The Wild Card Would Be So More Epic
by Rev Halofan on Sep 14, 2011 10:22 PM PDT
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PrintDear Texas Ranger Fan,
I am sorry but I might have to turn my attention away from the comedy gold that is Ron Washington snorting coke on the backsides of Anaheim hookers and blue-eyed loser Josh Hamilton needing his wife to wipe twice when he doodies.
You see, little Miss Ranger fan, your team hardly amounts to the status of a pimple in a gnat's armpit in the psyche of Angels fans. In the grand scheme of things, you have taken it to the Angels a grand total of one time. You won the division in 2010, breaking our string of three consecutive division titles. Oh sure, in the nineties, before your mom married her cousin and had you, the Rangers won the West a few times. And then blink, they were gone each year. The Angels then had lowered-to-no expectations and even when we got close, y'all were rarely the tails we were chasing.
We are three games behind the Rangers and it would be nice to take the division and it would be a bummer to lose it, but in the big picture, both options are kinda boring in comparison to an epic that could be shaping up. Imagine it is 1977 and your mom takes you to the theater and there are two movies to choose from. One is Land of the Lost* and the other is Star Wars. Stomping some illiterate Texan rawhide sissies is Land of the Lost. It is cool, it has some good heroes one can relate to and some ugly, easily identifiable bad guys, lining up well as a comparison with the part Sleestack human trafficker Alexi Ogando and womb-formed Siamese twin in his cheek. But Land of the Lost is no Star Wars. The Texas Rangers are never going to be the Boston Red Sox. Beating Texas is like flipping channels on a humid afternoon. Beating the Red Sox, eliminating them from playoffs... oh dear... that is right there in epicness with the first time you saw Star Wars... And damn it mom, I wanna see Star Wars. I'm in the lobby of the theater and even if Star Wars costs more and my mom is gonna make me clean my room every day until 1985, I want to see Star Wars.
(*yes I know that Land of the Lost was on TV in the 70s, don't get technical.)
Texas, we don't care about the Rangers. We want the Red Sox. We want the Wild Card because it is theirs and we want to take it from them. A dumb Arlington Dinosaur in Land of the Lost is not going to even know we took its Western Division, that is how boring and nothing it is chasing the Rangers. Fighting Darth Pedroia and taking his Wild Card, that is action, that is something that makes this sport worth living for. It costs more to see Star Wars and it will take a game and a half more to catch the Red Sox, but it is the greater glory, the chance of seeing the Death Star Blow up and the face of Red Sox Nation crushed, and crushed by us, our little Los Angeles Rebel Alliance of Anaheim, all the way over here on the "left coast" destroying your assumed playoff berth, a privilege every larded up Sweet Caroline warbling drunk assumed was her birthright.
Enjoy living on the tumbleweed prairie of permanent insignificance and one lone star to keep your cattle habit company. The Angels have a magic number of 11 to defeat the most evil empire in sports, the forces of chowd darkness that stole the mythology of the underdog for themselves without ever actually being underdogs. The Angels will reach October on a far more glorious path than could ever be blazed by bettering the Michael Youngs of the world. We want to see Star Wars, we want WORTHY rivals, we want epic battles. We didn't fight all season to poke around with some campfire cowboys looking forward to another night playing the sleeping bag lottery.
We want to see Star Wars and we want to blow up the Death Star and we can take the Yankees in the first round of the playoffs, you know they will be shaking in their britches when we swagger into Yankee Stadium with a Green Monster's head on the end of a stick and announce that it is time to do a little touch up on the Derek Jeter painting. Come on, think about it, if we come back and beat the Rangers for the Division, it might make Sportscenter highlights after a Denver Broncos injury report. If we eliminate the Red Sox and are pumped to be flying to New York, ESPN will quake in fear of our X-Wing onslaught while all the Ranger fans will be looking for highlights of their loss to Detroit during commercials of the Dallas Cowboy Friday afternoon practice report.
Sincerely,
Rev Halofan, Rebel Commander.
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God needed a starter. RIP #34
What is...
the number of world series appearances?
by Los Angelitos 2002 on Sep 14, 2011 11:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Let's keep in mind that we only have one as well.
Then again, we won it.
One is all you need to join the club.
Besides, I don’t look at the number of rings as much of a metric. Some teams have been around since the early 1900s, some much, much less.
All I know is that the Angels brought back a ring and the Rangers didn’t. Period.
God needed a starter. RIP #34
Ooo. Sorry, not quite.
The correct question is “What MLB Teams have never one a World Series Championship?”
BTW, I never realized that the Pads never won a WS.
God needed a starter. RIP #34
I remember it, one of the first WS I remember.
Got absolutely smoked by the Yankee dynasty in 97 or 98. Sweep. Tony Gywnn hit a HR somehow, distinct memory of that. I think the Yankees smoked one pitcher twice that the Padres started 2 of the 4 games.
"I have one word for you...Be careful."
-Jose Guillen
The Padres were unfortunate to face two juggernauts in their two WS appearances
1984 Detroit Tigers- 104-58
1998 New York Yankees- 114-48
That 1998 team was doomed
It didn’t matter who showed up for the NL, the team was going to get curbstomped.
Defending maligned chants since 2009
Those Yankee teams were scary good.
That’s made the DBacks walk-off so amazing as a fan. Even with Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling, they should have lost in 5.
"I have one word for you...Be careful."
-Jose Guillen
In all seriousness...
Ogando looks exactly like a sleestack
go long with extenze...i do
by angelsownredsux on Sep 15, 2011 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Onward and upward Rebel Commander.
I am convinced there is a hidden force inside of each of Trout’s nipples.
"It's our money," owner Arte Moreno said.
i'm not convinced
the Angels beating the Rangers in the last series of the year to clinch the division would have to be much more gratifying than passing the Red Sox (without even playing them down the stretch) due primarily to their own futility.
One would gather much more joy from seeing Kinsler’s sad face as Howie Kendrick tells him to get the f off of his field.
Greatest Inventions Ever? 1. TiVO, 2. Boobs, 3. Baseball
by willamos2 on Sep 14, 2011 11:07 PM PDT reply actions 5 recs
I'm in the mood for some ..
Mad faced Ryan, and Dub-Ya, again. This time by us.
by eyespy on Sep 15, 2011 1:00 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Rev already gave up
on taking the division. That is why he has been relegated to the Wild Card race.
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
we are more likely to take the division than the wild card dumbass.
I know its hard for you to understand, but texas means nothing to angels fans. You are the equivalent of seattle, just some meaningless team in our way on the march to the playoffs.
Now go tip a cow or something.
by Balls and Strikes on Sep 15, 2011 8:12 AM PDT up reply actions
That would actually makes sense if you could take the division.
Saying Texas means nothing doesn’t hold much weight if you don’t make the playoffs.
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
The idea of beating Texas means less than the idea of beating the Red Sox
We’ll take the playoffs however we can get it. Land of the Lost is still better than staying home.
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
I hear you.
Red Sox for you Angels fans is like the Yankees to us Rangers fans
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
Since you are an Angels fan
I don’t expect you to know our hatred of the Yankees thanks to the 90’s playoff losses. That is why last year was so great for us Rangers fans. Beating the Angels for the division was cool, but beating the Yankees to deny them a trip to the World Series was beyond awesome!
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
Oh, it's always awesome to beat the Yankees.
We do it quite often. 2009 was unfortunate but an aberration.
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I blame Mathis
calling for that meatball to A-Rod when he already had 2 strikes on him
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by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 9:32 AM PDT up reply actions
You're right!
I hadn’t thought of that, but I did blame some of it on the nasty weather. I mean, those games should have been called for rain.
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Really? No need for namecalling.
I am trying to keep it civil, but I see you do not wish to.
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
after your post on red's plea, i declare a peace truce
we will always be rivals
stay classy!
I'm an Angels fan
Truce.
But a little light-hearted ribbing is welcome. I hope you feel the same. :
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
Beating the Rangers in '09. Eh
Sweeping the Red Sox and humiliating Papelbum. Once in a decade gratifying.
Now that Lackey has turned to the enemy lets kick his ass
by Angelsrthebest101 on Sep 14, 2011 11:11 PM PDT reply actions 5 recs
I remember
when Hunter hit that three run homer, we were turning around high-fiving everyone and everything in sight. I turned around behind me to high-five the people standing there, and saw two angry, defiant looking Red Sox fans (a late-20s couple) with their arms folded across their chests. They just starred at me as my hands hung up there, and shook their heads ‘no.’ I just waved my hand dismissively and said “ehhhhh.” Then turned back around and started screaming at the field.
