie the game. That was Mantle’s 15th career World Series home run. That tied Babe Ruth’s career World series home run record. In the bottom of the 7th inning Junior Gilliam led off with a bouncer to third base. Clete Boyer’s throw to first base was lost by Joe Pepitone. The ball bounded down the right field line in foul territory as Gilliam sped to 3rd base. Willie Davis followed with a sacrifice fly to centerfield.
Koufax survived a Bobby Richardson single and a Dick Tracewski error in the top of the 9th inning. Hector Lopez made the last out on a groundout to shortstop. The Dodgers had swept the Yankees four straight! Sweep! How sweet it is!
That was the last baseball game that President John F. Kennedy ever watched live on television. The date was October 6th, 1963.
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