Roger Lodge Hated by Angel Fan Faithful

As much as I want to like KLAA, I have to turn the dial every time I hear his voice. Seems like he’s shouting all the time.

I know its for a good cause but its the same thing over and over again.

And his show is trash.

No Rodger Lodge haha. Why does his name sound fake like a porno name?

He should go back to hosting Blind Date on UPN.

I did like that he “accidentally” blurted out A-Fraud.

While the organization has become the classiest in baseball, the broadcasting remains mired in AA at best. For the most part, fans have looked the other way, found ways to rationalize Rex Hudler (in fact, liking him more than the rest of the crew, which should tell you something), and instead focused on all that is positive.

But now the relentless mediocrity and nightly unprofessionalism is just sticking out like a smashed thumb. Real Angel fans — you know, the ones who watch the broadcasts - do not care about some beach volleyball player, or some idiot radio jock, or even some cute kid (sorry!) that they drag into the broadcast booth. It’s a distraction from the thing we are watching-the game! The only exceptions to this rule are people with germane POVs — Arte Moreno, Tony Reagins, Ken Forsch, Eddie Bane, maybe a recently signed draft pick, that kind of thing.

Watch a Vin Scully broadcast sometime. You don’t need to try and copy is unrepeatable genius, but you can note a few things:

1) No idiot distracting interviews.
2) He (unlike Rory Markus, who I otherwise like) doesn’t run out of things to say besides the repeating the count in the FIRST INNING, let alone the first half of the game.

Meanwhile, the camera/production crew realize that if your pitcher has just held the Yanks to 2 runs in 8.1 innings, you put the camera on the guy walking off the field, and not on the freaking propaganda on the scoreboard. If Vladdie gets a hit in the late innings of a close game, someone — broadcaster, whoever’s producing the camera shot, etc. — tells us whether he’s being pinch-run for. THESE THINGS ARE DONE IN THE MINOR LEAGUES.

A great broadcast outfit keeps fans coming back in the lean months and years, and sears fan identification with a team. Our current broadcast outfit is a five-man exercise in fan alienation. Fix it, Tim Mead! Fix it, Arte Moreno! You can’t eat a five-course meal with plastic forks.

Rodger Lodge, a shill, rambled on and on about dating John Stamos while fans were left doubly suffering his pomposity as Angels pitcher Ervin Santana struggled to regain the movement that makes his fastball such a difficult pitch to hit.

Lodge is dating John Stamos?

Makes me glad the MLB Network telecast of the game was from the Yankees/My9 broadcast, and I never thought I would say I was glad I was listening to Michael Kay.

If coincidence had, instead, put Lodge in the booth at a time when the Halos hit 4 consecutive HR’s, the first being a grand slam, Angels fans would be slobbering all over themselves with having a new Rally Monkey.

Eh, Roger Lodge may not be radio gold by any stretch of the imagination, but he sure beats the wall to wall infomercials that make up most of KLAA’s programming.

That would be “expectations”

inning or two babbling on about boxes of junk to be auctioned off nobody complains.

remember that it could always be worse. imagine sitting through a game with some moron like hawk harrelson chirping his idiot catchphrases over and over. HE GONE? REALLY?

as for lodge, he’s not terrible to me, but i stopped listening to his radio show when dave smith got cut.

P.S. the name is Roger Lodge. no D in the first name. xoxo

I am located in Kansas City but a life long Angels fan, while watching the game on Monday night (it doesn’t start here until 9:00 or so), after the first or second inning I dozed off. Then nastily I was woken up by a shrill irritating voice coming from my TV. My comment, I said outloud, to myself was: who is this idiot in the broadcast booth!, waking me from a peaceful nap? It turns out that it was non other than Roger Lodge spouting off about how Scioscia had just mentioned to his pitcher (on the mound for a visit) that there was some golf tourney or some crap. That was the most painful interview that the Angels could have possibly put on the air during an important game. Come on Tim!!!
The silver lining in all of this was that at least he woke me up to watch the rest of an entertaining game.