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The Angel niche; come back, Dave Smith

An acquaintance in the East commented on our Angels recently with this: “They’re the worst of the contending teams.”

My response: “Really? Worse than the Twins, Tigers, Chisox, Yankees, Rays, Cards, Cubs, Astros, Brewers?”

No answer has been landed. Not while the Angels win every bloody day.

If the answer ever comes back yes, I say: Good.

Let the masses miss the Halo heat. The fewer the fans who catch on, the better. By the time they do, Anaheim will own a second championship.

Take 2002. That summer while the Angels played in Boston, I wrote a pal in D.C. about Troy Glaus’ greatness. My friend’s take: Who him?

After Glaus finished with 111 RBIs and the Angels their title, I didn’t bother asking my friend again. Didn’t matter.

Kinda like the stock market. When hardly anyone has heard of a company, that’s the one that rockets. If you check out STEC and FUQI, it’ll probably be the first time. Yet they’re scorching. By the time Main Street invests in them, Wall Street will have seriously cashed in.

So let most of baseball’s gazers wallow in all things Boston and Philly. I’m keeping my eye on the best ball.

Come in, Dave Smith. Two years ago he resurfaced on L.A. radio as the drive-time voice of KLAA. He gave the Angels’ station the edge it needed.

Now he’s gone. Smith turned into dead air this summer, and that’s a drag for these parts. He’s the self-professed Sports God for a reason. He’s been here all his life and shares a sharp passion for our teams that no other broadcaster matches.

I asked a few people connected to the Angels what happened. Was Dave fired? Where is he? No one is clear. Not even Smith, who has nothing on TheSportsGod.com about his whereabouts.

Come back, Dave. You were wrong about Mitch Kupcake. And wrong about running pitchers’ arms ragged. But you had a point about Sissy Vujacic. And it was tough to change the channel.

I have the perfect spot for Smith. 570 KLAC in the afternoon. Replace the screamers who turn their points into turbulence. Angel fans would stick with Jeff Biggs at KLAA. Aside from that, Smith would crush ESPN’s Mason and Ireland.

 

 

 

 

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I was just thinking that this morning

Somebody has to know what happened to Dave.

by Wytelitning on Aug 3, 2009 4:26 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I have read this about 30 times on HH in the past month...

Dave Smith was let go to cut costs. I never heard it directly, but saw it written here at least 2.5 dozens of times.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Aug 3, 2009 4:29 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Right

It was so reported on LARadio.com at the time, from a station press release.

by rspencer on Aug 3, 2009 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I'm tired of Roger Lodge

i don’t listen to KLAA in the mornings now. Smith wasn’t that good, but at least it limited Lodge.

i love listen on the way home from work. wish KLAA had some sports/angel talk during lunch.

loose cannons is the worst. even the improvement of no Vick — it’s still horrible.

Go Angels!

by Four Ts on Aug 3, 2009 4:55 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I'd love Dave Smith

on the mid day show on ESPN 710.

RIP Nick Adenhart 4/9/09

by Jay Cal on Aug 3, 2009 5:01 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Biggs is an asset

I live out of state, but when I get off of work I get on the internet and listen to The Drive.

Biggs tapped into a life long need the Angels had, an unabashedly enthusiastic, pro-Angel talk show host in the afternoon hours who lives and breathes Angel baseball. He has made club officials, players, ex-players, representatives of organized fan groups available to fans everywhere. I look forward to listening to Greg in Ventura and Mel in Fullerton every day.

The genie is out of the bottle. The Angels have great ownership and management, and Biggs has helped uncover that third great component from the underground, Angel Nation.

I don’t agree with everything Biggs says but fully acknowledge and appreciate his contributions.