A wise man once said "never postpone to tomorrow what can be done the day after tomorrow. Except DFAing Mathis. Do that shit now, plz."
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Sep 15, 2011 8:42 AM PDT up reply actions
Somewhat similar where we were sitting. The four obnoxious ones behind us got up and left right about then.
The ones sitting beside us, the ones who were actually fans of baseball and were nice people, they stayed until the start of the 9th.
We watched a drunk woman in the right field bleachers who was annoying people around her with a Boston flag; she was escorted out of the stadium, but it was tough and at one point one we thought one of our ushers got punched. It was one of the older guys in the straw hats, and he ended up in the middle of a shoving match before security showed up. Lots of drunk Sox fans, but a ton more Angels fans in the seats for a change.
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Game 2
Some guy a few rows up wearing a Boston visor (seriously, a visor) had been talking smack the whole game. Right before Aybar’s RBI triple I yelled “Hey, where’s the rest of your hat?!” He didn’t have much to say after that.
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by Commander_Nate on Sep 15, 2011 8:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Hahahaha!
I’ll bet he wore that to the beach before he went to the game, and the next day when he went to Disneyland.
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Ditto. Was sitting in front of a Sux fan and I made some remark about bandwagon.
She said she was old school and proved it. And she wasn’t an obnoxious chowd at all.
If the Halos don't care about the way they play, then why should I?
By a glorious stroke of luck I was at that game sitting behind home plate in the Diamond Club
I can still vividly see that ball Tori hit off Lester like it was yesterday. One of my all time favorite moments
I was at Games 1 and 2 of the '09 ALDS as well
When Torii hit the three-run shot in game 1 I was so elated that it felt like I was on ecstasy . I was hugging random old ladies in the crowd and high fiving everyone in my vicinity.
Game 2 was amazing as well.
Telling the Red Sox fans to go home with a 2-0 lead was awesome.
Now that Lackey has turned to the enemy lets kick his ass
by Angelsrthebest101 on Sep 15, 2011 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
I was at game 1 also. First playoff game. Seeing the Bahston fans pissed off was sweet.
And it was damn loud in the stadium
by Halostradamus on Sep 15, 2011 6:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Me too. That stadium was ROCKING
If the Halos don't care about the way they play, then why should I?
The only time I ever saw the stadium that noisy and excited about the Angels
was in 1979 at the one playoff game they won.
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That was amazing.
I was watching Game 3 with my brother who is a Red Sox fan(I don’t know what happened there) and the look on his face when Vladdy hit that single off Papelbon was priceless.
I will never forget that moment.
I was sitting in the common room of the apartment I was living in, on my knees in front of the TV, saying “Come on, Vlad. It’s time to break THEIR hearts.” When Vladdy got that base knock, I lost my shit.
Anything like this?
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
The neighbors could have heard us we were so loud.
That they didn’t call the cops is probably because most of them were yelling too.
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As sexy as this would be, the Sux have six left against the O's.
Four versus Rays and three versus the Yanks. We basically need the Rays to sweep for this to be realistic—and even then we’d be contending with the Sux and the Rays.
You mean the same O's that just took 2 of 3 against the Rays
Be a Angel Fan till I die... The only good team to come out of Texas is my Dallas Cowboys Baby
Miracles do happen at times, yes.
Keep in mind we’re talking about the Orioles.
by TheGP Baseball on Sep 15, 2011 11:54 AM PDT up reply actions
I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home, they're not much bigger than Ron Washington
I want the Sox
Unlike this cat, my love for the LAA will never die.
by NathanielS on Sep 14, 2011 11:24 PM PDT reply actions 5 recs
Just win!
Ultimately, the Angels have to get hot and stay hot! A winning streak down the stretch is the only way to see the Halos in October—Expect nothing less than the AL WEST. The Angels need to re-establish order and TAKE BACK THE DIVISION CROWN!
by Los Angelitos 2002 on Sep 14, 2011 11:31 PM PDT reply actions 3 recs
someone is excited for starwars on blue ray!
Are you sure he was safe? It looked like an out to the entire statium. Well bad call Blue.
by Alavel on Sep 14, 2011 11:37 PM PDT via mobile reply actions 1 recs
Can you even get the original, un-altered trilogy on DVD anymore?
Scioscialist Party of America - Redistributing your defense since 2000.
by Commander_Nate on Sep 15, 2011 8:15 AM PDT up reply actions
nope
:(
"You realize that Ive been posting on AN since 07 on this name and I am one of the most rec'ed posters there right?" - Some tool named Designatedforassignment from Athletics Nation
by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 8:50 AM PDT up reply actions
It WAS available
for a while, a few years ago. I’m sure there are people selling used/duplicate copies somewhere on the internet.
My wife says we have DVDs of the unaltered trilogy
but I haven’t verified it yet.
Not the world’s largest Star Wars fan, but I’m a fan nonetheless, and the constant futzing with a finished work really annoys me. When I see the suddenly non-puppety face of Yoda in the ads it just looks like vandalism to me.
You boys stick around--there'll be turkey and ice cream later!
I have the originals on LaserDisc
But with no LD player…
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
I've thought about trying to transfer the VHS copies at my parents' to DVD
But the quality would probably blow and not be worth the effort.
Scioscialist Party of America - Redistributing your defense since 2000.
by Commander_Nate on Sep 15, 2011 9:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Or have the same conversation with Jabba that he had with Greedo 5 minutes ago
word for word.
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
yeah, except because Guido was shot in self defense (in the remade version)
he couldn’t tell Jabba
Well, come see a fat old man some time!
I stand corrected
although after reading the reviews it sounds like the “bonus” disc of the original theatrical runs are poor quality. It seems Lucas is more invested in the special editions than the original stuff, which is pretty lame.
"You realize that Ive been posting on AN since 07 on this name and I am one of the most rec'ed posters there right?" - Some tool named Designatedforassignment from Athletics Nation
by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 2:27 PM PDT up reply actions
yes, but the quality still sucks
"You realize that Ive been posting on AN since 07 on this name and I am one of the most rec'ed posters there right?" - Some tool named Designatedforassignment from Athletics Nation
by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions
They’ve rapped him, they’ve rapped him
by Halos in DE on Sep 15, 2011 11:37 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
The Angels have a 1.000 winning percentage as the Wild Card
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by Commander_Nate on Sep 14, 2011 11:45 PM PDT reply actions 3 recs
red floyd, standing by!
If the Halos don't care about the way they play, then why should I?
by red floyd on Sep 15, 2011 7:20 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
This is hilarious stuff, Rev-ster
But the late 20th-century camp sci-fi experience that most emulates the Rangers’ history: Lost in Space
by Raaddad on Sep 15, 2011 12:16 AM PDT reply actions 3 recs
"Darth Pedroia"
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
One of my favorite lines of many in this article. All brilliant stuff Rev, keep it coming.
by Jason Andrew Martin on Sep 15, 2011 12:40 AM PDT reply actions
That is also EPIC
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Walden
by matthiasstephan on Sep 15, 2011 1:01 AM PDT up reply actions
Actually, he's more like the squirrel in the pic I posted above.
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by Commander_Nate on Sep 15, 2011 9:54 AM PDT up reply actions
Of course, the Angels only control our own games. So win win win
But, it would be EPIC if the Rays swept the Red Sox the next four games. A real race to the finish, with the wild card and AL West on the line, and four teams in it would be so exciting.
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Walden
by matthiasstephan on Sep 15, 2011 1:01 AM PDT reply actions
I like the idea, but having to hurdle two teams with only 13 games left seems a little far-fetched.
I've got nothing.
"You realize that Ive been posting on AN since 07 on this name and I am one of the most rec'ed posters there right?" - Some tool named Designatedforassignment from Athletics Nation
by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 8:52 AM PDT up reply actions
Like poking a puppie with a stick
no doubt the whinny babies over at LSB will moan and gnash teeth. I expect a few trolls to point at the season record and head-to-head, but at the end of the day, I’d rather lose and be an Angel fan than win and be a whinny bitch Ranger fan
<oh,, and we are going to take this thing>
Well, come see a fat old man some time!
by Moondoggy on Sep 15, 2011 3:59 AM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Be careful what you wish for...
“I’d rather be an Angel fan than win…”
Your wish is on track to come true.
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
No, no.
I think whinny is kind of funny. It’s horsie-speak. They do have a lot of horses there.
Where I live most of the year now, just outside Seattle, there are more horses than people. That’s going to change soon, though, because of the new state law that doesn’t allow people to date farm animals. (still shaking my head in disbelief about that nonsense.)
