White Sox Full Moon Magic Eclipses Angels Momentum

by Rev Halofan on Aug 5, 2009 7:47 PM PDT in Postgame Report Comment 57 comments

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Sean O'Moonface did alright until he faced guys twice his age.

Final Score on the South Side of Chicago: Angels 2, Bad Bad Ozzie Guillen: 6

The White Sox had three homeruns and the Angels grounded into three double plays. End of necessary information about this game.

The Angels might have walked into Comiskular Park on Wednesday, but they crawled out, losing a Sean O'Sullivan start for the first time this season as well as surrendering the power in their bats in the face of adequate pitching. After two games of facing the White Sox in Chicago, Mike Scioscia can confidently call up Ron Gardenhire and say "Wow, you really have atrocious pitching..."

What can you do but tip your cap to some veterans who waited for a meaty pitch or two to do their damage. What is Sean-O supposed to do except rhetorically say "Hello, I am 21, Thome and Konerko have been playing this game longer than I have been alive and ... well ... her ya go bro, swing away..."

Meanwhile Gavin Floyd made sure the Angel bats produced pathetic squibbers with men on to yield three double plays and then humiliated Bobby Abreu's bat-on-the-shoulders strategy late in the game with men on base and the chance to get back into the game had arisen.

Well Wednesday bout an hour ago
Scioscia shootin' dice
And at the edge of the bar
Sat a girl named Victory
And ooh that girl looked nice
Well he cast his eyes upon her
And the trouble soon began
And MIke Scioscia learned a lesson
'bout messin with the wife of Ozzie Guillen

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Blame of the Game

Sean O'Sullivan

71 votes

Darren Oliver

143 votes

Bobby Abreu

26 votes

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Obama 6 Arte 2

BotG = All those crazy right wing extremist conservative wackjobs.

hahahahaha

When I'm not at the stadium, I'd rather be watching my Halos back in Costa Rica!

by Dono Romantico on Aug 5, 2009 7:49 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

damn those right wing extremist conservative wackjobs!

WE WILL WIN WITH WHAT WE GOT.
R.I.P. Nick Adenhart, Marquis Cooper, Steve McNair, and Frank Grimes, or Grimey, as he liked to be called

by JoseGuillenSux on Aug 5, 2009 8:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Go Oakland!

Angel Pitching, Angel Defense - get past that.

by vladtheimpaler on Aug 5, 2009 7:53 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

BOTG: Sean O

Expecting a no hitter. Bum.

Angel Pitching, Angel Defense - get past that.

by vladtheimpaler on Aug 5, 2009 7:59 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

rajai davis embarrassing the rangers

by Quinlan's Goofy Swing on Aug 5, 2009 8:03 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Hmmm....bats fall asleep...

today is made sense. Floyd looked good. Yesterday, I dunno what the hell our problem was…

Dont blame SOS…he did alright.

Do it for Nick '09

by BryanHarvey'sMoustache on Aug 5, 2009 8:14 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Floyd had some nasty nasty pitches tonight.

SOS was not bad at all.

TonZ-of-GunZ

by Funke5ive on Aug 5, 2009 11:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I missed most of the game

Can anyone provide me with a run-down of Vladdy’s at-bats? Did he shit himself w/ RISP? Is he batting well enough to be the clean up guy? I hope he isn’t ruining our mojo

NA 34

by blochead on Aug 5, 2009 8:15 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

it wasn't vladdy

it was everyone. Pink Floyd out up THE WALL on the mound tonight.

by Rev Halofan on Aug 5, 2009 8:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Please Angel's offense Don't Leave Me Now.

NA 34

by blochead on Aug 5, 2009 8:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

My rendition of the Wall

We don’t need no stupid blue jay
We don’t need no new relief
Not giving up on the postseason
Angels you are still the best to me
Hey Angels beat them stupid Sox
All in all we’ll win with what we got
All in all we’ll win with what we got

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

by princeton11loveshalos on Aug 5, 2009 8:32 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs

beautiful

Who goofed? I've got to know.

by hittheg on Aug 6, 2009 1:01 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Everyone has completely lost all momentum at the plate

Vlad swinging at every first pitch, every at bat, and making outs most of the time has taken any wind out of the sails.

DFA Vlad.

