Angels Baseball: How They Do It

“Awesome! Totally awesome! Alright Halofan!”

A good amount of the stuff we come up with is worthy of being bulletin board and locker room material.

Then I saw the last picture and I was all like \ `o` /

and a good place for some Soth praising…per Jayson Stark, Soth is baseball’s best manager.

In Scioscia’s first 10 seasons running the Angels, he’s won exactly 900 games. Which comes to an average of (yep) 90 wins a year. And how rare is that? According to the Elias Sports Bureau, only four other managers in history ever averaged 90-plus wins over their first 10 seasons as a manager.

“He sets the tone for the entire organization,” said another GM, “and has created an ‘Angels Way’ that few other teams have.”

“I remember walking into Fenway Park one afternoon about 3:30,” said one scout. “And their whole team was out there, working on going first-to-third and second-to-home, at full speed. And they do that one day in every city they go to. They work on a fundamental like that. For me, it showed this was a team that believes the small things matter.”

And why do the Angels believe that? Because their manager believes that. This is the kind of team he wants. These are the kinds of players he wants. And his front office constructs a team that can play that kind of baseball, not to mention an organization that keeps infusing those kinds of players into the system.

So you combine it all — the winning, the consistent overachieving, the attention to detail, the ability to overcome injuries and tragedies, the World Series trophy, the two manager of the year awards and the imprint on the entire franchise — and you have a great, great manager on your hands.

“Mike Scioscia is the best,” said one AL executive. “And no one else is even close.”

This is great.. Really funny

You never dissapoint

When a problem arises – they fix it. How do they fix it?

Dude – my dad’s a TV repairman. He’s got this awesome set of tools.

“Make up your mind, dude, is he gonna shit or is he gonna kill us?”

“First he’s gonna shit, then he’s gonna kill us!”

Thanks for the laughs.

Hey, wait a minute, there’s no birthday party for me here!

though Godzilla is looking a little like a slimmed-down Cookie Monster with a skin condition