SB Nation User Blog: Caseys Kiss of Death

Congratulations are in order

Caseys Kiss of Death — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:20:53 -0000

In the spirit of good sportsmanship, I just wanted to send out a big congratulations for the hard fought victory tonight. It was a long, grueling series to cap an eventful season, and I want to pay my respects to that.

So without further ado, my heartfelt congratulations to the Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Royals, Florida Marlins, Yomiuri Giants, and Oakland Athletics on their big ALCS win tonight. Without your selfless sacrificing, inability to sign lucrative enough deals, and tireless scouting efforts to harvest the finest talents in the world, this victory would not have been possible. The New York Yankees are forever in your gratitude for doing the real leg work that they have been so incapable of for a decade, so that you may be cast into their shadow for yet another season.

Congratulations again...and here's to another decade of being the REAL talent and brains of baseball. Don't forget to spend that $3 million that'll trickle down to you from the luxury tax so you can sign Scott Schoenweis to a one year deal to restore competitive balance.

Go Phillies. I'll be rooting for you to crush ~~Wal-Mart~~ the Yankees.

Tim McClelland Verifies the ineptitude of MLB Umpires

Caseys Kiss of Death — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:57:55 -0000

On the play with Cano and Posada, I thought Cano was on the base. I was waiting for two players to be on the base, and when there was never the situation where both of them were on the base at the same time. When he tagged Cano, I thought Cano was on the base, and when Jorge touched the base and continued and tagged Posada out, I thought Posada was out.

That's right, folks. You heard it straight for the horse's mouth. He made the call because it was the outcome he was 'waiting' to have happen. He didn't actually pay attention to what happened in the play itself. Instead, he ANTICIPATED a certain outcome as probably happening, and ruled accordingly. Never mind actually verifying a play happened one way or another, you can just ANTICIPATE it happening.

So you know what? Why not just tell pitchers to not pitch? There's about a 60% chance it'll be a strike, anyway. So just go ahead and call a strike...it's fair to anticipate it, right?

Don't agree because of a 40% chance otherwise? Okay. Fine. A-Rod was batting under .200 in the postseason in the last few years. Why not just go back, replay his at-bats, and just only let him on once every 5 at-bats...chosen randomly.I mean, there's a good chance your ANTICIPATION will be right, right?

And when Figgins tries to steal 2nd? Go ahead and call him safe 3 out of 4 times. Don't watch the actual play, though. And outfielders, don't bother catching fly balls anymore. I mean, how often do those get dropped? Just let it drop next time, because McClelland is gonna go ahead and anticipate that it would be caught. Fair assumption, it happens 99.9% of the time. Matt Holliday will thank you later, too.

In fact, just give us the ALCS. Given the last decade, and the '02 and '05 postseason, one can ANTICIPATE we'd beat the Yankees. And with the way the Angels have played the NL this year?

Los Angeles Angels: 2009 World Champions of Anticipation.

Congrats McClelland, you're an idiot.

Garret Anderson Collects 2,500th Career Hit

Caseys Kiss of Death — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:43:24 -0000

Garret Anderson Collects 2,500th Career Hit

One of the all-time Angel greats, and dark horse Hall of Famer Garret Anderson added to his legacy tonight with a 2nd inning single to make him the 89th player in MLB history to reach 2,500 hits.

Way to go, G.A. I miss having you around, man.

Lone Star Ball in a nutshell

Caseys Kiss of Death — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 05:47:34 -0000

Lone Star Ball in a nutshell

Just browsing over there for the post game tonight, and I saw this in their fanshot section. No reason to give political commentary on the matter...rather, I think it's just a perfect microcosm of the general douchery over there.

ESPN is capable of getting precisely zero articles about the Angels right

Caseys Kiss of Death — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:42:09 -0000

ESPN is capable of getting precisely zero articles about the Angels right

"It has been fun watching the Angels the past month. Last year, they won 99 games while scoring 765 runs, 10th most in the AL."

