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Better Know a Playoff Team: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

"Hello Angels!"  "Good morning, Bosley!" (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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"Hello Angels!" "Good morning, Bosley!" (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)




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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Really?

Do we have to automatically objectify EVERY woman pictured on this website?

IAN! I'm on traain!

by andromache on Oct 6, 2009 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

"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   0 recs

Fine.

"We, as for me all seasons you are affected peculiarly in the edge of my seat and are happy concerning the fact that the Adam Dunn fan has been mixed up exactly." - Reynard-san

by BK on Oct 6, 2009 12:21 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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.

by justin007000 on Oct 6, 2009 4:19 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

'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.

by justin007000 on Oct 6, 2009 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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.

by justin007000 on Oct 6, 2009 4:26 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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!

by Brendanukkah on Oct 6, 2009 11:56 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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

by Excalib8 on Oct 6, 2009 12:07 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Shouldn't that be

a bold-faced fabrication?

IAN! I'm on traain!

by andromache on Oct 6, 2009 12:14 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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?

by BubbaFan on Oct 6, 2009 12:17 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Huh.

That should have said “Go [other]!”

by Brendanukkah on Oct 6, 2009 12:21 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

don't you have

women to objectify somewhere?

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Oct 6, 2009 12:22 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

But Derek Jeter is a True Yankee...

…he has no choice but to objectify women.

IAN! I'm on traain!

by andromache on Oct 6, 2009 12:29 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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

by joshuar9476 on Oct 6, 2009 12:30 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

i think the twins got this...

pretty pumped to watch that game actually.

by GrooveLeg on Oct 6, 2009 12:34 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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   0 recs

Autrey?

But there’s something tricky about 2 that involves math theory.

by ken on Oct 6, 2009 1:11 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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

by Cy Schourek on Oct 6, 2009 4:05 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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.

by Brendanukkah on Oct 7, 2009 9:35 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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