Fielder to Dodgers?
I love this. As someone who doesn't hate the Dodgers as much as others on this blog does, I love the rivalry possibilities that this could bring. I also love that it would prevent him from going to the Rangers and it would force their hands to either overpay Darvish or admit to having a pretty terrible off season.
I know its farfetched, but I think I can dream
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ItCouldHappen
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Sad part is
had McBroke actually sold the team earlier instead of dragging things out, Fielder to the Doyers would have been a scary real possibility.
"Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The rest is covered by Peter Bourjos" ~ markinca
yeah
But com’on wouldnt that have been fun, to watch Albert and Prince in the same market, all the flair all the fireworks that would go along? not to mention him not being on the rangers?
When I flip a coin I dont say heads or tails, I say Halos or Spurs
by ItCouldHappen on Jan 10, 2012 10:46 PM PST up reply actions
I would actually want him to go to Texas.
It would make things super interesting not only the AL West but the entire American League.
Representing the Angels in Sin City.
by maze88 on Jan 10, 2012 10:50 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
I really want the Cubbies to sign him.
I really hope (and think) Theo can break their curse, too. Anyone who wouldn’t root for the Cubs in the World Series (except against the Halos) hates America.
by Halowitz on Jan 10, 2012 11:14 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
my bro is a bigtime chicago cubs fan.....
that would be nice…… I wouldnt mind him signing with Texas, i just wouldnt mind seeing them implode either
When I flip a coin I dont say heads or tails, I say Halos or Spurs
by ItCouldHappen on Jan 10, 2012 11:21 PM PST up reply actions
But, that would cause the entire space-time continuum to collapse, and cause the end of the world on Dec 21 2012!!!
If the Halos don't care about the way they play, then why should I?
Not THAT big a deal
You got 3 years, Epstein
by Halowitz on Jan 11, 2012 9:12 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
ya
Worst, most confusing back tot eh future movie
Nothing says Sundays like the thump of an Andy Lee punt followed by the frantic backpedaling of a return man.
- jveezy
take that back
3 was the best
TRAINS, GUNS, and MIDGETS
Forget Tebow
Andy Lee is the second coming of Jesus
-ME
by DAD OF VLAD on Jan 12, 2012 10:38 AM PST up reply actions
B2TF the tv show was better then
B2TF part 2
Forget Tebow
Andy Lee is the second coming of Jesus
-ME
by DAD OF VLAD on Jan 12, 2012 12:12 PM PST up reply actions
I bet you like Indy Jones and the Crystal Skull
better then the other three
Forget Tebow
Andy Lee is the second coming of Jesus
-ME
by DAD OF VLAD on Jan 12, 2012 12:29 PM PST up reply actions
BTTF2 IS pretty complicated and hard to follow...
if you’re 5 years old.
"Lose your pants and only good things can happen."-MayhemInTheHood
by Mayheminthehood on Jan 12, 2012 1:25 PM PST up reply actions
UGHUSHUHFHKJ..........
You play baseball like a girl
Forget Tebow
Andy Lee is the second coming of Jesus
-ME
Me no understnad
Forget Tebow
Andy Lee is the second coming of Jesus
-ME
by DAD OF VLAD on Jan 12, 2012 10:38 AM PST up reply actions
Wrong
rooting for the Cubs to fail is a time-honored American tradition that brings tears of joy to my eyes every year.
This is a sig.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Jan 11, 2012 11:30 AM PST up reply actions
They would boat race the Angels with Fielder.
DO NOT WANT
Willits? Check. Reagins? Check. Mathis? Check
It would make
the interleague games and exhibition games that much more fun to watch. Anything that hinders Texas at this point, I’m all for it.
"Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The rest is covered by Peter Bourjos" ~ markinca
by blast21dave on Jan 10, 2012 11:44 PM PST up reply actions
SITE RULE:
HEADLINE MUST CONVEY SUBJECT.
Go scrawl poetry about ambiguities on the bathroom wall not here.
my bad and apologies
I didnt know the URL title would be the headline when I was filling that out
When I flip a coin I dont say heads or tails, I say Halos or Spurs
by ItCouldHappen on Jan 11, 2012 12:17 AM PST up reply actions
all good
Thanks for your attention to this.
by Rev Halofan on Jan 11, 2012 12:58 AM PST up reply actions
I don't really hate the dodgers either.
I guess all those times of sittin on my as lap listening to vin scully announce Shawn Greens 4 home runs softened me up.
"Baseball is beautiful. It is the only sport in which you can fail 70% of the time and still be considered the greatest player"
by Halos2011champs on Jan 11, 2012 6:32 AM PST via mobile reply actions
Hate is a matter of relevancy
Why would I hate the Dodgers, when have they kept the Angels out of the playoffs? When have the Dodgers won a World Series Ring? Dodgers are nothing to me. I’m too busy hating on the Red Sox (which is waning), Yankees, and most importantly the Rangers.
