WEDNESDAY ANGELS ROUNDUP: Joe Saunders Is Back, Shane Loux Is Gone

by WiHaloFan on Aug 26, 2009 8:52 AM PDT in Angels News

Up next for Angels: Wednesday vs. Detroit -- latimes.com
Joe Saunders vs. Edwin Jackson

Detroit Tigers vs. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim - FOX Sports on MSN
Curtis Granderson and Placido Polanco hit back-to-back triples in the seventh inning, with Polanco driving in the go-ahead run.

Lackey doesn't have it in seventh inning as Angels lose -- latimes.com
The talk shows and the message boards (Halos Heaven) no doubt lighted up before the scoreboard did: Why did Mike Scioscia leave John Lackey in the game so long?

Tigers-Angels Preview - FOX Sports on MSN
The Tigers look to complete their first three-game road sweep of the Angels in 16 years when the two clubs meet again Wednesday.

Detroit vs. LA Angels - August 26, 2009 - MLB.com: Gameday
MLB.com Gameday Preview: Detroit vs. LA Angels - August 26, 2009

Team Reports - CBSSports.com
The Angels will take a three-game losing streak into Wednesday's game against the Tigers. The Angels are the only team in the majors that has yet to have a four-game losing streak this season. They have not been swept at home this season.

Loux designated for assignment - Angels Unplugged - Los Angeles Times
The Angels designated pitcher Shane Loux for assignment after Tuesday's game, clearing a roster spot for Joe Saunders.

It's All-Opinions day - Angels Unplugged - Los Angeles Times
So the Angels continue to sit there and do nothing, and the Boston Red Sox, with an already vastly superior bullpen, add Billy Wagner and his 96 mph fastball. Then, to help their rotation, they have Paul Byrd in the minors, getting ready for a September call up . . . The moral: Some teams keep trying to get better. Others don't . . .

Angels had interest in Wagner - angelsbaseball.com:
"I think what is more important is what our starting pitching does. If our starting pitching gets us deeper into games, we can set up the bullpen in a different way."

Torii Hunter’s Personal Miracle - WSJ.com
Torii Hunter was in for a surprise. Two days before Christmas 2005, his father gathered him and his three brothers together to tell them they had a half brother.

Can he pitch?

Is Troy Percival a Hall of Famer? - Bleacher Report
In Major League history, only seven pitchers rank ahead of Troy Percival on the all-time saves leader board.

Famous `Big A' getting much-needed makeover - LA Daily News
The famous "Big A" on the west side of the 57 freeway in the stadium's parking lot is in the early phases of an upgrade that is being paid for entirely with the team's money. When it's finished, the old one-color board, which hasn't been operational most of this year, will be replaced by a full-color high-definition video board similar to the one on the east side of the 57 freeway in the parking lot of the Honda Center.

WWL's EC bias: Confirmed! - Viva El Birdos
If that isn't proof of an East Coast bias, I don't know what is.

August 26 - BR Bullpen
Events, births and deaths that occurred on August 26.
1984 - In Anaheim, the Tigers use the long ball to beat the Angels, 12 - 6. Kirk Gibson has two homers and four runs scored, Marty Castillo, hits a homer and scores three times, and Chet Lemon belts his first grand slam ever. Tommy John goes just two 2/3 inning in losing to Milt Wilcox (15 - 7).

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No... but it would be nice, if he did make it because he would dawn the halo cap.

"I am not impressed by your per-formence!" -GSP

by KubanKowbell19 on Aug 26, 2009 9:19 AM PDT reply actions

Hahaha

“A giant crane is currently being used to assist workers who are applying a fresh coat of red paint to the 230-foot-high structure. The last paint job had faded to a dark shade of pink.
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I knew it!

W6G

by Figgi4life on Aug 26, 2009 9:31 AM PDT via mobile reply actions

I knew it was getting a paint job

I see the crane everytime i take the amtrak to work. My pop and I thought people were painting it

Aybar is a nowhere man, Sitting in his Nowhere Land, Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.

by princeton11loveshalos on Aug 26, 2009 10:14 AM PDT up reply actions

I could never understand...

why they didn’t just paint it already and/or fix the burnt out LED lights. it’s been that way for a few years now. I was starting to cringe every time I drove by or rode my bike past it on the river bike path.

The color of that thing was starting to look like the shade of this comment box. at least it wasn’t periwinkle. or eggplant.

"This is a guy who is a combination of great courage and, nuts!"- Steve Physioc

by Brian S (brianguy) on Aug 26, 2009 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions

Those would be some BIG LED’s…

This is old technology. You know, filaments and tubes? Parts were becoming scarce, from what I read.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Aug 26, 2009 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions

oh I see

Thanks.

I have stared at that thing from ground level and they sure looked like big LEDs from that vantage point. I don’t really know the age of the “halo” lighting system, only that the “A” was from the “Big A” scoreboard.

I did hear Arte on the radio this year say they wanted to get a “halo with lights that work” or something very close to that effect. though I couldn’t necessarily decipher exactly what that meant, or why it wouldn’t be easy to just refurbish the old one.

"This is a guy who is a combination of great courage and, nuts!"- Steve Physioc

by Brian S (brianguy) on Aug 26, 2009 5:01 PM PDT up reply actions

Obsolescence is a bitch when working with an electronic beast made in the 1960’s! ;)

I cannot wait to see the finished product. Moreno does things right, from what I have seen around the field.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Aug 26, 2009 5:19 PM PDT up reply actions

true true

on that note, I just want to know who pushes the button and how long it usually takes for them to “flip the switch” when the team is on the road and gets a victory. has anyone ever seen it come on that would know??

I drove by it last week during a roadie literally 2 minutes after a game ended and Rory declared it Just Another Halo Victory. it was not yet lit.

I live very close so I will have to test it one of these days with a stopwatch… LOL

"This is a guy who is a combination of great courage and, nuts!"- Steve Physioc

by Brian S (brianguy) on Aug 26, 2009 10:41 PM PDT up reply actions

I think Perci is an Angel HOFer

But not a MLB HOFer. If he’d been great with the Tigers or Cards then yeah. Only one decent year with the Rays. So only his Angel career was great. IMO.

W6G!

by Monkeyspanked on Aug 26, 2009 9:49 AM PDT reply actions