hey everyone, after seeing prince fielder and ryan brauns handshake were they are kind of boxing, i was wondering if anyone knows if the angels players have any weird handshakes. i know vlad has his where they start high and throw each others hands down and i think vlad and rivera might have one where they just get close to giving each other a high five but never touch hands. does anyone know if any other angels have anything going? i just love seeing the crazy stuff some players come up with, and bruan and fielders might be my favorite that ive seen.

i did this at the beginning of the season and im going to post it again because im sure the choices will drastically change

RULES:

a player must play the position you choose him for (no left fielders playing center unless they have played the position before, and no starting pitchers relieving or closing, and you cant have more than one closer)

any player that played in the AL west at anytime during the season is fair game (kotch or tex could be used)

heres mine:

LF-Ibanez

CF-Hamilton

RF-Ichiro

3B-Figgins

SS-Young

2B-Kinsler

1B-Teixeira

C-Napoli

DH-Guerrero

Rotation:

Lackey, Santana, Saunders, Duchscherer, Hernandez

Bullpen:

CL-Rodriguez

RP-Ziegler, Arredondo, Shields

if this goes well maybe ill do other divisions every couple of days

Vlad has decided to sit out the home run derby to take the chance to "recharge his batteries" over the all star break. i think this is a great decision on his part because it seemed that last year the derby took its toll on vlad and his power stroke. the home run derby should still be pretty exciting with all the young power hitters taking part in it. i dont know about the rest of you, but i watch the home run derby every year and always enjoy it because it looks like its just the games premier power hitters having fun and launching balls into the stands, not to mention having the chance to see vlad and GA win it.

do the angels still have their sleeveless home jerseys? it seems like i havent seen them since the beginning of last season and they were always my favorite. did they replace them with the red ones? i tried to find this out on google but nothing came up that was any help. so i figured here would be the best place to find out. thanks for any info you might have to help me out with this!

just got a bulletin from one of the many angel fan sites im friends with on myspace, and it said the angels are the front runners to host the all star game in 2010. ive been waiting for this for a while, since the last time it was here i was 1. it isnt quite finalized yet and tampa bay and kansas city are also in the hunt. i think we kind of deserve it more than them though, we do actually go to our home team's games...

i just read on mlbtraderumors.com that bartolo colon has now missed his last 2 winter ball starts and is yet to crack 90 miles an hour. im sure half of you have read that already cuz that site seems to give us a lot of our news here, but i think colons effectiveness is just about gone, i dont know if the big man can make it as a control pitcher. alright well leave your thoughts about tubby if you want, thanks

dont know if anyone has heard, or posted this, yet, but mlbtraderumors.com posted that the royals have signed jose guillen to a 3 year, 36 million dollar contract. thank god we only see him for about 6 games now, less chance of him following through with his wishes to "kill all of the angels". this signing really does not make sense for the royals in my eyes. it seems like every off season, they sign one aging veteran, and i can never understand why

i just read from mlb.com that the marlins are asking for kendrick AND izturis for miguel cowbrera. im not sure if this has already been discussed or not, but i dont think we can afford to lose both of them. if they wanted figgins and aybar, i would say do it in a heart beat, but izturis may be the best bench player in all of baseball and unless they throw someone else in with lard ass, then i say kendrick is off limits. dont they have uggla anyway? why do they even want HK?

im not sure if people will think this is a fun cool idea, or a really lame and time wasting one, but i think its kinda cool, i was bored in math class today and started thinking about all division teams. kind of like all stars but just for divisions, so there would be 6 teams total. so i was wondering who would make the all al west team. mine would look like this:

LF raul ibanez
CF ichiro
RF guerrero
3B figgins
SS young
2B kendrick
1B kotchman
C  johjima
DH anderson
starting pitcher-lackey or haren (toss up)
closer-putz

just stopping by once again to wish the yanks and you guys good luck in the division series. hopefully the halos will give boston hell and i see you guys getting past the tribe, even if you guys knock the angels out, i will still be able to sleep at night knowing that the sox dont have a chance at winning a title. well once again, good luck from a visting angels fan

if my name doesnt say it, im visiting from halos heaven and i just want to say that have nothing but respect for TRUE yankee fans, like most of you here at pinstripe alley. since i started watching baseball, ive always kind of had a hatred for the yankees because of their fans because you get a lot of people over here in california that just say they like the yankees cuz they are the best. but for the die hard fans, which i have never met in person, i just tip my hat to you guys because you love your team just as much as i love mine. i also must say that you guys are such a class act here compared to the guys at over he monster, they are all just talk talk talk, i hate them and the red sox, i hate the yankees for a different reason, cuz the yanks are just that damn good, its never easy when we play you guys and i dont know how or why we play you guys so tough. alright, well thank you for your time and i hope other angel fans have the same respect for you as i do. see ya in the playoffs!

i dont know if anyone has posted about his yet, but did anyone catch the seattle mariners moose practically run over coco crisp last night? the M's are resorting to injuring other teams players now just to win a ball game, pathetic, they showed a couple of the bosox players and they were pretty pissed off, as they should be, but coco was all smiles for some reason, but does anyone think that the guy in the suit, or even the mariners organization will be punished to any extent? just thought id throw this out there cuz it was kind of interesting see the replay of it