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APRIL FOOLS: Flop 100 Angels: Steve FINLEY #3

#3 STEVE FINLEY - OF (2005)

When Steve Finley signed with the Angels, some of us were worried. But the team carried him on its back despite his "injury" aka his "birth certificate." The Angels won the West that season he was with them despite his playing in 120+ games with 45 of those games being ones in which he failed to even reach base.

What Steve Finley as an Angel meant to all of us was almost more important than his pathetic bottom feeding stats. Finley was a coming of age story... a realization that a 40-year old who had a consistent presence among baseball's most obvious roiding juicers was in fact a washed-up con man bent on cleaning out Arte's wallet, a man whose publicists made sure to emphasize a workout of agility to deflect attention from the incomprehensible senior citizen accomplishments of a heretofore mediocre outfielder suddenly made an All Star with healing crystals on the neck and rubber balls in the gym instead of weight benches.

 

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Happy April Fools Day everyone!

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Haha

Well played.

replacement level analysis

by 442 on Apr 1, 2009 2:03 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Not Shea Hillenbrand? Jeeeez.....

…I’m definitely quitting this blog.

I see red people

by The Limey on Apr 1, 2009 2:07 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

No Mo Vaughn?

Steve Finley was only the 2nd best.

by gilbert on Apr 1, 2009 2:13 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Mo's already on the list at 67 or so.

Shea’s gonna be #1.

Angels fan since '67

by red floyd on Apr 1, 2009 9:24 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Why not Gary Mathews Jr?

He’s an April Fool

"What the Angels need to do is figure out how to succeed in the post-season. That's the only thing missing for arguably the game's best-run franchise." - Tony DeMarco - NBC Sports

by VladdyG on Apr 1, 2009 2:27 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I knew what this was the second I saw it

And I still almost died laughing. I agree though that Hillenbrand could have been funnier.

by neochoa on Apr 1, 2009 2:46 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

That's Hillenbutt to you

This was funny, Shea would have been freakin hilarious.

by RallyMonkey5 on Apr 2, 2009 5:55 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I admit

I was thinking WTF?

GA GA he's the man, if he can't do it, no one can

by Moondoggy on Apr 1, 2009 3:03 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Hahaha!

good one… thanks for the laugh :)

Hud: "Get 'em on, Get 'em over, Get 'em in"

by HawaiiHaloFan35 on Apr 1, 2009 3:19 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Finally!

The Rev shows his humorous side. Well done.

Only on April fools day though.

Angel Pitching, Angel Defense - get past that.

by vladtheimpaler on Apr 1, 2009 3:50 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I was thinking...

this must be some mistake!

game time!

by haloforlife on Apr 1, 2009 6:05 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Nice.

~Till the Halo burns out...

by Zu Long on Apr 1, 2009 6:30 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Guy has a longer neck than Travis Barker

Only thing missing from that picture is his fake oversized check from Publishers Clearinghouse, or the pressroom backdrop from the California Lottery.

In the spirit of a fallen Nancy Kerrigan ……. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!

by PieceOfAase on Apr 1, 2009 7:25 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

that got me...

I fell off my chair

Vlad cheated me. I thought he was 12.

by vlad IS my man on Apr 1, 2009 7:26 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Had me for about 3 seconds.

Very nice. :)

Plugging the upside since 2006.
Never give up, never surrender!

by TheOptimist on Apr 1, 2009 8:21 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

well played...........

Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head on - Coach K

by norcaliangelsfan on Apr 1, 2009 8:47 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Classic

Thanks for the laugh on this April Fools…

Looking forward to a sweet 2009 Halo Season!

by P237 on Apr 1, 2009 8:52 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

awesome

I have nothing important to say.

by thrill000 on Apr 1, 2009 9:11 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

hahahaha

i was like.. what the hell?! how’s he gonna spin this one???

…nicely played, Rev.

Kotch would've had that.

by howiestheman on Apr 1, 2009 10:01 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Is it a bad sign

That I’m so cynical I thought “April Fool’s” right away? Pretty funny, though. I agree that Shea would have been a better choice, though.

by Brew Angel on Apr 1, 2009 10:01 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I thought I misread it

For sure I thought I was reading Chuck Finley when that first game up. Then when I realized it was Steve Finley the first thing I said to myself was, “This is a joke, right?”

by turs12 on Apr 1, 2009 10:18 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

#1 & 2

Shea Hillenbrand and Esteban Yan

by Neo8234 on Apr 1, 2009 10:31 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

#1 has to be Edgardo Alfonzo

He meant more than words to the ’06 squad.

by ReggieBullits on Apr 1, 2009 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Well played.

Captain, there are doubt's...

by Match Day 5 on Apr 1, 2009 11:27 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

LOL

Remember Tom Egan?

by Old_Ironside on Apr 1, 2009 11:56 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

well played sir

that was genius. I was laughing so hard i had a coughing fit

That'll only happen if that one prospect is the second coming of Christ and redemption for mankind can only be achieved by smacking many balls out of the yard.
-The Limey

by anaheim angels on Apr 1, 2009 6:40 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

nicely played

you had me till about halfway through

GO BRUINS!!!

by nselbe7 on Apr 1, 2009 6:44 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Wow, you really did get me there. I was like, “Okay… what the hell?”

Nobody cares about your opinion.

by brokenyard on Apr 1, 2009 6:55 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Seems about right....

If Darin ‘Worst Bat’ is in the top 10, why can’t Steve Finley be in the top 5?

by statlr on Apr 1, 2009 7:34 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Just Wondering

Why you didn’t have Bill Singer in the top 100? In 1973 he pitched 315 innings with 241 K’s and 20 wins. I know he didn’t have longevity. But there’s a lot of guys in the bottom 20 that had even less tenure. JMHO.

by Old_Ironside on Apr 1, 2009 8:47 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I had him somewhere between

90 – 110… his Kim Ng incident cost him here like 1919 cost Shoeless Joe in Cooperstown. Character counts.

by Rev Halofan on Apr 1, 2009 9:16 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Hooray!

Perhaps more effective if you’d praised him, but still very well played!

Light Up That Halo!

by Clutch on Apr 1, 2009 10:07 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Besides his lighting a stogie at the division clinching celebration ...

what is there to praise about him in a Halo’s uni? Nada.

Blogging is FUN!

by Downing Rules on Apr 2, 2009 7:51 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Dude, that was the point

Ex., Rev praising Finley in this post would have added to the WTF element and perhaps obscured the joke that much further…and made it that much more glorious. :-D See?

Light Up That Halo!

by Clutch on Apr 2, 2009 8:17 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

i agree

it was a last-second idea, i kinda whipped it out, i could have crafted it better had i thought it out more.

by Rev Halofan on Apr 2, 2009 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Eh!

It was great as is! But you know some of us readers, never completely satisfied…I kid, I kid. ;-D

Light Up That Halo!

by Clutch on Apr 3, 2009 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Ah, now I get your vague statement! ;)

Blogging is FUN!

by Downing Rules on Apr 3, 2009 7:28 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

;-D

Light Up That Halo!

by Clutch on Apr 3, 2009 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

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