I brought sexy back, but they only gave me store credit....

by PhiSlamma on Aug 5, 2009 8:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

You blamin' me????

Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch

by red floyd on Aug 5, 2009 11:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

nope

there is no dark side of the moon. it is all dark…

by Rev Halofan on Aug 5, 2009 11:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Don't give me that do-goody-good bull. . .

[the AM version]

by rspencer on Aug 6, 2009 12:26 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Vlad

Is just killing this lineup. I love the guy but man he’s killing our mojo!!

First we had a Salmon and now we have a Trout, let's see the same results.

by angelskid2210 on Aug 5, 2009 8:35 PM PDT via mobile reply actions 0 recs

I wonder what our record w/o Vlad in the lineup is?

Is there anyway to check that? I know its not entirely his fault, but I’m looking for a scapegoat. Like PhiSlamma said The man swings at anything and everything regardless of the situation and these days more often than not he is making those rally killing outs.

NA 34

by blochead on Aug 5, 2009 8:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

the angels are 20-22

with Vladdy in the line up
just i read that in the preview on Yahoo sports

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

by princeton11loveshalos on Aug 5, 2009 8:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's gross.

I understand you’re paying him a ton of
money but when does it come down to winning. Vlad just isn’t the same as he is putting this lineup in some crappy mentality. Hopefully Soth figures it out soon.

First we had a Salmon and now we have a Trout, let's see the same results.

by angelskid2210 on Aug 5, 2009 8:59 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions 0 recs

he should be willing to swallow his pride and bat 7th, he is not a clean up hitter at this point

Angels in 09!

by tanana40 on Aug 5, 2009 9:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

True, but to be fair

He did make good contact tonight.

TonZ-of-GunZ

by Funke5ive on Aug 5, 2009 11:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

i think vlad should be in the lineup but I agree...

he should bat 5th or 6th. 7th? I dunno about that…he really shouldnt be picking up Abreu though. That is ridiculous.

Do it for Nick '09

by BryanHarvey'sMoustache on Aug 6, 2009 8:29 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

so lets see...If I did my maths right

The Angels are 43-20 without Vlad playing, but 2 games under .500 with him batting 3 or 4 hmmm interesting

NA 34

by blochead on Aug 5, 2009 8:52 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

you know if he twisted his knee running the bases tomorrow

I wouldn’t be THAT upset ;)

NA 34

by blochead on Aug 5, 2009 8:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I understand frustration but this post is just overboard, bloc.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Aug 5, 2009 9:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

i kid i kid :);):(

see what i did there

NA 34

by blochead on Aug 5, 2009 9:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

ah, the smily faces. My bad. ;)

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Aug 5, 2009 9:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

vlad is a liability right now. he’s been piss poor all year. he ain’t the vlad of years past and it is certainly showing. that being said, how nice of fuentes to instill confidence by giving up another homer. good thing it wasn’t a save situation.

by daze on Aug 5, 2009 8:58 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Windbag was my blame of the game.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Aug 5, 2009 9:05 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Breaking developments:

Adam Kennedy hit a 2-run bomb to put Oakland up 7 – 5 over the Rangers. woo hoo!

Tim Brown has a front-page story on Bobby Abreu at Yahoo sports.

Jeff Passan, also at yahoo sports has a feature that shows Jarrod Washburn as having the best fastball in the league … it is a feature that covers the baseball web sensation, Fangraphs. Take that whoever wrote that Fanpost about JWash.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Aug 5, 2009 9:19 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Go Oakland

7-5 Top 9. Hold on Oak Town.

by haloak on Aug 5, 2009 9:34 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Yikes...Ziegler in for a 6-out save.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Aug 5, 2009 9:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Whew...

so in spite of that turd of a game by our guys tonight, they didn’t lose any ground.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Aug 5, 2009 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

A's win

Still 4.5 UP

by haloak on Aug 5, 2009 9:38 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

A world without Vlad taking steroids is a world I don't want to live in.