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Date them?
Do you mean, estimate how old they are?
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No.
Date them. Like, date them.
Oh dear Cod, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumclaw_horse_sex_case
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They date them first?
Take them out to a movie or a meal?
Seems a bit pointless.
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I assume you're using the euphemism because you've wasted your September f-bomb.
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No, I haven't used it yet.
I don’t use every one of them, and some people are bit shocked when I finally do unload.
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This case
Makes the idea of “riding a horse bareback” a bit more disturbing.
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
by BruinHalo on Sep 15, 2011 10:13 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Bareback has an interesting meaning among people of a certain orientation
and I think you know what I mean by orientation, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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WOW!!
I am so moving to Texas.
A horse is a horse, of course, of course.
And no one can talk to a horse, of course
Well, come see a fat old man some time!
That was in Washington.
I don’t know what they date in Texas. Probably armadillos.
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That is, of course,
Unless the horse is the famous John Lackey.
You boys stick around--there'll be turkey and ice cream later!
Looks like someone is
a little bitter about the inevitable fade into irrelevancy their team is about to slide into.
Are you lost?
"Its like when i’m right…i’m right… and when i’m wrong…i could have been right..so i’m still right cause i could have been wrong"-Chevy Clarke's Twitter
yes he is...
lost in space
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by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 8:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Along with the Criminologist's neck.
If the Halos don't care about the way they play, then why should I?
Well, it IS addressed to the Texas Ranger fan.
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
I think you just indirectly just called HH shit.
Way to go brabrabrobrobreebree
Brabrabrobrobreebree?
Dirtbikes must sound waaaay different in Texas.
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by Commander_Nate on Sep 15, 2011 8:17 AM PDT up reply actions
Funny how many Californians
are moving to Texas. The city I live in, Keller, is considering changing the name of the city to Kellerfornia.
I am glad you still like it in Cali, as I would rather not have you move into my great state.
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
Your great state with the drought that your governor can't pray away?
You can have California’s excess rednecks. Welcome to them.
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by opiejeanne on Sep 15, 2011 9:13 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
I will gladly take your rednecks if you agree
to take all of our illegals.
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
by BigTex71 on Sep 15, 2011 9:22 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
You mean the few people in texas willing to work?
Ever read the statue of liberty asshole? I’d take a town of immigrants over a town of rednecks anyday. At least they want something better for their families.
Now go back to your trailer park, a twisters comin’
by Balls and Strikes on Sep 15, 2011 9:28 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions 2 recs
I didn't say immigrants.
It is true that illegals are immigrants, but not all immigrants are illegals.
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
Want 'em to stop coming?
Stop giving them jobs.
Unfortunately then you have no one to pick your cotton.
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I know, and California grows a lot of cotton too, but I wasn't the one proposing to deport the illegals to another state,
he was.
Interesting, when we lived in Castro Valley, up north, when people said “illegal aliens” the first group that came to mind was NOT Hispanics, but rather Asians, and especially Chinese. That’s too many commas for one sentence but it’s late and I’m on painkillers. We had constant stories about ships going aground near Golden Gate Park, or sailboats left sitting for days at the dock in Half Moon Bay, all of them carrying illegals from China. 200 jumped off the ship in the middle of the night in Golden Gate Park, and it took a couple of weeks to round them up. The ones in Half Moon Bay were discovered by someone who noticed an odor. They were lucky because they were found in time, but it was hot, they had no water, and there were 30 of them in the bottom of the boat, under the lower “deck” (bottom floor, or whatever you call it) in a smallish sailboat. Lots of places that would manufacture clothing, but you couldn’t initiate a contract with them directly, had to have not just a Chinese interpreter, but also someone who was known in the sweat shops. Lots of stories about those sweat shops and worse. Some of the stories I got from friends whose relatives were the liaisons between the shops and the designers, and those were kind of creepy stories.
I don’t discount anyone’s reasons for wanting to be here, and just because my family got here before there were immigration laws doesn’t make them better than someone else who is desperate for a new life. I do not know what the answer is, but I do know that if you sent them all home tomorrow we’d be in a world of hurt very soon.
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I am white, of German/Prussian descent.
My grandparents were migrant form workers in the midwest, who dropped my father and my two aunts off at an orphanage in Oklahoma to begin every picking season, and worked their way from Texas to the Dakotas picking crops. They would then drive back to the orphanage and reclaim their children for the winter months, doing odd jobs on the farms as available.
My maternal grandmother literally grew up one of 15 children in a dirt hut in Kansas.
Every race and many, many cultures that have contributed people to this country have memberships in the hardships of immigration and taking a place at the bottom of the economic food chain. Even the Puritans, after suffering their own imprisonment for even thinking about leaving, and then suffering again in their own boatlift ordeal, survived their early years on this continent by scavenging off the dead corpses and pillaging the encampments of those Native Americans who had perished years prior as a result of the smallpox plague brought over by explorers.
Against stupidity the very Gods themselves toil in vain.
Just wait a cotton-pickin' minute!
I agree with the jobs comment.
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
The entire concept of "illegal immigrants" and "less desireable ethnicities" is steeped in racism of the late 1800's
Its bigoted rednecks like you that piss me off. There was no such thing as illegal immigrants until some rednecks decided that Mexicans crossing the border to help pick fruits and vegetables were taking all the “good” jobs.
Dont for an instance pretend that you have some type of moral point here. Good people are sacrificing all they have for the opportunity to try and come here to pick fruits and vegetables for less than minimum wage. They know the risks of being deported, dying in the desert, running into psychotic assholes like yourself that cannot see them for the humans they are, and yet they come for the opportunity to improve life for their children.
Since you have probably never read the words on the statue of liberty-
The New ColossusNot like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
by Balls and Strikes on Sep 16, 2011 8:39 AM PDT up reply actions
I applaud your moral sensibilities
and I commend your ability to rise above the violent fray that is Planet Earth and all forms of life that have ever dwelled upon the planet.
However, on this planet, those sensibilities are not sustainable. This is a very violent rock, subject to very violent forces. The life that took hold and learned to thrive on this rock is, as a result, very violent. Nowhere on Earth does it work that because one aspect of life is in need, other (equal) aspects of life surrender to that need. All living organisms have borders, and a compulsive drive to understand and manage those borders. We humans, being natural products of life on Earth, are products of that same imperative.
Yes, as a society we do want a fresh infusion of new blood and sweat. But our ability to sustain, support and promote that new blood and sweat; and our ability to absorb that new blood and sweat into our own; are not inifinite. We retain a moral obligation to ourselves to be the ones who control the throttles. We do not surrender those throttles to others.
Against stupidity the very Gods themselves toil in vain.
by Stirrups on Sep 16, 2011 8:59 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I would love to hear more
of how you think I am racist because I follow the law and expect others to. But I don’t want to be banned for talking politics on this blog.
If you have a blog you would like to direct me to so we can have a civil exchange of ideas, I would love to engage you.
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
"...can't pray away"
WIN
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by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 9:27 AM PDT up reply actions
rec'd for perfectness!
"The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness." - Annie Savoy
While I don't particularly care for the governor of Texas (or most things that go on in Texas)
I do appreciate that he prays publicly.
Defending maligned chants since 2009
There is that, but Jesus said to pray in private. See Matthew 6:6.
Praying in public was considered by Him to be for show and not sincere.
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Not necessarily
It was praying for the sake of appearing to be pious to the masses that Jesus objected to. And it’s possible that’s what he’s doing, given his constituency. But it’s also possible that he’s sincerely praying for the end of this, and inviting others to join him, which is definitely condoned in scripture.
In other words…it’s impossible to know what his motivation is. If it’s to appeal to the people with his holiness, then yeah, that’s bad form. But if it’s an honest attempt to call people to prayer in order to end suffering, I’m okay with it.
Defending maligned chants since 2009
I think I'll stick with Matthew 6:6 on this one.
I personally dislike almost all public prayers, especially by public officials, and maybe that’s just me. A call to prayer is a different issue, and I have no problem with that.
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I'm okay with it, just because I think we've moved too far into the ealm of of poltical correctness
I don’t think he’s doing it just to look pious simple because of the backlash he knows he’ll face from the anti-religious crowd. But that’s conjecture. You could be right.
Right now I’m just lonely as one of the (two? three?) only left-leaning Christians in OC. Sorry, I know I should stay off the political AND the religious here. I’ll stop now.
Defending maligned chants since 2009
separation of Church and State
there is more than one religion, more than one deity. Those that choose to believe, believe on your time.
