Freeway Series SPRING Game Thread
by Rev Halofan on Apr 2, 2009 7:00 PM PDT
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PrintANGELS @ DODGERS ... Random Song Lyrics:
People are crazy and times are strange
I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
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lineup
Figgins, 3B
Kendrick, 2B
Abreu, LF
Guerrero, RF ]
Hunter, CF
Morales, 1B
Aybar, E, SS
Mathis, C
Moseley, P
time to let the young guys show the world why we kept them!
oh bob saget! no matt brown
Vlad cheated me. I thought he was 12.
by vlad IS my man on Apr 2, 2009 7:30 PM PDT up reply actions
K looking for Figgy to leadoff
give me some brandon wood!
time to let the young guys show the world why we kept them!
that wasn't completely serious
by the way.. i like Figgy, i just like Wood better at this point..
time to let the young guys show the world why we kept them!
BB for HK47
this kids gonna be scary if he has figured out how to walk..
time to let the young guys show the world why we kept them!
How many times...
…will he remind us that this is an exhibition?
Anyone else noticing the weird double-pop of the pitch hitting the catcher’s glove? I’m hearing pop-pop on each taken pitch.
by LittleCupcakes on Apr 2, 2009 7:20 PM PDT up reply actions
those patches for preston
are pretty awesome as well..
time to let the young guys show the world why we kept them!
It was supposed to be on MLB network and had it set to tivo but now they have the
A/s Giants on MLB. Don’t get Kcal. Bummer
I am a fair weather fan so the Angels better win!
Moseley takes command......
Recipient of the 2008 "The Iron Man" award from scottnak of Halos Heaven!
i'm no Dodger lover..
..but that lineup looks pretty legit.
Freeway series this year?
time to let the young guys show the world why we kept them!
let's go halos!!!
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring".
Rogers Hornsby
KCAL spells Moseley's name wrong on the screen.
Recipient of the 2008 "The Iron Man" award from scottnak of Halos Heaven!
despite his jersey proving otherwise
i noticed too
by ihearhowie2.0 on Apr 2, 2009 7:22 PM PDT up reply actions
outta socal angel fan....
is their a gamecast that anyone knows about? im in vegas soi have no radio or video….
My cables MLB Network is showing the A's game.
Whatever dude.
by Mayheminthehood on Apr 2, 2009 7:27 PM PDT up reply actions
at least KCAL doesn't have "LAA" or "LAD" on top. I like "Angels" & "Dodgers"
It's a beautiful day for baseball.
but, don't know why, but i prefer LAA
Vlad cheated me. I thought he was 12.
by vlad IS my man on Apr 2, 2009 7:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Fan member live in wrong village for viewing match.
Recipient of the 2008 "The Iron Man" award from scottnak of Halos Heaven!
radio station
we have am 830 that i stream the radio broadcast off of… they are playing the ducks game right now… Do the dodgers have a flagship station i can try to stream off of?
He's definitely got a little Capt. in him...but in a ST game last week, he was talking to Hud and Phyz about how he's trying to add a little Kirby Puckett-ish leg kick. Seems to have helped so far, but ST is not Regular Season.
Whatever dude.
by Mayheminthehood on Apr 2, 2009 7:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Ha. "Mose"...anybody watch The Office? Dwight's cousin Mose...could be apt for Mosely
Whatever dude.
by Mayheminthehood on Apr 2, 2009 7:38 PM PDT up reply actions
well, i love the office.
anyway, mose is too country for mose, if you know what i mean
Vlad cheated me. I thought he was 12.
by vlad IS my man on Apr 2, 2009 7:40 PM PDT up reply actions
As per Gameday, Mose showing good velocity
Fastball is consistently in the 90-92 mph range. Last year his velocity was down due to the ulnar nerve surgery he had done in October 2007.
Ain't no stoppin' us now. We got the groove!!
Blake steals cheese from Moseley
Recipient of the 2008 "The Iron Man" award from scottnak of Halos Heaven!
Where'd everybody go?
Scully putting everybody to sleep? i’m getting close..
time to let the young guys show the world why we kept them!
