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By Rev Halofan More photos » by Kathy Willens - AP Fallen Angels Reggie Jackson and Mark Teixeira. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) Browse more photos » Mark Teixeira is batting .105 in the Word Series Poll CAPTION THIS PHOTO Then My Wife Says It Stands For "Not Yet" OTHER (Post in Comments)   2 votes | Results

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) Since this was the worst-case scenario World Series (two east coast teams? Bleh), I've been in hibernation more-or-less this postseason after both the Dodgers and Angels have been eliminated. But thanks to Jon for pointing out the latest in Dodger blogging, Dodger Divorce. Early on, blo...

By Rally Manatee Hey Everyone. Here's a quick update. Melody Ann was born November 1st, at 2:59 pm! Check her out! She's almost 3 months premature. She's a little smaller than David Eckstein at 14 inches, 2 lb. 4 oz. She seems pretty healthy so far. Thanks to everyone who has been praying and wishing us well. Keep it u...

By Rev Halofan Pitcher John Lackey just turned 31. His forearm injuries have been babied by a confident Angels staff that took the long-term approach. They are not chronic injuries. The question is "What is the absolute ceiling that the Angels should offer John Lackey?" followed by the question: "You wan...

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim had themselves a pretty good year, unless you count the dismal ALCS.

Between the profound heartache of early April and the deep disappointment of late October, Mike Scioscia's...

By Rev Halofan about : Los Angeles Angels' Joe Saunders, scheduled starter for Game 6 of the American League Championship baseball series against the New York Yankees, walks back to the dugout after the game was postponed because of rain Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009, in New York. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

By Rev Halofan about : After jumping in an outfield waterfall, a fan reacts to the crowd during Game 5 of the American League Championship baseball series between the Los Angeles Angels and the New York Yankees Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim begin its battle for the American League pennant this evening against the New...

By WiHaloFan League Championship Series American League Game 1: Los Angeles Angels at New York Yankees | Friday, Oct. 16, 7:57 p.m. (FOX) Game 3: New York Yankees at Los Angeles Angels | Monday, Oct. 19, 4:13 p.m. (FOX) Game 7*: Los Angeles Angels at New York Yankees | Sunday, Oct. 25, 8:20 p.m. (FOX)

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) Meanwhile, the Angels were only slightly less effective than the Red Sox, also going in order the first three frames while scratching out a lone single, Erick Aybar's two-out line drive in third that Chone Figgins promptly squandered by flying out to left. But for all that, the Angels did m...

By mattwelch More from the 2009 Baseball Prospectus: What about the Prospectus prognosis for this year's Angels? Some individual player comments are worth noting, too. For instance, Chone Figgins: Still, if we lose to the Red Sox again, we get what we deserve....

Sharpen those No. 2 pencils and start brewing your cram coffee, because it's exam time here on Big League...

By Rev Halofan about : Los Angeles Angels' Kendry Morales, right, beats the tag from Texas Rangers catcher Ivan Rodriguez on Angels' Chone Figgins' single during the fifth inning of a baseball game in Anaheim, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Chone Figgins is having himself a fine season with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, but the third baseman will...

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim have been using Brian Fuentes as its closer all year but he's apparently...

By Rev Halofan Current Series Angels win the series 3-0 Fri 09/04 WP: Jered Weaver (14 - 5) SV: Brian Fuentes LP: Jamey Wright (1 - 5) 2 - 1 winSat 09/05 WP: Kevin Jepsen (5 - 3) SV: Brian Fuentes LP: Yasuhiko Yabuta (0 - 1) LP: Luke Hochevar (6 - 9) 7 - 2 win Los Angeles Angels Halos Heaven

By WiHaloFan Poll There's been talk of Kendry Morales for AL MVP, but is he even the Angels' MVP? Yes, he's the Angels MVP. No, Torii Hunter is the Angels MVP. No, Bobby Abreu is the Angels MVP. No, [BLANK] is the Angels MVP (comment below).   17 votes | Results

By WiHaloFan Brian Downing and Chuck Finley take their place in the Angels' Hall of Fame -- latimes.com Outfielder, pitcher are inducted into the Angels' Hall of Fame in a ceremony before Thursday's game. The Angels will win the American League West and draw the Red Sox in the first round.

