Most of his posts wouldn’t be allowed on HBO.

If you really think Rev was being serious when he referred to “that fat guy” and “the great John Lackey,” go loosen up a bit and come back later. Or, try reading ESPN headlines for a while and then come back to HH and think whether it’s really that off base in its tone. He’s just engaging in the same type of exaggeration certain other media outlets do—it’s just that he’s exaggerating for the benefit of a different side. Yes he can overdo it sometimes, but come on, really? Really? You’re offended? You NY types are far more ultra-sensitive than we thought!

Also, way to bag on the guy on a totally different site as opposed to, you know, bringing it up to his face. You might find he’s a decent guy.

I can tell you that the Rev is not to be taken seriously.

In fact, you should ignore him as hard as you can.

oh lord please don’t let me be misunderstood.

Are you just jealous that i got written up in the Boston Globe and you didn’t?

FEATURE ON REV HALOFAN

And after a few seasons of Bartolo Colon bashing by everyone else, CC is a pork belly future waiting to be traded on Wall Street.

The last thing he needs is more attention / discussion of him.

Go for the posts that complain about umpires, east coast bias, and the Yankees and Red Sox exorbitant payrolls. Also go read about how their team is seemingly devoid of any free agents and comprised totally of their own farm players.

not him, this article.

David Bowie would consider it thoroughly readable from post to post

The community over at HH is great and there are a number of people (WiHaloFan, mattwelch, etc. who put up some interesting things.

Rev…what can I say? He’s not objective about anything, he’s irreverant, rude, and unnecessarily harsh. He’s argumentative about everything, especially when it comes to other teams’ fans’ opinions. He gripes constantly about East Coast Bias, ESPN coverage, and any other perceived slight against the Angels (even when the criticism is warranted). It’s not pretty.

Suffice to say, I stick around for the community of Angels fans, most of whom are pretty reasonable and knowledgeable, not the “esteemed” Rev Halofan.

My best advice? Ignore him as much as possible.

He does local talk radio in Los Angeles. He is a crazy, mid-life crisis, Rick Bayless looking freak show who has found some small level of celebrity with other Angel fans.

His rise to Halo Heaven power is mostly bc nobody in LA cares about the Angels and so he has a forum to talk to the other pissed off and frustrated Angel fans who feel that their team should be considered one of the great franchises in all of sport.

To listen to Rev Halo on the radio is like listening to a 16 year old girl talk about the captain of the football team…its pathetic, extremely confusing and hilarious.

What I would like to know is what will Rev do now that the Red Sox do not define his existence?

Or could you substitute “Bill Simmons” for Rev Halofan, and “Red Sox” for Angels in almost all of these comments and they would make perfect sense?

I am just saying, homerism is homerism. Being a “respected” journalist doesn’t make the homerism go away.

but he’s built a great communtity over at HH… so I don’t care how he acts, he runs a great blog.

Rev is the guy who puts on his team colors even when they don’t match his shoes or his glasses. He’s the guy who takes his Missus out for a ballgame to root for his team when other fans take the night off. He’s the guy who drives 40 miles a night from East LA to sit in his season seats stuck way out in the bleachers, when Mr. Corporate Exec handed away duckets behind the home dugout to an uncaring business client who couldn’t be bothered to drive 10 miles up the road from their upscale beachfront property.

Rev is the guy who does not need a Jumbotron to tell him when to make N-O-I-S-E- And he is the guy who can name every player from the team’s history that gets shown on that Jumbotron during trivia challenges. He is the guy who still feels the distant pain of past team failures and knows what it means to enjoy every second of current success. Because Rev is the guy who knows it has not been there forever, and may all be gone tomorrow.

Rev will be there on game 162 when the season ended back on game 146, because he knows that come day 163 there will be no baseball at all.

Rev is the guy who doesn’t need to be educated on his team’s past, nor introduced to his team’s present, and is prepared to discuss his team’s future without hesitation. Rev knows his statistics, but he also know their limits. He is intelligent enough to recognize that numbers do not have gravitas merely because they are numerous. And he is sufficiently articulate when pointing this out.

So, to begin, Rev is a fan. Probably more so than most people who visit SBNation forums. And this difference can be clear. And unexpected. And off-putting.

But, Rev is not milquetoast. Nor is he for milquetoasts. He is more Richard Pryor than Erma Bombeck, Jack Kerouac than Emily Post, Hunter S. Thompson than Walter L. Cronkite. To me, Rev is Bill The Cat from Bloom County. Never too far removed from a random ACK! He is not for everyone. The faint of heart, the thin of skin, the weak of knees should all heed my advice and sit elsewhere. Pick another bleacher. Find a quieter spot. If you did not know this before you settled in and got comfortable, apologies all around. But now you do know.

Does it work? Yes, it does. 3000 posts in game threads are testimony that it works. And it works for newbies and works for sabremetricians and works for crusty old guys and career professionals and fellow baseball fans from around the globe. And that is hard work, that Rev does.

But it doesn’t work for everybody. If you are not a fan of the Angels, then you are not of Rev’s tribe. It is what being a sports fan has always been about. Rev’s internet antics have nothing on beer-laden NY Jets fans urinating on the coat backs of visiting Boston Patriots fans when everybody was huddled together, crammed tight, in 14 degree weather at Shea Stadium. (Ah, the good old days!)

Actually, it doesn’t even work for all Angels fans. Rev is an acquired taste. A bipolar drink. Champagne on most nights, soda water filtered through smelly socks the next. But you have to admire his commitment. He changes for nobody, nor to secure any advantage. He is succeeeding as an independent, growing in voice. Ignore him if it suits you, but you would be missing an interesting phenomenon at it’s zygote stages in the great change that is the Information Age of Electronic Media.

…this was supposed to be a poetry slam blogging site instead…sorry Randy Booth, you may lose this one.

In one exchange he was gloating that Jack Hamiliton of the Angels beaned Tony Conigliaro of the Red Sox in 1967, cripppling him for life and resulting in his untimely death.

… what have I started (continued)?

Rather entertaining, though.

With the worst head blogger. Perfect fit.

Seems that Rev has banned our friend here.