Rev's Advice: How to Beat Angels Pitchers
by Rev Halofan on Oct 7, 2009 12:12 AM EDT
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PrintHey Chowdz, dropping by from HALOS HEAVEN, I got some insider tips you can spread to the guy in your dugout wearing the John Lennon spectacles:
HOW TO BEAT THE ANGELS PITCHING (and that is Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim to you)
John Lackey
While most batters use the batters eye as a backdrop, batters are advised to use John's open mouth as the background from which they determine whether a ball is hittable.
Jered Weaver
Basically guess fastball and the likelihood that three pitches will go by that are not fastballs is practically nil.
Scott Kazmir
Foul everything off, get his pitch count up and say hello to the bullpen.
Joe Saunders
You will have runners on base each inning so do what Mike Sciosica would do and pressure the defense.
Bullpen:
Brian Fuentes
Send up a righty.
Kevin Jepsen, Jason Bulger
Just sit on the fastball and say good night, Gracie!
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I am honestly surprised
A post by Rev on OTM that includes none of the following:
Profanity
Insults to the players
Insults to the fans (Chowdz is pretty light)
Ranting
I know, huh...
I had already gotten the F, U and C down in my original comment when I realized it totally wasn’t warranted.
Rock me, sexy Jesus...
by nuthinboutnuthin on Oct 7, 2009 12:40 AM EDT up reply actions
This must be part of SBNation's attempt to cross-pollinate their sports sites..
and oh dear Lord, it’s WORKING.
Honestly, Bosox fans, if there’re three things you should fear this postseason, it’s the absolute, berserk, uncontrollable hatred the fans have espoused for 1) Beckett, 2) Joe West — specifically for leaving Beckett in the game after tossing at Abreu’s head, and 3) Low strikes in the zone that decide the game.
I’ll just leave pitch 9 here.
I'll just leave the strike zone that night...
Here
by Ben Buchanan on Oct 7, 2009 12:51 AM EDT up reply actions
Wait, USG, are you saying that the Angels were not being intentionally persecuted by the umpires and by the whole of MLB? are you saying that it was a bad call that was fairly consistent with an entire game of bad calls? Dude, you’re crazy.
"Ninety percent [of my salary] I'll spend on good times, women, and Irish whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste."
-Tug McGraw
a bad call at a very crucial point of the game?
no way.
Aybar is a nowhere man, Sitting in his Nowhere Land, Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
by princeton11loveshalos on Oct 7, 2009 1:54 AM EDT up reply actions
Like the non-HBP on Inge with the bases loaded in extra innings last night?
Or, maybe the strike three call on Polanco with runners on corners and no one out in the 9th?
Yeah, stuff like that only happens to the Angels.
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
by Drugs Delaney on Oct 7, 2009 7:19 AM EDT up reply actions
Oh but come on, Drugs
don’t you know that a meaningless regular season game with nothing on the line is more importnant than a one-game playoff game not involving the Angels? It is clear the umps can make every correct call if they want to, they only hold back to screw the poor Angels over. And Kevin Youkilis is a strike-zone whiner…
Just went over to Bless You Boys
not a single complaint about 2 horrid calls (one of which clearly should have put the Tigers up 6-5 in extras). Those are real fans-interesting contrast with the HH crowd.
Ooo! Ooo! I've got the best graphic of all...
W
At this point, it pretty much tells you all you need to know about that game.
Rock me, sexy Jesus...
by nuthinboutnuthin on Oct 7, 2009 4:03 AM EDT up reply actions
I have one question for Rev:
Please explain how OBP and SLG affect Pythagorean W-L?
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
Yeah-that was a good one
I like how he proudly claims to have “found a flaw” in the projection algorithm. The Angels may be a good team, they may even win the world series, but it is embarrassing that that site is managed and run by a guy that does not have the first clue about baseball.