I'm an Angels fan
Sorry, but I disagree with this...
Angels win the AL West depriving the Rangers of ANY playoff revenue. Beat the Yankees in the ALDS, beat the Sox in the ALCS, and then the Phillies in the World Series.
And we all live happily ever after.
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by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 9:38 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
hey
we Californians have a monopoly on Big Lebowski refrences. You are required to pay a royalty
"id take 5th Dimention Wormhole Rivera over Wells any day of the week"
-clover_black
by the king of CERA on Sep 15, 2011 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I want to post the same picture in response to this, but I won't
just pretend I did
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by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Are you saying 2pints has to pay a royalty to himself?
Arte Went Biblical sounded nice until it was clear it didn't involve sitting the twenty-three million dollar man.
I just took a quarter out of my right pocket
and put it into my left. transaction complete
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by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Current Wild card odds: 00.6
in other words in 1000 scenarios, we win the wild card six times.
I’d much rather recapture our turf, western division, then stomp the shit out of Boston, preferably a game winning blast off Papsmear at Fenway, in the playoffs.
At least we beat the Rev’s 79 wins and are at my low 80s amount, we just have to push to at least 90 now.
Just get to the last series and let the dice fly.
...on the road....
Isn't there a jail nmates death all you Texans should be applauding?
Baseball great but priority’s and all.
Unlike this cat, my love for the LAA will never die.
I think that like eating oysters for texans.
IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
Unlike this cat, my love for the LAA will never die.
Is the lack of proper grammar and punctuation a result of
the awesome school system in California, or just your laziness? That second sentence makes no sense. Please rewrite so I can be properly offended.
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
Why are you here?
"Its like when i’m right…i’m right… and when i’m wrong…i could have been right..so i’m still right cause i could have been wrong"-Chevy Clarke's Twitter
comic relief
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
Actually it's a sticky key on my smart phone.
Okay Professor Texas? Being critical of punctuation is the first response of the inarticulate.
Unlike this cat, my love for the LAA will never die.
you have a sticky key that types priority's instead of priorities?
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I actually suck at spelling and punctuation
I’ve noticed it’s been a real roadblock in my career…that and along with not really understanding the Special Theory of Relativity. >sigh< oh well
Well, come see a fat old man some time!
If you'd concentrated better at school
You might have got a job with Coca Cola instead.
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Oh!
He went there
"Its like when i’m right…i’m right… and when i’m wrong…i could have been right..so i’m still right cause i could have been wrong"-Chevy Clarke's Twitter
I gotta admit Moondoggy,
Much like Ron Washington, i’m a Coke guy.
YOU DON'T KNOW THE POWER OF THE DARKSIDE.....
that's backing the wrong horse, son
might as well be drinking Sam’s Cola
Well, come see a fat old man some time!
Jolt
"You realize that Ive been posting on AN since 07 on this name and I am one of the most rec'ed posters there right?" - Some tool named Designatedforassignment from Athletics Nation
by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 4:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Taco flavor Doritos!
They’re back, you know.
You boys stick around--there'll be turkey and ice cream later!
I thought blaming a smart phone for being dumb is the first response.
Arte Went Biblical sounded nice until it was clear it didn't involve sitting the twenty-three million dollar man.
by snowhor on Sep 15, 2011 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Buying a Palm product was the dumb part
I was referring to to the missing i in inmate. I cannot believe anyone really cares.
Unlike this cat, my love for the LAA will never die.
No one does, unless you become a chronic grammar bastardizer.
Arte Went Biblical sounded nice until it was clear it didn't involve sitting the twenty-three million dollar man.
by snowhor on Sep 15, 2011 12:35 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
There is a 3rd option: Texas seceding from the Union
Think about it: Texas leaves; US government refuses forbids Texas and US companies from doing business with each other; Rangers can no longer participate in MLB; Angels make playoffs by default! WIN!!!!!!
I discussed this with my friend from the Dallas area and it was a very uncomfortable subject for him, even if it is only a remote possibility right now. We’ve still got two weeks to go…anything can happen. You just gotta believe.
Scioscialist Party of America - Redistributing your defense since 2000.
I don't like
“by default… WIN”
I just like WIN
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
Me too.
Plus we already fought one war because a couple of states wanted to secede, and too many people died.
If we let them go without a fight we’d end up sending more in foreign aid than we already send them in “welfare” from all the blue coastal states they despise so much.
THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!
I have a feeling Texas is a net loser in terms of taxes/benefits
Can’t back it up, but it would make sense since they were the only state in the black after th economy crashed.
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
No, I've seen the chart.
They are one of the ones who benefit from West Coast and Northeast income tax.
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I found the chart
They don’t benefit.
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
Yeah, I just located it.
Thanks.
Did you look at the rest of the chart? Quite an eye-opener. Alaska, with all its wealth, gets about $1.80 for every dollar they pay. Rugged individualists my aunt Fannie.
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That seems to be the case in most western states
I wonder if it’s because the massive amounts of federal land leads to federal jobs aka federal spending in that state.
I highly doubt that it’s because of welfare or any social programs. Likely subsidies and federal contracts.
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
Hahaha!
Yeah, if they secede they’d lose a lot of the income from military bases and from that big thing in Houston, something to do with the space program. Lots more, too.
THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!
Or chart
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
Green is greater contributor than receiver
Red is greater receiver than contributor. Texas is green (granted not by much).
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
Hmmm... looks like the same shade of green as California.
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
Wow!
I want some of what you are smoking!
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
My apologies, I was wrong about that.
But your fantasies about becoming independent are just that: fantasies.
THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!
I most certainly DON'T want Texas to secede.
It was only used as a hypothetical in regards to the talk of Perry’s idiotic talk of it in the past that was brought up.
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
Texas wouldn't secede...
we would take over half the jobs and whatever good part of the economy is left. We are relegated to remain a part of the union to help keep our great country on life support.
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
so in your mind
Texas employs over half of the US work force???
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by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 9:29 AM PDT up reply actions
Sorry, meant to infer NEW jobs
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
I do not accept your apology!!
:)
"You realize that Ive been posting on AN since 07 on this name and I am one of the most rec'ed posters there right?" - Some tool named Designatedforassignment from Athletics Nation
by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 9:34 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Hey, I was wrong. It happens quite often.
But I won’t beg. :)
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
Don't forget the regular table service places, too.
We fatten ourselves on the outrageous serving sizes in restaurants, too – not just fast food.
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
That is why we need all of you hoity-toity Californians
to keep moving here… so you can work in them.
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
I'm not a redneck so count me out.
Some of my family are Ozark hillbillies, but my branch of the family escaped that life of dirt road poverty through education and luck.
I’ve been to Texas, or rather, through Texas numerous times. I’d rather drive around but there’s such a nice straight road that runs right across it, past Cadillac Ranch (is that still there? I hope so.) and on out of the state, avoiding encounters with Colorado drivers.
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Oh, and I'm the least hoity-toity person you'll ever meet.
And I’m a native Californian. Most of the hoity-toity ones are transplants, like from Texas. Yeah, we get your type here too.
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*like from New York/New England
Let’s be honest…
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
by BruinHalo on Sep 15, 2011 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
****HOME RUN BRUINHALO****
Scioscialist Party of America - Redistributing your defense since 2000.
by Commander_Nate on Sep 15, 2011 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions
You mean people from Texas have larger than life egos?
I refuse to believe that. I refuse to believe that a governor of such a great state would advocate succeeding from the union, or execute innocent people, or have the highest rate of >25 w/out a high school diploma.
nope just don’t believe it.
Well, come see a fat old man some time!
It takes guts to execute an innocent man.
That’s a quote from one of Governor Goodhair’s supporters.
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the hoity-toity ones
are in San Francisco
"id take 5th Dimention Wormhole Rivera over Wells any day of the week"
-clover_black
by the king of CERA on Sep 15, 2011 12:35 PM PDT up reply actions
They must be from Houston or Dallas.
I’m from the more laid back area near Fort Worth. I have lived in many states and countries, but made my way back to Texas because I liked it the best.
I am sure if I had been born in California I would probably have a different opinion.
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
just a willingness to work like a slave for a substandrad wage
not much at all considering Texas’ education record.
I will say that Texas’ Universities are unbelievably low priced. Hopefully its not a case of you get what you pay for
Well, come see a fat old man some time!
Hey
They have Rice.
So that’s 1 school.
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
Ah
Then A&M?
I don’t know… No other Texas school than Rice ever appealed to me.
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
Me neither.
