Stradling

Rodney was a complete joke in Detroit and in Anaheim. He found something in Tampa. I'm sure someone will say he found coaching, and I won't disagree. However Detroit has very good coaching and management and it was awful there.

I kinda like that nick name for Mike. The big Catorce has a nice ring to it.

He is absolutely part of the problem, but he is treated like the sole problem. A great manager might win you 3-5 games in a year. Scioscia even if he is not great in everyones eyes is not costing the Angels 3-5 games a year.

I love the notion that if you don't agree with the haters then you are an apologist. It has gotten to the point where I don't even want to point out when Scioscia makes mistakes, mainly because I don't want to agree with the lowest form of fan, the one that has to blame the manager every time a player under performs, the one that feels wronged by bad decisions. It's baseball, one bad decision usually doesn't cost you a game, especially not a game where you left 13 runners on base and hit into two double plays. As far as the validity of this opinion, well it has more merit than any of us have, but considering the source its at least iffy. How many players have played for Scioscia the last 15 seasons? Which ones come out against him? Well, we have Jose Guillen, Mike Napoli, and Trevor Bell. I am sure there are more but of those three I give credence to Napoli, and that's about it. A handful of guys out of the 100 or so ex players, not bad. I am sure any of us who have managed people in the past would be more than happy having 95%+ satisfaction rating from our employees/team mates.

Welcome back WayBackMan

Remember when we had a lights out bullpen, ten years ago.

I miss Scot Shields.

Remember when you could start a thread making fun of another six page bitch fest thread and it wouldn't get deleted by the mods. Pathetic.

Chuck email me your address I'll get you a wall calendar.

Hahaha

Ok, LAA, was it a strike? What is your professional opinion? Face it everybody the only reason we care about this is because it helps the Rangers. If this call went against the Rangers and the Rays had one, we would be laughing it off. I don't want electronic strike zone, I wouldn't mind expanded replays, but not to the extent of ruining the tradition or flow of a game.

This isn't on Nathan, he was clearly staying away from the zone. This is on the umpire who simply blew the call.

Who will be there tonight? I'll be there with my family. My boys have never missed an opening day. I'll be tailgating by the big A starting around 4. So who else will be there?

He's not a Rangers fan, just ask him.

And a Rangers fan

As ridiculous as a Ranger fan spending all day on an Angel Fan website?

His name was Wayne Gretzky.

It's funny how one game can make us feel so much better, but I'll tell you, I certainly do feel much better.

He hit the ball hard today. Not sure how it looked on TV but the wind was blowing hard from center to left, and he hit it to straight away right. There was no airstream.

If we can pull tomorrow out we will be perfectly fine. I'll take a 3-3 road trip to Cinci and Texas especially if we get no production from Hamilton.

Yes if they were intimidating the family or being verbally abusive to them then yes they are garbage. As for my experience the last couple days they weren't too bad. I had a few give me a hard time but that's too be expected.

Sorry but it was stupid to think this wouldn't happen. If ever there was a series to miss it was this one.

They were both no doubters. I don't know what it looked like on TV but the first one, was crushed and the center fielder didn't even move. The second one was a line drive that only had to stay high enough which it did. If Hamilton does his job today it would have been a blow out.

I was at the game yesterday and it was brutal. I have been a season ticket holder for the Angels for over 15 years and I've never once heard our stadium cheer or boo anything as loud as they were booing him. The only time I've ever heard our stadium that loud was 2002 when thunder sticks were introduced. There bitterness towards Hamilton would be like our bitterness towards Lackey and Texeria combined, on steroids, times ten. They might not be a baseball town, but they were loud as **** when he was up. What's hilarious was when Ianetta hit the homer, I've never heard a stadium that quiet. Same goes with Trouts RBI double. It was quieter than a moment of silence, it was unreal. It was so quiet I actually second guessed myself for seeing what I saw. I don't know how many games I've been to in my life but that was a first.

Yea probably not. While I do think your team was pretty darn good last year, they hit a wall. He may not have been your teams MVP (Beltre) he was quite productive for you. I'm guessing without him you were a third place team. You may finish higher than third this year and if so it's because of the maturity of your starting pitching and not the fact that you don't have Josh.