Los Angeles Dodgers

Fantasy Bluthball: We Draft Locals for Arrested Development Roles

Matching A.D. socialites to real OC socialites

Remembering Huell Howser, Fan of OC Weekly, Lover of OC, Antagonist of OC Republicans

I'm still in shock over the news that Huell Howser, the greatest Californian since Hiram Johnson, has left us. He passed away last night of natural causes, leaving behind a legacy of Cali love that my alma mater, Chapman University, will guard forever.All the pundits of the Golden State will weigh i ... More >>

10 Past and Current Orange County Pro Athletes Disgraced in 2012

The Rams are, of course, long gone and the Honda Center remains in need of an NBA team, but Orange County still has the Angels, Ducks, a whole bunch of mixed-martial arts fighters and assorted pro sports retirees who reside and/or hailed from here.Current and former pro athletes get into trouble som ... More >>

[UPDATED with Halos Come Through!] Angels and Albert Pujols Blasted for Failing to Help OC Down Syndrome Event

See the update at the end of this post on the Angels coming through for charity event.ORIGINAL POST, SEPT. 5, 2:02 P.M.: Sponsors of an upcoming charity event in Fullerton for children with Down syndrome are taking aim at Anaheim's Angels and superstar first baseman Albert Pujols for being "uncaring ... More >>

Aaron Kushner, New OC Register Publisher: 23 Newsroom Posts and a Weekly are on the Way

When Aaron Kushner took over as publisher earlier this summer, he promised to fill the Orange County Register with content from new full-time film and dining reviewers and a Los Angeles Dodgers beat reporter. Now the Boston bean counter is talking about filling even more newsroom desks abandoned in ... More >>

[UPDATE: Now Hiring a Movie Critic?] Orange County Register Reporter on New Owner's Print-First Strategy to Reshape Paper: "Lunacy"

Updated, with new info on the bottom...After the sale of the Orange County Register to Boston businessman Aaron Kushner became complete late last month, he sat down with longtime Reg business reporter Mary Ann Milbourn to talk shop. "Ultimately I believe that there are very few businesses that play ... More >>

Darcy Fast: Man of God, "Missing Cub" and Lost Boy of Baseball

​Driving through Arizona to catch some spring training games, Darcy Fast says via his cell phone of baseball's annuity plan for the lost boys of summer like him, "I don't think it's fair." A Chicago Cubs pitcher whose darts lived up to his last name in 1967-68, Fast says baseball and the players ... More >>

Kinde Durkee, Near Plea Deal for Ripping Off Democratic Politicians, Makes a Love Match

​Before we get to the news about Kinde Durkee's possible plea deal, may we point out that, based on their respective booking photos, we believe we have found a love match between the disgraced former Democratic campaign treasurer and a certain disgraced former city official who called Huntington B ... More >>

Team 'Margaret'

[Year In Film] Karina Longworth on why you've never heard of her favorite movie of the year, plus nine more bests

When Tommy Lasorda Kicked a Teenager's Ass Outside His Fullerton Home

​With the Turkey Day semi-holiday upon us (news never sleeps, cabrones), I'm finally able to whittle through months of back issues--finished the Esquire with Justin Timberlake on it, Reason with Rand Paul, the Harper's featuring a hilarious Thomas Frank essay on the popularity of self-help books, ... More >>

The John Chamberlain Murder Trial Begins

[Moxley Confidential] Some defense lawyers claim the deputies made their clients do it

Garret Anderson, Great But Underappreciated Angels Outfielder, Retires

​Garret Anderson, one of the best--and most underappreciated--outfielders to play for the Angels of Anaheim, announced his retirement today. "It is with mixed emotions that I have decided to retire from baseball," Anderson begins a statement released by his club of 15 seasons.

