In their own inimitable fashion, our friends over at the Riverfront Times, the Weekly's sister paper in St. Louis, have shown our Ducks a little love. OK, maybe more than a little. Perhaps even a bit too much.
As the title of that disturbing image implies, they do this every week. (The Cinco de Mayo installment was particularly caliente.) It's about the funniest goddamn thing I've seen on the Internets in a while. So have a good laugh—and if anyone out there has similarly embarrassing pho
We Navel Gazers have had our issues with Arte Moreno's decision in 2005 to rename his Major League Baseball team the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim--with the understanding that we would immediately embrace Whatever the Hell the Team's Called once it reclaimed the World Series glory of 2002. However, with the city of Anaheim officially dropping its legal challenges to LAAofA, it is important for us to move forward. As Los Angeles Mayor of Anaheim Curt Pringle so succinctly put it, "it's in ev
With the smell of spring training fresh in the air around the old ballpark, it's been the best of times and the worst of times for Matt McCarthy. The 30-year-old 28-year-old medical intern at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City has seen Odd Man Out, his recently published book based on his minor league pitching career in the Angels organization, excerpted in Sports Illustrated, hailed as the farm-league equivilent to Jim Bouton's polo groundbreaking major-league tell-all Ba
If the Angels and Yankees wind up facing one another somewhere on the way to the next World Series, it'll be tough to beat the playoff atmosphere that was already evident at the Big A last night.Yes, those bastards in pinstripes eked out the 6-5 win (after blowing a 5-0 lead--HAH!), and they clinched their 14th trip to the playoffs in the past 15 seasons. But, according to our highly placed source who was sitting in the Angel Stadium stands, fans who have been painted by the East Coast-domina
