Final Offseason Friday

by Rev Halofan on Feb 17, 2012 7:01 AM PST in Team Lore

The Offseason is almost over and the 2012 Preseason is about to begin. No matter how long you have followed this team, this time it seems different, it seems like maybe the whole damn franchise is about to break on through to the other side. Can you still recall the times we cried? These might be the last days of the Angels as you have known them. Take one last long look before you have to share this team with the rest of the world...

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Albert Pujols 2012 RBI Over/Under

120 or more

362 votes

119 or less

219 votes

581 votes | Poll has closed

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Getting on base has always been an issue for the Angels

That’ll be what prevents Pujols from reaching those RBI totals.

"Just another Halo victory" - Rory Markas

by Slyintine on Feb 17, 2012 7:09 AM PST reply actions

who cares?

now is the time to be dreaming lofty dreams, not miring yourself in the wretch that is reality. just be happy that baseball will be starting pretty soon and we have a pujols in our line-up and a rotation that will strangle opponents.

and then what?

by contagious_arc on Feb 17, 2012 8:09 AM PST up reply actions

That was my thinking too

Hope I am so so soooo wrong.

Kick Texas' Pujols!

by Halo Hurricane on Feb 17, 2012 12:17 PM PST up reply actions

God so excited for this season

Each year I fall more in love with Baseball and more in love with the Angels. Now with a kid on the way, I’m so excited to share this game with him or her. We’ll get to re-enact a picture from when my wife was three weeks old — she went to her first baseball game, an Angels White Sox game in 1982.

I love reading the stories about how these big TV deals are democratizing Baseball. I love that we signed big guns and kept our young players. I can’t wait to see if we build on last season.

Most of all I can’t wait to get to the ballpark. Last year at Spring training, during the National Anthem I just kept saying, Baseball is back. And it wasn’t even an Angels game.

Let's Go P-BO!

by Kent Nichols on Feb 17, 2012 9:21 AM PST reply actions

She gets HIGH!

I love how bored/annoyed Morrison looks while lip-synching the words (and having to adhere to the moral standards that prohibited him from singing – and radio stations from playing – the full lyrics).

I’m anxious for some baseball. Even spring training games with single-A players will do.

by jjackflash on Feb 17, 2012 10:27 AM PST reply actions

Let get to the Playoffs and see where it goes from there

When I'm not at the stadium, I'd rather be watching my Halos back in Costa Rica!

by Dono Romantico on Feb 17, 2012 10:36 AM PST reply actions

Got me in a doors mood now. I'll throw one out there for all the pre 2002 fans.

How it felt pre 2002:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwMc0TjW_6Y

by Darth Duane on Feb 17, 2012 10:38 AM PST reply actions

It's going to feel a little weird this ST

When we aren’t dreading that guy standing between Wilson and Weaver somehow “earning” a ton of playing time.

by ~MMP~ on Feb 17, 2012 11:14 AM PST reply actions

No Mathis!

So excited for this.

by Wytelitning on Feb 17, 2012 11:18 AM PST up reply actions

I know the Pujols/Wilson signings were the big splash this year...

… but nothing filled me with more joy than the trading away of Mathis. I can’t wait for the season to start.

by thetooth on Feb 17, 2012 3:56 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs

My goal for this season

is to get a Trumbear Hug.

by Halowitz on Feb 17, 2012 11:26 AM PST reply actions

I hope Trout lights it up so that there is no doubt he deserves to be on the team opening day.

Man can dream right?

The score dictated they pass

by norcaliangelsfan on Feb 17, 2012 11:47 AM PST reply actions

I'm still disappointed with this off season

because we still haven’t heard the best news – Buttercup has been traded for _______. Come to think of it, that Doors song would do just fine. Very fitting for an LA team.

Where were you on December 8th, 2011 - Pujols Day?

by Rally Manatee on Feb 17, 2012 12:08 PM PST via Android app reply actions

Pujols won't get near 120

if Aybar leads off for any major part of the season.

If they have Abreu lead off against righties, bat Callaspo second all the time, and find a suitable leadoff guy for lefties then I could see 120 fairly easily.

"DOV all the way
Just compare the signature lines. Phi’s is terrible, just like his skidmark…errr…"mohawk". "

by PhiSlamma on Feb 17, 2012 12:24 PM PST reply actions