Angels Press-Box Pooh-Bah

[Best of OC 2010] John Moynihan's 10 OC Survival Tips

Ozzy Osbourne Wants To Beat The Screaming World Record At The Dodgers Stadium

www.myspace.com/ozzyosbourne​Tomorrow, Ozzy Osbourne will be at the Dodger Stadium, trying to get the crowd to attempt the loudest (and longest!) scream for the Guinness World Records. Of course, it will be during a game when the Dodgers are playing the Angels, so if you go, you'll not only get t ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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: 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 >>

Bright Light at End of All-Star Game Tunnel for Angels? [UPDATED]

UPDATED WITH FIGGY NOW IN AND HUNTER CLARIFICATION (THANKS, HALOMANIA!) . . . Neither Chone Figgins nor Jered Weaver were was not added to the American League roster of tonight's All-Star game. (But, as the Los Angeles Times just blogged, Chone Figgins was just added due to an injury to Tampa Bay's ... More >>

Manny Ramirez is Latest on Scott Boras' 'Roid Roster

BorasJeffrey Anderson's 2007 Weekly story "The Boras Factor" made great hay out of ways Newport Beach-based baseball super-agent Scott Boras gives his clients "the competitive edge" through high technology, physical trainers, psychologists, player profiles and even a "war room" he has at his--and th ... More >>

Disney's California Food & Wine Festival

Think I'm done talking about food festivals and restaurant weeks? Not yet. Disney wants to play too!  They're holding their event at California Adventure from April 24th to June 7th.  The festival, in their words, will "showcase California's rich fusion of flavors." There will be free cooking d ... More >>

More on Huell Howser and the Evil TCA

The strangest part in my interview with Huell Howser this week was learning that the Transportation Corridor Authority tried to get his special on San Onofre State Beach delayed. I knew the TCA hated ol' Huell for his opposition to extending the 241 Toll Road through San Onofre State Park, further t ... More >>

Last Night: Pinback and El Ten Eleven @ Samueli Theater

By Andrew Youssef Pinback, El Ten Eleven at Samueli Theater, Costa Mesa, July 31, 2008 Better Than: Questioning the trade of Manny Ramirez to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Download: “From Nothing to Nowhere” from Pinback’s homepage [http://www.pinback.com/mp3/From_Nothing_to_Nowhere.mp3] San Di ... More >>

Last Night: Eek-A-Mouse and Pato Banton at the Vault 350

Review by Marco Villalobos Eek-A-Mouse and Pato Banton at the Vault 350, Long Beach Thursday, March 6, 2008 Better Than: Cleaning up spilled bong water on your dorm room carpet. Download: Prime Eek-A-Mouse videos from back in the day: In The Ghetto, Schoolboy, Wa Do Dem, the Mouse in Israel. He ... More >>

The Real Reason Why 241 Toll Road Plan Failed!

Full disclosure: I'm not too informed on the 241 Toll Road. I don't see how extending it to San Onofre will reduce traffic on the 5 Freeway. I don't surf so don't particularly care if the legendary waves of Trestles disappeared. I do know that the Transportation Corridor Authority is one of Orange C ... More >>

Obama OC Headquarters Wrapping Up With Hope, Uncertainty

If you need any more proof that the Barack Obama campaign desperately sought the Latino vote, one needs no more proof than the Orange County headquarters of Barack Obama, situated on Broadway across the street from the Santora Arts Complex in SanTana. Plastered on the window are various Obama articl ... More >>

On the Range

Ridin’, ropin’, rasslin’ & other games of skill & contests of  strength, blazing trails, seeing sights &, of course, Anteaters

Grub Guide

This week in Randomness

Year Zero

Nothing will ever outstrange what happened to the Angels in 1986

It's Good to Be Dangerous Again

A UCI historian is one of the most terrifying professors in America

Fullerton

This Week in Bread

Deal of the Century

The LA-OC Pedophile Priest Swap

Diary of a Mad County

Best Entertainment, Nightlife and Music

Lives of the Baseball Saints

Scorecard

Heaven on dirt

Ladies and gentlemen, your Anaheim Angels

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Letters

Voices of Angels

Smith and Markas describe the action as the Anaheim Angels head toward baseball heaven

Diary of a Mad County

Blowing and Burning

All this and the ominous specter of Lee Harvey Oswald

Political Football

Wouldja?!

Gettin Shig-ee With It

Shigetoshi Hasegawa pursues baseball, golf balls and the American dream

Famous Food, Part 2

Conductors! Rock Stars! Restaurateurs! Poets!