APRIL FOOLS: Flop 100 Angels: Steve FINLEY #3
by Rev Halofan on Apr 1, 2009 2:00 AM PDT
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#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.
Happy April Fools Day everyone!
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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
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.
Finally!
The Rev shows his humorous side. Well done.
Only on April fools day though.
Angel Pitching, Angel Defense - get past that.
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!!!!!
Had me for about 3 seconds.
Very nice. :)
Plugging the upside since 2006.
Never give up, never surrender!
dirty blond
just wanted to see which sucker thought they had to explain it me
…but you picked my hook clean
well played...........
Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head on - Coach K
by norcaliangelsfan on Apr 1, 2009 8:47 AM PDT reply actions
hahahaha
i was like.. what the hell?! how’s he gonna spin this one???
…nicely played, Rev.
Kotch would've had that.
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.
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?”
#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
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
nicely played
you had me till about halfway through
GO BRUINS!!!
Seems about right....
If Darin ‘Worst Bat’ is in the top 10, why can’t Steve Finley be in the top 5?
If Erstad's only seaosn here had been 2000
He would have been in the Top 50. Add in his solid 98 and 99. Then look at the angels flyball-heavy pitching staff in 2002 and corelate to Darin’s year in CF, one of the ten best seasons by a CFer in history. Then throw in a bunch of counting stats and the fact that he is the only player to ever win a gold glove in the OF and IF.
Okay right there he has GOT to be in the Top 20. Than you just have to start picking off reasons why he ranks ahead of ten other guys.
by Rev Halofan on Apr 1, 2009 8:12 PM PDT up reply actions 2 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.
I had him somewhere between
90 – 110… his Kim Ng incident cost him here like 1919 cost Shoeless Joe in Cooperstown. Character counts.
Hooray!
Perhaps more effective if you’d praised him, but still very well played!
Light Up That Halo!
Besides his lighting a stogie at the division clinching celebration ...
what is there to praise about him in a Halo’s uni? Nada.
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by Downing Rules on Apr 2, 2009 7:51 AM PDT up reply actions
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!
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.
Ah, now I get your vague statement! ;)
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by Downing Rules on Apr 3, 2009 7:28 AM PDT up reply actions
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