The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim got a long-overdue lesson in math this week. They learned about the age-old principle of addition by subtraction.
It's simple. All you have to do is subtract $21 million of useless player from the payroll and you'll wind up adding emotional stability and tangible worth to your squad.
On Friday, the Angels put their lesson to ... 22Jan2010 |
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Hardly a week had gone by since the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim were eliminated from the playoffs before they hit their first offseason obstacle.
His name is Gary Matthews, Jr.
In what will likely be an emotional and turbulent offseason for the Angels, who saw no less than three star players and several ... 7Nov2009 |
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Just an atrocious way to end a game that the Yankees tried to give away. I don't even know what to say after this one. Time and time again the Angels had chances to take control, and time and time again they refused to cash in. For some reason, the Angels have ... 18Oct2009 |
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The Angels offense waited a little too long to give Trevor Bell a win in his major league debut, but the rookie gave the Angels a chance to win, and the Angels closed out the series with a sweep of the Tampa Bay Rays in an afternoon tilt at the Big A. ... 12Aug2009 |
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The Angels overcame another shaky start, needed to come from behind yet again, and survived a second straight awful performance from Brian Fuentes to end their two game losing streak.
Jered Weaver turned in a mediocre outing, but gave the Angels a chance to win. He struggled with his ... 29Jul2009 |
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After a three game sweep of the Kansas City Royals, the Angels returned home to Anaheim, where they earned their sixth straight victory with a dramatic come-from-behind win against the visiting Minnesota Twins.
Thursday night's starter Jered Weaver turned a rocky start (a 3 run first) into a solid outing, as he ... 24Jul2009 |
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If you were to sum up the Angels' season in one game, than Sunday afternoon's contest against the Detroit Tigers would certainly suffice. Holding a 5-4 leading heading into the bottom of the eight inning, the Angels' bullpen blew the team's one-run lead, resulting in a 9-6 defeat ... 7Jun2009 |
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The Angels shut out the Mariners, and finished the series in Seattle by taking three games out of four. Joe Saunders righted the ship after last week's poor outing against Texas. He worked seven scoreless innings before turning the game over to Scot Shields and Brian Fuentes, who combined to close out the Mariners.
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Ervin Santana showed the form that he brought to the mound for most of last season, but Chris Jakubauskas showed the form of Bob Gibson circa 1968. Santana's 6.2 innings of five hit baseball weren't enough to overcome Jakubauskas' six shutout innings, during which he allowed only two ... 21May2009 |
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The Angels fell back to .500 and 4.5 games behing the first place Rangers, as the offense came up empty against Scott Feldman and a trio of Texas relievers.
Jered Weaver went the distance, lasting eight innings while giving up three runs, all in his final two innings. His ... 18May2009 |
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Matt Palmer overcame a shaky start and retired the last 19 Red Sox hitters he face. Mike Napoli saved a run by cutting down Jacoby Ellsbury trying to steal second, then blasted a three run shot to center field, which gave the Angels a lead that they would not relinquish.
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The Angels' confidence is back.
Shane Loux continued to impress on Tuesday night by pitching 7 solid innings, and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Oakland A's 5-3. Loux gave up just 1 run over his 7 innings while walking one batter and striking out 3. Darren Oliver, fresh off a stint on ... 5May2009 |
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Yet another night when the Angel offense delivers more than enough to win. Yet another night when the bullpen can't hold on to a huge a lead. Rafael Rodriguez, Jose Arredondo, and Brian Fuentes combined for six earned runs in two innings, and blew a five run lead. This is starting to ... 2May2009 |
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After becoming the last team in the majors to win two games in a row, the Angels went out and won a third straight game, using the long ball and six strong innings from Shane Loux to sweep the two game set from the Orioles.
Loux had his strongest start of the season, ... 29Apr2009 |
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This past weekend the Seattle Mariners came down south from the Emerald City to face our LA Angels in a three game series at Angel Stadium. The Mariners won the first two games by scores of 8-3 and 9-8, but the Angels won the series finale in impressive fashion, 8-0. So with ... 26Apr2009 |
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The Angels weathered the injuries to their key starters for the first few weeks of the season, but those injuries are finally starting to catch up with them. To this point, the Angels' failures could be blamed on the offense, defense, and/or relief corps, but the starters had stepped it up for ... 25Apr2009 |
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For most of this season, the Angels' main problem has been their bullpen and offense, not necessarily their starting pitching. But on Friday night, starting pitching was indeed their downfall in the Halos' 8-3 loss at the hands of the first-place Seattle Mariners. Yes, you read those last four words correctly.
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Jered Weaver once again pitched very well and Torii Hunter homered for the 5th time on the year, as the Los Angeles Angels beat the Detroit Tigers 4-3 on Tuesday night. Weaver pitched 7 strong innings, giving up 3 runs on 7 hits, while striking out 6 batters. Reliever Jose Arredondo ... 22Apr2009 |
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After a breakout 2006 season in which he recorded 79 RBIs and a .313 batting average, Gary Matthews Jr. surprised the entire baseball world by signing a 5 year contract worth $50 million with the Angels. What made so many baseball executives scratch their heads was the fact that the Halos signed ... 24Mar2009 |
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With the start of Spring Training, many expect the Angels to once again win the AL West and contend for a World Series title, Matt Tolich writes. 13Feb2009 |
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Excellent analysis of Dodgers roster for 2010: http://yallkiltit.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/dodgerblast-spring-training-roster-analysis/ 
I was with the UCLA Alumni Band; I sat in the 4th row of the box seats, a few rows ...
Joey, your right, but what were you thinking was going to happen? whats your point here? you called every UCLA ...
I was at that game as well. Where'd you sit? 
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