RIP Nick Adenhart 4/9/09
I blog about the Angels at First2Third.net
I never liked the Dodgers as a kid because of Vin Scully's voice on the TV broadcasts
I can appreciate him now, but when you’re a kid, he his the most boring monotone person to listen to ever.
Then I must be a kid at heart.
Because I still have a hard time listening to Vin. He is easily (in my opinion) one of the hardest announcers to listen to. He just drones on and on, pointing out things that have very little to do with what’s on the field, and constantly pimping Farmer John’s Doyer Dogs. I always expect him during a telecast to say “Bueller..Bueller..Bueller…”
YOU DON'T KNOW THE POWER OF THE DARKSIDE.....
Pujols > Fielder
Angels > Dodgers
up yours Texas
Nothing says Sundays like the thump of an Andy Lee punt followed by the frantic backpedaling of a return man.
- jveezy
^this^
"We are the JeDi, the ultimate power in the universe. We will do as we choose. And we will destroy any who dare stand in our way."
I agree completely
And Texas is for bitches, but It would be nice because it would force ESPN to pay attention to the two teams on the west coast….. maybe they can even put some stupid thing on the homepage like “Catching Fire in LA” where they track the performances of the two players and teams
When I flip a coin I dont say heads or tails, I say Halos or Spurs
by ItCouldHappen on Jan 11, 2012 10:03 AM PST up reply actions
Wanting Fielder to go to Texas AND a Spurs mention in your sig line?
GET HEEEEEEEMMMM!
Winning doesn't matter. -Lyle
Hated Shaq with a passion when I was growing up
Loved Robinson because he was everything Shaq wasn’t, smart, polite, multidimensional (Shaq in his 18 years could never develop a skill set that involved him facing the basket, Robinson has a great post up and a great facing the basket game) and most importantly articulate. Listening to Shaq was like listening to the posters on here whose first post is a Fanpost with 15 subjects and no thesis. Duncan echoed those skills and attitude, and Manu was just Manu.
When I flip a coin I dont say heads or tails, I say Halos or Spurs
by ItCouldHappen on Jan 11, 2012 10:33 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Just messin' around, my friend.
No explanations necessary, I’m a Bulls fan, through and through.
Winning doesn't matter. -Lyle
I do!
I hate the Dodgers, always have and always will!! I love seeing them suck…
"I Bleed Angel red"
My competitive nature cannot allow me to get excited about a rival team acquiring a good player.
I’ve seen that sort of sentiment on this site before("Baseball is SO much better when both the Dodgers and the Angels are playing well!), and I just don’t understand it. Either you’re a closet Dodger fan, albeit in denial, or the killer instinct which men depended on throughout history to give their family food and shelter(and on a macro level, keep our species marching on, past pestilence, war and cataclysm) is missing from your DNA.
The enemy is down. Don’t take your boot off of their neck.
"Lose your pants and only good things can happen."-MayhemInTheHood
by Mayheminthehood on Jan 11, 2012 9:46 AM PST reply actions 6 recs
Is it safe to assume that you don't root for whichever AL West team makes it the playoffs?
The Angels fans who jumped on the Rangers’ bandwagon in 2010 and 2011 always infuriated me.
Winning doesn't matter. -Lyle
Hell no. No AL West teams, no Dodgers/Yankees/Red Sox. Outside of those, I root for underdog or team that hasn't won it yet.
If the Angels gotta go down, then may all their rivals go down in flames with them. Good luck to whatever teams are left.
"Lose your pants and only good things can happen."-MayhemInTheHood
by Mayheminthehood on Jan 11, 2012 10:35 AM PST up reply actions 9 recs
^^^ ABSOLUTELY THIS ^^^
You speak my kind of fan-irrationality Mayhem!
"Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The rest is covered by Peter Bourjos" ~ markinca
by blast21dave on Jan 11, 2012 11:08 AM PST up reply actions
I agree with Mayhem....
The team I would least like to see win the Series at this point is the Dodgers…The Red Sox would have to be second and The Rangers third.
My thinking is this: even though I technically hate the Red Sox and their fans more than the Dodgers and their fans, a Dodgers World Series Championship would be more painful to me personally (and I assume most of us as Angels fans) just because they haven’t won it for so long and because they are a natural geographical rival. Imagine how much more pompous and intolerable that sea of blue would become when we visit Dodger Stadium and how much more difficult it would be to deal with the Doyer fans during our annual get-together at Angels Stadium. They would be in our face and insufferable.
In contrast, because the Red Sox have won it recently and have also been beaten by us in a playoff series recently the effect of another title for them would not be so great as if the Dodgers somehow won it. The Dodgers winning the Series against us would be my worst nightmare.