Jeff Biggs comes in loud and clear here in Cajun Country!

by California Cajun on Aug 3, 2009 6:37 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I am a huge bigsy fan...

he’s got flaws but I feel as though he legitimately cares about this team and that’s all i can ask for

i listen most days and appreciate what he does

2009 Angels Season: Let's Do This For Nick

by trojanangelfan on Aug 4, 2009 12:27 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

570

It’s Fox Sports Radio. Nationally syndicated. Why in the world would they add Dave Smith?

by Sethy on Aug 3, 2009 9:29 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

WHOOOOOOOOOOO CARES...

also, what the hell is up with the post? Hey Bucky, why dont you stfu before jinxing everything and have to eat crow.

Live in the now…not the past or the future…THE NOW. Angels just swept the twinkies? Big Deal. Sox are next. One day at a time…like true Scioscia baseball…

Do it for Nick '09

by BryanHarvey'sMoustache on Aug 4, 2009 12:47 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Who Cares?

Dave Smith is gone BuckyFox, he is not coming back. Why don’t you just go bitch and moan about it on your own website and not here. Nobody here wants to listen to your aimless rambling any more.

Hey la, hey, Halo...

by 44FAN on Aug 4, 2009 2:36 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Is this the Dave Smith that people are excited about?

I have never heard this guy but have listened to Lodge and do not enjoy his program.

http://radio.sportingnews.com/shows/dave_smith/index.html

If this is the guy, there is a place on this site where you can find out if his current show is available in your area.

by California Cajun on Aug 4, 2009 8:19 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I think that is prior

to his days at AM830.

RIP Nick Adenhart 4/9/09

by Jay Cal on Aug 5, 2009 1:35 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

yawn

I appreciated his unapologetic love for the Halos, but he’s a pretty lousy radio personality. He tries way too hard to be over the top and his baseball IQ hasn’t evolved much since the 70s. I can see him in a supporting-cast type role, like when he was on the Sports Lodge (which isn’t all that great, either) but he struggles to carry a show by himself.

by dmhead on Aug 4, 2009 11:09 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Bucky obsesses with radio personalities

Tammy Bruce. She has her own show, but you don’t hear it. Why? She’s buried on Saturday afternoons on KABC in Los Angeles.

The only folks listening are crazies like me. And I’m crazy about Tammy. She’s the best. Period.

She takes tough political stands. And sells them with her brilliant overture.

Last year she nailed it. Debated a London lefty who wailed about Bush the butcher. Tammy could’ve sunk in this anti-W muck. Instead she threw it in the Brit’s face, saluting the president’s liberation of 53 million people.

Tammy has guts and a cool delivery. Then she visited my paper’s office last week, and wow. Is she hot. And lesbian, so there went that idea.

Still, I want to turn her on. On the radio, that is. And if she makes the right move and leaves tone-deaf KABC, which should have her on drive time, I’ll click on her Internet show.

By then, she’ll have plenty to cheer. Starting with the Lakers’ championship.

Hey la, hey, Halo...

by 44FAN on Aug 4, 2009 4:04 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I’m going to remember in the future to simply “pass” on clicking his FanPosts.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Aug 4, 2009 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Oh, that I could have the last five minutes of my life back...

Before I decided to wrestle and subsequently pin my better judgment to the mat. And now I fear that my resistance to any FuckyBox post is an exercise is futility, as I am strangely drawn to that which angers and baffles me.

My god hath truly forsaken me.

Apologies in advance.

by Red114 on Aug 4, 2009 5:15 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

dave smith

I think he is the best of sports talk in so cal. He knows hoops and baseball and speaks the truth, which gets him in trouble some times. Plus has a good sense of humor. I would switch back to listening to him and Colin Cowherd in the morning driving to work. Hope he lands somewhere, this stinks.

by Ca1IFORNIA ANGELS on Aug 4, 2009 5:33 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Colin Cowherd stinks!

One of those ESPN know-it-all talking heads.

Whether or not someone likes Biggs, he has succeeded in mobilizing the fan base and flooding the airwaves with Angels talk. A massive presence in the media is what the Angels need.

by California Cajun on Aug 6, 2009 1:34 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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