MFYs - Angels Thread

[Frayed Knot]

Since we didn't - y'know - have one so far.



This game has essentially turned on about 3 ABs; mostly the ones where Bartolo (semi) Colon couldn't get a 3rd out after getting the first 2 in both of the first two innings.

Angels didn't have many opportunities and couldn't cash in on the few they had. The fatter Molina HR'd and they just tacked on 1 in the 9th against Rivera but ended w/the tying run at the plate.

Vlad decided to make Leiter's appearance easier by getting caught stealing in a stupid situation. Hey Vlad, let Al get in trouble on his own. Don't go out of your way to help him ya dork!

[metirish]

I tuned out from TV coverage when Buck and McCarver started talking about the merits of Chone Figgins choosing Rocky V as his favorite movie ever, it's a fair point just not during a game, I had the feeling then that this game was over.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

MFCano has been looking pretty MFGood. Another RBI double, 1-0 Evil.

[Frayed Knot]

2-out Ribby single by Benjy Molina ties it up in the 6th.

So far in this series, every time the Angels send a runner in motion it's come back to bite them. Sometimes it's stupidity and sometimes it's just bad luck, but in retrospect they'd be better off not even trying.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wait'll you guys wake up and see how this one ended.

There's going to be a lot surgery deaths this morning in New York.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I was happy to awake this morning to read that errors did in the MFYs ansd it's all tied at 1.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Good stuff! Here's hoping Randy gets ejected before the first pitch is thrown.

[Guest Edgy DC]

The errors weren't their fault. They were up unfairly late.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I like that the sleepy Yankee fans are also unhappy Yankee fans.

[Guest KC]

Funny, that little bird that was in here chirpin' yesterday morning is
strangely quiet and flew through my department without even a good
mornig or anything. That's odd.

Chirp.

[Frayed Knot]

'Twasn't too late for one of the 3rd basemen as a couple of game-saving plays were turned in by *Chone Figgins, plus a few more over on the other side of the diamond when Figgins tried to mess up his handiwork with bad throws. Erstad came up with 2 really nasty in-between hops - including the one that ended the game.

Orlando Cabrera had the big hit -- a 2-run/2-out single in the 7th to break a 2-2 tie.




* So which name has more creative spelling in MLB?
Sean - Shawn (Green), Chone (Figgins), Shawon (Dunston)
OR
Jeremy - Jeromy (Burnitz), Jeremi (Gonzalez), Jeroime (Robertson)

[Guest Edgy DC]

"Shawn," at this point, has probably overtaking "Shaun" as the spelling of choice.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Sean, I'd say the best one came from Tupelo, Mississippi
I'll tell you now that grown men cry and Irish girls are pretty

Though fear and hurt and care
Can lead me to despair
I saw why I'm here
The morning you appeared
The morning you appeared

Sean, I sat awhile on clouds to ask God if he's living
I should have spent some time on knees in thanks for what he's given

From Parents smart and strong
To both of us passed on
From Kings is where you come
Through daughters and through sons
Through daughters and through sons

Sean I'd say the best one came from Tupelo, Mississippi
I'll tell you now grown men cry and Irish girls are pretty
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[Guest Edgy DC]

I was looking for that song the other day. Neither iTunes nor Napster came through.

[seawolf17]

Five runs, nine hits off Randy Johnson and he is OUTTA there with two on and nobody out in the fourth... and the MFY faithful are boooooooooooooooooooooing him!!!



God, I hate MFY fans.

[Guest KC]

Nice to see the investment in that unit fail.

[Zvon]

seawolf17 wrote: Five runs, nine hits off Randy Johnson and he is OUTTA there with two on and nobody out in the fourth... and the MFY faithful are boooooooooooooooooooooing him!!!

....nice picture analogy. I know which one Johnson is but what kind of species is the ugly looking bird with the baseball hat on?


I read in the papers that Randy said he wanted to be either cheered or booed because he feeds on that.
I think he meant during the game tho, not walking off after a hook.
lol

[Zvon]

This is a good game goin here.
Maybe not good baseball, but a good game.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

So far so good, but I swear the Angels will regret getting only 1 run outta a bases-loaded, 0-out situation vs. Leiter -- and on a squeeze!

Nice at least that the MFYs fans are getting wet while also being miserable. Perhaps they'll get sick as well.

[nymr83]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: So far so good, but I swear the Angels will regret getting only 1 run outta a bases-loaded, 0-out situation vs. Leiter -- and on a squeeze! Nice at least that the MFYs fans are getting wet while also being miserable. Perhaps they'll get sick as well.

scoring opportunities like that need to be capitalized on.

yeah, wet, sick yankee fans is a good thing.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

11-7 is your final.

[smg58]

Now let's see if the Angels can finish the job.

[metirish]

That was a tough game to watch but the result was all that mattered, maybe after tomorow I can enjoy baseball again, go Angels, Jon Miller is a wanker, calling Jeter "Captain Clutch" when he came to bat tonight was just more of the same bullshit,and I hate A-Rod more and more each time I watch him play, his facial expressions after a bad swing or a SO just kill me, like he was hard done by or something......such a flake.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

27 outs...

[Guest Rotblatt]

My girlfriend can't look at A-Rod without calling him a douchebag, then asking "Is he REALLY as good as you say he is? He doesn't look like it."

