Angels Barbycued in KC, Lose in Extras

But unless Scioscia gets his head out of his ass, puts Kaz in the pen, replace him in the rotation with Takahashi. No need to bring up Bell or Palmer and let Kaz work out his hit shit in the pen.

And NOBODY should be taking the ball in the 9th except for Jordan Walden.

that would be a start.

directly let 4 runs cross

He’s hitting .154!

He needs to stop managing as if he has the 2005 roster.

called it

“It’d be easy to send Conger to AAA and keep Palmer up so as not to overwork our pen at the beginning of the season, like we did last season — to terrible results.”

But here we are again, repeating the same mistakes, the same way.

And with a closer who blew ONE IN THREE SAVES last season. How can Sscioscia not learn?

The bigger issue is only having guys throw 1/3 of an inning. Like Kohn. There is no reason to limit a guy to the last out of an inning. He has already warmed up. Giving him 28 pitches instead of 12 is foolish.

Scioscia is definitely loosing his luster, and I kinda can’t stand him, but this isn’t a huge deal. Of course, him not USING a backup catcher is a problem. But 11 pitchers should be enough if he manages the pen appropriately.

1-160
one game rained out
thank god for that

Angels bailed him out (surprisingly) but when you walk the bases loaded and FAIL, yeah Fraudney this one’s on you

he should go somewhere else and we should have new leadership

I’m not going THAT far just yet.

Scioscia needs to go back to the drawing board and make a change in his philosophy.

and a much better bullpen

their crack smoking manager isn’t as dumb as ours at the moment

I know that the Royals aren’t exactly baseball’s chosen ones, but I wonder if we wouldn’t have gone at least 2-1 against the Sox while the Rangers would have gone 1-3 or 2-2 against these Royals this week.

Basically I’m ready to face a new team (after a day off to recover), and I expect the next time we face the Royals they’ll have fallen back to earth and we’ll have picked up some momentum again. It kills me to lose 3/4 to start the season, but now we move on.

Rodney & Kazmir and Butcher would be gone tonight

because all I “hear” Billy Mac saying when his lips are moving is “12-year-old, blonde” over and over. It’s hysterical.

I might accept.

i like to watch haren, weaver, walden pitch.
i like howie more than any other hitter on the team with morales out.

it’s just a waste of payroll though, for the most part.

it’s alright though, i’ve watched much shittier looking angels squads than this, and survived. At least they have 3 good starters currently.

Lots of payroll invested in bad, aging players, some of whom aren’t even in baseball anymore.

only 3 HH’ers scored today. Sounds like how the halos did today

http://www.twitter.com/GreysonNation

and the newer guys did well for the most part (Takahashi, Walden & Thompson). The biggest addition (Downs) hasn’t pitched yet. So, the bullpen may very well be improved. A major problem is with how it’s being used.

…Hitting is good (but it is against KC so will probably regress)

Bullpen is woeful (and it’s still against KC so will probably get worse)

Lose and, if you will, lose

Put up a 9-spot with the wind blowing against Bruce Chen. Not impressed. We’ll look terrible once we actually face a good pitcher.

…it wasn’t enough

That’s basically how long they waited with WTE. SInce it’s Kazmir, they’ll probably wait until 1-15 to make sure he can “figure things out.”

Turn the page.

May 15, or whatever the closest start would be to that date.

Getting him out of the “closer” role will only move to the problem to the 7th or 8th. Runs are runs, no matter the inning.

DFA rodney, DFA kaz, bring in bell and palmer.

I’m guessing the reason these two haven’t lost their jobs is because the FO wants to save face. Not sure how you can save face with the production they’re getting from these two.

you are usually ultra-negative, but I am seriously on board for your justified downer-ism today.

We need Walden, Thompson, Downs throwing the high leverage innings. If hats the 7th or 9th should matter.

If Scioscia would have let Kohn throw the 8th too, the Walden throws the 9th. Both high leverage situations. But committing to Rodney in the 9th forces the better arms earlier into the game regardless of situation.

I’m gonna call you cool-o…

Man I was wondering if I would ever get to say that.

But you’re probably right.

I use twitter, but have never used the hashtags.

game 4 of the season and we suck
bullpen sucks
kaz sucks
slap hitting infield sucks
and the hot beer sucks

Therefore, he must be great again—if we just give him enough starts to let him figure himself out. I think that’s the thinking.

I’m starting to suspect that the fatherhood Jeff Mathis may have been a group effort, the natural consequence of too many 1980s key chain parties that at least Sosh should have had the good sense to stay away from.

(Though it could be the other way around.)

It’s a passive, Tao-of-Tony, “when spring comes the grass grows by itself” sort of mumble.

It’s the sound of a man with a nice paycheck and complete job security, passing time, like the evanescent seasons. What year is it again?

teacher to failing student - “Just get better grades.”
judge to career criminal “stop breaking the law.”
dominos pizza manager to DOV— “learn to love your job.”

wow! Someone should tell the front office that pretty soon fans showing up to the big A will sort itself out too!

i hope you like college footbal and the option

The team we’ve been watching is the “ANGLES,” not the “Angels” . . .
;-]

But can we also win a game or two?

I don’t think we will be that far back, unless there’s more injuries.
But I don’t see Conger playing much that early; I see Wilson first and for awhile
in the slow move to work Mathis further away from the starting spot if the average continues towards extreme suckage.
Conger will only occur that early in the event of injuries to Mathis, Wilson.
And isn’t he the one going to be sent down when Downs returns?
Or maybe that’s when they unload Kaz . . .