The Big A will be packed tonight and for the next two nights as the Freeway Series kicks off. Yes, half the crowd will be wearing blue, but half of them were wearing red the last time we were good. The fair weather in the Southland is not reserved for the forecast.
Kenley Jansen is ready to show his old club he’s still in top form. Hopefully he gets 3 chances to do so.
Jansen is on a roll, lately. He hasn’t allowed an earned run in 20 straight appearances.
One person who definitely won’t participate in the Freeway Series is Jack Kochanowicz. He had a miserable outing yesterday that earned him a trip back to the minor leagues.
Justin Verlander has been around four years longer than Kenley Jansen. He notched a little MLB history yesterday.
Father Time seems to have overtaken Verlander, but he says he wants to continue pitching in 2026. A washed up, World Series champion, former 3 time Cy Young award winner sounds like a winner to Arte. Let’s hope he doesn’t read that link. Oh, and he’ll be cheap after 2 bad years in a row.
In the meantime, the Angels need to win 1 out of 3 to win the Freeway Series for the 2025 season. In what will be the shining moment of this campaign, the Angels swept the logo stealers in their stadium earlier this season.
If you’re wondering where Charles is, here you go: Mr. Sutton is an attorney with a big case. He’s in court today and will be for a week or two. So wish him well, but know he’s fine and expect to see the rest of us pitching in to cover the large amount of work he does here.
Yankees fans— full meltdown
Love it
Now we just need the Doyers to prolapse on the Padres.
At the game tonight behind the bullpens in left field. Go halos beat those damn doyers
I’m here tonight as well. Doyer fan buddy bought us tickets
Nice I’m in section 260
2 sections above you lol
Brewers and Tigers might be a fun WS, as I would be loving it if the Sanks and Doyers stay home and invite the Mets over for the games with beer and chips, a crying shame party don’t you know 💯
Dodgers manager had a couple of brutal comments about Shohei and his swing choices and his base running choices, if not careful he could follow former Dodger skipper Donny Baseball and be managing Miami before watching games on TV.
Complaint last season was little power from Schanny. Some here (breaking my arm) thought that he would improve on his hitting and add more power-done. Next year more of same for Schanuel no doubt. Rada has very limited power at a young age, seems Career and Suzuki are Hall of Fame members who fell into that range too. Rada at a young age knows the K-Zone, and can hit. Can’t wait for his arrival when he is ready.
I doubt anyone will ever mistake my boy Nolan for a power hitter. I mean, he’s not even slugging 400 now. But I do think he can up his game a little more in all areas next year. A career year for him likely looks like a .300 AV with 20 HR and 35 2B. That’s fine, and if he spends most of his career with an OPS above .770 I’m cool with that. That’s a useful boy. Maybe he can pull it off next year.
Yes but that boy of yours 23.5 yrs with less than 2 MLB seasons will grow up and will be a man someday.
Yup. That’s why I’m hoping he has a little higher performance norm to come.
To be fair, Nolan has increased his ISO and matched his total extra base hits from last year, though there isn’t enough to say whether it’s a true increase or year-to-year variance. If Nolan can maintain an OBP north of .360 with say 30 2B and 15 HR, that’s valuable enough to keep in the lineup. We already have enough players that can put up Dave Kingman numbers, 30+ HR while hitting <.230.
As noted in the above article, Verlander wants to pitch in 2026.
An aging HOF pitcher, with declining stats (negative WAR in last 2 years) —- he is a perfect signing for the Angels for 2026.
For today:
Yamamoto has never faced the Angels
For 2025: he’s 10-7, with ERA 2.51
Soriano: this is his first career start vs Dodgers
For 2025: he’s 7-9, with ERA 4.01
If we get the good Soriano, we might have a chance to win.
If we get the bad Soriano, game is over by 3rd inning, perhaps earlier.
