the commentator on today's broadcast was the west coast's own Eric Karros.

I couldn't have said it any better. Pure Mother-bleeping Venom and Spite. I love it!

One more thing about the "East Coast", specifically the Northeast. The people there are ugly as all hell.

I spent 10 days in Baltimore in 1996 on business. I stayed in the Holiday Inn with a room overlooking Camden Yards during the "Jeffrey Maier" series. In 10 days of actively looking for a single smoking hot chick the likes of which you'd run into within seconds at Brea mall or South Coast Plaza, I came up with nothing.

Same goes for Boston and greater New England. I refer to it as the "North Eastern Hook Nose". Why rhinoplastists don't have Starbucks level densities in this part of the country is beyond me. These people need help.

It is a fundamental fact that ALL women from the East Coast end up looking like the librarian at your High School by the age of 30.

I Love the your choice of words Rev...you have pretty much spoken for the entire congregation with respect to the deep rooted east coast bias. I mean could they (the broadcasters) have expressed their bad taste in their mouths from the botched call in any more detail???? Geeesh!...get over it!...you as a broadcaster shouldn't have any bias when calling a game. You don't even know how sick I got from the obvious disgust and envy they showed because the call went in favor of the Angels. They absolutely disected the play. Oh my...how can a left coast team with NO POP ever be a match for their beloved east coast teams??? How is it that a team such as the Angels, with no offensive prowess, a David versus the east' Goliath can win??? Well eat crow beeeyaaachesss!!! You can chalk this series up as a win for the Angels (yeah...a left coast team!)!

When the Halos hit the playoffs and drum the annual shit out of the likes of the Yankees, and ESPN/FOX find themselves having to sell a World Series occupied by a team that they spent all season ignoring and dismissing, we can shove their predictably abysmal ratings up their ass with the thick end of Vladdie's tar-stained baseball bat.

Win one for the Rev!

Whenever there is a West coast series, or a West coast team doing well, the East coast turns off, therefore the advertising revenue is down etc, thus pissing off the networks involved. Since the TV networks follow the Bush/Rove policy of playing to their core electorate and telling them what they want to hear, rather than trying to embrace new ideas or finding a new audience - East coast GOOD, West coast... whatever - those numb-nuts on the East coast never hear anything good about west coast ball, and therefore they turn off.  It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If they had any common sense, they might try generating some broader interest in West coast baseball out there, so that when, inevitably, there is success out here (hopefully this year), their advertising revenue doesn't fall through the floor.

It's not rocket science.

I used to rail about East Coast bias when I lived back home in OC, but as a SoCal expat to Scotland we've really got it tough.

Just guessing that The Limey might be watching as well as me in the wee hours tonight (1 am start!) on Britain's Channel Five, which has thrown us a bone by showing the Halos for the first time this season. Over here, we get the Sunday night ESPN game, so we're really at the mercy of ECB.

Not that I'm complaining (it's great to watch the Halos from the comfort of my own sofa) but it means a full night (early Monday morning) of friggin Joe Morgan's blather followed by between-inning breaks of the British studio show. Which means the tag team of Jonny Gould (a likeable English bloke who knows a teeny bit about baseball) and Josh Chetwynd, an annoying know-it-all Sox fan and former minor league scrub whose mission it is to somehow stay in TV and inform the great unwashed Brit masses about the finer points of a game in which players can actually use their hands.

It can make for a long night -- but well worth it if we can watch the Angels light the halo.

It can be rather entertaining watching the Channel Five show in Britain. Especially when Jonny Gould innocently postulates on ways to make baseball better ...

On of his gems from several years ago was to theorize that teams should use their closers as starters for every game, since the closers are the toughest pitchers to hit against. :)

ESPN has baseball? Any time I turn it on I see NASCAR tonight or whatever. Although, I remember last year Jon Miller going on about how the Angels have been a one series and out team in the playoffs since winning in 2002. He had "forgotten" the Angels beating the Yankees in 2005. Of course, he never corrected himself.

I've been out here (NE...DC and NYC) since 1988 and I'll say two things:

1.  In the NY media there are no sports west of Chicago.  No box scores, no details, no recaps, no nothing.  One exception...the Angels have definitely gotten under the collective Yankee skin.  
2.  With respect to the women here, what happens after a short period of time is that the theory of relativity is proved.  The urge to reproduce is so strong that the best of the uglies becomes good looking.  Whenever I go west for a couple of games, I get a dose of reality when I return to NY because the women I was attracted to return to reality and I am forced to rationalize that they have an exotic beauty.  <shudder>  But I know in my heart that at that moment, I wouldn't touch 'em with Rev's dick.