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March 29, 2012
Dick Baney and the Other Lost Boys of Summer
Even after the Tustin resident helped embarrass Major League Baseball into helping retired ballplayers such as himself, he's still not happy, and he has plenty of company
Blogs
March 29, 2012
David Clyde: Onetime Texas Pitching Phenom and Lost Boy of Baseball Schools Young Players
Interviewing David Clyde for today's "The Lost Boys of Summer" feature, it's as if the onetime pitching phenom suffers from baseball Tourette's. That's because, in between March thunderstorms, the former Texas Ranger is speaking with me on the phone while schooling a young pitcher at a North Hous ... More >>
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February 24, 2012
5 Substitute Spanish-Language Nicknames the Angels Can Use for Albert Pujols
Spring training hasn't even truly started, and already your Anaheim Angels are annoying their $200 million man, Albert Pujols, with billboards proclaiming him "El Hombre"--"The Man" in espeaky Espanish. Not only is it unimaginative, but the St. Louis Cardinals tried to do that, a linguistic play ... More >>
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December 8, 2011
[UPDATED with God Smack:] Albert Pujols and C.J. Wilson Coming to the Angels
UPDATE, DEC. 8, 2:50 P.M.: Step aside, Rick Warren, Robert Schuller and Bishop Tod Brown: the next great Orange County Christian soldier may very well be Albert Pujols. Christian author Scott Lamb, who co-wrote Pujols: More Than a Game, believes the slugger may do more than knock baseballs over t ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
The Boy Scouts' Police Problem
Dozens of teenage Explorers have been sexually abused by cops. Should the Scouts share the blame?
Blogs
October 25, 2011
Mike Napoli, Former Angels Catcher, Continuing to Humiliate Halos with World Series Heroics
Those were the days...This year's baseball World Series between the Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals has been a thriller--two close games decided by one run, followed by two blowouts, followed by yesterday's thrilling Game 5, which saw the Rangers rally in the bottom of the seventh with two ... More >>
Film
September 22, 2011
'Moneyball' Is a Field of Statistically Knowable Dreams
The formulas work in movie version of Michael Lewis' book
Blogs
September 9, 2011
Angels Desperately Need to Defeat the Evil Empire Yankees--For You, Me and America
Would be nice if that could be true, at least for this weekend.The Angels are getting hot!They're fading!They're on the heels of the Rangers!They can't win a game!They're back in the chase!(Make up your damn mind, Scioscia--are your boys making the playoffs or not?!)This up-and-down push toward t ... More >>
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July 5, 2011
Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash's First Wife, Part of Family that Invented Ballpark Nachos
Oh, the things I've discovered in the course of researching my coming book on the history of Mexican food in the United States--you're going to have to wait for next April for the astounding ones, but while reviewing my last, late chapters, I remembered one random factoid that shows how pervasive ... More >>
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March 16, 2011
Great Expectations for Angels Rookies Peter Bourjos and Mike Trout
Let the fish puns begin.The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim have plenty they'd like to forget about last season. With Opening Day coming up fast, the Halos are hoping to return to the have-a-great-regular-season-before-getting-spanked-by-the-stinkin'-Red Sox-in-the-playoffs-AGAIN form that fan ... More >>
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August 18, 2010
5 Reasons to Actually Continue Watching the Angels
Yes, they're eight games back in the AL West. Yes, they can't even win their series against miserable teams like the Toronto Blue Jays and the Baltimore Orioles, though in the Halos defense Baltimore had magic on its side. Yes, very few Angels players seem like they give a crap right no ... More >>
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August 13, 2010
5 Reasons Why the Angels' Season Went to Hell
Jay Brockman/OC WeeklyWe'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 >>
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July 13, 2010
Five Places for All-Star Players to Avoid to Stay Out of Trouble
Christopher Victorio / OC WeeklyMajor 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 >>
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July 8, 2010
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 >>
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May 17, 2010
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 >>
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May 3, 2010
Los Angeles Angels: Basking in Mediocrity
Flickr user DTrigger05We have been spoiled.