I’m a California girl, start to finish. Still own a house there and going back for a visit is like going home. I figure at some point we will live in the cabin for a while longer than the quarterly visits.
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CA is home for me too
I may live in Portland, but Orange County is where all of my family is.
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
UT Austin is a good school
But the rest of their higher public education is pretty lousy for a state that size. Even an under-funded UC system kicks their ass.
Then again, most of the Texas natives I know would rather that the city of Austin belong to another state. Too many hipsters, liberals, and college graduates.
I asked my wife
“why do we own a rice farm?” She said, “You never know.” I replied, “no, there’s some things I know.”
Well, come see a fat old man some time!
They have a decent reputation
but I understand there are some funding cuts to said programs. Can’t have wage slaves if you educate them too much.
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If you're so smart
why ain’t you hoity toity like the rest of dem?
by Rev Halofan on Sep 15, 2011 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions
Just hit me
that the leader of HH is an art critic…
Maybe we are hoity-toity…
Rev, can you go bale some hay? Or drive a railroad stake into the ground? We need some manual labor around here.
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
I need to go push a wheelbarrow full of mud around.
That will get me back down to earth.
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Heh.
Are we having fun yet? This guy is a slightly better class of troll than we usually get from Texas. He is able to spell pretty well and string words together in a way that suggests he might have gone to college, and he’s a bit more fun than the usual detritus.
I will never ever accuse you of trolling your own site, but I see what you did here.
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None of you colonials can spell
“Color” Pffft.
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Y'all still speak English
The language of the world is American.
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
'Merican, actually.
Scioscialist Party of America - Redistributing your defense since 2000.
by Commander_Nate on Sep 15, 2011 10:13 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, he lured me in
but I actually enjoy reading Rev’s passion-soaked diatribes. I try not to take them personally, because I know his heart is in it. I think he is just misunderstood by 99% of the guys at LSB.
And thank you for the backhanded compliment. :)
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
Actually, I think it is the other way around.
Most other states’ education costs are just way too high.
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
Sorry but i would miss my Cowboys to much
Be a Angel Fan till I die... The only good team to come out of Texas is my Dallas Cowboys Baby
Really? That implies you already know what happened to them.
The rest of us have been left wondering. For years now.
Against stupidity the very Gods themselves toil in vain.
sorry, meant to say NEW jobs
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
My bad. I am just a stupid redneck. I haven't fully grasped the format on here.
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
The term "reply fail" is standard here and not a slam.
Every now and then a reply doesn’t go where we want it to.
I didn’t call you a stupid redneck, but if you want to go ahead.
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I know you didn't call me that
but I figured I would throw the rest of the guys/gals a bone.
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
hey im a stupid redneck and i can reply just fine!
Are you sure he was safe? It looked like an out to the entire statium. Well bad call Blue.
by Alavel on Sep 15, 2011 10:20 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I wen to see Star Wars when it came out in '77
I was 10.
I fell asleep.
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It's two droids walking around the desert for the first 30 minutes
I can see why.
That being said, you suck.
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
No shenanigans!
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Cowabunga, Duuude!
by bobbinhead25 on Sep 15, 2011 9:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Ok...I am awake now.
Cowabunga, Duuude!
by bobbinhead25 on Sep 15, 2011 9:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Ugh, how long can we pretend that the Angels are underdogs and Rev takes the stand of a Rebel Commander
when the team has top 5 attendance, payroll, etc etc etc.
Its getting old.
I brought sexy back, but they only gave me store credit....
When everyone stops saying
the Angels have no chance of winning, they’re just a lucky team that can’t keep performing like this.
I play music for your entertainment
by Seik1177 on Sep 15, 2011 10:13 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
They haven't really said that for about two years now.
I brought sexy back, but they only gave me store credit....
not true at all
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by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions
PECOTA has the Angels at 78 wins
They will be considered lucky again this year.
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
Does not matter
Comparing us to the Rebel Alliance against the big bad Texas empire is misleading and quite frankly wrong.
In reality it would be like if the Empire was toppled by another equally sized empire who should be as efficient as the Darth Vader led Empire with its giant Death Star and awesome army. Instead the shitty empire spent all its money on Ewok orgies, broken down shit bought from the Tatooine droid traders, and could only afford one Wookie, some random dudes, and a green midget to actually get shit done because of misappropriations of finances.
This franchise is not the Rebel Alliance. Its the Empire poorly run and managed. Stop acting like we are some small dog in a big fight, win one for the small town team, go go go midget boy tackle that bully.
Its stupid, its analog is wrong and it shows that we are stuck in 1999.
I brought sexy back, but they only gave me store credit....
by PhiSlamma on Sep 15, 2011 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
PHI you are delusional
We are 29th in popularity. Do we take over other team’s stadiums with our fans? The rebel alliance was wel-funded but small and upstart.
by Rev Halofan on Sep 15, 2011 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
In other words
75% of those three million attendees consist of the same John and Mary Smith from Yorba Linda, who really don’t care at all about sports, but whose comfortable suburban lifestyle requires a weekly family outing together with their four children.
padded by
transplanted fans of cold weather industrial rust belt shit holes.
by Rev Halofan on Sep 15, 2011 11:35 AM PDT up reply actions
And God bless them, every one
because they help fund the team!
You boys stick around--there'll be turkey and ice cream later!
29th in popularity based on obscure google research?
I wonder if the fact that the biggest sports network writes nothing about our team or does any sort of the frantic mass article writing over stupid speculation that they do with other teams.
Lets base this on real world, tangible things. Like payroll, attendance, recent success, and playoff relevance.
All of these actual, tangible things show we are in the top 5 in baseball. Lets be realistic and stop having a Halowood-like victim complex…. its really unattractive.
I brought sexy back, but they only gave me store credit....
break it down
California hated everywhere (out of the same envy that forms the words “rebel scum”) – check
So Cal hated within rest of California (same envy issues) – check
OC hated by rest of SoCal (ditto envy and multiply it in fact) – check
Multiply by number of times your friend who doesn’t know crud about baseball mistakenly calls your favorite team “The A’s”.
Add in mocking the name change and the mascot.
PAYROLL: Rebel Alliance built massive fleet (note Admiral Ackbar’s sweet cadillac star cruiser) with great payroll, still called “rebel scum”.
RECENT SUCCESS: Lots of recent success in establishing contacts in the hinterlands of Mos Eisely, garnered no respect form intergalactic confederation of star systems.
Bottom Line: Angels are loathed where they are not ignored completely. National profile reduced to cult of Mike Scioscia used as an example by fans of teams when they want to shitcan their manager.
Repeat after me: Underdogs. Rebel Scum. Rally Monkey. Here we come.
by Rev Halofan on Sep 15, 2011 11:35 AM PDT up reply actions
not to mention
the rebels destroyed the Death Star in A New Hope, which was obviously a major victory for them and a big blow to the Empire, and yet a short time afterwards they were hiding out on cold ass Hoth.
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by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
So everyone hates us, even our own state, therefore we are an underdog?
Everyone I know hates the Red Sox, are they underdogs?
This team SHOULD be good, they arent due to terrible management and trades. That isn’t an “underdog” thats an “underachiever”
You cannot tag yourself underdog because of:
-East Coast Bias
-Uninformed Non-Baseball Fans
-The team isn’t well liked.
None of that makes sense. You are still applying a tag to the franchise that hasn’t been a reality in nearly a decade. Its embarrassing. Lets start celebrating our touchdowns like we have been there before, gentlemen, instead of reacting like every division title is shocking and amazing like virgins touching our first boob.
I brought sexy back, but they only gave me store credit....
by PhiSlamma on Sep 15, 2011 12:19 PM PDT up reply actions 6 recs
Ah, memories!
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by Commander_Nate on Sep 15, 2011 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Eh, as someone who has lived in every part of California...
…north, middle and south, I think the envy hypothesis is self-petting BS. Very few northerners or dwellers of the San Joaquin envy the OC. There’s really not a lot there to envy. The tiny coastal villages, perhaps, but even those are not among the beauties of the Cali coast.
The rest of your argument is sound though. Angels are not a rival empire, and they are chiefly a regional team, bolstered by a passionate (but small) regional following.
The envy stuff is provincial overcompensation though. But it’s charming provincial overcompensation, in a hope-beyond-the-fences way, Rev.
by Turks Teeth on Sep 15, 2011 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
“I just said I’m being burned at the satke, how is that a victim’s complex?”
Halowood – 2010
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by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions
*stake
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by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
I thought satke was some new japanese rice wine drink
Official prediction: The Angels will win the AL west this season.
by RexTookMyStash on Sep 15, 2011 7:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought the same when I saw that
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by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 8:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Did you watch the last series in Oakland?
