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Hey, Milagros!

As an Angels fan, this article pleases me greatly. I think it's in my newspaper, in fact. 😀

EDIT: I was right! It's on my front page, in the lower right-hand corner. 😛
 
Hey, it ain't my fault. They're being, as George Steinbrenner likes to say, "out-towned".

I thought the rot set in long before Lasorda's departure. The farm system started sprouting the likes of Steve Sax, who couldn't field a hop at gunpoint, and Mike Piazza, who, despite all of his power, has all the athletic ability of a turnip. And don't forget Jose Awfulman. The team stopped winning, they're firing managers and general managers left and right, even that fat guy in the creme colored suit and the big hat with the radar gun I haven't seen in a while, and now they're being outdone by...the Angels. A prospect so totally unbelievable two decades ago, that it would only have garnered laughter if suggested, yet, here it is.

No, it is not my fault, Milagros. However, think of it as Gene Autry's revenge on Walter O'Malley, who hosed him royally when he bought the expansion ticket. And, think of it as my own personal revenge, for Kirk Gibson... :santasmil
 
milagros317 said:
I never forgive anybody who mocks the Dodgers. :sowrong:
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I sympathize with you, mila, but the Angels have been mocked ever since they joined the league. So now the shoe's on the other foot, and you have to deal with it. 😉 Seriously, I do hope your team improves, just not at the expense of MY team. 😀
 
Knox The Hatter said:

No, it is not my fault, Milagros. ... :santasmil
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I didn't say it was your fault. Most of the poor decisions were made while Murdock was the owner, not you.

But if I ever meet Bill Shaikin (the author of that newspaper article), I will spit in his face and tell him to go to hell.
 
milagros317 said:
I didn't say it was your fault. Most of the poor decisions were made while Murdock was the owner, not you.

But if I ever meet Bill Shaikin (the author of that newspaper article), I will spit in his face and tell him to go to hell.
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One shouldn't get so riled up over somebody else's right to freedom of speech. Just write your own article.

The man has committed no crime that I can see.

Cheers. 🙂
 
You are correct. He is free to speak, and I am free to conclude that he is of non-human ancestry, illegitimate birth, and low character. 😛
 
as a fellow angels fan, this pleases me. However, my dad is a die hard dodgers fan, ever since he was a kid... still though, go angels!
 
Go Angels, Krokus! I do seem to recall you having an Angels logo in your sig and starting the thread about the bad call by Doug Eddings. It's nice to see I'm not the only Angels fan here. 😀
 
We grow in strength!! lol

Many people were unhappy about the name change to "LA Angels" ..

But I think Los Angeles Angels sounds better, just my opinion, lol


I've heard rumors that the angels are gonna try and get manny ramirez
 
For the Dodgers, help just might be on the way...it looks like Theo Epstein's out in Boston.

They originally were the Los Angeles Angels, 1961-1964, until some harebrained, empty-suited marketing whiz convinced Gene Autry to make them the 'California Angels'.

The Los Angeles Angels were a great mainstay of the old Pacific Coast League, before the Dodgers and Giants moved west. They had the largest ballpark, Wrigley Field (the Cubs owner also owned the PCL Angels), where the expansion Angels played in their inaugural '61 season. Capacity was about 20,000.

The success of the old Angels in the PCL has become the stuff of legend. As there were no set number of games out there in that league up until WW2, you could wind up playing anywhere from 150-200 games per year, simply because the weather was so amenable. In 1934, the Los Angeles Angels finished with a record of 134-50. That's not a typo. I don't have my calculator here, but I don't need one to tell you that this winning percentage surpasses any major league record like Secretariat finished ahead of the field at the Belmont.

The history of PCL baseball back in the old days is rich and colorful, and unique. Some of it can be found online...
 
Knox The Hatter said:
They originally were the Los Angeles Angels, 1961-1964, until some harebrained, empty-suited marketing whiz convinced Gene Autry to make them the 'California Angels'.
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That was a bad name change too. California and Los Angeles are misleading adjectives because the state has more than one baseball team, and the Angels play in Anaheim, not L.A. I'll always call them the Anaheim Angels, regardless of what Arte Moreno (the misguided Angels owner) calls them. 😛
 
I know, now they are the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Azuza, Cucamonga, Fresno, Merced, Las Vegas, and Bismarck. Wow, what a long name.
 
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