Top Ten Thursday: Reasons I Love Opening Day

It’s the most wonderful time of the year!  Opening Day is well upon us, but I can’t but express my sheer euphria at most joyous occassion.  I don’t care how cliche these are, but I present you with my top ten reasons for loving Opening Day. If the...

Game Preview 3/31/11: Angels @ Royals – The 50th Times the Charm

      @ Game Time: 1:10 PMJered Weaver (0-0 0.00 ERA) vs Luke Hochevar (0-0 0.00 ERA)Broadcast: T.V (FS-W) I just want to start off this article by congratulating all of the Angel players who made it on the 25 man roster for the season, you’ve all earned it. One...

The Monkey Predicts the 2011 Season

Predictions!  It is about time I gets to making mine (otherwise they revoke my blogger license).  Since first pitch is just a few hours away, let’s not waste anymore time and take a gander at all the prognostications of mine that will probably be used to make me...

Halo Headlines – 3/31/11

Daily Links for the LA Angels including Arte Moreno talks expectations and finances, Kazmir finishes “strong”, a chance to meet the Angels’ stars of tomorrow and much more… The Story: Arte Moreno has high expectations for this season but still...

Winning Wednesday: Rotation Options and Vital Internal Organs

Once again, Winning Wednesday leads me down strange roads as I honor a man that I have spent most of the week besmirching while also lavishing praise on a man who will soon be missing a vital internal organ.  Who could they be? OK, I think this is going to be the last...

Player Preview 2011: Vernon Wells

We all know about the trade and that contract, but what about Vernon Wells the player?  Can he cut through all of the outside BS surrounding his acquisition and help make the Angels better, or will his career of inconsistency rear its ugly head and make the...

Halo Headlines – 3/30/11

Daily Links for the LA Angels including Scioscia won’t commit to Trumbo as his full-time first baseman, Morales cleared for baseball activities, Opening Day roster announced and much more… The Story: Mike Scioscia still won’t say that Mark Trumbo...

The Most Important Angel of 2011 Is…

This might be my favorite post of the off-season to write every year.  We can preview the team all we want, but nothing is more fun than boiling down the season so that it really depends on one player.  This year was definitely one of the toughest yet, but after much...

POSNANSKI NAMED INAUGURAL WRITER OF THE YEAR BY BBA

The Baseball Bloggers Alliance today named writer Joe Posnanski the winner of the inaugural Writer of the Year Award, honoring the top internet writer.  Posnanski, who writes for the print version of Sports Illustrated as well as maintaining his own blog and Twitter...

Twitter Trend Tuesday: #NotKazmir

Sometimes coming up with these Twitter Trends is real tough.  This week?  Not so much.  In fact, I’m not even coming up with it, I’m stealing it.  Originally created by OC Register’s Bill Plunkett and adopted by AngelsNation.net, this topic could be...