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Jered Weaver Bests Avril Lavigne, Angels Top Blue Jays 8-1

Singer Avril Lavigne throws the game opening pitch as the Toronto Blue Jays take on the Los Angeles Angels during a baseball game in Toronto, Wednesday, June 3, 2009. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette)

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5 months ago: Singer Avril Lavigne throws the game opening pitch as the Toronto Blue Jays take on the Los Angeles Angels during a baseball game in Toronto, Wednesday, June 3, 2009. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette)

Final Score in Toronto: Angels 8, Blue Jays 1 ... and it really wasn't even THAT close.

Angels pitcher Jered Weaver has the haircut of a fan of hard rock, but he was not intimidated by the Canadian rockstar Avril Lavigne throwing out the first pitch on the 20th anniversary of the SkyDome. Weaver rocked the anniversary party with a career high 10 strikeouts. Meanwhile, former Angel Killer Casey Janssen could hardly manage his way thru the first inning, surrendering 3 runs on a night the Angels would collect 8 on a lucky 13 hits.

Bobby Abreu hit his 2nd HR of the year and also had a ground rule double that some hockey fans interfered with.

A day after getting 4 runs off of Roy Halladay, the Angels doubled that number against the merely mortal pitching staff. Chone Figgins was 3 for 5, Erick Aybar was 2 for 4 and each scored 2 runs.

FAN: Look, American past time offers us a free souvenir!

FAN 2: Forgive them please, barrister, the Stanley Cup will be in Detroit or Pittsburgh before the week is over and Montreal is bereft of its... how do you say, its club of the beisbol?

FAN 3: America has lost its general motors, soon it will be a colony of the hosers up here, eh? Hummer got bot by the Chinese today.

JEFF MATHIS: You mean my red neck owns a chinese export? Uh oh, hope I lose the poll on Halos Heaven...

Torii Hunter was given the night off, as was Mike Napoli, so loo for some fresh bats tomorrow morning at the ungodly hour of 9:35 AM Pacific time.

Poll
Panther of the Game
Boby Abreu
19 votes
Jered Weaver
242 votes

261 votes | Poll has closed

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looks like ole Avril is channeling Wakefield......

throwing the knuckler.

Godspeed Nick - RIP - 1986-2009

by norcaliangelsfan on Jun 3, 2009 6:47 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

canadian women...sigh

Driven into right-center field, Erstad says he has it...the Angels, world champions!

by teopeht on Jun 3, 2009 6:47 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

pamela anderson is canadian

Driven into right-center field, Erstad says he has it...the Angels, world champions!

by teopeht on Jun 3, 2009 6:51 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Hear hear

"I've got more action than my man John Woo
And I've got mad hits like I was Rod Carew" - Shure Shot, The Beastie Boys

by Zoe Necrosis on Jun 3, 2009 7:17 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Goodness

Avril Lavigne looks like a Banshee or a Succubus.

by 27up27down on Jun 3, 2009 6:48 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

unless there was more room on the floor.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Jun 3, 2009 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Bobby Win

I am the Iron Man

by 44FAN on Jun 3, 2009 6:51 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Lavigne

has better décolletage than Weaver.

Witty .sig goes here.

by scareduck on Jun 3, 2009 6:52 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Incredibly well-pitched game.

Congrats to Jered. It’s a shame we don’t have a lineup comprised entirely of Jered Weaver clones.

Let's win one for Nick

by moosemastr on Jun 3, 2009 6:53 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Whoops

Let's win one for Nick

by moosemastr on Jun 3, 2009 7:13 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Rotation is your friend.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Jun 3, 2009 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Win


Congrats to Weaver for another masterful outing.

by 27up27down on Jun 3, 2009 7:05 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

More Avril pics please

Oh, and uh…good game Weavs.

by ReggieBullits on Jun 3, 2009 7:17 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

In english...

…is Avril Lavigne like…April Levine?

It looks like she smeared black mascara from eyebrow to lower eyelid. Is that to be more..uh…mysterious or something like that?

I like the cleavage…

by sothball on Jun 3, 2009 7:49 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I missed the game due to being at work, but it looks like it was a good one.

I see Vlad hit a double…I’m hoping it looked good, good enough to think his power is still there.

Whatever dude.

by Mayheminthehood on Jun 3, 2009 7:51 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?

Weaver is the only option needed on this poll?

by Brody on Jun 3, 2009 7:53 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Weird Al: Constipated

instead of Complicated. Youtube it … it’s funny.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Jun 3, 2009 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Good suggestion

The song was funny for the first two verses. The decapitated part was weird….

by Brody on Jun 4, 2009 7:56 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Avril Lavigne

is almost as good as Justin Speier. Speier could conquer her ass any day since he’s a former U.S. marine.

by ttsec on Jun 3, 2009 8:07 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Speier is ex-USMC?

The amount of slack he gets from me just shot skyward.

Angels fan since '67

by red floyd on Jun 4, 2009 8:17 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

As Gary Wright would say, we climbed that Dream Weaver train and he got us through the night.

by rdf8585 on Jun 3, 2009 8:13 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Weaver is Panther

And quite possibly our best pitcher.

On a side note, I just got over a week with the flu. I said “Doc, this is killer, it must be a hybrid novel swine/bird flu, how long do I got?” He said, “It’s just a regular seasonal H1N1.”
I still don’t believe him. Although I am still alive (barely if you ask me).

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

by vladtheimpaler on Jun 4, 2009 1:37 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Impaled

By a microscopic strand(s) of RNA. I hate those things.

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

by vladtheimpaler on Jun 5, 2009 1:12 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

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