By jjackflash The Yankees, with 657 runs on 1145 hits, score .574 runs per hit.  The Yankees need only 1.743 hits to score a run.  Thus, the Yankees score only .003 runs more per hit (i.e., for every thousand hits, the Yanks manage only three more runs).  This is despite the fact that the Yankees have 52 more home run...

By WiHaloFan Angels-White Sox Preview - FOX Sports on MSN While Chicago is heating up, the Angels are in danger of being swept for the first time since May 15-17 against Texas. Los Angeles, which entered this series winner of 17 of 20, has not been swept in Chicago since Aug. 18-20, 2003.

By Zu Long One final note on this subject for those who claim we are undeservedly fortunate ... it wasn't very long ago that the Angels farm system was considered the best in baseball. Mike Napoli, Casey Kotchman, Dallas Macpherson, Jeff Mathis, Erick Aybar, Alberto Callaspo, Howie Kendrick, Brandon...

By Rev Halofan Rev Halofan (Halos Heaven): The Angels are not necessarily for real and their health will dictate who wins the American League West. No matter how great Scioscia is, he is no Lewis Yocum. 67MARQUEZ (Athletics Nation): Texas and/or Seattle hang around, and the A's knock the Angels out of the...

By WiHaloFan Halos bullpen faces critical test down stretch - Scott Miller - CBSSports.com The Angels' bullpen ranks 13th in the American League and 28th in the majors with a 5.01 ERA entering Wednesday. Only Cleveland (5.13) and Washington (5.58) have been worse.

By WiHaloFan Up next for Angels: Tuesday at Texas - Los Angeles Times Joe Saunders vs. Scott Feldman Guerrero steps up throwing program - Angels blog - OCRegister.com Vladimir Guerrero threw to bases as part of his pre-game throwing workout today

By WiHaloFan Up next for Angels: Saturday at Arizona - Los Angeles Times Pitchers: John Lackey vs. Doug Davis. Jose Arredondo becomes latest to go on the DL - Los Angeles Times The pool of in-house candidates who could bolster the Angels' late-inning relief corps continues to dwindle.

By WiHaloFan Up next: Dodgers versus Angels on Sunday - Los Angeles Times Clayton Kershaw vs. John Lackey Angels sign Randal Grichuk - Los Angeles Times The Angels signed their top pick in the June 9 draft, 17-year-old high school outfielder Randal Grichuk, to a bonus of $1.225 million on Saturday.

By Rev Halofan Brian Downing was a core offensive contributor to three Western Division titles for the Angels. Recent research by Angel Lifer Matt Welch indicates that in 1979, Downing had the best season ever by an Angels Catcher, as well as the 3rd Best in 1978. Realizing his offensive prowess, and mini...

By Adam Fier The Mets GM wasted no time, locking up former Angels closer Francisco Rodriguez to a three-year, $37 million contract to replace Wagner and give the Mets a ninth inning presence they lacked at the end of 2008. The Mets also parted ways with Mets folk hero Endy Chavez, best known for his mirac...

By Taj Adib As I was driving down the 57 freeway on Friday through Los Angeles of Anaheim, I gazed to my right and observed Slegna Stadium in it's most radiant state: completely empty of rally monkey-ing, stat-hating, water bottle-launching, belligerent and foul-mouthed Angel fans.

By Isaac Barrow I've also heard from ESPN that the O's are a likely suitor to pursue Manny Ramirez. I am 50/50 on this trade. While I saw what Manny could do with the Dodgers, the Dodgers are in the National League West. The worst division of the past few seasons.

Last night the Angels (in the immortal words of Captain Insano) ‘opened up a can of whoop-ass’ on the New York Yankees as they pummeled the Pinstripers 12-1. Nothing new there as the Angels have pretty much owned New York since the Joe Torre era. But things actually got physical between two gu...

By Taj Adib So folks, here are your 2008 Oakland A's: Now 6 games out of 1st place for at least the next 4 days; still growing into major leaguers; one step closer to being in full "sell" mode and definitely one strike, one out, and one play away from truly challenging the reigning AL West champion Los Ang...