Trout has played in 45 games vs. Dodgers, with 0.232 BA, 10 HR, 26 RBIs, 23 runs scored
Ohtani has played in 7 games against the Angels, with 0.321 BA, 3 HRs, 7 RBIs, 6 runs scored
Will Smith: 22 games, 0.297 BA, 4 HRs, 13 RBIs
Freeman: 39 games, 0.323 BA, 7 HRs, 24 RBIs
Mookie: 47 games (mostly with Red Sox): 0.275 BA, 7 HRs, 28 RBIs
Teoscar: 53 games (mostly Blue Jays): 0.251 BA, 10 HRs, 34 RBIs
For the lineups, Moncada at 3B, Teodosio CF, d’Arnaud catching, Rengifo 2B
Roster filler, cheap deck/lawn chair replacement
https://x.com/jared_tims/status/1955017586456006954?s=42
I’d be more interested in giving Mederos an audition, but the Angels can go a week before needing a 5th starter thanks to Thursday’s off day.
I suspect that most folks here aren’t Baseball America subscribers, so can’t access features behind the paywall, but BA gave some love to two much-talked-about Angels prospects today – Nelson Rada and Denzer Guzman.
Nelson is covered in this weeks “Statcast Standouts” feature. While the full editorial circle may not have bought in to Rada as a Top 100 guy yet, at least one writer has.
Eli Ben-Porat writes:
Rada has been one of the youngest batters at every level he’s played at. In Single-A, he was at least 1.3 years younger than any pitcher he faced and was, on average, 4.4 years younger than the pitchers he faced. Now in Triple-A, he’s at least 3.1 years younger than the pitchers he’s competing against and 5.7 years younger on average.
If you’re going to succeed with minimal bat speed, you have to be a contact machine. Rada’s zone contact certainly suggests he’s got that covered. The truly special aspect to Rada’s profile? The elite swing decisions. It’s exceedingly rare to see a player with +10% in zone aggression and -10% out-of-zone chase. This is a recipe for a plus-plus on-base profile, and it fully supports the .388 OBP he’s put up across two levels this season, as well as the .395 mark he logged in A-ball. He struggled in his first taste of Double-A last year, but that’s looking like an adjustment period given he skipped High-A entirely and was really young for the level.
Here’s our scouting report on Rada’s glove: “In center field, he makes advanced reads with a smooth glove, giving him plus defensive projection at a premium position”.
If you combine what’s looking very much like a potentially average-or-better MLB hitter based on the contact and on-base skills with a plus glove in center field, you’re looking at potential 3-4 win player. Rada’s profile doesn’t always get the prospect buzz the power guys get, but, if I were to create a top prospect list right now, I’d be strongly inclined to consider him as a top 50 prospect in baseball. That may sound like a bold take, but the combination of his pitch selection, contact skills, glove and age may actually be underselling just how good this kid is. In fact, I think it’s looking more likely than not that Rada will be at least an average MLB player when you factor in his defensive profile. That’s an extremely high floor.
I wasn’t expecting to be this excited by Rada before digging into his profile, but I’m fully bought in now.
(bolded emphasis mine)
Meanwhile, Guzman makes this week’s Prospect Hotsheet report, covering the top 20 prospect performances from the previous week.
15. Denzer Guzman, SS, Angels
Team: Triple-A Salt Lake (Pacific Coast)
Age: 21
Why He’s Here: .400/.444/.760 (10-for-25), 8 R, 3 2B, 0 3B, 2 HR, 7 RBIs, 2 BB, 11 SO, 1-for-1 SB
The Scoop: Guzman’s performance during his time with Angels has fluctuated, but this year he has found his stride, especially since arriving in Triple-A. He is a defense-first shortstop with smooth actions, reliable hands and a plus arm that profiles well on the left side of the infield. At the plate, he features a simple righthanded swing with line-drive tendencies and developing pullside power. The Angels are hopeful that added reps will sharpen Guzman’s approach and unlock more of his average raw power. As shown by his 11 strikeouts this week, being disciplined at the plate will also require some adjustments. (JC)
Yup. Rada, even if some of this stuff above is hopium, is gonna be a useful piece. It’s just not a massive game changer because he has no power. What’s more, I’m not sure I want him getting bigger for power. Say he is peak Juan Pierre with actual defensive ability. That’s good in and of itself. Say he really plays out and is Steven Kwan with only 5 HR a year but 30 SB? I’ll take that in a heartbeat. All of that goes away if he sells out for power.
Hell. Dream huge. Say Bryce Teodosio manages a 100 OPS+. Hell yeah I’d take an OF of Adell, Teo and Rada down the line.
BUT. You need almost everyone hitting for power otherwise. Nolan needs to get to at least that 15 HR level and make a lot of contact to push our fast guys around the bases. We need Logan to be a 25-30 HR catcher. We need Neto and Trout to hit for power. You need Moore to hit 25 HR a year. You will REALLY wish you had 5 power hitting 3B prospects right now. You need a guy on your bench that can play corner OF and has pop.
It’s an exciting idea and with Rada/Teo/Neto/Moore/Adell and even a healthy Trout at DH we’d have a pretty damn fast line up in general. Even Logan’s not slow for a catcher. But we need some things to break right. Guzman being real at 3B. Or finding our Max Muncy who can play 3B. Moore working out. Paris working out with power would be a utility Godsend.
But that’s a lot of wine spritzers and dreams as it stands now.
TBW comped Rada to Denard Span and I simply can’t unsee it.
From ages 24 to 32, Span slashed .284/.350/.393 and put up an average of 3 WAR per year from BB-ref while only popping 5 HR and stealing 18 bags. That OBP and glove drove the WAR.
Rada should be just as good with the glove but a better base stealer.
I’m not even worried about his power, if the contact is there who cares. Toss him in the lead off and let his defense help save runs.
A guy that drive in 120+ runs could be helpful too. Anyone like that around?
iseewhatyoudidthere
Perhaps if we get Rada and Schanuel on base a ton for him to knock in.
I’m just going to keep incepting this idea: Cody Bellinger.
I’d personally like to avoid Suarez or Bregman – though both will be tempt Arte. I don’t like the age curve and park adjusted projections at what they’ll cost. Let Guzman sink or swim at 3B next season.
Bellinger at ~25M/yr would be the big splash, and the rest of the FA capital would go to the rotation and maybe a defensive catcher.
Yes. But I hate Cody Bellinger. That’s a problem.
But his teammates don’t seem to hate him. By all accounts, a great clubhouse glue guy, positive, a leader.
Kind of the anti-Hamilton. Give him Josh’s 2013 contract, and hope he grows on you, but not like an icky dicky snow habit.
If Rada can be Albie Pearson as a batter (you old-timers know who that is) but a + defender in CF, he would be a potential all-star.
I think both Gary Pettis and Albie Pearson are old-timer Angel comps that make sense for Rada. It’s of course a completely different ballgame now, with much more velocity and spin, so I don’t know if either Pettis or Pearson would be able to survive in the modern game.
For a nearer Angels term reference, I’m hoping for Chone Figgins – with what Figgins did on defense at 3B in CF. (Figgins wasn’t a great centerfielder.)
Figgins and Reggie Willits are both also plausible comps. Others mention Span and Pierre, and all of these make sense in the spectrum of outcomes.
2026 CFs – Rada? Teo
this picture jumped out at me this morning
https://flic.kr/p/2qLVi2x
it is the Spring Training Winter Solstice – six months ago it started and in six months it begins again- cheers to all who celebrate.
Besides CF, third base? I Don’t Know. Denzel?
we need to get a good skip and Arte should give Perry some spending money. I hope like every year it’s a gazillion. it will be nice to see the draftees too.
With this solstice you may be haunted tonight with ghosts of prospects past – and maybe we lose tonight too. But the seeds of Hopium are also planted and the end of this stooped season is near.
Yay!
