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Angels pics: Cool or lame?

Now you may have noticed that MLB.com have an army of photographers with digital cams at each and every game. Hence, while flipping through our roster and our stats, I noticed that each player's page comes up with an "action" photo". Flipping through these is kinda like flipping through a mini baseball card collection. So I've corralled them all on photobucket to flip through at your leisure.

Star-divide

The thing that bothers me, is with the wealth of awesome digital photography at MLB's disposal, why is the picture of Chone Figgins on the Angels official website so lame? It looks like he's striking out on a curveball in the dirt, rather than being the Desmond we love, running first to third, sliding into home, making a great stab at third base. My point here is that the photo editors at MLB could have done a much better job.

So I've collected all these pics onto photobucket, so as not to crash Rev's server. They can be viewed two ways:

1) Old school way (thumbnail gallery)

2) Or slick new school slideshow way

Either way, flick through the pics and let us know whether you think the MLB photogs or the photo desk editors have done their job well by voting by simply saying COOL or LAME in the comments below and say which pics you think are cool or lame and why .... Peace, highland

Poll
Are these pics cool or lame?
Cool!
30 votes
Kinda cool
61 votes
Who are these guys?
5 votes
Kinda lame
26 votes
Lame!
8 votes

130 votes | Poll has closed

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Lame, mostly

A few of the pictures are good (e.g., Arredondo), some are phenomenally bad (Torii), and the majority are meh. It’s as if someone merely took the first photo off the pile for each player. That’s lame in itself, but given the volume of work involved in putting together pages for every player on every team, it’s understandable.

by rspencer on Sep 25, 2009 12:26 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

That was what I was thinking myself ...

Most of the pictures are so-so. Don’t really capture the player’s essence. For example for Figgins, they should have one of him dropping the bat and sprinting out the batter’s box … for Santana, maybe him staring in looking over his glove for the sign with that flat cap brim …. Could have been so much better.

Don't call me Desmond!

by highlandhalo on Sep 25, 2009 12:49 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

The one of Mathis is really good.

The one of Palmer is good, only because there are so few pictures of him anywhere to be found. I have used that one in a win picture before. The rest are fairly stock type photos that don’t offer much more than an identifiable photo of the player.

by 44FAN on Sep 25, 2009 1:07 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Agreed, the Mathis pic is great.

I also liked Kazmir.

Let's do this for Nick Adenhart, Courtney Stewart, and Henry Pearson.

by AlanFalcon on Sep 25, 2009 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Napoli's is cool

It looks like it’s his home run during last year’s ALDS against Boston

by WiHaloFan on Sep 25, 2009 4:12 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Hm.

Where’s Weaver? :(

And I like how Mathis’ picture is him fielding a ball, not hitting.

I think Guerrero’s is the best of the batting pictures, because of his # on the bottom of the bat.

The Big Red Machine V.2 is coming this Fall 2009. Go Halos!

by Slyintine on Sep 25, 2009 6:45 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Also Matt Palmer's is pretty neat

The Big Red Machine V.2 is coming this Fall 2009. Go Halos!

by Slyintine on Sep 25, 2009 6:46 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

sorry did I leave Weaver out?

Will amend

Don't call me Desmond!

by highlandhalo on Sep 26, 2009 2:48 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Is that Teixera

in the back ground of Matthews pic? Looks like him in the on deck circle.

by AngelKeith on Sep 25, 2009 7:16 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

#25

yeah

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

by princeton11loveshalos on Sep 25, 2009 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Who's Mark Teixeira?

"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you." - Woody Hayes

by johnnyangel101 on Sep 27, 2009 10:50 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Torii looks like he's got a big wad of something in his cheek, and Howie Kendrick's is just silly with his cheeks all puffed out.

Quinlan’s helmet hides his face, and I had to ask myself , Robert Mosebach?

THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!

by opiejeanne on Sep 25, 2009 8:57 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Exactly

Those were my exact thoughts.

by ryanfea on Sep 25, 2009 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Like whoever posted above me,

That is exactly what I thought

"Figgins' OBP is still over 40!" -Steve Physioc

by Figgi4life on Sep 26, 2009 8:35 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions   0 recs

Lame...

I particularly didn’t care for the photos of Oliver, Quinlan, or Willits.

"Sometimes it looks bad and sometimes it doesn't, but I'm not going to stop swinging" - Vlad Guerrero

by Erstad4Prez on Sep 25, 2009 12:00 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

B. Wood looks confused in his picture.

This team is our extended family, That's why we love them no matter what the record, no matter what the score.

by halofan4life on Sep 25, 2009 12:55 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

As in: "I don't recognize this uniform. Why am I in this uniform?"

The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do. - Gene Mauch

by Stirrups on Sep 25, 2009 4:09 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

cool...

where is Adenhart’s picture though?

by angelsfan777 on Sep 25, 2009 7:01 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I'm sure they've got plenty of pics of Nick

But probably thought it would be a be insensitive to post an action shot of a player who is actually no longer alive. In this case, MLB did the right thing.

Don't call me Desmond!

by highlandhalo on Sep 26, 2009 2:50 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I think it's just pics of the current roster.

Let's do this for Nick Adenhart, Courtney Stewart, and Henry Pearson.

by AlanFalcon on Sep 26, 2009 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

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