I know that the No. 3 position in the batting order is ostensibly reserved for your best hitter which for the Angels is Vladimir Guerrero. And Guerrero has been scorching the ball lately. Arte, you made your billion in advertising, branding products to sell to suckers and now you are selling t...

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) I was poking around at BTF when I saw this thread about Dave Cameron's interesting long guest article at The Baseball Analysts, a history of the post-2003 Mariners' bad (and worse) decisions. Poster Blackadder asked, "Do people remember the pre-season projections for the 2001 Mariners...

By Taj Adib Although, it's actually fun to listen to him when the Angels are losing, when he's embarrassing himself by scrambling incoherently for positive things to say...so lets hope, just maybe for my sake, that Greg Smith and the rest of the Green and Gold can make it happen this evening. Tonight migh...

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) More on Bennett's mechanics at Inside the Dodgers; apparently this took up a great deal of time at Torre's postgame press conference. Help for Dodger fans who may not get this reference. It's the song they play at Angels Stadium before every game.

The guys spend the remainder of the hour covering missing team previews for the Colorado Rockies, Houston Astros, Cincinnati Reds, Seattle Mariners, Kansas City Royals and Toronto Blue Jays. To jump to and listen to a specific team preview, select the team below… Colorado RockiesCinci...

Hosts Joe Aiello and Brandon Rosage put Big ‘A’ Baseball’s Richard Nickerson on the hot seat regarding Anaheim’s division dominance, as well as the team’s trade of great-hitting SS Orlando Cabrera for SP Jon Garland, the acquisition of Torii Hunter and its flourishing farm system.

By Joe Florkowski I, of course, was looking for the names mentioned in the report that have ties to the California Angels, Anaheim Angels and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Some interesting names popped up, with many having ties to former Met clubhouse employee Kirk Radomski.

By Brandon Rosage The Transaction Guy’s Ryne Crabb joins the show to break down how Torii Hunter’s deal with the Angels affects the rest of the free agent outfielders, including Andruw Jones, Mike Cameron and Aaron Rowand. We also look at the big third basemen (Mike Lowell and Alex Rodriguez) and the best de...

By Joe Florkowski The Dodgers are making a strong marketing push this year because the team is celebrating its 50th year in Los Angeles. The Hunter signing allows the Angels to continue to put pressure on the Dodgers in the battle for the hearts and minds (and dollars) of the Southland.

Its funny: as much as I hate the Angels, Ive never found much to dislike about their individual players. If we're being honest, they're a pretty inoffensive group*; I mean, John Lackey tends to breathe through his mouth all the time, which is a pet peeve of mine, and Chone Figgins has been sli...

By Administrator At the beginning of play on August 18, 1967, the Red Sox unexpectedly found themselves in the pennant race—in fourth place and only 3 ½ games behind the first place Minnesota Twins. On that day, a Friday, the California Angels—in fifth place and a game behind the Red Sox—arrived in Boston fo...

By The Omnipotent Q As thoughtless, and as stupid a remark as that is, Gary Matthews of the Los Angeles Angels absolutely went Angel one better. He gave an interview to a reporter about Red Sox fans, and it left me just shaking my head. Here is some highlights, courtesy of The Boston Globe.

By webmaster@sltrib.com (The Salt Lake Tribune) Posted: 1:34 PM- Pitcher Chris Resop of the Salt Lake Bees has been called up to the major leagues by the Los Angeles Angels.

John Lackey earned his major league-leading eighth victory and the Los Angeles Angels barely had to swing the bat during a seventh-inning rally Sunday that gave them a 4-3 victory over the New York Yankees and a three-game sweep. Los Angeles took advantage after starter Mike Mussina got a...

Jered Weaver came off the disabled list and started for the Los Angeles Angels at Oakland on Tuesday night.

Los Angeles Angels third baseman Chone Figgins will be sidelined indefinitely after fracturing the middle finger on his throwing hand. He still hopes to be ready by Opening Day.

By Joseph A. Reaves Valley resident and Angels owner Arte Moreno lets it be known he's not happy being stuck in the middle of baseball's drug mess. But there he is. And he's not happy about it. Not happy at all.