FRIDAY ANGELS ROUNDUP: Juan Rivera is Hot, So Was Farrah

by WiHaloFan on Jun 26, 2009 6:52 AM PDT in News Comment 25 comments

02/02/47 - 06/25/09

Up next for Angels: Tonight at Arizona - Los Angeles Times
Jered Weaver vs. Billy Buckner

Angels-Diamondbacks Preview - FOX Sports on MSN
The Angels have built up baseball's best interleague record exclusively against the West, and they'll try to continue their dominance Friday night when they play the first of three against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field.

Angels' Juan Rivera is no longer left out - Los Angeles Times
The transformation from afterthought to solid defender and middle-of-the-order masher, it seems, required only a bigger role -- and a healthy leg.

Power Rankings - MLB - Yahoo! Sports
The Yankees, Brewers, Phillies, Rangers and Mets dip. The Cardinals get a boost along with Detroit (Angels moved up one spot to #9).

Watch out! Infielder Nick Green nearly impaled by flying bat shard - Big Legue Stew - Yahoo! Sports
And here's the video clip:
Baseball Video Highlights & Clips | BOS@WSH: Green avoids a broken bat - Video - MLB.com: Multimedia
06.24.09: Nick Green avoids a broken bat which prevented him from making the play

Pretty scary shit.

MLB All Star Game - CBSSports.com
CBSSports.com projects a 31-man All-Star roster for each league, including at least one representative from each team. The All-Star game is July 14 in St. Louis.

They project two Angels, Torii Hunter and Joe Saunders (what no Jered Weaver?)

Nine Seems Like a Common Number For The Angels - Bleacher Report
Here are five reasons why the number nine is significant for the Angels:

Ask Torii Hunter anything - FOX Sports on MSN
This week pregame host Chris Rose has attracted Los Angeles Angels centerfielder Torii Hunter as his guest. Email Chris Rose your MLB question for Torii Hunter and maybe he'll answer it during the MLB on FOX pregame show.

Should be pretty cool, Hunter gives good interview.

Figgins deserving of All-Star spot - angelsbaseball.com
The Angels' Chone Figgins' numbers clearly are All-Star caliber. He is tied for third in the AL in average (.330), fourth in runs scored (53) and steals (23) and fifth in hits (89).

For the over-40 guys out there, we lost a part of our youth:

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Did you have a Farrah Fawcett poster on your wall?

Yes

29 votes

No

54 votes

I would have if I was old enough

76 votes

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I have to admit I recognized MJ's talent

but I was not a big fan.

Ironically, at the time I DD NOT recognize Farrah’s acting talent, but I was a huge fan. She should so much strength, character and courage at the end of her life that it was almost ironic that she passed on the same day as Michael.

RIP Farrah.

This season just seems jinxed. If it can go wrong, it does

by Moondoggy on Jun 26, 2009 7:17 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Not to be a dick...

But these aren’t examples of irony.

But I get your point.

Apologies in advance.

by Red114 on Jun 26, 2009 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

you're not a dick

and I didn’t say it was ironic

This season just seems jinxed. If it can go wrong, it does

by Moondoggy on Jun 27, 2009 3:24 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

?

You used “irony” twice in your statement.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Jun 27, 2009 9:37 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Twice actually.

But more to the point-

Irony is the fact that Fawcett made a living being a hot piece of ass, and yet it was that same ass that caused her death.

Apologies in advance.

by Red114 on Jun 27, 2009 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Poor taste, yet ironic.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Jun 27, 2009 9:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I most certainly had a poster in my dorm room of Farrah..

…the same one shown above. If I didn’t, I could simply have gone to 3/4’s of the other guy’s dorm rooms to see it. Yep, she (and that poster) were that popular. Remember how many gals of the day had to have the same hair style? RIP Farrah.

