Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

5 Reasons Why the Angels' Season Went to Hell

Jay Brockman/OC Weekly​We're well into the last half of the Major League Baseball season, and if you've been paying attention to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim recently, you'll know they haven't been playing their best. There have been a few players worth noting (Hint: his name rhymes with ... More >>

Five Places for All-Star Players to Avoid to Stay Out of Trouble

Christopher Victorio / OC Weekly​Major League Baseball's All-Star Game isn't known for enlisting sluggers with squeaky clean criminal records. Exhibit A: this mugshot gallery.And Orange County, where today's All-Star Game will be held, has time and again lured athletes into trouble--legal, medical ... More >>

Where To Eat Before The 2010 MLB All-Star Game

MLB.com​If you've been reading along with OC Weekly recently, you'll remember that we reviewed the eats both inside and outside the stadium where a certain important baseball game will be played tomorrow.If you can't handle the idea of overpaying for stadium food, here are some additional suggesti ... More >>

GM Torii Hunter?

​Angels centerfielder Torii Hunter began the season making controversial comments about blacks and Latinos in Major League Baseball and headed into the All-Star break calling out teammates who may be dogging it.Now Spiderman says he wants to do whatever a general manager can.

Angels Limp Their Way to the All-Star Game

Courtesy of Angels BaseballThis has been as odd a season of Major League Baseball as there has ever been. That's really saying something for an organized sport that has been played for more than 100 years.Consider the four no-hit games pitched before the break, how two of those no-hitters were perfe ... More >>

High-Speed Rail Plan Slammed by Berkeley; Curt Pringle in Senator's Cross Hairs

​California's planned high-speed rail system has been the target of varied criticism, including from Orange County state assemblywoman Diane Harkey who wants to kill the thing outright. Now, a study from UC Berekely--funded by the high-speed rail authority--says the entire project is based on ride ... More >>

Give 'Em Halos: World Cup Edition, Part One

​What a great time to be a sports fan. The world's best soccer players are battling in South Africa, the world's best basketball teams played an epic Game 7 for the NBA Championship and, here in Orange County, the Angels are back!After a long struggle that had many reaching for the panic button, t ... More >>

UPDATED: Wheelchair-Bound Fan Sues Angels and Anaheim for Discrimination

​Originally posted 2:45, June 15. Updated 4:59 p.m. with non-comment comments from the city and the Angels. See bottom of post. J. Paul Charlebois says that he wanted to watch a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim game from the Anaheim stadium's club level, which is the swanky tier with box seats ... More >>

What a Difference a Break Makes

​When Kendry Morales came down after his game-winning home run celebration, then stayed down; some Angels faithful rewound back to 1999. That was the year the Halos signed Mo Vaughn to a six-year, $80-million contract, at the time the highest in the game. The excitement in Orange County was palpab ... More >>

Butter Up, Angels Fans!

[Hole In the Wall] Four places to eat before a Halos game (and one to visit afterward)

Shedding Light on Baseball's Dirty Secret

zazzle.com​Dear Mr. Selig,Good morning, Mr. Commissioner, it's me, the voice of all baseball fans! I've been whispering in your ear for some time but you have managed to tune me out more often than not. That ends now: the rumble you hear is the dissatisfaction with the status quo that you have it ... More >>

Andrew Thomas Gallo Can't Get Fair Trial in Angels Country, Claims His Lawyer

Faces of Andrew Thomas Gallo​The attorney for Andrew Thomas Gallo, the 23-year-old San Gabriel resident facing second-degree murder and other charges in the crash that killed Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others, has filed a motion to move the trial out of Orange County.

