Gameday Thread: Angels vs. A's (4/9) -- Opening Day at the Big A

[Moetown Lee]

Is it too early to start the fire Mike chant?

[Sciosciapath]

Tip your caps and turn the page. Honestly.  Jeppy (Jepsen) made some tough pitches but Brandon Moss grinded an at bat.  Tip your cap.

[moccasin]

Jepsen was brought in to face Cespedes, but idiodically, MS became overly worried about Crisp stealing 2nd, and forgot why he brought in Jepsen from the beginning.

That was your game.

[The Dude]

It took the offense everything they had just to get a lead, no way they are coming back again.

[Halos of Anaheim]

Try down 4 runs.

 

 

is your box score lagging or something? were down 4

Stream must be really behind. We suck.

[SCHaloFan]

Good night fellas, well past 1am here. Can't deal with this shit any longer

[full circle]

When's the last time Scioscia actually guessed right on a pitch out?  

 

And how many times have we seen it hurt our pitchers after he guesses wrong yet again?

[Docwaukee]

This team needs Jep to be a lock down guy in the 7th vs. rhers or lhers.  He did it at the end of last year so he gets the chance to keep doing it.  Not Mike's fault that Jepsen blows. 

 

This is the nightmare I anticipated so far.  Bad bullpen. 

 

Bad bullpens lose winnable games.  Good teams win winnable games. 

[The Dude]

I feel your pain...No idea why im still watching this game.

[Mark68]

Well, certainly smells like 2012. Bats mailing it in now.

[full circle]

Well, the worst nightmare has come true again this year.  

[Mark68]

Jepsen was brought in to face Cespedes, but idiodically, MS became overly worried about Crisp stealing 2nd, and forgot why he brought in Jepsen from the beginning.

That was your game.

Yeah, doesn't matter how many bases Crisp steals when you're going to give up a bomb anyway.

 

Concentrate on the batter.

[The Dude]

Yeah not much has changed since last year expect a phatty increase in payroll. 

[Waybackman]

Time for the Angels to just roll over and die. If it weren't for those two gift runs, we wouldn't even have had the temporary lead. Scioscia is being out-managed once again by the bargain basement manager. Our players must be completely demoralized.

[moccasin]

This team needs Jep to be a lock down guy in the 7th vs. rhers or lhers.  He did it at the end of last year so he gets the chance to keep doing it.  Not Mike's fault that Jepsen blows. 

 

This is the nightmare I anticipated so far.  Bad bullpen. 

 

Bad bullpens lose winnable games.  Good teams win winnable games. 

He brought him in to face the righty, and then interfered with him by playing the pitch-out game, which he lost badly.

Instead of just a stolen base, he also put Jepsen in a bad position, 2-0 against a good fastball hitter. 

[Quinlanforthewin]

I dare somebody to say 'it's early' - this team, from top (excluding Arte) to bottom, is nothing but overpaid and overrated. No excuses for this team to continually perform like this in April.

 

Get ready for everyone who runs and moderates this site to say this...

[bloodbrother]

Well it is early, it's only 7 games in. The team sucks ass though and is starting slow again. Really can't afford this crap in the division they play in. Can't play catch-up all year long again

[The Dude]

Would anyone be surprised with a 1-5 or 2-4 homestand? I feel another well below .500 record through April coming.

[Mark68]

Would anyone be surprised with a 1-5 or 2-4 homestand? I feel another well below .500 record through April coming.

I'd be surprised with 1-5, simply because even THIS team should be able to beat Houston at least twice.

 

2-4 though...0-3 against the A's and 2-1 against the Astros...I can see this happening.

[Mark68]

Let's go bats?

[The God of Runs]

5 runs coming right up.  You heard it here first

[jshep]

Well De La Rosa had a nice inning at least

[Mark68]

Yay?

[The Dude]

I'd be surprised with 1-5, simply because even THIS team should be able to beat Houston at least twice.

 

2-4 though...0-3 against the A's and 2-1 against the Astros...I can see this happening.

They should be able to , but seriously this team just doesn't look good at all right now. I'm pretty much expecting the worst out of them.

[jshep]

What on earth was Balfour yelling at Trumbo about?