Many of you know that my father is @Angel25fan (AKA Brian Ilten, Director of Marketing for Angelswin.com)... Now, you all know that being born into a family where Brian Ilten is the father meant that I was either going to be an Angels fan, or put up for adoption. I have been an Angels fan since 1994... the day I was born, 2 weeks into my life I was at a game... that's the way it was...
When MLB Network launched on January 1st, 2009, I remember sitting around the television with my father and brothers and we watched the first edition of "Hot Stove"... since then, I have not been able to avoid punching in 2-1-3 whenever I get the remote. Whether the Angels were playing, or it was just highlights from around baseball; Bob Costas could be doing one of his "Studio 42: With Bob Costas" specials, or they could be doing the Prime 9 Moments of the Boston Red Sox feature.... I wouldn't care, MLB Network was always where I went first when I had the remote... and I figured that this would never change... even after the slow start of last season for the Angels.
And then, this year started... and I had hope... but to be honest, the well has run dry. It hurts to turn on MLB Network... I can't stand watching the highlights of the Astros defeat the Angels, or watching the team sink lower and lower on the Standings Board in Studio 42. The 2013 Angels have something I thought impossible... they have made me not want to watch the game I love. Now, if I want to see if the Angels won, I won't check the phone, or the laptop, or anything else... I will just be on the bus back to the Cast Member Lot at Disneyland (Where I work), and see whether the halo is lit or not... I have worked there for almost a month now... and granted, I don't work every night, but I have only seen the thing lit on 3 occasions. The Angels have made it so painful... Thank God the Anaheim Ducks are in the playoffs... because without that, I don't think I could watch sports...
By all means, I am still an Angels fan. Always have been. Always Will Be. The fact of the matter is though that the team has destroyed any thought of plans I had this October.
I want to know your opinions on all of this... how much, if any bit at all, the Angels have changed baseball for you this year... please tell me this isn't only me.
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