Don’t go and get me excited now
Ok, then, some eeyore juice for you:
He makes all the greatest swing decisions in the world, but his lack of power makes him vulnerable to fastballs in and high, and he reliably grounds out to the infield or harmlessly pops it up (basically like last night’s game where he went 0-for-4 while putting the ball in play each time, grounding out to the right side of infield in every AB).
And/or: he makes moderate strength gains, but those slow his footspeed a bit, make him chunkier and less range-y, and yields fieldable flyouts because his launch angle and exit velocities are still meh.
Also potential outcomes. Happier now? 🙂
I buy into Rada, but progress isn’t always linear, and there are so many Kevin Maitan cases out there to prove that burning bright at a young age isn’t always sustainable when the body takes over and does unexpected things.
In answer to twebur yesterday probably either Jered Weaver John lackey or Ervin Santana…
.long time ago by choice!!!
The one better than anyone this century is Frankie.
He was the Golden One.
13 straight wins for the DSL Angels!
And most importantly, they did it against the first place Giants and now have a share of the division lead. And they atypically did it with pitching today, as only two Angels got hits!
On Aug 19, 16 of the 52 teams advance to the playoffs – the eight division leaders, and the eight remaining teams with the best records. At the moment, the DSL Angels would qualify under both heuristics.
BTW how’s Travis Bazzana doing..
just wondering?
Reasonably well for his first year in the minors. Has a fairly balanced hitting profile in AA, taking his walks, hitting a lot of doubles, wRC+ of 137.
Giants were the final rival in the ACL too. We will see these guys around for a few years maybe
Some serious slugging went down yesterday for our A+ squad.
Adrian Placencia — a name TT has highlighted a few times this year:
2/5, 2 HR, 5 RBI
Season slash line: .227 / .356 / .414 — respectable.
Rio Foster stays 🔥🔥🔥
2/5, HR
4 HR in his last 5 games.
1.000+ OPS since 6/19.
Juan Flores, our standout young defensive catching prospect, is heating up with the bat:
1/4, HR
Last 27 games (105 PA):
.302 / .343 / .474
Please yes. Sure, celebrating a guy going 1/4 or having a .227 BA seems lame at first…. until you realize how GahAwful just about EVERY hitter we have above A Ball is. Gotta start somewhere, and these guys actually clicking, even for just the last two months, is a relief.
Let’s go Randy De Jesus and some Trash Pandas!
I’m immune to a low BA at this point. Placencia’s OBP will play. Flores showing signs with the bat deserves our attention. I fear your boy, De Jesus, has been passed by my boy, Foster.
re: Placentia. Just odd he was ever sent to Rocket City. Pitchers ate him up, then back and forth between A ball over a couple of seasons. Never really crushed it in San Berdoo. Just let the kid cook at A+ for a couple of seasons. Reeeelaaax Perry. He’s gotta improve contact rates.
I dig Rio too. De Jesus just has serious angry power. If only they’d let him use a cricket bat….
To put things in perspective, the Northwest League batting average is .240/.338/.388, so Placencia’s OBP and SLG are north of both, and he’s playing at a league average age of 22. His wRC+ is 119, so he’s 19% better than the league average player there, while being age appropriate.
Foster is quite similar – in fact they have identical OPSes (.770) at the moment, and they were born two weeks apart – but he does it with a touch less power, but a higher batting average. His wRC+ is 124.
So while both guys are not setting the world on fire, they’re each performing at an above average level, with excellent walk rates, but concerning K rates (27-30%). The swing decisions are improving – so combine plus on-base skills with average power and there’s at least a reserve profile here for both kids.
AA will be a challenge, but it might be time to try, as the Trash Pandas are going nowhere at the moment, and there are no critical prospects they’d be stealing playing time from.
Yeah. If you squint you can see both being alright if either learn to strike out less and don’t chase bad balls when the pitching and fielding get stronger. It would be great if they hit AA with a solid plan and improve there.