Of the 300 or so in attendance at each game, I swear it looked like half of them were wearing red. And when the Angels scored, you could hear a lot of cheering.
Trust the Deception
by Rally Manatee on Sep 15, 2011 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Oakland fans have learned not to go to the Oakland Coliseum
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
Not sure that that bolsters either side of the argument.
Oakland and Anaheim are both hamlets, and both minority interests in the grand scheme of baseball. And a Southwest flight between the two hamlets takes an hour, and can be bought for less than a hundred clams. Not surprising to find a smattering of Angel fans in an overwhelmingly empty stadium.
I get why so many people are rec’ing PhiSlamma’s posts, but I think they’re wrong. Angels are not that popular — if you’re someone that has to travel a lot for your work, you learn quite quickly that the Angels really don’t have a national profile.
Citing statistics like payroll and attendance to suggest a national fan profile misreads those statistics. Second-largest media market in the country, wealthy urban population, low ticket prices, lack of competing entertainment options like NFL/NBA — these explain a full Orange County stadium most nights more than an enthusiastic national fanbase does.
(And I realize this is not addressing your post so much as the entire thread, Manatee.)
You are correct sir.
Sometimes there will be a smattering of red in NY/Cleveland/Chicago/Arlington. But most of the time I am by myself.
I don’t get the impression that we are disliked, just mostly ignored
Well, come see a fat old man some time!
I think you're right
But FSW always tries so hard to convince us otherwise. They always zoom in on the 30 Angels fans at every stadium, accompanied by Gubi’s comments about how you’ll find Angels fans everywhere. If we were really a nationally recognized organization, they wouldn’t have to do that.
Trust the Deception
by Rally Manatee on Sep 16, 2011 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions
in fact, this just came out a couple weeks ago
“How the Hell Do the Angels Keep Winning?”
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by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 10:20 AM PDT up reply actions
Jeff Mathis
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
Win.
Official prediction: The Angels will win the AL west this season.
by RexTookMyStash on Sep 15, 2011 7:23 PM PDT up reply actions
FUN. RUINER.
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by Commander_Nate on Sep 15, 2011 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions
HE IS A BIG OLE MEANIE!
"Its like when i’m right…i’m right… and when i’m wrong…i could have been right..so i’m still right cause i could have been wrong"-Chevy Clarke's Twitter
just got an email from the Angels about ALDS tickets presale
I like the optimism!!!
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The bro and I have decided we are holding off for possible ALCS or WS
Price rises greatly with each round. WS tickets were $100 minimum when they went on pre-sale back in ’09.
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by Commander_Nate on Sep 15, 2011 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions
I'll prob get tix for each series and just throw them on my CC
then spend the entire offseason paying them off
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by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions
I will NEVER make the mistake of missing an Angels WS game again
if I get the chance.
I was too careful with my money in 2002, regarding that one issue. I figured the tickets would be out of reach. I have learned a lot since then.
THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!
sadly, I missed all those games
I was a struggling college student and had to spend those games waiting tables. I did spend most of the games in the bar watching, tips be damned!
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by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Going to games 1 and 6 was the BEST investment of my life
It cost A LOT, but the return was incredible. Add to that we went to games 1,2 of the ALDS/ Games 3,4 and5 of the ALCS…I was paying for this for years
Well, come see a fat old man some time!
I was in high school and worked at a clothing store
Spent much of that time period staring at the TVs in the windows of the Sony store across the way.
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by Commander_Nate on Sep 15, 2011 4:22 PM PDT up reply actions
lemme guess, Forever 21?
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by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 4:56 PM PDT up reply actions
I was in college in Oregon
I watched every game with a good friend who was a Giants fan. We were really contemplating buying tickets to game 5 in SF, skipping class and driving all night to get there. On the one hand, I’m kinda sad I didn’t. On the other, I feel a bit vindicated by the end result of that game, which was not pretty.
Defending maligned chants since 2009
I attended game 7
sports highlight of my life.
I just got my email about not being selected
for the Rangers ALDS tickets presale lottery. I hope this is not a sign. :)
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
AL West has no rivalries
I would cheer for the Rangers, A’s, or Mariners (in a non-Angels playoff scenario) over the Yank-Sox any day of the week.
Peace Texas!
I love this team.
by Downing Rules on Sep 15, 2011 10:20 AM PDT via iPhone app reply actions
exactly i cheered for them last u
Are you sure he was safe? It looked like an out to the entire statium. Well bad call Blue.
by Alavel on Sep 15, 2011 10:21 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
year against the giants
Are you sure he was safe? It looked like an out to the entire statium. Well bad call Blue.
by Alavel on Sep 15, 2011 10:22 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I only hated the Giants for 7 games in 2002
Before and after that they’ve had no bering on the Angels therefore I’ve had no reason to hate them. They are the enemy of our cross town rival. Isn’t the enemy of an enemy a friend?
Also their ballpark may be the most beautiful in all of the major leagues – at least view wise.
Closet Rockies supporter myself.
Ever since the Larry Walker, Dante Bichette, Andres Galarraga, Vinny Castilla steroid teams of my childhood. Fun to watch.
"I have one word for you...Be careful."
-Jose Guillen
No, the enemy of our enemy may still be our enemy, and they really are above considering a lowly team like Oakland their enemy. .
Those Giants fans bought tickets to the first Angels game in Oakland in 2003 just so they could boo Erstad. Most of them left before the game was at the halfway mark.
Besides, I lived up there for 9 years and went to a lot of A’s games and I saw how the Giants management behaved up close and ugly. I also saw how their fans behaved at A’s stadium, and it was more than annoying. They showed up for AL games wearing Giants caps and jerseys, and they made it clear how superior they were because their team was in SF and not in Oakland, even though a lot of them lived in the East Bay.
There were some ugly things that SF’s front office did that made us wince, made the sports reporters at the SF Chronicle wince.
And then there was Bonds. He lived in the East Bay and he was a problem for everyone else who lived in the East Bay and drove a car. He was a massive jerk, but he also ran people off the road. Fans waved to him and smiled, he flipped them off. And the Giants loved him despite all of his personal deficiencies. It’s kind of like the adoring and unquestioning worship of Manny.
In 2002 their fans were so rude to the Angels during the games in Candlestick that I thought they were worse than Yankees fans, and back then that was saying something.
THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!
I'm still okay with the Dodgers
I don’t actively root for them, but I grew up with them, so I’m okay with them being good. And thus, I hate the Giants. Not as much as I hate the A’s and Mariners, but I still hate them. I rooted for the Rangers over the Giants in the WS last year.
Defending maligned chants since 2009
If the A's are playing the Yankees/Red Sox
I turn off the TV and go outside.
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
and what the hell is wrong with that?
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oh, for a sticky wicket
I’m actually heading to Dublin tomorrow to catch the All Ireland Final in Gaelic Football. I like just about all sports….except maybe Shuffleboard…and Curling (shuffleboard on ice)
Well, come see a fat old man some time!
Ice dancing?
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
I used to watch just about anything, but I'm more selective as I get older
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Shuffleboard can be fun to play
Not to watch though
"Its like when i’m right…i’m right… and when i’m wrong…i could have been right..so i’m still right cause i could have been wrong"-Chevy Clarke's Twitter
baseball with no hitting, pitching or outs
or innings, or base coaches, or bases
Well, come see a fat old man some time!
But more sweeping
Which is just as good right?
"Its like when i’m right…i’m right… and when i’m wrong…i could have been right..so i’m still right cause i could have been wrong"-Chevy Clarke's Twitter
me as well
but i truly hate the A’s…just not as much as the MFY or the Sux
Well, come see a fat old man some time!
I feel the same about the Angels.
If your team makes the playoffs and play the skankees or Red Sux, I would have to break down and actually root for the Angels. I am just hoping I won’t have to experience that awkwardness this year.
"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." - Nolan Ryan
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you." - Reggie Jackson
So go Rays this weekend?
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
We have to pass them too.
So we actually need the Sox and Yankees to win a few against them. :/
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by Commander_Nate on Sep 15, 2011 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Plus we need to beat just about everyone for this all to work
"Its like when i’m right…i’m right… and when i’m wrong…i could have been right..so i’m still right cause i could have been wrong"-Chevy Clarke's Twitter
your point?
when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth
Well, come see a fat old man some time!
That's some faulty logic, Sherlock
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
can we mock you now AND in October?