He's putting me to sleep. I no like him.
He needs to be taken care of out in the woods, Miller’s Crossing style.
Whatever dude.
by Mayheminthehood on Apr 2, 2009 8:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Ease up on The Vin, guys.
It was HIS voice that carried the game into the present era. He had to message the game through pocket transistor radios. Now that we are in the podcast era, with chronic ADHD needs to be fed in a sport designed for spawning boredom, we should still respect the guys who carried the beer before us.
Different strokes, I guess
But if you hate on the Vin, you’re Just Plain Wrong.
Witty .sig goes here.
hating on vin
and falling asleep listening to him ramble are two different things..
time to let the young guys show the world why we kept them!
Being lulled into the quiet bliss of sleep is one thing.
Waking back up to complain to us about it is hatin’.
in all fairness
i never fell asleep. i’m just having trouble keeping my attention focused on the game..
time to let the young guys show the world why we kept them!
Stirrups...c'mon man.
I thought you were an Angels fan.
You’ve been on game threads before…yet you’re surprised about us HAVING to listen to Vin “please crush my” Scully?
Whatever dude.
by Mayheminthehood on Apr 2, 2009 8:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I grew up the only Halo fan among 9 other family members bleeding blue.
Tough years, man. Tough years. But I had to admit, most of the time the best brand of baseball came to me through the voice of Vin Scully.
As my co-screenwriter on Switch Hit, I will look past that.
Whatever dude.
by Mayheminthehood on Apr 2, 2009 9:04 PM PDT up reply actions
As long as he's humiliated somehow.
Whatever dude.
by Mayheminthehood on Apr 2, 2009 9:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I get it. I'm not an idiot....I GET IT.
But just like Chick Hearn…it’s better to burn out than to fade away.
Whatever dude.
by Mayheminthehood on Apr 2, 2009 8:34 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah, you old guys stick up for each other, don't you?
kisses hee hee hee
It's a beautiful day for baseball.
That's what I was gonna say...you know someones old when they say "everybody has ADHD nowadays"
No Country For Old Men
Whatever dude.
by Mayheminthehood on Apr 2, 2009 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions
No. No, no, no, no,noooooooooo....
Whatever dude.
by Mayheminthehood on Apr 2, 2009 8:52 PM PDT up reply actions
oh hell
it isn’t much to watch. Stirrups can kick my ass in the debate area any day. I just get my tiny jabs in every once in a while
It's a beautiful day for baseball.
...you're saying she goes down easy?
That is kinda rude.
by sothball on Apr 2, 2009 9:05 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
You missed my point.
We typed the word, and she evaporated.
You should have used IPA before I used B E E R.
Ladies and Germs...I present to you...MANNY...IN...A...CONTRACT YEAR!!!!!!!!
He actually trys.
Whatever dude.
Gotta love the Doyers' walk music
Except for the part where they don’t actually walk like men…
Light Up That Halo!
Doug's bat sniffing
almost puts Juan to shame.
If GA wasn't so Lazy, I'd have something clever here.
I still like my share of Izzy.
Queitly effective, while we keeping looking at all the bright, shiny prospects.
its the 5th inning
are the la fans still on their way? or have they just left already? lmao..
time to let the young guys show the world why we kept them!
Abreu looks like an old man carved into a pumpkin.
by Stirrups on Apr 2, 2009 8:44 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
and soooooooo it goooooooes
with maaaanny ramirez.. holy crap..
time to let the young guys show the world why we kept them!
We need some big hits now Angels.
Recipient of the 2008 "The Iron Man" award from scottnak of Halos Heaven!
that was
vintage vlad.. but hey, its still ST right?
time to let the young guys show the world why we kept them!
First Halo game on TV for me this year...
…and it looks pretty much like where we left off last year.
So what the hell was all that noise coming out of Tempe?
us beating the living daylight of inexpereinced retards who are drunk half the time they pitch
no examples, but main point is ST doesn’t matter AT ALL.
