That great power lineup that the Angels were supposed to have was again absent last night. The much hailed pitching staff continued to slide downward lead by Santana and Haren. This team doesn't seem to know how to treat its fans at home or how to gain on the Texas Rangers. The $240,000,000 mistake is still "struggling" as we approach mid-season. This performance is really discouraging.

Are you going to do this every time the Angels lose? The Angels have come back to have the sixth best record in the American League, and are only like 4 games back of the Yankees for best record in the American League, and you're gripping about a loss?

If a team wins 3 games for every 2 games they lose, they end with a .600 Winning Pct, and are pretty much a shoe-in for the Playoffs...if not best record of their league.

YOU ARE A TOOL!! Man I feel better now!

Exactly

The "hitless monster" just had 7 multi-hit games in a row. Did you mean to write "hitting machine"?

The problem is keeping up with the Rangers (who won) and the Yankees (who won). This dropping into the shutout club isn't going to bring a championship. The Angels have blown several chances to creep closer to the Rangers in the past two weeks. Now they are again opening the lead for the Rangers. This team doesn't scare opponents in any of its games. As Joe Saunders said in today's Times "Joe Saunders says Angels are 'almost like any other team now".

"This dropping into the shutout club isn't going to bring a championship."

We've been shutout one time since Hatcher was fired. That was last night.

"Now they are again opening the lead for the Rangers."

Since when, yesterday?

You need to relax. There's still like 100 games left in the season.

As I figured, and I checked the Times to make sure, you're using Saunders' comment completely out of context to try to prove your point, but it won't work.

This is what he said: ""There've been a lot of changes over there," Saunders said about the Angels. "A lot of guys who were there when I was there have moved on. It's almost like any other team now.""

All he meant was that it no longer hurt so much that he's no longer an Angel, because a lot of the Angels are different players than those who were his teammates. So nice try!

The link to that story in Times: http://www.latimes.com/sports/baseball/mlb/angels/la-sp-0616-angels-notes-20120616,0,5466937.story

Perhaps Joe Saunders should worry about his own performance,or rather if he'd performed better in 2010 he wouldn't have been in tears when being told he was traded

Yes quite the different story when you read it-thanks for the link

Bye!
See ya next season?
Or will the $240,000,000 "mistake" prevent you from returning?

Actually Saunders is doing better than Haren this year so far. It would have been ironic to have Saunders v Haren last night.

Actually, I'm not sure about that. The account dates back to last year.

There are a couple of screen names posting now that I'm suspicious of and they're fairly new accounts, but I'm simply not responding to either of them. One is a new account from June 13th, and that is the perfect timeframe.

But as I said, I'm not responding to either screen name, which makes it easier on everyone else's sanity. ;)

So because we lose one game, it's all gloom and doom? If you look closely at the major league standings, no one is really tearing it up. Yes, we're not playing as well as we can (never will be for this board), but we're in it for the long run. Did anyone really think we were going to have a cake walk? It is, always has been, going to be a close race.

Relax and enjoy.

"Listen Justin, the Angels are going to lose games. "

Are you sure it's Justin? Justin usually sounds smarter then this person.

Saunders, also, gets to face a pitcher every nine at-bats.

Not quite; he gets to face a pitcher or a pinch hitter. Taking that into account the is still better than Haren this year.