Angelfish

Why was he remembered as the one guy who blew that game? Because he was one strike away from ending it? One could just as easily blame Mauch, Witt, Lucas, Wilfong or DeCinces.
 
The article talks about how the Angels counterpunched in the bottom of the ninth and almost won it in the 10th. What no one ever talks about is how the Angels were the first team ever to overcome a three-run deficit in the ninth inning to win a game in the postseason just the night before. That game never happened now.
 
As for Moore, reading this article I don't feel sorry for him any more. I've seen my own mother suffer in a verbally abusive and controlling relationship. No matter how many good things a person has done for you, you never are able to respect them again when you see them pushing someone weaker around.

I am not sure that Josh has a true passion for the game.  He's an incredibly talented baseball player when he wants to be.  For him it seems a means to an end.  He achieved that end when he got his generation changing contract for him and his family.  He seems to approach the game as if people should cut him some slack for reasonable things like struggling after an injury or layoff and he doesn't get that his contract obliges him to a different set of standards and expectations.  
 
Fans are not reasonable.  It's just how it works.  Instead of fighting it, he needs to own what he's now obligated to and suck it up when it's called for.  

What pisses people off about Josh is simply the potential that's there, and how much he takes it for granted. He doesn't work at his craft. Imagine David Eckstein with Josh Hamilton's talent.

He tried kicking my dog one time, but he missed

He needs to quit looking for a slow breaking ball in .
IT AIN'T COMING . THEY KNOW YOU'RE LOOKING FOR IT.
Swing on that first pitch meatball for god's sake.

I think he can start with reconsidering the Pujols take-the-first-pitch-down-broadway strategy.

They're putting it right in the middle of the plate, bottom half every time. That's your crush zone. You are taking so much pressure off the pitcher giving him that first strike it's unbelievable. He locates that first pitch, then goes from there. You are getting yourself out time and again, you idiot.

It's the curse. Every big money player the Angels have signed recently have all struggled for a year.

Trade him for Verlander. No one will be expecting it.

Gaa lamer be damned. Cronheads, I say!