Angels Pitcher Nick Adenhart Was Killed Last Night

[Farmer Ted]

First, Vin NOT doing the WS every year is criminal.

Second, he's right. There's no way to figure all this shit out. Having lost people close to me in an almost identical manner...well, it's baffling. Truly baffling. 25 years later and loved ones are still affected deeply.

[G-Fafif]

Thanks to MLB EI I saw the pre-game ceremony at Angel Stadium. Very moving, very sad. Jared Weaver drew the kid's initials behind the mound. Lackey and Hunter stood on the mound with his uniform. Some guy in the stands behind the plate wore Earl Campbell's Oiler throwback jersey: 34. Man, what a senseless loss.

[Frayed Knot]

="Edgy DC"]Not to invoke curses because I don't particularly believe in them, but the Angels seem to have been disproportionately touched by tragedy.

Bill Madden enumerates:
And so, the legacy of Angel tragedy - once dubbed the "Curse of the Cowboy" after original Angels owner, Gene Autry - goes on.
It began in 1965 when Dick Wantz, a rookie reliever, died of a brain tumor.
Three years later, Angels reliever Minnie Rojas was paralyzed in a car accident that killed his two daughters.
In 1972, Angels utility infielder Chico Ruiz was killed in an automobile accident in San Diego.
Another car accident killed a rookie Angel pitcher, Bruce Heinbechner, in spring training '74.
Then in 1977, 23-year-old shortstop Mike Miley, the Angels' No. 1 draft pick and former LSU quarterback, was killed in yet another automobile accident.
The next year, outfielder Lyman Bostock, whom the Angels had signed as a free agent after an All-Star season with the Minnesota Twins in 1977, was shot and killed in his hometown of Gary, Ind.
The litany continued with the 1989 suicide of Donnie Moore, the closer who gave up the homer to Boston's Dave Henderson that cost the Angels the 1986 ALCS,
right up until last year when 85-year-old Preston Gomez, a senior Angel advisor, was struck by a car in a Fullerton gas station and died of his injuries a few months later. In a sad twist of fate, that gas station was only a couple of miles from where Adenhart and his companions were killed.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Angels have all these lame billboards all over LA with their '09 team slogan "FAN STRONG".

Went to look at their sked today and see they "updated" the look for their slogan.

Real freaking classy, Angels.

[Guest Edgy DC]

That litany goes back further than my knowledge does, and it sure seems there are some latter day incidents missing, most notably the non-fatal bus wreck:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/1992_Angels_Bus_Crash