Angels blast off early and hold back the Cardinals Menace

Very nice to get our first sweep of the year. Despite the fact that St. Louis is struggling I did not expect it ; I mean, if we can’t sweep the A’s why should anyone think we would sweep a much more talented Cardinals team ??

That said, it is important to get the first one in the bag. Any team that makes the playoffs will inevitably have several sweeps of 3 game or 4 game series’ over the course of the season. So, it is good to get one done and off the board in May. We’ll need at least a couple more along the way… Maybe three more.

It is also nice to start the month of May off well ….. I think the month of May will tell the story of what our destiny is likely to be, at least as far as playoffs or no playoffs. If we get crushed head to head by Texas and Houston and do poorly against Baltimore and Boston we probably are not cut out to be a playoff team, let alone a division winner.

If we tread water and more or less hover around .500, maybe stay a game or two above through May we are likely to at least be in the race after the All-Star break… IF however we surprise and play really well, then at that point I think it would be reasonable to project good things, since if that happens it will have meant we showed we could beat the two biggest challengers in the AL West, Texas and Houston, or at least held our own against them. Of course, we will still have to take care of business against the lesser teams (White Sox for example) but we need to get off on the right foot against the big boys… That will not be easy for a variety of reasons, which I will touch upon in a comment or two later today or tomorrow…