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by Quad Fin Rider on May 27, 2012 4:23 PM EDT
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Long before the arrival of the Brooklyn Carpetbaggers, professional baseball had been thriving in The City of Angels for over six decades. The Los Angeles Angels were a minor league team in name only, and like many other teams in the old Pacific Coast League, had talent & payroll comparable to anything in the MLB, with whom the nascent league had long sought to merge with. The Angels had their own stadium at downtown Washington Park and sported the iconic interlocking "LA" logo on their caps:
all at a time when the hapless Brooklynites were still busy renaming themselves the Atlantics, Greys, Robins, Bridegrooms, Superbas & Gangbangers with each passing season (okay, I made that last one up).
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4/28 Trout Day Lineup:
1. M. Trout lf
2. H. Kendrick 2b
3. A. Pujols 1b
4. K. Morales dh
5. T. Hunter rf
6. M. Trumbo 3b
7. E. Aybar ss
8. B. Wilson c
9. P. Bourjos cf
Good Luck, Mike!
"Some Folks Are Born With a 3rd Baseman's Glove on Their Hand... It Ain't Me"
Mark Trumbo performs at a bar in Tempe.
"The Real Housewives of South Boston" This is an incredibly funny & foul dis on the classy lady sports fans of Boston that an acquaintance of mine helped make -- so do not click this if you're easily offended by NSFW language, wicked retahded humor or just plain love the Boston Red Sox.
Fixing the slight flaw in the swing of Jeff Mathis.
Jeffy just needs to stop flopping his right hand and releasing his grip with his left too soon, which causes the ball to either pop straight up in the air or skip across the ground in front of him. Go ahead and laugh. If he does, you'll see.
Whazzup, bitches? It's me, John Laaaaaaackey!
Angels purchase Horacio Ramirez's contract, Kohn demoted
Los Angeles purchased reliever Horacio Ramirez's contract from the minors on Wednesday. He posted a 3.47 ERA while with Triple-A Salt Lake this year. To make room for him on the roster the Halos optioned RP Michael Kohn to the minors.
Jeff Mathis shows off the premium defensive skills that made Hank Conger redundant.
Any doubts left as to which local team now owns The City of ANGELS?
Scott Kazmir on the way back
"Manager Mike Scioscia said Kazmir's next start probably will be in a minor league game, starting a clock in which the Angels will have 30 days to recall him or release him."
More confirmation that the world is coming to an end this Saturday...
Just to stir up some Rangers hate
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
John Lackey goes 3.2IP, 2BB, 10H, 9ER (including a Grand Slam) tonight before Tito decided to mercifully put him out of his misery.
Favorite Boston sportswriter quote:
"Lackey was every bit the mouth-breathing pile of suck that I expected him to be. If Adrian Beltre makes the Home Run Derby, he should ask Lackey to be his pitcher. That middle-in meatball that Beltre hit for a grand slam may be the worst pitch in baseball history, made uglier by the fact that he intentionally walked Hamilton to get to Beltre."
Angel Stadium Screecher Creature’s Video Goes Viral
Rebecca Black, one of those jailbait girls who mangled the Star Spangled Banner at Angel Stadium last year, has a music video that has become a viral hit on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube (nearly 3 million views in just two days), but for all the wrong reasons.
Black's video "Friday" is something that is just so wonderfully awful that it must be seen and heard to be fully appreciated. Whether it’s her voice, which has been Auto-Tuned to the point where it sounds like the result of crossing Stephen Hawking with a tank of helium, the hilariously insipid lyrics she wrote:
Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday
Today is Friday, Friday
We-we-we so excited
We gonna have a ball today
Tomorrow is Saturday
And Sunday comes after... wards
or just the bizarre way she tunelessly pronounces the word "Friday" (which sounds more like "Fried Egg") this song is guaranteed to be stabbing at your brain long after you've heard it.
Also noteworthy is the creepy Pedobearish cameo by Usher, rapping about passing a school bus on his way to catch up with his 13-year old partying "peeps".
Rangers get Beltre, Angels get...more talk?
So Adrian Beltre is headed for Texas . Anyone want to hear what Arte Moreno has to say now?
I don't.
It doesn't really matter what the Angels owner says now, does it? It doesn't matter if he says again that he's going to spend whatever it takes to put the Angels back in the playoffs (that was October ). It doesn't matter whether he says that he couldn't sign Carl Crawford because he would have had to raise ticket prices, but that he had made "what we believe is a significant offer" to Beltre (that was December ).
It doesn't matter now, because Crawford is in Boston, and Beltre's deal is all but done in Texas.
It doesn't matter, because now not only have the Angels shown they're not prepared to compete financially with the big boys, but they've shown they can't even compete financially with the big boys in their own division.
Mets Fans React To The Hiring of Terry Collins
...or maybe they're just learning that Justin Bieber is actually gay.
The 30 Worst Baseball Cards of All Time
The late 1970s to early 1990s was truly a glorious era for hirsute hair, geeky glasses & cell phones about the size of a cinder block. Take a guess as to which two Halos made this Top 30 list before looking (hint: they’re probably the goofiest guys ever to don an Angels uni).
Jerry Garcia Tribute Night
After witnessing some truly abysmal MLB ballpark promotions this year, ranging from the accursed Matusi Snuggie debacle at the Big A all the way down to the utterly ridiculous LOLCATS Night at Safeco Field, there finally comes one that seems totally cool (in a 40 & over kind-of-way).
