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Have an ounce of PRIDE: Make your FanPost something awesome that you would want read at your funeral, because if it is a lame ass post about nothing, I will kill your FanPost and you will die alone and forgotten.

More photos » by Elise Amendola - AP

1 day ago: FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2009 file photo, Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, right, gives New York Yankees' Hideki Matsui the MVP trophy after Game 6 of the Major League Baseball World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies in New York. Matsui and the Los Angeles Angels have reached a preliminary agreement on a one-year contract worth about $6.5 million, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Monday, Dec. 14, 2009, because the contract was not yet final. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

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Hideki Matsui will officially become an Angel today. The press conference at the stadium is at 2 PM.

More photos » by Kathy Willens - AP

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2009 photo, baseball player Hideki Matsui, the World Series MVP, waves from a float during a ticker-tape parade along Broadway celebrating a World Series championship in New York. Matsui and the Los Angeles Angels have reached a preliminary agreement on a one-year contract worth about $6.5 million, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Monday, Dec. 14, 2009, because the contract was not yet final. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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Matsui Monday, along with news about Benedict Lackey abandoning ship, brought heavy traffic to this site yesterday. For an offseason weekday, 16,000+ unique visitors to a blog indicate that blog is doing something right. Just look at our screengrab of the stats below:

Our neutral, third party Sitemeter says it all in this screen grab shot at 11:57 Pacific Time Monday night: Everyone turns to Halos Heaven for their online Angels news and commentary. These are not stats we cook up in-house, these are records of each unique ISP number visiting the site, day in and day out. Thank YOU for visiting yesterday and helping the Godzilla of the Halosphere welcomed Godzilla to the Angels.

UPDATE: Yesterday was the biggest day for traffic in the history of SBN... Over 800,000 unique visitors poured thru the network's turnstiles. Soon it will be a million sports fans per day and the mainstream media won't know what hit 'em.

More photos » by Koji Sasahara - AP

about 1 month ago: People watch a live broadcast on TV at Yamada Denki discount store in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009, showing New York Yankees' MVP Hideki Matsui being interviewed after winning the Major League Baseball World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, in New York. Matsui became the first Japanese-born player to be named World Series Most Valuable Player after hitting a record six RBIs in the deciding game to lead the Yankees over the Phillies 7-3. Japanese on the screen reads: World Series MVP goes to Yankees' Hideki Matsui. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

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Multiple reports have the Angels close to signing Hideki Matsui for a one year $6.5 Million contract.

The reason the Angels have been pursuing Hideki Matsui to basically fill the Vladimir Guerrero role can be summed up with one word: BILLBOARDS.

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More photos » by Tony Gutierrez - AP

7 months ago: Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher John Lackey (41) reacts to being ejected after delivering the second pitch of the baseball game to Texas Rangers' Ian Kinsler in the first inning in Arlington, Texas, Saturday, May 16, 2009. The first pitch was thrown behind Kinsler and the hit the batter. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

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Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim pitcher John Lackey has signed with the Boston Red Sox for 5 years, $85 Million. Read all about it at OVER THE MONSTER, the SBN Boston Red Sox blog.

Angels Uniform #28 ...

1961 - 66: Albie Pearson
1968: Vic Davalillo
1969: Vic Davalillo and Randy Brown
1970: Randy Brown
1972, 73: Vada Pinson
1975: Orlando Pena and Dave Collins
1976: Dave Collins
1977: Gil Flores
1979: Ralph Garr
1980: Ed Halicki
1981: John D'Acquisto
1983: Steve Lubratich
1986 - 88: Mark McLemore
1989 - 92: Bert Blyleven
1994: Bob Patterson
1995: Andy Allanson
1996: Todd Frohwirth and Chris Pritchett
1998, 99: Chris Pritchett
2000: Eric Weaver and Troy Glaus
2001 - 07: Jose Molina
2008, 09: Ryan Budde

More photos » by Chris Carlson - AP

2 months ago: Joan Couper pays her respects for Los Angeles Angels rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart at a makeshift memorial Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, for the Angels' upcoming playoff baseball game in Anaheim, Calif. Adenhart died in a car accident last April. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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According to Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times, the spontaneous, fan-generated Nick Adenhart memorial in front of Angel Stadium is going to be dismantled soon and the late pitcher's family will be offered their pick of the memorial tributes and keepsakes left at the impromptu yet venerable shrine.

The Angels will be constructing a memorial for Adenhart in the park with relics from the shrine as well as the length of outfield wall with the memorial mural.