What do you need a fancy suit for, Charlie, you ain't got no job to wear it to.

by clover_black on Aug 5, 2009 9:38 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

how about botg...

sosh

tonights lineup looked awful

vlad at 4?
aybar in front of napoli?

i personally like abreu as the #2 and if i could make the lineup it would be:
figgy
abreu
kendry
rivera (possibly flip him and kendry)
napoli
vlad
aybar
izzy
gmj

R.I.P. #34
R.I.P. JJ
W6G...Go Halos!!

by sctrojan13 on Aug 5, 2009 9:43 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Sox fan here, just wanted to say hello

You guys are like the Twins on speed and ‘roids. Just a monster lineup all around that gets on base and can run. Not a ton of power but who needs power when you’ve got so many guys that can get on and run.

I really wanted the Sox to sign Bobby this offseason, too bad it didn’t happen.

You ran into a a club that’s playing fairly well right now, and on the road that’s tough to beat.

In general though I like following the Angels success because along with the Sox you’re the team PECOTA can’t figure out. So congrats on that.

I hope we sweep you tomorrow and then you beat up on the Tigers, Twins, Yankees and Sawx, in that order.

Cya in the playoffs maybe.

by madvillian on Aug 5, 2009 9:44 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Nice Post...

The Angels and White Sox have a series here in Anaheim, 9/11, 9/12 and 9/13. So, I’ll let you have that sweep tomorrow if you promise me a returned favor in September. Deal? Good.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Aug 5, 2009 9:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Angels, Sox and Indians.

THIS STORY ONLY ENDS ONE WAY

by colintj on Aug 6, 2009 12:10 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

you're my favorite troll

respect for the enemy
love for your boys
post again tommorrow and in September

Who goofed? I've got to know.

by hittheg on Aug 6, 2009 1:14 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

You know how everyone has a subject or two that is so near to their hearts

that they are incapable of arguing about it rationally? I think Vlad is one of mine. I’ve gotta stop reading this post-game threads when we lose. Just bums me out.

by OntariGro on Aug 5, 2009 9:44 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

+1 bro

Vlad is just about my favorite player of all time and I cannot even turn the reason button on against calls for his head…

by Rev Halofan on Aug 5, 2009 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Vlad

He was starting to heat up before he got hurt this last time. I don’t think he is done by any means.

by haloak on Aug 5, 2009 10:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

i dont know if anyone thinks he is done

i just think most people including myself think he is done being the vlad we have come to love over the past few years

R.I.P. #34
R.I.P. JJ
W6G...Go Halos!!

by sctrojan13 on Aug 5, 2009 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I though getting his knees fixed would fix everything.

I hope he comes back next season.

*Ade-Rock 34*

by TheTypingFiend on Aug 5, 2009 10:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

i dont

R.I.P. #34
R.I.P. JJ
W6G...Go Halos!!

by sctrojan13 on Aug 5, 2009 10:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I do, but at $5M per year for only two years, max.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Aug 6, 2009 10:13 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

thought?

Clean it up!

by haloak on Aug 6, 2009 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Just bat Vlad 7th

All is well

Batting him cleanup in a lineup that is significantly better without him is so outlandish it hurts my brain

I brought sexy back, but they only gave me store credit....

by PhiSlamma on Aug 5, 2009 11:11 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

For WiHaloFan

For this game or tomorrows game — you need to do “Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown”.

Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch

by red floyd on Aug 5, 2009 11:18 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I like Vlad...

when he’s NOT batting clean-up. When he was out, that’s when the pieces finally fell into place for the offense. Scioscia should know better than to try to force things back to the way they were before. Man I hope they don’t wind up getting swept as a result. I know Abreu won’t be too happy about that, lol.
>;-)

by rosinbag42 on Aug 6, 2009 2:53 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

What have you done for me lately?

Earn your spot in the line-up. I’m sure it’s Scoscia not Vlad.

Who goofed? I've got to know.

by hittheg on Aug 6, 2009 3:07 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

if i may reply to my own post

Vlad is a special player.
He’s already earned it.
Shut-up dumbass.
Please pardon my schitzofrenia,
and my poor spelling abilities.

Who goofed? I've got to know.

by hittheg on Aug 6, 2009 3:18 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not this year he hasn't

Look at the stats and get off the crack
Just because you post like this
Does not save you from smack
Learn how to post normally
And how a team works
Because even if you post in rhyme
You are still wrong and must till lurk.

I brought sexy back, but they only gave me store credit....

by PhiSlamma on Aug 6, 2009 4:03 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs