Halofan

It has been 10 plus years now but how did you get together and talk Angel Baseball before Chuckyyy put this site together? Were you part of another forum ? Did you just check the paper for your Angel fix each day? How did you get together and share Angel baseball before this site went up. It took me almost the full 10 years before I became a regular here to the site. Now I check it several times a day,  And I have to admit chuckyyy and the mods have done a great job putting the site together and getting a huge group of posters in here to talk Angels baseball. At times I wonder if it its to much Go go go Angels and negative opinions of the Angels seem to be frowned upon. But I have really not been here long enough to say that is true or not. I think posters should have the freedom to post what they think rather it is pro or con... Of course no one wants shot out spammers spamming the site and I think a good job is done to prevent that. But overall great job by chuckyyy and crew in putting this site together and keeping it going.
 
   For me I was part of the group that was formed on the L.A. Times message board. We had a pretty tight knit group of posters there. People like Chuckyyy, Delnoce, Pablo , Halo (Scott Thurman) , Mark Hennemeth I believe Angelsjunky and Desar were also a part of that group. And we had carl and moneyg a couple Ranger fans who would come and talk smack, Along with Angelina a Marineer fan who would talk smack also. We also had several others who posted with us. It was a pretty tight group and I really enjoyed it until the L.A. Times shut it down. I went by Beerman even though I don't drink I cold not help but get the commercials out of my head of the The Beerman and thus used it as a user name. After the L.A.Times shut us down we bounced from message board to message board but nothing ever seemed to fit or stay long. Till chuckyyy opened up this site and I'm glad he did.
 
So how did you find your way here and how did you get your Angels fix before this site became available? And of course how did you come by your username?

REPENT YOU SINNERS FOR YOUR BLASPHEMY , Judgement day shall soon be upon you...
 
 As I said I am far from the perfect person to preach to anyone. I just found the title to be something I would never do or say. That anyone or anything was greater then God. I did find some of the posts to be pretty funny and knew I would catch some heat over it. The world is far from a perfect place me included. And why wouldn't God's favorite team be one called the Angels. As for the 43 year curse or whatever , Hey even Daniel got thrown into the lions den and Jobe suffered far worst. All I know for sure is for now Trout is Angel and I am thankful for that...

REPENT YOU SINNERS FOR YOUR BLASPHEMY , Judgement day shall soon be upon you...
 
 As I said I am far from the perfect person to preach to anyone. I just found the title to be something I would never do or say. That anyone or anything was greater then God. I did find some of the posts to be pretty funny and knew I would catch some heat over it. The world is far from a perfect place me included. And why wouldn't God's favorite team be one called the Angels. As for the 43 year curse or whatever , Hey even Daniel got thrown into the lions den and Jobe suffered far worst. All I know for sure is for now Trout is Angel and I am thankful for that...

We're going to have to endure a bunch of this if Trout keeps this stuff up.

Ok, Harris, let's not start a holy war here

Are you trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curve ball?

CJ and Green got off to great starts last night and Jimenez didn't look bad starting that DP in a clutch situation. I'm also very happy with 4 of our starters right now Richards and Skaggs are looking like they could be pitching in the front of the rotation. CJ Wilson has been a horse while Weaver is solid for 6 . Santiago kind of scares me though he is an improvement over some of what we had last year and isn't a bad 5 starter. He needs to slow down and take his time and not get all out in front of himself. Just hope they all stay healthy and thankful that even with the injuries none have been to our starting 5.

But... But... we have the worst farm in the league!

I don't think Walden being on some of the lists or even Fuentes being on some of the lists is a sign that we had some pretty bad closers. In fact I think it is quite the opposite. It is because of guys like Percy, K - Rod and Harvey that were so dominate for so long for us. That you have to dig for so long to find 10 closers for us. Remember we are an expansion team and have only been in the league since what 1962? I believe until recently we have been blessed at the closer position.
 
 Also I added Scott Shields to the list even though he was a  set up man just to recognize how great he was. If not for K-Rod ,Shields probably would of been a pure closer. I remember when ever K-Rod went down Shields was lights out in the closer role.

It is kind of hard to ignore Percy as the all time Angels saves leader with over 300 saves as a Angel.
I think I would vote for something like this...
 
1. PERCY - All time saves leader for the Angels.
2. K-Rod - Second most saves as a Angel.
3. Harvey - Loved Harvey but  he left us for the Marlins.
4. Lee - Our first big time closer.
5. Moore - Between Moore and Adenhart we have had our share of tragedy with our pitchers
6. Smith - We got him on the downside of his career , But he was still pretty good.
7. Scot Shields - He was never a true closer but did close games for us when the closer could not go. Best set up man to ever  wear a Angel uniform.
8. Frieri - When he is on he does well... When he is not we blow huge games. Like Mark Clear he has major control problems.
9. Clear - Had his control issues but was first pitcher to get 100 K's without a start. Mostly a set up man and occasional closer like Shields.
10. Walden - We have had some great closers who hung around for quite a while so from here on down it is a toss up...

Reggie Jackson... I  was setting in the Kingdom watching a game when he hit 3 homeruns in the same game back in the late 70's... I was a young man in the Navy at the time.

with conger:  0.71era 12.2ip 2 starts
with iannetta 7.71era 9.1ip 2 starts (not including today)
 
and of course they put iannetta in today. 

Joe Smith should be our closer

What if Cooperstown gives him a hat?

I just dont understand what Dipoto was thinking by acquiring an older and Clearly declining vet for younger players.  Did he really believe that  Freese would turn it around in a pitchers park like we have?  I mean, come on, there had to be more available than what we got for the 2 players we gave up.  Why did we trade with St. Louis.  We could have found a different and better trade partner sometime before the start of the season.  What was the rush to accept that crappy trade? You can put me in the Dipoto needs to go crowd.  I used to be a supporter, not anymore.  He has had more than enough time to turn this around.  If we were winning trades fine, but we're not.  He needs to go and take his buddy Scioscia with him.  We need a fresh start.  

Yeah, not a bright move tossing a MLB career .292 second baseman for a relief arm worth 1/3 his value. I get there is a collective dislike for Kendrick because you guys never seem to see him hit a ball when you want him to but really, just stop it, stop it!

@JeffFletcherOCR: Ibanez HR is the first time #Angels hit 3 consec HRs since 7-27-09. (Rivera, Morales, Napoli)
@JeffFletcherOCR: Also, first time in ML history a team had 3 consec HRs by guys in 20s, 30s and 40s. (I just made that up, but it sounds feasible.) #Angels

Mets announcers..."Some really sloppy baseball here from the Angels"
He doesn't see us enough to know that's how we roll.

Nope that was just her reaction to Ianatta's  homer...

I remember when Napoli went to Texas everyone was saying he would hit 40 home runs and then when he went to Boston it was again, he is going to hit 40 bombs over the Green monster. His best was 30 in Texas and only 23 last season. Cross out 2011 career year and Naps is the same guy the Angels let go.
 
Trumbo started off whacking the ball hard but his slash line is already representing close to last season with a .235  average and OBP under .300. His last 5 games .105/.227/.316/.543 with 5 strikeouts. April numbers are too small of a sample size but the indicators are he is the same guy and will provide the Diamondbacks the same performance he gave the Angels and that is a lot of wasted at bats.

Rather fugging see Stevie Wonder up there with a toothpick for a bat than that useless old bastard Ibanez. Least he could've done was run after he hit it but nope

More evidence that Butcher is on thin ice?

The bullpen is doing great today, the are very stylish sitting on their benches.