Tonight at AT&T Park, the San Francisco Giants will host Grateful Dead alumni Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann & Jeff Pehrson as they perform a musical tribute to Jerry Garcia during tonight’s game.
While I’m no connoisseur of bobbleheads, I can’t help but wonder how much more freaking awesome that ceramic bouncing Jerry head would have looked on a body wearing an Angels warm-up jacket instead!
Trial of Nick Adenhart’s (alleged) Killer Postponed
Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard Toohey set Sept. 1 as the new trial date. The trial was originally scheduled to begin Monday. Andrew Thomas Gallo's attorney, Jacqueline Goodman and Deputy District Attorney Susan Price will present pretrial motions, beginning Sept. 1, with jury selection expected to start Sept. 7, Goodman said. Opening statements could begin Sept. 13, Goodman added.
Goodman said she will ask Toohey at an Aug. 13 hearing to dismiss the three counts of murder against him in the grand jury indictment. Goodman contends that gross vehicular manslaughter charges would be more appropriate.
"My client had a designated driver who was driving him around all day and night" before the deadly collision, Goodman said. "I just don't get the murder part. Tell me where there's a murder."
Off Topic, err... then again not really. Our sticking a dagger into the heart of the douchiest city with the douchiest sports teams and the douchiest fans on the entire planet for the second time in nine months is never off topic here! KMA BOSTON!
When have you ever been to a game at Dodger Stadium and seen such freshly scrubbed looking fans? A wholesome white bread nirvana where there’s no garbage strewn on the ground, 20-minute lines to get into the restrooms and everybody neatly tucks their shirts in? The only thing that seems to be missing from this sappy illustration is a stadium banner overhead proclaiming "This is My Caucasian Town!" But in one rather paradoxical touch of political correctness, the artist did choose to portray the parents of the other Dodger family as two gay men.
Where’s the real Chavez Latrine ambiance that we Halos fans are all too familiar with? Where are all the Doyer fans sporting BO stained t-shirts, sleeve tattoos, bandanas and low-riding Dickies? Why isn’t there a morbidly obese drunk barfing into that trash can while surly looking, underpaid McCourt employees pretend not to notice? Why are those children waving at one other instead of flashing rival gang signs? And why isn’t Dodger Dad bitching about the $62.95 he just blew at the concession stand for a popcorn, two sodas and a couple bags of peanuts?
From Steve Bisheff:
John Wooden is a longtime admirer of Angels' manager Mike Scioscia. After the 2002 World Series, I arranged a meeting between the two at Wooden's condo in Encino.
I don't know which one was more excited. Scioscia gushed about what an honor it was to meet the greatest basketball coach in history. Wooden told him baseball, not basketball, was his favorite sport and that he loved the Angels' style of play, emphasizing team over individuals.
There's No Crying in Baseball... Unless You're Ken Griffey Jr.
Seattle Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu said that Ken Griffey Jr. was not asleep in the clubhouse in the eighth inning last Saturday night, he was indeed on the bench and available to pinch-hit, contradicting parts of a story that appeared in The Tacoma (Wash.) News Tribune on Monday.
Before Tuesday night's game against the Baltimore Orioles, the Mariners held a players-only meeting. A club source said the meeting was organized by Mike Sweeney and "was 100 percent about Griffey" and was designed to support Griffey.
The source said that Griffey was upset and hurt by the story and cried briefly during the meeting. Sweeney chastised the anonymous young players for speaking about something that had happened in the clubhouse, according to the source.
Also...
Ken Rosenthal tweeted that Mike Sweeney openly challenged whoever the two Safeco Field deep throats were to stand up and fight him, but nobody took him up on the offer.
http://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal
The bad soap opera that is the 2010 Seattle Mariners just gets stranger and stranger…
Get on Your Boots: U2 Concert at Big A Will Send Halos on a 14-Game Trip
Anyone who has ever been to a U2 show can tell you it's not like they set up folding chairs in a middle school gymnasium and start playing. The Pop Martians perform on elaborate monstrosities that take days to assemble and break down. Yes, days.
Forcing the Rally Monkey from his home for two weeks?
Probably not the legacy Bono is shooting for.
Are the Yankees Truly the Most-Despised Ballclub?
For many, the Wall Street Journal’s recent decision to add a sports section made about as much sense as ESPN deciding to dispense stock tips... here’s a hard hitting, totally unbiased story that scientifically "proves" (using data provided by the New York based Nielsen Co.) that the Journal’s hometown Yankees are not the most universally hated and despised team in all of baseball. You're not going to believe some of the teams that ranked in the Top Ten Worst.
John Lackey (L): 3.1IP 9H 8ER 5.62ERA, talks about his AWESOMENESS!
I know it must really suck to be a McCourt employee these days, but... wow!
Image taken from an e-mail sent to Dodgers season ticket holders.
Gotta love that new Big Matsui logo
Last night Seattle Mariners clean-up hitter Milton Bradley proudly shows fans how many hits he's had five games into the season.
"MATSUILAND" Already a Trademarked Overnight Halos Sensation
Image taken from a new Matsui worship site of same name.
Hide your office interns, Steve Phillips is back from sex rehab!
Only six months after being fired from his ESPN gig, Steve Phillips is already back from being treated for his sex addiction faster than you can say "Tiger Woods". WFAN host Mike Francesa announced that the former Mets GM with a predilection for both chubby office chicks like Brooke Hundley & chunky malcontents like Moo Vaughn will be talking baseball with him weekly on the "Mike’d Up: Francesa on the FAN" show.
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