Subject: Mike Scioscia

• Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: Police Seek Laguna Retard

  The Fourth Reich: Way before there was “Don’t Taser me, dude!” there was Benito Acosta, arrested by Costa Mesa police after he allegedly spoke too long during a January 2006 city council meeting. Acosta opposed training local police as INS agents, a pet project of Mayor Allan Mansoor. A right-wing sheriff’s deputy when he’s not playing a right-wing city official, Mansoor turned off the public microphone, and police used physical violence to drag Acosta, a tiny fellow, from the hearing

  September 26, 2007

• Rick Warren Superstar

  Just about everything that can be said has been said about pastor Rick Warren's performance this past weekend with underlings John McCain and Barack Obama. Except this: by getting all moving cameras in the Free World fixed on his Saddleback Church, Warren officially propelled himself past two other evangelicals with a long history of publicity mongering around these parts. You knew the granddaddy of 'em all, Robert H. Schuller, who has since handed the Crystal Cathedral's reins to his lifelong

  August 19, 2008

• 2002: Diary of a Mad Year

  January 2, 2003

• 9 Reasons to Be Happy K-Rod is Leaving the Angels

  Even more important than the Angels keeping Mark Teixeira - hey, it's not like the LAofA isn't already loaded with power hitters, right? -- was keeping record-breaking closer Francisco Rodriguez, or "K-Rod" as the kids and Bizzaro World Madonna call him. But now that the right-handed flame thrower has split for New Yawk, good riddance, already. Hey, K-Rod, have fun coasting on those ninth inning leads courtesy of the Angels starters, other relievers and Scot Shields now that you've got that stel

  December 9, 2008

• Looking Back at 2008: The Ecstasy and the Irony

  This is not a look back at disgraced Sheriff Mike Carona, the Little Sheriff, the Debs, the Little Debbie Snack, the Freeway Complex Fire, Rick Warren, Wiley Drake, any lantern-jawed preacher with the last name of Schuller, pedo-priests, the 241 toll road extension, Proposition 8, fluctuating gasoline prices, the mortgage meltdown or the havoc that phenomenon wreaked. No, these are 15 stories from 2008 that may have fallen through the cracks were it not for the wonders of online archives and sl

  December 31, 2008

• It's a Quick Read 11

  Orange County Register: Former Rams kicker Tony Zendejas was found not guilty of raping and sodomizing a woman in a hotel room after allegedly drugging her at his San Dimas restaurant. . . . OC Watchdog has the scoop on Orange County's 14 lawmakers in the State Legislature receiving nearly $20,000 in gifts last year, most from special-interest groups such as The Irvine Co., the Walt Disney Co. and the California Building Industry Association. . . . Ferrari vs. light pole. Lig

  March 11, 2009

• Angels Pitcher Nick Adenhart Killed in Fullerton Crash

  *Moved up by Gustavo, because dumb-ass trolls have hijacked a tragedy to go on and rail about Mexicans. Give 'em hell, gentle readers...Nick Adenhart, the Angels starter who pitched six scoreless innings in last night's 6-4 loss to the A's, was one of three people killed in a collision involving three cars just past midnight in Fullerton. A passenger riding in a silver Mitsubishi driven by an unidentifed woman, 22-year-old Adenhart apparently died shortly after being rus

  April 10, 2009

• Let's Go, Halos

  May 15, 2008

• Readers' Poll Winners

  Dont blame us: You picked em

  September 20, 2007

• On the Range

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

  September 20, 2007

• Replacing Troy Glaus With Dallas McPherson

  October 19, 2006

• Best of OC, Nos. 51 to 75

  October 19, 2006

• Diary of Mad County

  July 20, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  February 23, 2006

• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

  August 4, 2005

• The Dodgers Are Dead

  March 31, 2005

• OC's Scariest People 2004

  October 28, 2004

• Halo-Friendly

  October 14, 2004

• Fallen Angel

  December 4, 2003

• Lives of the Baseball Saints

  October 16, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  July 31, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  November 21, 2002

• Mr. Eisners Wild Ride

  November 7, 2002

• T

  October 24, 2002

• Diary of a mad county

  October 10, 2002

• Party Pooper

  May 10, 2001

• Magnet Night

  April 13, 2000

• As Stephen Smith Leaves Town, Irvine's "Tattler" Calls on Others to Step Up

  Stephen C. Smith calls on others to keep tabs on Irvine City Hall.CORRECTED!Lost in Santa Ana a few months ago, half paying attention to the street signs and half to Larry Mantle's KPCC interview show blaring out of the car speakers, I heard the host steer his Orange County "roundtable" guests--Orange County Register senior editorial writer Steven Greenhut; former LA Times religion writer William Lobdell and the Weekly's irrepressible Gustavo Arellano--into the topic of local bloggers. The three

  May 12, 2009

• 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 Evan Longoria.) Only closer Brian Fuentes, one of two Angels named to the team, will be in St. Louis. The other, outfielder Torii Hunter, will be at home in Dallas, nursing his right groin/adductor mu

  July 14, 2009

• How Dare Joe Maddon Bone Chone Figgins . . . and Brian Fuentes, Too

  Roger Lodge, who hosts The Sports Lodge on AM830 that is broadcast live from Angel Stadium, went off on Joe Maddon, the Tampa Bay Rays manager who also skippered the winning American League team in Tuesday night's All-Star Game from St. Louis. During a portion of his show that is simulcast on Channel 5's KTLA Morning News, Lodge took the flat-topped, snow haired manager to task for failing to get Los Angeles of Anaheim's Chone Figgins into the game, despite Figgy having moved mountains to make

  July 15, 2009

• 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 about the same painful subject: His Halos' string of playoff losses to the bruisers from Beantown. ​Strangely, he is not asked so much about the Angels' mastery of the Sox during the

  October 7, 2009

• 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 playing the Angels, who should be renamed the Yankers. For no one applies the ultimate titty twister to New York like Anaheim. The Bronx Bombers' captain, Derek Jeter, certainly appreciates Angel

  October 12, 2009

• 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, let's instead relish the top 11 moments from the Halos' victory celebration . . . while we don't have to think about Boston. Yet. 1) Champagne-, beer- and milk (?)-drenched Angels playe

  September 28, 2009

• 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 day's rest. Nine of his team-high 15 wins have come at the Big A, where he has a 2.89 earned-run average. He should get plenty of backup from an Angels lineup that has the best record in baseball agains

  September 25, 2009

• 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 ticket-price gouging. That is, all teams are except one. Ladies and gentlemen, your Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim! Reports Forbes: Clubs poised for post-season play have learned a lesson from the e

  September 24, 2009