Darin Erstad Still Helps Angels Community

Flickr user Rich AndersonDarin Erstad hits a game-tying homer for the Angels in 2005.​The way the Angels have been playing so far this season, they could use a Timmy Salmon, Troy Percival and especially Darin Erstad in their primes. At least Ersty is giving something back to fans and the Orange Co ... More >>

Angels Can't Even Win Right

Kendry Morales' injury: Not as cute as this kitten's​So, I'm sitting here watching the Angels game on Saturday. They are hosting the Mariners who were pre-season favorites to win the division but are playing more like Mouseketeers than Mariners. Despite that, however, they managed to beat up the h ... More >>

An Open Letter From Fans to Angels GM Tony Reagins

OC Weekly​Dear Tony,What's up? How are you today? Feeling a little heat no doubt. Sorry about that, but you know how the old saying goes, if you can't stand the heat...I'm writing today as the voice of all Angels fans. What gives me that right? Well, nothing in particular, I just felt like writing ... More >>

Grading the Angels: First Quarter

Flickr user takomabibelot​With summer vacation just about to start for most students here in Southern California, a report card is the furthest thing from their minds. For the Angels, however, a quarterly review is not only needed, it has to be signed by a parent and returned ASAP.This isn't going ... More >>

Dissecting the Angels: Fun with Numbers

Flickr user Irargerich​Baseball is known for--amongst other things--its passionate fans, players with quirky nicknames and managers that wear the same outfit as its players. Nothing exemplifies baseball, however, as much as the stat. No outfield-running drunken fan, player who goes by "Chipper" ... More >>

Angels Look Heavenly at Home, Road Test Awaits

"We are two wild and crazy guys!"​This is exactly what Angel fans were waiting for. Forget the sweep of the A's, the four wins on a six-game homestand or even Kendry Morales' continued torrid pace--fans were waiting on the pitching.  On this homestand, the Angels finally delivered.It's no ... More >>

Angel Fans, It's Time to Panic

OC Weekly​The only thing worse than having someone break up with you is to hear the stupid clichés everyone uses to try to cheer you up with afterward:"Dude, you are better off without her.""Come on man, there are plenty of other fish in the sea.""The best way to get over someone is to get under ... More >>

Shut Up, John Lackey

Flickr user SD DirkJohn Lackey​ Tonight, the Angels face former teammate John Lackey in what was--before some ridiculous comments by the former Halo--nothing more than another game against the Sox. Lackey apparently wanted to up the ante, so he opened his mouth and spewed garbage.

Los Angeles Angels: Basking in Mediocrity

Flickr user DTrigger05​We have been spoiled.

Why Angels Owner Arte Moreno Won't Comment on his Home State's SB1070 Anti-Illegals Law

​The biggest non-surprise of the week: your Anaheim Angels' owner, Arte Moreno, offering no comment to the Los Angeles Times when they asked about his stance on Arizona's SB1070, that piece of Copper State legislation that makes OC's own Proposition 187 seem as anti-Mexican as El Plan de Santa Bar ... More >>

The Angels are Winning, but a Bump and a Bruise are Showing

Flickr user myhsu​The baseball season is too long. The baseball preseason is too long. Even baseball's post-season now runs into November!When you have a total of 16 games in your season, as in the NFL, a two-game losing streak is enough to finish you. In baseball, that amounts to a blip on the ra ... More >>

It's One Step Forward, Two Back For the Angels

Flickr user chris.ptacek​ The Angels under Mike Scioscia have been about consistency. Their manager preaches, and seems to live by, a mantra of keeping everything balanced. Losses don't get the team too low and winning doesn't get them too high. The approach has worked well for Orange County's bas ... More >>

OC Mexican Dodgers Fans Invade Dodgers Stadium with Their Loud-Ass Music!