Vlad cheated me. I thought he was 12.
by vlad IS my man on Apr 2, 2009 9:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't even know you anymore.(throws expensive plate against the wall, dramatically)
Whatever dude.
by Mayheminthehood on Apr 2, 2009 9:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Considering your standing threat to drop more bombshell photos on our unsuspecting eyes...
that might not be such a bad exclamation to make in public well beforehand!
Well, this hasn't been good.
Fortunately, I’m here, and we can score now. :-P
~Till the Halo burns out...
Nuts.
Seems pretty familiar doesn’t it? We’ve put 10 men on base in 7 innings, but only one has crossed the plate.
~Till the Halo burns out...
Too quick to say after just one game.
They’ll get shut down every once in a while. It’s the nature of the game. Certainly one bad outing doesn’t outweigh everything they showed in Tempe.
~Till the Halo burns out...
Also, I said it nicer. :-P
And I’m better looking, so I can get away with more.
~Till the Halo burns out...
All offense to Scully fans
this guy is the most boring commentator around.
Honestly, if you replaced his actual VOICE with any other commentator in the world’s, and kept the EXACT things he was saying the same, and had people sit through the games, they would wonder who this dreary, boring, totally uninteresting dude is, and why he’s talking.
Really, there’s just nothing to his game calling right now, or in any game I’ve ever heard, that shows any greatness over a billion other guys. Most over-loved dude in baseball. He makes me yearn for my mattress.
Also, this is pretty clearly exhibition for the fans, too. Dodger fans clearly need practice recognizing the routine flyball. Then again, the same can be said in the 159th game of the year for them.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Apr 2, 2009 9:31 PM PDT reply actions
Do you believe that radical ideas threaten institutions, then become institutions, then reject those ideas that threaten institutions?
I'll agree with Stirrups here.
Scully is a creature from another era. I don’t believe he translates well to the current generation.
In terms of service time (whether you like him or not) It is remarkable that he started with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and shared broadcast time with Red Barber.
I don't question the astoundingness (did I make that word up?) of his tenure
but I flat out refuse to accept that my dislike of him is solely a product of my generation. Either that, or the previous generation just loved its tedious boredom.
He just doesn’t say anything interesting. I don’t have attention problems, I don’t need the bounciness of Rex and his inability to shut up…it’s just that his votes has this grating drone, monotone drone, and he rarely has anything to say that isn’t already grossly apparent. He gets caught up in his own little side stories about Scott Schoenweis’ testicles (yes, it really happened), and just finds an idea or theme and runs it into the ground over the course of a game.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Apr 2, 2009 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions
It's quite important to realize
not all people with ADD have ADHD.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Apr 2, 2009 9:48 PM PDT up reply actions
For example
I can get bored and phase out of a boring conversation.
But I probably won’t start chasing a poodle around my backyard after doing so.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Apr 2, 2009 9:50 PM PDT up reply actions
In fairness, I have not heard the vintage Vinny for over a decade now.
At one point, he conveyed boatloads of interesting material, insightful and educational and unique. And the clarity of his thought process was commanding. And, most famously, he knew when to shut up and when to paint the picture in a society dominated by radio and B&W TV. The soft, warm delivery created a perfect balance in compliment to the raw information that came your way. It was most obvious when Ross Porter would take over, and his gravelly voice hammered mind-numbing statistical minutae into your brain like an ice pick punched through the ear drum.
That Scully is gone forever. So, yeah, the integrity of his work would have been better preserved by checking out a while ago. Now all we get is the voice. And Schoenweis’ family jewelry.
The thing that I think gets me
is that he didn’t seem to age with the game. I’ve watched a few ESPN classic games with his call (most famously the ’86 World Series, game 6), and while he used to sorta fit, he just never moved on.
He seems sort of stuck in his older game…before big scouting reports, and sabrmetrics, and digital scoreboards, and corporate sponsorships, and 162 televised games a year, and live internet updates. He just wants to talk about little James Loney’s high school nicknames, and how many DINGERS we can expect Matt Kemp to hit this year. There’s so much advancement in baseball and the culture and technology surrounding baseball that he seems perfectly willing to neglect.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Apr 2, 2009 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
In his defense....