The two hottest teams in MLB have got something in common, they make trades to improve themselves. Jedi will trade his mother if he thinks it will help. Brewers are a very small market team and stay in contention most seasons, but this season have the best record in the bigs. Arturo pay attention you clown or just do us all a favor and sell. You don’t need more money, and you can’t spend what you will receive by leaving. Hey, that’s my .02 cents addition to the cause.
C’mon Grandpa, Arte has unfinished business and this team will be competitive and play meaningful-less baseball in September.
He was ready to sell. Now he’s two more seasons into unfinished business that is costing him money. Maybe he’s sick of business?
I don’t even need Arte to sell. I’d be fine if he pulled a Wolfe/Sternburg method and just set a payroll that earns him money and then left the FO alone. Doesn’t care that the fans were excited about a Japanese player thus we need one, or that they think we have a shot for the first time in years cause we’re just under .500 and it’s been a decade. Shrug shoulders. Players are traded and draft happens and money is spent on MiLB. Shrug shoulders. Team trades star player. Shrug shoulders.
With the Angels, an owners could do that with a pretty high payroll, keep an established fan favorite or two, and just let a GM (or what ever you want to call it now) cook.
I think one of the keys to the Rays being good is that their shitty owner doesn’t care. He only cares if things fall apart to the point that he loses money. So he doesn’t fk up the FOs plans with his ideas. He doesn’t fire POBOEIEIOs after a couple meh seasons. Their FO is full of guys who have been there forever and move up in the org. So they have learned what works over time. They have established methods for Rays baseball. They have ironed out a lot of kinks. Even when the Doyers poach their guy it just keeps humming. They make plans and execute them quickly because they are basically alone in their cubicles in a hovel with an absentee owner.
If we had THAT, but with Arte owning the team and the Angels resources at hand, we’d be fine. As it stands now, we could have Friedman for a GM. It wouldn’t matter all that much.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the only Angels WS was when they had Disney as absentee owners who knew enough to leave the on the field decisions and personnel to baseball people. That team had a Tampa like $58MM payroll.
Their Marketing Department was a whole different beast. It was embarrassing to take out of town friends to a game and have Mickey and Minnie dancing on top of the dugout in those hideous periwinkle unis. Now you’re just embarrassed because they suck.
Hot dog!
Winner definitely was 1999
https://images.app.goo.gl/g3x3KRynhcqwBvEV9
Mickey and Minnie were a big step up
I had memory wiped that. I just remember being embarrassed for the guys on the team. Reminded me of A ball stunts in the 80s, it would have been nice of them to include the beer inning.
Just think, we coulda been The Bananas!
Brewers pretty much stood pat at the deadline, held onto their good farm products and still, caught fire
I am aware that many here don’t care for Matty V., but I really enjoy his PXP and his back and forth with Gubi. Randazzo is just Ok and between him and Gubi it seems like we are quite often locked out of what the heck they got going as sometimes it has nothing to do with baseball or the team.
I think Matty V is significantly better than any of our other PxP options. I agree, Randazzo is just ok. Patty O is terrible.
I can put up with Matty V. but his play-by-play and conversations drifts all over too. I think this is him just being a MLB network host and not close to the team.
I wish we could get the radio crew to rotate in during the game, the middle innings. Dodgers used to do this during the 70’s, early 80’s.
I like Matty V in general but it does feel like he’s calling a national broadcast rather than being the Angels guy.
I don’t like homerism. But an actual play by play guy will mention a certain hitter has been hot lately or reference something they did recently. There’s that familiarity that makes us as fans feel like we are sharing a season experience with the broadcaster. And we don’t get that with Matt.
I miss Victor.
Matty V. has come a long way in his 4 seasons of part time PxP in his historical knowledge and current team knowledge. Through the years the Angels have had many “National” guys do PxP and “Color”
Victor started out Ok, then he and Gubi had a run of excellence and for the last couple of seasons for Victor his tenor changed and his was not as interested it seemed, somewhat bored and negative.