I enjoyed MJ in the early to mid-80’s (Thriller years). But when he stated getting “weird”, I stopped paying attention. His “affection” for little boys was the last straw. I am disgusted by ANYONE that abuses children….pop starts, priests, on “regular” people. I can only hope there’s a special place in Hell for those that steal a child’s innocence for their own peculiar satisfaction. Sorry, but I cannot wish that he rest in peace.

by sothball on Jun 26, 2009 8:06 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

not to be a stickler, but in the intrests of fairness

he was never convicted…..course, neither was OJ

Get Aybar off this team. Now.

by HaloDutch on Jun 26, 2009 8:23 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Correct.

He had plenty of money to pay off his victims, and to threaten lawsuits against anyone that would speak openly about his “affection” for little boys.

by sothball on Jun 26, 2009 9:00 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Two icons, two deaths, too much.

Farrah, Fonzie, Vinnie Barbarino, and Pop Rocks. That was the mid-70s for me.

"We have a great closer, one of the best in the game, and I wouldn’t trade him for anyone else." (Matt Palmer, after the latest Fuentes meltdown)

by PieceOfAase on Jun 26, 2009 8:13 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

pop rocks up

Get Aybar off this team. Now.

by HaloDutch on Jun 26, 2009 8:15 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Really of topic, but my wife and I were talking about...

TV shows that defined the decade (Vinnie Barbarino reminded me of this):
70’s – M*A*S*H and Happy Days
80’s – Miami Vice
90’s – Friends and Seinfeld

Any others?

"I see great things in baseball. It's our game, the American game. It will repair our losses and be a blessing to us."

by WiHaloFan on Jun 26, 2009 9:31 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

90's I'd say The Simpsons

Whatever dude.

by Mayheminthehood on Jun 26, 2009 9:38 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

my list

Dominant Sitcom of Each Decade
50s: I Love Lucy
60s: My Three Sons
70s: Happy Days
80s: Cheers
90s: Simpsons
00s: No Idea

by Rev Halofan on Jun 26, 2009 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Cheers!

That’s the one I couldn’t think of.

by WiHaloFan on Jun 26, 2009 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

00s:

Sopranos.

Apologies in advance.

by Red114 on Jun 26, 2009 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

90's: Simpsons, Married with Children, Seinfeld

00’s: South Park

Angel Pitching (Adenhart), Angel Defense - get past that.

by vladtheimpaler on Jun 27, 2009 4:45 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Don't drink Coke with those Pop Rocks.

You know, that whole thing about Mikey.

by Fan Since 1981 on Jun 26, 2009 1:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I didn't have the poster

but I had the hairdo.

.... as sexy as socks on a rooster.

by opiejeanne on Jun 26, 2009 11:08 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Rangers pitchers and HBP

Ranger pitcher, Scott Feldman, hit D’backs outfielder, Eric Brynes, on the hand in the second inning of last night’s game. He broke his hand and Brynes will be out 4 – 8 weeks following surgery. We draw Vincente Padilla and Scott Feldman in the first two games of the next series with the Rangers.

I am the Iron Man

by 44FAN on Jun 26, 2009 12:09 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Oh great.

.... as sexy as socks on a rooster.

by opiejeanne on Jun 26, 2009 1:10 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Farrah on the wall? No, but

Jaclyn Smith in white bikini against blue background in 6th grade desk, yes.

Off the Wall + Thriller are forever classic, but as MJ went the Howard Hughes route (or maybe more apropos here, the Leonard Tose route) and then the allegations, it was difficult not to believe that there was some kind of inappropriate behavior and surely any adult taking advantage of any child in any way is UNFORGIVABLE. I did, however, also find it difficult not to be touched by Brian Oxman who, in a brief call to Biggsy, sounded about as lost and heartbroken as anybody I’ve ever heard on the radio…

by LUVtheLAA on Jun 26, 2009 2:20 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Brian Oxman was on every TV and Radio show in America yesterday......

Telling everyone Jackson died of every drug imaginable, when really he was making this all up just so he could pimp HIMSELF and his LAW PRACTICE on national television all day. He is no doctor, and had no contact with Jackson in his final days.

I am the Iron Man

by 44FAN on Jun 26, 2009 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs