During the off season baseball nerds will think of anything and everything they can break down, analyze, comb through, deconstruct, build up, sift about in, lay into, and look into to not only prepare themselves for the upcoming season but also to entertain that part of themselves that is missing when there is no baseball to watch.

Here's something to scratch the itch for a few minutes.  Nerdbaseball.com shows us MLB players that look more like Farmer Ted than the typical Jake Ryan types we think of when we watch professional sports.  Tag this one with thick mustaches, large corrective lenses, and white afros.

I work at Angels Stadium a handful of games a month.  My work station is in the TV booth directly behind home plate between the Angesls TV team and the radio team.  Because of this my family and their friends often ask me what the heck is going on with the rolling dice approach to the TV color man and commentator combos this season.  I know there are contracts that were made up at the start of the season for so and so to do so many games etc but I'm not sure what to tell them.

All of them tell me they prefer Huddler and Physioc for every game.  They keep asking me to find Arte and tell him to cut the crap and keep the same guys for every game.  I don't even work for the Angels nor the TV stations nor the radio station but they still don't seem to grasp that I have no say in this.

I'm wondering if there are any petitions out there that already exist to ask the Angels to quit the revolving door and make it strictly Huddler and Physioc.  Anyone know of such a thing?

There have been 7 Angels grand slam walk off home runs in the Angels history.

I guess I'm too young to remember them... how about you old timers?

Can we account for all of them?  Do you have any favorites?  I'm probably shooting myself here and forgetting some classic Angels history that we should all know.

I'll start with #7

Torii Hunter hits his second home run of the game.  He put them ahead 2 to 1 in the 8th with a solo homer only to watch Frankie melt down in the 9th and let the Indians take a 4 to 2 lead going into the bottom of the inning.  A grand slam walk off summoned by the rally monkey he had feared for all those years as a Twinkie put the Angels over the top and dancing on home plate.  A 6 to 2 victory over the Indians.

I found out who hit #6..  Hint: It was a member of the squad that brought us a World Championship.

Does anyone else keep thinking Barack Obama every time they see the  image of the SB Nation "Fan" used all over the site including in our default profile photos?

I know... totally related to Angels Baseball, right?  Well here... go to my flickr account and see the totally amazing photos of my Spring Training Road Trip!

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My friends and I go on a 5 day houseboat trip on Lake Mead every October... and it always coincides with the Division Series.

Last year wasn't so bad since the Angels weren't in it(bad that we weren't in it but not bad because I didn't have to worry about hearing/watching the games).  A couple of my friends are Dodger die hards and all we had was a little hand held radio.  We couldn't get reception on the lake, then hiked up to  the top of a hill where we got scratchy reception.

I'd like to do better than that.

I'm willing to pony up 250 bucks + short term subscription to get a portable XM radio so that I can clearly hear the broadcast of the game.

I'm also willing to buy some sort of antenna that could hook up to a TV.

What I'm not willing to do is sit there down 250 bucks and go WTF!, why can't I hear the broadcast on XM??? or WTF?!? why can't I get the game on my TV Antenna???

Does anyone have advice as to what I should do?

12 years later history repeats itself and the formerly craptastic Seattle Mariners pull out 13 year old me's worst nightmare from the depths of my repressed memories...

A one game playoff vs. Fat Felix and the Fish Wranglers.

If Mike lines up the final home stand series against the Fish Wranglers with Escobar, Lackey, Weaver and Saunders then that would have the rotation ending out the Oakland in Oakland series with the 5 spot(Colon/Mosely/Butthurt/Adenhart).  MEANING: Escobar has the most rest followed by Lackey and so on.  SO... with all that to think about...

My roommate and I have lived in orange county our whole lives but due to a lack of job opportunities for graduates of film school in the oc we are re-locating to Hollywood.

What I would like to know is the experienced and wise tips and tricks of following the Angels while living in LA.  I've been spoiled for the past 5 years living in Orange and Tustin (about 10 mins from the the big A).   Now I'm going to be about 45 mins from the big A (according to google maps) but we all know that traffic between the two counties can be pretty nasty so that typically would be... ? on a week night?

Google map has 101 to the 5 as the most direct route but i'm wondering if there are preffered alternate routes that people take.

Also there is the television issue... what will I be missing?  Has the team really been converted to the LAA and thus they are as available to watch on TV in LA as they are in OC or will I have to purchase something extra to see the games?

All year long I have been keeping track of the season by marking W's and L's on my 2006 Angels Calendar.  I've also marked a green $ symbol on dates when Napoli came up big, an orange $ symbol for when Molina came up big, and sometimes I would write the name of the winning pitcher if they were a rookie phenom (Weaver and Saunders).  The green stripes mark the games I will be attending. I won't be at the game on the 30th due to a friend's wedding but I will be there on the 29th instead.

Earlier I predicted that we would overcome the odds and take down Oakland.  I predicted we would be 5 games back going into this weekend's Oakland series... I think it can still happen.

With a little extra help from the Voodoo Calendar I created today things will fall right into place.  The calendar already claimed its first victim today thanks to a 7 to 2 scalping put together by the tribe.  1 down, 13 to go. Ah yes... I also plan on writing a "yes We can" on the winning dates from now until the end of the season. Go Voodoo Calendar GO!

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It seems that the battle for LA has even blead accross the states to NYC.  Famous NYC rapper and member of the Wu Tang Clan Mr. Ghostface Killah is fully representing Angels red in his main profile picture on MySpace.

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This season is not over by any means but it has been so frustrating and in all likelihood the team has a VERY good chance of not even making it to the post season.  The weekly antics of Figgins' mind boggling O'Fers, blown bullpen ballbusters, botched bouncing ballistics rocketing off and over our best defensive efforts, opponents soul crushing web gems, slumps to the Nth degree and such have driven my friend and I to finding other ways for the Angels to entertain us.

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