The day is this past Tuesday; the occasion, Opening Day for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The music is tamborazo, the brass-band racket native to Zacatecas; the group, from Jerez, where my parents and thousands of Orange County residents are from (most of them coming LEGALLY, because their parents we ... More >>

Angels Go Over Suicide Squeeze in Pre-Game Against Those Damn Yankees

Flickr user waldo swiegers​Your Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles have always excelled at the suicide squeeze, but this is ridiculous: About 15 Angels headed for the team bus taking them to today's game against the Yankees (5-0 NY in the seventh as this is being typed) witnessed the aftermath of an ap ... More >>

Angels Early Reviews Are In: Could Be Better

shop.mlb.com"Sport Spuds Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Mr. Potato Head," $15.99​It looks like I may have created a bit of a stir in the Angel community in my first "Give 'Em Halos" post by suggesting the Angels could be in trouble so early in the season. Angels fans are very committed to their tea ... More >>

OMG, Do the Angels Suck Already?

Christopher VictorioTaken at Game 5 of the Angels vs. Yankees ALCS last year. ​Three burning questions all OC'ers have to be asking this morning. One, what will airlines charge us for next? Two, what else will someone see an image of Jesus in? Most importantly however being are the Angels already ... More >>

Aaron Boone Retires, Joins ESPN

​Aaron Boone, the former Villa Park High School star and son of the Angels catcher from 1982-88 Bob Boone, today announced he will retire and become an ENPN baseball analyst.

Why the Angels Should Not Have Signed 1-Year Deal for Aybar

​After losing Lackey and Figgy to free agency, you'd think the Angels would do all they could to keep a budding potential superstar like shortstop Erick Aybar as happy as possible.Happy in the lock-him-up-in-a-long-lucrative-contract sense, because Aybar is not exactly a brooder. But, after Aybar ... More >>

[Year In Review] OC Weekly's News Blog, Navel Gazing, Gazes Back at 2009

Do the Angels Even Have a Plan?

Oliver out!​It's bad enough the Angels are losing another solid arm and strong locker room presence, but must such a player go to a division rival?ESPN.com's Jerry Crasnick broke the news that lefty reliever Darren Oliver is headed back to his first Major League team--and the Angels' Western Divis ... More >>

John Lackey Goes to Red Sox: Good Riddance, or Good God, No?

​I'm of two opinions regarding the news that longtime Anaheim Angels pitcher John Lackey (the big lug above) has left your Halos for the accursed (as opposed to cursed) Boston Red Sox. One is: who cares? Is an ace really an ace when he has a career 3.81 ERA, only two truly great seasons out of sev ... More >>

Most Racist City in Orange County--Is it Fullerton??? Our Top Five

Henry W. Head, founding father of OC, longtime Santa Ana doctor...​I was speaking with a local GOP operative recently when he said something that shocked me. The topic was my recent cover story on the Candy-Ass Gang, the trio of pendejos and one pendeja who prosecutors say drove into Huntington Be ... More >>

Au Revoir, Figgy?

​Angels third baseman, switch-hitting lead-off hitter and spark plug Chone Figgins is apparently bound for American League Western Division rival Seattle.The Orange County Register, citing multiple sources, says the Mariners are on the verge of signing the free-agent to a four-year contract for ap ... More >>

Your Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Top 10 Prospects

​As anyone following your Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim knows, free agency will likely create big holes the Halos must fill to remain a top tier playoff contender. A die-hard who realizes this oh-so-well is Stephen Smith over at FutureAngels.com, which today pres ... More >>

2009 Postseason Throwdown: Johnny Damon Takes a Hit

Johnny Damon's inability to hit the ball is really pissing off the above Yankees fan whose voice doesn't quite match his lips. (But love the hair!)Nick Swisher, who is also lugging an unblemised stick into the ALCS against the Angels, is  apparently on notice with this fellow, too.A-Rod and Jet ... More >>

SportsNation Loves Angel Nation!