Word.
Seriously, fuck the Doyers (my F bomb for January). I never root for any other AL West team. Ever. And like you, I will pull for the underdog. Unless of course that underdog is from the AL West, skanks, bosux. Or the Doyers.
YOU DON'T KNOW THE POWER OF THE DARKSIDE.....
What about Texas v Yankees?
that was a tough one for me, i mean rooting for Giants or Cards was obvious, and rooting for Tampa Bay over Texas in the DS last year was easy, buy the Texas v Yankees ALCS two years ago was tough….. also the Texas v Detroit last year. I went for detroit but rooted against verlander
When I flip a coin I dont say heads or tails, I say Halos or Spurs
by ItCouldHappen on Jan 11, 2012 10:35 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah, it was really tough, but I just kept fantasizing about both teams losing somehow.
To be honest, though, the Rangers are my most despised team of all time. So I did end up rooting for the Yankees.
Winning doesn't matter. -Lyle
interesting
For me its the Red Sox hands down
When I flip a coin I dont say heads or tails, I say Halos or Spurs
by ItCouldHappen on Jan 11, 2012 11:03 AM PST up reply actions
I completely understand that logic.
The Rangers have always pissed me off in a way that I can’t quite describe.
Winning doesn't matter. -Lyle
Learn Your History!!!!
If you know ANYTHING about the Angels birth as the ORIGINAL NATIVE CALIFORNIA BASEBALL TEAM and the Brooklyn Landgrabers cozy dealings to prevent them from competing for market share, banishing them to the OC Orange groves, keeping them poor and unable to attract and keep top talent. Then have even an inkling of how stuck up and pricky their fans get when they win (Think that fat kid who stole Pee Wee Herman’s bike, or a barely understandable extra from American Me who got all the questions on Wheel of Fortune right and wants to tell you about it from 1988 to 2001) there’s just no way you can enjoy both teams.
It’s like saying you love running track AND having Tuberculosis. You may want to be chill with those who go for dah Doyers, but they still think you root for a second class team.
F -Them.
Tim Salmon + Yankee cap = HOF.
by gitchogritchoffmypetis on Jan 11, 2012 10:51 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Si. Reply fail.
Tim Salmon + Yankee cap = HOF.
by gitchogritchoffmypetis on Jan 12, 2012 3:52 PM PST up reply actions
Read that last part
as F minus them.
Which is probably still valid. They deserve a grade of F-
"Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The rest is covered by Peter Bourjos" ~ markinca
by blast21dave on Jan 11, 2012 11:58 PM PST up reply actions
Oh I know my history....
My history is that the Angels and Dodgers as of yet have not played a World series against each other.
Sure they were the Los Angeles Angels before the Dodgers came to Los Angeles and they deserve a right to the market but at the same time, had teams like the Dodgers or Giants not come to the west coast would teams like the Angels have made it into the majors or would the Major Leagues still have been an east coast club and the Angels would still be in a glorified AAAA league like the old PCL?
I find most of the rivalry between the two teams to be entirely frivolous and I choose not to participate in it. Granted I haven’t had to deal with Dodgers fan being jerks to me (and I am not a jerk to my friends who are Dodgers fans), and maybe if I had I would have a different feeling. Also I have never really lived in an era when the Dodgers were winners (born in 1989), but in my mind I find the rivalry to be entirely contrived by fans.
When I flip a coin I dont say heads or tails, I say Halos or Spurs
by ItCouldHappen on Jan 12, 2012 12:48 AM PST up reply actions
You're right.
They never would have put baseball teams in the major west coast cities without the Doyers moving west and we should all hope the teams we hate will make it into the World Series if it will make for a good World Series. Usually, when I dislike something, I don’t wish it most of the success in the world.
Tim Salmon + Yankee cap = HOF.
by gitchogritchoffmypetis on Jan 12, 2012 4:15 PM PST up reply actions
Im not arguing that you should wish them success.
But don’t you ever enjoy baseball for baseball’s sake? I wasn’t suggesting rooting for the dodgers, but wouldn’t a freeway series be pretty cool? Wouldn’t it be nice to beat the dodgers and to be in the LA area during a world series like that?
And would the Angels have become a major league team without the Dodgers moving to LA? Its actually an interesting question. Here’s the wiki article which I revisited: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Los_Angeles_Angels_of_Anaheim
Based on this it seems that O’Malley, owner of the PCL Angels and the Dodgers, was the architect of the two teams sharing the market in LA (in addition to the AL and NL fearing a third league). So who knows what would happen if Dodger owner O’Malley had bought the Hollywood stars instead of the Angels? Or if an AL team had come out west instead of NL teams?
I’m not trying to say we are in debt to the Dodgers, I’m just suggesting that the two franchises are fairly intertwined in the origins of ML baseball in Los Angeles.