Really guys, fact check takes 3 seconds. I have a link to MLB standings bookmarked in Firefox. It's really inexcusable, even when it's so small. Once is a fluke, twice is coincidence, three or more times is a trend. ESPN trends toward shoddy Angels coverage.

Hey, Remember When This Guy Used to Pitch for Us?

Caseys Kiss of Death — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:24:30 -0000

Hey, Remember When This Guy Used to Pitch for Us?

Good times, good times.

Jus' sayin' is all.

No wonder we have such big hitting problems.

Caseys Kiss of Death — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:46:51 -0000

No wonder we have such big hitting problems.

Second Degree Murder Charges for Gallo

Caseys Kiss of Death — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:42:04 -0000

via www.blogcdn.com

Second-degree murder charges await Andrew Thomas Gallo in the death of Nick Adenhart, Henry Pearson, and Courtney Stewart. In addition, he faces charges of DUI causing injury, one count of driving over the limit with injury, and fleeing the scene of a crime causing injury. The combined maximum he faces is up to 55 years to life in prison. This directly from the Orange County District Attorney's office, announced today at 2:30pm in a press conference. The District Attorney stated that Gallo's actions carried an implied malice necessary for the charge and that his BAC was three times the legal limit.

Oh, and as a fun little aside, the D.A. also said that he tried to flee a SECOND time after police had tracked him down and cornered him. Little fuckhead really put up quite the struggle to not have to answer for his recklessnes. Since he was caught, nothing makes me happier than the fact he tried to flee, since it only makes it more certain he's going down hard.

I just turned on the season opener

Caseys Kiss of Death — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:36:38 -0000

I just turned on the season opener

as Garret Anderson came to bat for the Braves, and got his first hit with any other team other than the Angels.

There's a knot in my stomach, and it damn near makes me want to cry.

Thanks for the memories, G.A.

Enough is Enough: Bring in Brandon Wood

Caseys Kiss of Death — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:21:19 -0000

Angels infielder Brandon Wood was demoted to the minor leagues today.

Brandon Wood has been raking all spring, his K-rate is down from where it was before, and he's done everything a man possibly can to earn a spot. I get that we've got other guys on the depth chart, but this is probably still the top "prospect" (I use the term loosely on our team) in our organization, he's not getting any younger, and he's proven his talent now at every minor league level. The man has nothing more to prove at this point and, if I wanted to cherry pick, he was just beginning to get into the swing of things toward the end of last season with the big club.

Look, Chone Figgins and Erick Aybar are all fine, and I want to see them get playing time, too. But I just don't see any reason at this point to continue to delay the inevitable by continuing to steam ahead with a self-created logjam that is going to keep the current situation the same until something is done about it. Sure, there's no room for Wood right now in an everyday role. But if Aybar and Figgins are going to be long-term pieces (and I think one of them should not be), then that logjam is going to be around until someone acts on it. And in the meantime, our (potentially) power-lacking club could use a contributor like Wood who is, might I add, quite the defender, as well.

The man has earned his shot, and it's not fair to him to leave him sitting in the minors for so long while management sits on its hands and lets his potentially best years go to waste behind two players with considerably less offensive upside. I love both Aybar and Figgins, but the jam-up on the left side of the infield (nevermind Maicer Izturis) is not worth the delay in getting him in front of major league pitching, in my opinion.

Or who knows, maybe I'm just insane and bitter and my man crush got the best of me.

Poll

What should be done with Wood?

Triple-A until he can play everyday here

87 votes

Triple-A because he's not ready yet

13 votes

Trade Figgins, start him everyday

179 votes

Trade Aybar, start him everyday

108 votes

Put him in Anaheim, regardless of how many at-bats he'll get

61 votes

Put him in Anaheim, but only if he can play regularly

58 votes

Rotate Figgins, Aybar, and Wood between the two positions regularly

67 votes

573 votes | Poll has closed