…after working at the same profession for 60+ years, you tend to stick with what works (at least in his mind). Which may add fuel to your general sentiment that his time has passed.
Fair point.
The vast majority of his career was when the ONLY data available to fans was the daily boxscores in the local paper. And for mid-west and east-coast fans boxscores for west coast games (and standings!) were two days out of date all season. Game recaps were usually two sentence paragraphs.
So, the most important thing to accomplish was to present the actionon the field, but you had to do it for huge numbers of fans who had very little practical information. Scully’s skill was the ability to put the knowledgeable and newbie fan into a virtual seat, inform them of the action occuring on teh field, allow them to celebrate the fan experience without interfering, and fill in the background of the sport and the personalities. And, as a wordsmith he had moments of sheer brilliance.
But, as you point out, over the past 30 years the information age has totally overwhelmed that previous definition of the most typical and common fan. We already know more raw infromation than Vin can cover in the game, and we proabbly have more current and accurate data on the baseball issues of the day. His craft did not remain out in front of us.
P.S. - it took me a few minutes, but I found it.
Before you listen to this, imagine yourself away from any broadband, any wireless, any cellphones. You are up in the mountains, deep in some remote wilderness. You and your buds have been up there for a week, and have lost touched with the daily information flow. That is about what it would take in the modern era to connect to the usual and customary of the 60’s and earlier.
So you and your buds are sitting around the campfire beers in one hand, cigars in the other. You are listening to the game. Pay attention to how Vin pulls you down from the mountain and parks you in Chavez Ravine, and then puts a knot in your stomach.
Listen here.
Facts. Play by play. Documentation. Atmosphere. Player background. Humanity. A masterfully detached presentation of the tension. In living color. Compared to what we get from Angel broadcasts, Scully was a Rembrandt while Phys is still mastering finger paints.
Way to stare Bobby.
Eventually the ball will just throw itself over the fence.
~Till the Halo burns out...
by Zu Long on Apr 2, 2009 9:36 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, it happened
and someone (probably Rev???) already updated my post to reflect it.
And yes, I’m pissed. We excel at wasting talent.
Nothing is more annoying than watching an entire Triple-A team full of major league ready talent grow older without getting a chance with the big club, or cashing in their value in a trade.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Apr 2, 2009 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, there IS one thing more annoying:
Waiting until that talent finally gets to the big leagues, parking them smack in teh middle of an already congested pipeline, and the waiting until they get to their walk year when it is too late to realize full trade value for them in the end. (Looking at you, Figgy.)
And then
having that same talent block the progress of yet MORE talent that was riding right behind him, waiting for his chance, as Figgy has done!
Now i’m catching on!
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Apr 2, 2009 9:50 PM PDT up reply actions
The problem is we have so many guys too good for AAA...
…but not quite talented or experienced for AAAA.
That's a good fit
because that entire franchise seems more or less stuck between AAA and MLB
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Apr 2, 2009 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Poor Buddy
I miss him.
But Butcher seems to be doing a fine job, himself. Maybe even a tad underrated.
Whoever the pitchers’ strength and conditioning coach is, however…different story.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Apr 2, 2009 10:11 PM PDT up reply actions
AAAA?
You mean the National League?
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Apr 2, 2009 10:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe we should make GMJ pitch mop up innings.
Couldn’t do any worse, and it might encourage the development of sufficient frustration to waive his NTC.
Every time someone uses "couldn't do any worse" and "GMJ" in the same sentence
the hair on my neck stands up.
~Till the Halo burns out...
Broxton just got ganked by a tiny strike zone.
Was it like that for Moseley earlier in the game?
~Till the Halo burns out...
Apparently GMJ doesn't want to play every day.
Driven into right-center field, Erstad says he has it...the Angels, world champions!
Especially since if they cared
they could have thrown out Figeroa on a ground ball to third like that.
~Till the Halo burns out...
Something oddly appropriate that
Quinlan strikes out. Again. Much like me a couple weekends ago. Heey-o!
Light Up That Halo!
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