However I have had generally positive experiences with Dodger fans so I can only see my perspective and I’m sure that it is younger and smaller than your perspective so I reserve judgement.
When I flip a coin I dont say heads or tails, I say Halos or Spurs
by ItCouldHappen on Jan 12, 2012 5:11 PM PST up reply actions
Hmmm. I'm not sure.
But I think you think O’Malley had more to do with the Angels being created than he did. Like I am saying, not sure, but if I remember right it was all Autry and the only thing O’malley had to do with it was moving the PCL Angels elsewhere and getting a pile of money from Autry for the name.
I know for a fact O’ Malley didn’t appreciate the competition for butts in seats.
I love this team, I love this blog, I will never doubt Arte again and I can't wait to see what happens this year. That is all.
by gitchogritchoffmypetis on Jan 13, 2012 3:13 PM PST up reply actions
I'm a pretty young dude so my memory comes from google
And I think you’re right that Autry was critical in taking the angels to the next step. But clearly O’Malley was a dude who knew the potential of MLs in LA and so he approached it on two sides, buying a local PCL team and buying the rights to an ML team in the market and then finally buying the Dodgers, bringing them to LA and then selling the Angels to Autry
However, before buying the Angels, Autry was a part owner of the Hollywood Stars and apparently decided to jump ship because it was clear that the Angels were gonna be the ML team not the Stars.
At this point the Angels were admitted into the AL through Autry’s efforts, and due to an agreement in their sales they played their first season or two in Chavez Ravine before completing their own stadium.
So again I have to wonder had O’Malley bought the Stars instead of the Angels would they have been the team that made it to the AL?
This is not to take anything away from Autry or the joy he gave us by ensuring the angels got into the AL almost single handily. But it is interesting how the two teams came to be in the southland and the connections between the two.
Again Im a young dude so I am going off of some research and not experience so I might be completely wrong
When I flip a coin I dont say heads or tails, I say Halos or Spurs
by ItCouldHappen on Jan 13, 2012 3:46 PM PST up reply actions
I want this to happen
Just so us kicking their asses in the World Series can be a real possibility again.
Scioscialist Party of America - Redistributing your defense since 2000.
by Commander_Nate on Jan 11, 2012 10:00 AM PST reply actions
Precisely....
How great would that be a world series, Weaver v Kershaw, Fielder and Pujols
When I flip a coin I dont say heads or tails, I say Halos or Spurs
by ItCouldHappen on Jan 11, 2012 10:04 AM PST up reply actions
You know what would be great?
A 100 year world series drought for the boys in blue.
And 42 titles for the angels so the Yankees can shut up.
Tim Salmon + Yankee cap = HOF.
by gitchogritchoffmypetis on Jan 11, 2012 10:52 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Never been a closet Dodger fan, EVER!
I grew up in LA well before the 02 season and can tell you with the utmost sincerity, i have always hated the Dodger.. Believe me, being the only Angel fan in elementary, HS and half of college (lots of banwagon after 02) was not a fun thing, but i always rep’d my gear and never backed down….
"I Bleed Angel red"
As much as I dislike the Dodgers
I’d rather have Fielder play for them than put him in the Bandbox at Arlington 81 times a year and impact the Angels.
by JeffJoiner on Jan 11, 2012 3:11 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Scott Boras is leading us through mind games....
vs
I am officially baffled and confused those reports were only a few hours apart.
When I flip a coin I dont say heads or tails, I say Halos or Spurs
huh technology fail
I tried to use the link button but it doesn’t seem to work so I will just add the two links
vs
When I flip a coin I dont say heads or tails, I say Halos or Spurs
by ItCouldHappen on Jan 11, 2012 3:29 PM PST up reply actions
think he could play 3rd?
When I flip a coin I dont say heads or tails, I say Halos or Spurs
by ItCouldHappen on Jan 11, 2012 4:03 PM PST up reply actions
Itcouldhappen
i have a trumboner.
by truhalo on Jan 11, 2012 5:40 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Fielder
to the Royals :)
me and the wonder dog got high!
by YOUknowulovetheIE on Jan 11, 2012 9:39 PM PST via mobile reply actions
Wait? Where would Fielder play for the Doyers?
He’s blocked by James Loney right?
Tim Salmon + Yankee cap = HOF.
by gitchogritchoffmypetis on Jan 11, 2012 10:54 PM PST reply actions
seems kinda like worrying about pujols blocking trumbo
by Balls and Strikes on Jan 13, 2012 5:49 PM PST up reply actions
I always thought Pierre was granderson in his NL alter ego outfit.
Tim Salmon + Yankee cap = HOF.
by gitchogritchoffmypetis on Jan 12, 2012 3:52 PM PST reply actions
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