Bitterness again fills the Los Angeles nights...
by SoxAcumen on Sep 17, 2009 5:11 AM EDT
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Print...it must be getting close to October.
Angel fan is out and agitated again. No thought of the errors the Angels committed prior to the 9th inning, or the men left on base all night, or even Varitek's error to give the Angels the lead...No it must be a CONSPIRACY. Again!!! How does the Angel organization survive as a franchise when every umpire is obviously screwing them over so the Red Sox can win?
Angel fan, let me be the one to clarify some things. Your team, the one that does no wrong, just lost to a guy who was on the DL for 3 months (Some AA team ripped Dice-K for 6 runs last week) and Paul Byrd a guy who was pitching to his son's junior high school team a month ago. You lost to a team who did not play its two best hitters in either game. You lost when the Red Sox gave you the lead when Varitek could not pick the ball up out of the dirt and you finally got a break. And you lost to a team who hit ground outs after ground outs which your team could not handle.
But its the umpires who caused you to lose, right? Is that the way we are going to play this off season? Each season its something. No "I hope they hit Papi in the head so he out of the series" by that class act Rev Halo? No Papi uses steroids, when your only WS win was won with a guy who WAS busted for using PEDs in 2002? We are going with umpire conspiracy this year?
I have no idea who is going to win an ALDS match up with the Red Sox and Angels, I will be cheering for the Sox, but I can guarentee If the Red Sox win the Angels must of been screwed by something, Papi's PEDs, Umpires, the ghost of Ted Williams, Bud Selig....something will cause them to lose.
Ahh, the bitterness, every year I forget why nobody likes Angel fan in LA, but come October, then I remember. They are the most classless group. Raider fan, you now have my apology.
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They could had won it...
They should had killed a couple Sox rallies during the game. Fuentes shouldn’t had walked Ortiz, no matter if he is Mr. Walk off or not. There was good baseball in the game, but there was some serious sloppiness on both sides. Abreu and Hunter had a very good game.
by superferret on Sep 17, 2009 12:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Ted Williams' ghost wins everything for us.
I feel so damn dependent.
@bs_uf15bosox9be The Original Gameday; Learn to use SB Nation
HOLD ON. I'm gonna let you finish mikevitu...
but the Redsox are one of the best teams of ALL Time!
You perfectly convey the stupidity of Angel fans and Kanye West.
"Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax." -- Mike Royko
by sox-inda-south on Sep 19, 2009 10:57 PM EDT up reply actions
The Angels did win that game, twice actually. Game over after the obvious strike on the check swing and then game over again after the low strike. Even NESN’s (biased) “K Zone” had it as a stirke and it wasn’t even close.
The Angels did win the game, the umps took it away. Plain and simple. I am not an Angels fan or even a Yankee fan. I
It does.
"Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax." -- Mike Royko
by sox-inda-south on Sep 19, 2009 10:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Funny
How only Angel fans seem to the think the Green check swing was a strike.
by Gnick on Sep 19, 2009 11:09 AM EDT up reply actions
Good grief
The last pitch to Green looked low to me and like els I’m not a Red Sox or an Angels fan.
The pitch was close. Maybe another ump would have called it a strike. But it wasn’t right down the middle or something so blatantly bad like Eric Gregg calling strikes for Livan Hernandez three feet off the plate in the 1997 NLCS.
It was borderline..
Umps have different strike zones, and it can change for different pitchers. It was a good pitch, because it was borderline, but it should had been called a strike, but my guess is that the ump was calling many pitches balls that were borderline during the whole game… I think the problem was that it dropped a bit when it hit the glove.
Much like during Nolan Ryan last no hitter in the early 90s, the Ump’s strike zone was larger than Oklahoma, the Ump should had been fired, but because it was Nolan Ryan, he got away with it..
No Conspiracy but...
There were a couple of calls that went the Sox way:
- Force at 2b when they ruled Kendrick didn’t have possession of the ball – judgement call that could have gone either way.
- Green AB – it looked to me that he went around on the check swing and the K-zone showed the ball as a strike. However, both close, both judgement calls that could have gone either way.
I don’t believe in conspiracy theories and still don’t understand why Juan Rivera not only slowed up on Gonzo’s game winning hit but didn’t lay out for it. However, I think Sox fans would have been pretty angry if all three calls went against the Sox and they lost so we can’t play it both ways.
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