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no doubt you will
I’ll be in London mon-thurs…I’ll be suffering time zone differential arm in arm
Well, come see a fat old man some time!
Occam's Razor
Is the idea that the simplest answer is likely correct.
This is Sherlock Holmes’s reason for solving all his ridiculous crimes.
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
Conan Doyle said exactly what Moondoggy said.
I’ve heard it expressed both ways, and when I looked at the explanation of Occam’s Razor, it’s closer to what you said but slightly more complex.
THIS… IS… ANAHEIM!!
It's not more complex
That’s the beauty of Occam’s Razor.
;)
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
Hmm
It seeems, all things being equal, that the simplest answer is that’s not complex and Occam did in fact come up with it.
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
Realistically
If we want a shot at the wild card, we have to go off in a big way, say 10-3 or 11-2 for the remainder of the season and hope TB/BOS losses happen on all the days we win. Not impossible, but not easy either.
As far as I’m concerned, we only have 3 starting pitchers from here on out.
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by Commander_Nate on Sep 15, 2011 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions
You're probably right
I remember 2005, going 12-2 to finish the season. That kind of run would help this year.
"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you." - Woody Hayes
by johnnyangel101 on Sep 15, 2011 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions
We actually want them to go back and forth beating each other.
Basically, 3 of 4 teams’ (Rangers, Yanks, Sox, Rays) winning % must stay put while we keep winning. If both the Yanks and Red Sox want to fail and let the Rays win, that would be fine too. The Yanks are pretty beat up right now. It’s not impossible.
Trust the Deception
by Rally Manatee on Sep 15, 2011 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions
I think a Rays sweep and Angels sweep would work
At which point we need both Boston and Tampa to keep losing.
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
I'm fine with Tampa taking the Wild Card if we come up short, rather than Boston
Watching Boston fall apart down the stretch and miss the playoffs in any fashion would be fantastic to watch.
The fact that there is a lively debate here at 10am on a day when there's not even a game
pennant fever
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Nice time zone math
Unless you’re stateside right now.
Then no props for you.
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
you forget, I have to do that calculation every single game
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Regardless
I have a hard time remembering when EPL games begin. I have DVR so I don’t have to do that kind of math.
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
It's automatic by now
I see a game time of 9.05 EST and I know it’s 2am
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Racist.
Arte Went Biblical sounded nice until it was clear it didn't involve sitting the twenty-three million dollar man.
by snowhor on Sep 15, 2011 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
If he was really being racist,
he would call the areas 18 inches to the right and left of home plate the black holes, since that’s where all Fernando Rodney’s pitches go
"I too played shortstop for many years until I was struck down by Acne and Baby Fat" HST
by No Bologna Polonia on Sep 15, 2011 12:15 PM PDT up reply actions
No, the correct reply would have been "Imposter."
Learn it.
Arte Went Biblical sounded nice until it was clear it didn't involve sitting the twenty-three million dollar man.
Is Rodney an imposter?
I’ll be damned! I didn’t know he was Dominican! Why did he get such a good contract then? He could have been so easily purchased for a bag of chips
"I too played shortstop for many years until I was struck down by Acne and Baby Fat" HST
by No Bologna Polonia on Sep 15, 2011 12:22 PM PDT up reply actions
No, the correct reply to Racist is Imposter.
Your Rodney tangent, while accurate in its description of his pitching ability, ruined a perfectly good opportunity to play the Racist/Imposter game.
Arte Went Biblical sounded nice until it was clear it didn't involve sitting the twenty-three million dollar man.
i ruin everything...
"I too played shortstop for many years until I was struck down by Acne and Baby Fat" HST
by No Bologna Polonia on Sep 15, 2011 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Racist
"Its like when i’m right…i’m right… and when i’m wrong…i could have been right..so i’m still right cause i could have been wrong"-Chevy Clarke's Twitter
Very good
I was hoping to give him a chance to redeem himself though!
"Its like when i’m right…i’m right… and when i’m wrong…i could have been right..so i’m still right cause i could have been wrong"-Chevy Clarke's Twitter
Racist.
Arte Went Biblical sounded nice until it was clear it didn't involve sitting the twenty-three million dollar man.
Raceposter!!!
Damn it!! I just suck at this game
"I too played shortstop for many years until I was struck down by Acne and Baby Fat" HST
by No Bologna Polonia on Sep 15, 2011 9:46 PM PDT up reply actions
This is the kind of crap that feeds east coast bias
By giving no credence to our AL West rivalry, we give no one else any reason to pay attention. Sorry for being a downer but it’s reality.
"Boy, did he drop a huge deuce in the stands!" (About a two-run homer)
Rex Hudler
Why fight a losing battle?
There are no circumstances whereby they are going to give a team from the West priority (note Lakers coverage always filtered as how it affects Heat/Celtics/Knicks). Citing a bazillion examples but one that sticks out is how Tim McCarver on a national broadcast talked about the Yankees almost making the world series in 2005. No mention of losing to the Angels in the ALDS. One of a bazillion examples.
When we beat them they conveniently forget so when we beat someone else in a galaxy far far away it does not even register so the only thing we can do is always beat them.
by Rev Halofan on Sep 15, 2011 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
That's true but .....
this post sounds more like we’d rather get in on a Boston collapse than beat them for recognition. We won’t be talked about for how we beat Boston and kept them out of the post-season because we wouldn’t have beat them. The discussion will be about the great Boston collapse. Anyway that we make it to post-season is how I like to get to post-season but if there’s a choice I would always rather see them win their way in. We’d be discussed far more for being the team that stuck around and made it with rookies than the team that snuck in under a collapse. That’s just my opinion anyway.
"Boy, did he drop a huge deuce in the stands!" (About a two-run homer)
Rex Hudler
by devildogamp on Sep 15, 2011 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
love the sig
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by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks
I got it from Rex’s Wiki page lol
"Boy, did he drop a huge deuce in the stands!" (About a two-run homer)
Rex Hudler
by devildogamp on Sep 15, 2011 12:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I literally laughed out loud.
Official prediction: The Angels will win the AL west this season.
by RexTookMyStash on Sep 15, 2011 7:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Ya but
TX has to kind of collapse for us to win too. So, either way, we’re relying on another team to falter for us to win.
Trust the Deception
by Rally Manatee on Sep 15, 2011 2:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Not necessarily
Texas plays LAA enough for LAA to “win” their way in.
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
At this moment, you are wrong.
We are 3 1/2 out, so the 3 head-to-head will be meaningless unless TX loses at least 2 while we win 2 in between now and that final series.
Trust the Deception
by Rally Manatee on Sep 16, 2011 12:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Underdog mentality...
It’s in our DNA as Angel fans to look at ourselves as underdogs. For 30 years our team got “and in other games the Angels mention” on the local news even when our team was stronger than the Dodgers. Then the four letter network came around and they are based in the Northeast and populated their staff with NYC or Boston homers. beating the west is nice but sticking it to the man that drives all that east coast bias is clearly more fun.
I think you meant to say Wonder dog mentallity
"I too played shortstop for many years until I was struck down by Acne and Baby Fat" HST
by No Bologna Polonia on Sep 15, 2011 12:25 PM PDT up reply actions
I love this thread..
Official prediction: The Angels will win the AL west this season.
by RexTookMyStash on Sep 15, 2011 7:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Hudler just said I made him laugh on Facebook
my life is complete
"You realize that Ive been posting on AN since 07 on this name and I am one of the most rec'ed posters there right?" - Some tool named Designatedforassignment from Athletics Nation
your life complete because Hudler said you made him laugh
made my life complete
I take it you don't have the DOV Secret Decoder Ring
You need to drink more ovaltine
-Quad Fin Rider
by DAD OF VLAD on Sep 15, 2011 12:13 PM PDT up reply actions
wow
I didn’t think your life would be complete until you had baby #50
"You realize that Ive been posting on AN since 07 on this name and I am one of the most rec'ed posters there right?" - Some tool named Designatedforassignment from Athletics Nation
by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions
my roster also expaned in sept.
so i have 50 and now you ;)
I take it you don't have the DOV Secret Decoder Ring
You need to drink more ovaltine
-Quad Fin Rider
What's so funny on the facebook?
Arte Went Biblical sounded nice until it was clear it didn't involve sitting the twenty-three million dollar man.
I was just being a smartass to one of his questions for the fans
"You realize that Ive been posting on AN since 07 on this name and I am one of the most rec'ed posters there right?" - Some tool named Designatedforassignment from Athletics Nation
by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Now I now your real name..