Here's an article from the Onion that sums it up nicely:

]Tiger Woods Signs $15 Million Deal To Endorse Alex Rodriguez September 21, 2005 | Issue 41�38 | Onion Sports NEW YORK�Alex Rodriguez, the business-savvy, image-conscious Yankees third-baseman, formally announced Sunday that he has signed golf superstar Tiger Woods to a three-year, $15 million endorsement deal, ensuring that Rodriguez will have Woods' considerable marketing power behind him for the foreseeable future. "Tiger Woods is the most marketable and well-liked athlete in the world," Rodriguez said. "As someone who aspires to be precisely those same things, it is an honor to have Tiger on board to help promote me." Under the basic conditions of the contract, Woods is required to attend at least 40 Yankees games per season in full A-Rod regalia, appear at A-Rod-related functions in order to stand within 10 feet of A-Rod, and say three or more nice things about A-Rod to the press each week, making sure to always refer to the former home-run champ by the nickname/brand name "A-Rod." "Tiger is not only the best at what he does, but he's the consummate professional and a true gentleman," Rodriguez said. "In short, he has all the qualities I want people to think of when they think 'Alex Rodriguez.'" Rodriguez's agent Scott Boras, who was largely responsible for engineering this deal, said that he and his client are shifting their focus from "A-Rod the baseball player" to "A-Rod the product." "Let's face it, no one can play baseball forever," Boras said. "A beloved and recognizable superstar can, however, sign lucrative deals to endorse a wide variety of products well into his retirement." Boras added: "Now that beloved, recognizable superstar Tiger Woods is the new face of Alex Rodriguez, we hope to see some offers start rolling in." According to Rodriguez, the decision to invest in Woods was a simple one. "I was doing a less than ideal job of promoting myself," Rodriguez said. "But after all, I'm just one man. The best way to stay competitive in today's personality-driven endorsement market is with the help of an experienced endorser like Tiger." Baseball insiders say that the primary objective of the deal is to raise awareness to fans and pitchman-seeking companies alike that Alex Rodriguez is a "decent, family-friendly guy." "A-Rod wants to be recognized not just as a star, but as an honest and hard-working individual," ESPN analyst Buster Olney said. "And the easiest way for A-Rod to get people to perceive him in this fashion is to sign a much more beloved athlete to tell them that." Woods, who has missed the past two PGA Tour events in order to help promote Rodriguez's campaign for AL MVP and also attend two high-profile, nationally televised Yankees-Red Sox games, credited his first-place finish in last month's WGC-NEC Invitational to "the hard work and dedication of Alex Rodriguez." "A-Rod inspires me every day," said Woods, more than fulfilling his contractual obligations to compliment the Yankees slugger. "Seeing his competitiveness pushes me to be as good a golfer as he is a baseball player." When asked about his contract with Rodriguez, Woods said that he only endorses products that he truly believes in. "A-Rod is working hard in his personal quest to embody all the same values that I stand for," Woods said. "Soon, we'll be indistinguishable, and I will have done my job." Woods added: "I am proud to be a part of the A-Rod family."

[Frayed Knot]

I loved the final result obviously, but man I was pulling my hair out in the 4th inning there. First the Anglos get nothing with 1st-and-3rd/no outs, then the Yanx start the hit parade while hitting almost nothing hard:

- first Matsui gets the requisite 318-1/2 ft Yanqui stadium HR ...
then Cano gets an IF 1B (good throw gets him) ...
followed by a Bernie 52 hopper into RF ...
Tino hits a shitty grounder to 1st (why didn't Erstad go to 2nd there?) ...
Posada hit an equally shitty grounder to 1st (2nd run) ...
Jete-boy gets the stick-the-bat-out bloop to RF (3rd run) ...
AGod then walked I think ...
at which point G-I-am-Bi hits that piece-o-shit dribbler against the shift for another fuckin run!!!
The hardest hit ball of the whole inning turned out to be Sheff's liner to end the inning where Figgins made the defensive play of the game for the 2nd straight game.
That was one of those innings where this morning everyone would be saying that "they knew" at that point that the Yanx would win (if they had y'know ... won).


That was a brutal call by West at 2nd on Cano and reminded me of that garbage call denying Cameron a catch this summer. Technically it's correct but there's no way that he's leaving the base early (and a nano-second early at that) to gain an advantage - although it's nice that the whole thing was set-up by ARod taking time to count the stitches before making the throw. Looked like he forgot the situation.



How much would MFY fans be crying and demanding retaliation and league action if one of their guys was drilled in the elbow after hitting 3 HRs a la Molina? I mean jeez whenever Jeter dives into one and gets one off the hand it's treated like a capital offense.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I got the hotz for Rotty's girl. Keep her away from me, man.

[Frayed Knot]

GAME RAINED OUT!!!!


Game 4 will be played Sunday instead - probably in the prime time slot.


You can drive yourself nuts thinking about this sort of stuff but I can see this helping the Angels.
- They'll have their choice of bringing back a fully rested Bartolo Colon for gm 4 instead of the prev sked Jarod Washburn - and then having either Washburn or Lackey for gm 5 if necc. It'll also gives them the chance to rest their pen after they used all the good guys for 5+ innings on Friday.
- The Yanx have to go with either Chacon or Wang in one of the games anyway even if they bring back Mussina for gm 4. But here's the thing, they left Moose in Anaheim figuring they wouldn't need him until gm 5, so even if they do fly him back it'll be Mussina then Chacon-Wang instead of Chacon then Mussina ... no real difference. And the MFY pen is in such disarray that it doesn't really matter except for Mariano and he's rested anyway with or without the rainout.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I know they'd never do this, but they should play a doubleheader on Sunday.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

A doubleheader would rob Los Angeles a home game in Anaheim.