Angels News
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Gary Darling explains why he made the wrong call
Home plate umpire Gary Darling who had ran to first called Aybar out and the top of the eighth inning ended. The Dodgers won the game 8-7 and Darling stuck with his original decision saying that there “Still was no daylight.”
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Blackhawks play Duck Hunt to mentally prepare to face Anaheim in playoffs
“This team needs to learn that Ducks are weak animals that can be easily dominated,” said Quenneville. “I put these games in the locker room so we can gain some confidence heading into the playoffs by blasting animated ducks over and over again.”
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Josh Hamilton excitedly calculates how much coke he can buy with $125 million
“Well, I’ve still got a mortgage on my house in Texas, so I’ll probably need to save about a million a year to pay for that and to get myself a nice condo in Cali. So at this point, the maximum amount I can set aside for coke would be $24 million each year, right everybody?”
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Heckler Comic: Albert & Dunn
Adam “The Big Donkey” Dunn offers some helpful advice to struggling slugger Albert Pujols. By Rick Atkinson
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Angels list Pujols as ‘Dunn for the year’
The prognosis from Los Angeles Angels team doctors is as worst feared: 1B Albert Pujols has been officially pronounced “Dunn for the year,” as in Chicago White Sox 1B/DH Adam Dunn.
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Pujols HGH shipments mistakenly sent to St. Louis
“When a client changes jobs it is customary to let us know,” said a BALCO spokesman. “We have been sending Pujols’s HGH supplies to St. Louis on schedule for the past 10 years, and Albert didn’t fill out the ‘new employer’ form. It looks like he is off the juice; no wonder he sucks.”
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Pujols blames slow start on not facing Cubs anymore
“Mostly, it’s the Cubs,” Pujols said. “I used to kill them. But now that I’m in the American League, it’s different. They’ve got real pitchers in this league, not the Triple A rejects they have on the Cubs. Playing against them I forgot how to hit real pitching.”
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Cardinals send Albert Pujols his World Series ring mounted on the middle finger of cadaver
Any doubts Albert Pujols had that the Cardinals were harboring ill-will toward him after he left the team for the free agency millions of the Angels, were erased when he opened his mail Monday morning and discovered his 2011 World Series ring had been shipped to him on the middle finger of a cadaver’s hand, on dry ice in a Cracker Jack box.
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Angels replace controversial ‘El Hombre’ billboards with new ‘Suck it, Musial’ slogan
After Albert Pujols informed the Los Angeles Angels he did not want them using “El Hombre” as a slogan on their billboards, out of deference to his personal admiration to Stan “The Man” Musial, team officials have replaced the offensive slogan with billboards that simply say “Suck it, Musial.”
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Rangers sign Godzilla to $52 million contract as number two behind Darvish
“I’ve not seen ‘God-Z’ in person, but judging from his movies, he’s a true force to be reckoned with,” said Ryan. “I think he needs to work on his appreciation of the strike zone … and his appreciation for human life. After that, we’ve got ourselves a diamond in the rough.”