The Southern California area (Santa Barbara south to San Diego) is the greatest sports area in the United States. I pull for every team from Hot playing High Schools to the pros in almost every sport except Cornhole 😆 . The only team I dislike really is the Lakers so I just chose to ignore them and the NBA. I don’t really pay attention to the Doyers but I will pull for them if they make the World Series. I don’t think I have to worry about the Halos having a Freeway World Series anytime soon though, so I am pulling for the sweep for us in the next three. GO ANGELS!!!!
my memories of attending a Laker game at the sports arena with Wilt on the other side go back further than my first Angel game. Jerry West meant more to me than any Angel till Nolie showed up. Now days? I wore by LA Kings sweatshirt to church yesterday. GKG. BOLT UP ⚡️
I’m with you Rex, though I never attended a Lakers game. Jerry West was my hero as a kid. Nowadays, I can’t stand the NBA. It’s all “ME ME ME ME!” and nothing about the team. NFL, I can take it or leave it… I’ll probably always be a low-key Rams fan, but…
Give me my Angels baseball and my LA Kings hockey! GO KINGS GO!!!
I was a Lakers fan as a kid, till some other kids (and a grown ass man) told me I couldn’t be a Lakers fan because I’m white. They pointed me at Larry Bird. I barely care about the NBA, usually I just root for teams from dinky markets to win it all, but when I have to pick a team I still lean Celtics. For some reason I loved Robert Parish as a boy along with Bird.
Obviously they hadn’t heard of Kurt Rambis who was just like Larry Bird, but wore glasses.
I love how all the docudrama’s I watch on Magic/Bird try and paint Bird as some sort of hoops Klansman villain and Magic as some sort of overcoming hero of the people.
Magic may have had poor parents, but he had everything handed to him since high school like LeBlond James after him. Then he went to a team full of HOFers, was a drama queen, won some rings, whored around, probably gave some folks AIDS, didn’t die himself. Hero.
Bird’s upbringing…. Holy shit. How he’s not just a white trash kid with a prison record is a mystery to me. Or as a friend from Boston put it, it’s funny, they talk like Magic Johnson was a garbage man along with his dad, but I have never heard what jobs he had in high school and college. I know where Bird worked since being a young kid. I know the shitty farm he grew up on. I know Bird’s dad wasn’t disappointed by all his bastard kids and getting AIDS because Bird didn’t do any of that and his dad killed himself.
There were really good reasons Bird was a soul crushing murder machine who didn’t dance for the cameras. I thought that was way cooler.
Besides Lakers and Angels late 60s, early 70s I started rooting idolizing an underdog NFL team too, the Dallas Cowboys.
i jumped off in 1997 because the owner.
Yes, you can walk away from your favorite boyhood team just because the owner is an ass.
80’s NBA Lakers vs Celtics, East coast vs West coast, contrasting styles of play, Lakers Show time. The unmatched hate in that rivalry will never, ever happen again in the NBA. NFL, MLB and the NHL has continued pure hatred and rivalry, don’t see it in the NBA.
The Lakers and Celtics could play next season in my front yard, I wouldn’t open the blinds.
My first spring break was in Alta Utah 1979 and each day the lift tickets were printed with the names of the four universities playing in the Final Four that week in SLC.
Great memories at the Forum. Kings, Lakers, many great concerts. Chick Hearn, Bob Miller, and the 38 minute wait to take a piss, after talking the stairs down into a pit 200 feet below the earth. Good Times!
SWEEP THE DODGERS
Over under Ohtani whiffing Trout stands at 2.5. Shohei can punch him out anytime if he really wants to but might not want to punish him again (see WBC final out).
The new MNT doesn’t need Shohei’s help striking out. He’s regularly proving he can do it all by himself!
a lot of times Shohei does stuff no other baseball player can do.
this is not one of those times.
