Blue Jays Offense Scraps Out 5-4 Win as Angels Offense Is Just Scrapple

for the rest of the season even if he does not start

Been awhile since the Halos lost two series in a row. Turn the page!

i am sure everyone knew it was a loss once rodney came in.

FUCK all the dumb SHIT Soth likes to do. Which continues to cost us baseball games.

For doing well recently. We seem to win when he sucks

…let’s see;
1) Great starting pitching? Check.
2) Weak offense? Check.
3) Crappy bullpen? Check…(Downs mostly exempt).

If we somehow eke past Texas, I think we’d be embarrassed in the playoffs. I could not watch if we somehow ended up matched against the Red Sux one more time.

I have never seen a manger be so stubborn as Mike S. is. It’s starting to get a little bit embarrasing. Rodney, Mathis, Branyan, and Piniero need to be DFA’d. Wells, Izturis, and Abreu need to be benched. Romine needs to be shipped to A ball. Tony Reagins needs to be fired. End rant.

This team just keeps playing with my emotions.

But Season Over

As much as I despise Rodney’s inability to last more than a third of an inning, Walden didn’t do his job to close out the game. He’s blown practically a third of his saves, yet Sosh still insists on trotting him out there every save situation. I’m stoked about his future as a closer, but we can’t sit down and let him blow a third of his save opportunities. His mechanics look all messed up – give him a rest, Sosh.

today we are thinking about draft order. I am going to call it a “Bipolar Coaster.”

The “Angels in the Outfield” crowd will still flap their wings (zomg we have the greatest 1-3 SP in all of baseball!! UNDEFEATABLE), but its easy to see how pathetic this Angels team is, and, equally how impressive they have been over-performing.

I guess 140 millon can’t get you much (in terms of baseball players). Fernando continues to get starts, Mathis is still the number 1 catching option… Andrew Fucking Romine is holding a roster spot.

This club has bigger problems than Walden’s inability to throw a slider.

Burn this front office to the ground, fire the staff that holds on to these antiquated philosophies.

Or just bury your head in the ground and flap your arms.

I was hoping that we could keep it close through august and then make a move that last series in Anaheim. We will be back 4 on Monday and with two rookie pitchers going against Texas I think we will be back 5 or 6 my Thursday.

I am looking forward to the peace of mind that comes when we have been resigned to our fate.

Who wants some of this “talent” we have because we need some prospects I tell you what.

much props for dumping the wells contract, but damn, …

Naps must have done something in his former life to be so undervalued.

HK 47
Aybar
Izturis
Willits
Weaver
Takahashi
Mathis (Will probably get a 10 year extension)
Hunter
Abreu
Santana & Haren have team options that may or may not be used

Though if TR is not gone, I fear how these guys will be replaced.

…could have signed Valverde. Signed Rodney instead.

Could have offered a contract to Beltre. Instead, focused on Crawford, got spurned, and then yanked the Wells contract anchor right out of Anthoupolos’s hands. While also giving away Rivera and Napoli.

NO EXCUSES. Tony F’ed up.

but what is this bullshit of “i hope we don’t get into the playoffs?” this is the best starting staff we have had and pitching rules october. Who’s to say our starters dont give us momentum and the offense kicks in. and this should be a fanshot, sorry

We are down 4 games in the West. The west is the Rangers to lose

We are 4 games back going into this 4 game series

and how little faith there is in the team. You guys make me embarrassed to be an Angels fan.

The outcome was so predictable. The Jays announcers were excited when Rodney and Hawk came in. The base running gaffs, the inability to make the big pitches when it counted, and the lack of killer instinct again doomed the team.

I’ll say it again: the 2011 version of the Angels are a tease. They will win the “must win” games, and lose the “should win” games. They will string together enough wins to make the die-hard fan believe there’s still a chance for a pennant, but will inevitably come up short. I’ve wanted to believe this team had the magic, but to have magic there has to be some underlying element of talent and/or ability. The SP is definitely Panther, but that’s all there is.

This could be the beginning of the end. I honestly think we are overachievers this year, our offense is a joke. Watching Mike Napoli smack the ball all over the field is sickening. We could have easily held onto him, and picked up someone like Johnny Damon, at a fraction of the cost over that fat loser Vernon Wells.

It will suck if Texas puts us out of it this week and I will never hope the Angels lose. But Texas has a much better chance of beating Boston in October and I hate those assholes almost as much as I love the Angels. Simply put, if we can’t win it all I want to make sure Boston does not either.

I would rather watch Texas beat Boston in the playoffs than watch the Angels lose to those pompous jackwads.

Sosh didn’t push Haren back a day and start him vs Texas. He said it wasn’t at the point where he thought that was necessary. Well, 4 back in a 4 game series I’d say every game against them is must win.

Bobby had to go, as Soth had called for the contact play. All Trumbo had to do was hit a freaking fly ball.
And then that baserunning idiocy. What was that — a 5-2-5-4-3-4 DP?

Yeah, the Angels have lost some frustrating games. Jordan Walden has been inconsistent. Between him and FRaudney, the Angels have gone from 5 up on Texas to 4 down (or thereabouts). The offense is lacking.

But this next series with Texas will say a lot about where the Angels go from here. If they take 3 games, they’re still in it. Four and it’s on. Two and it’s unlikely, and anything less and it’s over. But that’s why the Angels play the Rangers 10 times over the next six weeks. To decide the division. The Rangers just finished beating up on some jokes while the Angels started rooks in New York and against a Toronto team that would be in the playoff hunt in any non-East division.

And upgrades are all about relative value. There isn’t much more value to be had at 2B over Howard Kendrick. Callaspo has been quite good, really, and there aren’t any other players at the position worth “upgrading” to. It’s the corner outfield, especially left, and catcher, where the Angels have big positional downgrades that are in serious need of overhaul.

Mark Trumbo has been a pleasant surprise, but in an age where we have 10 great 1B in the game, a guy who hits .260 with 25-30 homers and never walks is merely average. I love the dude, but let’s not fool ourselves with what he is. Kendrys Morales hitting .290 with 30 home runs and the occasional BB is a good 1B. Trumbo is holding it down around average, but not much better.

I will be interested to see what the Angels do this offseason regardless of performance this year. I honestly hope the answer is “a starting pitcher, maybe, and nothing else”, because these blaoted contracts have got to go.

And calling Abreu “done” is such a joke. He is not a great player anymore, no, but he still has the best eye on the team. “Done” is what the Angels are hitting at catcher.

are the W-L records against Oakland, Kansas City, and Boston for Texas and the Halos.

The Angels need to win at least 3 of 4 against the Rangers, yet rookie Garrett Richards starts Monday’s game and Chatwood will pitch one of the other games. This does not bode well for taking 3 out of 4.

No matter how hard times are, this season isn’t over. When it’s done, it’s done…til then I’m a rider. You watch and see what my boys do…just watch.