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December 21, 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 >>
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September 28, 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, l ... More >>
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September 28, 2009
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 >>
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July 14, 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 ... More >>
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July 10, 2009
Slick Willie Clinton: I Did Not Sleep With That MLB All-Star Woman
Christine Shively, an "Angel" and an "All-Star Among Us."Major League Baseball has announced that Newport Beach resident Christine Shively and four other "All-Stars Among Us" will be saluted by all five living U.S. presidents before Tuesday's All-Star Game in St. Louis.(It's a good thing the MLB str ... More >>
Blogs
February 25, 2009
Smack Talk Against Your Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Begins Early
I thought the worst thing I'd read so far about Your Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim was that the A's are gaining on them, but then came this: "The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim will always be Disneyland's team and should expect nothing but another fairy-tale in the AL West this season." Disneyland's ... More >>
Blogs
February 20, 2009
A-Rod Manages Steroid Crisis With Aid of Newport Beach PR Firm
Outside Eyes, a Newport Beach-based crisis PR firm, is among the agencies that have been brought in to help Alex Rodriguez deal with the firestorm of controversy that has been generated by the New York Yankees slugger's admission to using performance-enhancing steroids. The firm knows cris ... More >>
Blogs
October 7, 2008
There's no Tex in Teixeira
Others on this blog will undoubtedly dissect your Anaheim Angels' embarrassing flameout against the Boston Red Sox, so I'll just focus on the linguistic disaster that is the Halos' radio announcers (excluding the always-classy Jose Mota). One of them--Rory Markas? Terry Smith? Steve Physioc? Maybe e ... More >>
Features
May 24, 2007
Dealing for Dollars
Some of Scott Boras notable moves
Features
May 24, 2007
The Boras Factor
Some fans and team officials think hes the devil. His player clients think hes an angel. Everyone agrees that super agent Scott Boras has changed baseballbut for better or worse? And what does he want now?
News
April 5, 2007
Grove of Dreams
The life and times of orange picker-turned-big leaguer Jesse Flores
Features
April 5, 2007
Grove of Dreams
The life and times of orange picker-turned-big leaguer Jesse Flores
Columns
January 11, 2007
Diary of a Mad County
Jan. 3-Jan. 9
News
August 24, 2006
Athletic Cherubim
Angels vs. Yankees
News
July 27, 2006
Interminable Season
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
Columns
May 25, 2006
Diary of a Mad County
May 17 - May 23
Blogs
March 21, 2006
Atomic Action Beanball
A coincidence, but one which raises a question. The coincidence: last night Japan won the title game in the World Baseball Classic, and last night I happened across a curious minor relic of the relationship between baseball in the U.S. and baseball in Japan. The question it raised in my mind: do th ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2006
Barbecuing Dogs and Blowing Up Frogs
It's easy enough to list the ways that George W. Bush is similar to the Pride of Yorba Linda, Richard M. Nixon. In fact, it's too easy– the obsession with secrecy, the contempt for the constitution, the wiretapping, the history of binge drinking, etc. etc.– and now I learn they have one ... More >>
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October 27, 2005
OC's 31 Scariest People
Now 25 percent more terrifying!
Columns
July 14, 2005
Wherever We Make Our Home
When the partys over, turn out the lights
Columns
October 9, 2003
The Angels Go On to a Better Place
When the partys over, turn out the lights
Features
May 29, 2003
Heaven on dirt
Ladies and gentlemen, your Anaheim Angels
Columns
April 10, 2003
Diary of a Mad County
Ladies and gentlemen, your Anaheim Angels
Features
January 2, 2003
2002: Diary of a Mad Year
Ladies and gentlemen, your Anaheim Angels
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October 24, 2002
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Ladies and gentlemen, your Anaheim Angels
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October 10, 2002
Diary of a mad county
Ladies and gentlemen, your Anaheim Angels
News
July 18, 2002
George Bush, Failed Corporate Crook
Ladies and gentlemen, your Anaheim Angels
Features
January 3, 2002
Diary of a mad county
Orange County, California: 2001
Columns
December 28, 2000
The South Has Rose Again!
This weeks featured NFL game: Dallas Cowboys vs. Tennessee Titans
Culture
November 16, 2000
CEO Wet Dreams
Gore and Bush primers reveal who really won Tuesday's election
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October 15, 1998
Take Me Online to the Ballgame
Angels fans fight to the inevitable end

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