Jack K still has possibility for being a decent back end starter. Yesterday, he needed a veteran catcher that was not tipping pitch locations to baserunners (Langston when on and on about this during the game) and better infield positioning based on how he was pitching hitters and better infield defense overall. He has a good sinker and throws harder than I expected (he has hit 100 mph this year and is regularly around 95-97). He has trouble hitting spots. I would not write him off just yet.
Jack has room to improve next year and the year after. He has some good stuff. We will see.
“Hitting spots” seems to be every Angels pitcher bug a boo. Seems as though spin rate and MPH are much more important to this team and where has it got us.
He is another starter who, if he went to the Brewers or Indians, would explode into greatness right away.
Thats’ a good call, I’ve seen him pitch tough teams pretty well. Hope things work out for him.
I expected a slight tick up in strikeouts this year. Not that he’d turn into deGrom, but just enough to really help his overall numbers.
Yes, defensive position and range are critical for guys who pitch to contact. And I love guys who pitch to contact. But you occasionally need to be able to reach back and get your own out to limit the damage and Jack just can’t seem to do that.
One thing that amazes me about this sport (other than anomaly years like the Rockies are having) is that the winningest teams win about 6 out of 10 and the losingest teams win 4 to 4.5 out of 10. Baseball is the best.
There’s a saying, “Every team will win about 60 and lose about 60. It’s what happens in the other 40 games that makes the different.”
This is pretty much how I watch baseball, but with 50 as the number (thanks so Sosh)
I tend to think of two buckets and see which one gets filled up first. If you get to 50 wins before you have 50 losses, each win you stack until you get to 50 losses is one of the ones that gets you to October. Losses obviously work in an inverse fashion.
Great hitters get a hit 3 out of 10 at-bats, bad hitters get a hit 2 out of 10 at-bats
Then there are Angels’ hitters that struggle to be merely bad.
Hoping to take at least one of the 3 vs blue. Expecting traitor 17 to be in top form, he hates getting beat by his former ‘losing team’. Unlike the last series Dodgers are healthy now, especially starting pitching. Angels need those clutch hits and timely outs.
Dodgers? Two things for sure
our parking lot is so much better than theirs.
so eat it blue
baseball team?
scoreboard.
a sweep can knock them out of first place.🤭
THIS would be fantastic.
Our parking lot is a hell of a lot safer too.
Huston Street and Brian Powers would like a word with you …
1 Huston Street: https://www.ocregister.com/2008/07/03/fan-curses-as-pitcher-arrested-for-punching-guard/amp/
2 Brian Powers https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/man-involved-in-angel-stadium-fight-dies-at-hospital/1876400/?amp=1
People seem more mellow now. When did they cut off alcohol sales after the 7th inning? Methinks that has something to do with it…along with 14 bucks for a beer.
Shhh.. Gated Community folks who think the Orange Curtain is a magic line don’t like when you point out the homicide of a NorCal fan with a sucker punch was by an Angel fan in Anaheim. Dont forget the obsession with ass, too… TexAss, A’ss, et.al like 7 year olds on a school blacktop.
I’ve had my fun in the Angels parking lot, postgame discussions about Yankee fans moms, security was lax so you had some time without impediment.
The only place I considered to be unsafe was the Coliseum when the Raiders played there. I was a Raider fan so I avoided shit being hurled outside the stadium but witness some ugly stuff. Raiiiiiddddersssss
I’m not delusional to think the playoffs are in sight so I’m hoping for more ping-pong balls next draft lottery. But… let’s get this series.
The team is not eligible for ping pong balls this year. 10th is the highest they can pick but most likely will be somewhere between 14th an 20th. That is why this year’s draft was so critical, as they may not see that #2 pick or better position for another 20 years.
Oh that sucks. My silver lining got shattered. LOL
Balls busted
Well – BALLS!
I miss the Tank. I heard Shuffle Bot now owns it, drives around town, with dead tags…has one of those big nut sacks hanging off the back bumper.