*The stupidest noisemakers ever, a thin piece of cardboard which fans were supposed to fold up like an accordion and slap them like a tambourine. Did some idiots complain about having to blow too hard to inflate the old ThunderStix, which worked so well in 2002?
*Stupid little kids who sing the National Anthem. That's not patriotism, that's anarchy.
*Joe Saunders and Jered Weaver (badly) lip-synching to a stupid Bon Jovi song on a video that played between innings.
*Howie Kendrick grounding
FanSnapFanSnap, 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 Angels open their division series against the Red Sox at the Big A.
"For both games, there is tremendous price variability," claims Palo Alto-based FanSnap, which claims: * Fans can find tickets be
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
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 Fenway Park and the town itself.
(Along those lines, a Halos cap tip to Village Voice Media Vice President of Blog Stirring Bill Jensen for this apt name for annoying Bostonians: Massholes.
"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 in "Best of OC 2008." Heck,
if he isn't at the ballpark yet, you might even catch
him wiping the crumbs off his chin from the California turkey sandwich he devoured at Hector's Subs in Long B
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