Angelswin blogger straight trying to recruit!!! Haha
"Every time I think I’m out, they pull me back in" -George Costanza
by Howie's Batting Title on Sep 15, 2011 12:40 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
yeah, but I put him in his place real quick
hahaha
"You realize that Ive been posting on AN since 07 on this name and I am one of the most rec'ed posters there right?" - Some tool named Designatedforassignment from Athletics Nation
by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Haha I saw that!
I’m Naz
"Every time I think I’m out, they pull me back in" -George Costanza
by Howie's Batting Title on Sep 15, 2011 12:53 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
...and now I know your real name
identity theft FTW!
"You realize that Ive been posting on AN since 07 on this name and I am one of the most rec'ed posters there right?" - Some tool named Designatedforassignment from Athletics Nation
by 2pintsofbooze on Sep 15, 2011 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Ha!
"Every time I think I’m out, they pull me back in" -George Costanza
by Howie's Batting Title on Sep 15, 2011 1:00 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I hope nobody figures out my name
"Its like when i’m right…i’m right… and when i’m wrong…i could have been right..so i’m still right cause i could have been wrong"-Chevy Clarke's Twitter
I know it, just can't ptonounce it!
Ryan-fff-eee….??
"Every time I think I’m out, they pull me back in" -George Costanza
by Howie's Batting Title on Sep 15, 2011 3:06 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I LOVED land of the lost
it is a great movie
i mean no Star Wars
but it is great
and the chick from pushing daisies is hot
I take it you don't have the DOV Secret Decoder Ring
You need to drink more ovaltine
-Quad Fin Rider
This reads like terrible poetry
Unlike this cat, my love for the LAA will never die.
by NathanielS on Sep 15, 2011 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
kinda like haiku for the slow
Well, come see a fat old man some time!
by Moondoggy on Sep 15, 2011 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Ha!
"Every time I think I’m out, they pull me back in" -George Costanza
by Howie's Batting Title on Sep 15, 2011 3:14 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Awesome!
You know they will be shaking in their britches when we swagger into Yankee Stadium with a Green Monster’s head on the end of a stick and announce that it is time to do a little touch up on the Derek Jeter painting.
Great line there, Rev. However, I know you’re talking about what might be more gratifying, not what is more likely, but just the fact that we have 3 head-to-head with TX makes winning the division more realistic.
Trust the Deception
What's scary if we don't trim this three game lead..
And go into the last series against Texas, having to sweep, just to force a one game playoff! :|
"Every time I think I’m out, they pull me back in" -George Costanza
by Howie's Batting Title on Sep 15, 2011 3:18 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
You'll be thankful it's not a 4 game lead.
"I have something 95 percent of all those All-Stars only wish they had: a World Series ring. If I had to choose between that and being an All-Star, it would be no contest. I’d grab the gold ring and never look back." -Tim Salmon
That's a good way to look at it!!
"Every time I think I’m out, they pull me back in" -George Costanza
by Howie's Batting Title on Sep 15, 2011 3:32 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
At least a 3 game deficit to enter the final series against TEX would give the Angels some control over an AL West finish.
Any deficit less than 3 or even a lead would be gravy. I just don’t want the last series to be futile.
Breakdown going into the final series
2 or 3 GB entering the final series is walking the tight rope:
(# of games back entering 9/26):
3 GB = sweep to force a tie
2 GB = sweep to win AL West
1 GB = sweep to win AL West, 2 out of 3 forces a tie
0 GB = Win 2 out of 3 games to clinch AL West.
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Angels 2011 W-L record with the alternate red jersey: 17-11
Or heaven forbid we have the lead! haha
Now that Lackey has turned to the enemy lets kick his ass
by Angelsrthebest101 on Sep 15, 2011 6:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I wish that would literally happen
Tim Salmon: The once and future Kingfish.
by Teixeira Who? on Sep 15, 2011 5:38 PM PDT up reply actions
it did; now 4-1 after 4 innings
...on the road....
by Jack Kerouac on Sep 15, 2011 5:46 PM PDT up reply actions
more Indians fail
bases juiced with one out and they didn’t score
Rec'd
For the Drew Carey reference.
Tim Salmon: The once and future Kingfish.
by Teixeira Who? on Sep 15, 2011 6:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I work with a die-hard Indians fan...
I used to root for them, then I felt sorry for him…now I just hate his weak ass team
Indians - Rangers update
Men on 2nd & 3rd one out…Naps at the plate
Cleveland sucks! Cleveland sucks!
Now that Lackey has turned to the enemy lets kick his ass
by Angelsrthebest101 on Sep 15, 2011 6:02 PM PDT reply actions
I see that I am late to the battle.
That’s Ok. I already did my Stand Up For California post here, back in 2008.
But I shall paste it again in this thread for ease of use:
Dear America,
California says to each and every one of you: you’re welcome.
You’re welcome for California agriculture. The breadbasket of the nation, growing more fruit and produce than any other State. Ranking #1 producers in many fruits, vegetables, and nuts. We have more cotton than Mississippi. More dairy than Wisconsin. 100% of all almonds. 91% of all grapes. 21% of all nursery. 13% of all hay. 71% of all lettuce. 40% of all oranges. 10% of all potatoes. 19% of all rice. 83% of all strawberries. 53% of all tomotoes.
You’re welcome for California mechanical engineering. Californians developed, tested, and manufactured the aircraft that ruled the skies and defeated Nazi Germany, defeated Imperial Japan, held off the Communist USSR and China. Californians engineered, developed, and deployed the spy satellite technology that changed forever our ability to monitor our enemies throughout the world and keep you safe in your beds at night. Californians engineered and constructed the systems and crafts that put mankind on the moon, and returned them safely to Earth. We created, built and still drive the robots on Mars. Our devices navigate the Solar System for the sake of your knowledge. We created, and our ears are listening to, the most distant probes ever sent into Creation. And more and more every day, our designers are revolutionizing the vehicles you need to convey you and yours to work and play.
You’re welcome for Californian computer technology innovation. Graphical User Interfaces. Hand-held personal computing, communications, and entertainment revolutions. Global internet switching and routing. 98% of all personal computer "brains" on planet Earth. The sheer ability to store anything and everything you create on an electronic keyboard, and the over-powering ability to search through all that everything and anything and reclaim your precious thoughts.
You’re welcome for Californian creativity. For 100 years we have created, developed, written, produced, crafted, recorded, edited, packaged, promoted, and exported more visual media, and more of the most influential visual media, than the rest of humanity combined, over all recorded history. Through this effort we have, for better or worse, extended the influence of American culture and American values to the balance of human civilization. Nations have risen, and societies revolutionized, in no small part due to the result of this influence on other parts of this planet.
You’re welcome for our athletic acheivements. More of those US Olympic medalists throughout history are from this State than any other, by huge margins. We give you more baseball players, more football players, more soccer players, more swimmers. We claim more collegiate national athletic titles than any other State.
And you’re welcome for the Californian ability to refresh and enliven your every day of existence. Our musicians make you dance, and smile, and you sing our songs. Our electonic gaming industry babysits your children. From surfboards to snowboards to sailboards, we teach you how to enjoy your personal time, to which we would add the invention of the theme park for the sake of your entire family. Our property tax revolution keeps your hard-earned money in your wallet, and our federal tax imbalance funds all the government pork projects in your neighborhoods. Our wine brings happiness to your gatherings. Our sexual revolution made your late nights more personally rewarding.
And, in times of trouble, you are welcome for our charity and our manpower.
Think nothing of it, America. It’s on us.
Against stupidity the very Gods themselves toil in vain.
by Stirrups on Sep 15, 2011 6:03 PM PDT reply actions 4 recs
And Halosheaven
is (mostly) moderated from here. You’re so lucky, America.
"The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness." - Annie Savoy
Indian's broadcasters...
talking about how Ogando was involved in illigal visa scam in the DR
too bad it wasn't Mathis
...on the road....
by Jack Kerouac on Sep 15, 2011 6:08 PM PDT up reply actions
just riffing off the illegal nature of the visa scam
didn’t relevance was a requisite on this blog
Well, come see a fat old man some time!
I get it...
It was pretty funny to hear the announcer go off for a couple of minutes on all the details.
Cokeheads game thread if any one is interested.
http://www.halosheaven.com/2011/9/15/2428280/gamethread-wahoos-vs-cokebacks
Now that Lackey has turned to the enemy lets kick his ass
by Angelsrthebest101 on Sep 15, 2011 6:23 PM PDT reply actions
BTW
where on earth is this photo taken where they were doing Liberace impressions?
I'm an Angels fan
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