Better Know a Playoff Team: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
by Brendanukkah on Oct 6, 2009 11:03 AM EDT
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Here are three things you should know about the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, who won the AL West by ten games and had the second best record in baseball. Two of these things are true, and one of them is a lie.
1. The Angels used to play at Wrigley Field.
2. Nick Adenhart had the highest ERA+ on the team.
3. The Angels retired the number of Gene Autry, who never played.
Which one of these factlets is bold-faced fabrication? Tell me now, and share all other Angels related arcana in the comments below.
Let's cheer on the Angels as they square off against the Boston Red Sox. They are 0-4 in playoff series against Boston, and have lost 12 of the last 13 postseason games to the Red Sox, but this year, they feel lucky. It could happen.
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what, youre saying Jews do everything backwards?
you guys are just mean today.
by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 6, 2009 11:38 AM EDT up reply actions
gray's always erasing shit
i think slyde should talk to him about that
Made from 100% Recycled Awesome,
Really?
Do we have to automatically objectify EVERY woman pictured on this website?
IAN! I'm on traain!
"Is heaven missing an Angel?"
“Oh, sorry, you’re not actually Nick Adenhart come back to life and terrorizing greater Anaheim. You’re just wearing a shirt with his name on it. My mistake.”
by Brendanukkah on Oct 6, 2009 12:19 PM EDT up reply actions
well you just objectified the picture as a woman.
i mean sometimes Walt is like a prison shower, you know it is gonna happen, but it isn’t a good thing.
's can be your friend
make the woman take hold of the picture, make it her picture, and by her’s i mean her husbands, because well somebody needs to take care of that silly woman.
i mean sometimes Walt is like a prison shower, you know it is gonna happen, but it isn’t a good thing.
was Southwest
giving out free booze today or something?
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
by BubbaFan on Oct 6, 2009 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
no, i wish (but i'll count my blessing with the free checked baggage).
but according to a flier in my seat pocket they give out free booze on Halloween and Thanksgiving…
i mean sometimes Walt is like a prison shower, you know it is gonna happen, but it isn’t a good thing.
Not a lie
According to Baseball Reference, every member of the Angels starting lineup had an OPS+ of 100 or greater. That’s how you win baseball games!
Im not sure if the prize is worth it...
But my answer is number two, Considering that 6 IP is hardly enough to compare him to the rest of the pitching staff. Then again it is the Angels
Go, Red Sox
This is killing me, but I’m scairt of the Angels.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
Boo Yankees! Boo Red Sox!
Go Angels! Go !
by Brendanukkah on Oct 6, 2009 12:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Huh.
That should have said “Go [other]!”
by Brendanukkah on Oct 6, 2009 12:21 PM EDT up reply actions
don't you have
women to objectify somewhere?
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
I believe you're thinking of GrooveLeg
Or perhaps Derek Jeter.
by Brendanukkah on Oct 6, 2009 12:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Go Twins!!! (after you win tonight that is)
I’m pretty sure the Angels played at LA’s version of Wrigley ….
and wikipedia just confirmed it
"Some times you get lucky; some times you get Willy Taveras." - Teh Fay
Yes!
But if that’s true… then one of those other factlets must be a LIE! But which one…?
by Brendanukkah on Oct 6, 2009 12:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Go Angels!
They’re my favorite team (that’s left)
"And then there was the USAID guy in Kandahar who drove a giant pink Cadillac, which the locals set on fire one day. If you wanted to destroy something symbolic during a riot, you just could not do better than that. Good stuff." - Ghosts of Alexander
The lie revealed!
It was factlet number 2. Adenhart of course pitched a scoreless six innings in his debut, then was killed that night in a car accident. Thus, he finished the season with an ERA of 0.00 and his ERA+ was incalculable.
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