STOP LINKING TO THAT DAMN SITE
IT BUGS THE CRAP OUT OF ME WHEN I CAN’T CORRECT PEOPLE
@bs_uf15bosox9be The Original Gameday; Learn to use SB Nation
Angel Fan
is so geeked up on trying to win this series, if the Sox do go on to the ALCS, every Angel Fan in Orange County will just walk into the Pacific Ocean never too be heard from again. Angel fan really does not want to win so the Angels can win a WS, they want to win so that they can look at Yankee fan, Dodger fan and the Nation and say “See we are good too….”
Um..no not really, you are the red headed step child of MLB, the Dodgers are LA’s team and people in LA care more about the Clippers and Clipper girl tryouts v. the Angels…everyone except John Travolta.
I would bet a lot of money that the Angels will not win the 2009 WS, right now they are only better than the Twins and that is up for debate.
C'mon SA
The Angels are a very good team. The Sox-Angels ALDS match-up is very close. LA is MUCH better than Minnesota. Texas is better than Minnesota and LA is better than Texas. I like the Sox’ chances, but they can just as easily lose this series.
You don’t have to like Angels fans. Most of the posters on HH are idiots. But give the team some credit. They’re very good.
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
by Drugs Delaney on Oct 8, 2009 4:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Nope sorry
They are very good in the AL West and Ill still take the Twins.
I live with Angel fan, nobody likes them. Its not a comment so much on their team but on their attitude. They only want to prove they are in the same class as the Yankees, Dodgers and Red Sox in terms of rivalries (not a chance), tradition (Lost that when you changed your name to the Orange county, Anaheim, California Angels of the Greater Los Angeles Area), and representation by the fan base…which i have said over and over again…Raider fan is a better class of people.
Dodger fans are usually nice people, Angel fans get off on fighting at the Big A when 10 year olds are getting beer poured on them. Then they post the video and laugh about the kid who got doused.
IF the Angels win the ALDS
how much would you bet on them winning the WS?
They will lose to the Yankees in 5 games, bc they only want to beat us, not win the WS.
look inward.
Angel Fan has an identity, intead of some prostitute who cheers for Boston because they made a stop in Logan International when they were a adolescent.
Dropkick Murphys is great broseph, where can I get some red wall paper for my myspace!? Yeah im from california, but my uncle used to live in boston…go sox!
What do you need a fancy suit for, Charlie, you ain't got no job to wear it to.
by clover_black on Oct 10, 2009 1:53 AM EDT up reply actions
Why do you have to have lived close to the team to be allowed to like them?
@bs_uf15bosox9be The Original Gameday; Learn to use SB Nation
This is a trick question right?
Hey man, I’m not here to make people who got into Boston sports 5 years ago feel better. The reality is, this is your fanbase:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20091010hellish_game_for_sox_sisters_in_anaheim/
Growing up in the community of your baseball team is something i guess the majority of sox fans would not understand….but the ones who do, would know exactly what I’m talking about.
What do you need a fancy suit for, Charlie, you ain't got no job to wear it to.
by clover_black on Oct 11, 2009 1:27 AM EDT up reply actions
I'm just saying, it's not like it's a government thing...
You don’t have to have established residence somewhere just to root for a team. As long as you stick with them through the bad stuff, no one should care why you started.
@bs_uf15bosox9be 12 pieces of bacon, a Red Bull, and go get 'em; Learn to use SB Nation
Why are you so bitter dude?
No one will care if we win the WS but if we do win its means alot for the players and the fans. Forget about the love you’ll get from the media. Let me tell you a little something about SoCal it has a lot of bandwagon fans for teams like the Lakers, Dodgers, Chargers, USC, and Angels. There are tons of fake fans for many teams in different sports, but in the end it won’t mean as much to them as it does to us die hard fans. Or did you not learn anything when you guys were on top of the world in 04? I rooted for the BoSox in 04 and 07 and I wasn’t bitter, but last year you guys got really cocky and my hate for you guys grew. I didn’t come here to talk shit but come on dude, ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul
They want power, We want respect...
by SenorChuckles on Oct 10, 2009 2:25 AM EDT up reply actions
In the tradition of the historical analysis I've been writing all summer, I would like to know the Rev's motives for posting here.......
"Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax." -- Mike Royko
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