If the Angels are America's Team, does that make Barbara Coe the new Sarah Palin?​What is going on with America? Forget about the economy, the Know Nothings, the garbage-dwelling Linda Ackerman campaign and refry this: in an ESPN SportsNation poll that I can't find online but was just broadcast on ... More >>

2009 Postseason Throwdown: 13 Reasons the Angels Feel Confident Facing the Yankees in ALCS

​ New York still has fresh memories of winning three of four from the Angels in September, and having home-field advantage for the best-of-seven American League Championship Series as well as A-Rod suddenly finding his postseason bat are huge. But the Yankees live up to their team name when pl ... More >>

2009 Postseason Throwdown: For the Love of Weave

"Weave"​With this being "Best of OC 2009" week all over ocweekly.com (and in those old-timey newsracks), and Angels hurler Jered Weaver scheduled to take the mound for tonight's game 2 of the American League Division Series against the Boston Red Sox, it's appropriate to revisit Weave's appearance ... More >>

2009 Postseason Throwdown: 26 Reasons to Hate Boston, Bostonians and Other Massholes

Those rubes in Boston probably find this pretty.​UPDATED WITH CORRECTIONS . . . Before Angel fans can truly hate the Boston Red Sox--actually, if 1986 playoffs didn't do it, nothing will--they must first hate the team's fans, the residents of the town surrounding Fe ... More >>

2009 Postseason Throwdown (Your Cash): Dodger Playoff Tix Cheaper Than Angels', Deals Abound

FanSnap​FanSnap, a free search engine for online tickets to concerts, sporting competitions and other live events, has come up with a price comparison that shows it can be almost $20 less per ticket to see the Dodgers host the Cardinals in game 1 at Dodger Stadium than it is to see the Angel ... More >>

2009 Postseason Throwdown: Angel Skipper Has Answer for Heartbreaking '86 Loss to Red Sox

Mike Scioscia fires back. Before the first pitch is even thrown in the first game of the American League Division Series pitting Your Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim against the Boston Red Sox (game time is 6:37 p.m. Thursday at the Big A), manager Mike Scioscia has been asked incessantly a ... More >>

2009 Postseason Throwdown: Ted Williams' Frozen Head vs. Walt Disney's Frozen Head

​The American League Division Series between the Red Sox and Angels is not only the battle of Boston vs. Los Angeles of Anaheim, of East Coast vs. Left Coast, of Beantown vs. Beanertown. It is also an epic war being waged between the cryogenically frozen heads of each town's most iconic undead: Te ... More >>

2009 Postseason Throwdown: Whenever Boston and Anaheim Play, It'll Start on the Mound

John Lackey (left) and Jon Lester get the starts to begin the Angels-Red Sox AL Division Series.​We know the who (Angels vs. Red Sox), we know the what (best out of five American League Division Series), we know the where (game one at Angel Stadium) and we know the why (so that the winner can adva ... More >>

2009 Postseason Throwdown: Top 11 Moments From Angels AL West Victory Celebration

Nothing more can be said about the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim's dominating 11-0 shutout of the Texas Rangers last night to win the American League West crown. The offense, defense and especially Ervin Santana's pitching were of a caliber one would expect from a World Series-bound team. So, l ... More >>

2009 Postseason Throwdown: Angels' Original Owls Fly Again

Courtesy of FutureAngels.comSeven of the eight Statesville Owls of 1961 who came to Tempe pose for the camera.​​The not-yet-dead Texas Rangers are trying to prevent the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim from winning the American League West crown, something the Halos can achieve as early as tonight ... More >>

2009 Postseason Smackdown: Optimist, Pessimist or Suicidal?

​CHILL THE CHAMPAGNE!!!​Jered Weaver takes the mound against the A's this evening with the Angels (90-62) seemingly in the driver's seat for their third consecutive American League West title. The only Angel starter who hasn't missed a turn in the rotation, Weaver will be throwing on an extra da ... More >>

2009 Postseason Throwdown: Angels Owner Clings Tightly to $$$; Yankees Boast Big A Hex Broken; Long Beach Kid Redeems Himself

Angels owner Arte Moreno don't need no stinkin' ticket price cuts. Major League Baseball franchises have taken a hammering in attendance this season (thank you, shitty U.S. economy!), so all the teams that are playoff-bound or possibly so are resisting the common end-of-season tick ... More >>